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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Mbeki and Mugabe in Pictures

My friend president Mbeki and Mugabe on friday 10 April after having a hour long meeting in Harare. Mugabe told reporters about his friendship with Mbeki.

Picture by Zapiro: President of Zimbabwe Robert mugabe is busy counting votes by his own because he do not trust the Zimbazwean Electoral Commision. Because he is alone he is going to spent the whole month of april counting.

Taking their relationship to a upper level: This was after Mbeki was delegated by SADC to be a mediator between ZANU-PF leader and MDC leaders in Zimbabwe.

Well i still believe Mugabe will lead the country again, because he is counting votes by himself, how can you let yourself loose, while you are counting without viewers.

The Most Dangerous States for Eating Out.

Are you intending to go out of the country, just to get a fresh air, before doing that check the most dangerous states that you have to abstain from eating at their restaurants. The healthinspections.com has done a study on the outcome of diseases outbreaks at some of the states and they found that five of them are most dangerous. South Africa is still safe because the studies are not yet started.
The most dangerous states for eating out are Florida, California, Minnesota, Ohio, and New York according to the most recent federal data. Restaurants in these five states spread bacteria such as E.coli and salmonella, making nearly 3,000 customers sick and putting 65 in the hospital. For restaurants in Florida and California, this is not good news. It's the third straight year they've topped the list for having the most dangerous restaurants. Healthinspections.com analyzed data from the Centers For Disease Control to obtain the rankings. Here's how the states stack up for outbreaks of restaurant food poisoning in 2006, the most recent year available.
1. Florida 74 outbreaks
2. California 69 outbreaks
3. Minnesota 55 outbreaks
4. Ohio 54 outbreaks
5. New York 50 outbreaks

The federal numbers also raise questions about food safety practices in restaurants because more and more people are getting sick from eating out. Across the country, restaurants were responsible for at least 605 outbreaks of food poisoning in 2006, compared to 532 outbreaks in 2005. Healthinspections.com has found that many Florida restaurants – from fast food to fine dining facilities – have long records of serious health code violations.

In all, the restaurant had been cited for 36 violations on two previous inspections including:
-Employees not washing
-Employees not changing dirty gloves
-Using dirty wiping cloths on tables and countertops.
-Slime contaminating the ice machine
-Dirty soft drink nozzles

After the Norovirus outbreak, which couldn't be tied to a particular food item at Coconuts, the restaurant continued to have problems. Coconuts was cited for 10 violations on Valentine's Day, including food at the wrong temperature, a food cooler not working properly, and repeat violations for dirty ice machines and dirty soda nozzles.

Source: The Most Dangerous States for Eating Out, Healthinspections.com

Less happy people may be healthy and live long

Are you always happy or extremely happy, experts says less happy of having little worries may be healthy than being extremely happy. According to the society that we live in now people who have everything are regarded as the most happier people, and because they have everything we also regard them as the healthiest people. But according to the study done by psychologists who researched happiness for more than decades those who are less happy are more likely to be healthy that the extremely happy people.

Dr. ED Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign told Reuters Health that people who are less happy may achieve more than those who are extremely happy. He further said that they may also live longer than the extreme happier. "Our findings suggest that extremely high levels of happiness might not be a desirable goal and that there is more to psychological well-being than high levels of happiness," Diener and his team report in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
The researchers looked at six different studies of happiness and life outcomes to investigate the optimum level of happiness. One study, the World Values Survey, which included nearly 120 000 people from 96 countries, found that those who were moderately happy, rating their life satisfaction at 8 or 9 out of 10, made more money than those who rated their satisfaction level at 10. However, 10s and 9s were more likely to have stable intimate relationships.
Health24 note down that another study found that the happiest college students were also the most social, but they had lower grade-point averages than their slightly less happy peers. In four studies that looked at individuals' well-being several years after their happiness level was initially assessed, the happiest people wound up with less education and lower incomes than the moderately happy individuals.

