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A glamorous look never fails to bring out the best in a woman.
Be part of the knowledge cultured movementYOUNG WOMAN @ WITS
August issue
I truly enjoyed August not only because it’s a month dedicated to women but also because of the significance it
has in many women’s lives. It is a time to highlight the struggles that face our generation today and to hear about many women’s achievements. This month MICampus truly dedicated most of the content to women (young and old). From books (which can be found on page ()) to social events. Get reading and you’ll surely be inspired by some of the stories that have been covered. Remember to read through an important article which focuses on re-markable women that have made a dif-ference all around the world on page (). It won’t come out in your tests but it will definitely leave you feeling in-spired. And I hope that all the young women in mzansi find inspiration in everything they do, but mostly in this magazine.
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During the winter vacation the University of the Witwatersrand held its graduates ceremonies, an auspicious event held to honour those who have run their race and finished. Proud parents and friends came together to congratulate the newly graduates who looked just as excited about their future. Mi-
campus mag took the time to speak to the recent graduates and to find out what tips could they share with prospectus students who will soon be joining tertiary institutions in order to fulfil their dreams and students who are working towards attaining their degrees. What better way is there to equip yourself for the journey other than asking those who have ran the race ahead and conquered? These were their views:
A word from the graduates - Sthandiwe Ndaba -
Mamokete Matjomane. Graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning.
Career Choices
Do not choose a career based on the status associated with it. You CAN make money in any career as long as you’re passionate about it.
Ways of making the most of tertiary experience:
Loosen up once in a while and have some fun. Socialize with other students. In my experience ‘all work and no play’ has proved disastrous because it increases stress.
Coping mechanisms
• Talk to friends or people you trust• Meditation...works for a lot of people • Take a walk or listen to your favourite music
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What are your tips to those who want to come to tertiary?
After finishing matric you must KNOW in advance what you want to study. Choose according to your strengths and interests. Know what your goals and objectives are. You are now responsible for your own future.
Coping (work load and stress) mechanisms:
Masters level is stressful with 12 courses to be completed, what’s important is commitment to your goals no matter the storms that raged.
Serge Kubanza. Graduated with Masters of Science in Development Planning
Thandeka Tshabalala. Graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning.
What are your tips to those who want to come to tertiary?
• Be absolutely certain of what they what to do!! Do not try to please parents, family members and friends.
Study methods:
• Do it the night before and you will reap failure!• You need to listen and attend classes by all means.• Attend tutorial groups and do them before hand. • Mind maps • You need to be relaxed when studying; take breaks, walks to calm you down.
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Dudu Ndwandwe.Graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning.
Advice on career choices?
Study something that you’re passion-ate about and you won’t have to stress about job hunting-things will naturally come to you. (Normally it doesn’t work to analyse the market, then take a ca-reer you are passionate about)
Study methods:
Group works always works. Choose friends carefully; be among the winners (slave drivers, hungry for success)
Coping (work load and stress) mechanisms
Do what works for you (scream, cry, eat, etc) but don’t do too much of it, remem-ber that after all the stressing, work still needs to be done.
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Most students believes that if you are financially chal-lenged your dream to study ends after Matriculating and that finance becomes a barrier that prevents one from furthering his/her studies at universities. But this is al-
ways not the case; here is some useful information that will help you get on your horses and chase that dream again.
NSFASNational Student financial Aid scheme (NSFAS) is a statutory body, funded primarily by the South African national department of edu-cation providing study loans to academically able but financially needy students who wish to study at one of South Africa’s public educational tertiary institutions. South African higher education has appointed some of higher educational institution like UJ, Wits, UP etc. to administer funds on its behalf. NSFAS loan may be used for tuition fees, Books and university accommodation fees and in some institutions it covers meals. If you wish to apply contact your chosen institution for further information www.uj.ac.za
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Funza Lushaka BursaryThis is the bursary for students who consider teaching as a ca-reer. The Funza Lushaka bursary is administered is administered through NSFAS at Universities and Multi year program that pro-motes teaching in public schools. Full-cost bursaries are provided are provided by the national department of education and is made available to applicants studying towards a qualification in a teach-ing field aimed at specializing in a specific priority area. For more information go to www.NSFAS.org.za
NEDBANK bursaryThis is for students considering:• Accounting and CA studies• Agricultural studies• Economics• Mathematics• Property and construction• Statistics• Actuary science• Computer science• Quantity survey• Engineering• Marketing• Business finance• Business management• Human resources• ITTo apply go to Nedbank website www.nedbankgroup.co.za/careers and select bursaries/learnerships and have Ref bursary 2011 handy or www.nedbank.co.za/youthIf you are unable to apply online E-mail your documents to [email protected] you want to find out more bursaries available visit www.uj.ac.za or a website of your preferred institution.
