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I admit I fell for FIFA scam
Match (run by Sepp's nephew, I believe) asked to rent as seafront flat from me and sent me a contract for a minimum of 25 nights at something like R2500 per day.I signed the contract in 2009 and faxed it back. I had to install a flat screen TV, organise a cleaner and install DSTV, which I did. When I enquired why they had not yet sent me the fully signed (by both parties) they said they were waiting until June 2010 to see if they still wanted to fulfil their end!!
by Dre
04 July 2010 06:22
And the half-time score is: Makarapas 4...Marketers 1
Kathy Berman argues the REAL World Cup is played out in the cyberworld.
It was a moment when traditional media, marketing, branding and journalistic history would be drowned out by the sounds, images and opinions of The People.
It was Wednesday June 9 2010, two days before the official kick-off of the much-awaited World Cup. And local media had declared that Wednesday as Bafana Bafana Parade day. So there we all were, a sea of authentic - and counterfeit yellow - t-shirts, out on the streets of Sandton, shouting, singing, and reveling - united in our support of our national icons. Yellow-green-and-black, red-white-and-blue national flags held aloft; vuvuzelas blasting; makarapas proudly declaring our allegiance to the home team.
29 June 2010 01:49
And after the World Cup: economists foretell...
Kathy Berman argues anything is possible as long as SA has a clear vision.
Soccer analogies abounded as three of the most respected - and humorous, animated and compelling - global economists regaled the audience at the Gordon Institute of Business Thursday June 24 (minutes after the 2-1 ousting of Italy from the competition) with tales of economic gamesmanship in the governments of Latin America and lessons from the hallowed halls of Harvard and MIT.
On public loan for a few hours from the National Treasury where they have been working with local economic thought leaders on a growth strategy over the past four years since they last visited South Africa, Professors/Drs (and two former Ministers)
18 February 2010 11:57
Pravin provides leadership at last
His Budget took our focus out of the lewd locker room and back to state leadership.
JOHANNESBURG - It was with a sigh of relief that I greeted the concluding statements of Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan's 2010 Budget Speech, echoing as it did the rhythms and intonations of Nelson Mandela's famed dock speech:
"The future we choose today will determine the kind of South Africa our children and their children will live in. The prospect of prosperity for all is a struggle worth fighting with all the will and determination that we can muster. We must give real meaning to justice. For with jobs comes dignity. With dignity comes participation. And from participation emerges prosperity for all!"
Statesmanship and Leadership at last! This after three blistering weeks, where our Head of State was treated as fodder for every lampoon imaginable - and then failed to redeem himself with a bathotic State of the Nation address, which only led to greater lampooning and harsher criticism in the weekend media, accompanied by scorching inventories of non-delivery on every alternate page.
10 February 2010 12:41
The future is up to us
In 25 years, may crime, and service delivery protests be part of our distant past.
JOHANNESBURG - It's a weird thing, this Nostalgia thing. Waking to Zinzi Mandela on the radio today, reminiscing about her address 25 years ago to masses gathered eagerly to hear from their incarcerated leaders, I wept. I wept when the concluding words of the address were read out a quarter of a century later. I wept when she described the momentous celebrations with the Reception Committee over this past weekend to commemorate the release of her father 20 years ago. She talked about her father, the might Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, as a man of Integrity whose eyes lit up when greeting the political team who organised the celebrations around his release. His eyes lit up when he saw his jailer of yore as well. Truly a man of integrity who can embrace jailer and liberators alike. The event...
03 February 2010 22:17
Reputation: So difficult to acquire. So easy to trash
Kathy Berman examines the Paul Verryn firing and the Zuma love child saga.
JOHANNESBURG - The nice thing about living in South Africa is that we don't need to turn to TV or sports stars for mouth-watering tales of sex and drugs and rock and roll. Just take a look at our political leaders. They qualify for all three.
Sex: The Sunday Times had the scoop this past Sunday - Not the Sunday Sun: We know it all by now: Our esteemed president had just fathered his 20th child [that we know about], out of wedlock, although that has subsequently been refuted - and with the daughter of a friend (friendship not yet refuted)- born just two months before he took his fifth wife. And I was forced to eat my words. I had just widely disseminated a favour...
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