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		<title>By: Pascal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pascal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Snowy Smith needs a hug.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Snowy Smith needs a hug.</p>
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		<title>By: pissed off</title>
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		<dc:creator>pissed off</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 22:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Snowy Smith is a fraud , liar,  a racist cunt white trash ! He needs to check himself in at a mental hospital. Son of a bitch! Go to hell Snowy hell is waiting for ya!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Snowy Smith is a fraud , liar,  a racist cunt white trash ! He needs to check himself in at a mental hospital. Son of a bitch! Go to hell Snowy hell is waiting for ya!!</p>
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		<title>By: Snowy Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Snowy Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here’s a man (ME Snowy Smith) who routinely and obsessively peers into clogged drains and unwashed rivers to see what’s going on.

Absolutely.
There is +-830 SEWERAGE WORKS in South Africa and only 27 are actually working.
NEAT Sewerage is flowing into our rivers.
Our DRINKING water comes from those same rivers.
The same ANC corrupt Municipalities have STOLEN all the money more than R50 BILLION.
There is NO money for chlorine to purify our drinking water.
Most of the purification works are NOT working.
Also all that SHIT is flowing into the Durban Bay and the SEA.
YOU are swimming in it every time you go to the beach.
You will get ear infections and throat infections.
How did the water taste at the beach?
That ANC “Puppet” Sutcliffe says the water is safe, do you believe him?
The International Experts disagree with liar Sutcliffe, they have withdrawn Blue Flag status for very good reasons the water is POLLUTED and unsafe.


Snowy Smith’s photos of supposedly blighted Durban. Scrolling through Smith’s blog, pausing on the countless photos of “tons of rubbish” and “broken glass”, one can’t help but marvel at the perverse monomania of it all.
http://deathofdurban.blogspot.com/

YES I have more than 10 000 photos peering into clogged drains and unwashed rivers to see what’s going on.
Not that this necessarily makes me an environmental activist.

Agreed.
The World is full of talker and very few do-ers.
What are YOU doing about it?
Just to get you motivated I can post you a DVD of South Africa how it has been turned from a Tourist MECCA to a Squatter SLUM.
Send me your postal address
Snowy Smith
faircivillaw at yahoo.com
P.O. Box 3022, Durban, 4000.
Cell: 082-964-8877

