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Category Archives: annoying people
Just doing your job?
Or: “Why you need to be nice to people in Cape Town“. This is a bit of a personal story, but there’s an important message in it (I think), so I’m going to bore you with it anyway. A few months back, the company I worked for closed its doors “for operational reasons”, meaning that [...]
8 Comments | Tagged Cape Town, lawyers, retrenchment, south africa | Also posted in learning curve, positive thoughts, this is south africa
Dan’s PR disaster
With the second biggest event of the year due to take place in Cape Town this weekend (remember that World Cup thing we did?) and following on from his extraordinary comments over the Makhaza toilet saga, City Mayor Dan Plato has lurched into yet another PR disaster. Helen Zille was always going to be a hard [...]
4 Comments | Tagged athlone, Cape Town, dan plato, helen zille | Also posted in politics, this is south africa
One week on
Just one week ago, I was singing the praises of the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Community Hospital in Durban. And that despite the fact I had to cross a good-natured but vocal picket line to get in: Sadly, it seems that just one week on, the public sector workers strike has turned nasty, with almost unbelievable [...]
| 1 Comment| Tagged IALCH, public sector, strikes, violence | Also posted in politics, this is south africa
Mixed messages from PnP et al
A lot has already been said about the allegedly “proposed” Media Appeals Tribunal (MAT) and the despicable Protection of Information Bill (PIB), not least in that post last week on here. And so it continues with Gareth Ackerman, chairman of local retail giant Pick n Pay weighing in with his opinion: Pick n Pay recognises [...]
4 Comments | Tagged hypocrisy, media tribunal, pick n pay, protection of information bill | Also posted in politics, this is south africa
“…these things can happen to anybody”