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Theres not many things that I can say I hate about my job, but covering court is top of the list. I spent all day waiting outside the Magistrates Court in Johannesburg for Judge Nkola Motata to come out from his trial for drunk driving. So after standing in the sun from about 9, at about 4:30, we see him in the distance through an opening in the court parking lot's door, walking towards his car, and then to avoid us, he is allowed to drive out the one-way on the other side of the court. (Nice, how there is certain rules for some and certain for others). So, nobody got him...Then we all say our goodbyes and go on our way, as I turn a corner, I overtake a stationary Jaguar on the side of the road, and notice it's the drunk Judge. So, I slow down and wait for it at the stop-street, and get a few shots of him.
He sure wasn't impressed, but I was...

Underground again.

The Gautrain tunnel at Mushroom Farm Park near Sandton.

What a thumping!

The Springboks played Australia at Coca-Cola Park (formerly Ellis Park) in a Tri-Nations encounter in which the Springboks won with a convincing scoreline of 53-8Pierre Spies races toward the try line.
Prop Jannie Du Plessis pushes through the Australian backline.Recently there was talk about Ellis Park being the spritual home of the Springboks, well I think that may have been confirmed with the 53-8 defeat of Australia, that absolutely no-one could have predicted, including me, who embarrasingly said that Australia would beat the boks 17-10 in a prematch competition.

But even though it is the biggest winning margin against Australia, we will still end up 3rd in the Tri-Nations.

But, at least we had one great game...

Good times!

A suspected drugdealer runs away from police in Hillbrow during ongoing operations to curb drug dealing and use in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.            

 Drugs are the root causes of all the other crime in the area according to police.

A policeman sneaks up on some suspected drug dealers.

A suspected drug dealer fell under this trailer in his bid to run away from police. He recieved no sympathy from the police :)

It's been a while since I've had a good run about chasing cops, chasing criminals. I really enjoyed it, I even found it quite easy, I reckon I'm getting much fitter from playing Action-Soccer. The cops were doing operations to bust drug dealers and rubber bullets were flying all over the place, and then there's this lone camera-man chasing them all over the show, flashes blazing.

Good times...

A silver lining?, where?

South Africa's sole medal winner, Khotso Mokoena during a press conference at the Southern Sun, OR Tambo in Johannesburg airport after team SA returned home from the Beijing Olympics.A lot has been said about SA's poor performance during the Olympics, in fact, in relation to the number of athletes sent, SA was the worst performing team in the entire world. Now for a country that is widely regarded as a sporting country, that is just not on.

I personally believe that the powers that be have been sticking their political, undercover rascist noses into the team a bit too much, but we can leave that for another post :)

One of the talking points is the funding aspect. Other countries have spent much more money on their teams than ours, personally I reckon that they should bin the team, spend the money on trying to get rid of informal settlements and putting poor people in houses.

Now thats an idea!
Mokoena won a silver medal in the long jump.