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Our Friday newsletter usually attempts to be a lighter look at life, coasting down to the weekend. But this week, perhaps reflecting a somber mood in the country, we have a couple of extremely serious and thought-provoking pieces.
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There are a few more leisure-oriented pieces of a lighter persuasion, to balance the heaviness, in keeping with our promise to you that you will always find something unexpected in the Chronicle.
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A tiny misjudgement resulted in a spectacular accident during a Lotus Challenge race at Phakisa Freeway. Luckily everyone involved walked away although the same cannot be said for their cars.
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Miscarriages are heavy losses too
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Until you've suffered a miscarriage, you would never guess the sensitivities it entails. Although some people do not view it as a real loss, it is a dagger through the heart of a mom who would have started toying with names, started shopping for clothes, as well as begun seeing and feeling changes within her body; changes brought about by the new life she would preparing to bring into the world. To have that life snuffed of, even without having held the baby in your arms, is a bitter pill to swallow.
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Do Mother’s Create Rapists? No, Peter, they are not the culprits
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Peter Ucko’s opinion piece (Chronicle 21) had a catchy title with interesting questions posed which lured readers into the content. Safrean Alexis Grewan disagrees with his point of view. Research and common sense paint a completely different picture.
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From Magersfontein to Matjiesfontein
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It might seem curious that a high-ranking Scottish soldier who fell in battle at Magersfontein near Kimberley during the South African War should be buried 700 kilometres away at Matjiesfontein. Perhaps it was a matter of honour for a fellow Scot, the owner of the tiny Karoo village. For the other fallen, a poignant memorial was erected on the battlefield. This brings to mind what Benjamin Franklin once said: There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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＂Orders of love＂ - healing inter-generational wounds
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By Melody Emmett. Western pychotherapy and African ancestral healing are combined for healing and integration.
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Jane Austen fan fiction 200 years later
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More than two centuries later, the characters brought to life by Jane Austen continue to delight fans the world over, leading to a plethora of fan fiction.
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Karma can be a Bitch. (But not always)
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Was I fated to be in a certain place at a certain time? Was it destiny that someone else was also in that certain place at a certain time? Fate or coincidence – you decide.
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Sensory to Extrasensory Perception - By Vaughan Jones
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Using my senses and meditating,
I transform into a spiritual state,
Sitting on a rock at the riverside.
There in calm and faithfulness I abide,
Remaining still, ever contemplating,
Earth energies rising through my body.
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