Missing dog

Pse contact me if this dog, with chain, is one you are missing.

Springbok's son dies: so sad

http://www.sportscentral.co.za/de-wet-barrys-son-dies/13679/

Linksfield last night ... many dead

The future of Clulee

This excellent road with its sharp downhill is already a death trap. Yesterday someone ignored the Ronald Road downhill Stop street and did a Judge Hlophe. This Formula 1 racetrack needs serious thought, as neighbours have been applying their minds. Send this pic far and wide.

PS: Workers were busy repairing the wall this morning.

Pics of the construction ... from the one and only Tina Kroll

Alex: it is serious

Among others, the ARP is behind the attempted evictions of people from RDP houses.

The rain stopped the potential violence yesterday, but it is soon to start again.

http://www.ewn.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=76027

Classic observation on our favourite nut

PRT @brucebusiness: SA's biggest proponent of nationalisation has been checked into a private hospital in Polokwane #doublestandards

Speed trap alert

 Curzon Road bridge, N1 north (just before William Nicol).

Life on the streets for Zimbabwe's blind

Blind beggars search for a better life in Jo'burg's darkest corners

The used water that seeps on to the streets of downtown Johannesburg from the wretched bowels of the Doornfontein Chambers building is a milky blue.

Similar in colour to the cataract clouds in the eyes of the blind Zimbabwean beggars who, guided by their assistants, also emerge from the hijacked building every morning to walk, or catch taxis and trains, to intersections in Johannesburg and much further afield.

Fifty-one-year-old Jethro Gonese's destination is Springs. On Tuesday, after a sprightly five-minute walk to Doornfontein station and an hour-long train ride, Gonese is at his regular intersection on a flyover on the R554 near Pollak Park.

At the traffic lights, elbows hooked into those of his 20-year-old son, Ishe, his assistant for the day, Gonese walks the white line.

The sun is scorching and the exhaust fumes irritate.


http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-30-blind-beggars-search-for-a-better-life-in-joburgs-darkest-corners

Hijackers operating in our general area ... 4 men ... watch out

Sounds exactly like Linbro

In Small Towns, Gossip Moves to the Web, and Turns Vicious

By A. G. SULZBERGER

As more people share gossip over the Internet rather than over coffee and eggs, anonymous, and startlingly negative, posts have provoked fights, divorce and worse.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/small-town-gossip-moves-to-the-web-anonymous-and-vicious.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

City managers rolling in cash

The managers of six of South Africa's metropolitan cities are coining it big time, earning salaries well in excess of their political bosses, MPs, MECs and, in some cases, even more than premiers, ministers and their deputies.

With an annual package of R2.3-million, City of Johannesburg's municipal manager, Mavela Dlamini, earns even more than deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, Speaker of the National Assembly Max Sisulu and newly appointed Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, who each pocket R2.2-million.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/09/19/city-managers-rolling-in-cash