Ray's Words
Netcare Group, which is South Africa’s biggest private provider of hospital services, has decided to exit (as some wags have noted, Nexit) from Britain, where it has been invested since 2006 in 57 hospitals through General Healthcare Group. If nothing
None of us can predict with any degree of certainty how our lives might turn out from one moment to another, whether by conscious election or serendipity. We choose actions every minute that might have immediate, long-term implications, while sinking
The identity of the donor of my second heart (and his or her family) remains anonymous in terms of South African heart transplant protocols. The donor family, also, knows little – if anything at all – of my identity. As
I walk into an auto parts & repair shop. I’m here to check out the range of supplies and to ask for advice. So I go up to the counter where the owner is happy to help although I’m equally
It’s one of the great levellers, going to your local fish shop a couple of days before Good Friday, to stock up on fish, mainly because it’s one of the great food traditions in our country that transcends culture, custom
Part of my journey this Lent has been exploring olde-new music. I’ve especially been enjoying music from the Renaissance & modern, very modern iterations of that. Australian rock group Resonaxix, centred on composer-singer Brooke Shelley, who has been associated with
“South Africa rebooted” as an idea is a seductive one. We have lived through a serious nightmare under Jacob Zuma. And Cyril Ramaphosa has already shown us in small ways that his ethic is different to JZ. But it remains
The cakes and pastries, especially, have been talking to me. I see and smell their invitations – I’m sure I even hear them as I throw a wide berth around the fresh bakes corner of the local supermarket. The philosophical
How do YOU deal with a bully? A corporate one? With a new (old) Minister of Finance in place and talk of a new chief taxman to head the SA Revenue Services (SARS), it’s worth revisiting some problems that beset law-abiding
I have finally reached an agreement with the SA Revenue Services (SARS) on settling a tax assessment. It is a substantial amount of money that fell due in the wake of the global recession, which crippled many entrepreneurs and small
The confirmation of the source of last year’s outbreak of #Listeriosis in our country which has been the cause of 180 deaths is at once a relief and demands answers to more questions. There has been some criticism of the national
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