Merge the Post and Main line passenger rail. That way, we can revive both. It does not matter that the government did not declare a monopoly for SAPO for items under 1kg, because carrying both passengers and mail is something that couriers will not be able to compete with.
How I do miss stoeptalk, especially on ‘farming’, now that I have sort of reverse-semigrated into an aged retirement bubble as a tenant at Somerset West in the Cape. Even so, I am rediscovering much stoeptalk, also on farming: because I am lucky to be as alive as you are; reading.
One major salvation here is reflected – admittedly some 125 years later, and on a different scale - from an extract of a toverview donor’s nuwe hantam archive. This, recorded on farming around 1904, is bequeathed in the Rhodes/Beit/Bailey (RBB) syndicate by farm manager, Morton William Barnes Webb’s memoir - headed, simply, FARMING.
Keeping tabs on what toverview holds of the fascinating Rhodes Beit Bailey (RBB) syndicate in the new hantam area of present day Umsombomvu local government area here is a memoir paragraph, headed VELD, conveying observations of the RBB syndicate farm manager, Morton Barnes Webb. These, in turn,
Nuts & Bolts 2026 Garden Route Rally
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First and foremost: this is no racist article—so far from it. I am just astonished at the creativity, positivity and conviviality of some white people in South Africa. Amidst the ugly politicking, the bad governance and the poor service delivery, some white people are still able not only to remain positive, but to organise or support events that can make South Africa and the lives of its citizens significantly much better.