Thursday, November 24, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Chilling Effects
The Chilling Effects database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
Monday, September 12, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Ampersand
http://hotword.dictionary.com/ampersand/?__utma=1.1459303233.1315034349.1315034349.1315034349.1&__utmb=1.2.9.1315034349&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1315034349.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=REBOSA&__utmv=-&__utmk=136672944
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Did Stalin also have 5-year plans?
Well here we go with Sa's imitation of the planned economy!
http://www.npconline.co.za/
As one facebook blogger said:
Schalk Dormehl 10:02am Aug 26
Ag somebody please go read http://www.facebook.com/l/EAQBYfGwHAQDnm6IV-ueA9-GuOfv0_tTf5gyMR5LcgU5qbQ/www.npconline.co.za, it's quite shocking since it is so well intentioned yet so lacking a sound ethical and economic grounding...
http://www.npconline.co.za/
As one facebook blogger said:
Schalk Dormehl 10:02am Aug 26
Ag somebody please go read http://www.facebook.com/l/EAQBYfGwHAQDnm6IV-ueA9-GuOfv0_tTf5gyMR5LcgU5qbQ/www.npconline.co.za, it's quite shocking since it is so well intentioned yet so lacking a sound ethical and economic grounding...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Conservation
Baboons - The war is on.
http://www.africanconservation.org/forum/south-african-wildlife-in-crisis/9590-south-africa-s-cape-baboons-being-maimed.html
Working wirh baboons in SA:
Enkosini Eco Experience
P.O. Box 1197, Lydenburg 1120, South Africa
Tel: +27.82.442.6773, Skype: enkosini
E-mail: info@enkosini.com / enkosini@yahoo.com
(*please send all correspondence to both email addresses*)
www.enkosiniecoexperience.com/BaboonSanctuary.htm
To contact the US office:
Enkosini Eco Experience
P.O. Box 15355, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
Tel: +1.206.604.2664, Fax: +1.310.359.0269, Skype: enkosini
E-mail: info@enkosini.com / enkosini@yahoo.com
A story: http://blogs.fuqua.duke.edu/south_africa/2010/04/15/how-many-baboons-does-it-take/
FSC Hearing on the culling of Baboons by York Timbers.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201105240120.html
http://www.fsc.org/fileadmin/web-data/public/document_center/Stakeholder_updates/FSC-Complaints_Panel-GeaSphere-Final_Report.pdf
http://www.africanconservation.org/forum/south-african-wildlife-in-crisis/9590-south-africa-s-cape-baboons-being-maimed.html
Working wirh baboons in SA:
Enkosini Eco Experience
P.O. Box 1197, Lydenburg 1120, South Africa
Tel: +27.82.442.6773, Skype: enkosini
E-mail: info@enkosini.com / enkosini@yahoo.com
(*please send all correspondence to both email addresses*)
www.enkosiniecoexperience.com/BaboonSanctuary.htm
To contact the US office:
Enkosini Eco Experience
P.O. Box 15355, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
Tel: +1.206.604.2664, Fax: +1.310.359.0269, Skype: enkosini
E-mail: info@enkosini.com / enkosini@yahoo.com
A story: http://blogs.fuqua.duke.edu/south_africa/2010/04/15/how-many-baboons-does-it-take/
FSC Hearing on the culling of Baboons by York Timbers.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201105240120.html
http://www.fsc.org/fileadmin/web-data/public/document_center/Stakeholder_updates/FSC-Complaints_Panel-GeaSphere-Final_Report.pdf
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
The Gadget Shop
The Gadget Shop
Shop 228, Randridge Mall, Randburg.
Tel 011 792 4912
Fax 086 518 4388
randrige@thegadgetshop.co.za
www.thegadgetshop.co.za
Shop 228, Randridge Mall, Randburg.
Tel 011 792 4912
Fax 086 518 4388
randrige@thegadgetshop.co.za
www.thegadgetshop.co.za
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Streets of Johannesburg
Streets of Johannesburg
http://sojoburg.blogspot.com/
http://sojoburg.blogspot.com/2011/07/eloff-street.html
http://sojoburg.blogspot.com/
http://sojoburg.blogspot.com/2011/07/eloff-street.html
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Attica
Thirty-Two Years After Attica: Many More Blacks in Prison but not as Guards
By Peter Wagner and Rose Heyer
In September 1971, thousands of prisoners at Attica prison in rural New York State rebelled, taking control of D-yard. Sixty-three percent of the prisoners were black or Latino, but at that time there were no blacks and only one Latino serving as guards. Seventy percent of the prisoners were urban, mostly from New York City, but 80 percent of the guards were from rural New York.
