When life gives you lemons… learn to juggle with them! That’s the lesson from founder of Zip Zap Circus School, Brent van Rensburg. He talks to Niki Moore
This is a very grim episode of my narrative. There is no light at the end of this tunnel … unless one can count the glow from exploded MTN masts.
As we count the cost of our week of hell, the bigger picture shows a planned insurrection
Sorry for the break in transmission: we were sideswiped by the news this last week that a Senior Manager at eThekwini Municipality, Claire I-Never-Met-a-Cell-Mast-Application-I-Didn’t-Like Norton, APPROVED the MTN cell masts. When we enquired how she had managed to overlook some fairly crucial flaws, we discovered that she had joined the Jacqui O’Sullivan School of Advanced Lying (with Head of Department Vincent Ngubane and Councilor Fawzia Peer as proud alumni). She referred vaguely to some ‘Agreement’, but when we asked – as we have been doing for the last four years – to see this ‘Agreement’, we got the stone wall once again. This is a developing story, as they say, but in the meantime we will have to go back and continue our story from 2017 …
Interpol ranks South Africa as one of the world’s top five exporters of illegal cannabis while government is punting legal cannabis as the cure-call for the country’s covid related economic woes.
Every day we merrily type away, not realising that every single stroke of the keyboard can upset someone. It is not only words that are worse than sticks and stones, but commas and brackets pack a mean punch too.
Until now, our heroine has been angry in an all-purpose, sort-of generalised, on-basic-principles kind of way. But now it has become PERSONAL
In which our heroine attempts to get answers from the Medical Profession, and finds herself following a trail of breadcrumbs into the Black Hole of the Public Health System
In this episode we work our way to the end of a line of thought. This is about to be a long, detailed and unfunny episode. You have been warned.
In this episode we meet (or rather, we don’t meet) MTN CEO Rob Shuter, who is paid R6 MILLION A MONTH to pretend that there is no corruption in his company.