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[quote author=Mynd_44]He means if it was someone else apart from his immediate family that did what you did, the person will be lying in an hospital bed breathing with an oxygen mask.[/quote]Yep. That's exactly what he means .

[quote author=Mynd_44]He means if it was someone else apart from his immediate family that did what you did, the person will be lying in an hospital bed breathing with an oxygen mask.
By the way did you pass your O'level English?[/quote] I'm sorry but the thought crossed my mind too. I just wouldn,t say it out loud.

queensmith: this is sweet, almost humanizes you. . . . almost

Bohaaaa!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha! @ that statement

[quote author=12 inches!]I lost it when I saw her son and I realized I wasn't ready for that now...Maybe I overreacted sha....Or I was just scared. But then the breaking up wasn't easy. I don't want to waste her time.[/quote]I know exactly what u mean. I once dated a man who had a 4 year old and seeing that child drove me nuts especially because he was the spitting image of his annoying mother. After that I knew how hard it'd be for me to be a step mom!

tellwisdom: [size=16pt]Where is this happening? Nigeria right?? Na Naija gurl aby?? [/size]

Lol! Tellwisdom

This can happen any where in the world okay. But she's just bad he should talk to her tell her she's on performance management and if she doesn't improve She's Gone .

joeydozzy: U need help with that?

will holla @ you .

[quote author=Killz.][color=#000030] ^^^
Follow that advice at your own peril. . . Pr[i]o[/i]stitutes also got crazy sex skills. Does that win them the heart of any man? Use your what? Your HEAD! [/color][/quote] you're so right. I guess when a man falls for you he does just that! Whether you can cook or not !

Well I smoke pot with my b.f and I know other people who do too. I know he doesn't think any less of me because of that . Although sometimes I do feel bad cause he stays with his cousins and I feel like they must think I'm something else even though we all get high together...


Either way I do it cause I keep it real and I feel he should know the real me not some fake who does all sorts of crazy things at the corners .
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[quote author=Killz.][color=#000030]Yeah true, but if i meet her tattooed up like Lil Wayne, i won't even say "hi"! [/color][/quote]And what do you think about a Tongue piercing?

joeydozzy: Even girls that are much more comfortable than me milk me. All girls are cut from the same cloak

Well even if a girls doing well for herself, its always such a great feeling to have a member of the opposite sex offer to spend his hard earned cash on you because I know how REAR that is these days! I swear its like the Recession hasn't ended amongst our men.

Where I am the 50/50 thing has gone out of hand... Women even help raise the funds to pay for they're own bride price for real... So yeah I would milk him but not dry... I'm easy to please just for chocolates and lunch and movies at least once in 2 weeks. The rest I can manage

I guess I can tolerate what ever a guy has when I'm in love. Its called unconditional love. When you really do love someone and esp. If you met them that way you deal with it.

[quote author=Mr..Cork] She loooks like a man anyways. maybe she a lesssbian!!! [/quote] maybe... But life goes on right. Lol! Don't be too upset,well hope u r not upset today. You'll find someone else ...

Read your thread from start to finish and I have to say ITS GREAT. Wish I could handle criticism the way you do. informative as well!! Big ups to you man. : )

onila: why shld I be nice 2 someone who is not also nice 2 me
most of the time am having fun ard here
if you think am being stupid they are better ways of criticizing me than following me ard n calling me names

Guess u right it is a Public forum after all .

onila: yea I am a very nice person. one of the nicest pple on earth

LoL! You're way too confident Onila.

Aaaahhh these pics are so special . Kinda makes me wanna cuddle.

Masterpiece ,Onila and Tellwisdom

The Chinese are manipulative or strategic... You decide look at what they did in Angola for example.

The recent Sino-Angolan association is illustrative. When a petroleum-rich area called for investment and rebuilding, China advanced a $5 billion loan to be repaid in oil. They sent Chinese technicians, fixing a large part of the electrical system, and leading a part of the reconstruction. In the short term Angola benefits from Chinese-built roads, hospitals, schools, hotels, football stadiums, shopping centers and telecommunications projects.

In turn, Angola mortgaged future oil production of a valuable, non-renewable resource. It may turn out to be a costly trade for Angola, but their needs for infrastructure is immediate and that is precisely what China provides when no one else is willing to do so. And thusly, Angola has become China's leading energy supplier


SMH

But I also have to say that chinese goods have made it possible for your man on the street to look good and afford everything the middle class can at a fraction of the price of the original and naturally the quality is always poor. I cannot imagine our markets without the chinese goods.

