We Almost had it all...

CHAPTER 1

It was a rainy Tuesday morning and Nthato has just finished her first meeting when she received a text from Mandla to say that he could not make it to lunch as planed. She sighed and quickly called her friend Alwande to tell her about another cancelled luch with her boyfriend Mandla. Girl angisazi Mina ngithini, uMandla usenezindlela asezihamba ngingazi ukuthi uyaphi and lately he's been taking calls angafuni ngizwa nokuthi ukhuluma nobani and I'm really getting tired of this! Hhay O I'm sure akunalutho alufihlayo you know how much he loves you. That's what I though but he has changed. Trust me girl, I'm sure you are just worrying your self about nothing. You think? No, I know! Hhay Bo,wase uba sure kangaka nje Alwande. Is there something you know that I don't? Ag nonsense Nthato, you know ukuthi ngiyazi nithandana kangakanani noMandla and you are the only person he loves so just chill and go to work. You're probably right, maybe I'm just being paranoid. Anyway, sizokhuluma I have another meeting to go to before heading for the office, we'll talk later. Sure, and stop thinking too much! Il try o, it's just that I love this man and i really don't know what I'd do if...Stop! There's nothing that Mandla is doing, now go to your meeting and relax ok? Ok! Ok! Later my friend!

A talk with Alwande always calmed her down and she trusted her friend more than anything. The day went by but somehow she was not feeling well. Something was not right and she could feel it. She was gonna get to the bottom of this! Checking her emails, she decided to leave the office earlier than usual with the hope of going over to her friend's place to discuss her suspicions further but first, she needed to go home and freshen up.

A drive from Umhlanga to Revonia (an apartment she and Mandla shared) was short so she was home within 10 minutes. When she got home, she was very surprised to see Mandla's car on the driveway since it was too early for him to be home. She got out of the car, without even locking it, went straight to the front door which was wide open and through the hallway, she could hear voices, chuckles and laughter. Wait a minute, the woman's voice was her friend's... Alwande!

To be continued...

Beautiful in every way

MERCEDES-BENZ AMG cls63... v8

Eagle-eyed fans of the Three-pointed Star may have spotted AMG versions of the new CLS at their local dealerships for many months already. Mercedes-Benz South Africa, however, has waited until the full array of CLS-class cars was available locally before having any sort of media launch party.

AMG models usually stand out quite considerably from their lesser powered brethren. View a C63 along its C180 CGI sibling and you will have little doubt as to which model has spent all its evenings in the gym. This, however, does not seem to be the case with the CLS. There are visual cues to differentiate the models, but barring the large alloys there is little to really set the AMG apart from the 500. Especially in a dark shade the already menacing shape does not have an abundance of “popping muscles” to give up the game.

Some, I am sure, will prefer it that way and your typical CLS buyer is unlikely to be a boy racer. Let’s be realistic, with a price tag of over R1,3-million he’d have to be a pretty spoiled kid to get one of these as a varsity or college runabout. The average person that plumps for this kind of car is unlikely to want to announce (too loudly) the performance capability of their latest purchase.

Pop the door and the driver is greeted by (standard) AMG sports seats covered in lush, perforated Nappa leather. The steering wheel, too, is model-specific and features flattened top and bottom sections. Ostensibly, these are to allow better visibility and ease ingress, as they do in a racecar, but with fully (electrically) adjustable seat and steering wheel it seems like a sop to the marketing department. The shift paddles found on the rear side of the steering wheel are chunky aluminium items as opposed to the smaller plastic versions of other CLS models.

The twin-turbocharged V8 kicks over with a bit of a raspy gargle, but settles to a baritone idle that belies what will happen later. Pull-away like the Pastor and no one will have any clue of the performance potential. Floor it, however, and anyone within earshot will swivel their heads to get a look at the fury unleashed. Acoustics engineers have managed to maintain a distinctive V8 growl despite the twin blowers strapped to the exhaust manifolds.

The aural delight is accompanied by a strong shove in the cabin, too, as 386 kW conspires to shift the occupants forward with extreme pace and minimal effort.

The seven-speed transmission dispenses with a traditional torque converter and depending on the mode you choose: C(ontrolled Efficient), S(port) S+ or M(anual) there is a noticeable difference in the response times and behaviour. And if you ever find the need there is even a Race Start, i.e. launch-control function. I found that the sport setting provides the ideal compromise to exploit fast shift times and smooth shifts.