The disparity between the keepers and the kept increased tensions at the prison by inserting a cultural gulf between guards and prisoners, and by giving black and Latino prisoners painful evidence that their fate was, in part, determined by race.
After four days of negotiations, Governor Rockefeller ordered an assault on the prison, turning what was then the largest prison rebellion into the bloodiest. Thirty-two prisoners and 11 guard hostages died, almost all in the retaking of the prison.
Attica and the investigation into its causes caused a fundamental reexamination of correctional policy throughout America. While food, mail policies and rehabilitative programs were improved, the demand for more black and Latino staff proved to be among the easiest to support and the most difficult to implement. Writing in 1973 about "modern" correctional facilities, leading scholar William Nagel well summarized the response and the dilemma: "To avoid a federal Attica, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is now feverishly attempting to recruit black staff, but its task is complicated by the remoteness of its facilities."
By 1995, the latest year with complete data, the prisoner population at Attica had increased to 80 percent black and Latino. But out of a total staff of 854, the number of blacks had only risen to 21 and the Latino staff to 7. Attica's staff remains 96.7 percent white because Attica itself has not moved. It remains in a rural, overwhelmingly white region in New York State.
While prisons themselves are impossible to move, this lesson of Attica about the dangers of prisoner-staff disparities has been lost in the rush of the late 1980s and 1990s to build more prisons. Speculative ideas about rural economic development have trumped safe and rehabilitative correctional policy. Two-thirds of new prisons have been built in rural areas despite the experience at Attica and despite the research showing that incarcerating a prisoner close to home aids family visits and helps reduce the odds a prisoner will re-offend and be returned to prison.
Prior to 1980, 36 percent of prisons were in rural areas, although only 20% of the country is rural. But by the early 1990s the trend was going the wrong way, with 60 percent of new prisons being built in rural areas.
Senior federal officials explained the results to Nagel in 1973: "In the rural areas you get the very best type of white, mid-American line staff; but it is admittedly more difficult to recruit blacks and professional staff which are available in the cities."
Has the federal Bureau of Prisons or state departments of correction succeeded in overcoming the difficulties in attracting black staff to rural prisons? According to our analysis of prison staffing at each prison operating in 1995, the answer is no.
In 1995, there were 889 federal and state prisons with at least 100 black prisoners. After excluding a handful that did not provide the race of prisoners or staff, we were able to identify only 64 prisons where the percentage of staff that were black was at least as high as the percentage of the prisoners that were black. Of those prisons, not one was outside of the south or the urban cities of the north.
Half of the prison cells in this country are filled with black citizens, but only 20 percent of the prison jobs are held by black employees. In the eyes of the American justice system, it appears every race still has its separate place.
Peter Wagner is a Soros Justice Fellow at the Prison Reform Advocacy Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rose Heyer is an independent researcher in Massachusetts.
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/articles/alternet102503.html
By Peter Wagner and Rose Heyer
In September 1971, thousands of prisoners at Attica prison in rural New York State rebelled, taking control of D-yard. Sixty-three percent of the prisoners were black or Latino, but at that time there were no blacks and only one Latino serving as guards. Seventy percent of the prisoners were urban, mostly from New York City, but 80 percent of the guards were from rural New York.
The disparity between the keepers and the kept increased tensions at the prison by inserting a cultural gulf between guards and prisoners, and by giving black and Latino prisoners painful evidence that their fate was, in part, determined by race.
After four days of negotiations, Governor Rockefeller ordered an assault on the prison, turning what was then the largest prison rebellion into the bloodiest. Thirty-two prisoners and 11 guard hostages died, almost all in the retaking of the prison.
Attica and the investigation into its causes caused a fundamental reexamination of correctional policy throughout America. While food, mail policies and rehabilitative programs were improved, the demand for more black and Latino staff proved to be among the easiest to support and the most difficult to implement. Writing in 1973 about "modern" correctional facilities, leading scholar William Nagel well summarized the response and the dilemma: "To avoid a federal Attica, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is now feverishly attempting to recruit black staff, but its task is complicated by the remoteness of its facilities."
