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Toxic
19 Mar 2008

Hey MemeJ----it's been a bloody long tym!!!! Damn all to the end of BBA! How are you i.e hope u're great and still writing great columns *wink*

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WhiteSockGirl
17 Feb 2008

I am still on dry land... hope it will stay like that. It is raining so I am in trauma mode. My house is almost empty, just the very basics....

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WhiteSockGirl
17 Feb 2008

I am still on dry land... hope it will stay like that. It is raining so I am in trauma mode. My house is almost empty, just the very basics.

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WhiteSockGirl
28 Jan 2008

Welcome back! Yeah, it is hot and we are expecting another flood... Our governor is still controversial... life is not so good in the south. I had some interesting goss for you earlier this month...

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WhiteSockGirl
28 Jan 2008

Welcome back! Yeah, it is hot and we are expecting another flood... Our governor is still controversial... life is not so good in the south. I had some interesting goss for you earlier this month...

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Segololo
06 Dec 2007

Meme, I love the gallery... waiting for more!!

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WhiteSockGirl
05 Dec 2007

I have to agree with that SMS,.. if she could only channel that energy. She is going to explode tomorrow! According to the information that we received, it took place on 01 Aug 2007 - SA/Moz border on the SA side. Hope you will enjoy your take-ways and get the necessary energy for the rest of the evening.

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WhiteSockGirl
05 Dec 2007

Been there before one too many times. It is home to SANTAC (the regional network body of trafficking and abuse of children). I am just too tired to deal with the hassles of tickets and visas. And I always have a problem with that airport issued visas. But I am obsessed with the Hurricane.. She assaulted the elderly? Some serious anger issues

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WhiteSockGirl
05 Dec 2007

That is the only information we received. They supplied the information so that we can use it as a case study. Only afterwards, we were told that it is in fact a true story. Horrific But as you know, trafficking is a very organized business and it smells like a cover up. As for the boy, it sounds as if things are moving to a point. Most likely he would get parole soon. Not soon enough in my opinion but still I am less anxious. I think Werners snooping shook the perfect glass castles of some people a bit. I am forever indebted to you for that. Thank you so much.

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Meme J
05 Dec 2007

Your royal is now trying to date Luqman!! Ha, ha. She told him 'I'll meet u in court' :) ... But from messages coming in the woman she tangled with was 'elderly'!! Quite a few SMS messages. On the head-butting, yes, someone was saying Luqman should watch it as he's not all that big!!! ... Try and get to Moz if u can. Haven't been, but everyone raves about it.

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WhiteSockGirl
05 Dec 2007

What did you do now to our royal person? I am sure she is not impressed... I read the article on your website. I am afraid Please delete all my messages on your GB which make reference to her honour. I do not want to be head-butted. Hiehiehie.. One very dangerous woman. Am supposed to fly to Maputo tomorrow but am still waiting for my e-ticket. Think I might just go straight back home. Fed-up with the incompetence of some organizers.

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WhiteSockGirl
04 Dec 2007

That woman is rof, grof and onbeskof! She floored her husband? He is big. did you see him? Oh my, someone should please save us from that woman. Is it still about the Doggs acceptance speech? Or is it the old GMP and Mushasha (sp) nonsense? And did the national coach get help for his little medical problem? Gosh, I never laughed so hard when I read about his controversial medical problem. So much for freedom of speech! Viva the bill of rights. Fyi,.. I am attending a child trafficking meeting. Our case study for the day: A collaborating partner of Save the Children Norway in Mozambique reported a recent case of trafficking of human organs at the Ressano Garcia border. They received the account from a close associate of theirs working at the border. Save the Children Norway in Mozambique hav spoken directly with associate and in August 2007 they described the following: 'On 1 Aug 2007, around 10 o'clock in the morning, a woman and her son, of about 8 years old were travelling by car to SA. They crossed the Moz border. On the SA side, the vehicle that the woman was driving was checked by the police and nothing abnormal was found. The woman then started to drive off, when the police notice blood on the ground where the car had stopped. The police ran after the card and ordered the woman to stop. They again checked the vehicle and found 17 little heads of children, frozen in plastic bags. The SA police called the Moz police but only two customs police showed up. The incident was witnessed by many other people that were at the border and some even took pictures on their mobile telephones. The SA police appeared to be filming everything. The women that sell food by the border who saw what the car contained, were so angry, they wanted to kill the woman that was transporting the children's heads. The SA police took the woman and her son, in seperate cars, to the police houses next to the border. After that, nothing else was known abou this fact. Nothing was reported in the media.' The facilitators of the meeting, Save the Children Norway, claim that the story is true. One social worker also claims that she received footage of the heads via e-mail.

