Missive from parts of Africa

A light hearted and sometimes serious look at moving 6000km into a place in Africa: April 2007. Promoted back to South Africa, the missive will continue to track my foray's into deepest Africa as and when I get there.

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Location: Joburg, Africa, South Africa

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

The mind boggles!!

Quotes from NEWS24 on the Zuma Rape Trial

"He furthermore knew that the child was HIV positive - at a time I thought I was going to lose my daughter.
According to Zuma, Khwezi had come to his room where they chatted and this later turned into a massage session with baby oil and after they realised that neither of them had a condom, they had sex for about 15 minutes.
Zuma acknowledges that he had asked her whether he may ejaculate inside her, but he did not receive a clear answer from Khwezi.

Proof that good old Jacob IS a few sandwiches short of the picnic (or the cheese analogy used by Peas)

And to think a man with this regard could be president of South Africa……

The mind boggles!!!


What boggles my mind even more is work related:

I have run multi million rand paper mills and been involved in the installation of paper machines, upgrades and the like.

Whenever we did a job, we all used to sit down and work out exactly what the job entailed before we did it. Never did I say “I want a new paper machine installed – go out and install”

One erstwhile client seems to be taking that approach in life. Not much of an issue when you doing small jobs. When it is a tender for “the replacement of steel work” and you try and convince the client for two weeks that their scope in the tender will not get the job done, you know there are problems.

When you decided to do a comprehensive scope yourself and quote, that’s service

When the client sends you a mail detailing a more comprehensive scope (although not everything) AND throws in a few curve balls like ceramic lined pipes and valves, you know you are entitled to bury your head in your hands

When you finished the tender some 20 mins before you received above mail, besides burying your head in your hands, you are entitled to scream as well.

However when they do not consider extending the submission date, u can swear with impunity. God will understand!

1 Comments:

Blogger Esther said...

This past week they were still going on about the poor womans' sexual history. I still don't understand the relevance. Now there's also something about how the original detective were somewhat "creative" in writing down Zuma's responses *much rolling of eyes*

As to the tender thing. Welcome to the service provider side of things. I've just had a meeting where the customer asks "why are we doing this?". I did not tell them "because you've already bought and most likely paid for it, fewl"

2:27 PM  

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