Antie Joan is innie shower toe die deur klokkie lui, sonder om te dink spring sy uit en halloep trappe af (kaalgat, want daar's niemand by die huis nie)
Toe sy by die voordeur kom , loer sy deerie loergatjie, maar oppie selle tyd buk die debt collector af en loer deur die posgat en vra toe " kroes koppie waas jou ma?"
This statement by a senior provincial politician embodies what is currently wrong with our country. And the people on the street learn their bad habits from this.
The politician's motorcade was driving too fast, just another person that's supposed to set an example, but that thinks he is above the law. And when a white person takes him on about breaking the law, he immediately falls back on the old "Apartheid"/"You're hassling me because I'm black" excuse.
You can seriously stop with that now, we're hassling you because you're not above the law, and you should start setting an example for your people.
In my opinion, the moment our population stop attaching anything remotely racist to normal comments, our country will be a much better place.
Link to 'It is because I am black': South Africa: News: News24
The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment – Get their
parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.
Michael said, "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying
hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the
front seat of the car when we hit a big bump in the road and all the
eggs went flying and broke and made a mess."
"What's the moral of the story?" asked the teacher.
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"
Very good," said the teacher.
Next little Sarah raised her hand and said,
"Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat
market. We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral to this story is, "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."
"That was a fine story Sarah. Ashleigh, do you have a story to share?"
"Yes, my daddy told me this story about my Aunty Karen.
Aunty Karen was a flight engineer in the Gulf War and her plane was
hit.
She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle
of whisky, a machine gun and a machete.
She drank the whisky on the way down so it wouldn't break and then she
landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. She killed seventy of
them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she
killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke. And then she
killed the last ten with her bare hands."
"Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "what kind of moral did
your daddy tell you from that horrible story?"
"Stay the f**k away from Aunty Karen when she's been drinking."
Is this the best you can do? Another 500 fat, lazy (ok, not all of them, but a lot) people to manage speed traps and check that no-one is talking on a cellphone while driving.
Get real, that's not what we need. We need visible policing, to stop our road carnage, as well as the out-of-control crime rate in our country.
We should really look at automated speed traps, and get the Metro cops to start doing their work. I see hundreds of taxis (mostly) and other cars skipping red traffic lights every week. These are in a few hot spots around the city, which the Metro Police know about, but do nothing about, it is much easier to just sit behind a speed camera than to actually pull someone over.
I challenge the management of Jo'burg and the Metro Police to do better than this.
The ID has stated that Eskom's CEO should not get his bonus this year, because he has not sorted out the issues at the parastatal.
I think you're way to easy on him and his whole management team. They've proven beyond doubt that they cannot manage the company, and the problems aren't the same as last year, they are getting worse. The fact that the CEO got a bonus last year, measured in millions, is appalling!
Replace the whole top structure with people qualified for the job, so that our country can start growing.
'n Verkoopsman wat van deur tot deur loop klop aan die soveelste deur.
'n Seuntjie, so ag jaar oud, maak die deur oop. Hy het sykouse aan met bypassende kousophouers. In sy een hand is 'n Martini en in die ander 'n vet sigaar.
"Is jou mammie tuis boeta?" vra die verkoopsman.
Die seuntjie kyk stip na hom vir twee sekondes en antwoord stadig: "Lyk dit fokkin so?"
This is getting ridiculous! If you read the article, have a look at the related ones as well.
All over the country the mayors of small towns are spending huge amounts of money on their mayoral cars (read company cars), instead of spending the money on necessities for the community.
This abuse of power has got to stop now!
I think the national government needs to step in here and pass legislation as to how much each class of mayor is allowed to spend on a car. I'm not saying they should not get cars to do their duties, but does the mayor of Pofadder(just an example) really deserve the same type of car as the mayor of Jo'burg or Cape Town? Hell No!
Run it like a group of companies. You have your CEO (the president of the country), he's allowed to get the big car with the chaufeur. Let's say he can spend 1,5 million for example. His direct reports (cabinet ministers) are allowed to spend 1 million. This is the "holding company".
Now, all subsidiaries(cities & towns) are allowed to buy cars for their management, but they're not allowed to be worth more than what the holding company's management is driving, and it should also be reflective of the size of company(town) you run.
So, for the big cities, the companies that contribute most to the holding company, the management can splash a bit, and lets say spend 600K-750K. There are only 6 or 7 of these. Then the price comes down as the size of the town comes down. So that the mayor of a small rural town in Mpumalanga(once again an example), is only allowed to get a Toyota Corolla or something similarly priced. That is more in line with the amount of responsibility you have.
This system works well, and is understood well in the business world, it is time our government wakes up to the fact. When you are ellected to office, it is first and foremost to serve the community, if you do it well, they will reward you, it is not to serve your own interests, and abuse your newfound power.
Source: Mayor 'puts Merc before water': South Africa: News: News24