Somtyds wens ek, ek kon Jim se talent in diplomasie by my CV skryf,
maar die rook wat sy sonder enige respek vir enige van die omstanders
uitblaas, maak dat ek nie so maklik kan roem met sy vaardighede nie.
Ek het gisteraand vir die eerste keer in my lewe die onaangename taak gehad
om vir die veearts te se om my dogtertjie se hond uit te sit. Die hond het 3
dae gelede begin siek lyk en ek het vermoed dit is bosluiskoors. Die dokter
het egter bevestig sy is deurtrek van die kanker en daar was nie meer hoop
vir haar nie.
Nou is ek op soek na 'n puppy - Ek hou nie van honde met lang hare nie, en
my eerste keuse is 'n staffie. Indien julle weet waar ek 'n teler in die PTA
Centurion omgewing kan opspoor, laat weet my gerus.
Sommige van die lelikste hoofstukke in Australiese geskiedenis is in die 19e
eeu in Tasmanië geskryf toe die setlaars 'n intensiewe en grootliks
suksesvolle poging aangewend het om volksmoord te pleeg. Toe die eerste
Europeërs in 1803 aangekom het, het 'n geskatte 4000 tot 5000 Aborgines op
die eiland geleef. Hulle was die afstammelinge van die oorspronklike
inwoners wat meer as 11000 jaar gelede gedurende die laaste ystydperk toe
dit moontlik was om oor die vlak laagte van wat nou die "Bass Strait" heet,
te loop, hierheen gekom het. Die Aborgines se vroeë uitgesproke wantroue
teenoor die nuwe aankomelinge het spoedig in volskaalse vyandigheid verander
toe hulle besef dat die indringers nie gekom het om hulle land te deel nie
maar om dit af te vat. Hulle het geveg en die setlaars het teruggeveg - met
brute geweld!
So om en by die agtien-twintigs is Aborgines geskiet wanneer hulle gesien
is, vergiftig met "geskenke" van meelblom of soos diere in strikke gevang.
Hulle kinders is gebruik vir dwangarbeid. Aborigine vrouens is verkrag en
doodgemaak. In 1830 het die owerhede die berugte "Swart Lyn" van meer as
2000 gewapende burgers gevorm wat vir drie weke skouer aan skouer deur die
bos geloop het om die Aborigines uit te dryf. Die 150 Aborigines wat
oorleef het, is na die stormgeteisterde Flinders eiland in die Bass Strait
vervoer waar hulle gedwing is om Christene te word en weggekwyn het as
gevolg van siekte, smart en wanvoeding. Die bejammerenswaardige handjievol
wat oorgebly het, is later toegelaat om na Oyster Cove in Tasmanië terug te
keer. Die laaste van die rasegte Tasmaniese Aborigines - 'n vrou met die
naam Truganini - is in 1856 oorlede. Vir die volgende 120 jaar is haar
geraamte in die Tasmaniese Museum gehou totdat haar oorblyfsels uiteindelik
veras en in die water van D'Entrecasteaux Kanaal naby Oyster Cove in die
omgewing waar haar mense vroeër gewoon het, ter ruste gelê is.
Vertaal uit "National Geographic Traveler Australia", Derde Uitgawe,
Washington DC, 2008, bl. 232 en 233
Amazon halts SA Post Office deliveries
Lesley Stones
Information Technology Editor
RAMPANT theft by Post Office workers has infuriated the internet
retailing giant Amazon so much that it will no longer send goods to SA
by post.
Anyone wanting to order directly from the US-based website must now
pay for a private courier service  adding about R420 to the price of
a DVD.
SA's postal status makes the country the pariah of Africa, since no
other country has had postal deliveries scrapped. The only other
African country that cannot use the cheapest standard postal service
is Nigeria, although Amazon still trusts Nigeria's post office if
buyers pay a slightly higher expedited shipping rate.
