The Shaved Soapbox

Braai Etiket

FOKUS MENSE, FOKUS!

1. Doen so bietjie moeite met jou aankoop van jou vleis. ‘n Braai is ‘n ernstige ding, benader dus jou aankope ook so. In die ou dae was jou slagter amper familie. Jy het hom immers meer gesien as jou dokter.

Deesdae is dinge soveel makliker en onpersoonlik. Rakke het gesigte vervang met die gevolg dat die jonger geslag onbekend geraak het oor wat nou eintlik goeie vleis is. As ‘n ding goed verpak is dan lyk hy mos gaaf genoeg om te braai. Kak man! So, as jy nie vleis ken nie, vra
jou slagter.

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Focused learning – My topics for the next few months

So, as promised, I've decided on the 5 topics I'll be focusing on for the next few months.

I'll start with the career based topics first:

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The internet’s impact on gaining knowledge

I have realised in the last few months that the way that I gain knowledge has changed a lot since I started my career.

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Time Travel

It turns out that there's a scientific and logical explanation for why people (mostly men) spend so much time in pubs and only get home in the
early hours of the morning.

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Taxi Violence Erupts Again

Traffic was absolute bliss this morning with no mini-bus taxis on the road.

Poor commuters who depend on the taxis to get to work. And once again the proceedings could not go on peacefully for very long.

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Let idiocy prevail

The Right to Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign has decided to oppose the work of our Minister of Land Affairs and Agriculture. If you haven't seen what she's doing, she's repossessed a farm that was given to previously disadvantaged farmers during the land restitution campaign. Continue reading Let idiocy prevail

Curb the anarchy on our roads

Finally someone has made a move to start curbing the anarchy on our roads. Afriforum has taken the bold step of accepting pictures taken with your mobile phone of taxis breaking the law. They will then lay the complaint, and follow up with the investigation.

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