Ever noticed how in Western societies us old folk are sort of 'disappeared' by the following generations? I am not talking about family (that is another discussion) but by society as a whole. Being disappeared is not an event. More a process. One day one notices that people are looking past one or through one, …
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The fishermen’s wall – Umngazi River Mouth
The rivers in the Transkei are different to those in KwaZulu-Natal. The difference lies in the sugarcane farming along the KZN coast and the natural grasslands along the Transkei coast. Most KZN rivers and their lagoons are silted up by the soil washing off the sugar cane lands. The rivers in the Transkei are not, …
Peter the cockroach killer
The Principal of the University of Natal during much of the 1960s, Professor Owen Horwood, and I had a less than cordial relationship and we had several run-ins. (For background, Horwood later joined the National Party (apartheid) Government as the Minister of Finance. He was married to Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's sister. Quite a …
Another R20 Billion to Eskom? The answer should be hell no!
The new Eskom team is reported to be begging local banks to lend it another R20 billion to help it keep going. If I was a bank I would say “hell no, not until you publish your interim financial results, show me a believable survival plan, and get the new board members to personally underwrite the …
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Thoughts and Memories - Peter Mansfield 