What makes South Africa so special
Driving around Cape Town recently one only hope and prey the city council will ease up on their self enrichment policy and spent a little of the taxpayers money on cleaning the city up. At the current rate of decline Cape Town will soon be looking like Johannesburg”s inner city city and surrounding suburbs.
Groote [...]
No need trying to keep up with the Joneses, they emigrated last
week.
Nothing is your fault, you can blame it all on apartheid.
Unrivalled job prospects for those unburdened with training, skills
or experience
You can experience kak service in eleven official languages.
It’s the only country in the world where striking workers show how
angry they are [...]
Ja..nee…only in South Africa! Slowly doesn’t do it any more for some – especially in the little backwater town of Hendrina, where a motorist has been fined R100 for doing 53km/h in a 60km/h zone.
In Church Street, the town’s main street, the long arm of the law, that prowls the empty streets at night…waiting..in fast [...]
JOHANNESBURG. Calm has returned to O.R.Tambo International Airport following the weekend’s of a shock departure South African Airways flight to London – on time, with all its engines attached, and only minimal luggage stolen.
A spokesman for the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) said that staff was receiving counselling after the shock take-off of [...]
South African health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang tells those with
HIV to eat garlic and beetroot.
The former deputy president, Jacob Zuma told the Johannesburg High Court
that he took a shower – after having sex with the HIV-positive
complainant without a condom – as he believed this minimized his risk of
contracting the disease.
“Go to [...]
I’ve got Jacob Zuma and my mother watching, so have a little appreciation for the political minefield I’m about to walk through, okay?
We’re sorry we stuffed up the electricity thing but we are really, really, really trying to fix it by whatever means possible.
Things look pretty weird with the Police Commissioner on trial and the [...]
A new chip-encoded credit card which provides an extra layer of security against fraud is being rolled out to customers of Standard Bank.
The chip is embedded in the plastic of the card and is similar to a cellphone SIM card.
It requires credit card users to enter a PIN every time they make a transaction, [...]
A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different
hell for each country. He decides he’ll pick the least painful to spend
his eternity. He goes to German Hell and asks, “What do they do here?”
He is told first they put you in an electric chair [...]
Ah, here we go… the South African youth…a shining example of underachievers! The future of South Africa who will now be even dumber clots than ever before, and go on to scream and rant for their rights to a well paid job!
Actually a crying shame and future nightmare scenario considering these unemployables who [...]
Crime has reared its head again at the Durban University of Technology, but this time Student Representative Council members were responsible for wanton destruction on two campuses. Try and educate these monkeys in an environment like this! This resulted in registrations being halted on all campuses.
The main issue surrounds outstanding fees. In addition to this, [...]
Durban – Three women believed to be part of a syndicate that supplies fake identity documents, police salary slips and letters of employment were arrested by Durban police, the Witness newspaper reported on Friday.
Durban central station commissioner Bala Naidoo confirmed the arrests and said the woman would appear in court soon on fraud [...]
ESKOM POWER
There is no way water will not be bloodied if a crocodile has been feeding on the calf of the hippopotamus. In the same way the present debate about the electricity challenge facing our country is a classic representation of everything that is wrong with our national discourse.
Granted, the fact that the country [...]
Durban rivers are polluted with health threatening levels of E.coli bacteria. The faeces levels in the rivers are “hundreds of times over the recommended safety limits for drinking, washing, swimming or canoeing.
One can only wonder if there is any connection between the public toilet known as Durban and the Monday announcement by the “eThekwini” (that [...]
Our minister of Minerals and Energy comes up with the solution to solve the power crisis. Really, why did someone not think of this before??
Here is her solution:
“Go to sleep earlier so that you can grow and be cleverer. Boil less water, use the microwave rather than stove, take a shower and not a shallow [...]
Almost half of the city’s forced power disruptions can be blamed on the City of Cape Town’s shoddy equipment and system failures. This evolution from a once first world city to a ramshakkel turd world out post is only mitigated by the natural beauty of the place.
Just two days after most of Cape Town was [...]