tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87875783428426782792024-03-13T19:49:24.576-07:00Eve's ApplesA blog about emigrating from SA and for families fragmented by migration.It's about sharing,empathy, compassion & humour; about reflecting on our universal quest for life, security, challenge & growth. Email eve.epiphany@gmail.com if you'd like your personal journey/story showcased on my BLOG or in my next book! Namaste.Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-85222084611680798592013-07-06T11:04:00.001-07:002013-07-06T11:04:39.031-07:00Scatterlings- the book for expats from Southern Africa is now out !<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
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Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-87871507866981164522013-06-14T05:03:00.000-07:002013-06-14T05:03:50.223-07:00About the book 'Scatterlings' for migrants from Southern Africa<form id="form1" method="post" name="form1" style="border: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I grew up on a farm on the Lesotho border - where I visually imbibed</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;">rich textures, dramatic cloud formations, golden wheat fields</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;"> and dolomite </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;">'koppies' as my childhood vista. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />This was juxtaposed against the routine of boarding school in a small </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Freestate town.<br /><br />In my adult life I hailed from Hilton -South Africa and now reside in </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Auckland - New Zealand- a large sprawling city with sea views in almost </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">every direction.<br /><br />I spent the last 18 months working on my book - which I believe will be </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">beneficial for South Africans at home and abroad as emigration impacts </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">our lives whether we leave SA or stay at home and lose loved ones to</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> migration... </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I see us as the 'shrapnelled society" - Within the book I chronicle my </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">early </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;"> years as a farm child through to adulthood in South Africa followed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;"> by my </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;"> 'Aha Moment' to emigrate. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Psychological knowledge and skills are used to provide a Process</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> section </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;">as a facilitation tool for migrants who go through stages of grief </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;">adaptation.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Others' stories are blended into the book, including children's tales </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and perceptions. Those who share their stories, have hailed from </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rhodesia and South Africa and have settled in places like Peru, </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">New Zealand, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, England, Canada, USA </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and Kenya.<br /><br />A South African time line from Khoi Khoi to current includes a </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">political/historical background plus articles by well known SA writers, </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">political figure heads and projectionists- which enhances the readers </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">understanding of the complexity of the SA story.<br />The book concludes with poetry about Africa, some favourite </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">traditional </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4em;">recipes and an epilogue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />My Bio- I'm passionate about humanity and worked with </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">underprivileged and disabled children in South Africa for many years.<br /><br />I'm a special needs' teacher, expressive therapist and psychologist, </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">currently practicing as an educational psychologist in Auckland. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm a freelance writer and since emigrating 5 years ago, have taken</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">found solace and strength through connectivity and identification.<br /><br />My wish is that anyone who reads this book finds strength and healing </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I'm a freelance writer, a psychologist. - an expat and a humanitarian. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Like many people, we have very sadly and reluctantly left SA due to the untenable levels of crime, the incompetent leadership of the governing party, the disintegration of services, the unknown future and the limited opportunities for future generations.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It's not easy to emigrate at the age of 58, and my spouse was then 62. One leaves one's entire life's history and footprint behind; one's roots and one's identity; all that is familiar and that defines one'<wbr></wbr>s self.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the wonderfully rich Tapestry section I share other people's stories; Folk from Zim and SA now spread around the globe; abroad and those returned home or who have opted to never leave.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></div>
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Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-80804825152507697862013-03-10T03:38:00.001-07:002013-03-10T03:38:10.199-07:00Eve's Apples: A Touch of Africa in New Zealand<a href="http://evehemming.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-touch-of-africa-in-new-zealand.html?spref=bl">Eve's Apples: A Touch of Africa in New Zealand</a>: Cape to Cairo Day in Auckland NZ Some folk leave Africa and that is that.... and others have a great need to kindle the African Spiri...Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-39816494741082683032013-03-09T18:30:00.000-08:002013-03-09T18:30:30.622-08:00A Touch of Africa in New Zealand<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Cape</span><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"> to </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Cairo</span><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"> Day in Auckland NZ</span></h2>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Some folk leave Africa and that is that.... and others have a great need to kindle the African Spirit. It is such a powerful magnetic pull that Mama Africa has for us expats !</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><i>And no... we haven't turned our Backs on you Africa !</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><i>We love you from down under here in NZ !!!</i></span></b>Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-59559330850200912472013-02-09T20:12:00.001-08:002013-02-09T20:12:11.807-08:00Letter to Mr President of South Africa in News 24<br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;">Mr President</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">May I take the liberty of inquiring at what stage people should apply for political asylum elsewhere?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Should they wait till the exchange rate is utterly untenable to contemplate emigration?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Or possibly when their burglar bars, remote controls, razor wire, watch dogs and other security options have been stolen, which they can’t afford to replace?