Originally posted by Amazulu
No, it's Egoliwogs.

Originally posted by Houdini
Think I've heard that one before. That will make me one by birth, although I spent most of my life in KZN, which probably makes me something like a Tekwenwe.

Originally posted by Amazulu
Where about's in KZN did you live ?. I grew up in Benoni but have a house in Mtunzini on the Zululand coast.

Originally posted by rainingagain
THE streets of Soweto are safer than those of Hackney and people in the east London district are more likely to be treated in hospital after being shot or stabbed than in South Africa's most dangerous township, new statistics have revealed.

Figures from the main trauma centres in each area show that while Homerton Hospital in Hackney treats 55 knife or gunshot wounds each month, the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto - which has 10 times as many people in its catchment area - sees only six times as many such cases.

The figures were revealed by Donal Shanahan, a senior consultant surgeon from the Homerton who is in Soweto learning new techniques to deal with London's appalling rise in stabbings and shootings.

"I think everyone expected me to be shocked at what I would see in Soweto but, to be honest, I have seen this kind of violence and these kinds of injury many times before in London," Mr Shanahan, 47, told The Telegraph. "If you actually study the hard facts, Soweto is statistically rather safer than east London."

Soweto is the most violent township in South Africa, which has become the world's murder capital, with 27,000 killings each year. While Hackney does not match its overall murder figures, Homerton Hospital is only yards from the East End's notorious "Murder Mile", where eight people have been shot dead in the past two years.

Mr Shanahan will return to London next month and draw up plans for training junior doctors in trauma surgery at the Homerton and nearby Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Mr Shanahan's first experience of treating a gunshot injury was as part of the team that treated the late WPc Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot outside the Libyan embassy in 1984. Since then, the number of gun- and knife-related injuries has risen dramatically across most of Britain.

Guns were used in 7,362 crimes nationally in 2000-01 - an increase of eight per cent on the previous year. Thirty people died in that period from gunshot wounds in London alone, compared with 16 the year before.

The profiles of cases of shootings and stabbing at Baragwanath and the Homerton are strikingly similar: most victims are young men caught up in crime and gang wars injured by low-velocity shotguns and razor-sharp bowie knives. Victims of reprisal attacks are often brought in soon after

Originally posted by bryank
It wasn't this bad when we left a few years ago. Cor blimey!

Originally posted by appletree
Kiwipaul has a job, unlike you

Originally posted by rainingagain
THE streets of Soweto are safer than those of Hackney and people in the east London district are more likely to be treated in hospital after being shot or stabbed than in South Africa's most dangerous township, new statistics have revealed.

Figures from the main trauma centres in each area show that while Homerton Hospital in Hackney treats 55 knife or gunshot wounds each month, the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto - which has 10 times as many people in its catchment area - sees only six times as many such cases.

The figures were revealed by Donal Shanahan, a senior consultant surgeon from the Homerton who is in Soweto learning new techniques to deal with London's appalling rise in stabbings and shootings.

"I think everyone expected me to be shocked at what I would see in Soweto but, to be honest, I have seen this kind of violence and these kinds of injury many times before in London," Mr Shanahan, 47, told The Telegraph. "If you actually study the hard facts, Soweto is statistically rather safer than east London."

Soweto is the most violent township in South Africa, which has become the world's murder capital, with 27,000 killings each year. While Hackney does not match its overall murder figures, Homerton Hospital is only yards from the East End's notorious "Murder Mile", where eight people have been shot dead in the past two years.

Mr Shanahan will return to London next month and draw up plans for training junior doctors in trauma surgery at the Homerton and nearby Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Mr Shanahan's first experience of treating a gunshot injury was as part of the team that treated the late WPc Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot outside the Libyan embassy in 1984. Since then, the number of gun- and knife-related injuries has risen dramatically across most of Britain.

Guns were used in 7,362 crimes nationally in 2000-01 - an increase of eight per cent on the previous year. Thirty people died in that period from gunshot wounds in London alone, compared with 16 the year before.

The profiles of cases of shootings and stabbing at Baragwanath and the Homerton are strikingly similar: most victims are young men caught up in crime and gang wars injured by low-velocity shotguns and razor-sharp bowie knives. Victims of reprisal attacks are often brought in soon after