What makes South Africa so special
Home owners account; Yet another show of lack of services
For two years I couldn’t get a water/electricity/tax bill from the city of Johannesburg. Water and electricity are socialist enterprises here. I didn’t have an account number, nor did I know how much to pay. I tried calling the bureaucrats, but no help there: they said [...]
The UN warns personnel in SA to never land at night at the Johannesburg International Airport because of violent crime gangs. SA employees say the UN now views SA as so dangerous that they are at the same alert level as conflict-driven countries such as the Sudan’. Specific regions may not be entered by UN [...]
The International Space Station photographed Joburg’s population’s close proximity to lethally radioactive uranium-dumps, waste from the goldmines: the angular patches,arrowed.Millions live on and next to these lethal uranium dumps.A Jan 2008 report by the SA nuclear regulator shows lethal radiation levels in groundwater and crops near the mines – and soil is 150 times as [...]
Ten minutes before a group of American tourists were due to arrive at their Joburg guesthouse, two armed men were dropped off outside the house and hid in the bushes.
When the six women arrived at their Observatory guesthouse around 6pm on Tuesday, the men – along with two other accomplices who were [...]
The following is one of the few good stories I have read from South Africa lately. It attests to the effectiveness of owning and carrying a firearm. I would recommend that each of you, regardless of whether you are in South Africa or abroad, obtain a concealed carry weapon. The United States, has far [...]
Hospital Management:Lifts out of order!
This is unbelievable. How can a hospital function with less than twenty percent of its elevators working? It is ridiculous that whoever has managed the hospital has failed to hire a contractor to maintain the elevators.
Working on elevators is extremely laborious and expensive
Johannesburg – Only four lifts out of 21 are [...]
This is the latest example of the ANC’s sheer incompetence. How can a government agency not pay its phone bills? What will these stupid Black Economic Empowerment morons do while the phone lines are down? I suppose they will sit around doing nothing. The inordinately high salaries that government officials receive for doing virtually nothing [...]
Rocky street in Yeoville Johannesburg looks more like a typical South African squatter camp than a residential suburb. Possibly Johannesburg does not have a council anymore for if they do, management mentality and common sense if non existent.
Yeoville’s streets turned into a slum of disease and violent crime.
Below are some more disturbing pictures of [...]
South Africa is said to be the powerhouse of Africa, the most advanced, broad based economy on the continent with infrastructure to match any first-world country. Judge for yourself!
Johannesburg property prices are apparently on the rise. The world cup is coming to South Africa in 2010, why a tourist would want to come to Johannesburg [...]
The city of gold – Johannesburg – was at a couple years ago regarded as the jewel amongst all other African cities. Reasonably well maintained and supported by the surrounding infrastructure.
Since the birth of black empowerment laws – thanks to the ANC (Mandela’s political party) – a once proud city has been reduced to a [...]
Gunfire echoed down Church Street in front of the Reserve Bank as police and a fugitive exchanged fire in an intense gun battle that sent hundreds of panic-stricken bystanders diving for cover.
The issuing of a ticket to a taxi for a traffic offense led to the wild shootout and chase that left the suspect dead [...]