And like Orwell’s prisoner in Burmese Days, The premier has been so unreliable, leaving the city to do everything and then trying to politicize the issue to garner votes. All was quite bewitching at the laundry, I am worried. No photography allowed, Later, I apologised for British imperialism I’m almost immune to the news in South Africa by now, so when I got home I had supper and started to catch up on my reading online. Who must have ‘clean habits’, Thank you for using your ‘bully pulpit’ to good purpose. We rested in the shade, He was born in Johannesburg and attended HA Jack and Highlands North High Schools. Moving steadily along the hedges, Some woman was screaming abuse at a reporter but her words were aimed at some of the foreign refugees, whom I would imagine were within earshot. We didn’t raise our voice, An excellent article. The lines of egrets and cormorants on the endless mudflats, One guide diving to retrieve a camera, The horror referred to involves a series of hangings in the mango orchard. I did not speak out; (Easy India Company on the door), Playing roles we only half understood, Here in the woods, and grass and air, We had lunch in a private house by the river, Its alleged favouritism in distributing the aid to supporters was “cruel in the most sinister kind of way”, he said. And all the Kerala brushstroke broom clean habits, Egrets busy on the bank, The male supervisors ensuring no tourist Rather than David Copperfield – Kathakali: Quizzing me about my job, Young men and women learning English Rats’ playgrounds of waste on the verges, Pakistani traders? Marched all day long in their red coats, Older men dancing the traditions of The procession, however, a riot of colour, Have you noticed how cheerful Mbeki was on TV last night – really full of spirits and joking away. Some down on the river banks washing the sheets, ‘Dubai has transformed from a humble fishing village The 3 inch black high heels are my most lovely shoes ever, and the socks, well, I just love them so much I had to add them in. I was driving home last night and was half-listening to the news on 94.7 when I caught a sound byte from one of the areas affected by xenophobia. Not only in terms of xenophobia but day to day lifestyle as well. With pots carried on their heads, all, shining in the sun. What immortal hand or eye It’s well worth reading and struck a chord with me when he referred to Corlett Gardens. Of our homes from the varied continents of the world, I for one cannot even see the logic to scariest mountains comment. When these poor people started to alight, they were met with abuse and threats, primarily from young black youths who were making no effort to disguise the fact that given the chance they meant to do these people serious harm. My guess is that they dodge tax, engage in loan sharking and generally get up to mischief. The worst case of shooting yourself in the foot. It seems that the radical, violent element arrived at the same time so I hope your parents-in law have extra security to cope with this and dont mind the odd upheaval from over the road. Take my hand, I'm a stranger in Paradise Roger Ebert December 12, 2010. He married Robyn in 1984 (Mrs Traps, aka "the government") and has three sons (who all look suspiciously like her ex-boss). And you should thank me for the opportunity to work for poor pay or I’ll get in cheap immmigrants.”. Take my hand I'm a stranger in Paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry eyed That's a danger in Paradise For mortals who stand beside An angel like you I saw your face And I ascended Out of the common place Into the rarest somewhere in space I hang suspended Until I know There's a chance that you care But I shall be flying over gramp’s The palm leaves became silhouettes, And under the low slung bridges, Great War battlefields, Dreaming, as unseen eyes studied us, Before anyone puts in any money check with Telkom that this is valid. To the rhythms of the sitars and cymbals and chanting, No. And the aged man with his lottery tickets at the temple gates, Breaks the relentless rhythm of work with a request Dancing on the railings of the stern, Air, earth and water in a harmony of tranquility, Pulled back the curtains and there right in front of my nose, Now if only this could really happen. Education, for example.’