My wife went to visit the in-laws in Klerksdorp. As Karen says, no sleepies for our son ...
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Happy child
My wife went to visit the in-laws in Klerksdorp. As Karen says, no sleepies for our son ...
Friday, October 14, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The other side of Steve Jobs
With the complex at peak production, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week to meet the global demand for Apple phones and computers, a typical day begins with the Chinese national anthem being played over loudspeakers, with the words: 'Arise, arise, arise, millions of hearts with one mind.'
As part of this Orwellian control, the public address system constantly relays propaganda, such as how many products have been made; how a new basketball court has been built for the workers; and why workers should 'value efficiency every minute, every second'.
With other company slogans painted on workshop walls - including exhortations to 'achieve goals unless the sun no longer rises' and to 'gather all of the elite and Foxconn will get stronger and stronger' - the employees work up to 15-hour shifts.
Down narrow, prison-like corridors, they sleep in cramped rooms in triple-decked bunk beds to save space, with simple bamboo mats for mattresses.
Despite summer temperatures hitting 35 degrees, with 90 per cent humidity, there is no air-conditioning. Workers say some dormitories house more than 40 people and are infested with ants and cockroaches, with the noise and stench making it difficult to sleep.
http://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Where our money goes ... latest in a series
This is a basic old garden-variety SABC reporter. He is driving one of the MB C280s bought by the SABC at a cost of R20m. Full credit to the amazing Mandy Wiener of 702 for this Tweet.
Rugby refereeing logic
Bryce Lawrence refereed the match between South Africa and Australia. This is is how his thinking went. Thanks to Duncan McLeod for this.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Body left to rot in hospital storeroom
A Kagiso family was shocked when the body of a relative of theirs was left in a storeroom to rot at the Randwest Care Centre in Randfontein on the West Rand.
Sipho Jwara, 44, had been an in-patient at the psychiatric hospital for more than 20 years.
Family spokesman Mbulelo Zimba said they received a call from the hospital last Friday, informing them that Jwara had died.
"We went there but were told that we could not take the body because there was no doctor to sign the death certificate. We were told to come back on Monday," he said.
The family returned on Monday but to their surprise assistant nursing manager Trudy van der Merve could not locate the body.
"She assumed that Doves Undertakers had collected the body because the hospital had an arrangement with them," said Zimba, who is a nephew of the dead man.
On Tuesday they received another call from the hospital that the body had been found. They rushed to the hospital with their own undertaker.
The body was located in a storeroom and it was in a state of decomposition.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
This could lead to 100m deaths
If this volcano continues to erupt, it could lead to the entire side of the mountain collapsing.
This has to happen some time: today, next week, next month, next year.
When it does, it will send a tsunami across the Atlantic at 700kph and end life as we know it. New York, London, Boston, Rio, the West Indies, Washington DC, Maryland and more will simply be destroyed.
The wave will crest on hitting land at over 33m.
http://tgr.ph/pJp32b
Second tornado ... first pic
This struck just east of Johannesburg, killed one person, injured more than 100 and destroyed 1 000 homes.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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