Today, the City of Johannesburg secured a court order in the Gauteng High Court against Goldenrod Group, the owner of Marble Towers. In terms of the order, Goldenrod is interdicted from continuing any installation of units and from allowing anyone to occupy structures that do not comply with building regulations and fire safety requirements.
Within seventy-two hours, all non-compliant structures will be cordoned off and sealed, and all structures encroaching on municipal property and public pavements must be removed immediately. Goldenrod has also been ordered to pay the City’s costs.✊✊Victory for the residents of Johannesburg
As white Afrikaans speaking South African, I am begging and urging all business owners and farmers NOT TO EMPLOY undocumented foreigners. Lukas Swart from Akska has warned tirelessly about the DANGERS you put yourself and your business and farm in, as well as putting other colleagues and farm workers under high risk of being attacked and even killed if these foreigners are not happy with you, then they hire hitmen to do their vengeance jobs for them, and they run out of the country of stay here because there is NO WAY TO TRACE THEM. They are literally ghosts working in your firm or on your farm. Please. I urge you to EMPLOY local people. Keep South Africa clean and for South Africans only. Help fight against unemployment so we can help build a better South Africa. Stop the hatred and the racism. I plead with you, please 🙏
A Chinese and an African met in Europe.
CHINESE: Hi, my name is Xhenxhi Honhong.
AFRICAN: Nice to meet you, my name is Emmanuel Noël de Souza
CHINESE: So you are not African but Franco-Brazilian?
AFRICAN: Of course, I am an African.
CHINESE: And your name is Emmanuel Noël De Souza?
AFRICAN: Yes, I owe my parents this lovely name.
CHINESE: Even the names to wear that do not require any technique, no technology, you are not able to produce by yourselves? You have to import them. Well, we didn't know that before. We will start producing names to sell to you.
It is out of the question that we leave this vast and affordable name market to Europeans and others. I'm sure you will prefer our names for a well-known reason: "Made in China" is always cheaper.
AFRICAN: Haha, you sure also make jokes and that's fine. Anyways, what are you doing here?
CHINESE: I study neuroscience and I'm also very interested in robotics. I also give classes on Chinese civilization at the University of London, what about you?
AFRICAN: I am a doctoral researcher.
CHINESE: Oh, cool, can you be a bit more explicit?
AFRICAN: I am a researcher in English literature and a specialist of Williams Shakespeare?
CHINESE: How's that?
AFRICAN: I read and comment on the works of English authors and analyze a lot of Williams Shakespeare.
CHINESE: You are not a forensic doctor, so why do you analyze a corpse?
AFRICAN: Haha, funny! I read and do research in the writings of Williams Shakespeare, I do not touch his corpse, besides, I don't know where he was buried.
CHINESE: So your job is to research what Williams Shakespeare wrote, in other words you're searching for what Williams Shakespeare has already found?
Intellectual laziness if you ask me! Not that I am telling you what to do, but with the state of your continent, you shouldn't be researching the English language. Your energy should be concentrated on Agriculture, Science and Technology. Do useful studies rather than searching for what others have been finding since the beginning of time.
AFRICAN: You really have a sense of humor... In fact I'm inviting you to our evening worship.
CHINESE: Oh that's exciting. It will be my honor to attend. I have already attended by curiosity to Christian, Muslim and Buddhist religious gatherings but never to an African religious gathering.
This is an opportunity that I will not miss. Where will the worship take place?
AFRICAN: In the "International church of the last soldiers of Jesus" on the 6th Street, Fish Belourverd.
CHINESE: Wait, are you inviting me to church?
AFRICAN: Yes, to the church of the great American prophet Weiss White, the prophet of great miracles, the only man in the world...
CHINESE: You do not have a religion of your own? Even your prophets are foreigners? How terrible and miserable you are!
I will not have time anymore for your worship and I must leave you now but I do like your attire.
AFRICAN: Thank you, this is the African fabric!
The Chinese man murmuring alone while leaving: Poor fellow, he does not know what they call African fabrics, which they are proud of like toddlers are manufactured in our factories.
I was today years old when I learned that King Shaka Zulu had 2x sons, Mbuyazi and Cetshwayo. Impi Yase Ndondakusuka was between the 2 brothers. The war was brutal and that resulted in some not being buried. Their bodies turned into bones and the place was named “ Emathanjeni” … Today the place is known as EMandeni… See our history gets distorted ? Today’s history lesson was very emotional..
The "top entrepreneurs" known as the Kunene Brothers are a prominent South African business family who built a significant black-owned business empire, Kunene Brothers Holdings (KBH).
The five original entrepreneurial brothers are:
Keith Kunene: The founder of the initial business, who started with a fresh milk outlet in 1978 and expanded into a law firm.
Zoli Kunene (deceased 2020): A lawyer by training and the former CEO of Kunene Brothers Holdings, he served as chairman of Grintek and a director of Cell C.
Dudu Kunene: A trained anaesthetist who joined the business full-time in 1998 and has held leadership roles, including Chairman of the Kunene Finance Company and McCarthy Kunene Motor Holdings.
Zanosi Kunene: The former executive chairman of Coca-Cola Fortune, the second-largest bottling and distribution company in South Africa at the time.
Menzi Kunene: He has extensive experience in distribution and trading, and serves as the executive chairman of Action Ford, managing the family's motor and leisure food interests.
Business Profile
The Kunene family business, Kunene Brothers Holdings, started in 1978 in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg, with a small fresh milk and later Coca-Cola wholesale business. The enterprise grew into a diversified investment holding company with interests in:
Beverages: The company acquired a majority interest in Coca-Cola Bottling Mpumalanga and eventually controlled a significant portion of Coca-Cola's bottling operations in South Africa.
Motor Retail: They have notable interests in the automotive sector, including partnerships with Bidvest Automotive in BMW dealerships and the Action Ford franchise.
Defence & Electronics: The group invested in companies like Grintek Ewation (now GEW Technologies), which is involved in defence and security systems.
Telecommunications and Financial Services: KBH also holds investments in these sectors.
The founders have since stepped down, passing the baton to the next generation of family members to manage the business, as detailed on the Kunene Brothers Holdings website.
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A math professor noticed his kitchen sink at home was leaking.
He called a plumber.
The plumber came the next day, tightened a couple of nuts, and the sink worked perfectly again. The professor was delighted. But when, a minute later, the plumber handed him the bill, he was shocked.
“This is a third of my monthly salary!”
“Yeah, I get it…” said the plumber. “Why don’t you come work for our company as a plumber? You’ll make three times more than you do as a professor. Just remember: when you apply, say you only finished seventh grade. They don’t like hiring educated people.”
So the professor got a job as a plumber, and his life really did improve. All he had to do was tighten a nut here and there every so often, and his salary was much higher.
One day, the management of the plumbing company decided that every plumber had to attend evening classes to finish eighth grade. So our professor had to go too.
By chance, the very first class was math.
The evening school teacher, wanting to check what the students knew, asked for the formula for the area of a circle.
They called the professor up to the board, and he suddenly realized he’d forgotten it. He started frantically reasoning it out, covering the board with integrals, differentials, and all sorts of fancy formulas to re-derive the result. In the end, he got:
S = –π r²
He didn’t like the minus sign, so he started again.
Again he got a minus. No matter what he did, it kept coming out negative.
He cast a panicked look at the class, and all the plumbers were whispering:
“Swap the limits of integration!”