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Moron-metre Pushing Up

Tech advances have made life a lot easier for everyone though older folks - with heads and hearts stuck in the 60s buckets – have struggled with the fast pace of technoloy.

For instance you can send a letter to someone in Timbuktu that they can receive instantly in real time. No grumpy, tired mailmen who sometimes don’t turn up for work but instead the sick note always shows up.

Sick notes are not known to deliver mail as everyone knows. Through the beautiful technology of GPS you can turn up at the doorstep of your heartthrob right in the labyrinth of the webby Johannesburg metropolis without asking for directions from a potential hijacker. These are good times in our lives. And it is going to get better. Bill Gates has promised it.

Editor's Comment
Public servants deserve better than union infighting

‘The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds’.- Abraham LincolnUntil then, the Council’s operations remain suspended, delaying critical decisions affecting thousands of public sector employees.The current standoff is between the Manual Workers Union on one side and the Six Cooperating Trade Unions, namely BONU, BOPEU, BTU, BDU, BOSETU and...

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