By 1995, the latest year with complete data, the prisoner population at Attica had increased to 80 percent black and Latino. But out of a total staff of 854, the number of blacks had only risen to 21 and the Latino staff to 7. Attica's staff remains 96.7 percent white because Attica itself has not moved. It remains in a rural, overwhelmingly white region in New York State.
While prisons themselves are impossible to move, this lesson of Attica about the dangers of prisoner-staff disparities has been lost in the rush of the late 1980s and 1990s to build more prisons. Speculative ideas about rural economic development have trumped safe and rehabilitative correctional policy. Two-thirds of new prisons have been built in rural areas despite the experience at Attica and despite the research showing that incarcerating a prisoner close to home aids family visits and helps reduce the odds a prisoner will re-offend and be returned to prison.
Prior to 1980, 36 percent of prisons were in rural areas, although only 20% of the country is rural. But by the early 1990s the trend was going the wrong way, with 60 percent of new prisons being built in rural areas.
Senior federal officials explained the results to Nagel in 1973: "In the rural areas you get the very best type of white, mid-American line staff; but it is admittedly more difficult to recruit blacks and professional staff which are available in the cities."
Has the federal Bureau of Prisons or state departments of correction succeeded in overcoming the difficulties in attracting black staff to rural prisons? According to our analysis of prison staffing at each prison operating in 1995, the answer is no.
In 1995, there were 889 federal and state prisons with at least 100 black prisoners. After excluding a handful that did not provide the race of prisoners or staff, we were able to identify only 64 prisons where the percentage of staff that were black was at least as high as the percentage of the prisoners that were black. Of those prisons, not one was outside of the south or the urban cities of the north.
Half of the prison cells in this country are filled with black citizens, but only 20 percent of the prison jobs are held by black employees. In the eyes of the American justice system, it appears every race still has its separate place.
Peter Wagner is a Soros Justice Fellow at the Prison Reform Advocacy Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rose Heyer is an independent researcher in Massachusetts.
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/articles/alternet102503.html
Linden Murders
Local History TidBits
The Linden Murders - Unsolved!
William F. Brown Jr. published the book from which the following excerpts have been taken. This introduction presents the story of five brutal slayings in a rural area of Genesee County (NY) in a span of seven years and two months. This carnage, which snuffed out the lives of four women and one man, ocurred in a remote region of Genesee County where neighbors always know what neighbors are doing and no stranger goes unnoticed. The comings and goings of every deliveryman, every salesman, are charted and unconsciously recorded by men and women in fields, barns, kitchens and front porches.
Yet no one was ever arrested for any of these five murders. No motive was found. No connection among the killings was uncovered. No clues that could even suggest the identity of the slayer or slayers were ever found.
These five murders were, to the dismay and frustration of policemen, two sheriffs and two district attorneys, the perfect crimes.
Today, the hamlet of Linden is a cluster of thirty-six homes tucked among tree-covered hills in south-central Genesee County. Linden is nine miles south of Batavia and eight miles east of Attica. It is near no major highways. It has no churches, no schools, no gas stations, no Post Office. The rock-strewn Little Tonawanda Creek wanders sluggishly north through the valley that separates the two areas of Linden. A single railroad track bisects the community.
Seventy years ago the name Linden evoked the instant recognition that the name Attica has stirred since September, 1971. Seventy years ago Linden was the center of attention, unwelcome and unwanted attention. Linden then had about 100 residents. Within 17 months four of them met violent deaths. The crimes were never solved. No motive was unearthed. No suspect was arrested. No trial was ever held.
The Linden murders began October 16, 1922 when a frail 73-year-old spinster, Miss Franc Kimball, was killed in her home. Her head was beaten to a pulp and her body stuffed under a fruit cellar shelf. The crime was never solved.
Seventeen months later, March 11, 1924, three more residents were brutally slain, again in the early evening hours. Mrs. Mabel Morse went to a neighbor's for milk. The Whaley family lived only fifty yards from the Morse store and when Mrs. Morse failed to return, some men gathered at the store to listen to a radio program went looking for her.
They went to the Whaley residence and saw smoke seeping from the lighted small frame house. The doors were locked but someone broke a window and the men entered. They put out the smoldering fire in a first floor bedroom and, as the smoke cleared, saw three bodies in a pile covered with kerosene-soaked rag rugs and paper.
