Imagine that you are a middle aged woman living in a township called Kamwala in Zambia. You are HIV positive, widowed and yet you have managed to rise above the odds and raise two healthy children aged ten and sixteen. You are the breadwinner and everyday you ensure that your children are well fed and taken care of. You grew up having big dreams just like anyone else. Now those dreams are not as vivid as they used to be because everyday your daughter has to give you your ARV’s and you need to use a walking stick, not because you are weak but because you have gone blind.

We live in a world jam-packed with problems. Big ones, small ones, easy ones, tough ones... Thanfully we also live in a world full of solutions. The trick is matching them up. Enter the brand new BMW 5-Series GT, which is obviously a great solution. Just a pity I can't find a problem for it.

Many years ago before the advent of democracy in South Africa, there were three nations in the world that were collectively known as the Pariah Nations.  These countries were Israel, Taiwan (Republic of China) and the Republic of South Africa.  When the whole apartheid era ended with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, the members of the Pariah Nations was diminished down to two.