Gauteng Blog

Earlier in the week, the Guardian, when describing the power cuts managed to take the obligatory dig at "griping whites", pointin...

The last months of rolling blackouts ("load shedding") from Eskom, and general incompetence have made me a more cynical person ab...

After reverting to its Apartheid-era role as a propaganda organ/lapdog under the Thabo Mbeki, it will be interesting to see whose side the S...

Whatever you may think of Jacob Zuma, what we are seeing in Polokwane demonstrates the power of democracy. An arrogant denialist is being s...

South African businesses have had an easy time in the last few years, and it shows. Service is collapsing. In my experience, corporates are ...

From lazy HR executives to crappily run loyalty programs 1 and clueless call centres, a fair number of major corporates in South Africa se...

It's bad enough when traffic police stop people for actual infractions, and then accept bribes to let them off (this is common throughou...

I recently went to a small shop and the (rather rude) cashier said that I needed to make a purchase for a minimum amount, before I could use...

Commuters who have to endure the peak-hour congestion on the Ben Schoeman highway between the Brakfontein and Buccleuch interchanges on the ...

This has been around for a few months, but if you haven't played with it yet, it's worth a look: Gapminder from Google. It allows y...