Thomas Whaley, a section hand on the Erie Railroad that ran behind his home, had been shot in the neck. His wife had a single gunshot wound in her head. Mrs. Morse had been clubbed to death with an adz handle found nearby. All three bodies were burned but recognizable.
An intense investigation followed. Several tramps, a common sight along the railroad in Linden, were questioned. Linden was overrun by police ( the Genesee County Sheriff's Department and the fairly-new New York State Police shared the investigation), reporters from throughout Western New York and sightseers who clogged the narrow snow-rutted roads.
Gradually, the frenzy abated. the newspaper headlines grew smaller. Soon it was the "first anniversary of the Linden triple murders." No connection, if there were any, could be deduced between the Kimball murder of 1922 and the triple slayings of 1924.
Gruesome and perplexing as they were, the Linden murders soon faded from the public's memory. In the Daily News edition of March 11, 1925, one year after the triple slayings, a four paragraph story on the front page said: "No clues were ever found that led to the arrest of the slayer." The final sentence read: "Genesee County authorities and clever detectives carried on during the next several weeks (after the murders) the most thorough murder investigations that could possibly be made, but the Linden slayer still goes unapprehended."
The most common belief was that a local resident went to rob the Whaleys and, in fear and panic, shot them. Mabel Morse happened by and was clubbed to death to remove the only witness to the crime. The intruder then tried to destroy by fire the evidence of his horrible crime. If the killer was a man (no woman suspects were ever mentioned) in his early 20's, he probably has been dead for decades. The average life expectancy of a man born in the early part of this century was 47 years.
off-beat-history.wny.org/local.htm
The Linden Murders - Unsolved!
William F. Brown Jr. published the book from which the following excerpts have been taken. This introduction presents the story of five brutal slayings in a rural area of Genesee County (NY) in a span of seven years and two months. This carnage, which snuffed out the lives of four women and one man, ocurred in a remote region of Genesee County where neighbors always know what neighbors are doing and no stranger goes unnoticed. The comings and goings of every deliveryman, every salesman, are charted and unconsciously recorded by men and women in fields, barns, kitchens and front porches.
Yet no one was ever arrested for any of these five murders. No motive was found. No connection among the killings was uncovered. No clues that could even suggest the identity of the slayer or slayers were ever found.
These five murders were, to the dismay and frustration of policemen, two sheriffs and two district attorneys, the perfect crimes.
Today, the hamlet of Linden is a cluster of thirty-six homes tucked among tree-covered hills in south-central Genesee County. Linden is nine miles south of Batavia and eight miles east of Attica. It is near no major highways. It has no churches, no schools, no gas stations, no Post Office. The rock-strewn Little Tonawanda Creek wanders sluggishly north through the valley that separates the two areas of Linden. A single railroad track bisects the community.
Seventy years ago the name Linden evoked the instant recognition that the name Attica has stirred since September, 1971. Seventy years ago Linden was the center of attention, unwelcome and unwanted attention. Linden then had about 100 residents. Within 17 months four of them met violent deaths. The crimes were never solved. No motive was unearthed. No suspect was arrested. No trial was ever held.
The Linden murders began October 16, 1922 when a frail 73-year-old spinster, Miss Franc Kimball, was killed in her home. Her head was beaten to a pulp and her body stuffed under a fruit cellar shelf. The crime was never solved.
Seventeen months later, March 11, 1924, three more residents were brutally slain, again in the early evening hours. Mrs. Mabel Morse went to a neighbor's for milk. The Whaley family lived only fifty yards from the Morse store and when Mrs. Morse failed to return, some men gathered at the store to listen to a radio program went looking for her.
They went to the Whaley residence and saw smoke seeping from the lighted small frame house. The doors were locked but someone broke a window and the men entered. They put out the smoldering fire in a first floor bedroom and, as the smoke cleared, saw three bodies in a pile covered with kerosene-soaked rag rugs and paper.
Thomas Whaley, a section hand on the Erie Railroad that ran behind his home, had been shot in the neck. His wife had a single gunshot wound in her head. Mrs. Morse had been clubbed to death with an adz handle found nearby. All three bodies were burned but recognizable.
An intense investigation followed. Several tramps, a common sight along the railroad in Linden, were questioned. Linden was overrun by police ( the Genesee County Sheriff's Department and the fairly-new New York State Police shared the investigation), reporters from throughout Western New York and sightseers who clogged the narrow snow-rutted roads.
