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 similar incidents in the past month.
The latest one involved a Durban man driving into and [...]

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

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.

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 of skills.”
I say “initially” because Carte Blanche has opened a nice big, juicy can of [...]

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 “Previously Disadvantaged” list in Affirmative Action (AA) legislation.
I’m going to cleverly avoid the topic of [...]

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 from them before and complained. But I haven’t ever delivered statements like “Telkom is crippling the [...]

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 and read further ).

Some days Mbeki can really make me proud to have him [...]

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 jumping on the so-called bandwagon irritates me.
I only really have something to say about Sheldean [...]