Where do you get the best business advice?

Copyright © 2014 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved
Copyright © 2014 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved

On the road from Aliwal North down to Cradock in the early morning crows are picking at roadkill on the tarmac. Two white breasted crows swoop down and devour the fresh flesh from a small jackal who didn’t make it across the road. Three other white breasted crows are perched on a telephone wire waiting their turn to feast on the jackal.

We arrived in one of the small towns struggling to survive in this economy. It was a town with no large fast-food chains. We had to ask a man at a petrol station where where we could find a take-away food place. We drove down the road to the small take-away that he suggested and that from the outside looked dodgy but they serve the most delicious hamburgers and chips, at a good price, better than anything you could get from a fast-food chain. Just before we got back in the car I noticed two dilapidated buildings that displayed a hand-painted car wash sign. In one of the buildings five men were sitting around but but no cars had stopped there to be washed. Continue reading “Where do you get the best business advice?”

Doesn’t it make you mad when you see money being wasted like this?

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The other day a weekly newspaper carried a story of one of the nine provinces in South Africa that spent R90 million expenditure on a ceremony for a political leader.

All of this R90 million was from public funds. What exactly are public funds? These are the payments that ordinary individuals make to the local, provincial and national government in the hopes that there will be better services in their neighbourhoods, improved community facilities such as community centres, swimming pools and other recreational sports fields, parks and protecting small parts of nature, roads, highways, hospitals, clinics, postal services and even refuse collection. Continue reading “Doesn’t it make you mad when you see money being wasted like this?”