Category Archives: Rant

Any excuse to act like an animal

Evidently a number of motorists are filling up and then speeding off without paying. Fin24 says so… so believe it coz it’s true! Peter Morgan, chief exective from the Fuel Retailer Association (FRA) said that there were at least 10 … Continue reading

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Rain on the Highveld in the middle of Winter?!

A brief rant about the sudden rain over the Highveld region in South Africa. Continue reading

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This is War

Here’s a great idea for solving problems: *Do* something! South Africa has many problems but the greatest is it’s citizens’ unwillingness to pitch in and help when presented with an opportunity to do so. They’re quite happy to whine and blame – just so long as they don’t have to get their hands dirty. “Somone” has to fix this, is an oft-heard phrase. Continue reading

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Loadshedding: BEE and AA to blame… Yeah whatever.

Loadshedding (n): Describing the state of being load-shed. Rolling blackouts, beurtkrag (directly translated: turn-power). Also commonly referred to as “An economy-crippling, job-destroying nightmare of galactic proportions initially thought to be only due to government and Eskom’s short-sightedness regarding the retention … Continue reading

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Obsessed?! That’s an awfully strong word…

Dirk Hermann from the Solidarity trade union said that South Africa is becoming increasingly race-obsessed. This was reported by Fin24 almost a month ago in reference to the responses to Jimmy Manyi’s call to have white women removed from the … Continue reading

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Telkodemonopoly

The title of this post is a term coined at the MyBroadband forums. Unlike most of the broadband-deprived masses of South Africa I’m not a Telkom basher. Allow me to qualify that, lest I be misunderstood. I’ve received bad service … Continue reading

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Affirmative Action Town Planners: 0, Mbeki 1

Mbeki slammed town planners for “applying apartheid policies” when demarcating land for residential use, placing the poor on the outskirts far away from jobs. Read all about it here (but then you have to promise to remember to click back … Continue reading

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Fads

If you’re South African it is more than likely that you’ve heard of Sheldean Human, a girl that went missing a month or so ago and “De la Rey”, a song by suddenly popular Bok van Blerk. People’s propensity for … Continue reading

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