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Should they wait until their jobs have been taken and they are too old to beg ?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Should they wait till there is no more pension money in the kitty ?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Or what about till the exam pass rate is dropped to 25% leading to the standard of education being the laughing stock of global education, rendering their children a Mickey mouse qualification and no credibility to pursue tertiary opportunities out of the country?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">What about waiting until the government officials have acquired so many BMWs from the tax man’s almost empty coffers, so that more public hospitals have to be closed down as the money that grows on trees has amazingly become depleted?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Or maybe when International Antiretroviral funding stops, so that if one is ill one simply can’t get medical support, as the system is groaning and under tremendous threat ?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Or maybe when the potholes are so enormous that one’s car gets swallowed in a ‘gat’ and one can’t get out and about by public transport as its non existent?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Or possibly when one simply can’t afford a body guard?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"> Just asking.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>5. I am not looking exclusively at a refugee population but at bona fida migrants from the top 10 countries where migrants in NZ are most likely to come from. - IE as many different cultures as possible, as a comparative way to look at which settled better re language assimilation, culture etc. too, and differing reasons for emigrating from their homelands..</b></span></div>
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Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-40236775788395786762012-12-16T00:35:00.000-08:002012-12-16T00:35:13.735-08:00Scatterlings!<b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b>
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<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>This has required immense self- discipline and burning the midnight oil from December 2011 to December 2012. That was the goal and it's accomplished.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sure I will have a lot of cleaning up, clipping and trimming to do, but for now it's with the editor !</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I am eternally grateful to you all and it's been profoundly humbling reading your many tales....</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i>T<b>he lives of Emma and Marla will absorb a readers’ attention. Emma’s struggles and achievements </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>touch your heart and inspire you to work harder - improving life for yourself and your family, </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>but also for those around you who experience society’s injustices. </b></i><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Marla’s storybook romance adds to the enjoyment of the book. </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>This historical fiction account of </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>life in 1920’s through 1960’s South </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>Africa concludes with a short chapter </b></i><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>- entitled “The Politics” - which gives </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>additional information about events </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>related to apartheid. The two sections </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>of the book focus first on the life of Emma, then on the life of Marla, </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>her daughter. </b></i><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Emma (Emily,) born into a “coloured” family, feels the injustice </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>of the segregationist society; however because she is able to </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>“pass” as a “white,” she crosses barriers that the rest of her </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>family cannot. Emma strongly believes in the power of education. </b></i><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>After completing high school, she is determined to attend the </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>university, but her family is large and needs the income she </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>could provide. Rather than work at a low-paying job in Cape </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Town, Emma decides to use her lighter skin and the English language </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>she perfected to travel to Johannesburg to live and work as a “white.” Emma </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>keeps learning, working hard, and making friends, some of whom know </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>her secret. (Some of her friends fled Nazi Germany only to find a similar </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>prejudice infesting the country to which they had escaped.) She sends her </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>family money which they use to improve </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>their house, when permitted, and educate her </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>sisters and brothers. Behind the scenes, she </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>works with and donates money to groups that </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>are attempting to reverse apartheid laws, while </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>also trying to stop the imposition of harsher </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>new laws after the 1960’s. Her daughter Marla </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>is raised as a white, but she and many of her </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>college friends protest the overnment’s policies </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>although this always causes Emma to worry that </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>Marla’s heritage will be discovered.</b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>Young adult and adult readers will enjoy </b></i><span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b>reading the story of Emily’s transformation into </b></i></span><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>Emma, a store lingerie buyer, homeowner, and part time model. The friendships and romances of both </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>Emma and Marla introduce intelligent, sometimes funny, caring </b></i><i style="color: #351c75;"><b>characters into the storyline. </b></i><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><i><b>For a reader who knows very little about South </b></i><i><b>Africa and its history, the book is a wealth of information about a beautiful </b></i><i><b>country, blessed with rich resources, but troubled by segregationist attitudes </b></i><i><b>which became more established and immoral over time. </b></i></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #274e13;">This is an intriguing book that starts in pre war South Africa with a young girl challenging the racial divide and bravely stepping across to live as a White, virtually abandoning her coloured family in the process. Emily becomes Emma and adopts English as her first language, dresses and styles herself to deny her origins. This is the beginning of her awakening to injustice and her reaction to the prevailing culture and political system of her country which denies her basic opportunities. Encounters with others who have survived and overcome similar prejudice in other countries encourage and help her to carve herself a new place for in South African society and to get and hold down a challenging job. At the same time political awareness begins to emerge and she faces a major dilemma when asked for her hand in marriage by a white man.