Archive for February, 2006

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Quote for the Day

“Where Alec Erwin sees Hellen Zille in ninja garb rapelling down the side of Koeberg’s reactor housing and snapping the necks of innocent security guards, I see growth in the economy without any growth in the infrastructure to support that growing economy (are you listening Telkom, because I have a feeling this applies to you [...]

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Public Sector Vacancies Concern

Passing the final CA (SA) exam recently prompted me to open up the Careers section of the Business Times. But while I set out looking for positions available for myself another aspect caused me to make a detour. In particular the amount of public sector positions in various arms of government crying out of applicants.
I [...]

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By The Way…

In my previous post I mentioned the M&G Election Blog. In case you’re tempted to visit it, don’t. Like Ian says, it’s boring with a capital “B”. They don’t criticise each other’s posts, they don’t flame each other, they don’t even post STFU pics or make up “RANDOM FACTS ABOUT TONY LEON” or post any [...]

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The Freedom Front and Me

Thanks to my discovery of the M&G Election Blog (via Neverness), I eventually came across this cringe-inducing post by Pieter Mulder:

Today we visited the campus of the University of Pretoria. Better known as Tuks (an Afrikaans acronym for the previous name Transvaal University College). Tuks has become one of the FF Plus’ strongholds in recent [...]

Laurence | 02:15:03 | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Sunday, February 26, 2006

My Endorsement

So, the local elections are finally upon us. On Wednesday, I will go to the polls and vote for the DA. This is my attempt to explain why.
First, when choosing who to vote for, it is helpful to remember what this election is not about. It is not about policy choices. The DA has some [...]

Laurence | 23:48:18 | Permalink | Comments (16)
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Friday, February 24, 2006

Joy

Sorry, but I can’t resist crowing. Today on the 24th of February 2006 I finally became a Chartered Accountant whenthe final CA(SA) exam along with 1474 others countrywide.
This was not my first attempt and I had to overhaul my understanding and approach to the exam. It has been the hardest exam (five hours long) I [...]

Wayne | 17:30:02 | Permalink | Comments (16)
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Quick Question…

Does anybody else get an “Access Denied” message on M&G Blogmark, or is it just me?

Laurence | 10:49:48 | Permalink | Comments (7)
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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Stress

I apologise for my lack of writing but I am in a very stressful situation right at this point and at least until next week. Judging by the traffic though I’d say you’ve all been interested and entertained by Laurence and Darren alike.

Wayne | 13:07:36 | Permalink | Comment?
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Solving the Energy Crisis

It’s simple, of course: South Africa needs new nuclear plants. Not PBMR - a tantalising experimental technology that isn’t yet ready for prime-time – but conventional, old-style nuclear reactors of the sort that supply France with 78% of its energy needs. More importantly, we need to start building these plants not ten years from now [...]

Laurence | 00:10:14 | Permalink | Comments (9)
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Blog Awards Open

It’s that time of the year again: time for bickering, backstabbing and mutual jealousy. Time, in short, for SA Blog Awards. We’ve been nominated for four categories: Best Blog, Best Politics Blog, Best Writing and Best Group Blog. Unfortunately, the organisers have once again chosen to use the much-criticised “vote once a day” system, which [...]

Laurence | 10:10:52 | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Patricia de Lille Still Exists Dept.

Apparently Independent Newspapers is still reprinting ID press releases and calling them “news”. I have no idea what it is about Patricia de Lille that inspires this sort of fawning sycophancy among political journalists, but given her dismal past election results, it seems fair to assume that her charms do not extend to the electorate. [...]

Laurence | 22:46:01 | Permalink | Comments (14)
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Cosatu’s Opinion of Libertarians

The latest column by the Business Report’s resident Marxist contains the following gem:

[A] main port of call was the Cato Institute, which Solidarity’s leadership hopes will become directly involved in the anti-affirmative action campaign. This “market liberal” institute leads the campaign in Washington to privatise government services.
“Associating with people like that can’t be in the [...]

Laurence | 21:05:34 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Reasons to Hate the RIAA

Apparently the RIAA wants to make it illegal to rip music from a CD onto a computer. This story is notable because it gets to the heart of what I find so contemptible about the organisation. A number of pro-free market conservatives and libertarians (Michelle Malkin comes to mind, but there are others) have been [...]

Laurence | 22:55:30 | Permalink | Comments (6)
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Link for the Day

Someamongus interviews Joe Seremane – a great example of a South African blog doing “real” journalism.

Laurence | 22:51:39 | Permalink | Comment?
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