VUVU’S SOAPBOX
Vuvu’s
Soapbox...
I am perplexed! Quack!
September is Heritage Month and I woke up this morning feeling more confused than a chameleon on a box
of Smarties! I tried making sense of my family tree yesterday, but found it to be more like a hectare of trees. I
tell you, I seem to have more family members
than there are leaves on a weeping willow tree
– you know those trees with the groundsweeping leaves by the bank of the river.
You see, it is not just about my ancestry
but the question of life itself that has
me baffled... what came first, the
goose or the egg? This question is
enough to make your head spin
right off our neck!
So, in a nutshell (or an eggshell, if you like), two birds
that weren’t really geese at all created an egg, and
hence we have an answer: the egg came first, and
then it hatched a gosling!
When it comes to tracing my roots (feathers) on the
Campus, the first goose set foot on our
beautiful Campus in 1984. So how
absolutely cool is this, my great-greatgreat-great-grandfather grew up to
the beat of Bruce Springsteen,
watched Ghostbusters and shared
a birthday with Prince Harry!
The Campus Culture Festival
was a hoot this year! After my
proverbial climb in the family
tree, it was great to just
waddle around and experience the cultural diversity on
display... and boy, the potjiekos
competition had me drooling
like a hound dog.
Quack!
You should hear the amount of
hissing and wing flapping that
goes on when we feathered folk
discuss this (thorny) issue! “The
goose, no the egg, no the goose, no
the egg...”. My o-so-clever cousin from
the learning and research commons reckons
it is all a waste of goose-breath since it is like
arguing the starting point of a circle...(I think
he has lost the plot completely since even I
know that a circle has no beginning!).
Congratulations to Faranani for
their hard work and effort!
Quack!
Quack!
Accor