It is standard practice for most people to retire from their jobs at the age of 65. Apparently there is no law in South Africa that specifies that people are supposed to be retired at that age, but companies usually have a retirement age policy that is communicated to new staff when they take up employment with the company.

I personally don't know where this magical figure of 65 came from, but can only guess that when this pactise started people were generally expected to live for the next 15 ...
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I have just read about a 14-year old girl who has disappeared, presumably after chatting to an adult on Mxit. In response, some commentators have suggested that Mxit be "suspended" until something is done to regulate it.

While I understand the frustration of feeling helpless, I nevertheless don't think shutting down Mxit will solve the problem, because children would simply find other outlets to chat - either online or through their cellphones.

What needs to happen is, parents must impress u...

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Is it really fair to assume that every black person who occupies a senior post is an incompetent affirmative action appointee?

This assumption makes life unbearable for black managers, especially those in government departments and parastatals.The fact that people in government departments now have to apply for every senior post (as opposed to in the past, when promotions were automatic)  does not seem to faze those who are bent on making this unfortunate assumption.

Of course, even if these bl...
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Am I the only one who think that we no longer have as many rolemodels for our young people as we used to? Of course, your own parents can be your rolemodels, but I was thinking of societal rolemodels.

Many children regard celebrities as their rolemodels. Now the problem with that is, just about everybody is now regarded as a celebrity. One need only appear on TV once to become one.

While looking up to celebrities is in itself not a bad thing, the snag is that some of these young celebrities are...
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It is a well-known fact that, 13 years into our new democracy, some township parents still prefer to send their children to what  used to be known as Model C schools and to schools in the former white areas. I won't go into the reasons for this trend.

Some township people have complained that many of these children express themselves better in English (as opposed to their own home languages). Some say that these children tend to think that they know better than their supposedly less educated p...
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