Our Corrupt Government

Normally I would like to stay out of politics but today I had a laugh when I read the newspaper online.

I was reading the article of the new premier who just spent R1.1 million of our tax money to buy a new Beemer while she already have a 2 year old 730d which she bought at R900,000 two years ago. (See “NW premier to splurge R1.1m on new luxury car”)

In the related links at the bottom I followed some other related stories and this is where I spotted the irony.

Look at the following two articles:

1. Zuma govt blows R1.5bn on luxuries
2. Leaders must burst out of their bling bubbles

In the first article we see good examples how our current government enrich themselves and spend billions of our countries money to maintain their status and high living.

In the next article we see how our dear Mr Zuma visited some informal settlement and pretend to be shocked about their poor living conditions. “Visiting Sweetwaters settlement this week, the president was moved to tears by the conditions of his fellow citizens who lived, he said, in conditions ill-befitting even animals.”

For the past 16 years the ANC government made very sure that they enrich themselves and their families with state money. Now Mr Zuma pretends to be shocked about the conditions in informal settlements which are there because of his government’s inability to perform. Seems like they are so focused about enriching themselves that they do not care about the others.
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Expert Help

I attended a talk at the local Business Forum a while ago about expert help you can get for your business.

The speaker was introduced as somebody who can give (almost) free expert advice to small businesses.

My first reactions was “Ye, sure, some government organization help all the poor “previously disadvantaged” business people while forgetting about the currently disadvantaged people”

I am happy to say that I was totally WRONG.

This is an excellent concept and it boils down to the fact that if your business meets the criteria you can get an expert in the field to come and assist you to take your business to the next level at almost no cost. Read more »

Kick the Vuvu Out

The most idiotic instrument ever invented.

South Africa is currently hosting the biggest sporting event ever but unfortunately a small plastic device is ruining it all for spectators.

I find it extremely hard to watch a game with all these vuvucraps making a dreadful noise.

Unfortunately somebody started to spread the word that the “Vuvuzela is part of the South African tradition”

It might be the tradition of a handful of football fans but it is not a tradition of all South Africans.

On one Football forum a guy from the USA said

I feel bad for fans like you. I was so looking forward to an African cup and seeing more African traditions yet all I get is stupid plastic horns and that is what South Africa will be remembered for.

I hope that they will soon ban the Vuvuzelas from the 2010 World Cup. Read more »

Soccer?

It is very frustrating to see what power the mafia FIFA has over South Africa.

Obviously what they do is not to the benefit of the country but to the benefit of their own pockets.

I wonder who in our government received how big bribes to bring the silly soccer to South Africa?

It is said that South Africa so far spent R63 Billion on infrastructure for the world cup soccer, while the country has a huge unemployment figure and people living in shacks and dreadful conditions. With the R63 billion we could provide housing for more than 600,000 families in South Africa. Or we could provide food for a year to 5 million poor people in South Africa.

What upsets me even more is the way FIFA bully and manipulate everybody in the country. I see in this morning’s City Press (sorry, that article has been deleted, try this link) that our country will not even be allowed to charge FIFA tax on most of the revenue they bring in. Thus they will bring the money into the country and take it out with them without South Africa ever seeing a cent of benefit from it.

Here is an excerpt of the article:

A senior government official said: “Fifa are a bunch of thugs. Not even the UN expects you to sign away your tax base. These mafiosos do.” Read more »

Home typing job

So-, Aunty Joan did it! Congrats

About two years ago met Joan Masterson for coffee at Tygervalley. I think we “know” each other for more than 6 years now. You know, the way Internet people “know” each other. When we met in Tygervalley it was the first time we saw each other in real life after communicating online for 3 or 4 years.

Anyway, we were chatting about making money and earning online. At some stage I told here that I found that most people are just looking for something where they can do something online and get paid for it and if you can figure a way to give people a real job online and pay them for it you will be very busy. Most people do not want to do work online and only get paid commission for it.