The new restriction came in at the weekend, with customers being told
the theft rate was so high that goods would no longer be delivered
unless they paid a priority shipping rate of $39,99 per order and an
incremental $9,99 for each extra item.
Amazon has long distrusted SA's postal service, and already refuses to
deliver high-priced goods such as electronic items or perfumes,
restricting shipments to CDs, DVDs and books. Private scamsters have
also aggravated the crime rate, as people ordered and received goods
but claimed not to have received them, forcing Amazon to send
replacement items at its own expense.
The clampdown will benefit Wantitall, a local website that thrives on
Amazon's wariness. Wantitall collates orders for all type of goods and
orders them from Amazon, but has them delivered to a warehouse in the
US. They are then repacked and sent in bulk via courier to SA.
Amazon's action is bad for consumers but good news for Wantitall, said
its founder Justin Drennan. ÂBecause of the fraud, they have stopped
shipping via the standard postal service. Everything is being stolen
at the Post Office, he said.
Drennan said Amazon deliveries were easily targeted because of their
distinctive packaging. ÂAsk how many people have had stuff stolen from
Amazon and it's massive. Amazon was reshipping things at its own cost
but it's had enough, he said. ÂPeople were also ordering DVDs and
telling Amazon they hadn't received them. They are saying we are as
crooked as they thought we were.Â
Wantitall mainly handles the high-priced items that Amazon does not
deliver to SA.
No one from the P ost O ffice would comment yesterday. Its executives
have been trying to clean up its image by improving systems, and
reported a 69% reduction in theft last year.
Wil ook net graag vir Sipho krediet gee vir sy vermoe om die eens magtige
Poskantoor tot 'n val te gebring het. Is daar enige iets op God sw
wonderlike aarde wat jy NIE kan breek nie.
Every day in Arsezania, our half devil, half child brethren work towards
making our lives a living hell. Ranging from the Big 5 (Murder, Rape,
Robbery, Hijacking & House Invasions) to the innumerable petty ways in which
they poison & pollute our existence - from the complete anarchy on our
roads, to the jaw-dropping filth & squalor, to the endless pilfering, theft
& looting at the airports and everywhere else. Not one single facet of what
can be considered "normal life" is left unscathed by these unprincipled,
amoral jungle apes.
Take for example our postal services - once an efficiently functioning
system, it has now been reduced to nothing more than sheltered employment
for a gang of thieves and criminals. Not even our own government in the form
of SARS uses the SA Post Office for sending tax refund cheques anymore.
Pilfering, looting & stealing is the order of the day, so much so that the
world's biggest online mail order company Amazon.com, has now completely
blacklisted the SAPO, refusing to accept the insane losses it has suffered
through theft.
Several years ago, Amazon wisely stopped using the SAPO when shipping
expensive electronic goods, limiting it to books, CD's & DVD's only. Now
even these low ticket items cannot be entrusted to the Post Office,
compelling Amazon to impose a blanket ban.
With immediate effect, Amazon will use only (mostly White-owned)
privately-run courier companies, adding R 420 to the cost of each CD and DVD
purchase made. Just another small way in which those stupid enough to reside
in this coon-infested hell hole are being punished for living here.
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From Businessday:
Amazon halts SA Post Office deliveries
RAMPANT theft by Post Office workers has infuriated the internet retailing
giant Amazon so much that it will no longer send goods to SA by post.
Anyone wanting to order directly from the US-based website must now pay for
a private courier service - adding about R420 to the price of a DVD.
SA's postal status makes the country the pariah of Africa, since no other
country has had postal deliveries scrapped. The only other African country
that cannot use the cheapest standard postal service is Nigeria, although
Amazon still trusts Nigeria's post office if buyers pay a slightly higher
expedited shipping rate.
The new restriction came in at the weekend, with customers being told the
theft rate was so high that goods would no longer be delivered unless they
paid a priority shipping rate of $39,99 per order and an incremental $9,99
for each extra item.