Gradually, the frenzy abated. the newspaper headlines grew smaller. Soon it was the "first anniversary of the Linden triple murders." No connection, if there were any, could be deduced between the Kimball murder of 1922 and the triple slayings of 1924.
Gruesome and perplexing as they were, the Linden murders soon faded from the public's memory. In the Daily News edition of March 11, 1925, one year after the triple slayings, a four paragraph story on the front page said: "No clues were ever found that led to the arrest of the slayer." The final sentence read: "Genesee County authorities and clever detectives carried on during the next several weeks (after the murders) the most thorough murder investigations that could possibly be made, but the Linden slayer still goes unapprehended."
The most common belief was that a local resident went to rob the Whaleys and, in fear and panic, shot them. Mabel Morse happened by and was clubbed to death to remove the only witness to the crime. The intruder then tried to destroy by fire the evidence of his horrible crime. If the killer was a man (no woman suspects were ever mentioned) in his early 20's, he probably has been dead for decades. The average life expectancy of a man born in the early part of this century was 47 years.
off-beat-history.wny.org/local.htm
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Catalytic Class
http://blogs.cgdev.org/global_prosperity_wonkcast/2011/02/28/the-new-bottom-billion-andy-sumner/
Friday, April 22, 2011
Leadership
The fact that the Canadian army put this on a website for general consuption - even to armies that may be in oppsition to them - either means that it is of now worth - it will not benefit the opposition army; or they believe that their opposite are too dumb to use it!
http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/cfli-ilfc/lea/conc/ch5-eng.asp
I believe the former is true - this information does not affect leadership performance.
http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/cfli-ilfc/lea/conc/ch5-eng.asp
I believe the former is true - this information does not affect leadership performance.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The noose is tightening...
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
07 APRIL 2011
MEDIA RELEASE – ESTATE AGENCY AFFAIRS BOARD ANNOUNCES GRANT OF AMNESTY PERIOD FOR ILLEGAL OPERATORS
The Estate Agency Affairs Board is pleased to announce that it has resolved to grant a three-month amnesty period to illegally operating estate agency practitioners. It is to be hoped that this innovative step will assist all persons who are presently operating illegally as estate agents to regularise their status. The EAAB firmly believes that the grant of amnesty will not only promote a positive climate of transparency and reconciliation between itself, illegal estate agency practitioners and consumers but also encourage offenders, who might otherwise be reluctant to do so, to come forward and legalise their activities as estate agents. It is to be underscored, in this regard, that all practicing estate agents are obliged by the provisions of the Estate Agency Affairs Act to apply to the EAAB for, and be issued with, valid fidelity fund certificates before engaging in any estate agency functions and activities.
The three-month amnesty period for this purpose commences on Friday, 15 April 2011 and terminates on Friday, 15 July 2011. Persons who wish to utilise the opportunity to apply for amnesty will be requested to submit an affidavit to the EAAB in which full and honest disclosure is made of all estate agency activities that were undertaken when the applicants were not authorised to perform the functions and activities of an estate agent. Amnesty applications will be comprehensively considered and evaluated by a special committee of the EAAB which will comprise at least three, but not more than five, members. The committee may also include independent advisers and/or consultants.
The following criteria will, amongst others, be taken into account by the committee when deciding whether or not to grant amnesty applications, namely, the apparent motive of the applicant in bringing the application; the context in which the admitted contravention of the provisions of the Estate Agency Affairs Act took place; the legal and factual nature of the contraventions of the Estate Agency Affairs Act committed by the applicant; the interests of both the public as well as the general body of estate agents; and justice to the applicant as a fit and proper person.
In return for the granting of amnesty applicants will be afforded a reasonable time to get their estate agency affairs in order. The committee will, thus, be entitled to give suitable directions to successful applicants on such important aspects as applications to be made by the applicant for registration as an estate agent; the payment by the applicant of any administrative or other penalties; the opening and maintenance by the applicant of a properly designated trust account; the appointment by the applicant of auditors; the auditing of the books and records of the applicant’s estate agency undertaking; and the obtaining by the applicant of the required estate agency educational qualification(s).
