south africa

There’s a South African app to tell you how many cows you’ll have to give up as dowry to get the girl of your dreams.

All humans have some sort of moral code. Things we will do and things we won’t do because they violate our belief system.

Confession time. The movie “Jaws” scared the heck out of me and I lived in the middle of the US at the time. I was nowhere near the ocean.

In case you are not familiar with penguins, other than maybe seeing them at Sea World, I thought I’d give you some fun facts about these amazing creatures.

Each country seems to have it’s own traditions that you might want to adopt as your own. Here are a few samples:

Sixty-five years ago today, nine years before the United States Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act of 1957; the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

As my good friend Mike McCormick says, “I like a currency that’s backed by the US Navy.”

Almost a full day after his family had him shipped off to the morgue, Sizwe Kupelo awoke trapped inside of a locked morgue fridge. Confused, the 80-year old South African man, whose family believed that he had died of an asthma attack, began to shout.

Summer is here, which can only mean one thing: road trip! You may be thinking about hitting the sweet highway, but odds are you won't come close to wearing down the tread on your tires as much as one couple did when they made the long, long trek from China to South Africa in 2010.

There's no doubt that monkeys are mischievous creatures, but the small South African town of Kagiso has gone so far as to accuse one of witchery. Town members reported that the monkey separated from its troop and began "talking" to residents and casting spells of bad luck over them.