What makes South Africa so special
By Citizen columnist Andrew Kenny
As the skills shortage in South Africa worsens and the exodus of white artisans, engineers and maths teachers continues, racial affirmative action dominates all job adverts. Suppose you are a highly experienced white technician or project manager. You are looking for a job. In the careers section of a Sunday paper [...]
Three contractors – one from Soweto, another from Pretoria,
and the third from Benoni – are bidding to fix a broken fence at
the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
They go with a Union Buildings official to examine the fence.
The Pretoria contractor takes out a tape measure, does some
measuring, and then works some figures with a pencil.
“Well,” he says, [...]
Soaring food prices have hit millions of South Africans hard: more than half of the 47-million population lives below the $1 a day bread price. Increasingly food is being looted during organized protest campaigns by trade unions and residents. During a riot in Carltonville near Johannesburg on May 1 2008, this store was extensively plundered. [...]
Immigration applications to Australia and Britain are increasing as South Africans fear they face an uncertain future.
Headlines are dominated by power cuts, soaring electricity tariffs, increasing petrol prices, increasing interest rates and rampant crime.
The UK and Australia remain the most popular destinations for South African migrants, and figures from the high commissions for both countries [...]
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 [...]
Are you a top public servant or politician who occasionally receives wads of cash in excess of R5 000 in unmarked brown envelopes as payment for work done after hours?
Do you sometimes prefer to do business in a gentleman’s club?
Are any of your close friends a renowned drug trafficker? Have you, from time to time, [...]
Now that ain’t working, that’s the way you do it, tenders for nothing and money for free!
NOSEWEEK 30/06/2007
THE LADY’S CERTAINLY SHREWD, but whether she’s a shrewd businesswoman is another matter. She does make plenty of money, from service contracts with education institutions – but Dr Patricia Gorvalla doesn’t land these through business acumen, or by [...]
Call to include ‘freeborns’ in AA
‘Freeborns’, I would have thought that term refers to children of slaves born after emancipation, seems it is now a term used to refer to white South African youths who entered school after 1994.
Now, [...]
Here is the job description
Are you well groomed, go getter, willing to learn?
Make your financial dreams a reality
Ability to monitor, keep meticulous records and process all financial matters.
Join the Gravy Train to financial success,
mis-appropriation of funds, incentive bonus paid
Business class air travel / 5 star accommodation / luxury car allowance / body guards included in [...]
Ask an ordinary working black man what he thinks about black economic empowerment(BEE), and in all probability he will reply, What is BEE, or he ll say”I’m not wealthy enough to benefit from BEE. You have to be rich to be invited into BEE deals.
No matter how hard the government ,ANC or South Africa’s super [...]
In South African newspapers adverts take up pages and pages of job opportunities, but there is a catch! Applications are screened, white males need not apply and now white females are included. The composition of a company must reflect our diversity and employment “equity”
Urgent appeal for at 1300 teachers to apply for jobs, [...]
What you’re about to see happened on the R25 – near Isando, Kempton Park, Gauteng,South Africa. The images relaying this event was distributed via an email that circulated a month or so ago.
Now I have a theory as to what really happened here – so buckle up – and enjoy!
Once upon a time a petrol [...]