PS did you know that “Man Made Global Warming” is a New World Order SCAM?
Its time to do some homework.
Good luck with the swimming and the drinking water.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here’s a man (ME Snowy Smith) who routinely and obsessively peers into clogged drains and unwashed rivers to see what’s going on.</p>
<p>Absolutely.<br />
There is +-830 SEWERAGE WORKS in South Africa and only 27 are actually working.<br />
NEAT Sewerage is flowing into our rivers.<br />
Our DRINKING water comes from those same rivers.<br />
The same ANC corrupt Municipalities have STOLEN all the money more than R50 BILLION.<br />
There is NO money for chlorine to purify our drinking water.<br />
Most of the purification works are NOT working.<br />
Also all that SHIT is flowing into the Durban Bay and the SEA.<br />
YOU are swimming in it every time you go to the beach.<br />
You will get ear infections and throat infections.<br />
How did the water taste at the beach?<br />
That ANC “Puppet” Sutcliffe says the water is safe, do you believe him?<br />
The International Experts disagree with liar Sutcliffe, they have withdrawn Blue Flag status for very good reasons the water is POLLUTED and unsafe.</p>
<p>Snowy Smith’s photos of supposedly blighted Durban. Scrolling through Smith’s blog, pausing on the countless photos of “tons of rubbish” and “broken glass”, one can’t help but marvel at the perverse monomania of it all.<br />
<a href="http://deathofdurban.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://deathofdurban.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>YES I have more than 10 000 photos peering into clogged drains and unwashed rivers to see what’s going on.<br />
Not that this necessarily makes me an environmental activist.</p>
<p>Agreed.<br />
The World is full of talker and very few do-ers.<br />
What are YOU doing about it?<br />
Just to get you motivated I can post you a DVD of South Africa how it has been turned from a Tourist MECCA to a Squatter SLUM.<br />
Send me your postal address<br />
Snowy Smith<br />
faircivillaw at yahoo.com<br />
P.O. Box 3022, Durban, 4000.<br />
Cell: 082-964-8877</p>
<p>PS did you know that “Man Made Global Warming” is a New World Order SCAM?<br />
Its time to do some homework.<br />
Good luck with the swimming and the drinking water.</p>
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		<title>By: Snowy Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/art/billions-of-bilious-blue-blistering-barnacles/comment-page-1/#comment-53516</link>
		<dc:creator>Snowy Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Durban is BANKRUPT (I told you long ago)
R9.6 BILLION bank OVERDRAFT
That Stupid White Liberal, Left Wing Extremist, Socialist ANC “puppet” Michael Sutcliffe and the Corrupt ANC have Bankrupt DURBAN.
They now want to borrow money from FRANCE.
France is OWNED by the New World Order, Zionist Freemason, Illuminati JEWS Occult.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is a Jewish Extremist who is a “PUPPET” of the New World Order, Zionist Freemason, Illuminati JEWS Occult.
The whole of the French Government is “PUPPETS” of the New World Order, Zionist Freemason, Illuminati JEWS Occult. France is OWNED by the New World Order.
When you are bankrupt with a R9.6 BILLION bank OVERDRAFT you do NOT borrow money to fund capital projects. YOU STOP SPENDING.
Even an uneducated illiterate dumb ass fool knows that. STOP SPENDING.
WASTED: R6.5 Million Durban Website, R4.5 Billion Soccer stadium, Bus disaster + + + + + +. 
ANC Fraud Theft and Corruption R3.5 Billion on Fraudulent ANC Tenders. Not one ANC member is in JAIL.
Michael Sutcliffe has turned Durban from a Tourist MECCA to a third world SQUATTER SLUM.
Michael Sutcliffe you must be very proud, Durban is BANKRUPT for the first time in history.
20% Electricity increase this year.
Snowy Smith, Cell: 082-964-8877 WFF
I belong to the “I hate Sutcliffe Fan Club”.
Please make many copies of this pamphlet and give to friends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Durban is BANKRUPT (I told you long ago)<br />
R9.6 BILLION bank OVERDRAFT<br />
That Stupid White Liberal, Left Wing Extremist, Socialist ANC “puppet” Michael Sutcliffe and the Corrupt ANC have Bankrupt DURBAN.<br />
They now want to borrow money from FRANCE.<br />
France is OWNED by the New World Order, Zionist Freemason, Illuminati JEWS Occult.<br />
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is a Jewish Extremist who is a “PUPPET” of the New World Order, Zionist Freemason, Illuminati JEWS Occult.<br />
The whole of the French Government is “PUPPETS” of the New World Order, Zionist Freemason, Illuminati JEWS Occult. France is OWNED by the New World Order.<br />
When you are bankrupt with a R9.6 BILLION bank OVERDRAFT you do NOT borrow money to fund capital projects. YOU STOP SPENDING.<br />
Even an uneducated illiterate dumb ass fool knows that. STOP SPENDING.<br />
WASTED: R6.5 Million Durban Website, R4.5 Billion Soccer stadium, Bus disaster + + + + + +.<br />
ANC Fraud Theft and Corruption R3.5 Billion on Fraudulent ANC Tenders. Not one ANC member is in JAIL.<br />
Michael Sutcliffe has turned Durban from a Tourist MECCA to a third world SQUATTER SLUM.<br />
Michael Sutcliffe you must be very proud, Durban is BANKRUPT for the first time in history.<br />
20% Electricity increase this year.<br />
Snowy Smith, Cell: 082-964-8877 WFF<br />
I belong to the “I hate Sutcliffe Fan Club”.<br />
Please make many copies of this pamphlet and give to friends.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is by no means any long run good fortune with this sort of diet. The child regularly begins by means of fasting (apart from for water) beneath close scientific supervision for 24 hours. A reason why to devour vegatables and fruits daily. Early  power kidney disease. For those who in finding that an exclusion nutrition identifies sure meals that make your ibs symptoms worse, they&#039;re regularly called &#039;cause foods&#039; (as a result of they &#039;trigger&#039; the indications). 3-day diets go through numerous names, including the fax nutrition, army vitamin, military diet, cleveland medical institution diet, and many others. Most end result are restricted, however a few fruit (instead of watermelons and bananas) is allowed as long as it does now not produce weight gain</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is by no means any long run good fortune with this sort of diet. The child regularly begins by means of fasting (apart from for water) beneath close scientific supervision for 24 hours. A reason why to devour vegatables and fruits daily. Early  power kidney disease. For those who in finding that an exclusion nutrition identifies sure meals that make your ibs symptoms worse, they&#8217;re regularly called &#8217;cause foods&#8217; (as a result of they &#8216;trigger&#8217; the indications). 3-day diets go through numerous names, including the fax nutrition, army vitamin, military diet, cleveland medical institution diet, and many others. Most end result are restricted, however a few fruit (instead of watermelons and bananas) is allowed as long as it does now not produce weight gain</p>
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		<title>By: Not so bad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Not so bad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Durban beachfront is not that bad but the streets behind the hotels are a ghetto. Urine smells everywhere and choked with traffic. Do they think tourists don&#039;t go walkabout behind the hotels?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Durban beachfront is not that bad but the streets behind the hotels are a ghetto. Urine smells everywhere and choked with traffic. Do they think tourists don&#8217;t go walkabout behind the hotels?</p>
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		<title>By: Decline of the Best</title>
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		<dc:creator>Decline of the Best</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it chased it.&quot;

