The Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955. It reflects the rejection of much of the status quo in South Africa and is the aggregate and synthesis of thousands of “freedom demands” from the population at that time. It is an inspirational document and reflects how bad things were for most South Africans at that time.…
Debt Relief, mostly for third world countries, gets a fair amount of airplay from time to time. Less so now that the developed world has realised maybe it could do with a little debt relief itself. Debt relief can make sense from a few different directions, arguably for good reasons such as: As a form…
Most people are, most of the time, apathetic and a little prone to nervousness about their financial security. Runs on banks occur when there is a loss of confidence in the bank’s ability to return depositors’ money. They don’t happen when a rich ex-footballer tries to whip the population in a frenzy of retribution. They…
It seems the taxi industry is unhappy with the proposed AARTO rules where traffic law infringements will earn drivers demerit points and eventually possibly licence suspension. One of the reasons given is: Satawu previously warned that Aarto will result in job losses, as drivers will lose their licences once the maximum amount of demerit points…
A speed-camera that automatically enters those driving below the speed limit into a lottery? Interesting idea, more carrot than stick so to speak. Have they considered that this attracts people to drive by it slowly rather than attract people driving past it to drive slowly? Â Instant congestion. Economics is all about incentives and often about…
Seth Godin’s Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable–Includes new bonus chapter introduces a new P of marketing (to complement the product, price, place and promotion, or further expand the many Ps that have since been added to the marketing mix). Why Purple Cow? Because it’s extreme, it cuts through the oversaturated…
Divorce is becoming less popular, the world didn’t end at the end of the millenium and StatsSA makes it hard for us to draw conclusions.
I’ve been exploring the 2007 Census data for South Africa, mostly just to see what is available. I was checking the reasonability of some marital status assumptions for pensions valuations, which got me looking at the marital status info from the Census. Some interesting descriptive graphs. First, let’s look at the total population. (Note this…
