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Africa to send troops, food parcels to UK as riots spread

Africa to send troops, food parcels to UK as riots spread

ETHIOPIA. The African Union today adopted a unilateral resolution to deploy army troops and care packages to England as looting and violence spread from London to other major cities. Spokesperson Charity Khumalo said “We can no longer stand by while these savages tear themselves apart.”

The AU, meeting today in an emergency session to discuss the ongoing rioting in the UK, has declared that they will do “everything in their power to help bring civilisation to England”.

“It’s just so sad, you know?” said Khumalo, speaking from the organisation’s HQ in Addis Ababa. “Sitting here and watching them on TV while their society implodes. We cannot in good conscience remain idle and let it happen.”

The AU has announced a range of initiatives that Africans can get involved with to help alleviate the misery of the English.

“For instance, we have launched an ‘Adopt an English child’ programme,” Khumalo explained, showing journalists brochures featuring the faces of English kids. “If you donate a mere R50 a month, you can see to it that sweet little Johnny from Peckham receives a basic education, a pack of condoms and a pair of pimpin’ Nikes.”

Khumalo also said that the AU would be parachuting in dentists along with army troops as part of a ‘Feel better about yourselves, Brits!’ initiative.

“You can understand why they’re turning on each other,” the spokesperson told journalists. “You look in the mirror and you see teeth untouched by modern dentistry. It’s heartbreaking enough to make anyone put a brick through a Starbucks.”

The organisation also plans to air-drop care packages on major UK cities.

“Vegetables, mainly,” Khumalo confirmed. “We’re sending them vegetables and toothpaste.”

The AU’s flagship event, however, will be a star-studded rock concert to be held in Johannesburg, with all proceeds going towards the establishment of mobile libraries around the UK. Artists ranging from Mafikizolo to Steve Hofmeyr have pledged to perform at the show.

“As a humanitarian, it’s the least I can do,” Hofmeyr said yesterday. “I look at those photos of the adorable little beasts knifing each other in fights over looted X-Boxes and I want to hug them and give them a nice hot cup of Milo.”

Meanwhile, the week’s events have seen terrified South Africans in London and Manchester packing their bags for home.

“This country is going to the dogs, dude,” said Werner du Preez, a gap-year student from Johannesburg. “I’ve been offered a nice little two-bedroom place in Hillbrow where I can feel safe again

TRAILER 'A Bushman Odyssey'

Trailer Documentary Film by One Time Films & Karl Symons

A BUSHMAN ODYSSEY is the epic story of one Bushman family’s struggle to reconnect with their ancestral soul after surviving three generations of colonial genocide, apartheid dispossession, and post-apartheid social reorganization.

Dawid Kruiper, 76, and his extended family are one of South Africa’s only Bushman families to survive the genocide with unbroken links to their ancestral past.

A Bushman Odyssey is a riveting soul-journey through the African wilderness, following the Kruipers’ poignant and at times heartbreaking return to their ancestors’ lands in their Kgalagadi heartland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw9CRTBKpLQ

Bushmen's secrets of the Kalahari

Dawid Kruiper, leider van de laatste Komani Bushmen van Zuid-Afrika vroeg een tijdje geleden aan nationale mediafiguur en schrijfster Patricia Glyn om hem te helpen om zijn memories in boekvorm te gieten. Op die manier zou de familiegeschiedenis vereeuwigd worden en beschikbaar blijven voor het nageslacht.





De Kruiper Familie leefde oorspronkelijk in het Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, op de grens met Namibië en Botswana. Patricia Glyn besloot om een expeditie op touw te zetten; een tocht van vijf weken doorheen het 320km lange park, op zoek naar de plekken waar Dawid met zijn grootvader Ou Makhai en andere familieleden meer dan 70 jaar geleden rondzwierven.

Patricia nodigde naast Oupa Dawid (76) ook een tiental familieleden uit, oud en jong, om getuige te zijn van de exploratie. Filmmaker Richard Wicksteed en ikzelf werden gevraagd om de expeditie op beeldband vast te leggen. Het werd een heuse erfenis-tour waarbij de bosjesmannen konden jagen met pijl en boog en konden gaan en staan waar ze wilden. Vijf weken lang kampeerden we op de meest afgelegen plaatsen in het park, ver van de toeristen, tussen de wilde dieren en omgeven door de uitzonderlijke pracht van de Kgalagadi woestijn.

Walking With the 'San' in the Kgalagadi

Interv Marcos Cruz - Film: The Bang Bang Club

'The Bang Bang Club' is a new South African feature film that will be screened in TheRoxyTheatre during the "Open Doek" filmfestival van 'Koersel', Belgium. Marcos Cruz was set photographer during the shoot. An introduction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnCMEI-WOGk

San Hunt in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park