Mhangami, who is studying China's poverty alleviation efforts, visited Jinzhai county in Lu'an, a city in Anhui province. Just six years ago, some 130,000 impoverished people were living in this mountainous area.

Yet the obligatory chorus of horse-eared, tailed and bephallused wild-men were, unlike the choruses of tragedy, not citizens of any society, and not even slaves or outcasts of any social system.

Skunks are the worst stinkers in the animal kingdom.

The new St Mary's Anglican Church, Walkerville, has an attached rectory flanking to the liturgical south and an attached parish hall flanking to the liturgical north, both half-timbered in the Tudor Revival style. [Referring to a church that is oriented SSE, making south WSW]