HOPEWELL RADEBE
OUR Country’s biggest consumer show, The Rand Show, promises to bring hundreds of lifestyle-related exhibits, great deals’ shopping, and a top-class line-up of entertainment.
Worker hides electric cables at the Rand Show entertainment park
After spending this morning walking about around the show grounds and halls, I marvelled at the sounds of hammers, crackling steel and brooms as seasonal workers put their shoulder on the wheels doing the last finishes before the show starts tomorrow (April 6th).
After years of attending the show – I can assure you I’ve missed only a few in the past 28 years since I first attended when I was only 12-years-old – I stopped at the area where artificial water pool and a very high stand was being erected for the Flying Fools High Dive team from Canada. Organisers say these crazy souls will be performing in SA for the first time, which means the Rand Show will have the new-and-exclusive attraction.
My kids last year amazed me when the wanted to spend an hour and half watching the circus at the Rand Show. I did let them go while I used the unsolicited break to breath and cold beer at one of the spots inside the arena. I noticed workers cleaning up the area where the Kids Theatre will be hosted and there are snake shows planned. I won’t be the guest there, but my wife has no fear of snake. I have no doubt she’d want to see and would most likely take the kids.
Good article BrettSA is fast going to lose out to the north as the gaewtay to Africa. Its looking less like if and more like when .We are inherently dependent on mining, but instead of encouraging mining, the State is discouraging as much as possible. Instead of ensuring that if you want to do business in Africa you have to come through SA, we are fast losing out to our neighbours who are circumventing our creaking infrastructure and steep levies.CT, Coega, East London, Durban and Richards Bay should be Africa’ gaewtay. Where is the reliable high-speed cargo railway link from these ports to the interior?Maputo is still small but is now an increasingly popular alternative to Richards Bay. When Ncala is finished up north and the rail links finalized, we’ll become irrelevant.Africa is where the major wealth is to be found and SA is doing everything to avoid getting in on the act. We should be making sure we are the best place to do business on the African continent our survival depends on it. Alas, we doing exactly the opposite. Pity the masses are going to ensure that the ANC wins again in 2014 and continues this downward spiral into economic irrelevance some things will never change.I no longer have any sympathy for the poor masses, they have continually made their choice at the ballot box and must live with the consequences. I will try and become mobile so I can do business up north where the action is going to be at.
That was a great interview with GasLand dieotcrr, Josh Fox. he really summed up everything on the negative effects the gas industry has on the environment while sharing the extreme importance on sustaining our natural world.. im now really a huge supporter of using renewable energy