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Friday, 06 Sha' baan 1432 H / 08 July 2011

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* President Jacob Zuma has consolidated his public relations team by appointing his long-time friend and ally, Mac Maharaj, as presidential spokesman with immediate effect.

* The Gauteng department of community safety wants to gain access to all CCTV cameras in public spaces to keep a closer eye on crime and to increase their response time.

* Political violence is on the rise in five of Zimbabwe's ten provinces as tensions rise with ZANU-PF stepping up campaigns in a bid to press for fresh general elections.

* Chinese authorities are officially denying that Jiang Zemin is dead after days of speculation about the health of the former president.

* Relatives of British servicemen who died in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked by the British tabloid that is also accused of intercepting voice mails.

Ingredients:
6 – 8 potatoes
1 onion – grated
2 cups frozen corn
salt to taste
red chillies – fine
margarine / butter
green chillies – cut

Method:

• Boil potatoes in jacket. Remove peel and scoop hole in centre
• Saute onions in margarine. Add cut green chillies
• Add frozen corn
• Add salt, red fine chillies
• Stir fry for +/- 2 minutes
• Fill in scooped potato
• Cut foil. Put a little margarine / butter on foil
• Put a scoop of margarine / butter over the filling
• Cover and bake for ½ an hour at 180*C
• Serve as savoury or side dish with any dry meat (roast leg, chicken, steak or chops, etc).

* To avoid browning of apples after cutting, apply a little lemon juice on the cut surface. The apples will stay and look fresh for a longer time.

* Fry the seasonings until they change color, to get full flavour of seasonings.

* Potatoes soaked in salt water for 20 minutes will bake more rapidly.

WHILE SOME ARE TRYING EVERYTHING TO ATTAIN FREEDOM…

05/07/11 - In possibly one of the most creative yet uncomfortable ways to escape from prison, a half-naked Mexican prisoner was recently caught curled up in a visitors suitcase. Juan Ramirez Tijerina was caught at a prison in Chetumal, Mexico, proving his flexibility in front of guards who were bewildered to say the very least. Having been arrested in 2007, Tijerina is serving a 20 year sentence for possession of illegal weapons, and now awaits further charges alongside his accomplice, Maria del Mar Arjona, following their attempt to break free. Cue Queen! Police spokesman and witness, Gerado Campos, mentioned that Arjona looked nervous as she fled. According to one source, she tried to convince officers that the suitcase contained dirty laundry.

OTHERS MIGHT UNKNOWINGLY WALK INTO PRISON…

30/06/11 - When Heidi Withers went to meet and stay with her future husband's (Freddie's) step-mother, she never expected it to be easy. She did not expect a vitriolic email from mother-in-law to be Carolyn Bourne, criticizing her "poor etiquette". Heidi was so stunned after reading the email she forwarded it to her friends and it soon went viral appearing on blogs and websites around the world. Heidi still wants to marry Freddie despite his step-mother's abusive email towards her. Below is a full text of the email sent:

"It is high time someone explained to you about good manners. Yours are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you. Unfortunately for Freddie, he has fallen in love with you and Freddie being Freddie, I gather it is not easy to reason with him or yet encourage him to consider how he might be able to help you. It may just be possible to get through to you though. I do hope so. If you want to be accepted by the wider Bourne family I suggest you take some guidance from experts with utmost haste. There are plenty of finishing schools around. Please, for your own good, for Freddie's sake and for your future involvement with the Bourne family, do something as soon as possible. Here are a few examples of your lack of manners: When you are a guest in another's house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat – unless you are positively allergic to something. You do not remark that you do not have enough food. You do not start before everyone else. You do not take additional helpings without being invited to by your host. When a guest in another's house, you do not lie in bed until late morning in households that rise early – you fall in line with house norms. You should never ever insult the family you are about to join at any time and most definitely not in public. I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the pub was one of shock, not laughter. You should have hand-written a card to me. You have never written to thank me when you have stayed. You regularly draw attention to yourself. Perhaps you should ask yourself why. No one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity style behaviour. I understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the cost of your wedding. (There is nothing wrong with that except that convention is such that one might presume they would have saved over the years for their daughters' marriages.) If this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes."

Had you been in Heidi's shoes, what would you make of the situation and would you marry her son or leave him? Do you think perhaps Mrs. Bourne was right in her actions?
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