SOURCE: Perspectives on Psychological Science, December 2007. – (Reuters Health)

Mbeki is Mugabe’s best friend

President Thabo Mbeki said on weekend to the reporters that the Zimbabwe’s election standoff is not a crisis and its electoral commission must be given time to release the results of a presidential poll held two weeks ago.
I do not believe what President Thabo Mbeki has just said on weekend, how can he say the Zimbabwe’s standoff election is not a crisis? How can people wait for election results for weeks? That is something that worries me about Mbeki, I am not sure how far is too far he is going with his friendship with Mugabe.
After Mbeki held an long meeting with president Mugabe, on his way to Zambia to discuss the crises of elections in Zimbabwe he told reporters that he wouldn’t describe that as a crisis. He said It is a normal electoral process in Zimbabwe. “We have to wait for ZEC to release the results,” Mbeki told reporters after the meeting” he added.
It is not really sure of what they were discussing for that hour long, but I assume the issue of not going to attend a summit in Lusaka came out. That is why Mugabe ended up telling journalists after the meeting that, he is not going to the summit, but is best friend and brother Mbeki is going. “Sometimes you attend and sometimes you have other things holding you back” said Mugabe.
On Thursday the opposition leader in Zimbabwe Tsvangarai met with Mbeki concerning the crime but northing was revealed about their discussion, it is believed they never got any agreement, which is why he further more went to other African continents to look for help.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Kakanyo ya go hloma Khansele ya baswa ya tša bokgabo e thoma go otlologa!

Limpopo Youth Arts Council- ye ke khansele yeo e ka bonwago ka mono probenseng ya Limpopo nakong yeo e sa fetšego pelo. Baswa bao ba tšerego maitapišo a bona ba a bea tiragatšong ya tša bokgabo gammogo le setšo, ba kopantšhitše di hlogo go netefatša gore khansele e a kgonagala. David Ramakgwakgwa ye ka sebele a lego moswa wa go tsenelela ka gare ga ditiragatšo tša bokgabo le setšo o re kakanyo ye ye hlwahlwa e tlile ka Komišene ya baswa ya Limpopo.

Morero mogolo wa khansele ye ke go tla go netefatša gore dinyakwa tša badiragatši ba tša bokgabo ka mono Limpopo di a lebelelwa ebile ditalente tša bona di tšwetšwa pele. “ Khansele ye e tlile gape goba yona gomang ka nna ya go kgobaketša badiragatši ba go swana le Direti, dibapadi tša sefala, bangwadi, babetli gammkogo le ba torowi. “Bontšhi bja baswa ba Limpopo ba nale talente ye kgolo re lebeletše mererong ya tša bokgabo, efela ka lebaka la gore ga go nale motho yoo a ba hlokometšego ditalente tša bona di feleletša di lahlega, ke ka lebaka leo re nyakago go dira khansele ya mohuta wo yeo e tlabego e lebeletše baswa feela” gwa realo Ramakgwakgwa ge a be a hlalosetša lešaba la badiragatši nakong ya ge go be go swerwe kopano.

Ramakgwakgwa go tšweleng pele ga gagwe o laeditše gore khansele ye e tlile go thoma dileteng tše hlano tša ka mono probenseng, gomme ka morago gwa hlongwa boetapele bja probense.

A council meeting is not a play ground!

I was really embarrassed and enraged for three days which I have attended Capricorn Polokwane municipality Council Meetings. These meetings are taken as a play ground, when the councilors do not have anything to do at home they just call a special council meeting even if there is northing to discuss, I mean yesterday on Thursday there was a special council meeting at Library Auditorium in Polokwane, guess what happened, a chair women of the meeting laid ground rules and after that a councilor from a Democratic Alliance Movement stood up and pour stinking water on her. He told the poor chair women that she do not have to lay ground rules to them, she better lay ground rules to herself.

The chairperson tried to call the councilor to order, but unfortunately said to him “Put that micro oven down instead of saying put that microphone down”. Another DA councilor stood up and said “Point of Correction, a microphone not a micro-oven”.

I do not wonder why these kinds of meetings are called often; there is a catering of high level which is called every time when having these jokes called council meetings. For my surprise on Thursday some councilor brought their children in with then. I do not think I will ever go to these meetings again, but unless when I am bored, just to go there and laugh. But if there is something serious to attend I do not think I can even try to go there, I do not care whether there is nice well done food or not.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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