Hello This month’s newsletter has been a difficult one to bed down. Some readers commented on last month’s newsletter being less positive than they have become used to. Unfortunately, not a lot of positive things happened in May to change that outlook. As always there is a lot to reflect on. For all that is […]
Continue ReadingHello It’s the end of “public holiday month” and maybe that’s why it feels like just yesterday that the previous newsletter went out. Last month I did my best to keep things light but not even completing Paddy Upton’s book has been able to do much for April. While the Eastern Cape continues to run […]
Continue ReadingHello One of the best WhatsApp image shares I received recently is where Forest Gump sits on a bench staring into space with the caption “And just like that everybody on Facebook stopped being infectious disease experts and became international relations experts”. Hopefully not for too long. I started to write about the SA record […]
Continue ReadingHello My previous boss told me that the energy at home changes when one of the kids leave the house, and he was right. Leaving the eldest in Potchefstroom now seems easy compared to walking past her room in the evenings knowing that the light will not be switched on for a while. Forget SONA, […]
Continue ReadingHello I want to say welcome back but with 8.33% of 2022 already done I’m sure all of us are wondering what happened to the festive season break. We are also wondering what the rest of 2022 holds. By all accounts we should expect a bumpy economic ride with continued rising interest rates, low economic […]
Continue ReadingHello I cannot believe its already 2 weeks since the previous newsletter. Time flies when you are having fun…or not as I am sure most of us are/were running flat out. But that is the thing with running. You can only go so fast for so long before you get tired, things start hurting and […]
Continue ReadingHello It seems that the dust has settled on the local Government election outcomes and coalitions. Some were winners, some losers and some just drifted sideways. SA voted with their feet as a low percentage of voters bothered to pitch. Hopefully that message will be taken to heart by the political parties – stop being […]
Continue ReadingHello Local Government elections have dominated the local news, for all the right and wrong reasons. For many citizens to vote or not to vote is the question. Is it not by being able to cast our vote, one person, one vote, that we are all equal? Equal opportunity for all. But not equal outcome, […]
Continue ReadingHello Blink – 30 September. 2021! I bet most if us cannot believe how long-ago 1 January 2020 feels, or that there is only 3 months left for 2021. And some shops even have Christmas decorations… During the month a friend of mine asked me whether I was still confident about South Africa. SA recorded […]
Continue ReadingWhat a month. Another one. No physical looting but so many other things going on. Its difficult to keep up sometimes. Like JZ with his legal bills… A controversial green paper on social security reform was issued that suggest that retirement contributions for employers and employees will become mandatory, and that it will be managed […]
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