Mercedes claims a sprint time from zero-to-100 km/h of 4,4 seconds, which is mighty impressive for a car that weighs nearly 1,9 tonnes. From a subjective point of view, the in-gear acceleration feels even more phenomenal. Flatten the loud pedal at any – even triple-digit – speed and the CLS will drop a few cogs and make haste for the horizon. With 700 N.m torque available in a plateau between 1 750 and 5 000 r/min, the acceleration is relentless and it is ridiculously easy to find oneself bouncing of the 250 km/h limiter, or so I am told…

Grip levels are high, too, not just from the wide section (295 mm) rear rubber, but from the front end as well. Mercedes of old had a tendency to wash into gentle understeer when really pressing on. On this pass and the fast sweeps that led up to and away from it there was no lack of front-end bite. There are several good performance cars at this (price and luxury) level, mostly from Germany and Mercedes’ direct competitors…

 Not only is it a very stylish and comfortable package to commute, but also an extremely fast cruiser that is now (dynamically) closer to the best from the rest.

Specifications:

Retail Price- R 1 372 510

Engine: 8/5 461 cm3

Power/Torque: 386 kW/700 N.m

Length/width/height/wheelbase: 4 996/1 881/1 406/2 874 mm

Suspension (f/r): Three-link,coil springs, anti-roll bar, AMG ride control/multi-link, air suspension with AMG ride control

Warranty/service plan: 3 years/100 000 km/5 years/90 000 km

0-100 km/h: 4,4 seconds

Top speed: 250 km/h (limited)

Fuel consumption: 9,9 litres/100 km

Source- http://www.mercedes-benzsa.co.za/mercedes-benz/eMB/PC/prices/CLS63AMG_Prices.asp

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I'm back people. Let's have some fun

When i read this i thought it was absolutely hillarios thats why i decided to share it with you. simple, straight and to the point. Booyakah!!!

 I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE.


BY MIKE LACHER

Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.

People love me. Why? Because I’m fun. I’m the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business’ website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.

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Manicures are anything but basic this fall. From caviar manicures that glisten like diamonds to matte treatments that keep nails looking cool and chic, it’s all about adding texture to tips and toes.

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This super chic manicure comes in three sophisticated shades:

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Here’s how it works. Apply first coat of nail lacquer. Let dry. Apply second coat of nail lacquer. Before it dries, carefully apply the velvet powder by shaking it onto the nail over the clear plastic tray used to capture loose particles. With the handy applicator brush, swipe off excess velvet powder and let dry.

Not as hard as it looks, and I love this sultry take on the classic manicure.

To purchase the Ciate Velvet Manicure Kit, you can go to www.Sephora.com, (we have it in S.A)

trend alert- caviar manicure

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A Tribute to Chris Hani

Justice Piitso on the qualities that made the late SACP leader great...

Today our people celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the brutal assassination  of the late Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, Cde Chris Thembisile Hani. It was on this fateful day of the 10th of April 1993 that a bullet from the hand of an imperialist sponsored mercenary robbed our people this most finest and illustrious leader of the South African working class movement.

We lower the banner of our Red flag in honour and memory of this legendary revolutionary freedom fighter and the leader of our national democratic revolution, whose image and tenacity have become the symbol of courage to the worldwide struggles led by our people against imperialism and colonial domination. The brutal assassination of our late Secretary General has germinated growing seeds of revolutionary ideas planted amongst our people, to take forward the struggles for the building of socialism as the future for humanity.

He led the South African working class into understanding that the main task of the South African national democratic revolution is the conquest of political and economic power. He led them understand the fundamental question that unity and cohesion is the only precondition for the victory of the struggles of our people against imperialism and colonialism.

He led them understand that theory and practice is the prelude for the success of our national liberation struggles and our ultimate goal for the establishment of the future socialist republic. He led them understand the role of the South African Communist party as the vanguard party of the working class.

We celebrate the life of a revolutionary leader of our people who contributed immensely to advance the noble cause of our struggles against colonialism of a special type.  His was an entire life of an indomitable contribution to cause of the struggles of the working people of the world against imperialism and colonialism. He occupied the forefront trenches of our struggles for the freedom and dignity of the people of our country and the world against oppression and exploitation. 