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South Africa is a diverse country of people with different skills. However it becomes a problem when some skills are scarce due to a number
of reasons. This month we are looking at a scarce skill which is Analytical Chemistry, a study of separation, identification and quan-tification of chemical components of natural and artificial materials.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS use a wide variety of techniques in their analysis includ-ing digital microscopes, spectophotometres and chemometrics. We also take a look at a qualified Analytical Chemist Sipho Mokone.
QUALIFICATIONS : Diploma in Analyti-cal Chemistry(TUT)2007, BSc in Chemistry (University of Pretoria)2009,Qualified Qual-ity Auditor(SABS)2010
Occupation: Quality Auditor at SABS
JOB DESCRIPTION: supervisor at a quality control lab (in charge of quality from raw materials used to manufacture products to final products)
ADVANTAGES : you can work any-where including mines, pharmaceuticals, SABS, food security research companies
DISADVANTAGES: long hours since you are relying on analytical instruments which can have hiccups anytime.
SALARY: it is average but it gets better with experienceREQUIREMENTS: good knowledge in Mathematics and Chemistry
“People are reluctant to study this course because the two subjects are not easy hence it is a white dominated industry, and schools need to give enough career guidance to learners”We have compiled a quiz to give you a start to see if you are on the right track.
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YES NODo you enjoy solving problems?
Are you good in Mathematics and Science?
Are you accurate?Can you work with technology and machinery?
Do you have good communication skills?
Are you computer literate?
Are you passionate about Sciences?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions, consider Analytic Chemistry as one of
your career choices
The courses are offered at the following institutions Tshwane University of
Technology,National Diploma in Analytical Chemistry(3 year course) contact www.tut.ac.za
and University of Pretoria BSc in Chemistry(4 year course)contact www.up.ac.za . Other
institutions such as Wits also offer it-for more info go to www.wits.ac.za
ARE YOU SUITED FOR THIS CAREER?
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HE REARRANGED MY HAIR(title from Adrian van der Velden)
A nameless lodger boards the boat;broken bottles beneath his coat.
Only waves and their distant noiseleft to grieve for his former joys.
He rearranged my hairand taught me how to swear.
Fixed my tie and shone my shoes;then told me not to care.
Along a half-deserted street;flat cigarettes lay at her feet.
A woman with a face as creasedas the finger from its ring released.
She rearranged my hairand spoke of her affair.
Touched my cheek, fed me sweets; then told me not to stare.
Michelle Lyn Vahey
University of Pretoria
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MOON The earth moves a million light
years underneath mewhile I stay asleep at night;the places where faces move
through gravitytravel through the dark, over to
the distant light.We put our feet down on this
blue earth,With dust clouding around our
feet;every day there is less death
than birth,and the world becomes replete.I wonder if life on the moon
would be easy,and whether living there would
be right;but now, the earth moves a mil-lion light years underneath me
while I stay asleep at night.
Adrian van der VeldenUniversity of Pretoria
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UNTITLTED
Yours is a mind I want to crawl into. To massage the knots of your tan-
gled strands-set them free and lay them out to
breathe.If breathing is what water feels like to
fish, then streamline yourself to this gas-
eous concoction and be inspired as though it were me
in your socks.I fear, though, that I might overdose
on one of our dialogues- and seemingly you could be that re-
habilitation.
Ours is a work in progress for whose process work
makes me look at my reflection on a blank screen and think:
“How could you not want me around you… all the time?”
I might- you.In fact, if you tried hard enough you
can…walk our souls to a corner where size
6 and size 10 meet to just match the colour of our eyes.
Bongisa Msutu
University of Pretoria
DREAMING OF YOU
In sombre slumberWhen dreams of us abound my mind
I walk down the memory lanesOf tomorrow’s happenings.I see the past as our future
And look to the futureAs if it had already passed.
The whispers in my earThat you breathed yesterday
Only really happened in my head,But the cruelty of the words we’ve left
unsaidRings, ripples, resonates somewhereBetween a reality that lulls me to
sleepAnd a dream that shakes me awake.
Mercilessly, this world feeds me truths
That compel me to swallow my prideAnd admit that your comforting lies
Won’t do forever.
In my mind, we are one.The fingers of my soul
Touch the palm of your reluctant hand
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To paint a dream world in whichWe belong -- to each other.
Shuffling feet take hasty stepsToward a nearby future,
Somewhere behind us and somewhere ahead.