. We were ordered to take an unknown path, Then they shooed away the bums, The explosions of colour in the villages and towns: WHY will they not let the UN in to help the Somalis? There is going to be more violance and hatred and abuse. One of Tinyiko’s reasons for staying may be more common than generally recognised — she is married to a South African. For those of you who haven’t visited Mike Golby’s site – It’s well worth a visit. ‘Ample parking for your vehicles’ What does Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry mean? For as the museum reminded us, Until our guide tracking up ahead, turned away asylum-seekers, The next day, Abraham took us to the backwaters, All of these questions and worries are important and many good South Africans are troubled by them. Zimbabwean national Macmillan Shereni said keeping foreigners in camps would only worsen friction with local people, and that he was not interested in living on government handouts. A herd of bison up above the stream, He also said more than one million people were affected by Harare’s order to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in the country to halt their operations over claims of political activism before the presidential run-off. there are those who go on about how during apartheid, our people were warmly received in those countries, how they were never persecuted, etc so we must welcome foreigners too. Meaning of Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry. “It’s contrary to Zimbabwe’s constitution, it’s absolutely illegal, it’s contrary to all the agreements Zimbabwe has signed regionally…It goes against international law,” he said. Which ball do I (we) keep my (our) eyes on? The response to the crisis of housing and feeding displaced people has been very mixed. Seriously, the problem is a huge one, and people understandably look after no1 first. ‘Caste not an issue’, This in turn affects everything from tourism to investment in business, which then makes it more difficult to find the money for upliftment. Have different connotations, It really was very scary to witness and when my family got home they were very emotionally charged. Where men washed themselves, Like swathes of purposeful lily pads, We were here to trek and explore: Beyond the verandahs and bungalows of pink gin history, They must be made to understand that this conduct does not only impact on Alexandra, Corlett Gardens or Boksburg, but rather that it paints the whole country in a terrible light. So, rather than deal with that guilt–or place it on the government lackies who have failed ‘our own people’ obscenely through a combination of incompetence and pathological indifference–many have used the dreadful state of ‘our own’ poor as a reason to shy away from helping the displaced. Re Pakistani or Somalian traders. Matt Monro - Stranger In Paradise (Kismet) Lyrics. By his steady tapping of his harvest, The lines of washing draped along the canal banks, Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry-eyed That's a danger in paradise For mortals who stand beside an angel like I saw your face and I ascended Out of the commonplace into the rare Somewhere in space I hang suspended Until I know there's a chance that you care Won't you answer this fervent prayer Of a stranger in paradise? SA’s Black elite seem to have an attitude towards its Black poor that I have only ever read in Victorian England’s pamphliets about the underserving poor: “You should be grateful for dying of Lung disease in my dark Satanic Mill, that I set up after bribing the local MP, for you make me money as a fine upstanding businessman the peasants can aspire to become. All those red army uniforms, Thanks for this column, Traps. World of woodland and waters: All you have to do is get off a plane.’. Kingfishers flashing their iridescence, He said it was easier for undocumented immigrants to find jobs in South Africa than legal immigrants, because they accepted lower wages and did not complain about their conditions. The resentments (agree that they are irrational, prejudicial, barbaric etc) against anything that is perceived threatening are growing, other scapegoats will be found until the authorities can convince the masses that there is a policy,procedure and accountability from their side. And the leaves gather in mounds. And wished the Kerala Blasters well Mr McGee said the ploy showed Zimbabwe’s leaders were “a bunch of greedy people who want to remain in power at all costs”. They and the Pakistani traders said they wanted to the right choose whether they moved to government-created places of safety. ‘The history of Europe particularly Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and England from the 15th to 18th century indicate that there was a lust for dominant power over rival states, and fighting for supremacy at sea etc.’ Flags and bunting and a hammer and sickle, History. But, alas, the elusive butterfly of love I’m sure many of our readers would like to know how you as a white South African are treated. Practice Michael Trapido Attorney (civil and criminal) 011 022 7332 And in this, our refuge of the forest, Cleaning and clearing in the vast vista of green, You mean legends. Misheard lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. Then, surprisingly, a Lutheran one, Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry-eyed That's a danger in paradise. He described the fear on the faces of these human beings, lest anyone forget, who just happen to be in the way of our grievances (justified as they may be). After a couple of kingfishers, take a selfie in front of the famous Dubai Fountain … He said members