Even day to day shopping would increase so much. A quality jersey in an upmarket fashion store is between -300 to -600 and the chinese can sell it for like -70 making it more accessible to the masses .

The Chinese first reactivated its familial links in order to import low-priced goods such cups, forks, and umbrellas to Africa
Indeed, African society had a screaming need for cheap goods in large quantities. China's manufacturing industry was truly complementary to African markets, often producing more cheaply than most African manufacturers could, and with better quality.

Cheap Chinese clothes,and cheap Chinese cars at half the price of western ones allow African customers to suddenly raise up the purchasing power.

In Africa, China may sell its own low quality or overproduced goods and inventory, a key outlet which helps maintain China's economic and social stability. Chinese shop owners in Africa are able to sell Chinese-built, Chinese-shipped goods for a profit. A negative consequence of China's low-cost consumer goods trade is that it only goes one way. China does not purchase manufactured products from Africa,

This makes them no different from the colonialists in my opinion, they're using our leaders while satisfying they're needs for they're ever growing population and destroying our economies in the process.

While cheap Chinese imports flood the local marketplace, making it difficult for local industries to compete.

How many jobs have been lost in the textile industries due to cheaper, lower quality chinese clothes.?

21600 jobs in Southern africa alone!

I sometimes feel people should stick to they're own type. Low class to Low class and High class to High class if it'll make everyone happy . We are seeing more and more of these messages as more men loose they're girlfriends to some richer guy .

Perhaps if men understand how DIFFICULT it is to date a poor man, then they wouldn't blame women for going for a well off man.

Freesia: I could be wrong but aren't there some tribes in Nigeria that eat dogs??
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Meat in the morning?

perhaps it was a sausage or bacon

ArQueBusieR: You too? Time for me to step up.

Lol! Music is beautiful we all need to get better at it..


The Spear of the nation painting.

Is it art? Racism? Political parody?

A painting by a white Cape Town artist, Brett Murray, depicting South African President Jacob Zuma as Soviet leader Lenin -- but with his genitals exposed -- has caused a storm of controversy. Zuma and the ruling African National Congress have sued the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg to force it to take down the work.

The painting, "The Spear," sold for more than $17,000 before the exhibition
"Hail to the Thief II" opened May 10.

“It's rude, it's crude, it's disrespectful, it's racist,” ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe said Monday of the painting. Had a white man been depicted, the reaction would have been quite different, Mantashe contended at a news conference.

"We have not outgrown racism in our 18 years."

Zuma, who in 2009 sued a cartoonist for depicting him raping the blindfolded figure of justice, argues the work violates his constitutional right to privacy and dignity. (The 2009 case has not been decided.)

Zuma has lodged an urgent application to the High Court to have "The Spear" taken down, saying he felt shocked, offended and personally violated when shown a copy of the painting.

The court will have to weigh two sections of the constitution: one guaranteeing freedom of speech and another protecting the individual right to dignity and privacy.

Zuma is also taking legal action to force City Press, a South African newspaper, to remove a copy of the painting from its website.

"In particular, the portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests that I am a philanderer, a womanizer and one with no respect. It is an undignified depiction of my personality and seeks to create doubt about my personality in the eyes of my fellow citizens, family and children," Zuma argues in an affidavit to the court. "In terms of the theme of the exhibition, my portrait is meant to convey a message that I am an abuser of power, corrupt and suffer political ineptness."

The painting also has been condemned by trade unions, the Black Management Forum, the South African Students' Congress and others.

Murray, who is based in Cape Town, declined a Times request for an interview. A Goodman Gallery spokeswoman, Lara Koseff, said Monday that Murray preferred to "let the art speak for itself." She said Murray wanted debate about the painting to be focused on the work, not on him.

The gallery is contesting the action, arguing that it has a right to decide on what artwork it displays.

Koseff said representatives of the Film and Publications Board, which makes decisions on censorship of material deemed indecent, visited the gallery Monday to view the painting.

In the wake of the controversy, the gallery has posted security guards at its doors.

Murray's exhibition is a satire on South Africa's "predator elite," offering a blunt commentary of ruling party corruption and the party's socialist origins.

