See you in Soweto

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The first time I heard the word “township” was in the context of South African apartheid policy. Soweto, as I learned, is not an exotic word from an African language but stands for South Western Township. I’ve been to Soweto when it wasn’t officially allowed – it would have never ocurred to me to take photos at the time.

PJ Powers and Hotline was the first really successful “crossover” band in South Africa, crossover referencing the fact that they had white and black fans (and coloureds, too – yes, in South Africa there used to be a difference, the powers that were believed in “divide and conquer”, and there were actually many more distinctions referreing to “race” – ignoring the fact that there are no different human races).

One of their hits was “Jabulani” (a Zulu word for rejoicing and a fairly common male first name, incidentally the name of our oldest son). Another one is “See you in Soweto”, if you’ve never heard it enjoy it here on youtube.

Word of the Day: Township

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Protest!

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I disagree with wordpress adding new features on the sly without warning or moving features around. They’ve just added a new feature in the reader which fades out my own posts. It find it annoying but … Now they added a button “mark as read” above “visit the post” and I keep clicking ion it. [sigh] I’ll get used to it, I’m sure. But it is annoying!!

I disagree with this wordpress policy. Do you disagree with me?

And would you know it my disagreement works for double dipping:

FOWC with Fandango: Disagree + RDP: Superfluous

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