A fire fighter was working on the engine outside the station, when he noticed a little girls nearby in a little red wagn with little ladders hung off the sides and a garden hose tightly coiled in the middle.

The girl was wearing a fire fighter's helmet with the wagon being pulled by her dog and cat.

The fire fighter walked over to take a closer look, "That sure is a nice fire truck," the fire fighter said with admiration.

"Thanks," the little girl replied.

When the fire fighter looked a little closet, he noticed the girl had tied the wagon to the collar of the dog and the testicles of the cat.

"Little partner," the fire fighter said, "I don't want to tell you how to run you rig, but if you were to tie that rope around the cats collar, I think you could go faster."

The little girl replied thoughtfully, "You're probably right, but then I wouldn't have a siren."

It was with great sadness that I read about the arrest of Chumani in Cape Town for allegedly giving the presidents motorcade "the finger".

While I am in no way condoning the use of explicit language or signs, the methods and procedures followed by the bodyguards of the president does not fit with our constitutional rights.

According to news reports, he was jogging along De Wall drive in Cape Town when the presidents motorcade came along. He says he waved at them, however the bodyguards saw him give the president the finger. I will not debate on a he says they say with regards to him waving or not.
Then the black BMW pulled, three men jumped out and pointed their firearms at him, proceeded to push him into the car, put a bag over his head and took him to the presidents residence!

Since when does this action constitute a lawful arrest? The pointing of fire arms at an unarmed civilian is completely against the Firearms Control Act! Then taking this student to the presidents residence, with a bag over his head? Isn't that torture according to the Geneva Convention? Something South Africa proudly advocates and subscribes to! It seems we are headed back to 1964 with this type of behaviour.

This looks like the start of "nationalism", our flag our anthem our president, we make these things unavailable for critique, and if we do show any dissent we are committing treason! Nationalism in many forms are poison, it excludes people, and retracts from their freedom of choice, speech and expressions! I believe nationalism is where such anti democratic practice starts and will prove to be a fatal downfall in the future.

Once a country reaches the stage that we as the normal citizen gets our asses arrested for expression of opinion where on earth are we headed? It's a little to close to Marxism for my liking......

Hey ya BV'ilians,

Shit it's been a while since I have had anything worthwhile and decent to post about. Actually, there's loads of news just me being to lazy to sit here and type it out. Recently I simply prefer sitting back and reading what others has to say or think.

Anyhow, let's get the update started. Ok, so we are still in Namibia and trying to get our asses back to South Africa. Its taken quite some scheming and work to get to the point we are now. We will be moving back to SA (Durban) around middle April this year. If I could find the words to explain the relief we feel I would most certainly be using it here. As the saying goes "there's no place like home", it's very much true. Having a holiday in a place and living isn't the same. It's been good though, I am back in medicine. More importantly I am back to practising Emergency Medicine. Things improved a little a few months ago when we figured out how to get 5fm on DSTV! It must be one of the biggest things I missed living here. The Namibian radio stations suck! The "no1 hit station in Namibia" plays more music from the 60's than anything else! Not for much longer though.

On a personal side, my wife (SB25) is pregnant! Yep, we will be parents this year! We are just over 3 months with everything going well. The development of the baby is going with no current issues being foreseen. Unfortunately with the female's immune system being suppressed during pregnancy, she's got a terrible cold which we are trying to get sorted. That's also one of the main reasons we need to get our asses back to SA. Family would be an amazing support base during the pregnancy. Included in that the fact that it's the 1st grandchild on the side of my in laws, I don't want to have them to far removed from the experience. Then again, SB feels more comfy with the gynae in Durban since she's been with her for many years.

That's about it for now, as you can see nothing really interesting happens in Namibia since this is about 7months worth of news lol.

Anyhow, I will keep in touch and try and update everyone more regularly on what's happening in our lives and how the move is going.

Rgds

J