SANRAL are plumbing the depths that bottom-feeding scum can reach. They are liars, extortionists and cheats. They are desperate in the face of mass refusals to register for e-tags. Their behaviour is outrageous. […]

I’ve written from time to time about the Government’s practice of outsourcing the creation and enforcement of unpopular law to parastatals and other third parties.   Two recent examples show the folly of this […]

I sometimes wonder about the collective intelligence of our Lords and Mistresses in Parliament. The latest brain-fart is imprisonment for predicting the weather. The latest draft of amendments to the South African […]

  I recently responded to an online request for donations of money or blankets or food for the Horn of Africa by suggesting that they would be better off sending DIY vasectomy kits and condoms. You would have thought that I had suggested taking the population out and shooting them.  Callous was the least of the insults flung [...]

I have been pestered for the last while by a seeming cloth-eared idiot with only a faint grasp of the basics of  customer relations.  This mental giant does not realise just how close he is to losing a long-term customer.  It goes like this. My cell phone rings and shows a hidden/private number.  I answer, a voice says [...]

The Gautrain people must think that we have boulders between our ears.    Having achieved their first lot of jollies with their completely over-the-top rule book and the wanabee cops implementing it, they are now sticking it to us with their fare structure. Simply put, it’s just under R50 to travel between central Pretoria and central…[Read more]

The ruling party, the ANC, exhibit arrogance, high-handedness, conceit and pomposity of the highest order.  What burns my boat is the smug contempt they have for us lesser mortals.  Parliament is by and large a rubber stamp for policies crafted in Luthuli House. The normal conventions and courtesies of Parliamentary procedure are ignored when…[Read more]

I am now officially gatvol. The headlines in yesterdays blatt announced that the various Mrs Zuma are each to receive a luxury imported car for their personal use, despite their not having driving licences. The cost is estimated at R6000 per day per car, i.e. R24000 per day to provide individual transport for each of his four [...]

I’ve been thinking about the role of the parastatals, prompted by the introduction of open road tolling in Gauteng. I would like to consider t he constitutionality of devolving authority to parastatals and private companies in the current manner. To my mind, it is an essential component of law making that the process is open to public scrutiny and [...]

  I must have had a rush of blood to the brain, or been otherwise distracted and booked a flight on 1Time again. I have now come to the conclusion that they do not operate a timetable or a schedule, just a guideline as to when they might be able to get one of their ageing rustbuckets off [...]

If there were Olympic medals for incompetence then 1Time Airlines would be proud holders of the Gold. We as a nation spend squillions of rand and what seems like aeons crafting complex and all-inclusive nation building programmes and plans.  We are then surprised when they don’t work, blaming tenderpreneurs, racism, agents, whatever.  The real…[Read more]

Super Roadblocks are our gift from Government over the Holiday Season. As usual drivers and their vehicles are liable to be checked, but this time passengers are to be checked as well. The roadblocks will be manned by the SAP and by other State Agencies looking for amongst other things tax evaders, illegal immigrants and dangerous [...]

South Africa is at a tipping point.  We have a Government that seems to have lost the plot.  It is fighting paper tigers in the media while we head towards an economic Armageddon with increasing rapidity.  The rapacious plundering of the economy by the not-so-good in Government, their relatives and friends looks more and more like [...]