Time will tell.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it chased it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Time will tell.</p>
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		<title>By: David Steynberg</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Steynberg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow Decline! Just reading your response puts me in the safe and comfortable easy-chair of human-loathing. I find myself having to breathe in deeply (maybe reminding myself to breathe, rather) when I read what other people, who hate the country they pay their taxes to but still choose to remain in said country, write.
I for one believe with all my heart that it would be better to be that 10% of the population who chooses to roll up its sleeves and turn the soil, than to be the 90% that moan that &quot;Africans&quot; are backward-thinking savages who have let down their white counterparts! As if their white counterparts were the perfect Aryan race Hitler envisaged: blue-eyed blondes living in their cocoon-like Utopia ideals.
Wake up, man! Try agreeing in full to &quot;be the change you want to see in the world...&quot; and maybe it&#039;ll surprise you with what the power of optimism combined with positive action can do. 
Or maybe get some new friends who possess these characteristics. Hell, I&#039;ll be your friend (go ahead and look me up on Facebook)!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow Decline! Just reading your response puts me in the safe and comfortable easy-chair of human-loathing. I find myself having to breathe in deeply (maybe reminding myself to breathe, rather) when I read what other people, who hate the country they pay their taxes to but still choose to remain in said country, write.<br />
I for one believe with all my heart that it would be better to be that 10% of the population who chooses to roll up its sleeves and turn the soil, than to be the 90% that moan that &#8220;Africans&#8221; are backward-thinking savages who have let down their white counterparts! As if their white counterparts were the perfect Aryan race Hitler envisaged: blue-eyed blondes living in their cocoon-like Utopia ideals.<br />
Wake up, man! Try agreeing in full to &#8220;be the change you want to see in the world&#8230;&#8221; and maybe it&#8217;ll surprise you with what the power of optimism combined with positive action can do.<br />
Or maybe get some new friends who possess these characteristics. Hell, I&#8217;ll be your friend (go ahead and look me up on Facebook)!</p>
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		<title>By: Decline of the Best</title>
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		<dc:creator>Decline of the Best</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An imaginative and common excuse spewed from the mouths of the ignorant for not making use of rubbish bins is that by littering they are creating jobs...sustainable development...I suppose.

Silly question. But. Why clean up somebody else&#039;s mess? A mess that needn&#039;t be present in the first place. Seems a bit counter revolutionary. In days of old, those that did not want to participate in the upliftment of the community were banished and excluded from sharing the benifits.

