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16 Sept 2007

Steve Hofmeyr in America

Click on the GREEN link for... ---..STEVE's BLOG

Today...my heart is in South Africa!

Vandag is sommer net een van daardie dae wat ek Suid-Afrika mis! En dan maak dit die verlange nog groter as jy na Steve luister! Ai, hierdie man het darem 'n stem aan hom en 'n manier van dinge doen wat 'n mens se hart warm laat klop vir Suid-Afrika. Ons het hom in 2006 hier in London gesien sing in die Palladium en dit was 'n fantastiese optrede gewees. Ons het ook daar ander SA's ontmoet met wie ons nou groot vriende is. Ek wens ek kon 'n video kry van daardie aand se optrede. Nadat ek BiB se brief op sy blog gelees het wat hy aan Stefan geskryf het, Stefan wat nie meer daar is nie, het hy my baie bewoe gehad! 'n Mens se hart is maar altyd in Suid-Afrika, al is jy waar in die wereld, jy sal ALTYD 'n Suid-Afrikaner bly...murg en been... dit is IN jou, niks of niemand kan dit uit jou kry nie, wat hulle ook al se of doen. Dit is net jammer dat sekere dinge 'n mens wegdryf en jy nie eens jou eie land kan geniet soos jy wil nie, dat jy nie vry kan wees en voel daar is 'n toekoms vir jou kinders nie. Jy voel jammer vir jou kinders, want jy wens hulle kon daar grootword, jy wens hulle kon deel wees van die kultuur. Alhoewel jy in die vreemde jou taal praat en vir hulle vertel van die dinge, is dit anders, hulle beleef dit nie soos hulle dit sou beleef het nie. Miskien eendag, ons hoop almal en glo dat dinge positief sal uitwerk vir almal, almal in die vreemde sowel as almal daar. Niemand in die vreemde wil dit regtig he soos dit is nie, elke mens besluit vir homself op daardie oomblik wat is goed en jy dink aan jou kinders. Jy dink aan die toekoms. Jy dink aan alles! Hiermee wil ek nie se dat mense wat daar in SA is, dink nie soos ons nie. Nee, glad nie. Ons het die geleentheid gehad om te kom, baie mense wil, maar het nie die geleentheid nie. Mens wil graag he dat almal wat wil , die geleentheid moet he. Ek sal graag my hele familie hier wil he. Al wat jy in die vreemde kan doen is om jou kinders positief te hou teenoor Suid-Afrika sodat hulle eendag daarheen sal wil terugkeer. Ek praat later weer.

The story of my life....Steve sings ND again...

Steve Hofmeyr - The Story Of My Life

Click on the GREEN link for... ---..STEVE's BLOG

27 Aug 2007

Steve Hofmeyr...2

Steve in America....and "Afrikaans"...is typical pronounced like an American will do....should be more like...."Aahfrikaans"...:)

Steve sings Neil Diamond

Steve singsThe Story of my life

Steve in Kiwi-land...here

26 Aug 2007

Steve Hofmeyr

Steve is one of my top favourite South African artists. He can impersonate a lot of other singers too, one example is Neil Diamond.

Dana Winner also performed once with him at Sun City

He also wrote a song which she translated into Flemish which brought her fame in her country too
Steve is everybody's favourite in South Africa....colour/age/language/familytree/favourite cat/size....nothing matters when you have Steve to listen to!

This song's title is "PAMPOEN"...which means..."pumpkin" in English....some South Africans will use it as a petname! The old man in this video is Al Debo...he was in his younger days a singer/comediant himself....he is famous for the song...in Afrikaans...."Hasie, hoekom is jou stert so kort?"...translated...Hare, why is your tail so short?

4 Jul 2007

Radio Stations

South African Radio Stations, follow this link if you are interested. It is Steve Hofmeyr's Blog, one of our BEST artists in SA. Belgium artist, Dana Winner, has performed with him in SA a few years ago in Sun City. His blog is mainly Afrikaans, because Steve is a fighter for Afrikaans (and a BIG one for our country), but you will find a lot of English pages/bits too. He is a singer/writer/poet/actor -- very talented and also, lately started to negotiate with Thabo Mbeki about Afrikaans and the change of Street names in our country. Very silly to try "change" history to suit you, hey! They change street names, city names, airport names, just show you what kind of people are in charge of the country....

http://stevehofmeyr.co.za/blog/?page_id=236

23 Jun 2007

Dana Winner---Belgium artist

Unfortunately, I couldn't get this link live, so you will have to copy and paste.

Dana Winner is from Belgium, she's sung with Steve Hofmeyr in South Africa and this song -- which is Steve's song -- has also brought her fame in Belgium....it is sung in Flemish.... she's translated it into Flemish.

If you do listen to it, click on "play now"...or in "Pop-up"...
She's got a beautiful voice and has also sung a couple of songs in Afrikaans with Steve, as Flemish and Afrikaans are basically almost the same.

http://stevehofmeyr.co.za/blog/?p=1916

Geniet wat jy hier vind....Enjoy what you found here...

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade--C J Langenhoven...Seek in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future...Paul Kruger... Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek --Langenhoven... Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected --Langenhoven... Goeie boeke en musiek verryk jou siel -- Good books and music enrich your soul --Langenhoven... Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved now love the more. --Thomas Parnell

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in--Knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak--Heraclitus, Fragments. Vuil wasgoed is om te was!-- Langenhoven 'I think one move ahead - but it is always the best move'-Reti Some part of a mistake is always correct. - Savielly Tartakover

There is no failure except in no longer trying--Elbert Hubbard. The secret of success is the ability to survive failure --Noel Coward.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language, it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.~Robert G. Ingersoll

Avoid the crowd, think independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece! - Rumi.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation - Herman Melville. While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy. Chess is the touchstone of the human intellect.-John Wolfgang von Goethe.

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. - Thomas Huxley.

Jou persepsie hang alles af van hoe wyd jou opvatting van die digkuns is. - Joan Hambidge.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. - Proverb.

I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, it is one element of faith. - Paul Tillich

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing. Spanish proverb.

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates.

Val eerder in my sop as in my rede. - Langenhoven.

See in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future..Paul Kruger - President of the ZAR. Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek. - Langenhoven. Friends should be like books, few, but handselected...Langenhoven.

Good books and music enrich the sould - Langenhoven. The secrete of success is the ability to survive failure. - Noel Coward.

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in..knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak. --Heraclitus, Fragments.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. - Stanley Kubrick.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy

The pawns are the soul of chess. - Philidor

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