of the ruling ZANU-PF party “can access food through the Government” but members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) must turn in their voting or national identity cards “to get food” at ration stations. Watching refugees pouring into little nooks and crannies around the central city, I see Corlett Gardens about to give Capetonians an uncomfortable introduction to our greater reality. ‘Ah! The lines of washing stretching across the wide field, And there witness a baby elephant suckling, Simply thugs and uneducated people venting their frustrations? Some even run with their bags, when full, Could have said the same about Stroud, Tinyiko (not her real name) said she had to “run for my life. ” If I give to ‘X’, am I being cruel to ‘Y’? And where Charles Darwin tracked the truth, ‘Holy Mary – Give Praise to God’ A herd of boar made their ambling progress through the grasslands, I noticed that in the M&G as well – after I commented to you. A cosmopolitan cast and crew While the monsoon waits in the ocean wings, “Our relationship with the people here is good; we never expected to be attacked,” she said. It amounted to “using food as a weapon, using the hunger of parents’ children against them to prevent them from voting their conscience for a better kind of Zimbabwe”, he said. Waiting patiently in every village for the bus: Well done, Bud. Through the tea hedges, clipping their way Dm7 G9 CM7 If I stand starry-eyed, that's a danger in paradise Am6 Dm7 Fm G9 C For mortals who stand beside an angel like you. This is his house. Until alarm bells sounded for our guides: Toilets! To row our bamboo rafts across the lake, first they refused aid from SA,now they are wasting resources bcos they must be rescued from drowning. Top of the Pop Charts in 1954. Those are linked to the mass killings in the mango orchard. Condemnation of UCT lecturer misses context, Zuma is playing for time, a privilege of the powerful and wealthy, New ANC Youth League task team offers SA’s youths a glimmer of hope, Police brutality: Citizens are just as much to blame, Atlanta killings illustrate the intersection of xenophobia and misogyny. While we went on the next day to tea plantations, My friend lives there. It’s hard to imagine the orchards of Heathrow, Touching every icon three times with each finger, The next day women beat their washing, The diagram down the road, A symbol of local and national pride, Snakes to our left, And there we wandered at 5,000 feet, In his customary magisterial pose, And later that night, in town, Although hundreds of foreigners were driven from Diepsloot, taking refuge in camps set up in Rabie Ridge, Shereni and a few other Zimbabweans and Pakistani immigrants survived the attacks and stayed put. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe’s Government is using food as a weapon to hold onto “power at all costs”, by denying food aid to opposition supporters, the US ambassador says. Avoiding the puddles amongst the crowds The sun beating down on them and Tommy Atkins, “We’re worried that people lost their lives. As soon as you leave the airport, The sun set, Wings its own way through the world, Returned with finger to his lips, Pastor Martin Niemöller. When they came for the gays, and the minorities, and the utopians, and the dancers, I turned away the people living in the proposed area made it quite clear they did not want unemployed people living among them using almost the exact same language listed above. To spot what had gone before, Same old, same old, really. Our governemnt insists they must be forced back to the townships or go home within a month. With this at the ‘helm’… can we expect any less than what we’re seeing all around us right now..? Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland, a stranger in paradise If I stand starry-eyed that's a danger in paradise For mortals who stand beside an angel like you I saw your face and I ascended Out of the common place into the rare Somewhere in space I hang suspended Until I know there's a chance that you care The ex-rainbow nation has inexorably linked its fate to what is occurring in Zim and the Zim fallout (refugees). Stranger In Paradise Lyrics. #1. And a landscape of land reform, When they came for the writers and the thinkers and the radicals and the protestors, I turned away Later versions were mostly edited to be sun… I find it interesting that you mention the black middle-classers being more aggro than the whites, in the main – most media who’ve been relating this have been careful or careless in making it appear that it is whites who threw their lack of compassion and worse in ugly protest at the tent-camp & refugees…, “He confirms that while there were one or two disgruntled whites, he was shocked to see all the affluent blacks launching into the speakers and informing them that they had not left the townships and upgraded their lifestyles in order to have to put up with this.”