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WhiteSockGirl
04 Dec 2007

Oh, I was calm when I wrote that.. no tick tock. I had wine with my dinner. Needed it after all the NGO talk in the meeting.

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WhiteSockGirl
04 Dec 2007

Eish, leave our regional president alone! Hiehiehie you guys (the media) missed us (the honourable)! I am not in the country but my colleague sent me an sms about the controversial elections. A popular psssttt is that she is running an illegal business. Apparently she said that she will not register her salon as there are many illegal shebeens. So why must she register her salon. As for the boy. We do not dispute that he is bad. But but. There are procedures and structures (see NGO talk and I am doing it / or not purposely! Hehe) to deal with children like him. Did they even consider his size and vulnerability in prison. They should go to Hardap prison and see for himself.... that little boy and the vultures. And then they try to sleep at night ....because God knows I can't sleep. He is vulnerable and neglected. He has to fend for himself. Like hundreds of other children in Namibia. Our wonderful social workers should have gotten up from their lovely (or not) behinds and solved the damn problem a long time ago. Now they, recommended a reform school. How does that make sense? School for 2 months and this time of the year? Let me not get started on the school! It is hundreds of ks away from his family. So, reintegration is almost impossible. He was sentenced for 6 months,.. meaning he will only serve 2 months. Also, the journey upwards will take 2 months moving from prison to prison until he reaches his destination. But it is all about passing on responsibilities. It is so much easier to write a one page letter of recommendation as long as they dont have to deal with the hassle of doing a childrens court enquiry.

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Tashi
27 Nov 2007

Thanks so much J! I lurrve the funky posers - so much so that I've stolen them and put them in my gallery. I've had an excellent break just sort of been sitting watching what they're up to - given them something tasty as a late night treat.

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Segololo
21 Nov 2007

Hey J J!!! I was here!

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zandi!
21 Nov 2007

hey Girlie *wave* been too long since we had that little chat im doing good looking forward to the weekend its metro awards remember ohhh by the way ma babe they stole ma pc at work i had to re register so i cnt read yo PM bkos i cant log in anymore so ive gt 1 i in ma zandi! not zandii!! hope all is good take care xoxo zand!

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WhiteSockGirl
14 Nov 2007

I see a lot of commotion over at the library. GRN cars, SWAPO big heads and our honorable regional president herself. And the NBC car is also floating around. Me thinks they have a signing party going on. Damn, I am dying to know what is going on in that hall. I finally got hold of that pictures that I promised you about the boys. As soon as I figure out how to send that pic via TVSA PM,... well I am not sure how long that will take. Will ask one of the MODS to help me out.

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WhiteSockGirl
13 Nov 2007

Thank for the juice. Read the interviews with Tatiana and Richard. Interesting they dont say much. Their responses sound almost rehearsed. Your colleague (I cannot and will not try to spell that name) was quite tough on Tatiana with the adultery question.. hehehe I caught the strange flu bug that is going around so I am high on medication (self-medicating right now). I cant get use to the smalltown medical services - the doctors give me the creeps (even after 3 years of residing in this town) but my colleagues are not impressed with me spreading the germs and they made an appointment for me with one of the docs. Did you get a chance to speak to Meryl? I am trying to compile some information on The Bridge the projects that what and we done we are planning. Will try to send it to you tomorrow or today depends on what wonders the brews of the smalltown doc will do.