A future whose kaleidoscope of falla-cies
Flirt with your fear and my fervourCaress our emptiness with conniving
convictionTo push us towards the grains
That would fill the voids.Except the grains too are void.
I reach out into the precious vacuumThat lies obstinately between usThese pretty, pitiful little hands
Clutch onto pixie-sized hopeAnd pretend that hope even exists.
Then let go of fearAnd pretend it doesn’t.In the absence of yours,I clasp my own hand
In a moment of solemn prayerAnd watch solemnity turn into
Desperate desire.
I acheWhen I wrap my arms around my-
selfUnder the glare of fading twilightAnd the flicker of shooting stars
And imagine it’s you there.Sincerely, I implore the heavens
Not to engulf us in their darkness.
-- you’re slipping away... which hurts as if you were really ever in
my arms to begin with.
In my quiet moments of unseen in-sanity,
I medicate myself with insomniaI beg that it rips me away
From this intangible fantasyOf you ever belonging to me.
I don’t want to swimInto my subconscious anymore.
There, I’m not alone.Your aura fills the moments between
my blinksAnd woos my eyes to close.
It bargains with my faltering grip on reality
And entices me to submitTo the union of my lashes.
-- why are you calling me towards you in my dreams, when you can’t
ever be there in my waking life?
I wish I knew.But I don’t.
And my eyes are heavy.You win.
Eyes closed...
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One inspiring woman in South Africa is, well known in the mining
sector is BRIDGET RADEBE. She is the elder sister of bil-lionaire PATRICE MOSTEPE and wife of JUSTICE MINIS-TER. She is one of the top richest women in Africa and is also the founder and Executive Chairperson of Mmakau Mining- a mining com-pany which invests in platinum, coal, chrome and gold. She is also the President of the South
African Mining Development Association, Vice Chairman of the Minerals and Mining Development Board advising the Minister of Minerals and Energy and she also was part of the group that draws up the South African Mining Charter and current mining legislation. Radebe is inspiring because her determination to succeed in a field that was male domi-nated in the 1980’s, yielded unlimited prosperity today.
Sheila Johnson
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SHEILA CRUMP JOHNSON is the first African-American billionaire. Johnson, who was born January 25 1949, made millions through perusing her passion in music. She and her husband Robert L. Johnson founded the BET. In 1979 Johnson and her husband co-founded the cable TV network Black Entertain-ment Television (BET). Johnson was BET’s executive vice president for cor-porate affairs and head of community relations, focusing on issues affecting the communities that BET served. Johnson was passionate about cre-ating shows that catered for African-Americans. She even developed and produced a show called Teen Summit, a show that discussed the different is-sues that the African-American youth are faced with. In 1999 she left BET to pursue other business ventures. What makes Johnson an inspiring woman are her achievements. Johnson is the CEO of Salamander Hospitality, a company she founded in 2005. The hospitality company consists of a hotel resort, spa and golf course. She was the first female to own a pro-fessional basketball team, the Washing-ton Mystics that play in the WNBA. Not only is she a billionaire but she is also a global ambassador for CARE, a hu-manitarian organization fighting global poverty.
Wangari MaathaiAnother inspiring woman, is WAN-GARI MUTA MAATHAI, a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She is well-known for getting Ke-nyan women to start planting trees in order to combat deforestation. Maathai, who was born in Ihithe village in Kenya on the 1st of April 1940, got a scholarship to study overseas and in 1964. She earned herself a Master of Sci-ence in Biological Sciences. She was the first east African woman to hold a doctorate. Maathai is known for her strong willed character and determination, qualities that many women adore her for. She played an important role in empowering women in Kenya. The Green Belt Movement, which she started, has helped plant a lot of trees and has also encouraged people to vote by registering voters for the elections.
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Lubna Hussein
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LUBNA HUSSEIN is a Sudanese re-porter and women’s rights campaigner who made news when she was arrest-ed for wearing trousers. Hussein, who is Muslim, was arrested in 2009 under restrictive decency laws, along with 12 women who wore trousers. In her trial, she spoke out against the oppres-sion of women. She also caused a stir when she publicized her trial/case by printing and emailing 500 invitations cards that said “Sudanese journalist Lubna invites you again to her flog-ging tomorrow inviting”. Her trial was attended by diplomats, human rights activists and protesters. Hussein’s trial and story brought atten-tion to women rights and got the world speaking, which is what she was aim-ing for. She became a figure for wom-en’s rights and she stood up for all the women in her country that didn’t have a voice. She truly is inspiring. She was released from custody, however she has been moving house to house because of the threats she has been receiving. But she still hasn’t given up the fight.