Applicants who are granted amnesty can be reassured that no internal disciplinary steps or measures will be instituted by the EAAB against them arising from any previous non-compliance with the provisions of the Estate Agency Affairs Act.
The EAAB is confident that great success will be achieved in implementing the amnesty and earnestly calls upon on all affected persons immediately to join the regulatory fold and to become accepted professional estate agents.
Please see the attached Amnesty Policy for more information.
End//
For all media enquiries:
Ms Portia Mofikoe
Head: Marketing and Communications
Estate Agency Affairs Board
083 4490 883 or 083 993 6120
Tel: 011 731 5662 or Portia.mofikoe@eaab.org.za
07 APRIL 2011
MEDIA RELEASE – ESTATE AGENCY AFFAIRS BOARD ANNOUNCES GRANT OF AMNESTY PERIOD FOR ILLEGAL OPERATORS
The Estate Agency Affairs Board is pleased to announce that it has resolved to grant a three-month amnesty period to illegally operating estate agency practitioners. It is to be hoped that this innovative step will assist all persons who are presently operating illegally as estate agents to regularise their status. The EAAB firmly believes that the grant of amnesty will not only promote a positive climate of transparency and reconciliation between itself, illegal estate agency practitioners and consumers but also encourage offenders, who might otherwise be reluctant to do so, to come forward and legalise their activities as estate agents. It is to be underscored, in this regard, that all practicing estate agents are obliged by the provisions of the Estate Agency Affairs Act to apply to the EAAB for, and be issued with, valid fidelity fund certificates before engaging in any estate agency functions and activities.
The three-month amnesty period for this purpose commences on Friday, 15 April 2011 and terminates on Friday, 15 July 2011. Persons who wish to utilise the opportunity to apply for amnesty will be requested to submit an affidavit to the EAAB in which full and honest disclosure is made of all estate agency activities that were undertaken when the applicants were not authorised to perform the functions and activities of an estate agent. Amnesty applications will be comprehensively considered and evaluated by a special committee of the EAAB which will comprise at least three, but not more than five, members. The committee may also include independent advisers and/or consultants.
The following criteria will, amongst others, be taken into account by the committee when deciding whether or not to grant amnesty applications, namely, the apparent motive of the applicant in bringing the application; the context in which the admitted contravention of the provisions of the Estate Agency Affairs Act took place; the legal and factual nature of the contraventions of the Estate Agency Affairs Act committed by the applicant; the interests of both the public as well as the general body of estate agents; and justice to the applicant as a fit and proper person.
In return for the granting of amnesty applicants will be afforded a reasonable time to get their estate agency affairs in order. The committee will, thus, be entitled to give suitable directions to successful applicants on such important aspects as applications to be made by the applicant for registration as an estate agent; the payment by the applicant of any administrative or other penalties; the opening and maintenance by the applicant of a properly designated trust account; the appointment by the applicant of auditors; the auditing of the books and records of the applicant’s estate agency undertaking; and the obtaining by the applicant of the required estate agency educational qualification(s).
Applicants who are granted amnesty can be reassured that no internal disciplinary steps or measures will be instituted by the EAAB against them arising from any previous non-compliance with the provisions of the Estate Agency Affairs Act.
The EAAB is confident that great success will be achieved in implementing the amnesty and earnestly calls upon on all affected persons immediately to join the regulatory fold and to become accepted professional estate agents.
Please see the attached Amnesty Policy for more information.
End//
For all media enquiries:
Ms Portia Mofikoe
Head: Marketing and Communications
Estate Agency Affairs Board
083 4490 883 or 083 993 6120
Tel: 011 731 5662 or Portia.mofikoe@eaab.org.za
Monday, April 18, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Libdin mailing list
To get onto the LIBDIN mailing list
http://www.aded.co.za/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=Simple
http://www.aded.co.za/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=Simple
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Reptiles and Nature
http://www.reptilenature.com/products.html
http://www.paazab.com/groups-amphibians.htm
http://stephenlynbales.blogspot.com/2011/03/natural-histories-amphibian-decline.html
http://www.paazab.com/groups-amphibians.htm
http://stephenlynbales.blogspot.com/2011/03/natural-histories-amphibian-decline.html
Friday, March 18, 2011
Kolb's Learning Cycle
http://www.ldu.leeds.ac.uk/ldu/sddu_multimedia/kolb/kolb_flash.htm
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/argyris.htm
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/argyris.htm
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
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