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Van Staden street in Rustenburg, South Africa

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Bake your own water sponge cake. Rhodie recipe for sponge, happiness and resilience.

Hard times have always been with us. The world has changed a lot over time, but some truths prevail. I’m thinking about people. No matter how much we indulge ourselves in fun, shopping, complaining and other entertaining distractions – We become brave pioneers when adversity stares us down.

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Oscar Pistorius's defence team on Tuesday picked through the testimony of a police photographer who took images of the bloodied crime scene where the Paralympian shot dead his girlfriend. Defence lawyer Barry Roux accused police photographer Bennie van Staden of "great disturbance" for moving evidence, and pointed out suspicious timing overlaps that seemed to contradict his testimony. Van Staden, who often seemed like an accused in the dock himself, moved bloodied towels and a duvet which he said was to check for evidence beneath the objects, but always took pictures of the original scene. This did not deter Roux, who has hammered away with the argument that police bungles tainted the crime scene so much that the evidence cannot be used against Pistorius. Source: AFP