Okay, okay, so I decide to post a cheeky little soliloquy on how you may have missed me for lack of posting on this very site.

Well, the powers-that-be of electronic goods chose to smite my laptop shortly after that sardonic attack on people who apologise for being absent from their sites for extended periods.  

I've learn't my lesson. Thankfully Dell helped me out a lot. Kudos to them for a great website and service.  

One of the premises I held as I grew up was to believe that history, as reported to me in my History classes, was factual and accurate. It was an important premise, I believe, that helped me formulate my view of reality and aided me in making sense of what was happening in the world around me.

I happened to grow up in a time when the history of my country was being manipulated by the government. As a privileged white kid, my parents had to by history text books that told me endless stories of how the white people "discovered" South Africa, fought the dangerous, barbarian native black people and subsequently settled in "their" country.  read more »