One work, based on a poster from the liberation struggle, depicts blacks demanding not political and economic freedoms but "Chivas, BMW's (sic) and bribes."  A Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky label appears with the slogan "Forward comrades!" A Soviet poster of Stalin is labeled "tribal elder."

"This body of satirical work continues his acerbic attacks on abuses of power, corruption and political dumbness seen in his 2010 Cape Town show

Hail to the Thief," says the gallery's description of the exhibition. "In this sequel show, Murray’s bronzes, etchings, paintings and silk-screens form part of a vitriolic and succinct censure of bad governance and are his attempts to humorously expose the paucity of morals and greed within the ruling elite."

In his youth, Murray was active in the anti-apartheid struggle.

A colleague, Mike van Graan, executive director of the African Arts Institute, who worked with Murray on a 1986 cultural festival banned by the apartheid government as a threat to national security, wrote in the Cape Times on Monday that Murray was not the first anti-apartheid activist to become disillusioned with the ruling elite.

"Ironically, it is further testimony to just how far we have strayed from the ideal of a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and pro-poor society that Murray has attracted such vitriol and threats because he happens to have a white skin," wrote Van Graan. "It is not the role of artists to be praise singers for any political, economic or social entity, but rather to speak truth to power."

The painting is scheduled to remain on display until June 16 which is a South African youth day (National Holiday symbolic of the youth's struggle against Bantu Education).

Lol! Well I wonder how she ended up with a broke husband in the 1st place!

May 21, 2012 | Suthentra Govender, TimesLIVE |

A Pietermaritzburg woman has been ordered to pay her estranged husband R10,000 a month in maintenance - eight months after the Hawks arrested him for allegedly trying to poison her.

Businesswoman Vino Williams, 49, has also been ordered by the Pietermaritzburg High Court to reinstate her estranged husband, David, 51, as a beneficiary on her medical aid and pay his legal costs for the application.





The couple were married for 22 years before separating in October last year after David was arrested for allegedly buying poison from an undercover Hawks agent to kill Vino.

He will appear in court in July to face charges of conspiring to murder his wife between September 26 and October 4 last year .

In court papers Vino, who says she lives in fear of her life, said she could not understand "why I must support a man who was actively planning to kill me".

Her husband, currently out on R5,000 bail, was arrested after members of the Hawks received a tip-off about his alleged plot.

His lawyer, Yugusan Govender, submitted an affidavit to the court in which David claimed Vino had left him destitute, adding that he had become dependent on the "grace and favour" of friends.

In the court papers David said Vino had forced him out of their "matrimonial home" in October when "she was led to believe that I had sought to kill her".

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He said that while he accepted their marriage was over, this did not warrant his wife "to cast me out and leave me destitute. I have no means to support myself," he said.

Judge David Ntshangase said he ruled in David's favour because the couple had been married in community of property.

On Thursday, Vino described the court's decision to award David maintenance as heartbreaking.

"I'm heartsore at the court's decision. I spent thousands of rands to defend the matter. I have no choice but to comply with the court order," she said. "This week I also paid his lawyer's costs ... it's not fair, but what can I do?"

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[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]we look different. we have different Cultures. different Religions. different languages. different attires. in the past, we even had different Tribal marks. .[/quote]Can't believe you actually answer this thing

ayanle456: well so much to answer. somalis were never enslaved by arabs. you can search it online, i dont have time to provide links as i am using my iphone and not my laptop. somalis were the first to use canons cause the canons were used by the ottoman and they gave it to us. somalia is homogenous, those groups most of them are somali clans who are very small. the only non somalis are the arabs and bantu. the majority of the groups fled in the early 90"s. the guy comparing west africa to somalia! lmao. doesnt
matter how strong ur country is if u still get enslaved. for the person who mention ottoman empire being our love-vendor. somalia was one of the outter regions of the empire. we used them to get us weapons. so technically we were the pimps. just like how we used the russians and the americans against each other. am not underemployed am a 24 year old guy who has his own small buisness within a large somali mall in usa.

Large Somali Mall.._uuuhhhmmm busy selling fake chinese goods like all the Somalis all over our side walks in Jhb? They're deported everyday but 1 goes and five land! And they don't even pay tax! Guess they want every country to end up like they're god forsaken country.