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The People of South Africa
The Rainbow Nation of South Africa is composed of eleven language groups. Meet them in a series of photos and videos....
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The South Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – a Travelogue
A Picture tour of the South Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Durban and the South Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - a travelogue
A photo tour
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Free State, South Africa: Kroonstad, Bethlehem, Harrismith - a Travelogue
A photo tour
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Twitter: The Politician's Guillotine
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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Ministers May Idle for Years: "Doing Nothing is not a Crime", Says President Zuma
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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Xenophobia, Trigger of Wars, Roars in South Africa
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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52 Murders a Day in South Africa!
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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The SS Mendi Disaster: A Concealed World War Tragedy
The SS Mendi, sank in the English Channel on route to France, killing 646 soldiers including 607 black South Africans who have served in the South African Native Labor Corps.
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94 Psychiatric Patients Died Due to Government Negligence in South Africa
Learn about how, in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, ninety-four (and still counting) psychiatric patients died since March 2016 due to government negligence.
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Inauguration of President Trump versus USA Chicken Dumping in South Africa
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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Devastating fires wreak havoc in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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Standard of Basic School Education under Scrutiny in South Africa
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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December is Summer Holiday Time in South Africa
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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Happy Holidays Turn Unhappy for Many in South Africa
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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Racism Condemned and Criminalized in South Africa
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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South African Prophet Proclaims Doom Cures Aids and Cancer
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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President-elect Donald Trump - Good or Bad News for South Africa?
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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Mob Justice on the Rise in South Africa
Noteworthy trend of events in South Africa
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Travel in South Africa - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
South Africa is one of the most diverse countries in the world. The contrast between black and white, rich and poor, good and bad, is quite open...
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Drawing human faces – an extraordinary art
Some facts about art and artists, and an interview with the talented Coelien Coetser
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The Carriage Driver by Michael Friedman – a review
Who says, and what great victories have he to his credit to tell us that we may not believe that the trip to Heaven will meet all our expectations?
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In memory of Hubpages’s Queen of Wit, drbj aka B.J. Rakow
A review of drbj's hubs and comments
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The Rain and Everything by Maria Jordan - a review
The compiled writings of Maria Jordan, titled ‘The Rain and Everything', is like a basket filled with fruit for the soul.
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The Paarl, Western Cape Province, South Africa
A photo tour
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History of South Africa in only 4000 words
Fascinating history, simplified and summarised in a nutshell of 4000 words -
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Bragging on Facebook and other social sites
Why is so-called bragging an epidemic in cyberspace?
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Travel in South Africa – Kimberley the City of Diamonds
Kimberley looks like any other large town in South Africa, until you realize that it is the City of Diamonds -
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Travel in South Africa - The Kalahari Desert
Can there be any beauty in the desert? This article about the Kalahari Desert in South Africa will change your perspective on a desert.
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Travel in South Africa - Clovelly, Cape Town
Clovelly, situated in South Africa's Cape-Peninsula, is a Mecca for lovers of nature -
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Funeral rituals of the Tswana people in South Africa
"Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories." - Miller Williams
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Loadshedding – What to do when electricity is not available 24/7
Loadshedding is a reality that effects man and mouse in South Africa...
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Travel in South Africa – from Mossel Bay to Knysna
A photo tour from Mossel Bay to Knysna, South Africa
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Travel in South Africa – from Cape Town to Mossel Bay
A photo tour from Cape Town to Mossel Bay, South Africa
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Travel in South Africa – the West Coast
A photo tour of the West Coast, Western Cape, South Africa
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Travel in South Africa - Cape Town
A photo tour
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Travel in South Africa - from Cape Point to Sea Point
A photo tour from Cape Point to Sea Point, South Africa
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Travel in South Africa - the Cape Peninsula - from Muizenberg to Cape Point
A photo tour of the Cape Peninsula, Cape Town, South Africa
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Travel in South Africa - Stellenbosh and the Cape Winelands
A photo tour of Stellenbosch, a wine route and strawberry picking in South Africa
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Travel in South Africa - from Matjiesfontein to Cape Town
A photo tour of Matjiesfontein to Cape Town
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Travel in South Africa - from Klerksdorp to Cape Town
A photo tour from the North West Province to Cape Town, South Africa
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Julius Malema - The Rookie in South Africa's Parliament
Meet Julius Malema, the advocate for nationalization of land and mines in South Africa.
