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If I cannot confess my sins on this public forum then where can I repent.  I admit that I bought a new age newspaper (left in lower case to reduce my shame).  I bought it at the nearest cafe to the gupta's gaff/kaya.  They don't often stock this respectable publication but today they did.  What […]

South Africa already has gender equality legislation including the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and Employment Equity Acts, all of which seeks to have more women represented on executive structures. via www.bdlive.co.za Here's another piece of legislation that you'll need to add to the rather large list of legislation that you'll need to follow in order

Whilst every blogger thrives on comments, the almost overwhelming number of spam comments (about 20 this morning) has forced me to change the rules for submitting comments to the blog. The rules are that you have to login with Typepad, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ etc before the comment is submitted. I will then have the

Boitumelo Sethlatswe, a researcher at the South African Institute Of Race Relations, said, paradoxically, BEE sometimes does not help black people. "It pushes stereotypes about black people. Because there is such a high demand to get people of color into positions that, given our past, you might not have the numbers of educated people to

it is highly likely that if the party continues to favour the black elite at the expense of the poor through measures such as the new BEE codes, it will lose its grip on the latter too via www.bdlive.co.za I have just finished writing an analysis of the codes for a client. I'm ready to

Rob must be in his element.  He must be sooooooo proud of himself.  There'll be lot written about this document.  It's rather like the Group Areas Act – impossible to implement and harder to police.   Here are a few thoughts. They didn't listen to any of the comments that suggested that these are no

President Jacob Zuma's executive has called on the people of Gauteng to abide by the law and show good citizenship by registering for e-tags and paying for use of the world class roads. via mg.co.za Good citizenship must exclude corrupt activities, robbing the tax player to pay for Nkandla, failing to lead, being useless. If

The DA rather humuorously told IOL News  Maimane, who is also the DA’s premier candidate in Gauteng, said it was difficult to see why the ANC was so upset. “This message is 100 percent accurate. E-tolls were conceived under the watch of an ANC minister, supported by an ANC executive in Gauteng, passed into law by

The new codes and scorecard, unveiled at the summit, aim to incentivise black ownership more strongly by penalising companies that fail on the ownership element of the scorecard. The formula to measure ownership has also been changed to ensure that benefits flow to black shareholders and that they attain net value as soon as possible.

Now why would Bram Fischer be of any interest to me?  You might well arsk.  It all comes back to one Tottie Krige (whose real name seems to have slipped my mind).  Tottie is somewhat famous because he was wounded at the Battle of Spioenkop and then mentioned by name in Deneys Reitz's Commando. Tottie was also Jan Smuts'