Too Fat to be Buried
According to an article on News24 today, a Pretoria man who weighed 550kg before his death, is too fat to have a normal burial.
The massive 550 kg body of the deceased man could not fit into the mortuary and so a cold room has to be used to store the body in the meantime.
Cremation is out of the question as the body is just too large for the crematorium to process. This leaves the problem of burial. Due to the size of the body a special double coffin will be needed to bury the body in.
The man's family is desperately appealing to members of the public to assist in raising money for the special coffin and burial that is needed.
WTF!! (Sorry Ma) Has the man never heard of diet pills.
Make R20 000pm in rental income
Property rental is one of the best ways that there is to make money. If you look at at most of the successful businessmen in the world, somewhere along the line you will discover that they have large amounts of real estate that are being rented out and which are providing a solid monthly income.
The reason why this type of investment always rates tops is that every year rentals increase by 8 to 10% ensuring that your income grows year on year. Additionally the value of the property increases and in some instances the property can grow by as much as 25% in a single year if there is a boom in that area.
Time for you to Invest in Property
- Rare Investment Opportunity
A very rare investment opportunity has just emerged.
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5 Rental flats already occupied by tenants
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Large house which can be easily converted to 3 more flats
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4 lock up garages
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carport and parking for 8 more cars
This Property is situated in Geduld, Springs and is in a prime renting area. There is a long waiting list of tenants seeking to rent flats in this area.
The current established rental income is R20 000 per month which is quite a bit larger than any bond costs you may experience.
This means that from day 1 you will be running at a profit!!
For more information about this rare investment opportunity Bramel Real Estates are the Estate Agents in Springs who are dealing with the sale of this property.
Bramel Real Estates are the best people to see if you are looking at houses for sale in Springs.
Contact Melanie or Brandon at (+27)011 734 4750
Why Shopping Online is Becoming Popular
Shop from your computer
Shopping online is becoming more popular in South Africa as an increasing amount of people choose to rather shop from the comfort of their homes. More retailers have also begun to realise that online shopping is fast becoming popular and as a result each and every day more products and facilities are becoming available in the online stores.
Yesterday, a month end Saturday and one of the traditionally most busy shopping days, I had the misfortune of having to drive out to the East Rand mall area in Boksburg to look for 2 small items not readily available in my own small residential area.
What a nightmare!
Firstly, having to go out to shop means enduring the traffic jams that have become part of our roads. Highway renovations seem to have stretched for forever and have caused total chaos on the roads. Sitting in heavy traffic on a 4 lane highway that has been reduced to 2 lanes is just no fun and fellow inconsiderate drivers can make the whole affair rather nail biting.
Petrol prices are starting to also take a major part in buying decisions, especially with petrol prices jumping to over the R10-00 a litre mark. Driving to a distant shopping centre is becoming very expensive.
When you eventually get to the shopping centre you then have to find a place to park your car. This is a second nightmare and when you do find a parking you have to ensure that there is a guard to look after your precious car. South Africa is the only place where you hire private guards to watch your car when you go into shopping centres. These guards who have mostly never even driven a car before, are also experts in road safety and parking and so they teach you how to park your car at the same time.
Cool, so now we have arrived at the centre and have eventually parked our car it is time for the crowds. The shops are packed and the tills crowded with long queues. If you are unfortunate enough to be buying clothing then you also have to stand in even longer ques for the fitting rooms.
I look at the queue and see a couple of woman shyly trying to conceal, without it looking that they are about to steal, their lingerie items that they are waiting to try on. Having to wait half an hour in a busy queue holding out your latest choice of sexy G-String or Thong for all to see your choice in underwear is just not all that cool.
The best part of all of this is that invariably when you eventually manage to get to the shop where you are certain that the item you are looking for will be found you discover that they have just sold out and new stock will only be arriving at the end of the week.
Back to the car and repeat the whole process again next week!
The better alternative - Online!
Shopping from the comfort of your own home at the hour that most suits you is somehow so much more attractive than facing the shopping centre nightmare.
