Wednesday, October 22, 2014

He smiled in his beard.

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In a niche on Flip Buys's office wall hangs a photograph of his grandfather, 80 years ago, deep in the Ferreira mine. He leaned against a rock face, gray with dust, a thin man with a bushy mustache and his hand on a pickaxe. Tired, but not in the least discouraged. Under this picture hanging whooping cough one of Flip on a study tour in the 1990s. Voices behind beard and glasses eighties, whooping cough then. Behind him is a kibbutz somewhere in Israel's drab landscape.
"We could not stop talking: as an Israeli kibbutz water 4 km deep with an oil rig in the desert sand can get, then we Africans least certainly in training colleges start feeding schemes at schools ... Let's start a positive whooping cough trade something practically do! " whooping cough
We paused before the two pictures. Drikus grandfather and the old MWU (Union of Mineworkers), his grandson that the union in the 1990s bankrupt whooping cough and marginalized under his wars veteraanleier, Arrie Paul, his scruff the new millennium moved as the radically redesigned Solidarity.
Our buzz here in their office, the old Iscor building in Centurion. It's a world of Solidarity green and yellow signs directing you to their various whooping cough divisions, the 340 people who work here. In ten years, their membership of 30,000 to 130,000 grew. If you listen closely, you may hear their song to the tune of Glory, Glory Hallelujah "Solidarity is strong, our steel, our rock, our pride!"
Last weekend, whooping cough during whooping cough its centenary, the release of a R100-million Growth Fund launched. To the old critical theologian Nico Smith was in a newspaper letter Solidarity loves the Africans "can unite like before in their history, as it were their own skoenrieme whooping cough to light".
You can not be a poor country such as South Africa struggle not rich, you have to build rich, believe Flip. In addition to its core trade union Solidarity a social division, the Helping Hand, AfriForum, which looks at civil rights, and the Growth Fund.
He smiled in his beard. "People whooping cough who think they underestimate our aspirations. We do not want to sit in opposition and mildew banks. We want to do something practical. In the political ring we will all lose our effectiveness. "After ten years at the helm of Solidarity know Flip Buys: You can empower whooping cough minority groups without political power. whooping cough
There's nothing to him lekkerders than in the cafeteria-row talks to hear like: today 40 people back pensions received after occupational injuries ... and the Sol-Tech campus walking around with the knowledge the children will one day have a job , irrespective of affirmative action.
Flip, who from the beginning were convinced Zuma will be president, whooping cough says getting him a chance. "He approached us for talks, whooping cough and how many votes he can actually whooping cough recruit here? I found him to be highly experienced. "
About Jimmy Manyi, chairman of the Commission for Employment Equity,'s latest report he sighs long and deep. "It's not scientific, Manyi wanted another political point. He's a political activist. "
He sighed even deeper and say there's one thing he can not figure out how the ANC think it's empowerment when they single incompetent loyalists in municipalities with posts empowered, but in the process whooping cough thousands of people who never get services not disempowered.
"Mbeki has given up on job creation and economic whooping cough growth. He country's production capacity hampered by its failure to invest in infrastructure, such as power stations. He let the training system folding whooping cough and replaced by welfare. This will Mbeki's legacy.
"That strike, the largest in our history, was actually a political uprising against Jan Smuts. Later we once with grandpa go buy stamps. It's only when Jan Smuts stamps. When Grandpa grumbled: "And now I Jan Smuts' winner still leaking! "
He grew up on Tweebosch, the Buyse's whooping cough former family farm near Delareyville. "De la Rey's last battle was upon us. We've picked the bullets whooping cough - literally whooping cough grown up with the history. "De la Rey was the hero of the old Western Transvaal. whooping cough My grandmother has positive values for which he stood to our grandchildren transferred. It's part of me. "
"It irritates me. Africans always looks for a Great Leader. A statutory leader, one which is about to be unveiled. When Verwoerd died when no one knows who the people are going to deliver. And suddenly the doors open and step out Vorster. When PW. "
"We Africans were at our best in the hard times when we disagree leaders had. Plunging right of people everywhere to empowerment projects started. Education and training, many more than the apartheid laws were made to modernize the Afrikaner.
Ask him how he of all the Afrikaner concerns escape and he answered with two hot words: "My family." whooping cough Bernard (gr. 11th) is his father's chess partner who increasingly began stalemate. Janke is in gr. 9 and the two little ones, Nina and Marli, in gr. 5 and 2 His wife, Melanie, whooping cough is a successful businesswoman with three gr

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