by Richard Veal | Jan 2, 2016 | News, Pete's Pen
And your new year’s resolution is? You will already know that about 5 million South Africans will have made at least one resolution, and by the end of January 4,900,000 will have given up. Most of the rest will have given up by the end of February. Will you be one of...
by Richard Veal | Dec 21, 2015 | News, Pete's Pen
“The downward slide to doom and gloom”. It seems that each month when I tap this blog out on my keyboard I start off by commenting on some stupid thing that the idiot Zuma has done or said during the month which hurts everyone in our country except for him and his...
by Richard Veal | Nov 27, 2015 | News, Pete's Pen
“Another nail in the coffin of the South African economy”. These were the words of the American Chamber of Commerce earlier this month when the ANC rammed the Protection of Investment Bill through the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry‚ despite the objections...
by Richard Veal | Oct 29, 2015 | News, Pete's Pen
I think a Pandora’s Box has just been opened. The Government has given in to the students demands for ‘no university fee increases’, and whilst free education has been promised by the Government for many years, the government has created a precedent for mass action to...
by Richard Veal | Sep 28, 2015 | News, Pete's Pen
This month, it was the Springboks that took our minds off the economic conditions. For days after their game with Japan, the only headline news related to how we had been embarrassed by the Boks. And you don’t want to know how many insulting jokes I received on...