. Jude’s’, Down in the lush grassland by the village stream. But it was time to say goodbye to our guide, Each day the cars rush right past her doorway, I awoke in the half light of dawn mists, As we made our chequered way back to the ferry, Past rubber tree plantations, And the depredations of Stroud Scarlet: When food/fuel riots start will it be a another temporary crisis centre then? They do not add value to the country. Stork and egrets and cormorants and eagles, Hue and Cry, 1991. This was more Wilkie Collins and The Moonstone, Obstructing our path, mother with young, keep our kids safe and off the street. now there are Somalis who were trying to drown themselves. We gathered together by the water, While she sleeps, The sun never setting on duty and discipline, Cape Town, as mundundu points out, exercised its usual myopia in resisting the inevitable. But official flags guiding the way Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry-eyed That's a danger in paradise For mortals who stand beside an angel like you. ‘Come friendly bombs’; Bare chested men hammering sheets against stone, What it’s like during the week and on weekends. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai also beat Mr Mugabe in the first round, but officially fell short of an outright majority and must face Mr Mugabe in a run-off election at the end of the month. As the crowd chanted in joyful unity. I believe that Mbeki WANTS Mugabe to win – or at least to be in a national unity government; and that Mbeki has been thwarting Morgan for 7 years, to protect Mugabe; and believes it has worked! Their arms and fingers clip clipping By the red coats. Walking past the women working their methodical way, But always burning a path for the women Waved high in the air, But now setting on the giant fishing nets, ‘St. In the Church of St Francis, And all around, the polyphonic, rainbow A bamboo ferry to take us to read the tracks of tiger, Through The Origin of Species), Churches, temples, mosques and synagogue, During the week Abe went to a meeting at a local school which was attended by around 1 500 local residents of all races. In tomorrow’s match against Goa, ‘What is your name? when they came for us. The moon silvers the silent road, What beautiful photos – and what hideous ones! The families playing together by the darkening sea, Of renaissance Europe Send in the police and the army to remove the refugees from the camps, and the Government will be signing our international death warrant!!!!! (Where God rested after Creation, [Verse] Dm7 G9 CM7 Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise, Dm7 G9 Fm CM7 All lost in a wonderland, a stranger in paradise. Most Mozambicans interviewed said they wanted to go home. After all, that is what they do in their own countries (which are pretty stuffed up). A rainbow of butterflies fluttering, Some cleaning pots by the roadside or marching, An elongated snake line of walkers, Marigolds and candles lighting the path to the new year, In the long, hot, afternoon. Through the skyscraper trumpery of high finance, Wife and husband to be in white, Facebook. Blowing yesterday’s leaves Which goes a long way to laying to rest a certain legacy of our past. Shashi Tharoor Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India. Mail and Guardian. And men repaired the canal walls close by the red flag: Hard to imagine windfalls in these While another seeks a bride, Advertisement. I can fully appreciate that someone who escaped the township would object to it camping in the middle of Eden. ‘The most wonderful art form in the world’, Of imperial annexation These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody.This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Stranger In Paradise that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996. But also a onetime cloth of contention ‘The sun never sets on the British Empire.’, It certainly shone on me when I was I am very glad that your family witnessed an instance of the government getting it right. then they beat and bashed the queers, Stroud Scarlet cloth, Jump on the metro, catch an amazing view from the world’s tallest building … When they locked up the social democrats, I would like to know what happened to those army barracks and other empty building belonging to the state that were supposed to become available. Politicians and other organisations are getting in there and moving mountains on this one: building camps, preparing for reintegration, setting up special prosecutors and the like. Kerala’s Number One Fertility Clinic’, To deter a trumpeting herd; The top video has been posted as a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the lower one. Past the old woman with her broom our grandparents stayed and made th best of a bad situation, they didnt hie off to some perceived African utorpia. And monkeys scattering over our heads in the bending branches, For official photographs and fraternal It’s a crime against humanity. An ostracised straggler easy meat for the tiger, Palm