</span><br /><span style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #274e13;">The way the story is told eases one into South Africa’s politics subtly whilst bringing Emma to life as a vivid and interesting character. As the reader, her dilemmas and fears become yours and the continual twists of the story produce an exciting sequence of colourful and interesting surprises,, much like the eponymous vase filled with many coloured marbles. The vase itself does not appear until well into the story, but from then on it keeps reappearing with a subtle underlying relevance all the way through to the end.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><br />What begins as the story of a young girl crossing the racial divide soon becomes much more, giving intimate insights into different aspects of South African society. Each of these has its own pressures and strains, its own strengths and prejudices, all of which are brought into the spotlight through the situations Emma and her growing daughter encounter. Spanning two generations, this book is almost a family saga, but without the long winded tracts such books normally involve. The second section picks up the story of Marla, Emma’s daughter, following her emergence from schoolgirl to university student and onwards. Against the backdrop of South Africa’s most turbulent years, when apartheid was in the ascendancy, witnessing the Sharpville shootings and the emergence of new political organisations, we see a young woman awakening to injustice in her country and developing a political conscience of her own as she begins to discover herself as a person.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><br />Marla’s subsequent trip to England produces a new and intriguing twist to the story with an interesting preamble about her lifelong friend Josh, who had preceded her to London and now acts as host and guide for Marla and her girlfriends. The story soon turns to a tale of love when Marla literally bumps into Bertie, who becomes instantly besotted with her. His subsequent pursuit when Marla returns to South Africa thinking he was not interested is neatly contrived and, like the rest of this book, full of interesting twists and side stories that add colour and complexity to the tale.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><br />Inevitably the truth of Emma’s and Marla’s origins has to come out at some stage and this begins on the dockside where Emma is awaiting her daughter’s arrival. As unaware of recent events in Marla’s life as her daughter is of her mother’s past, Emily is horrified to encounter her brother Jonas. Having become somewhat estranged from her family, she has no knowledge that he works in the Cape Town docks. He tells her that their mother is dying and wants to see her. Slowly the truth emerges and, after a visit to see her dying mother, Emma confesses to Marla, terrified of how she might react.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><br />Bertie, well bred gentleman that he is, takes it all in his stride and still besotted, carries things off with perfect equanimity, as do his upper crust family who come out for the wedding.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #274e13;"><br />To write any story involving the inter racial conflicts of South Africa would be difficult territory, but Jacob Singer has managed to contrive a very believable and charming story and to tell it in a way that keeps the reader gripped throughout. Whilst expressing no overt political bias himself, he puts a clear spotlight on injustice whilst showing up the Macchiavellian workings of the state which fosters and exploits it. At the same time he reveals with subtlety the counter currents working below the surface to correct the injustice wherever opportunity arises. </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: 14px;"><br />An outsider with no knowledge of South African history or politics will find this book informative, disturbing and yet redemptive, whilst being entertained by a good story well told. Singer’s understanding of the racial problems and also of other forms of prejudice is deep and his compassion comes through clearly. The title, which seemed at the beginning to be rather irrelevant, becomes a beacon which endures to the end of the book. It symbolises so well the many facets, colours and contrasts of a nation actively evolving and struggling with the process as it does so.</span><br /><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">The Vase With The Many Coloured Marbles is a very good book that deserves to be widely read.</span></b></i></div>
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Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-38022069546585896752012-08-13T00:57:00.002-07:002013-02-09T23:55:35.834-08:00<span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><b>Feeling utterly shattered....</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">One never knows when it's going to happen to you or to a loved one. It's about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.... so often just </span><span style="color: #990000;">RaNdOm </span><span style="color: #351c75;">RANDOM</span><span style="color: #990000;"> rAnDoM...</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">It's a common phenomenon in South Africa. So many lives lost. Such futility... Such wasted lives, so unnecessary... take the bloody vehicle and let the driver and pedestrians walk away. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The carnal brutality, the ruthless bestial mentality has shattered so many people's lives and psyches. So many innocent men, women and children </span><span style="color: #660000;">GoNe </span><span style="color: #351c75;">gOnE </span><span style="color: #741b47;">GONE.</span></span></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Every time I feel deliciously lulled and romanticised and lured back to South Africa, another violent catastrophe occurs and hits me in my soul... </span><span style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span></span></i></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I feel the tragedy with visceral agitation and gut anguish, as though he were my own son. I feel the tragic loss. I feel a mother's cry, a father's deep shock at finding his lifeless son, callously dumped next to the road, his loyal dog sitting at his side. I have felt bereft with a sense of dis-ease and foreboding...it gets too close to bear... The sense of mass denial; the desensitisation of an apparent war zone disturbs me to the core. </i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I may have met him a few times. He was good enough to date my beloved daughter some years ago; A young man with a promising life is no more. What did he endure in his last moments ? What went through his mind ? What did the mad man with a gun feel ? Why is life so cheap ? What does it say about humanity ? What does it say about depravity ? What does it say about hope, optimism and about the human spirit ? </i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #660000;">South Africa needs a miracle... one life after another annihilated senselessly, ruthlessly... </span><span style="color: #351c75;">People say 'enough is enough' until the next time...</span></i></span></b><br />
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Nature’s way of being in repose and reflecting until spring’s burst of renewed
life of blossoms and stormy skies.</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Today the sky was a stone-washed hazy
translucent blue, with insidious patches of pinky- grey winter smoke. The
golden grass basked in the frozen moment; static and brittle. The miasma from
burning koppies shrouded the vista from any brilliance. Otherwise nature felt
endlessly still.</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">I soak in the luminescent sunlight, the
pastel sky and winter caramel- golds and biscuits. A shockingly red poinsettia,
a vibrant amber berry, or the orange on a statuesque aloe in flower, adds depth
and contrast to the washed out hues of the hazy day.</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">It’s a good time to visit Africa; to imbibe