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This woman has changed the face of literature for the 21st century generation with her series of Harry Potter novels. ROWLING’s life is inspiring because she used her writ-ing talent to turn her life around. Rowling came up with an idea for Harry Potter in 1990 when she was on a train from Manchester to London. When she got back to her flat she began writing out the story of Harry Potter. She already began writing fantasy stories at the age of six and read them to her sister. It was when Rowling was going through a difficult time in her life that she decided to publish her stories. Like many writers Rowl-ing’s novel was turned down by many publishing houses, twelve to be precise. Bloomsbury publish-ing house in London finally bought into her idea/manuscript. Rowling was told that she might not make money from children’s books, but a few years later she had publishers fighting over the rights to publish her novel. Five months later Harry Potter won awards such as the Brit-ish Book Award for Children’s Book
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of the Year and the Children’s Book Award. The Harry Potter sequel broke sales records; it sold more than 400 million copies and Rowling was named author of the year in 2000 British Book Awards. Harry Potter took new heights when it was adapted to film in 2001. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the first two novels. Rowl-ing got companies such Coca- Cola to donate $18 million to the American charity Reading is Fundamental. Rowling has been hailed for contributing a lot to literature; she even received honorary degrees from numerous universities, like Harvard University. She established charitable trusts to combat poverty and social inequality. Rowling earned over $400 million for the first three Harry Potter books.
Hawa Abdi
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HAWA ABDI, M.D. is a Somalian human rights activist and doctor, specializing in
gynaecology who started a refugee hospital and camp in Somalia. The camp serves 90,000 people affect-ed by the war. Many charities re-fuse to enter Somalia and help the citizens because of the war. Abdi began her humanitarian work in 1983 by opening a one-room clinic on her family farm that would help refugees that are need of medical help, e.g. war injuries, diseases. She was/is helped by her daugh-ters Deqo and Amina, who are also doctors. What makes Abdi an ex-traordinary woman, is that she is one of Somalia’s first female gyn-aecologists. She has dedicated her life to serving her fellow Somalians by providing them with food and clean water and she does all this on her own savings and donations. Abdi even runs a school and literacy classes for women and she campaigns against female genital mutilation. Abdi brings hope where hope can easily be lost.
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AN ANNUAL CAMP FOR TEENAGE GIRLS BY THE OR-GANISATION SHE RELATES OF TUKS
When you are a young woman, there is always something enticing and thrilling about the prospect of the future with regard to putting all your feminine charm, intelli-
gence and uniqueness to work. Academics, personal-wellbeing and the potential of being an individual worth high reckoning in the work-force were the focal points of this camp for the young girls of She Relates. 30 girls were assembled from two different schools in Mamelodi by order of achievement.
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The camp was held at the Mamelodi campus and lasted 4 days, where gardening, talks with established and influential women were had. New forms of exercise were explored, and games were played. The camp ended with the young ladies feeling invigorat-ed, with fresh dreams, and aspirations of new heights.
This camp is aimed at youths aged 14-20. This camp is a great way for friends to have their unsaved friends experience the unity and love that comes with being in a relationship with God. It also a camp to help young people reignite their passion for Christ. People have a load of fun , with new friends to be made, awe-some experiences to be had and a new outlook on life as you are taught the value system of living the right and fruitful way.
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The month of August is dedicated to cel-ebrating past and
present works of inspi-rational women resid-ing in South Africa. We celebrate their lives for we wish to sustain their legacies so that this generation of young women is stirred to produce even greater works. In keeping with the August theme of celebrating great works by women MiCampus took the joyous task of reviewing two nov-els written by Zukiswa Wanner and Angelina Sithebe.
Zukiswa Wanner has become a house-hold name in the
literature circles after the success of her wit-ty, humorous first nov-el The Madams, in this article MiCampus re-views her second offer-ing; Men of the South. The book is set in Jo-burg, which the author
admits to have con-structed by watching people in coffee shops around the city. The book is centred on the lives of three men who become connected to each other through friendship and relation-ships. Zukiswa writes about the challenges facing men in South Africa and how soci-ety influences on the decisions they make. Through Mfundo’s char-acter who is one of the three men characters, Zukiswa deals with the issue a of modern man who decides that he does not want to be a bread winner anymore and would rather stay at home and look after his first born. The book also deals with issues of culture and sexuality, specifically the gay is-sue. An issue that South Africa as a society is still getting its head around. Zukiswa has done her best on this novel using
humour and satire as part of her writing style. It is sure a great read for all genders.
