Some 136 caterpillars made the single line and wriggled top-to-toe
across the road, linked by a thin silk thread which set their path.
And their safety-in-numbers approach had the desired effect as the
slow-moving convoy was easily seen by motorists, who were held up for 20
minutes as it made its way across.
The spectacle was captured on camera by British tourist Jamie Rooney,
who was visiting the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Jamie, from High Wycombe, Bucks, was in a Jeep full of tourists when
their driver slammed the brakes just inches from the crawling
caterpillars. He said, 'It was an incredible sight. We were out driving
in Kruger National Park for a safari, when all of a sudden the driver
shouted out and slammed on his brakes.'
'He managed to stop just in time in front of this amazing trail of
caterpillars, which was stretching across the road.'
'Conservation is a massive deal in South Africa and the idea is that if
there is any living creature in the road you have to wait patiently
until it is safely across.'
'We got out to get a closer look and counted 136 caterpillars in convoy,
all moving together across the track.'
'They were following a very, very thin silk thread on the ground and it
took them about 20 minutes to get across the road safely.'
'Our guide had never seen it before, but he'd heard about it and
explained they were migrating into the bush where they would disperse.'
'It's like the mass migration of bigger animals like wildebeest, but on
a different scale and pace.'
'When they arrive in the bush, they turn into chrysalis and then
butterflies.'
'It's a rare sight. It was an absolute joy to watch and a great
experience to be able to get down close and see it first hand.'
Two former policemen found guilty of murder in an apparent argument
about genitals have been sentenced on Wednesday to 205 years in prison
by the Durban High Court.
Judge Guido Penzhorn sentenced Brian Steven to 115 years for four counts
of murder and one count of attempted murder.
Leon Steven was sentenced to 90 years in jail for four counts of murder
and one of attempted murder.
On September 10, 2008 the Steven brothers shot dead Shawn Strydom, 32,
Nic Jansen van Rensburg, 47, Rory Menzies, 41 and Bruce Edwards, 57.
There had apparently been an argument over the size of a patron's
genitals at the Merseyside Pub in Umbilo. - Sapa
Dear Sis Dolly:
I am a very charming man in his late 60s and married with 3 wives and
have 20 kids. My most recent child is from a relationship with a 39 year
old super-hot and gorgeous woman. We are very compatible and I think she
is she "special one" but there is one challenge, i.e. she happened to be
a daughter to a friend of mine but I would like to wed her too.
However, I don't want to be the cause of any beef between me and my friend.
Please help.
Anonymous,
eNkandla!!
.
Response from Dolly:
"Voetsek Jacob, I know it's you!"
Originally: "Why coloureds can't be terrorists" - by MARK LOTTERING
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- Ons is altyd laat. We would have missed all four flights.
- We talk loud and would bring attention to ourselves.
- Met free kos en cooldrink oppie plane, we'll sommer forget why we're
there in the first place.
- We praat with our hands, so we'll continually be putting down the weapons.
- We would ALL want to fly the freaking plane, ending up in a moerse
fight with each other.
- We'll argue and start a fight in the terminal before we even get on
the plane and one of us is bound to say out loud, "Gaan kak man! Dan
hijack jy die fokken plane alleen!!"
- Ons kannie 'n secret hou nie. We would have told everyone a week
before doing it, telling them, "Moet vir niemand se nie, ho!"
- We would have all lined up to get our picture taken by one of the
hostages.
- When we enter the cockpit, we would have used the intercom system for
a karaoke session, with one doos trying to sing 'I did it my way'.
- We would first rob everyone of their Ray-Bans, cellphones and gold
teeth just before we crash the plane.
- Our whole freaking family plus neighbours would have been at the
airport to see us off, crying their bleddie eyes out, and your mother
saying to the white ou next to her, "I'm so proud of him. It's the first
time he's hijacking a plane!"
- We would have dressed like terrorists for our airport go-way clothes:
balaclavas, jumpsuits, karate skoentjies, dark glasses, en 'n moerse
attitude.
- Two of us would have forgotten our passports at home...
- Three of us would have overweight luggage.
- All of us would have luggage.
- We would have wanted to watch the in-flight movie first.
- Before we went into action, we would have all queued up at the toilet
to first gel our hair.
- We would have taken the plane for a joyride past Strandfontein
Pavillion first, played the music at full blast and then try to park the
plane someplace where the chicks could see us...
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Disclaimer from http://www.marclottering.com
An email is once again being circulated entitled WHY COLOUREDS CAN'T BE
TERRORISTS. The chain email cites Marc as the author. This is false.
Marc never wrote this piece and we have no idea who did.
If you have the misfortune of having received the email, please spread
the word that it is fraudulent and that it has nothing to do with Marc
Lottering.
While thousands gathered on Sunday for a ceremony at the railway
crossing where 10 children died in a taxi on Wednesday, police arrested
the taxi driver moments after he was discharged from hospital.
The 55-year-old man is expected to appear in the Blue Downs Magistrate's
Court on Tuesday on a charge of culpable homicide.
Nine children were killed in the crash at the Blackheath crossing, and a
tenth, 10-year-old Jade Adams, died in hospital three days ago.
Witnesses and one of the survivors, 16-year-old Luciano de Koker, said
the taxi driver had overtaken a number of cars and tried to cross the
tracks even though the boom was down.
An oncoming train had then smashed into the taxi.
Yesterday Luciano's mother, Jocelyn de Koker, said that, although her
son did not want to speak about the crash, he had told her that the taxi
driver had often ignored the booms and driven across the tracks.
This article was originally published on page 1 of Cape Times on August
30, 2010
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Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:36
Matric pupils will know in the next few days whether they will write
their preliminary exams next week.
The exams were scheduled to start on 3 September but the ongoing
public servants strike has meant pupils have not covered all of the
necessary work.
Township schools have been hit the hardest by the mass action. Last
week, only around 20 percent of schools in Gauteng were open.
Over a million public servants are on strike over wages. Government
says it is essentially giving them 8.5 percent, just 0.1 percent less
than what unions are demanding.
Spanish singer Julio Iglesias was on television with British TV host
Anne Diamond when he used the word "mañana" (pronounced "manyana").
Diamond asked him to explain what it meant.
He said that the term means "Maybe the job will be done tomorrow, maybe
the next day, maybe the day after that. Or perhaps next week, next
month, next year. Who really cares?"
The host turned to Mr. Sipho Msontwana who was also on the show and
asked him if there was an equivalent term in his native language.
"Eish, Madam" he replied, "in Xhosa we don't have a word to describe
that degree of urgency."
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