the sun’s rays arching across opaque sky, while relishing the winter blandness
after the rich greens and azure blues of New Zealand. </span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Contrast! Ah, we do thrive on it. That’s
what is offering me pleasure – the bits of Africa we yearn for when we are so
far away – the balmy winter sunshine over dry ancient earth… It is dusk now.
The Hadedas bellow as they fly to their nesting grounds. The electricity dances
then dies. I find my trusty box of Lion matches next to the waiting candle.</span></b></span></div>
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and hues, and with my sons and their families, which largely cancels the above
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here as a tourist or an expat, one can more easily revel in the Africanness of
Africa. The messy verges, the broken roads, pavements and shoddy buildings,
dangerously bent over electricity poles, broken cars with malfunctioning
lights, crowded malls, unsavoury ablutions and traffic light vendors who foist
themselves at one, are part of the package of the landscape. One can see past
it to newer buildings being erected and positive initiatives like volunteers
who pick up the garbage and take on the task to maintain the pavement outside
their shop, and many caring organisations who do astounding gestures of
tireless and dedicated service to care for abandoned and dying children, the
fragile and elderly, as well as animal rescue, notably ‘Save the Rhino.’</span></b></span></div>
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pavements to queue at taxi ranks, high fenced enclosures, unkempt vistas;
creates the notion that it all needs to be rescued from precariously being held
together by a thin veneer. Each time I
return I see areas of deterioration and decay encroaching like a slowly moving
glacier and other areas which signify attempts at salvaging, or which indicate
progress. The African women who are empowered are elegant, self-assured and
sophisticated. I personally would like to see them playing a pivotal role in
the country’s African resurgence; as decision makers and role models to the
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">It is a funny thing, Africa. It’s the type
of place one cannot make predictions about. It’s a place that has backbone,
people of amazing fortitude and a hardy resilience. I, for one, cannot
ascertain ‘what will happen next’… much may depend on the control of the Aids
virus, how much longer this can be globally financed in terms of ARVs, how many
illegal immigrants continue to add to the burden of poverty and unemployment,
how the next elections will pan out, how much support Zille will have to secure
a robust opposition so as to protect the Constitution, how land distribution,
equity, unemployment as well as poor service delivery, amongst others, can be
proactively addressed, and if the amelioration can be adequately accelerated to
meet the growing populations’ hunger for empowerment.</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>But knowing it is a brief encounter means that
one can cherish the sunshine along with idiosyncrasies, without trying to have
a solution; for in my case I will soon be returning to order, functionality,
safety and the rainy season. I don’t feel the same visceral fear I encountered
living here 4 years ago. In the small area I have frequented to date, all has
felt safe, though when I read the newspaper I know that I am wrapped in a
delicious illusion; the comfo</b><b>rt zone of my mind...</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;">Promise !!! </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Evi has been very very remiss. I have not been near my Blog for about 3 months</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><b>.... why one may ask ?</b></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">1. I co-founded SNS - Saffers Nurturing Saffers - a Face Book Group with members from over 30 countries. It was launched on the 24th February and already has over 600 </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">members.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><b>2. Agh... And then time on the book ' 'Scatterlings - A Tapestry of Afri-expat Tales'... it is in the making, but is on hold till I'm on leave.... not enough hours in the day with a full-time job :). </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>I miss blogging.... I will be back ! Love the sense of sharing....across the planet :)</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>Namaste</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">It's a FB group for Saffer and Zim Expats aged 21 - 81 who are lurking out there worldwide & may want to link up/share/get support from/befriend global saffers who all share the same pangs...its a non- aggressive,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: blue; display: inline;"> non-racist, unprejudiced, nurturing, non-political, multi-religious/cultured group with an ethos of integrity & inspiration, sharing, caring and humour... <br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">It's a group/site where folk can be given information, give one another moral support, tips and support, some 'cyber hugs' and caring banter as we as migrants all have gloomy days as we go through the adaptation process...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Else look up SNS on Face Book and ask to Join... Mandi and Eve :)</span></strong>Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-7853312232460070122012-02-22T00:59:00.000-08:002012-02-22T00:59:15.384-08:00More on Scatterlings - A Tapestry of Afri-Expat Tales<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbgEEhO24l40whLtJ2KLPuhMvf1GDGBbiSnjOUIoecqsZw5LRci1-oD1d1Eu8mtmSor9E3EXmNMd2TNtfpJmY3Bjfhf6eC0imsfYbOEmJYVgOSVRWU_pjX8PRSZZ1iNCEWUe5tjas6usUI/s1600/DSCF9143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbgEEhO24l40whLtJ2KLPuhMvf1GDGBbiSnjOUIoecqsZw5LRci1-oD1d1Eu8mtmSor9E3EXmNMd2TNtfpJmY3Bjfhf6eC0imsfYbOEmJYVgOSVRWU_pjX8PRSZZ1iNCEWUe5tjas6usUI/s400/DSCF9143.JPG" width="278" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;"><b>Scatterlings - </b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;"><b>A Tapestry of Afri-Expat Tales</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I emigrated from South Africa in 2008 and reside in New Zealand. I'm a freelance writer and a psychologist, but foremost a devoted wife, mother and gran (called 'Ga Ga' !)</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My book is firstly about being born in Africa and the slow conscientising as a child about Apartheid; not understanding at first, and then the terrible discovery of how it impacted negatively on the people and the country (and still does have that lurking legacy hanging over the land 18 years later…).</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">(mock up book cover)</span> </div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Secondly, the book encompasses my Epiphany and the journey and psychological processes of </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">immigration, including my own metaphorical death and rebirth.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thirdly, others’ voices are heard; a chapter with Saffers’ and Zimbos’ tapestries and tales, and their reasons for emigrating, choices to stay or go, their journeys, their adaptation, their process, their stories, their advice… This is the essence of the ‘tapestry’.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As a psychologist there will naturally be some focus on the ‘process’ from a psychological paradigm.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am attempting to present a cross-section of voices – over and above my voice – so that the extreme complexity and rich diversity is incorporated on a continuum from Left to Right perceptions (though overt racism will not be tolerated nor incorporated). I want to ensure some level of authenticity and reality, but with caution and sensitivity. (I'm having a disclaimer in the book, as not all opinions reflected will be concomitant with my own...) </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The intention is not to cast aspersions, blame, finger-point, justify etc. It is more from a psychological, analytical and in some ways esoteric (not religious) mediating vantage point to help facilitate people to come to terms with theirs and their families’ choices rather than a ‘selling emigration’ booklet. This is especially important when we know that the majority of Saffers simply can’t leave. (It is not a betrayal of Africa...but rather for myself of in some ways feeling betrayed.)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have a daughter and her family here in New Zealand, as well as two sons in South Africa with their families, and hence grandchildren in both countries. It is about sharing what I allude to as the “shrapnelled society.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is also a historical timeline media-type chapter with quotes, book reviews from Alan Paton to the present, plus poetry, lyrics and traditional recipes.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Any sharing would be valued... do your want your voice heard in ' Scatterlings....' ? eve.epiphany@gmail.com</span></div><br />
