Relationships are very complex and a guide about them can rarely be one size fits all. As it is common knowledge I am not an expert on the subject but I thought I would write about this neutral topic after 2% of the 56 readers of this blog complained that I have not written in a long time.
It is common in discussions about relationships to ask whether a partner should have unrestricted access to their partner's mobile phone and by extension their Facebook account, emails and so on. Besides discussions . . . Continue reading this article
Thank you programme director.
Good evening ladies and gentleman,
I notice that out of the 4605 facebook friends I have been inviting all week, only 6 managed to come. I guess very few people take me serious or rather most of those facebook friends don't like books. For those who managed to come, thank you for sacrificing the Lady Gaga show currently underway at FNB Stadium and sacrificing the opening of Skyfall (the new Bond movie).
I am unsure whether the choice of the date and the venue . . . Continue reading this article
Empangeni
3880
21 November 2012
Dear Comrade Lazola Ndamase
I understand you intend participating in the Cosatu Mass Action against etolls on 30th November 2012. I am writing this letter to urge you as a comrade and a friend not to participate in such a mass action.
I presume that your participation might be based on your ideological outlook and, to a certain extent, your lack of information about the details of impending implementation of etolling.
In terms of the ideological outlook, . . . Continue reading this article
When the National Planning Commission (NPC) asked for public inputs while preparing its diagnostic report, I made a one paragraph submission to the effect that government should stop offering other fields of study other than Science and Accounting.
It might not be a smart idea but that is not a prerequisite for holding a view.
The reason I made that suggestion was because I suspected that as a country we might be having ambitions of industrializing and one day become a manufacturing hub of . . . Continue reading this article
NB: The text below is used without permission from Scott Adams' 29 September 2010 blog post.
Wireless Voice Calls are Obsolete by Scott Adams
Is it just me, or have cellphones become useless for voice conversations? To be fair, cellphones do work in limited situations, such as: "I WILL BE THERE IN TEN MINUTES! TEN MINUTES! I SAID I WILL BE THERE IN TEN MINUTES! HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? FUCK THIS STUPID PHONE, I'LL TEXT YOU! AND I'M DRIVING, SO I MIGHT BE DEAD IN TEN MINUTES!"
Generally speaking, . . . Continue reading this article
My job requires that I do a bit of traveling, especially between Pretoria and Cape Town. I have offices in both towns and spend 40% of the time in each.
As an aspirant communist, I was opposed to the Gautrain since the idea came about when Mr Sam Shilowa was Premier of Gauteng. Yes, he was once a Premier of the province. Don’t let your memory of that be erased by his disputed Presidency of his party.
I believed then, like my friend, Themba, still believes now, that the Gautrain is meant to . . . Continue reading this article
I am a member of the ANCYL at Ward 23, Musa Dladla Region (North Coast), Empangeni in KwaZulu Natal. Due to the nature of my work, it makes it impossible to be a meaningful participant in the daily life of the organisation. As a result, I suspect I am mostly naive of the "bigger picture" and the "polotical context" of certain developments relating to the ANCYL.
However, since I first joined the ANC in 1993 and been following political developments in the liberation movement since 1987, I feel . . . Continue reading this article
The struggle for Economic Freedom predates us all. It began many years ago. Long before the ANC or the ANCYL ever existed, and even long before the arrival of the employees of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape in 1652. The Nguni tribes moved south of the African continent in search of fertile land ready to fight all before their way, sought economic freedom. When the Khoi fought their first battle against a Dutch settlement encroaching on their grazing land, they sought economic freedom. When . . . Continue reading this article
NB: Views expressed here may be subjective and have no legal merit in the ANC or elsewhere. They are a matter of opinion that should not be taken seriously.
The fact that the NDCA has accepted the appeal for mitigation and aggravation and referred the matter to the NDC means the sentences on the guilt verdicts that the NDCA upheld cannot take effect until that process is concluded.
Even after the NDC issues sentences after the mitigation/aggravation process, the applicants will reserve the . . . Continue reading this article
The realm of foreign policy and international relations is inherently fluid and complex. Unlike domestic policy, which is primarily the preserve of policy-makers within our borders, foreign policy is impacted and influenced by external actors and issues. However, with heightened globalisation even domestic policy is increasingly becoming globalised and consequently state sovereignty becomes a contested concept.
Global citizens and observers do not concern themselves with what countries profess . . . Continue reading this article