When Tragedy Becomes Triumph

In the middle of June, after a massive search and rescue operation involving over 200 military and Indigenous rescuers with search dogs, four children, aged 13, nine, four and just 11 months, were found alive in the dense Amazon jungle in Colombia. They had survived on their own for 5 weeks after the plane in which they were travelling crashed.
 

The Collapse of South Africa – The Zondo Chronicles

Don’t hold your breath for prosecutions emanating from the Zondo Commission, and certainly not from that little matter of millions of dollars under Cyril’s mattress, in contravention of forex rules. You’ll just turn blue and pass out.
South Africa is, frankly, a failed state just 28 years after the dawn of democracy. 

Cyril and his Mattress Millions

It’s unclear just how much respect President Cyril Ramaphosa lost recently when it was revealed that millions in foreign currency were stolen from his Limpopo farm, Phala Phala. The president has been rather quiet about the whole thing, saying only that he traded animals and that’s why the cash wasn’t turned into Rands, as is meant to be the case.
 

The Cracks Turn Into Crevasses. Counting the Real Cost of the Crazy Cost of Living

Covid-19, loadshedding, and now, crippling electricity price hikes and record-high fuel prices.
The cost of living, especially when it comes to critical essentials such as food and transport, is rising far faster than any of us can hope to keep up with.
Even those sectors of the population that have previously weathered the situation reasonably well are struggling.

Working From Home During Covid - Risk vs Reward

With a scan three day South Africans were told that they would go into lock-down on the 27th March 2020.
Businesses all over the country scrambled to set up their key employees to work from home. While this measure was designed to help keep employees safe from infection risk, it inadvertently created a danger of a very different kind. People usually worked in enterprises or on university networks that were closely monitored and secured.
The sudden move to unsecured home networks left a gaping hole for criminals to exploit.