Sure online shopping does have some shortfalls. Not being able to touch and feel the item that you wish to buy does not create the same feeling as going to the shop and buying. Then again without the emotions attached as they are in a shop it is far easier to make a careful selection and buy only what you really need to buy without also buying a hundred other things that you don't really need but seemed like a good idea at the time.
Unfortunately most of us do want to buy something and have it available immediately. We don't want to have to wait for the company to deliver. This is the single biggest downfall of online shopping in S.A. The deliver services are not the same as those encountered in the USA and probably the best delivery service is the S.A Post office. This does however take up to a week and most customers are just too impatient to wait so long.
Possibly the area of speedy delivery is the biggest challenge facing the South African online market!
While some are hesitant to shop online due to the threat of fraud, these incidents are in fact very low. Check out that the company concerned provides adequate contact details and is a South African based company.
If in doubt call the numbers provided and satisfy yourself that they are legitimate. Any decent online store owner will be only too happy to chat with you and alleviate your online fears. Please do note that the retailers themselves are far more likely to be scammed by fraudulent transactions than you are by a scam store.
South Africans are limited as to what we are able to buy from overseas and when dealing with an overseas company you could end up with problems with customs trying to have your goods released. This is especially true in the case of medications, diet pills and herbal supplements etc.
Most online retailers offer a variety of safe and effective payment methods to suit you. Simply choose the method that you are most comfortable with whether it is credit card payment, direct deposits or EFT.
I truly believe that online shopping is going to grow stronger and stronger in the very near future. With the growth of the online shopping experience will come an improvement in the supporting fields such as delivery and secure trusted websites that carry a seal of approval similar to those used by banking websites.
Xenophobia in South Africa
Xenophobia is defined as "an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange".
While unnecessary violence, and as such Xenophobic violence, should never be tolerated or be acceptable, is Xenophobia without the violence in South Africa really justified.
Why would South Africans hate foreigners?
When we take a street look at South Africa and just how much it has changed since the ANC came to power, we start to get a real look into the cause of the Xenophobia that exists.
South Africa has suddenly become the home to millions upon millions of migrants from the rest of Africa as well as places like China, who are seeking a new and prosperous life. The seemingly prosperous South Africa with it's wide open arms has welcomed these people into the land and these very people are draining the already strained job market causing wide spread unemployment to the locals.
Looking at industries such as the construction industry, it is alarming to see just how many non South Africans are employed. The immigrants, many illegal, are often seen by unscrupulous employers to be harder and cheaper workers and as such are employed in huge numbers while our locals are jobless.
In the retail sector you need only take a look at the local store owners in order to see just how bad the situation really is. Small towns which previously had maybe 10 to 20 small stores run by locals now find that as many as 80% of these small stores are now occupied by foreign owners.
Worsening the situation is the fact that these foreign small businesses seldom employ any local workers and if they do it is usually under the worst working conditions possible.
Primarily these stores and small businesses are used as a means for their friends and family from foreign countries to gain entry into S.A. Business owners are allowed to bring fellow country men out to the country on valid working permits as long as there is no one suitable to fill the vacancy from S.A.
Jobs are advertised in the local papers with a strict requirement that the applicant must be able to fluently speak the owners language such as Chinese. Naturally there are few South Africans that are fluent in Chinese and so within a month or two we have a new "legal" work permit issued and more foreigners coming into the country.
Small retail in S.A is foreign owned
Small retail is the backbone of a thriving economy. These small retail stores, especially the Spaza stores in the townships, often are the sole means of support for some families. When these stores are taken over by foreign owners with minimal overheads then the sole income of many locals is negatively affected and again we have a rise in unemployment.
It is no wonder that much of the Xenophobic violence experienced in South Africa is vented out upon the small spaza shops in the townships. The locals in the townships realise that these foreign owned spaza shops are draining the life from their own people.
Conclusion
If South Africa wishes to eradicate Xenophobia and wishes to return to being a thriving economy then the ANC has to take a serious look at the policies that allow millions of foreigners to flood across our borders each year.
While foreigners are replacing our local work force and draining our economy instead of being used to merely supplement weak areas there will always be fuel for increased Xenophobia and xenophobic attacks.
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