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Siblings versus Friends
Are our siblings necessarily our friends? Accidentally, some are, while others are not. Let's contemplate a few confessions....
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Being Outnumbered - A Scary Reality
Being one-of-a-kind means feeling insecure, vulnerable and unsupported. Humans, however, compensate.
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Cervical Cancer Vaccination For Schoolgirls Launched in South Africa
This vaccine is supposed to protect girls from cervical cancer in TWENTY years' time. What about all the negative reports?
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Disagreement: Cause and Effect
Agreement and disagreement are like breathing – we do this every second of our life. Understanding the cause and effect enables us to maintain harmony and peace.
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The Eye of the Groot Marico River, South Africa
A picture show of the Eye of the Groot Marico River
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Is Marijuana or Cannabis a Painkiller – Let Me Tell You
Marijuana is not a painkiller. To the contrary, it intensifies pain and destroy the brain’s ability to reduce pain-reducing endorphins...
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Conifers And Other Plants In Our Garden
Conifers are of the easiest and most beautiful ornamental plants to grow in big and small gardens. Meet the conifers in our garden....
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Playing Second Fiddle – Six Short Interviews With Second Fiddle Players
If you can't play second fiddle with finesse, how will you be able to play first fiddle with finesse?
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The Nuclear Family – The Core of Humanity - H.O.W.
Why bother with a nuclear family? Why not rather live like giraffes?
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In The Beginning – (An African Creation Legend)
“In my eyes nothing is beautiful and nothing is ugly.” And this was the last time the Eternal Spirit answered a question of Mma.
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Saying Happy Birthday to an Online Friend
People need friends. The challenge is to establish meaningful friendships. Abhanga poems for an online friend.
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Lesotho – A Road Trip to the Katse Dam - The Highest Dam in Africa
Lesotho is an independent kingdom in the middle of South Africa where people apparently still live in harmony with nature...
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Racism – Another Perspective on Racism
Racism is a form of emotional fortification, dug like moats by people who live in fear of losing what they believe are theirs...
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Public holidays in South Africa - Heritage Day – 24 September
What to do on a public holiday called Heritage Day in a country like South Africa where many different cultures have their own set of bad and good memories?
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Giving Recognition - A Way To Avoid Plagiarism
Plagiarism is deliberate act of acquisition of thoughts, ideas or expressions without the permission of the owner. However, what is new and original?
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Encouragement Ignites Desire - How do we Encourage Others
Encouragement is not merely an act of giving hope or support to someone, it is a powerful human force that ignites and feeds human desires.
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Wonder – The Wonder of Being Alive (Perspective)
The wonder of life makes being alive a wondrous experience.
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Loyalty Begins at Self (Perspectives)
Being loyal is a valuable characteristic and therefore highly exploitable. Don't be a martyr, be loyal!
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The Character of a Short Story
The Short Story is a narrative with a specific structure and dynamic components.
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Birthday Celebrations – Since When And Why Do People Celebrate Birthdays
In many cultures the celebration of birthdays is still a matter of dispute based on the believe that these kind of celebrations have historical connections with superstitions, magic and Paganism.
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The Beauty in Ugliness (Perspectives)
Even in what many may call 'ugly', there is beauty to be discovered and appreciated.
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The Tuba and the Tuba Player: Rasma Raisters aka Gypsy Rose Lee
Responsible and good-natured musicians feel at home playing the tuba.
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What Matters? Life Matters By All Odds (Perspectives)
According to statistics 70,000 whites have been murdered by blacks since the ANC came into power in 1994. Could this be genocide or just normal crime?
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Categorize Your Relationship
Identify yourself in the following relationship indicators and live happily forever after.
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Cell Phone Etiquette - Politeness Always Takes The Cake
By way of handling our cell phone we demonstrate our character and dignity.