<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1tsN-P5BDLduC2RTrqNHBuLObFIFJC3HnUvhzFY_zpVtkvA2A44WeaLiv3G5fwWOXuWUZM2MT8rQbuo3M6UgFQs_LKbCC2ZMwdLprQeOhv5fp-8jvty0uB9MfZEg_7z37S3w_p-txkAJ/s1600/29900_1515785213716_1207045663_1426644_3703419_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1tsN-P5BDLduC2RTrqNHBuLObFIFJC3HnUvhzFY_zpVtkvA2A44WeaLiv3G5fwWOXuWUZM2MT8rQbuo3M6UgFQs_LKbCC2ZMwdLprQeOhv5fp-8jvty0uB9MfZEg_7z37S3w_p-txkAJ/s320/29900_1515785213716_1207045663_1426644_3703419_n.jpg" width="174" /></a><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Eve is an educator, writer, psychologist and applied drama specialist. Her career in special needs education in South Africa spanned over 30 years as a teacher and principal. She was born and bred on a Free State farm where her passion for land and skyscapes, colours and textures inspired her to write, and has developed as a form of self-expression due to her passion of articulating thoughts into words, and its connection to narrative psychology. Eve and her retired - now artist-dabbling - husband live in New Zealand, where she's a practising educational psychologist. Eve is a wife, mum and gran, who is imbued with a passion for life, kindness, aesthetics and creativity. She hopes to find more time to write, paint, play and nurture her beloved grandchildren when retirement eventually knocks on her door.</i></span></span> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>From The South African.Com</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 14px; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-21375714795500334482012-02-18T01:52:00.000-08:002012-02-18T21:48:56.401-08:00Barry Levy - Former SA Journalist living in Australia<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Barry Levy...</i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-OtJBJ72mmbCEOlJkrBLwn0xBpnPiDqCkAkZTCGJimPzRCxCNWQ0qa78eJdayFL6_TMkbY2KiYTKrsO9qw0r2Wzk0aN3WCb11bAaV6F52kHizAHDaW8DL85PshqK7cvaxPth3MEP80PgJ/s1600/Barry+Levy+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-OtJBJ72mmbCEOlJkrBLwn0xBpnPiDqCkAkZTCGJimPzRCxCNWQ0qa78eJdayFL6_TMkbY2KiYTKrsO9qw0r2Wzk0aN3WCb11bAaV6F52kHizAHDaW8DL85PshqK7cvaxPth3MEP80PgJ/s400/Barry+Levy+1.jpg" width="307" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><i>Barry needs little Introduction..!</i></span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"> I'm humbled to have this opportunity to showcase this powerful writer's work on my blog. What resonates for me firstly, is his exuberant, expansive selfless ... and compassionate soul, which rings loudly through the genres which he elects to write about- combined with his poetic insight and perception which brings brutal truth to the attention of the reader... and secondly, due to my identification with him as an SA Expat residing in Australasia. </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">I look forward to having the privilege of meeting Barry across the NZ/Oz 'ditch' (The Tasman) some <i>fine</i> day.. Ready steady Go !... :)</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Barry Levy</b></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> is a former South African journalist who moved with his Australian wife and two children to </span></span><st1:country-region style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> in 1984, because of their abhorrence of apartheid. In 2004 Levy had his first novel published –</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Burning Bright</b></span></i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">, a story of young love, hate and child abuse, set against the apartheid years of late seventies South Africa. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The book was also published in </span><st1:country-region style="color: #0b5394;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: #0b5394;">. </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Levy's second book,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>As If!</b></span></i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(Interactive Press, 2008), is a harsh, realistic yet compassionate depiction of life on the streets for Australian kids.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> <br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Other publications include</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><i><span style="color: blue;"><b>The Glazer Kidnapping</b></span></i><span style="color: #0b5394;">, the true story of one of the kidnappers involved in the world's biggest kidnap of its time, which took place in South Africa in the mid sixties; a short story, </span><span style="color: blue;"><b>"The Promised Land"</b></span><span style="color: #0b5394;">, published in</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><i><span style="color: blue;"><b>At the Rendezvous of Victory</b></span></i><span style="color: #0b5394;">, a compilation under the title of principal author and Nobel Literature Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer; and </span><span style="color: blue;"><b>"The Souls from Nowhereland"</b></span><span style="color: #0b5394;">, a chapter in the recent compilation,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #0b5394;"><i> </i></span><i><span style="color: blue;"><b>Should I Stay or Should I Go</b></span></i><span style="color: #0b5394;">, which highlights the ongoing dilemma and argument around emigration for </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">South Africans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Levy has been a winner of the <b>Australian Human Rights Award for Journalism</b> - for a multiple series of stories on child sex abuse, domestic violence and homelessness; a winner of the <b>Anning Barton Memorial Award for Outstanding Journalism </b>(Central Queensland) – for a series of stories on child sex abuse (incest-rape), and a <b>Walkley Awards Queensland State finalist</b> – for a series on homelessness.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZDqvwy7onJrDZlJnczcTRLtO2dSIEPSt9I_XW1Ea4cbHw0Q17DZI_aVVr7Xs8O5Q3jDby8Zcm_l-6vzlpNsEvQ0Noip1jxbCGRbEBPNzEPU2QADOxETli-A9K7_XQdhV7PMsKLagBnVw/s1600/Barry+Levy+Book+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZDqvwy7onJrDZlJnczcTRLtO2dSIEPSt9I_XW1Ea4cbHw0Q17DZI_aVVr7Xs8O5Q3jDby8Zcm_l-6vzlpNsEvQ0Noip1jxbCGRbEBPNzEPU2QADOxETli-A9K7_XQdhV7PMsKLagBnVw/s400/Barry+Levy+Book+Cover.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"> Barry Levy</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>Levy's newly released novel - </b></span></i><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>Shades of Exodus, </b></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">revolves around the true story of a South African family who flee the violence of <st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region> only to fall victim to a vicious and bloody crime in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Once an outspoken critic of apartheid, David Levinrad now longs to return to the transformed 'rainbow nation.' His yearnings, heightened through life-changing events, takes us on a journey that tears at the soul and exposes our common humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></td> </tr>