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WhiteSockGirl
12 Nov 2007

I hope ou had a blast in JHB! Richard won. I expected that. The majority had their say. Yeah, what can I say the majority voted for Bush and now for Richard. It is overI cant wait for the juicy gossip hope you brought back loads. Yep, 14 police officers and that is the norm for the Hardap region. We have an excellent networking programme with the police officers, magistrates and prosecutors. Cant say the same about our relationship with the education sector. All I can say is that relationship needs some work. The Hidipo/Swapo saga.. very interesting. Intrigued to see how the whole thing will play out. Am looking forward to your column!

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Tashi
05 Nov 2007

Hey hey J - been reading your columns - they're excellent! Had such a giggle and lurve the mix of humour and commentary. DIZZLE my nizzle!'s too much LOL! The idiots guide's the bomb too - the lingo in it it's so perfect you SO need to publish a BB dictionary. Re- the finale - pleased to hear you're going - we'll catch up there and - even though it breaks my heart I'll bring your sweet meerkat back - I'll pack some treats for him for the trip. See you at the weekend!

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WhiteSockGirl
05 Nov 2007

Thanks for the update! The training hmm,.. Principles of Restorative Justice,.. and Managing Children with Behavioral Problems I swear I did not have Richard. Ofu or MNet on my mind when I commissioned the training! Hiehiehie Hectic week with the training. Not easy with 14 police officers and a hand full of social workers. I am feeling for the trainer I think we are paying him way too little money. As for BBA2. The phone calls geez I almost felt sorry for Richard.

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WhiteSockGirl
02 Nov 2007

Hello M J! I am suppose to organize training for our stakeholders but I keep on finding myself trolling the insane BBA forum - oh my word what stinkers some can be. Anyway, it is no around 04:10pm and it seems as if something happened between O and Richard - apparently the dweep told O that he kissed her and he dared her to do it in front of Tatiana. Apparently O is very angry and she cried in the bathroom. Want to know if you saw any of it and if it is true? Darn, I need a tv in my office. Ps. Once again... great article today. Have a fab weekend.

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Muky
30 Oct 2007

Thanks Meme J. I will try and focus.

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WhiteSockGirl
29 Oct 2007

Hello Meme J! What a weekend! First, let me explain to you my little internet disaster. I moved homes last year after the flood twice. However, I am still in the flood area, so I am not really settled. Stacks and stacks of unpacked boxes. For that very same reason, I did not apply to Telecom to transfer my telephone line. I want to be extremely mobile. Hey, I am in severe traumatic mode. And we smalltown people do not know anything about wireless connection and all that jazz. Thus, I cant plug-in dear old laptop and has to rely on my cellphone to connect to the net and to read my mail. Anyway, I am honored that you add me as a friend. I am a bit reluctant to add people as friends,.. not want to be seen as presumptuous and all that blah. Back to the weekend. I made a window dressing appearance at the 10th Anniversary celebration (Adoption of the decentralization policy) or shall I say the disaster that was supposed to be a celebration. After I broke bread with the politicians, I settled before my TV on my own (boyfriend is somewhere in Africa) and I was confronted with Richards antics. I am so horrified and do not want to dwell on the details. You know it all. I read the article that you and Natasha wrote. Brilliant. That is why is I am such a loyal reader of your newspaper. Oh, something else I wanted to mention. One of the celebrities that are doing some work for us (more specifically with the boys detained in Hardap prison) got some t-shirts for the boys from your newspaper last year. I totally forgot about that until this morning when I accompanied one of my colleagues on a supervision visit and saw some of the boys wearing the t-shirts. I have pics,.. if you are interested.

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zandii!!
29 Oct 2007

hey gal how r things there jozi is very cold bt we copin had a rough weekend and how was yo's mhhhhh tryin to imagine what yu gt up to

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Dee
29 Oct 2007

Thanks girl...I will check Rickie's blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Muky
24 Oct 2007

I guess this si where to come if you want all the latest gossip on Meryl. Keep it up Meme J. I see you have collected quite a few friends.

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Tashi
22 Oct 2007

Sorry Meme !- that was Tashi.

