OUR BLOND BOKKIE FROM BENONI

Local girl Charlize Theron has won an Oscar for best actress in the movie Monster. She must be congratulated for this is, in her field, an award of note.

The difficulty I have is not with the award but how its status and worth is viewed here in SA. Our esteemed President spoke for the people saying that first we had the Noble Peace Prize followed by the Noble Prize for Literature and now...and NOW an Oscar!! Our cup runneth over and all true South Africans rejoice.

A lavish Presidential reception is planned followed, no doubt, by civic honours, appearances at the local Mall and street parades complete with tromppopjies. We are kept up to date by the SABC’s hourly news slots on The Progress home to receive a proud nations’ homage and witness her thank her Ma. (Tears are de rigueur)

All good stuff but we must also be aware of and also acknowledge those South Africans who make a huge material, intellectual and social contribution to our country, its people and our future.

Incidentally we are running a competition. If you can name the two recent South African Nobel prizewinners you could win an all-expenses paid weeklong holiday in Benoni at Sannie’s B & B. If you can’t then never mind as there’s always cold Castle, the Lotto and Isidingo.