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<div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Captures the emotions of loss and rebuilding with poetic insight...</span></b></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>SHADES OF EXODUS</i> <span style="font-size: 12px;">will resonate with all migrants – South Africans in particular – who have battled with themes of meaning, relationships, sense of place, and personal identity as they have moved to new worlds.</span></span></b></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">– Dr Robert Schweitzer</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">Associate Professor of Psychology</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">Queensland University of Technology</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><em style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Shades of Exodus</b></em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b> had elements of being my own autobiography</b>. </span><b style="font-size: 12px;">So many thoughts, sentiments, passions and yearning for the place once called home…..could one ever really feel the lucky country is home? Could one ever feel completely oneself here? These are questions I don't have an answer for?</b><span style="font-size: 12px;">... </span></span></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><em><b><span style="font-size: large;">Shades of Exodus</span></b></em><span style="font-size: 12px;"> <b>has provided an intriguing and heart-warmingly enlightening read mixed with great depth and passion of the pulling forces between what is and what was… and many thoughts that had vaguely transcended my mind were there in printed form… The details and humour describing the personalities and their interaction was quite remarkable and entertaining… but also with the rather confronting but necessary parts of the book, I felt the fear and denial… All in all, congratulations on a deeply significant and most readable book.</b></span></span></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>– Glenda Fehler</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"> Just wanted to say thank you so much for such a wonderful read! It is a really beautiful story – and very thought-provoking. For me, this is underscored by David Levinrad's story towards the end. I really felt like I was in his head and following his stream of thoughts. "Bladdy" well done!</span></b></i></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><i><b><span style="color: #38761d;">– Angelique Oltvolgyi</span></b></i></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br />
</span></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">–<b> Congratulations. The book you have written truly conveys the complexities of feelings we, immigrants, feel here in Brisbane. Written with total objectivity, and really putting it all out there. A really good read!</b></span></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">– Anita Wurfl</span></b></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-size: 12px;">Themes of exile and longing for home have been elements of literature as far back as Homer and </span><em style="font-size: 12px;">The Odyssey</em><span style="font-size: 12px;">. And world history has been fundamentally shaped by the often forced exodus of people from their homeland and displacement around the globe, such as the Jewish Diaspora and, in the nineteenth century, the Irish emigration to the New World of America and Australia.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><b><em><span style="font-size: large;">Shades of Exodus</span></em><span style="font-size: 12px;"> explores these themes in the context of a contemporary displacement, that of white South Africans leaving their country before and after the end of apartheid.</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>David Levinrad is a South African journalist so disturbed by the systematic violence and corruption of the apartheid regime that he emigrates to Queensland with his Australian wife Penny and their two young children in the mid-1980s. There they build a new and reasonably contented life in the suburbs of Brisbane, but the vitality and pulse of life in his homeland calls to something visceral within David, such that the urge to return and contribute to the rebuilding of South Africa becomes a vital force whose urgency he finds both difficult to suppress and to communicate to others.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>He comes into contact with more recent South African émigrés, families who have fled what they see as the entrenched problems of AIDS, poverty and violence that have been unleashed in the wake of end of white rule. The clash between these different perspectives is underscored by two acts of brutal and murderous violence: one in South Africa that has influenced the departure of one family; the second involving the daughter of one of the emigrant families in suburban Brisbane, suggesting that such crimes can happen anywhere.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">This is an important novel of interest not only to emigrant families but all of us who have been influenced in one way of another by the displacement of people into alien environments</span></b><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span style="color: blue;">.</span></b> <b><span style="color: #073763;">The language is richly poetic in conveying the vital forces and connections that give one a sense of belonging. The struggles of the characters to make sense of their experiences and relate them to others make for a compelling narrative. </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #073763;"><em style="font-size: 12px;">Shades of Exodus</em><span style="font-size: 12px;"> constitutes a highly recommended contribution to a universal quest.</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">– Dr Geoff Danaher, <em>Idiom 23</em> (Central Queensland University)</span></b></div><div style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span></div><div class="Body_Font" style="background-color: #ffcc99; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d;"><i>If I had your gift for writing I would put into words how I feel, but I can only say, WOW, WHEW, this book is amazingly written and so close to the bone....– Amanda Shrock</i></b></div>Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-50306878676591314862012-02-11T16:28:00.000-08:002012-02-11T16:31:50.525-08:00Thinking Baobab Tree for book cover design !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8Cu15wvJEgTOdEtNtW0tsKZoGQLcLelkMcrVK7mX_aiPklPQi9OF6I_VJvO9xnr8qybltod0k_PbuW5H7O3s0v7RfJOTDdiW_kzekU60TYHX3WScD1S2z4WWDZXSF3IyMqGBr2yqX43T/s1600/images+(5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic8Cu15wvJEgTOdEtNtW0tsKZoGQLcLelkMcrVK7mX_aiPklPQi9OF6I_VJvO9xnr8qybltod0k_PbuW5H7O3s0v7RfJOTDdiW_kzekU60TYHX3WScD1S2z4WWDZXSF3IyMqGBr2yqX43T/s1600/images+(5).jpg" /></a></div><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">Scatterlings- A Tapestry of </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><i><b>I am now thinking a Baobab Tree Design for the book cover... how iconic is that ? </b></i></span><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: arial;">"Truth is like a baobab tree; one person's arms cannot embrace it" (African proverb)</span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSlQkbn98CTVRKlAh1ZZHgRn8PvgkWNKWpnTKJCQPmCdQn1iVes6D3vVdbhs_7lJER-ipETA-ksCHigBg0yuVyH8rgyD3qw0CYbXE44AQ3eW9Hli8BWKWiIh4hdZLQiHPn2owTKldCsD9j/s1600/images+(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSlQkbn98CTVRKlAh1ZZHgRn8PvgkWNKWpnTKJCQPmCdQn1iVes6D3vVdbhs_7lJER-ipETA-ksCHigBg0yuVyH8rgyD3qw0CYbXE44AQ3eW9Hli8BWKWiIh4hdZLQiHPn2owTKldCsD9j/s400/images+(4).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;">An Africa tree is symbolic and powerful... we all have our roots in Africa... the branches are over arching and reach out to far away lands..... The Tree has seasons, cycles, shade, protection, sustenance. It brings cherished memories of tree climbing as children, of the sweet fruit we bit into in Africa....