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A member of the Cryophil winter swimmers club lies on floating ice from the spring melting on the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk yesterday. \tPicture: REUTERS<\/p>\n
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Princess Anne, Princess Royal of Britain, has been in SA as part of the walkabout of the Commonwealth by Queen Elizabeth\u2019s children and grandchildren to mark the diamond jubilee of her reign. <\/p>\n
Prince Harry recently returned from a similar mission to the West Indies and South America. But satirical magazine Private Eye was not impressed. <\/p>\n
\u201cPRINCE HARRY DISGRACES ROYAL FAMILY SHOCK\u201d, declares a headline. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of his royal tour of South America and the West Indies, commentators expressed their dismay at Prince Harry\u2019s conduct while representing Her Majesty the Queen. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not what we expect from senior members of the Royal Family,\u2019 said one observer. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverywhere he went he behaved himself and went out of his way not to offend anyone. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was frankly not embarrassing, he continued. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhere were the jokes about watermelons? Why didn\u2019t he play golf with a dictator and accept a freebie into the bargain? <\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t even get drunk, smoke dope or wear a Nazi uniform. <\/p>\n
\u201cHis grandfather is said to be \u2018dismayed\u2019 at the younger generation\u2019s lack of antics while on official duties. <\/p>\n
\u201cSaid one source close to HRH the Duke of Edinburgh: \u2018What the hell is the blithering idiot playing at, making friends and influencing people? This could be the end of the Firm as we know it. Bloody hell!\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cPrince Philip is 94.\u201d <\/p>\n
Well, what can Princess Anne do to avoid incurring the wrath of Private Eye? Maybe she\u2019ll have to do something spectacularly controversial \u2013 like follow the Hollywood celebs by announcing her adoption of Julius Malema. <\/p>\n
Ulundi lion <\/p>\n
IT\u2019S A strange case this, the lion that was spotted wandering around Ulundi but has now turned out to be two hyenas \u2013 which are still at large. <\/p>\n
Information is rather sparse. What time of night or day were the sightings? Is there a shebeen anywhere in the vicinity? <\/p>\n
The bush can play tricks on the senses late at night, especially in the vicinity of shebeens. People have been known to shake hands with acacia trees. Lions and hyenas sometimes have top hats and monocles. It\u2019s the magic of the bush. <\/p>\n
Tory convert <\/p>\n
A LITTLE lesson in political philosophy comes this way from England. The narrator says he was working on the flower beds in his front garden when neighbours stopped to chat as they returned from walking their dog. <\/p>\n
\u201cI asked their little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said she wanted to be prime minister some day. Both parents are staunch members of the Labour Party. I asked her: \u2018If you were prime minister, what would be the first thing you would do?\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cShe replied: \u2018I\u2019d give food and houses to all the homeless people.\u2019 Her parents beamed with pride. <\/p>\n
\u201c \u2018Wow, what a worthy goal!\u2019 I said. \u2018But you don\u2019t have to wait until you\u2019re prime minister to do that.\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201c \u2018What do you mean?\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201c \u2018You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I\u2019ll pay you \u00a350. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out and you can give him the \u00a350 to use toward food and a new house.\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cShe thought that over for a few seconds then she looked me straight in the eye and asked: \u2018Why doesn\u2019t the homeless guy come over and do the work and you can just pay him the \u00a350?\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cI said: \u2018Welcome to the Conservative Party.\u2019 Now her parents aren\u2019t speaking to me.\u201d <\/p>\n
New mayor <\/p>\n
THE SMALLEST town in the US has been sold on an internet auction to a Vietnamese businessman after 11 minutes of frenzied bidding. <\/p>\n
Buford, in south-east Wyoming, has only one resident, the man who put it up for sale. But it does have a convenience store, a petrol station, a three-bedroomed home, and four hectares of land. Plus a cellphone tower and a car park that a trucking company uses to switch trailers at night. <\/p>\n
It sounds idyllic. Presumably the new owner becomes mayor. I wonder how the rates compare with Durban\u2019s? <\/p>\n
Tailpiece <\/p>\n
TEXT message: <\/p>\n
\u201cHi Honey I\u2019m at the bar having drinks with some friends. Finishing my last drink and will be home in 30 minutes. If I\u2019m not just read this message again.\u201d <\/p>\n
Last word <\/p>\n
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. \u2013 Gore Vidal<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" REUTERS A member of the Cryophil winter swimmers club lies on floating ice from the spring melting on the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk yesterday. Picture: REUTERS Princess Anne, Princess Royal of Britain, has been in SA as part of the walkabout of the Commonwealth by Queen Elizabeth\u2019s children and grandchildren to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-10096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}