Amazon has long distrusted SA's postal service, and already refuses to
deliver high-priced goods such as electronic items or perfumes, restricting
shipments to CDs, DVDs and books. Private scamsters have also aggravated the
crime rate, as people ordered and received goods but claimed not to have
received them, forcing Amazon to send replacement items at its own expense.
The clampdown will benefit Wantitall, a local website that thrives on Amazon's
wariness. Wantitall collates orders for all type of goods and orders them
from Amazon, but has them delivered to a warehouse in the US. They are then
repacked and sent in bulk via courier to SA.
Amazon's action is bad for consumers but good news for Wantitall, said its
founder Justin Drennan. "Because of the fraud, they have stopped shipping
via the standard postal service. Everything is being stolen at the Post
Office," he said.
Drennan said Amazon deliveries were easily targeted because of their
distinctive packaging. "Ask how many people have had stuff stolen from
Amazon and it's massive. Amazon was reshipping things at its own cost but it's
had enough," he said. "People were also ordering DVDs and telling Amazon
they hadn't received them. They are saying we are as crooked as they thought
we were."
Wantitall mainly handles the high-priced items that Amazon does not deliver
to SA.
No one from the Post Office would comment yesterday. Its executives have
been trying to clean up its image by improving systems, and reported a 69%
reduction in theft last year.
Sorry ek het so bietjie verdwyn - Ek was op 'n ITIL kursus gewees, en dit is
gelukkig nou agter die rug.
Ek sien mal Bob het die pad nou heeltemal byster geraak (Ek en Jim en so
paar ander het dit al laasjaar voorspel) tot groot ontsteltenis van die
liberale linkses.
Ek het ook die naweek goeie nuus gekry (dit is nou as jy regs en rassisties
is soos Gloudina jou sal vertel) is dat die wereld ikoon, terroris, en
bomplanter Nelson Mandela by die dag agteruit gaan. Dit kan met redelike
sekerheid gese / gehoop word dat die doos nie meer baie lank gaan lewe nie.
My bron is bogemiddeld betroubaar, en soos 'n wafferse koerantman sal ek uit
die aard van die saak nie se wie dit is nie.
Vir die van julle wat nie glo in Siener van Rensburg se Uhuru voorspelling
nie, net die volgende. Nie ek Dave, of Jim maak aanspraak daarop dat ons
profete is nie, maar dit is nogal interessant om so te sit ek sien hoe dit
wat ons maar geraai het so paar maande terug nou feit geword het. Dieselfde
goed waarvan ons liberale linkse vriende hier niks wou gehoor het van toe
ons daaroor gepraat het nie.
Waar is ons liberale linkse vriende nou op die oomblik. Hoop nie julle is in
die Pick n Pay besig om voorraad aan te koop nie. Julle hoef dit mos nie te
doen nie, want niks gaan mos gebeur volgens julle nie.
Ek sien ook party van ons nie amptelike landsburgers wil in die see inloop
en hulle self verdrink. Nie gedink so iets is moontlik nie, jou natuurlike
reaksie sal tog wees om "op te kom" en die golwe sal jou uitspoel. Moet ons
nie eerder vir hulle die adress gee van die naaste munsipale swembad, en dan
vir hulle wys waar is die diep kant nie.
Toe ek die eerste keer Breyten Breytenbach se titel
van sy eerste bundel lees, toe dink ek watter moderne
radikale titel dit tog nie was nie. Dit het my dus grootliks
verbaas toe ek nou die dag deur 'n versameling ou
Chinese sêgoed lees en die woorde daar in 'n Engelse
vertaling lees. Dis 'n versameling van taoistiese twee-
relige strofes, wat Zen monnike in Japan meer as
'n duisend jaar gelede bestudeer het. Breyten is al
vir baie lank 'n Buddhis, en dis dus nie verbasend
dat hy hierdie pad geloop het nie.
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