</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The Baobab Tree is a symbol of the strength of Africa. There are any myths and legends about the Baobab Tree and it is revered for its healing properties. The most common myth is that the gods in error, planted the Baobab tree upside, hence its strange shape."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BAO-BAB TREE</b></span> is the story of a beautiful tree who complained to the GREAT SPIRIT of the WILD PLAINS about wanting to be the BEST and BRIGHTEST and most HANDSOME of all the African trees. The GREAT SPIRIT became tired of the complaints, and reached down from the sky, yanked the tree out of the ground and placed it back into the earth UPSIDE DOWN! All the animals were alarmed, and so was the huge tree. For after that, the magnificent tree only grew leaves once a year. The other months the ROOTS seemed to bend and grow towards the sky...</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-left;">The baobab looks like this for a reason. In the wet months water is stored in its thick, corky, fire-resistant trunk for the nine dry months ahead. The baobab's bark, leaves, fruit, and trunk are all used. The bark of the baobab is used for cloth and rope, the leaves for condiments and medicines, while the fruit, called "monkey bread," is eaten. Sometimes people live inside of the huge trunks, and bush-babies live in the crown..."</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">. Bobby Dooley Hunter.</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> </span></span><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div id="articlebody" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 357px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; text-decoration: inherit;"><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000;">There are eight species of Adansonia tree, but only one baobab tree (<em style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Adansonia digitata</em>), native to the African mainland. Six of its relatives live in Madagascar and one in Australia. It is a tiny - and very distinctive family. The baobab itself is anything but tiny. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000;">This is the monster of the African bush, a vast fleshy giant which </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">looms over the acacia scrubland waving its Medusa -like branches above a bulbous body.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000;">Baobabs only grow below 1000m (3,000 ft) in tropical so are found in the South African lowveld - in <a href="http://goafrica.about.com/od/bestsouthafrica/a/bestlimpopo.htm" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Limpopo province</a>, particularly around Musina, in the <a href="http://goafrica.about.com/od/southafrica/a/krugerdbintro.htm" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Kruger </a></span><a href="http://goafrica.about.com/od/southafrica/a/krugerdbintro.htm" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Park</a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"> & </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">northern</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://goafrica.about.com/od/durbankwazulunatal/a/bestkzn.htm" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Kwazulu-Natal</a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000;">Some of the oldest are said to be well over 2000 years old.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><strong style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">The Sunland Baobab</strong><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Baobabs can reach heights of up to 30m (98 ft). The largest ever recorded, in Limpopo, South Africa, the Glencoe, had a diameter of 47m (154ft) before it split in two. The largest in existence now is thought to be the </span><a href="http://www.bigbaobab.co.za/" style="color: #660000; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ">Sunland Baobab</a><span style="color: #660000;">, in Modjadjiskloof, Limpopo, has a height of 22m (72 ft) and a diameter of 47m (154 ft). Since fires have hollowed out parts of the trunk, the owners have turned into a bar and wine cellar.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: inherit;"><a href="http://www.bigbaobab.co.za/" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ"></a></span></span><span style="color: blue;">Carbon dated at around 6,000 years old,this has a claim to be possibly the oldest living tree in the world !</span><span style="color: #660000;"> Elsewhere those with hollow trunks have been used as burial sites and the trees have become sacred. In many places, the enduring giant trees became a symbol of community, a place of gathering.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">The Tree of Life</strong><br />
The Baobab is also incredibly useful - so much so that <a href="http://disney.go.com/theatre/thelionking/" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ">Disney's Lion King</a> named it the </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Tree of Life</b></span><span style="color: #660000;">. It behaves like a giant succulent and up to 80% of the trunk is water.San nomads used to rely on the trees as a valuable source of water when the rains failed and the rivers dried. A single tree can hold up to 4,500 litres (1,189 gallons). The bark and flesh are soft, fibrous and fire-resistant and can be used to weave rope and cloth. It is also used to make soap, rubber, glue and various medicines.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Superfruit</strong><br />
The fruit, which looks like a velvety gourd, is filled with big black seeds surrounded by tart cream, slightly powdery pulp. For years the Africans have eaten both the leaves and fruit which is also known as monkey bread. Now it is being hailed by Westerners as a new <a href="http://baobabsuperfruit.com/" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ">superfruit</a>. It is said to have six times the Vitamin C levels of an orange as well as vitamin A, twice the amount of calcium of milk and be stuffed with antioxidants such as iron and potassium. It is said to be pro-biotic, good for digestion, brain and nerve function. The seeds can be roasted, and the flesh sliced or diced and cooked in a variety of ways. So far, however, the pulp is mainly being used in smoothies, as a thickener or sugar substitute. In the UK, Whitley Neill are adding it to gin!</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000;"><strong style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Legend</strong><br />
There are many stories and traditions surrounding the baobab. The most prevalent is that the tree was lording it over lesser plants and so offended God, who uprooted it and planted it again upsidedown to stop it boasting. It remains in leaf for only a very short time each year and if you look at its branches bare of leaves, its easy to see how the legend grew.<br />
The <a href="http://www.info.gov.za/aboutgovt/orders/boabab.htm" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank" zt="-o1/XJ">Order of the Baobab</a> is a South African National Order, instituted in 2002, awarded to citizens for distinguished service in the fields of Business and the economy; Science, medicine and technological innovation; or Community service...."</span> ....</div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: inherit;">As migrants from Africa, we are in</b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: inherit;">essence </b><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: inherit;">upsidedown, changing our day to </b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: inherit;">night or </b><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: inherit;">our Summer to Winter...turning</b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: inherit;">our souls </b><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: inherit;">inside out and adapting...</b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: inherit;">wherever </b><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">we </b><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">re-root!</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><img height="300" src="http://www.pen-international.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/baobab-trees.jpg" width="400" /> </div></div></div></div><br />
