What makes South Africa so special
Now your house alarms are no longer effective. Just peachy. Pass this on to friends and family (click on the envelope icon at the bottom of the post). Umbrellas and wet blankets shield thieves from sensors. How in the world did they suss this out?
Durban thieves have found an innovative way to break into houses [...]
An article makes reference to a study which suggested that working with idiots can be just as hazardous to your health as cigarettes or greasy food, due to stress impacts. Personally I have been enraged often at the level of stupidity around me, that I have often wondered whether it will shorten my life in [...]
Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed
NAIROBI (AFP) – A baby hippopotamus that survived the
tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong
bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal
facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about
300 kilograms (650 pounds), [...]
Newly discovered facts about chimpanzees’ behavior confirms that these primates are humans’ closest relatives.
Certainly female chimps have nothing to learn from the wiliest woman, according to a study by British university researchers.
They keep mum about having sex to avoid other females giving them a hard time for luring the best males.
And that’s not all. The [...]
Raw sewerage if killing off Zululand ’s fish-breeding grounds, with many thousands of fishes in the Umgeni River’s mangrove breeding grounds being wiped out because raw sewerage is spilling into the river because the electricity blackouts have cut out the local pump stations. More bad news for ecologists near any pump stations is that [...]
4,000 white pensioners face starvation in Zimbabwe
May 29 2008 — Malalane truck-driver Hannes Botha (55) since 2002 makes a monthly 2,100-km round trip to Zimbabwe – hand-delivering life-saving food parcels to 350 destitute Afrikaner and other white pensioners.
There’s some 4,000 Afrikaner pensioners living a hand-to-mouth existence in Zimbabwe today, and he hopes to [...]
Consumers are losing millions of rand every year as credit card fraud skyrocketed in South Africa over the past three years.
This had increased in the 2006/2007 financial year to 97 percent. From last year up until present, it had gone up by another 57 percent.
Gauteng was at 46,7 percent, the Western Cape was at 19 [...]
ALWAYS ask for a cash slip when filling up your vehicle’s tank , even if
paying with cash and even if you intend on throwing the slip away,
because….
* The pump attendants take these unclaimed cash slips from the cash
register attendant and sell these same cash slips to taxi drivers
* The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]