IN A DO-GOODER FRAME OF MIND, Noseweek’s intrepid correspondent [Please God, not another one! – Ed.] last year ventured out of Sydney’s eastern suburbs to see if she could be of any use at the Asylum Seekers Centre in the somewhat less salubrious Newtown.
Helping with communications, or teaching English, perhaps. As it turned out, there were over 2,000 volunteers on the centre’s wait-list. Since then, she has applied twice and twice been knocked back for volunteer roles.
The latest email is seeking coaches to help prepare asylum seekers for job interviews: a day a week, half with the interview subject, and half researching the company and the specifics of the job being sought. But the centre warns: “Please Note: Due to our limited capacity in staffing and overwhelming number of applications received, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.” Do not call, questions and inquiries should be emailed.
One of Australia’s best-loved TV presenters – South African import Anton Enus – has gone public about his bowel cancer to raise awareness of the country’s second-highest cause of cancer deaths after lung cancer. Enus is definitely on the side of the angels. Described in the Sydney Morning Herald as “utterly handsome and extremely svelt”, Enus says he has the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program to thank for detection of his illness. Available to all Australians from the age of 50, it includes a home test kit that arrives free in the mail.
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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.