fronds a fringe to the rivers, canals and lagoons, Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry-eyed That's a danger in paradise For mortals who stand beside an angel like I saw your face and I ascended Out of the commonplace into the rare Somewhere in space I hang suspended Until I know there's a chance that you care Won't you answer this fervent prayer Of a stranger in paradise? That's the danger in paradise. Some on mobile phones, Traps, (‘Fresh Up! It’s hard to imagine the orchards of Heathrow, Abundant as the orchards of Herefordshire, Down there, by John Betjeman’s hated Slough: ‘Come friendly bombs’; Hard to imagine windfalls in these William Blake ‘chartered streets’: ‘One World: One Account’, ‘The future is exciting! Not the tattered pennants of some marginal group, Most people would consider socks and heels a fashion no no, almost as bad as socks with sandals, but I like to believe that there is always an exception. Mike Trapido is a criminal attorney and publicist having also worked as an editor and journalist. But we now know that the government is aware of us and it will help us when we need it,” he said. I vote against the ANC whenever I can, what more can I do?”. The banning of food aid is reminiscent of the Burmese junta after the cyclone. If one donates food, clothing, blankets, etc.to rescue these ‘foreigners’ it makes one feel guilty about ‘our own people’. But so do the plethora of hammer and sickle flags, Later, And to Munnar, ‘One World: One Account’, Or boughs and boles and trunks of trees, I have been deeply disturbed by many of the comments I have heard from people around me in Cape Town regarding this issue. The relentless swinging of arms, Calling on young South Africans to share their ideas in the Thought Leader Ukuzibuza writing contest, The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want, New Amsterdam is a critique of neoliberal health care in the United States, Groups slam UCT professor’s Hitler comment without an understanding of the lecture’s purpose. we didnt have 3 million settling in one country, at a time when our own people were struggling to adapt to a new democracy where u actually had to be responsible for yourself. “This is a very well orchestrated campaign” ahead of the presidential run-off contest on June 27, Ambassador James McGee said in a video hook-up from Harare. Many throw up their hands in despair and shrug their shoulders with a sort of ‘what else can you expect’ expression in their eyes. The rubbish responsible for these attacks, justify their actions by claiming poverty, and the lack of housing. There was something quite Dickensian about all this, ‘What immortal hand or eye, Past cormorants and egrets and storks and black eagles, ‘Save Rainwater’, He said camps should be used only for receiving immigrants and sorting out their documentation. Tended by the women, line by line, Asked if he feared for Mr Tsvangirai’s life, Mr McGee said: “Given the excesses of the Government here, we are not sure what they will do.”. ‘Tyger, Tyger burning bright, Flying along the streets and bridges, A harmony and symmetry of fear and beauty – “Some of us are not in South Africa to beg; we are here to work for our families. To take the winding road and hairpin bends to Thekaddy, In the words of Stroud’s Rick Vick: Obsessively Devoted Christian – And only two hundred metres ahead. He confirms that while there were one or two disgruntled whites, he was shocked to see all the affluent blacks launching into the speakers and informing them that they had not left the townships and upgraded their lifestyles in order to have to put up with this. I only hope that we are all doing enough to teach those around us that what they are doing is barbaric and whatever the reason for this unreasonable hatred, where it exists, using violence is beyond unacceptable. While swallows gathered on the wires Stuffed with eighty kilograms of tea, Our country is struggeling to cope with the masses upon masses of poor citizens. “But I’m proud of most of the people in Diepsloot. Awaiting harvest just before the monsoons, ‘Complete your family. Near the old colonial hill station, An obvious and urgent danger, ‘Save Oil, Save India’, And a contemporary cloth of contention, too, But we, While the doctors write to the matrimonial pages Suddenly appearing out of the green, The sun high, I am simply asking, why do they not sort out their countries first and then come here legally? A walk into the heart of darkness and light conjoined, Has the public schooling model outlived its usefulness? How long is a temporary camp to stay? keep married men cloistered at home. When they came for the trade unionists, The government (Mrs Traps) and my son Joshua were visiting her folks and witnessed the whole operation unfolding. Now they allow more and more poor refugees into the country, only to place further strain on the economy. A fragrant arbour-synecdoche of history, Partly because they are on piece rates, All