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TVSA Team
22 Oct 2007

Cool Meme, thanks for tip and also for the links you posted on my GB and the sweet Meerkat that arrived yesterday! She's sitting next to me all tucked up:). Sorry to not have responded until now - I've been dashing around - been writing for a mag too so haven't had time to sit quietly with a cuppa to catch up. Things will quieten down shortly then I'm gonna chill out and browse - looking verry forward to escaping into reading what you have to say!

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Meme J
22 Oct 2007

Uhmmmmmm ... Toxic! I need an 'Idiot's Guide!! Go to: http://www.namibian.com.na ..... and type Jean Sutherland in SEARCH on the top left-hand side of the page. Think that that's possibly the simplest and least messy. Don't know why I didn't think of that before!! Sometimes the obvious ... eludes. It throws up my articles. STAY TOXIC!! :)

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Meme J
22 Oct 2007

OK, Toxic. Google can be weird some times! Just been checking it out. My name with BBA produces very little! So much for me :) Anyway, worked out what seems to be the best way. Go to Google, then click on NEWS, once in NEWS type Big Brother Africa in SEARCH. Don't type my name! OK, I didn't go all the way through. But look out for some of these headlines ...................... BBA: The 'Idiot's Guide'; BBA: Let them eat minnow; BBA: About the Bezuidenhout Boy; BBA: Ofunneka loses her 'virginity'; BBA: The Unbearable Lightness of Laughter and Being!; BBA: The House of Wax; BBA: Days of Their Lives; BBA: Dude, Where's My Entertainment?; BBA: Face to Face with Bertha; Dude, make up your mind. That's not all the articles but the most recent. Includes some of my faves! Our site not 'active' in terms of responses. I know, I know, we should be more organised, but our website badly needs to be upgraded. As it is, in the transferral process, paragraphs break in weird places, italics for emphasis don't come out, the crossheads end up ... wherever ... Hope this helps!

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Meme J
22 Oct 2007

Hiya Toxic, a quick one. Having a manic Monday. But will get back to you later this evening. Spinning into the newspaper deadline. Not sure about the "active"! But promise, will get back to you.

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Toxic
22 Oct 2007

Hi MemeJ..didn't know your page was active..kinda like TVSA ADMIN (side issue!!). Anyway, i book marked this page http://news.google.co.za/news?hl=en&ned=en_za&q=BIG+BROTHER+AFRICA to catch up on yr articles but have since realised that I can't find the actual article unless i know what it's called. Is there a way to get to a page with just your articles on it? Should i search for your real name?

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WhiteSockGirl
22 Oct 2007

Meme J: The front page looks amazing! I love it. The lay-out,.. very well thought out. Lucky Dube with the green back ground.. and the Boks, Pres Thabo Mbeki with the green. As for the column, I see TVSA members are regularly mentioned. Segololo is making a star appearance (again) today! Ah,.. well Agent Meme J.. lets talk business! Hehe... I do hope everything went ok for our girl. I need her back in one piece in Namibia. Just hope that she will eventually find time for us (Namibians).

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Meme J
21 Oct 2007

Hey Shuga! Don't know why, but I struggled to get into your guestbook a bit earlier. But think I left a message for u there Thursday or Friday. Hope so. Coincidentally, yes I saw the thread on the BBA forum and blushed. Pop in there every now and again to check what people are saying and thinking, etc, especially after evictions and nominations and stumbled over my name rather like Code stumbled over his girlfriend 2nite! But I get some hard flak too. Some people get pretty intense about the show. Columns meant to be tongue in cheek, and hopefully entertaining now and again. I don't hate any of the housemates. Just try to take the diss out of them and their supporters ... uhmmm ... a bit. Got an e-mail from Code's girl Juna last week. She said even though I wasn't too "positive" about her man, she thought it was funny. But not everyone sees it that way, as you are well aware!!

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Brown Shuga
21 Oct 2007

Gosh, girl, I see you're popular on the BBA forum too...

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Meme J
21 Oct 2007

Oh yeah, WSG, tell me what you think of tomorrow's front page. Honestly. As you will see, it's different from the usual, and was a challenge: to combine the tragedy of Lucky Dube and the triumph of the Springboks. So decided to go for a strong visual impact. Also, have spoken to our Weekendr peeps and suggested that they make Lucky the focus this Friday. Tributes from Namibian artists, maybe a vox pops, etc. It's so, so tragic. Such talent, such an icon, and a precious life.

