This is so typical of South Africa - the people in charge aren't willing make a very simple compromise that would go along way to recognising the dignity of poor working people.
"Brink, Johnson, Beukes and their colleagues work for Sannicare, which has a portable toilet cleaning contract for the City of Cape Town. They spend the whole day emptying and washing the portable toilets, sluicing the contents and the dirty water down a drain in the floor of the depot. At the end of their shift they have to leave without taking a shower.
There are showers at the depot, but the City of Cape Town keeps these locked and reserved for municipal employees. There is a canteen at the depot but it is also used by the City council employees only, and no contract worker is allowed to eat inside." Groundup
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"Here’s a strange thing about freedom as recognition. In SA, the experience of this freedom has, for many, taken the form of fantastical voyage, or, to say the same thing in another way, it has taken the form of watching, with a combination of sympathy and longing, a voyage somebody else is making.
Freedom defined this way surely cannot last forever. Slowly, invisibly, it loses its charm. There comes a time when people tire of watching the journeys of others. They come to ask why they themselves are standing still. I told the audience in Bergen that SA was reaching this point." Business Day
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Wow, beautiful Slate
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Misandry champion
"Gallan told the newspaper that her "secret to a long life has been staying away from men. They're just more trouble than they're worth."" HuffPost
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The ECB does a good thing (however, notice the Germans in bizzaro-land warning about the dangers of inflation, while inflation runs at *half* the target rate!) Guardian
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These are all actually pretty cool Cracked
(Though why they can't just say "things that look pretty cool in slow motion" escapes me)
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Disturbing account of how tensions between foreign shop owners and locals in Soweto eventually escalated into xenophobic violence and looting this week. Daily Maverick
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"Tony Blair wrote to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to thank him for the “excellent cooperation” between the two countries’ counter-terrorism agencies following a period during which the UK and Libya worked together to arrange for Libyan dissidents to be kidnapped and flown to Tripoli, along with their families." Guardian
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Interesting discussion of same sex unions in early modern Europe and North America. Guardian
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Ha, why am I even surprised by this stuff any more?
"Fake engine noise has become one of the auto industry’s dirty little secrets, with automakers from BMW to Volkswagen turning to a sound-boosting bag of tricks. Without them, today’s more fuel-efficient engines would sound far quieter and, automakers worry, seemingly less powerful, potentially pushing buyers away." Washington Post
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Hmmm, a suggestion that the power crisis in SA is attributable more to lack of transmission capacity than generating capacity, in which case building more power stations won't necessarily solve the problem. A worrying prospect indeed. Business Day
"Brink, Johnson, Beukes and their colleagues work for Sannicare, which has a portable toilet cleaning contract for the City of Cape Town. They spend the whole day emptying and washing the portable toilets, sluicing the contents and the dirty water down a drain in the floor of the depot. At the end of their shift they have to leave without taking a shower.
There are showers at the depot, but the City of Cape Town keeps these locked and reserved for municipal employees. There is a canteen at the depot but it is also used by the City council employees only, and no contract worker is allowed to eat inside." Groundup
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"Here’s a strange thing about freedom as recognition. In SA, the experience of this freedom has, for many, taken the form of fantastical voyage, or, to say the same thing in another way, it has taken the form of watching, with a combination of sympathy and longing, a voyage somebody else is making.
Freedom defined this way surely cannot last forever. Slowly, invisibly, it loses its charm. There comes a time when people tire of watching the journeys of others. They come to ask why they themselves are standing still. I told the audience in Bergen that SA was reaching this point." Business Day
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Wow, beautiful Slate
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Misandry champion
"Gallan told the newspaper that her "secret to a long life has been staying away from men. They're just more trouble than they're worth."" HuffPost
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The ECB does a good thing (however, notice the Germans in bizzaro-land warning about the dangers of inflation, while inflation runs at *half* the target rate!) Guardian
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These are all actually pretty cool Cracked
(Though why they can't just say "things that look pretty cool in slow motion" escapes me)
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Disturbing account of how tensions between foreign shop owners and locals in Soweto eventually escalated into xenophobic violence and looting this week. Daily Maverick
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"Tony Blair wrote to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to thank him for the “excellent cooperation” between the two countries’ counter-terrorism agencies following a period during which the UK and Libya worked together to arrange for Libyan dissidents to be kidnapped and flown to Tripoli, along with their families." Guardian
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Interesting discussion of same sex unions in early modern Europe and North America. Guardian
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Ha, why am I even surprised by this stuff any more?
"Fake engine noise has become one of the auto industry’s dirty little secrets, with automakers from BMW to Volkswagen turning to a sound-boosting bag of tricks. Without them, today’s more fuel-efficient engines would sound far quieter and, automakers worry, seemingly less powerful, potentially pushing buyers away." Washington Post
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Hmmm, a suggestion that the power crisis in SA is attributable more to lack of transmission capacity than generating capacity, in which case building more power stations won't necessarily solve the problem. A worrying prospect indeed. Business Day
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