DECOLONISE SCIENCE!! A UNIVERSITY STUDENT FROM UCT CALLS FOR THIS!!

We have another brilliant mind that is calling for something extraordinary: Decolonise science.

Is suspect she must be related to our Honorable President - Science must fall and it is a Westernised concept.

Can you believe this? Of course you can - her compatriots were cheering her on. All of this happened in sacred space - where you may say anything preferably if it is stupid.

There is something seriously missing - maybe it has to do with science?

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THERE IS ALMOST ALWAYS A PROTEST ACTION AT PARLIAMENT CAPE TOWN

The Protestor 11 October 2016

The world is an upside down place to live in. 

People are protesting against everything and anything. There are always people who are unsatisfied with something; actually anything. Any place that represents authority is a good place to go to with your protest march. But you have to dress up smartly, because there are photographers lurking around every corner and who knows may you get noticed. 

When I left the Portfolio Committee Meeting at Parliament on Tuesday I found these people silently and almost unobtrusively protesting against Mswati and his monarchy. They were a jovial lot of protesters and more than willing to be photograph. And then they started pointing out other people whom I should also photograph. 

The protesters against the monarchy of Mswati 11 October 2016

It was clear that they were a completely different lot of people and not in the same league as the students that are looting and burning and threatening to kill so that they can study for free!

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God still remembers even those suffering Alzheimer’s

Tree

Mrs Jenny Beck, a practising lawyer in New Zealand remembers her mother and she came to the conclusion that, in the face of her mom's Alzheimer's [if you are living in SA please get into touch with this organisation], God still remembers even those suffering from Alzheimer's - Jenny's net was cast very wide and inclusive of all the others, beside her beloved mother who suffer from this dread illness. Thank you Jenny for your expansive and all embracing insight.

I do hope that my image of this tree pays tribute to Jenny, her family and those afflicted by Alzheimer's. 

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INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND AFRICA: ONE DECADE ON

Ms Evelyn A Ankumah, Ms Angela Mudukuti, Judge Richard Goldstone & Ms Fatou Bensouda

I attended a book launch at Webber Wentzel Attorneys on 5 October 2016. The editor of the book THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND AFRICA is Ms Ankumah. The keynote was by H.E. Ms Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the ICC [about the ICC: https://www.icc-cpi.int/about].

It was hosted by Webber Wentzel Attorney and the Dutch Embassy.

African countries are now complaining and falsely accuse the ICC of "colonialism" and that the ICC is unfairly targeting African Countries. It is abundantly clear, and it was so stated in the speeches yesterday, that the bulk of the human rights violations are committed on the African continent. It is also factually correct that almost all of the matters that are presently investigated by the ICC were referred to it by the African States themselves.

You will recall how the SA Government actively assisted President Al Bashir from Sudan to escape being arrested when he visited our country. You can read a lot of literature on this matter on the internet. It was announced at the meeting yesterday that the matter will be argued in the Constitutional Court on 22 November 2016. When you click on this link, it gives you access to the papers filed in the court.

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UNCERTAINTY IN COLOMBIA AFTER VOTE AGAINST PEACE.

A Colombian busy voting - for or against peace? I do give credit to National Geographic photographer Sebastián Liste for this image.

According to news bulletins the Colombians voted against peace on 2 October 2016 and you can have a look at the National Geograpic photo essay against peace.

Just on the face of it, I ask myself a question: "Why would you vote against peace? or is it too simplistic to approach it this way?"

I however want to approach it somewhat from another angle, namely to look at the National Geographic images and to try and make sense out of that. My country South Africa have deep rural areas and it might be that an astute photographer could have taken those images somewhere in my country.

Public workers check votes after the polls closed at the Institución Educativa Nicolás Rojas in Yesca Grande, Quibdó, Chocó, Colombia. 

I do give credit to National Geographic photographer Sebastián Liste for this image.

These are interesting thoughts and ideas that are floating in my mind. I would appreciate it to hear from you. Write me a note and send it to my e-mail address: neelscoertse@wirelessza.co.za

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THE PINK LADY INTERNATIONAL FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

I took this photograph at the Jewish Ghetto in Rome at a restaurant during April 2016

My ideas about food photography changed drastically after I looked at the Pink Lady's International Food Photography competition. That is the reason why I can publish this photo as part and parcel of food photography.

My chickens' eggs

Those images are definitely not what we have to look at on Facebook - you've seen those half eaten pies with gravy all over the plate and the wording: Mwah! Or "delicious." And then everybody like it - can you imagine that? Well, you don't have to imagine it - it is in you face all over Facebook.

Enjoy the Pink Lady's photos.

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PRESIDENT OBAMA THE MENSCH

President Barack Obama shares his handkerchief with the son of the Late Israeli President Shimon Perez.

President Barack Obama is a mensch! He shared his handkerchief with the Late Israeli President Shimon Perez's son at the funeral of his father.

The official photographer of the White House Pete Souza captured this unique moment - or is it unique? I don't think so. It shows us that the high office of the White House did not dehumanise Mr Obama.

Thank you Mr Obama for this moment. Thank you Pete Souza for sharing it with us.

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