Down And Out - Pell Melee. Cardinal Sins
SCHOOL DETENTION IN MY NECK of the woods is now called “after school reflection”. At break time, it’s “in school reflection”. My son tells me it’s not politically correct to call it detention anymore. I ask him why and his reply: “Those people just sit there coming up with ideas to piss people off.” Quite right too.
There are no such qualms in the May statistics on “Time in Immigration Detention Facilities” from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. [Which might just explain Australian touchiness about use of the word. – Ed.] The numbers show 1,400 immigrants in detention in May (including 343 visa over-stayers), with the average time in detention being 443 days, and 319 people in custody for more than two years. In 2013 when this figure peaked at 13,000, about 2,000 children were in detention “due to an increase in irregular maritime arrivals.
Clearly the federal government’s punitive policies have been effective deterrents. That, coupled with an agreement this month to compensate 1,900 asylum-seekers formerly held at the Manus Island Detention Centre. In terms of the conditional court settlement, the government is to pay the asylum-seekers a settlement of $70 million plus costs, to be distributed according to their length of detention and severity of their alleged injuries.
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Lennie The Liquidator Faces R500,000 Defamation Suit
After losing his cool when his fees were questioned
Panel Beater De Luxe
Danmar Autobody and its erstwhile directors get a serious panel beating in court papers. Corruption and theft are said to have destroyed the firm chaired by Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter, leaving 200 workers destitute and threatening to kill.
Meet Covid Diarist Ronald Wohlman
Ronald Wohlman – EX SOUTH African copywriter, author, and actor – never dreamt that his lockdown diaries, written on Facebook and followed by people all over the world – would become his “life’s work”.
A Picture Of Peace?
Beware: Appearances can be deceptive
Flogging A (Battery-Driven) Dead Horse
Why plug-in vehicles are not all they’re cracked up to be– and, likely, never will be
Everybody Drinks Corona
I am hesitant to go Into the pub today. Not because it’s illegal, but there is a crème colored 1985 Mercedes 300D parked behind the pine tree. This means the devil is inside; that’s what we call Dr. De Villiers. You don’t know whether you will encounter the good doctor with the charming bedside manner or the violent, bipolar bully. The problem is, most of the time, you can never be sure which it is, so it’s best to always keep a social distance.
Never Take A Hypochondriac To A Pandemic
From Ronald Wohlman’s New York Corona Diary
The money train
Transnet in court battle with liquidators of Gupta-linked audit firm over R57m in ‘corrupt’ payments and invoices
‘He's no pharmaceutical genius, he's a vulture'
Pharma con seeks prison release to ‘help find Covid cure’
Bush school – A memoir
OUR SCHOOL WAS IN THE MIDDLE of the bush, ten miles from the nearest town in the harsh beauty of the Zimbabwean highveld. It started life in World War II as No 26 EFTS Guinea Fowl, a Royal Air Force elementary flying training school and I arrived there in 1954, just seven years after it became an all-white co-ed state boarding school.