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Meme J
21 Oct 2007

Heya WhiteSockGirl, Meryl popped in briefly on Friday. Botswana trip postponed for now, but she was off to Zambia that night. Peeps there invited her for some event on Saturday (yesterday). Anyway, we'll liaise when she gets back, as there wasn't too much time and she was battling with a throat problem. I have a few other requests for her which need to pass on, etc. So you're not forgotten! OK, so then on Saturday I'm at the checkout point in Clicks and my phone goes. All sorts of drama for M. Plane previous night had had to turn back. Sat morn airlines were struggling to accommodate everyone on connecting flights, and she was stressing about missing Lusaka connection, 30 minutes and counting type of stuff. All sorts of airport and bureaucratic problems. Anyway, eventually sorted. By then her air time was up I then had to communicate with peeps in Zambia. So I think I'm the agent for now!! Only kidding. Anyway, don't know how it all went on the other side. Well, I hope! And all's well with you, I hope!!

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Meme J
18 Oct 2007

Sure thing, Shuga. We do run responses, e.g. tomorrow we have some SMSes from readers, including a pro-Richie one! But with a short response too!! OK, we have a BBA e-mail address. It's primarily for a competition we run every week, but if you mark it reader's response I will pick it out. Though I don't write every day, I oversee the page. Address is: bba@namibian.com.na or can give you my personal e-address, if u prefer. We also try and run a selection of messages from the SMS strip a few times a week. A popular feature! It's weird, even people who don't watch BBA like the page, read the columns! It has a following of its own :)

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Brown Shuga
18 Oct 2007

Thanks Meme J for the mention!! Can your readers leave comments anywhere on your site?

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WhiteSockGirl
18 Oct 2007

Thanks Meme J. Yes, your newspaper did a piece on our organization a year or so a go. We also used ur newspaper for a couple of advertisements. Will keep ur 'links' in mind. You mean except for our famous 'regional president'? Hehe,,,

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Meme J
17 Oct 2007

Hi WhiteSockGirl, Meryl arrived safe and sound but didn't manage to make it in to our office this p.m., but we hope to link up tomorrow. She's supposed to be off to Botswana on Friday. Will definitely mention it to her. Not sure if she has an agent. OK, The Bridge. I know about The Bridge. Hey, we have a reporter at Keetmans if you ever have something that needs covering. What's happened to your missives from the South?!!

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Meme J
17 Oct 2007

Heya Zandi, it's been a HOT afternoon here ... lots of clouds but no rain yet. Hectic in the newsroom ... deadlines, always deadlines!!! Hey, the meerkats are cool, nifty little voyeurs of the wild. They add to the quality of my life :) Sadly, on Sunday I lost a cat, Straggler, who was attached to my house. He got injured, spent time in ICU, made a brief recovery but his body just became too weak. And the vet said it was better for him to pass on ... So I've had a few distraught days. He was such a sweet, brave little miaow-er. Yeah, so that's about it. And you?

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WhiteSockGirl
17 Oct 2007

Meme J, when you talk to Meryl, ask her if she would consider get involved in a poverty campaign in the south. My organisation, The Bridge, would like to hook up with her. We do have a couple of celebrities that are doing some work with us... and if she has an agent,.. we can talk. PLEASE?

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zandii!!
17 Oct 2007

hey meme j how are yu this afternoon and how are the meerkats hi hi hi !!

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Tashi
16 Oct 2007

Hey Meme - thanks for the message! Pleased you're enjoying the site so much - would lurve to check out your BB goss - please pop down a link as to where I can find your articles. Also, please tuck one of the sweet Meerkats into a parcel for me - want one tooo.

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Tashi
08 Oct 2007

Hi MemeJ - it's soo cool that you've got two Meerkats!

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zandii!!
08 Oct 2007

welcome to guest book meme j i hope yu nt the meme j i think yu are anyway no hard feelings how are yu ?????

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