At work we deal with people that we don't like as human beings - often for hours on end. Why then do some families take their dislike of one another to extremes - even when they are in different cities/countries and never see or speak to each other for years? Sad and stoopid methinks. … [Read more...] about Friday Rant – Learn this lesson families
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Friday Rant – Shell
I just cannot get my head around Shell's calling of a public meeting from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm this evening at the Grand Hotel in Central and then suddenly changing the venue to the NMMU Conference Centre, Building 235, North Campus. By doing so they have further inconvenienced many people. Could they have done this so as to 'limit' the members of the public attending and commenting? See: And Shell Swerve again – with a venue change | Your chance to stop Shell trampling on your rights | … [Read more...] about Friday Rant – Shell
Friday Rant – Racism to Ageism
In economics, the invisible hand of the market is a metaphor conceived by Adam Smith to describe the self-regulating behavior of the marketplace. Individuals can make profit, and maximize it without the need for government intervention. The concept of the 'invisible hand' captures Smith's important claim that individuals' efforts to maximize their own gains in a free market may benefit society, even if the ambitious have no benevolent intentions. The time has long since passed for our lords … [Read more...] about Friday Rant – Racism to Ageism
Friday Rant – BEE
In economic powerhouses of the world BEE stands for: Best Excellent Effort In our colour blinkered world though BEE stands for: Black Executive Enumeration As a country we are losing jobs and creating a fat cat middle-upper class with no entrepreneurial ability to implement broad employment programmes. We now enslave our people to a convoluted grant system that has bought votes at the expense of excellence. We are doing so many people a disservice whilst digging our own graves. … [Read more...] about Friday Rant – BEE
Friday Rant: Lulu goes Cuckoo and Police Brutality
Ms Lulu Xingwana recently told ABC television: "Young Afrikaner men are brought up in the Calvinist religion believing that they own a woman, they own a child, they own everything and therefore they can take that life because they own it." After the furore over her remarks the Minister issued this statement; "I have taken note of the public response by various individuals and groups to the comments I made to ABC television. Through my comments, I sought to convey the message that, as a … [Read more...] about Friday Rant: Lulu goes Cuckoo and Police Brutality
Friday Rant – Check that registration, Rude Media, Afcon
An emergency response driver was arrested this week whilst chasing to an accident scene on the Port Elizabeth M4 in a vehicle marked as a emergency vehicle but, apparently not registered as one. This is the second time in just over a year this private ambulance services has been in trouble for the same offence. Who thinks to ask if the ambulance they get into is actually properly licensed and registered? Rude Media Earlier this week I had occasion to attend a briefing session on a … [Read more...] about Friday Rant – Check that registration, Rude Media, Afcon
Friday Rant – 25 January 2013
I have a number of items to get off of my chest today: The HATERS that have hijacked the comments here: White Genocide – TryMy9mm need to take a chill pill. A message to directors and employers - bragging to your staff of how you drove home drunk as a skunk does NOT gain you respect. The Afcon 2013 Media Accreditation 'process' is a joke and deeply offensive in the way that it treats local journalists. Could it be because I am 'English/Male/African/Not affiliated to a political … [Read more...] about Friday Rant – 25 January 2013
