I think all blame should be placed on us poor listening humans for the present predicament vis a vis our animal brothers. God instructed our first parents, and by implication posterity, to have dominion over the beast of the land, birds of the air and fish of the sea. It would seem that we have taken the ‘dominion’ part a bit far. We are now dominating animals. Whenever we want to experiment anything the poor animals have to bear the brunt of our so called research. One wonders what would happen if lions wanted to experiment how long it would take for two cubs to polish off an average sized homo sapiens. Surely we would raise Cain (poor fellow experimented with his brother!). Let us learn to live and let live.Just because we are so used to expermenting with animals it does not follow that we cannot think of alternatives to experiment. As a matter of fact there are a number of individuals who are a waste to the gene pool whose only existence puts pressure on our depleted oxygen supplies. Conduct experiments with them it has several advantages. Among other things it saves the rats and it also saves us the trouble of sharing oxygen with them and lastly the gene pool is kept purified.

My boyfriend and I bought your book because it seemed less depressing than the other SA book of the moment (in our price bracket): some heinous exploration of our crime stats.

We’re both Durban natives but he’s lived in Jozi before and I live here now so a lot of what you described really hit home with us.

Of course, there was a lot we had never heard of. Like arbitrary taxi rules, Zulu pragmatism and township idiosyncrasies. Whether we were relating to the content or learning something new, we thoroughly enjoyed it, reading each article aloud in turn, hiccupping with laughter and horribly mangling the Zulu.

I have since recommended it to anyone I thought had a sense of humour and I hope that they, and many others, pick it up.

Thanks for a fun time
V

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