Jet-Letter by Rhynie Greeff: London’s Necropolis – the ultimate going away party
Today I would like to write about life’s pinnacle. Death.
Rhynie Greeff has a doctorate in commerce and a background in international business related to diplomacy, chemicals, minerals and telecommunications.
Today I would like to write about life’s pinnacle. Death.
The IAAF needs a seventh core value – Respect for Human Dignity.
I like this twist on a Greek fable.
I wonder whether Paul Kruger (President of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1902) ever knew that a street in the Mojave Desert in America was named after him in the 1890’s?
Our world is tattooed with graffiti.
In 2010 I covered South African ex-President Zuma’s state visit to the United Kingdom.
Local authorities cannot count. Except when they collect taxes and service charges.
The front doorbell rings and I open the door. Paralysed with fright I stare at my visitor – a tall figure draped from head to toe in a black cloak, face hidden in the darkness under a frayed hood. An emaciated left-hand holds a long staff with a glinting, curved scythe at the top. A […]
Shakespeare once posed the question: What’s in a name?
Lies are often bent truths but truths are never bent lies.
As I wrote before, sometimes one’s intention could be one thing but the outcome another.
In business, the Law of Unintended Consequences can often lead to an unexpected pregnancy. For example, who would have thought that car tyres could create restaurant guides?
The Medical Schemes Act has a formula by which returning South Africans must, for the remainder of their lives, pay punitive premiums of between 5% and 75% to a medial aid because they did not belong to South African medical aid schemes while out of the country
Die Wet op Mediese Skemas het ʼn formule waarvolgens terugkerende Suid-Afrikaners boetepremies vir die res van hulle lewens van tussen 5% en 75% by mediese fondse betaal omdat hulle nie aan Suid-Afrikaanse mediese fondse behoort het nie.