When we fixed up the interview we hadn't accounted for the, many would say admirable, laid back approach some Africans take to life.
Some Africans, indignant at the way western critics denounce the tradition as barbaric and primitive, defend it in the name of cultural tradition.
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When, this summer, I heard on the news that some Africans had died because a fire had started in the stairway of their rundown tenement, I had an idea.
Some South Africans, three-quarters of whom profess to be Christian, are displeased.
Mr Maharaj said there were still some South Africans who "sit with their dogs in front in a van or truck with a worker at the back in pouring rain or extremely cold weather".
Two years ago a team of Harvard scientists published a paper alleging that Mbeki's actions had caused the preventable deaths of some 300, 000 South Africans.
Surely some people other than South Africans must like them?
Some believe that too few South Africans are making personal efforts to take responsibility for the past.
The South Africans could even afford some uncharacteristic fielding lapses, with four dropped catches in the Lions innings, both openers spilled inside the first four overs.
London is a magnet for Africans and has been for some years.
Pietersen helped reduce the requirement to 44 from 38 before he mis-cued to deep mid-wicket, but Flintoff somehow hit some more awesome shots as England achieved a relatively comfortable win in near darkness, despite some regrettable delaying tactics from the South Africans.
We are now two decades later than that, so director Gavin Hood has done some serious updating to address pressures facing South Africans today.
For instance, South Africans, accustomed to working in some of the riskier parts of their continent, may understand how to deal with a threat much better than someone coming to Africa for the first time.
Some people blame Africa, or the behavior of Africans, for AIDS. But Moore says that's way too simplistic.
Some may think this is impossible but many South Africans, such as Ms Siswana, are already equally at home in both.
Some people worry that it is now too easy for South Africans to gamble.
Some of the millions of South Asians who work in the Gulf, or the young Africans who flock to South Africa, or the Central Asians who work in Russia, may have to stay at home.
Boucher, one of the South Africans whose position in the side has been questioned, responded to the situation with some positive cricket, including three consecutive fours in a rare poor Swann over.
Missionaries, imams and colonial authorities may have forced Africans to abandon the more open practice of their traditional religions, but the belief systems and, in some areas, the practice, remain as strong as ever.
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