+cownchicken Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 The person in question is better known as a journalist and author. Caused quite a stir with his first book.
+cownchicken Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Better known as an author than a songwriter or singer. Writes in English. His great-uncle drafted the original apartheid laws and was also a Prime Minister of South Africa.
+cincol Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 (edited) Verwoerd's nephew - not sure of his first name. I think he is/was a politician as well. Edited November 22, 2011 by cincol
+cownchicken Posted November 23, 2011 Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) Verwoerd's nephew - not sure of his first name. I think he is/was a politician as well. You are thinking of Wilhelm and his wife Melanie who joined the ANC. Not him! Edited November 23, 2011 by cownchicken
+cownchicken Posted November 23, 2011 Posted November 23, 2011 A clue: In 2000, he wrote a widely-disseminated piece in Rolling Stone about the origin of the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight, tracing its history from its first recording by Solomon Linda, a penniless Zulu singer, through its adoption by The Weavers, The Tokens, many of the folksingers of the 1960s, and its appropriation by The Walt Disney Company in the movie The Lion King. He reveals that Linda never received any royalties for the song; however, an ensuing courtcase established that 25 percent of the song's past and future royalties should go to Linda's three daughters
+Carbon Hunter Posted November 23, 2011 Posted November 23, 2011 David Kramer just published a book - but not sure about him doing the Rolling Stone piece?
+cownchicken Posted November 23, 2011 Posted November 23, 2011 Another clue: He was born in 1954 in Johannesburg and is a South African author, journalist, documentarist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. He first rose to prominence as the author of a memoir which, like the bulk of his work, deals with South African society in a historical and contemporary perspective and focuses on racial relations. As a journalist, he has written for major newspapers in South Africa, Great Britain and the USA.
+cownchicken Posted November 24, 2011 Posted November 24, 2011 (edited) ANOTHER CLUE He grew up in a middle-class and pro-apartheid Afrikaner family in a white suburb of Johannesburg. He has described how, as a teenager, he formed a rock band that associated with black artists and wanted to rebel against the apartheid system. He attended the then Witwatersrand university for a year. To avoid conscription, he moved to Los Angeles in 1977 and worked as a journalist. Returning to South Africa in the 1980s, he wrote his memoir of growing up in Apartheid-era South Africa in which he explores race relations through prominent murder cases. In addition, he reflects on the history of his family, a prominent Afrikaner clan that migrated to the Cape in the 17th century The book, which became a best-seller, was translated into 11 languages. He began his journalistic career in 1975, as a reporter for The Star (South Africa). During his stay in the U.S., he served as managing editor for Music Connection (1978), as news editor for LA Weekly (1979), as staff writer for New West Magazine (California) (1981), as senior writer for Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (1984) and as senior editor for Manhattan Magazine (1984). Since then, he has been a freelance writer for various magazines, mainly in the U.S. (e.g. Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal), Great Britain (e.g. The Spectator and The Sunday Times) and South Africa (e.g. The Star, Time and Noseweek). Edited November 24, 2011 by cownchicken
+the pooks Posted November 24, 2011 Posted November 24, 2011 (edited) OK - I'll throw Max du Preez into the mix... Edited November 24, 2011 by the pooks
+cownchicken Posted November 24, 2011 Posted November 24, 2011 Does 'My Traitor's Heart" ring a bell?
+cownchicken Posted November 25, 2011 Posted November 25, 2011 All those hints. Riaan Malan? Go for it Pooks!
+Carbon Hunter Posted November 25, 2011 Posted November 25, 2011 Just goes to show, what is common knowledge to manyb is totally obscure to others..... I like that
+the pooks Posted November 25, 2011 Posted November 25, 2011 In which animal species does the male get pregnant?
+the pooks Posted November 26, 2011 Posted November 26, 2011 seahorse? Ding I thought this was rather obscure, but never underestimate what others know! From wikipedia: The male seahorse is equipped with a brood pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch. The male carries the eggs for anywhere from 9 to 45 days until they emerge, expelling fully developed, miniature seahorses in the water. Once the seahorse babies are released into the water, the male's role is done and he offers no further care. All yours 7gryph7
+7Gryph7 Posted November 26, 2011 Posted November 26, 2011 seahorse? Ding I thought this was rather obscure, but never underestimate what others know! From wikipedia: The male seahorse is equipped with a brood pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch. The male carries the eggs for anywhere from 9 to 45 days until they emerge, expelling fully developed, miniature seahorses in the water. Once the seahorse babies are released into the water, the male's role is done and he offers no further care. All yours 7gryph7 thanks. this might be a easy one... what is the oldest known written recipe for?
+7Gryph7 Posted November 26, 2011 Posted November 26, 2011 (edited) Carbon Hunter... you got it. apparently written on a 4000 year old Mesopotamian clay tablet Edited November 26, 2011 by 7Gryph7
+Carbon Hunter Posted November 27, 2011 Posted November 27, 2011 Wow! Lucky guess. OK what is the common name for: "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River"?
+Midgleys_ZA Posted November 27, 2011 Posted November 27, 2011 Wow! Lucky guess. OK what is the common name for: "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River"? Beunos Aires?
+cownchicken Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 A quick and easy one: Who plays the part of Murdock in the A-Team movie?
+Midgleys_ZA Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 A quick and easy one: Who plays the part of Murdock in the A-Team movie? Sharlto Copley?
+Midgleys_ZA Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 All yours Tara and John. Which municipality in SA is the furthest South?
+Midgleys_ZA Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 The Overberg? One would think so, but thats not it.
+Jors Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 City of Cape Town? (Weather station on Marion Island, perhaps?)
+Carbon Hunter Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 City of Cape Town? (Weather station on Marion Island, perhaps?) I seemed to recall those (Marion, Gough and SANAE) were Pretoria municipality.
+Jors Posted November 28, 2011 Posted November 28, 2011 Ok, you're probably right then - the weather people's head office is in Pretoria, in the municipality named "City of Tshwane"...
+Midgleys_ZA Posted November 29, 2011 Posted November 29, 2011 Pretoria? Ok, you're probably right then - the weather people's head office is in Pretoria, in the municipality named "City of Tshwane"... Well CH got there first, but Jors got the correct name. Hmmm. I think it must go to Jors for getting the technicality right, take it away.
+Jors Posted November 29, 2011 Posted November 29, 2011 Thanks Tara and John, sorry CH I've read an article this week, and learned something about a lordosis - what is it?
+Jors Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 The Q wasn't supposed to be obscure.. HINT: Spine
+Jors Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 I'll think of another Q. A: Lordosis: Inward curvature of the spine. Normally, the low back demonstrates lordosis.
+Jors Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 A quickie to get going again A Dozen, a Gross and a Score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals ...... squared and not a bit more.
+Midgleys_ZA Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 A quickie to get going again A Dozen, a Gross and a Score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals ...... squared and not a bit more. Nine. Oddly, I remembered the term Lordosis but couldn't place it. This one is a bit easier
+Midgleys_ZA Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Well done, the floor is yours, Tara and John I'm struggling for a question, so I'll go with this. What vertebrate has the exact same common name and scientific name?
+Carbon Hunter Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) coccyx? Edited December 5, 2011 by Carbon Hunter
+Midgleys_ZA Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 coccyx? Seems to have been a misunderstanding, vertebrate (animal with a backbone), not vertebra (bone in the backbone).
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