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Kortbroek goes probing

By 6000 | 6000 | February 24, 2010

News in this morning’s Cape Times that Marthinus Christoffel Johannes van Kortbroek, South African Minister for Tourism has demanded a probe into allegations that some accommodation providers are hiking prices excessively for the World Cup. “We have noted allegations that accommodation establishments in the tourism industry are not responsible, and are inflating prices excessively,” van Schalkwyk [...]

5 Comments | Tagged ashanti lodge, cape town accommodation, rip-off, World Cup 2010 | Also posted in World Cup 2010, annoying people, politics, this is south africa

Too much morality

By 6000 | 6000 | February 17, 2010

I dunno, kids these days, eh? All too able to distinguish right from wrong. It’s about time someone did something about it. Thankfully, according to TimesLIVE, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has stepped up to the plate in his budget speech: Elsewhere, he made petrol and beer more expensive. Git.

3 Comments | Tagged budget 2010, pravin gordhan | Also posted in in the news, politics, this is south africa

Slug & Lettuce – Lunch

By 6000 | 6000 | February 14, 2010

The Slug & Lettuce in Green Point opened in December, but unless you are a regular at Ultra Liquors next door, you’d probably never know it. Somehow, I seem to have become aware of it. Hmm. Of course, for all those Saffas who did their stint in the UK, most likely working out of somewhere with a SW [...]

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We can take them breakfast

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2010

The innocence of kids. It blows me away sometimes. Yesterday evening was one of those times. Having picked the boy up from his grandmother’s, where he had spent an exciting afternoon mainly eating, playing snap and eating, we were on our way home via the M3 and then slipping down the Constantia Main Road off-ramp. At the lights [...]

6 Comments | Tagged begging, breakfast, homeless people | Also posted in learning curve, positive thoughts, the parenting bunny, this is south africa

Short-sighted Idiots

By 6000 | 6000 | January 28, 2010

As FIFA announced that 2 million tickets had been sold for the 2010 World Cup in June and took a well-justified pot shot at the idiots in the German and English media and “football family” (Uli Hoeness and Phil “Sphincter Face” Brown, they mean you) who keep taking unjustified pot shots at South Africa, [a [...]

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