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</span></span>Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-7035452296217858652012-02-04T03:03:00.000-08:002012-02-04T03:03:09.539-08:00Scatterlings: A Tapestry of Afri-Expat Tales | The South African<a href="http://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/scatterlings-a-tapestry-of-afri-expat-tales.htm#.Ty0QY2cZChg.blogger">Scatterlings: A Tapestry of Afri-Expat Tales | The South African</a>Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-43833513680639645882012-02-04T02:19:00.000-08:002012-02-04T02:19:29.250-08:00"Scatterlings- A Tapestry of Afri-Expat Tales"...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYyodQHmsj0iD5DDL2spPsU_UjzEIaWB_4TcVU-zdNABcO5DqSXdWQV42VHZrQEIUZ6RZ4YK5Zf6IR4-tpvkln1HKC0DB-KqcmvW6Fyc_-1F_q_-XVeKtodUfje9d6CH8ENpdnsFv86VTf/s1600/DSCF9143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYyodQHmsj0iD5DDL2spPsU_UjzEIaWB_4TcVU-zdNABcO5DqSXdWQV42VHZrQEIUZ6RZ4YK5Zf6IR4-tpvkln1HKC0DB-KqcmvW6Fyc_-1F_q_-XVeKtodUfje9d6CH8ENpdnsFv86VTf/s640/DSCF9143.JPG" width="444" /></a></div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Scatterlings....</span><br />
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<b style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> This is a mock-cover for my book whilst we decide on what will best depict the interwoven Tapestry of Tales of the Scatterlings from Southern Africa; now spread out around the global village...</i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #783f04;"> </span><span style="color: #274e13;"> I'm delighted to have a response from SA and Zimbabwean expats living in UK, USA, NZ, OZ, Canada, Peru, Bermuda, Kenya, SA, the Ilse of Wight etc... who wish to add to the rich tapestry of the book... </span></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: #20124d;"> For more info please email me on ...</span></i></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">From Wikipedia :</span></i></b><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><b>A diaspora (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a> διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion")<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-liddell_0-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora#cite_note-liddell-0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup> is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-webster_1-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora#cite_note-webster-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup> or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ember_2-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora#cite_note-ember-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup> or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-webster_1-1" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora#cite_note-webster-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup></b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><b>The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of people with common roots, particularly movements of an involuntary nature, such as the expulsion of Jews from the Middle East, the African Trans-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a>, or the century-long exile of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenia_(ancient_region)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Messenia (ancient region)">Messenians</a> under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080;" title="Sparta">Spartan</a> rule.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ember_2-1" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora#cite_note-ember-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup></b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><b>Recently scholarship has distinguished between different kinds of diaspora, based on its causes such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a>, trade or labor migrations, or by the kind of social coherence within the diaspora community and its ties to the ancestral lands. Some diaspora communities maintain strong political ties with their homeland. Other qualities that may be typical of many diasporas are thoughts of return, relationships with other communities in the diaspora, and lack of full assimilation to the host country.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ember_2-2" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora#cite_note-ember-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup></b></div><br />
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</span></b>Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-795512817953711562012-01-22T18:22:00.000-08:002012-01-22T18:22:40.942-08:00Saffers, Zimbos & Namibians Expat Stories<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSqg8FO0IQUhynKcwcMWQXcYeNPglAQzcEISnz4TD6xeGUUWQ2O" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi" data-height="225" data-width="225" height="225" id="rg_hi" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSqg8FO0IQUhynKcwcMWQXcYeNPglAQzcEISnz4TD6xeGUUWQ2O" style="height: 225px; width: 225px;" width="225" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Hello out there !</strong></span></div><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>My book <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">'</span></em><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;">Scatterlings<em> - A Tapestry of Afri-Expat Tales'</em></span></span><em> is making great strides... it was initially about <strong>AfriKiwi Tales</strong>... then it became <strong>AfriKiwiOz Tales</strong>... but as More Saffer expats from other corners of the globe, such as from the UK, USA and Dubai, have shared an interest in wanting to contribute a snippet of their life experiences/</em></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>journeys about emigrating from Southern Africa, the name continues to <span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>morph...</strong></span></em></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">FROM THIS TO THIS ></span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>People out there who want to share their poems, lyrics, short tales, or their favourite handed down Southern African-recipes, for example in my book, (which encompasses my own story, the emigration process from a psychological paradigm and a time-line chapter on political/historical reviews, articles and media reports in Southern Africa from Alan Paton to the present....amongst other chapters, </em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>should be ready for publication before the end of 2012 ...) ...are still most welcome to. </em></span></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><strong>Eve Hemming</strong></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><strong>Psychologist and published freelance writer.</strong></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><strong>KZN, SA (1950-2008) to NZ (2008-present)... </strong></span></em>Eve Hemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199217480122204669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787578342842678279.post-15853059481946559842012-01-08T18:11:00.000-08:002012-01-08T18:12:20.187-08:00Glorious Bay of Islands, New Zealand !<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>They say that there are more boats than cars in New Zealand and possibly more sheep than people!</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>The Bay of Islands is the summer boating mecca of NZ. </b></span><b><span style="color: #073763;">It's a touch of paradise where bays and scattered islands sprawl in interesting patterns into the ocean... as though they have been poured from a bucket from the sky. The desire to be on the water is strong and in many cases it's easier to get from point A to point B by boat or ferry, than to drive around hilly escarpments to the end of a rugged peninsula that juts out into the ocean. </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><i>Paihia is the idyllic epicentre and hive of activity. I managed to capture these pics of some of the quaint buildings on the quay on a quiet evening.</i></span></b><br />
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