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Thursday, August 03, 2006

being in the world

Today Andy (my wife) and I travelled the 70 Km to Jo'burg to meet Hleziphi Mudau, the really cool journalist and to do some musical chores at Lovemore's Music. Hleziphi was great! She apparently has about 100 news articles she has written on township business mostly in and around Diepsloot.

We agreed that Hleziphi would photocopy her articles and I will then set-up a personal blog for her articles available from the Sunstyle Website.

We also agreed to set-up some interviews with her at various newspapers including the Daily Sun and we will try to get her and janine du Plessis to meet with Mayer Fischer-French who does business reporting for the Mail and Guardian to promote the creation of a township business section.

We also agreed that there would be violence in Diepsloot and neighbouring Olievenhoutbos unless some conflict resolution was not conducted. I agreed to contact some social workers active in these areas to investigate. We cannot have a nascent business scene mired in violence.

On another topic, Marita Oosthuisen visited this evening and asked us to proof-read her masters dissertation on public participation in Environmental Impact Studies. This should be interesting as it raises a whole set of issues about how formal and legally framed actions may be routinely undermined.

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