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The Saxophone and the Saxophone Player: Linda Bilyeu aka Sunshine625
All about the saxophone, the saxophone player and Sunshine's choice of music.
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How to get text on a picture with Microsoft Publisher
Step by step comprehensible instructions for typing text on pictures using Microsoft Publisher
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The Trumpet and the Trumpet Player: Bill Holland aka billybuc
All about the Trumpet and the Trumpet Player and billybuc aka Bill Holland's special music.
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What Don't You Know? - How many angels can dance on the head of a pin. (Perspectives)
It is NOT a shame to be ignorant of irrelevant subjects. “Real knowledge is to know the extend of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
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Living Alone: Do men prefer living alone?
A couple of decades ago living alone was no man's wish, but nowadays it seems to be a better option...
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Living Alone: Voluntary or due to a Lack Of Courage
"There's no such thing as a free lunch". Everything, including companionship and love, has a price.
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The Bassoon and the Bassoon Player: B.j. Rakow aka drbj
All about the Bassoon, the Bassoonist and B.j. Rakow aka drbj's choices of powerful music...
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Loneliness – An Indisputable Emotional Pain (Perspectives)
What exactly is Loneliness apart from being an indisputable emotional pain?
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Money for Beauty (A Short Story by Martie Coetser)
Then, out of the blue, complete silence started to accumulate in Monia’s ears. Only the ticking of a clock assured her that she was not dead.
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Working for Self at HubPages
Sharing and discussing with the hope that Newbies follow suit, my unknown fellow-hubbers accept my absence in their hubs, my friends forgive me when I miss every other hub they publish...
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Regrets and Hopes - Living in the Present (Perspectives)
Regrets are all about the Past, Hope is all about the Future. Nevertheless, we have to deal with them in the Present.
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The French Horn and the French Horn Player: Svetlana Ivanova aka Kallini2010
All about the French horn, the French horn player and Svetlana Ivanova aka Kallini2010's favorite songs.
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 Op. 36 – The Story Behind The Music
Tchaikovsky‘s words in a letter to Nadezhda von Meck: “… you will find this to be an echo of your most intimate thoughts and emotions.”
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The Charitable Spirit - Kindness - Generosity - Charity (Perspectives)
The backbone of a Charitable Spirit is ‘kindness’; the rest of a Charitable Spirit is ‘generosity’....
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The Euphonium and the Euphonium Player: Mike Friedman aka mckbirdbks
All about the Euphonium, the Euphonium-Player and Mike Friedman aka mckbirdbks
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Education, Discipline, Efficiency and Tolerance (H.O.W.)
Ideas about social illness and HOW to cure them.
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Gratitude - Gratitude is an Attitude (Perspectives)
Showing gratitude is the very first good manner a good mother teaches her child.
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The Flute and the Flute-Player: Nellieanna Hay
Flute-players are romantic, sensitive, creative and able to improvise. Even in precarious conditions they can escape into a fantasy world where all clouds have silver linings...
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Scandals: What is a Scandal? ~ The ZUMBA Scandal
Could it be that our religious orientation determines what we consider to be scandals?
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Perspectives: Vanity ~ Vanity and Humility versus Pride and Modesty
Vanity versus pride, humility versus modesty could be attractiveness versus repulsiveness.
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The Clarinet and the Clarinet Player: Maria Jordan aka marcoujor
A Clarinet player is called a ‘clarinetist’. Clarinetists are bright, alert and sociable with several different hobbies and interests
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Insults, Compliments and Hot Potatoes
Compliments and insults fall in the same category - they both make us feel uncomfortable. They are at least embarrassing and at the most hard to deal with.
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Perspectives: Knowing Your True Self – Happiness Is Mind Over Matter
In order for True-Self to be happy as s/he is supposed to be, True-Self should be IN CHARGE and not a stranger living somewhere in our inside. Meet your True Self today!
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Travel in South Africa - North West Province - Groot Marico
Groot-Marico is a haven in the North West Province of South Africa for people who want to escape the hustle and bustle of city life.
