Immigration is such a sensitive topic in today's South Africa. We have those who leave or want to leave  and those who damn those who leave (I am excluding those that are apathetic to this) . There is this great deal of negativity or depending on different points of view, positivity and people ending up in emotional debates and furious verbal ( Read more... )

SAA boss needs a new sangoma to help in fuel crisis
May 18, 2008

By Edwin Naidu

Khaya Ngqula, the SAA chief executive, must change sangomas. When economists warned the price of oil was rising and forecast to break the $100 (R763) a barrel barrier, the airline budgeted for oil at $65 a barrel.

No surprises to hear on Wednesday that ( Read more... )

Sending arms to Zim 'a recipe for conflict'

By Kamini Padayachee & Sapa

Opposition to a shipment of arms being offloaded in Durban and transported to Zimbabwe increased yesterday when South Africa's largest transport workers' union announced that its members would not unload the ship.

"The union does not agree with the position of the ( Read more... )

As someone who is currently looking to become a homeowner I find this behavior form a finance industry disgusting. The deliberate setting up of people into debt by misrepresenting the situation is a worst kind of fraud

Interest-only home loans may come at a cost

You can now delay repaying the capital on your home loan until it ( Read more... )

I am officially back into the land of multiple barbeques, many friends and one pleased cat, not to mention delighted parents. I know I complain about the routine when I am at home, but for once, the routine is a novelty. Get up, go to work, come home, potter about, go to sleep. Heck, I m even getting the 8 hours per day sleep! Of course, the nice ( Read more... )

Well, my Mom went back to SA on Monday and I realized how much I miss it. It is not too bad when I am on my own, but when Mom visited I almost burst into tears from homesickness ( Read more... )

• I quite like the idea of using bullet point lists to make a short quick report about events of the week/day/month/hour so I'm trying this one out


• Live Journal has been giving me problems of late, taking a long time to load, timing out when trying to update my journal or simply view my Friends Page.  The Front page says that they have ( Read more... )