that manual labour, long hours and low wages, I remained silent; All that shouting, pounding and cacophony, With women’s spice cooperatives With an instruction to hurry, (Capo 5th fret.) As a result we do not see upwardly mobile Black Diamonds protesting against the relocation of poor people into their neighborhoods. Abundant as the orchards of Herefordshire, Invited up to the podium in the park, A flock of cormorants gathered in the tree, Chastened but elated by danger, Maybe the people who headed up that effort where things went like clockwork could teach those who botched the job by choosing poor locations, failing to have security in place before bringing the displaced people in, failing to provide working toilets and water before bringing in the displaced and ignoring the threat posed by those of ‘our own people’ who continued to harass the displaced even as they sought safety in the worst organized tent camps. SA doesn’t need either. I do have memory triggers. I'm a stranger in paradise. The only way you can access food: give up your right to vote,” he said. Let us hope and pray to our respective Gods that sanity will prevail. Though I subscribe to Themba Molefe’s view on government (in)action, these are — as Birdman points out, early days. However a Mozambican woman who fled Ramaphosaville with her family at the height of the violence has since returned to re-establish her ransacked spaza shop. In this largely govt-fuelled (or is it ANC; I can hardly tell them apart, just like the ANC..) environment of high distress, anyone is target for physical and/or moral violence from anyone else for just about anything… This is not a simple ethical question, it seems. Past the elephant trudging down the highway, C6 Dm7 G9 Fm Cmaj7 C6 All lost in a wonderland..a stranger in paradise. “The Government will then hold onto these cards until the election is completed and you will not be allowed to vote. ‘The British did some good things too. Lyndall, amazing song by Tony Bennett - Stranger In Paradise About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features … Of families praying at the shrines, He takes Valium in order to cope with Bafana Bafana's results. Deer rustled to our right, Might be best to confirm it with Monako Dibetle who wrote the article. You mention Pakistanis all through your comment. fed us suspicions and fears. Create and get +5 IQ. One of the articles was by the Sowetan‘s Themba Molefe giving his thoughts on some of the disgusting behaviour we are currently witnessing. Over by the woodland clearing’s dust and rock. There, into the shadowed woodland, dont get me wrong, I am justifying nothing. If I stand starry-eyed. But we watched the engagement procession train The state does not want to admit that it has a refugee problem and is cutting off these poor bastards from UN refugee help and trying to force them back into communities threatening to kill them. And at the joss stick shop: In their vibrant clothes and headscarves, And when they came for me, I turned around and around, and there was nobody left… Legends. Past icing sugar churches, But in the market, At the hammer and sickle spangled For many immigrants, economic and political desperation is a more powerful motive than fear of xenophobia. I would ask everyone who can donate money, food, clothing or anything else to kindly do so. That said,if half of Zim is here, who will sort out their country? If the mob had stormed his house, Shereni emphasised, he might have “killed at least one or two of them”. As the sun makes its way across the mountains, And, with the call to prayer and broom, Ten out of 10 to them, and without any sarcasm. Comment and analysis from across the continent. It’s funny there was no one left to notice I am deeply puzzled. Their umbrage highlights how the only colour that matters in the Global War On The Poor is the colour of money. The army and the police were very much in evidence and two government ministers were present to oversee everything. With all the dignity and decorum of labour, Some breaking stones, there was no one left to speak out. 07 June 2008 06:00 Early on in our development planning, we adopted a Swedish idea of mixing low, medium and high cost housing together. Fashioned from polystyrene, Fingers to lips, our guides urgent and peremptory, You have nothing to lose but your chains’, ‘Do you know Milton Keynes? Up past the picks and shovels by the roadside, Small minds cannot grasp the “Big Picture” only the pieces they can see. Once more in the shadow of William Blake: Take my hand I'm a stranger in paradise All lost in a wonderland A stranger in paradise If I stand starry-eyed That's a danger in paradise For mortals who stand beside an angel like I saw your face and I ascended Out of the commonplace into the rare Somewhere in space I hang suspended Until I know there's a chance that you care Won't you answer this fervent prayer Of a stranger in paradise? 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