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Travel in South Africa - North West Province - from Lichtenburg to Groot Marico
A photo tour of an African bushveld region - Ottoshoop, Zeerust, North West Province, South Africa
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Travel in South Africa - North West Province - from Klerksdorp to Groot Marico
A picture tour from Klerksdorp, South Africa to Groot Marico via Ventersdorp, Coligny, Lichtenburg, Ottoshoop and Zeerust
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Ignoring people - a defense mechanism
Ignoring someone you should not ignore is a sign that you dread the consequences of communication.
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Snow in South Africa
In South Africa snow is not a common phenomenon, therefor citizens were amazed on August 7, 2012
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Namibia - South West Africa - Namib Desert
The attractiveness of Namibia in South West Africa is unique and worthy to be explored by tourist from all over the world.
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East Africa ~ Tanzania ~ Mwanza ~ Mwadui - (a picture tour)
A picture tour of Mwanza and Mwadui in Tanzania, East Africa
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Extrovert among Introverts - How to Survive
True or False: Introverts are cold, negative, revengeful and snobbish while Extroverts are dominating, aggressive, overbearing, arrogant and offensive?
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What’s Love Got To Do With It? (A poem by Martie Coetser)
Credit to http://finedineonmyvegangenitalia.tumblr.com/page/113 You’ve got lips eager to please me, hands eager to touch me, ears eager to listen to me, a voice eager to speak to me. ♥ You’ve got a body yearning for mine as mine...
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Chain Messages – A Give-and-Take on Chain Messages
The purpose of chain messages is to send a message to many people and to delegate the task of sending. But why do they cause havoc in our minds?
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Don’t make me love you (A poem by Martie Coetser)
Let me play with you Let me enjoy you Let me just like you Don’t make me love you
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Pain and swelling of legs could be a symptom of Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Two to five percent Americans suffer Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI), previously known as postphlebitic syndrome and postthrombotic syndrome.
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Why does a woman follow her husband to remind him in a brutal way of the vows he has taken?
"What would you get when you mix PMS with a GPS – a moody bitch who will find you." BUT this is not the only kind of bitch that will find you....
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Music – How does one develop a strong liking for specific music? Part 1
How to analyse your specific taste for music
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Tomatophagia: Craving for Tomatoes
Tomato craving (tomatophagia) may be tied to iron deficiency (anemia) and perhaps deficiencies of other minerals and vitamins. But is it possible to overdose on tomatoes?
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Day of Reconciliation – 16 December – South Africa
THE DAY to acknowledge and ponder the Almighty Power that disposes while mankind proposes...
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Traditional Music - South Africa
To root the traditional music of Africa and in particularly of South Africa in ancient times, this presentation starts with the traditional rhythm and sound of the Celts and the Goths...
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Relationships in Relation to Dancing
Determine the character of relationships according to social dances – Rock ’n Roll, the Twist, Jive, Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Samba, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep, and the Waltz.
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What To Do When People Don’t Like You
How do we deal with people who don’t like us? Do we say “Let them fly!" But on whose chair are we sitting when we say this? On the chair of a baby, a teenager or an adult?
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Kidnapped (A Short Story by Martie Coetser)
When the man next to Mia finally started to hit her in the face, she felt no pain. Only the hate and contempt in his eyes burnt holes in her soul.
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Deceased to Be (A Short Story by Martie Coetser)
Christine controls her thoughts with an iron will, because she has an unforeseen task on her agenda – the arrangement of a funeral and all that goes hand in hand. ‘Focus!’ is her mantra today and she will... she will focus on the ‘here and now’ until the end of this day.
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Google Translate – Its Limitations as an English Interpreter of Afrikaans
Credit to photostock @ freedigitalphotos,net What a wonderful privilege to have an interpreter permanently on duty in Cyberspace, named Google Translator. It is what they call a free statistical machine translator, provided by Google Inc. Google...
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Riot Control: Who’s to Blame when Hooligans Set Buildings Alight?
As onlookers we sometimes get the idea that the police are doing ‘nothing’ to control riots, therefore we blame them for all the wrong and injurious.
