Pascal Parent on March 20th, 2010

As you know I don’t often deviate from photography on this blog, but from time to time there is something to, well, shout about and this is the case. Head over to Shout for a safer South Africa, an initiative to create awareness around the raising criminality and raise funds to combat it. They currently only accept SMS donation for the song in return but you will also be able to download it for a R20 from their website as of next week. Now when you consider that a downloadable song will cost you R10 the donation is really cheap. There are comments on YouTube that you can downloaded it for free from YouTube but then is that not defeating the purpose and joining the criminal element?

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Pascal Parent on October 12th, 2009

Mail and Guardian has launched ZA News a daily satiric and funny look at the South African news of the day.

Thank you Mail and Guardian for making me laugh.

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Pascal Parent on August 31st, 2009

It’s not every day that I blog about news, in fact I have tried to avoid it since the re-launch of “Only in South Africa” and focus, on puns intended, on photography. There are days I feel like sharing thoughts and today the urge has won over my better judgment.

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Pascal Parent on April 28th, 2009

Nanado’s Chickenland has released a new ad in South Africa just before the elections, using Julius Malema, the president of the ANC Youth League, as a cornerstone.

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Pascal Parent on April 17th, 2009

The South African elections are happening on the 22nd of this month, literally around the corner.

And here are my thoughts on the parties and candidates.

African National Congress [http://www.anc.org.za/]

Possibly the largest party in South Africa lead by Jacob Zuma.

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Pascal Parent on March 19th, 2009

I have been living for about 6 years in my house and have found various crawling and flying insects and spiders in my bathtub but today took the awards. I must first explain to you that I live next to a conservation area, the advantages are great as I have a rather large bird life living nearby. Living in Africa has it’s challenges though, even when you live in a city such as Johannesburg, a first world city of grand proportions. So let me introduce the visitor  to my bathtub, how it got there is a mystery, but it did.

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