“Colour drains away to be replaced by darkness. What was once beautiful and vibrant appears dull and flat. Life feels unbearably hopeless and my life, within it, feels worthless. Small tasks, once done with love, require all my energy to complete. And as for the thoughts and memories … ther.
Inflation has seldom been so interesting – or political. You have to be pretty long in the tooth to remember the days of 14% inflation in the US and the heady 1980 presidential campaign between incumbent Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan.
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Applying financial metrics to bribery is usually impossible because one of the leading characteristics is, to put it mildly, a lack of transparency. Secrecy, for obvious reasons, is baked into the pie. But a recent news story allows a certain tongue-in-cheek financial analysis of bribery, and illustrates several things, including why bribery has taken off so powerfully in South Africa.
But first, a whole box full of caveats are in order. Most importantly, this is not a case of proven bribery. The story I refer to traces the history of donations by politically connected businessman Thulani Majola to political parties, both the ANC and the EFF, artfully playing both sides of the aisle. But the story itself does not claim to trace a direct relationship between the donations and the tenders his company LTE Consulting won. It’s possible he was just lucky. The point is that no court has declared a link, and therefore Majola can rightfully claim he i
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“The problem is the batteries are stupid,” a close friend told me 12 years ago about his then unusual decision to live off the grid, powered by solar. He would later write up his experience for Daily Maverick in what became the most quoted article on going solar for nearly a decade with what must go down as one of the greatest intros:
“The salesman at the solar power shop told me: ‘You have no idea how stupid batteries are.’ That comment made me wonder about his intelligence, so it took me some time to realise the canny wisdom of this apparently dim statement,” wrote Tim Cohen, who never intended to be a solar pioneer but moved to a Karoo farm where Eskom was “not economically viable”.