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Mother (a poem inspired by Nellieanne H. Hay)
A tribute to Nellieanna Hay
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The Scandalmonger – a defamer par excellence
The nature of human beings comprises good, bad and ugly characters, all of them equally ready to dominate in specific circumstances. One person could be an extremely good character at work, but ugly at home and/or bad while s/he is driving a...
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Nelson Mandela - A Tribute on his Birthday
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." ~ Nelson Mandela
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Imaginary Friends - How unreal are they really?
Who said the cons of having imaginary friends are more than the pros? In fact, they are the crystallization of one's thoughts, ideas and feelings.
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Emotional Dependency versus Love
Weakness is the inability to find proper and healthy enforcements or substitutes for emotional crutches.
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Emotional orgasms
Although dictionaries describe orgasms as the most intense pleasure in intimate interactions, this hub is not AT ALL about that kind of orgasms, but about the kind we are all able to experience daily in public.
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Hurting Others Unintentionally
People do hurt each other in many ways, and most of the time in total ignorance.
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Power, management, managers and Bill Gates’ advice to managers
Power in social structures measures the legal ability authority has to control others. Power can be good or evil, just or unjust. In the corporate environment power to control is giving to managers, who’s power could be downwards in order to...
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Love is not immortal
People can be friends for many years, just to realize on a good old rainy day that their love for each other is no longer alive.
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Incompatible personalities – can they live together in harmony?
Do you know a person you like and dislike at the same time? Now this is a fine line. Let's categorize three types of people in our lives – People we like in spite of their shortcomings. People we don’t like in spite of their goodness. ...
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Club feet – thanks to medical science clubfeet is not a curse!
The fact that I was born with clubfeet never affected me in any way. Thanks to medical science my feet were straightened while I was a baby. I grew up with only the knowledge that crawling on my knees or walking on my ankles would have been my lot...
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Day of Goodwill, 26 December, South Africa - What is goodwill?
Giving is often only a selfish act, so what is Goodwill?
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Galaxies (a poem)
Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. ~Thomas Hardy ♥ Like the sun of our galaxy, axis of planets and stars all bonded by proxy are we behind our avatars. ...
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HubPages - How to manage your e-mail notifications
Did you ever experience an urge to run away while your e-mail's inbox gets filled with notifications and notifications and notifications from HubPages Editor? Did you ever miss a hub of one of your favorite friends because it became one of too...
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The Right Musical Instrument for Your Child's Personality
More children could succeed in playing an instrument if they chose one better suited to their personality. Find the best musical instrument for your child here.
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Naivety – definition, quotes and a poem
According to Wikipedia ‘naive’ is a French loanword indicating having or showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication. In early use, it meant natural or innocent, and did not connote ineptitude. Extracted from Wikipedia:...
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Halloween - History, Facts and Significance in South Africa
A living person was put inside a wicker and set alight to pay tribute to the god of thunder, was one of many practices during original Halloween festivals -
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Children's Birthday Parties Under Scrutiny
A personal perspective
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Travel in South Africa - from Klerksdorp to Pretoria
From Klerksdorp to Pretoria (South Africa) - an opportunity to review the birth and development of mankind.
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Con artists – sociopaths - Narcissists
Con artists should never be underestimated. They are experts at gaining the confidence of others...
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A Time To Love (A short story)
This is a story composed with the word ‘time’. ----------------------- Since I left Carlo everything seemed to have happened once upon a time. At seasonable and unseasonable times, in my time, I could cope with unexpected guests. But times...
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Disasters in South Africa (In relation to water)
42 teenagers drowned after the bus they were traveling in crashed through the Westdene Dam fence. (March 27, 1985)
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Backstabbers - What to do about the backstabber in your life
Somehow betrayers always hang themselves. If not literally, then metaphorically.
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The Final Journey (Juan Ramón Jiménez)
An English translation of a touching Spanish poem.
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What to do about the bully in your life
Intimidation – cowing/bullying – explained by WordWeb is: “To subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe or frighten (as with threats)” The urge to accomplish personal goals, inter alia to be in power, to be treated...
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Criticism
What is criticism? Who offers it and who takes it to heart? Elbert Hubbard’s famous advice: “To avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”