Angelina Sithebe who was born in Soweto and a
graduated from Brook-lyn College in New York has published her novel Holy Hill which is set around a girl called Nana and her struggles of attempting to survive and fit in the world while on the other hand she has connections to the spiritual world. Nana uses her spiritual pow-ers to avenge herself from those who treat her wrongly but she fails to move beyond that and uses her powers for the greater good. The au-thor’s choice of narra-tion style portrays Nana as this feebly weak in-dividual who has been done wrong all her life and has no fight-ing power. One can-not help but feel sorry
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for the lead character when the whole world around her doesn’t even try to understand her but also the author failed to give Nana her own voice in her adult life. Throughout the novel the lead is portrayed as some-one who has no control over her world and what happens in it, she is depicted as someone with no sense of responsibil-ity for her own actions, specifi-cally her sexual relations with men and her inability to choose what she wants for herself. In contrast she becomes a weak-ling drowning in depression and misery. The author can be given credit for exposing the unfair-ness and cruelty that is aligned with boarding schools all done in the name of religion. The au-thor also cares to expose the debates around foreigners who come into the country in search of better opportunities and be-lieving that they are better than South Africans while they have fled from their own country es-caping wars and poverty im-posed by their own leaders.
Men of the Souh By Zukiswa Wanner
Holy Hill by Angelina Sithebe
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It is rugby season, the perfect time to get a bit rough, boys and girls. Whether you will be par-
ticipating in games or having fun as a spectator, either choice will be a great way to celebrate the world-renowned sport. The IRB Rugby World Cup is only a few days away, so before the real party be-gins, Micampus is going to equip you with some rugga background and basics.
Origins of rugbyThe origin of rugby started as an incident during a game of English school football at Rugby School somewhere in Britain during 1823 when William Webb-Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it. Although this tale is anecdotal, the Rugby World Cup trophy was named af-ter him. Rugby grew through the years and kept making history one tournament after the other. The
New Zealand 1905 touring team performed a haka before each match, leading Welsh Rugby Union administrator Tom Williams to suggest that Wales player Teddy Morgan lead the crowd in singing the Welsh National An-them, Hen WladFyNhadau, as a response to the New Zealand-ers’ war cry. After Morgan began singing, the crowd joined in, and this was the first time a national anthem was sung at the start of a sporting event. In 1987, the first Rugby World Cup was held in New Zealand and Australia, and the first official winners of the tournament were New Zealand. Rugby was known as an amateur sport until the IRB declared the game ‘open’ in 1995, removing restrictions on payments to play-ers, officially putting the tourna-ment at the same international level as soccer. South Africa went
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on to win the 1995 tournament, and dedicated the Cup to Nelson Mandela. South Africa repeated history by claiming the cup again in 2007 in France.
Now that you are well acquainted with the history, you might want to familiarise yourself with the termi-nology and the rugby basics. To get you on the right track early, here are the four most important parts of rugby you may need to know before watching a match.• LINEOUT: this is when both teams line up opposite each other, but one team then throws the ball down the middle of the tunnel. Line-outs restart play after the ball, or a player carrying it, has gone out of bounds.• MAUL: this happens when a player carrying the ball is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball-carrier’s team-mates bind on the ball-carrier. All the players involved are on their feet and moving toward a goal line. Open play has ended.• RUCK: One or more players from each team, who are on their feet and in contact, close around
the ball on the ground. Once a ruck has been formed, players cannot use their hands to get the ball, only their feet. • SCRUM: A contest for the ball involving eight players who bind together and push against the other team’s assembled eight for possession of the ball. Scrums restart play after certain minor infractions. Ever wondered what all that rug-by jargon meant while attempt-ing to watch a game? Well here is some terminology to help you keep up with the commentators, or even your friends. • OFFSIDE: A player is offside in general play if he is in
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front of a team-mate who is carry-ing the ball, or in front of a team-mate who last played the ball. • FORWARD PASS: An illegal pass to a player who is ahead of the ball; a player is not allowed to pass the ball forward to a team-mate.
• KNOCK ON: If a player drops the ball ‘forward’ – that is, towards the opposing team’s try line – or loses possession of the ball and it goes forward, a scrum is set, with the non-offending team getting the scrum feed.• What goes on at the tackle: A tackle occurs when a standing player (the tackled player) is held by one or more opponents and brought to the ground, and/or the ball touches the ground. Any oppo-nents of the tackled player who go to ground are known as tacklers.• FOUL PLAY: Play deemed by the referee as being dangerous, obstructive, unfair play or miscon-duct. The offending player is penal-
ised, possibly sent to the sin bin or even sent off.
The Rugby World Cup will be held in New Zealand, and everybody, non-rugby fans included, are ex-cited to find out if South Africa will be able to retain their position as the cup holders. Have fun and participate in the world cup spec-tacle. As South Africans know, there is nothing like a braai and a rugby game to bring people to-gether.
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