Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!

What are you going to be doing during the lockdown?

  • At home. I’m non essential

    Votes: 70 41.2%
  • Working. The virus doesn’t scare me

    Votes: 41 24.1%
  • On standby

    Votes: 10 5.9%
  • Working from home. Too essential to take any risk!

    Votes: 66 38.8%

  • Total voters
    170
  • Poll closed .
A presentation has been prepared for Gauteng premier David Makhura by the provincial treasury’s audit services which reportedly reveals the following:

  • R4.5 million was paid to companies that did not supply any goods
  • R5 million was paid to companies to deliver PPE even though the department had not contracts with them.
  • R12 million worth of goods were delivered before the issue of purchase orders.
  • R82 million worth of goods were ordered from companies that were not registered with the Treasury’s central supplier database.
  • R239 million worth of goods and services were ordered from companies that were not tax-compliant and whose bank accounts had not been verified.
  • https://mybroadband.co.za/news/government/363310-gauteng-covid-19-corruption-crackdown.html


 
After being forced to close again due to the UK's government new local lockdown 3 tier system a pub in the Northwest of England has changed it's name and all signage to show their feelings of the situation!

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Government has updated South Africa’s land expropriation bill – here’s what you need to know
https://businesstech.co.za/news/pro...-what-you-need-to-know/?utm_source=newsletter

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When can land be expropriated?

One of the key focuses of the bill are the circumstances when land may be expropriated without compensation. This includes:
  • Where the land is not being used and the owner’s main purpose is not to develop the land or use it to generate income, but to benefit from an appreciation of its market value;
  • Where an organ of state holds land that it is not using for its core functions and is not reasonably likely to require the land for its future activities in that regard, and the organ of state acquired the land for no consideration;
  • Where an owner has abandoned the land by failing to exercise control over it – notwithstanding registration of ownership in terms of the Deeds Registries Act;
  • Where the market value of the land is equivalent to, or less than, the present value of direct state investment or subsidy in the acquisition and beneficial capital improvement of the land;
  • When the nature or condition of the property poses a health, safety or physical risk to persons or other property.''
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IF you haven't heard enough bull sxit for one day....
[Guess this doesn't include my R100 bribe already payable ?]
New traffic rules say you must now pay an extra R100 when fined
The Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act has introduced a new “infringement penalty levy” of R100 which is payable on every infringement committed.

While this levy is not new – it was contained in the Aarto Act signed into law in August 2019 – it was once again highlighted in the recently published information related to the Aarto regulations.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/moto...ra-r100-when-fined.html?utm_source=newsletter


 
The Boomtown Rats song I Don’t Like Mondays was inspired by a shooting spree in America by killer Brenda Spencer. When questioned by the police about her motivations for the murder spree she answered ‘I don’t like Mondays.’

 
The Boomtown Rats song I Don’t Like Mondays was inspired by a shooting spree in America by killer Brenda Spencer. When questioned by the police about her motivations for the murder spree she answered ‘I don’t like Mondays.’



Seems like a valid reason.
 
Something a little more light hearted for this covid lockdowns the mental health problems have sky rocketed with these ongoing lockdowns still in force in Australia. Let's just say people are past the point of being gat vol.

 
The previous list of high-risk had 60 countries. Down to 22 at the mo.

Here’s the updated list of high-risk countries that can’t travel to South Africa
  • Argentina
  • Bangladesh
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • France
  • Germany
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Italy
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Russia
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
  • USA
 
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