I have had a PayPal account for the last 5 years and could only make purchases with it. It was more of a convenience rather than a tool for really transacting online. Following on the announcement by PayPal and FNB  of what is commonly known now as PayPal SA , I hastily rushed off to to the nearest FNB and opened an account with the accompanying Online Banking addon.

Back at the office I logged into FNB Online Banking and proceeded to link my existing PayPal account with my new FNB account. The process was smooth and was completed in under 5 minutes. All that remained was to wait for someone to hit the buy button on my site, and that happened this morning with an email from Paypal requesting me to confirm receipt of 300.30 Euros.

I logged into Paypal and was presented with a page ( See screenshot below )

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State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town

3 June 2009

Honourable Speaker; Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP; Deputy President of the Republic, Kgalema Motlanthe Former President of the Republic, Thabo Mbeki, Our icon, the First President of a democratic South Africa, Isithwalandwe Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Former Deputy Presidents, Distinguished Premiers and Speakers of our Provinces; Esteemed members of the Judiciary; Chairperson of SALGA, mayors and leaders in our system of local government; Chairperson of the National House of Traditional Leaders and our honoured traditional leaders; Heads of Chapter 9 Institutions; Governor of the Reserve Bank, Religious leaders, Directors-General and other leaders of the public service; President of the Pan African Parliament, Honourable Idriss Endele Moussa, Your Excellencies Ambassadors and High Commissioners; Distinguished guests, comrades and friends; Fellow South Africans,
Dumelang, Abusheni, Molweni,

I was looking up the nominations for "The New 7 Wonders of Nature" over at New7Wonders when I came across a contestant site from Nigeria in the Mountains Category.

What caught my attention was the Name of the site from Nigeria ... Get ready it's called the "Zuma Rock " .

Got this in the mail the other day and wonder if it's accurate. I heard and read of incidents of crime, corruption etc by Parliamentary offcials, but this is crazy.

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
 7 have been arrested for fraud
 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
 3 have done time for assault
 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
 
373 in total or approximately 70%
 Can you guess which organization this is?

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 In addition you can also customise the weather result so that on your next visit to the  weather page , the weather of your chosen location displays. You can change this at any time though.

Call me curious, but is the Democaratic Alliance out to win the 2009 South African General Elections or are they aiming at just securing a position as the official/largest opposition Party ?

What brings me to this question ? I have noticed that the DA is most active in the Western Cape and their biggest reach has been in the media ( Print and Web Based ) mostly around the Jacob Zuma saga.

If the DA is aiming at winning the elections, can they achieve this by reaching out to the mostly the Western Cape and the Internet User ? I mean they have taken out web based ads too.   Here in the Free State ( especially Bloemfontein ) the DA has been AWOL as far as visibility and active campaigning is concerned.

This ones especially for all of you who navigate Gautengs traffic, that's not even a "rat race" anymore. Someone should come up with a new phrase to describe driving in Gauteng. Here are some pics I sent to my sister after she relocated to Gauteng and complained of the traffic.

My friends in high places ( very high ) who are well placed in these circles (ANC/DA) dropped of a few notes over the weekend regarding a real possibility of an alliance between these two parties that are very very very afraid of loosing the Western Cape . Seems like COPE is being taken as a serious threat.

It does not come as a shock and something like this is expected. I have a lot of other juicy news regarding the elections backstage but this is keeping me busy. I have made many enquiries, officially and unofficially and have "my people" on the job.