Voetsek back to Europe 18 month update.
I’ve been working for huge multi-national corporation for the last year. First time in my life. I always worked for small companies before. The part of the company that I work for has about 800 people in various countries.
I'm incredibly happy to announce that after 6 months here I was able to resign from that job that was exploiting me today. Got an amazing opportunity starting 1 March. Very grateful. 🍾
Can I please ask everyone to never call Cyril a great business man or a Capitalist again? He is neither. He made his money from BEE deals with large companies like Standard Bank.
“78% of Grade 4 learners could not read for meaning in any language.”
“79% of Grade 6 maths teachers in the country scored below 60% on a Grade 6 maths test.”
In the long run SA’s failed public education system is a much bigger crisis than Eskom.
I just spoke to someone whose daughter couldn't get a place for do an honours degree in South Africa. She needed 65% and got 79%. Only 5 out of the 50 spots could go to a white person. She will be studying in the UK next year.
Why do people say I'm lying when I say this happens?
South Africa just ended the Covid state of disaster after two years. Now there's a new national state of disaster for something that affects only one province. The ANC just loves those emergency powers, don't they?
I had a Skype call with someone from SA today that said "the reason things in the Netherlands are so clean is because of all the rain". My response was that the fact that people pick up their rubbish might also have something to do with it.
While SA is dabbling with forced vaccinations and internment camps, the Netherlands is dropping the last remaining Covid restrictions completely on Wednesday.
So far 173 people have been arrested in connection to the riots in the Netherlands on the weekend.
How many were arrested when they burned down half of Natal in July again?
The time has come for me to say goodbye.
Thanks to everyone I've had fun with over the last two years.
Best of luck to all you South African especially.
I might still post an occasional update on my life here for those that are interested.
ANC wants state of emergency similar to what they used during lockdown. Remember how well they handled that? 6 people sitting in a dark room, making decisions with no accountability. The coming corruption will be staggering.
While other countries are building new nuclear power plants or sending people to space the SA government is desperately trying to figure out how to print driver's licenses. 🤣
We are introducing a new card license machine, at the first cabinet sitting of this year, I’ll present it for approval. This is a process that has been ongoing
The old machine broke down during this process. It’s now being fixed in made in Germany where it was made.
Voetsek back to Europe 3 month update.
We've been in the Netherlands a little over 3 months now. So far the experience has been overwhelmingly positive. Basically things are just the way they're supposed to be. Everything works and if it doesn't it gets fixed quickly.
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Can someone explain why Afriforum is fighting for the right to wave the old South African flag?
I almost always support them but this seems like something that will just make more people hate you and confirm what they’ve been accusing you of for all these years.
Step 1. Starve SA tourism industry until it dies leaving a vacuum.
Step 2. Set up a fund to start new tourism businesses that benefits ANC cadres under the guise of BEE.
The Phoenix posters and Cliff saga clearly show that South Africa is very far from changing direction. They will keep crying racism and voting ANC until the country gives it's final dying breath.
Kids both left their bicycles outside on the sidewalk by accident yesterday afternoon. When we went outside almost 24 hours laters they were still there. I'm still in shock. 🤣
Why would you put your children in a school with only white teachers and then complain about the white teachers afterwards? Go somewhere else. Nobody forced you to put your kids there.
A friend's young son just landed a job with Amazon in the Cape.
If you're a minority person in SA, you can try working for an international company where BEE laws don't apply to you.
Also gives you options to relocate overseas later if you want/have to.
Voetsek back to Europe 8 month update.
I spent the first 7 months working for half the salary I was earning in SA. The company that brought me over put a massive penalty clause in my contract if I left before 1 year.
I hear in some countries you leave unwanted furniture on the sidewalk and someone that wants it takes it home.
In South Africa you just leave it in your living room.
One of the companies here in The Netherlands has discovered that the employees coming from South Africa tend to develop heart problems two years after emigration and they now keep an eye out for this.
I'm convinced a large proportion of people in SA suffer from PTSD.
My friend lives in the Netherlands. His daughter is 16 and works a few hours a week at MacDonalds, then walks home alone at 11PM through the wood. She makes R5000 a month pocket money.
To them this is completely normal.
Can anyone tell me why Juliarse has crawled out from under his Gucci duvet covers all of a sudden?
What are they diverting our attention away from this time?
I received information from an anonymous source that there was a spike of 18000 positive Corona cases in one day in SA because someone had a massive backlog of positive tests that they dumped into the system all at once.