He was first and foremost the most humbled servant of the people, a leader of our national liberation movement, a communist, trade unionist, an internationalist, the most organic intellectual of our times, and an extraordinary and magnificent revolutionary fighter and Commander of our glorious army of our people, Mkhonto we Ziswe. He has proven himself to be a rare and all round revolutionary, capable of taking forward the tasks of our national democratic revolution.

We pay tribute to the living memories of this heroic leader few days after our people and world celebrated the hundred years anniversary of the birth of our national liberation movement, the African National Congress.

We therefore dedicate this glorious chapter of the centenary celebrations and an unbroken record of heroic struggles led by our glorious movement, in memory of this revolutionary leader of the working class. History will always remember his courageous exemplary leadership and contribution during the most difficult period of our struggles for the liberation of the oppressed people of our country.

We pay tribute to the life and times of our leader Chris Hani forty five years after the historic battle of Wankie and Spolilo. It was during this epic battle in the calendar of our history books, which he himself led as its commissar

,  that the first ever combined military operation by Mkhonto we Ziswe and Zipra revolutionary forces unleashed a decisive defeat against the most powerful apartheid regime in Southern Africa.

We refer ourselves to the memories of this revolutionary fighter to the historic battle of Wankie and Spolilo, for the significant historic reason that it was the first ever military confrontations between our revolutionary forces he led and the forces of the enemy of our people, that paved way for the advance of our revolutionary forces and therefore heralded a new era of intensified struggles that led to the liberation of the Southern African region.

We take courage from the exemplary life of this leader of our Communist party twenty five years after the decisive victory of working class solidarity and internationalism by our revolutionary forces against Apartheid regime during the historic battle of Cuito Cuanavale.

It was during the decisive battle that the combined revolutionary forces of the Cuban revolution, MPLA, SWAPO, and the ANC defeated the most sophisticated and powerful racist regime that saw the independence of Namibia and subsequently the democratic state of the Republic of South Africa. The battle of Cuito Cuanavale was the end and the beginning of a new era of struggles in our region and the whole continent.

We celebrate the heroic life of the leader of our national liberation movement during the most important year when the people of our country are commemorating the centenary of the Native Land Act of 1913. 

It was the proclamation of this act by the Union of South Africa that saw systematic segregation and dispossession of the vast majority of the people of our country from the land of their birth. The 1913 Native Land Act was a cornerstone for the exclusion of the black people in general and the african people in particular from the socio economic mainstream of our country.

We salute this heroic leader of our people and the late Secretary General of our party, during the most important year in the calendar of the history of our liberation struggles, when the South African working class will be celebrating the 92nd anniversary of the birth of our vanguard party, the South African Communist party. 

The Communist party has throughout the years became the backbone of the struggles of our people for the liberation of our country. It was through the organic alliance with the party that our people grasped the dialectical relationship and the national and class character of our national democratic revolution. The vanguard party is the most trusted allied of our people in their struggles against imperialism and neo colonialism.

We celebrate the life of the late Secretary General of the South African Communist party at the most critical conjuncture of the international balance of forces. The collapse of the Soviet block and the subsequent communists states in the Eastern Europe had an unprecedented adverse effect on the struggles of the international working class movement. 

The sudden turn of epic events of the collapse of the world communist movement, ushered in a new era of the world balance of forces dominated by a hostile and aggressive unipolar world, led by imperialism and international monopoly capital. This new era of the world dominated by rampant forces of capitalism increased the levels of poverty, disease and underdevelopment in the whole world. It was indeed a major setback to the international struggles of the working class movement.

His personal warmth, humility and charm will forever glimpse the memories of the millions of the people of the world. We have lost a great revolutionary leader and an indomitable fighter whose contribution to the struggles of our people will remain immeasurable. In his memory we will take forward the banner of our party to advance the cause of the struggles of the working class into the future.

BACK WITH A BANG

I know I know,  Gone 4 a minute now I'm here, gone 4 a minute now I'm back right here... It's good to be blogging again... back to life and reality. I love life


On that I love life tip today is Chris Hani's 20th anniversary of his brutal assassination,

Chris Hani

Chris Hani, born Martin Thembisile Hani was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress. He was a fierce opponent of the apartheid government.

Born: June 28, 1942, Transkai Assassinated: April 10, 1993, Boksburgh Spouse: Limpho Hani Children: Lindiwe Hani, Nomakhwezi Hani, Neo Hani Education: Rhodes University (1962),University of Fort Hare (1959–1961)

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