Category Archives: economic issues

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By 6000 | 6000 | May 4, 2009

I was gently going about my business yesterday afternoon, only mildly depressed by the scorelines of earlier football matches, when someone (I’m not sure who it was) tweeted about earning money from their blog and how they weren’t, but they felt that they should be. It got me thinking. 6000 miles…has always been about the [...]

14 Comments | Tagged |Also posted in admin, learning curve

SARS – where is your money going?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 24, 2009

Postage, mainly. Thirteen letters where one would have done The South African Revenue Service (the equivalent of the Inland Revenue or the IRS) actually has a pretty good reputation over here. They rarely get stuff wrong, they get things done quickly, quietly, efficiently. And then they give all the money (all R627,692.8 million of it) to [...]

2 Comments | Tagged , , |Also posted in politics, this is south africa

How many nurses?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 9, 2009

My plans to post an entry each day in February seem to have been somewhat derailed by a HTTP 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR, which is denying me access to 6000.co.za and also to the dashboard and inner workings of the site where the wonderful milky prose you come to lap up each day is created [...]

5 Comments | Tagged , , |Also posted in in the news, uk

2010 rip-off

By 6000 | 6000 | December 15, 2008

As Sepp Blatter finally told the world that there was no plan B and that there was no way that 2010 World Cup would be held anywhere except South Africa (again), I was out and about, trying my best to fulfil his wish that South Africa must get more involved in and more enthusiastic over the event, now [...]

16 Comments | Tagged , |Also posted in sport, the parenting bunny, this is south africa, world cup 2010

Learning the hard way

By 6000 | 6000 | December 13, 2008

“Ooh!” “Ha ha!” “ROOOOOOOOOAR!” It’s been a “fun” morning. You know – “fun”? Like going to a local shopping mall with hopelessly inadequate parking 12 days before christmas. “Fun”.  Yet, desperate to get into the festive spirit, despite the temperature outside being in excess of 30°C, we had headed out in search of a christmas [...]

7 Comments | Also posted in emigration, flickr, learning curve, the parenting bunny, this is south africa
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