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Morning Coffee Plugin

Here are some tips for FireFox users.

If you are not using FireFox yet then you are loosing out big time on an Internet experience of a lifetime and I suggest you change to FireFox. Get it at http://www.firefox.com

I will add tips as I discover and implement it. I just love working with FireFox and there are some real nifty plugins you can use to make it work better for you.

1. Open search results  in new tab.

When you use the search function in the toolbar of FireFox it opens the results in the same window or tab as where you are currently working. This drives me nuts as I would like to keep the page where I am working open.

You can set FireFox to open the search results in a new tab, this is how: Read more »

DealFish

I recently had the opportunity to promote a new free classifieds web site as an affiliate. I must say that before the affiliate campaign was launched I did not even know about DealFish (the new site)

I nether understood why people rave about Gumtree and why Gumtree was the third busiest web site in South Africa.  But they must be doing something right because everybody use them. Personally I do not like it at all.

So I am very happy that there is an alternative to Gumtree.

Both sites are rather easy to use and it is easy to register and place an ad.

On the searching and browsing  side I prefer DealFish purely because they do not have all the Google Adsense ads between the real ads. I find the Google ads on Gumtree very confusing and I guess they do not mind that their users confuse the adsense ads with the actual listed ads. Each time when a user accidentally click on the Google ad instead of the real ad they get paid for it, so would it bother them?  Read more »

Is this your child?

Did you know that you use less brain power to watch TV than to sleep?

No wonder research shows that watching TV has a direct negative influence on your child’s performance at school.

While watching TV you teach your brain to do nothing and when getting back in real live your brain becomes too lazy to do anything.

But hey, I am no child expert, here are some good articles to prove the point:

TV drags down grades
“We found a relationship between watching TV for longer hours on school days and worse school performance,” said study author Dr Iman Sharif, an associate professor of Read more »

Most Money

A questions which frequently lands in my inbox;

“What is making you the most money?”

A while ago somebody wrote me an email saying that the methods I talk about in my eBook are old and not the latest and the greatest. Regular readers will know how I feel about the “latest and the greatest”

When I give you the figures below you will see why I am still writing about the old trusted ways of making money in my eBook.

As many of you might know I make money online in various ways. I mostly use my web sites to serve ads to thousands of visitors each month. I then use these traffic rich web sites to either sell ad space, make money from “pay per click”, refer my clients to somebody else and getting paid for it or I promote my own product to these visitors in order to make money by selling my own products online.

So, what is making me the most money?

I took the income I earn from my main pure online ventures and calculated the percentages. These are only the methods which earns me a noticeable income (more than R1,000 per month)

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I received these photos by email today.

This was a protest at the South African embassy in Sweden.

And here we sat and thought the whole world have forgotten us. I am glad to see that the other countries see what is going on here.

By the way, if you are an International reader and you are considering coming here for the world cup soccer, don’t come. South Africa is not a save place to be. These people will kill you for ten bucks or your mobile phone. Don’t even think about bringing your wife and children here. In South Africa a mob of 5 will rape your wife while their buddies  (the other 10) beat you to death with a iron rod.

To the guys and girls in Sweden, well done and thanx a million for making your voices heard. Not that I think it will mean anything to those in charge of our country, but thanx anyway, we have to start somewhere.

The protest march by the Swedish Resistance Movement, under the slogan ”Stop the Boer Genocide!”, took place in Stockholm on Saturday 17th of April, without any major disturbances.

Protest in Sweden

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The Eyjafjallajokull Volcano is causing havoc over the whole world.

I received this email from a friend. I do not know who the original author is but I think he did en excellent job compiling this email. I thought it would be interesting to share since so many people wonder what this volcano is all about and what it looks like.

Volcano ash map as on 20 April 2010

Photographer Martin Rietze got to within 250 metres of the lava fountains to capture his stunning series of images

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