You offer a hand, they take your arm. If you hadn&#039;t noticed, there is a pervading culture of victimhood in which everything is expected for...mahala. 

Contrary to current popular African beliefs, much can be learnt from western &quot;civilizations&quot;. 
After all, Europe (Please don&#039;t confuse my respect for their feats with eurocentrism) did raise herself out of the filthy dark ages [not without blood (rivers of bitter claret), sweat (from hard, effective, work...a foreign concept in these humid tropics) and tears (not of the crocodile variety)]  I don&#039;t think begging and pity were the tools of progress.

I do agree, in part, with your sentiments David...&quot;...be the change you want to see in the world...&quot; but by the same token, it really means nothing if only 10% (somewhere around there) of the population actually participate. 

For how much longer will the past be an excuse for regression toward the mean?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An imaginative and common excuse spewed from the mouths of the ignorant for not making use of rubbish bins is that by littering they are creating jobs&#8230;sustainable development&#8230;I suppose.</p>
<p>Silly question. But. Why clean up somebody else&#8217;s mess? A mess that needn&#8217;t be present in the first place. Seems a bit counter revolutionary. In days of old, those that did not want to participate in the upliftment of the community were banished and excluded from sharing the benifits.</p>
<p>You offer a hand, they take your arm. If you hadn&#8217;t noticed, there is a pervading culture of victimhood in which everything is expected for&#8230;mahala. </p>
<p>Contrary to current popular African beliefs, much can be learnt from western &#8220;civilizations&#8221;.<br />
After all, Europe (Please don&#8217;t confuse my respect for their feats with eurocentrism) did raise herself out of the filthy dark ages [not without blood (rivers of bitter claret), sweat (from hard, effective, work...a foreign concept in these humid tropics) and tears (not of the crocodile variety)]  I don&#8217;t think begging and pity were the tools of progress.</p>
<p>I do agree, in part, with your sentiments David&#8230;&#8221;&#8230;be the change you want to see in the world&#8230;&#8221; but by the same token, it really means nothing if only 10% (somewhere around there) of the population actually participate. </p>
<p>For how much longer will the past be an excuse for regression toward the mean?</p>
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		<title>By: David Steynberg</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Steynberg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reading every single arguement and counter-arguement, I am seriously shocked at how debate so quickly turns into character assassination and name-calling based on ill-informed historical stereotypes.
People are people. Some are bad, some are good, some don&#039;t give a shit while others just shit. We seem to be evolving (or is it devolving) into a society of passive whiners who choose to take photos of pollution and post them on blogs, moaning that nothing is being done and that this beautiful country of ours is going to the proverbial dogs. Maybe, just maybe things would improve if our esteemed camera-wielding nay-sayer would get off his high horse, rope in some friends (I sincerely hope someone like this has a friend or two a little more optimistic than him) and pick up the plastic bottles and Nick-Nack packets!
It&#039;s easy, once someone spots someone else who cares enough to pick up other people&#039;s shit, maybe they too would join in? Or not. But the point is that it has to start somewhere, and that place is not on your own blog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reading every single arguement and counter-arguement, I am seriously shocked at how debate so quickly turns into character assassination and name-calling based on ill-informed historical stereotypes.<br />
People are people. Some are bad, some are good, some don&#8217;t give a shit while others just shit. We seem to be evolving (or is it devolving) into a society of passive whiners who choose to take photos of pollution and post them on blogs, moaning that nothing is being done and that this beautiful country of ours is going to the proverbial dogs. Maybe, just maybe things would improve if our esteemed camera-wielding nay-sayer would get off his high horse, rope in some friends (I sincerely hope someone like this has a friend or two a little more optimistic than him) and pick up the plastic bottles and Nick-Nack packets!<br />
It&#8217;s easy, once someone spots someone else who cares enough to pick up other people&#8217;s shit, maybe they too would join in? Or not. But the point is that it has to start somewhere, and that place is not on your own blog.</p>
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