Forbidden love

Evening all,

It never ceases to amaze me how often an institution apparently dedicated to love so often pushes it's followers in the opposite direction. Mpho Tutu van Furth, the daughter of our always smiling Desmond Tutu has remarried, this time for love, to her wife, Marceline, a Dutch atheist academic in a private civil ceremony in Franchhoek. Mpho was an ordained reverend with the South African Anglican church until they took exception to the fact that she married someone of the same sex, (though apparently not so much to the fact that she is divorced) regardless, I wish Mpho and Marceline many happy years together, may their love shine as an example to others not to allow anyone to stifle who they are.

In other infuriating news, Social Development Minister, Bathabile Dlamini has been accused of spending R11000.00 of government money to stay overnight in a hotel while attending the ANC Kwazulu-Natal manifesto launch. This after she insisted that R753 was sufficient for those receiving social grants. One has to wonder if the Minister remembers what it's like having to live on next to nothing from month to month.

In developing news, Henri van Breda has handed himself over to police after they contacted his attorney to inform them of his imminent arrest, for those who don't know, Henri and his sister were the lone surivors of an attach on his family that made headlines back in January 2015. at the time, Henri claimed he had been attached as well but had managed to lock himself away while the rest of his family was butchered. The state is now saying that Henri's superficial wounds are all indicative of being self inflicted. It's not looking good for the young man but we'll see what other evidence the state provides.

The video for the day comes from Bo Burnham, a brilliant musical comedian who got his start on youtube:



Please remember that I don't own the content for the video, please do also check out Bo's website, the dude is brilliant and funny as all hell: www.boburnham.com.

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Ta,
G