3D Printed Houses
3D printed houses are amazing, cut costs, save time and have come a long way in the last few years. Enjoy this great documentary
How do countries go bankrupt?
How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually but then suddenly’. These two lines, which appear in the Ernest Hemingway-novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’, encapsulate, for me at least, what is slowly but surely unfolding in South Africa. We are in the ‘slowly at first’-phase of going bankrupt as a country, but at a later stage, …
South African mercenaries’ secret war on Boko Haram
Mercenaries from South Africa have proved quietly decisive in helping the Nigerian military turn around its campaign against Boko Haram. By Colin Freeman, Abuja 9:20PM BST 10 May 2015 With their roots in South Africa apartheid-era security forces, they do not fit the standard image of an army of liberation. But after just three months on the …
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Coming Down On Nkandla Like A Wrecking Ball
The Nkandla Scandal Continued…. With a humble ode to Miss Miley Cyrus, we have Thuli Madonsela, South Africa’s public protector, coming down on Nkandla like a wrecking ball. Mostly old news from late 2014, but all still relevant and with a familiar “well loved” cast of players.
Will Work For Free
What’s the biggest threat to humanity you can think of? Pollution, disease, natural disasters, terrorism, crime, drugs…? But do we ever think about our basic life support needs? We usually don’t have to because luckily for us we have a system. It’s a system where you can gain employment and work for money which of …
Is Retirement Bad For Your Health?
This is a useful article by David Blyweiss, M.D. that will help many aspiring gray babyboomers cross the retirement divide. These days there are a lot of different opinions on retirement. I have a lot of patients who plan on working full or part-time well into their 70’s. I even know an 85-year old …
Anarchy in the Western Cape – The story behind the story!
This is typical of the greed that pervades our society still, if not more so. Alan Paton was right to “Cry the beloved country” all those years ago. Nothing seems to change. By Christo van der Rheede Tuesday, January 15, 2013 The current upheavals in the agricultural sector in the Western Cape caught everyone by surprise. …
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Have We Learned Nothing From Our Racist Past?
Woolworths Racist Recruiting Excludes Whites 2012-09-02 10:09:16 Justin Harrison This week I broke the story wide open on the social networks about how Woolworths SA blatantly posted ads on their career site that were exclusive of whites. These ads mentioned that the job posts were only open to African, Colored and Indian candidates, clearly excluding …
Lost Generation
Lost Generation was in a video contest submitted by a 20-year old and won second place. Everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so brilliant. A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video, Lost Generation, reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it …
United Breaks Guitars
United Breaks Guitars – Sweet Revenge In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and my Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. I discovered later that the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. They didnt deny the experience occurred but for …
97% Owned – Monetary Reform documentary
97% Owned, features Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the “HBOS Whistleblower” Paul Moore, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from the Jubliee Debt Campaign. 97% owned presents serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary …
EU Escapades – What Can One say?
Is the West / EU in trouble or what?
National Geographic Cape Town and Durban marketing project
The focused target markets for the campaign will be in accordance with the two cities’ primary tourism source markets of the USA, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa (and, through DSTV, into Africa), India, China and Australia. The United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s research shows that up to 80% of international tourists are in search …
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Greatest Speech Ever Made – Charlie Chaplin
Arguably the ‘Greatest Speech Ever Made’ in recorded history was given by a great comedian and commentator by the name of Charlie Chaplin. The music and the additional modern day videos make it just amazing. Sadly the final speech in his film, The Great Dictator, is nearly a hundred years old. Who speaks for us now?
How Apt For Africa
Stated way back in 1931 and it says it all… “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. …