Daan’s Snippets – 29th April 2023
Gentle Reader
My fiancé (shortly to be SWMBO) and I are en route to a momentous birthday, son number one’s wedding, and my belated introduction...
Daan’s Snippets – 19th of 2019
Economy
The week before last it was reported that Zimbabwe would be releasing its own currency by year end. It’s interim currency, the RTGS $...
Daan’s Snippets – 12th August 2022
Gentle Reader
I started publishing Snippets in 1997 and, over the years repurposed the content and focus thereof to keep track of what readers wished...
Daan’s Snippets – 12th July 2021
News:
Deeds Office closures in South Africa, owing to Covid cases popping up in them: If the e-model of examination had been implemented (this has...
Daan’s Snippets – 13th January 2024
News:
Minister Lamola has appointed an advice committee with a view to reforming our criminal justice system.
Recidivism: whilst on reform – 9 out of 10...
Daan’s Snippets 2018/01
Gentle reader, this is the latest edition of a series now 21 years old. Snippets commenced publication in 1997, was modernised and rechristened in...
Daan’s Snippets – 30th of 2019
Economy
Zimbabwe: same old; hyperinflation is now such that the price on the shelf may change before you get to the till. I am gobsmacked...
Daan’s Snippets – 5th July 2021
News:
The NPA, this week, announced that it would be setting up a specialist unit to deal with apartheid-era atrocities. Sure – this is what...
Daan’s Snippets – 16th August 2021
Gentle ReaderThis will be my last newsletter for a few weeks as I will shortly depart to go dirt-biking in Georgia (the country) with...
Daan’s Snippets – 31st January 2022
Economy
Performance:
Our economy has stabilised and is set for a 1.5 -7% GDP growth this year (the World Bank had said 2.1%).With a population growth...
Daan’s Snippets 31st of 2019
Economy
A very interesting development in our economic debate is the apparently growing (if grudging) acceptance of the new economic recovery strategy plan flighted by...
Daan’s Snippets – 8th February 2021
This time of the year only politicians litigate...and little of importance happens. At the recent full-bench Pretoria hearing of the RAF woes, the CEO...
