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(CNN) -- Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Outside court a few blacks in South Africa watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

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Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Outside court a few blacks watched nervously, one of them telling CNN they are scared.

Anita Davis contributed to this report.

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Sent out at 6pm, Sri Lankan time: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/test/index.html

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used to have great admiration for all things Charlize Theron.

And then, this:


Sorry, Charlize. It's over.

COULDN'T MAKE IT UPDATE: "Demi Moore's actor husband Ashton had the best seats in the venue as he sat at the end of Chelsea's bench with his Kabbalah teacher Yehuda Berg."

Nephew of Sam: essential reading

Best of Frontline magazine.

Top stuff from my (dad's) literary mate, Seffrican commentator and owner of some of the Rainbow Nation's most rainbow shirts, Denis Beckett.

Also a couple of free short books: The Road Stops At Nowhere and White Man Walking.

Oh, the good old days...

Two things must ye know about the SA High Commission.

1) 15 years into the New South Africa, the second language on the walls of SA House is still Afrikaans. This includes the foot-high gilt-lettered SUID AFRIKA on the portico looking out onto Trafalgar Square.

2) In the foyer outside the Kinema they have antique riempie seats, but they've cheated by boarding up the space under the cross-work. Cheaters.

Best of Brian Moore

Yes, it's that time of the year again. No, not the baseball season, you pussies; the autumn rugby internationals.

Today's Brian Moore specials, from the Seffrica-Wales game, include:

"But this isn't a game for ifs and buts."

and the most blatantly nationalistic commentator in the business talking up the latest anti-racism campaign, as advertised on the sleeves of the two opposing teams, members of which are selected with reference only to their homeland. Priceless.

Seffrican politics LATEST

Seffricanisms: 2

Extracts from the best-selling Afrikaner Lexicon of I Are Is Computing.

Monitor - Keeping an eye on the braai
Hard drive - Trip back home without any cold beer
Byte - What mosquitoes do
Mega-byte - What mosquitoes at the lake do
Micro chip - What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
Dot Matrix - Oom Jan Matrix's wife
Mainframe - What holds the shed up
Web-site - The shed (or under the verandah)
Upgrade - A steep hill
Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
Netscape - When fish maneuvers out of reach of net

Seffricanisms: 1

Herewith, some highlights from the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (tragically ficational) pronunciation style-book.

Beds - doves, vultures, etc.
Feather - implies distance ('Kep Town is feather than Johannesbeg')
Phlegm - the hot part at the end of a candle
Piss - as aymbolised by white doves
Weaner - 'the weaner takes all'
Wekkas - they do the wek

Zuma zippered

South African cartooning legend Zapiro lays into Jacob Zuma. Again.

By yours truly, in The First Post.