Makin' a South African Blog? Unfortunately yes.

You know you've made, at least to a degree, when people you don't know blog about you. A few weeks ago I wrote about a controversial dude who spoke at the University of Cape Town on same sex. The Democratic Alliance Students' Organization blogged this about me:

Not afraid to be controversial, Naidoo made some pretty strident remarks about homosexuality. This is how Geoff Bough reports on some of Naidoo’s comments at the debate:

“Naidoo said he believed that preventing gays and lesbians from being able to marry or have civil unions was not a form of discrimination equivalent to apartheid.Apartheid contained "the unchangeable characteristic of colour" while "homosexuality is a sexual behaviour and can be changed" [Naidoo also used the word 'deviant'], he argued, provoking a chorus of boos from the students.”

A bit of semantic embellishment there from Bough, seeing as the “chorus of boos from the students” was only some amused laughing by a few students, including me. What was hilarious, was when someone shouted out Michael Jackson's name after Naidoo had said that a “black man can’t change into a white man” (as an example in defence of his ridiculous view that whilst racial discrimination is unfair, discrimination on grounds of grounds of sexual orientation is ok).

Was it a semantic embellishment. I don't think so at all. People were really angry in the crowd - they weren't just laughing. As usual, the media gets dumped on. The curse of being a journalist, but at least I was on a different blog.