YET ANOTHER REASON WHY SOUTH AFRICA IS AWESOME!!!!!

Apologise about the late Thursday update these are the new interesting facts about South Africa. 

• In 2012, at 5.5%, South African interest rates were at a 30-year low.
• South African Tax Revenue has increased from R100 billion in 1994 to R814.1 billion in 2012-13.
• South Africa’s debt to GDP ratio is 32% (USA 100%, Japan 200%, UK 90%). The World Bank recommends a ratio of 60%.
• SA ranks 1st among upper middle-income economies in the World Bank “Connecting to Compete 2012: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy” report. Overall, SA ranks 23 out of 155 countries included in the Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI). Its main competitor on the African continent, Nigeria, is ranked 121.
• South Africa sold $1.8 billion worth of cars to the US in 2010, putting us ahead of Sweden and Italy as suppliers to the US market. Car sales are projected to grow 10% in 2011 to 460,000 units.
• South Africa exported 277,844 vehicles in 2012, the second highest annual export figure on record (Naamsa).
• The South African stock market rose 23% in 2012.
• South Africa is ranked 1st out of 142 countries in respect of regulation of security exchanges according to the World Economic Forum Global Competetiveness Report 2011/12
• South Africa is ranked 1st in respect of auditing and reporting, according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2011/12.
• South Africa ranks 1st out of 60 countries in the Economist’s House Price index for the period 1997 – 2009.
• South Africa's banks rank 2nd in the world for soundness, according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2011/12.
• The South African Rand was the second best performing currency against the US Dollar between 2007 and 2011, according to Bloomberg’s Currency Scorecard.
• SA ranked 1st in Platinum output, 2nd in Palladium output, 3rd in Gold output, 6th in Coal output and 9th inwool output. (Economist)
• SA is ranked 2nd out of 183 countries for good practice in protecting both borrowers and lenders when obtaining credit for business (World Bank Doing Business Report 2011)
• SA is ranked 3rd in the world for protection of minority shareholders interests, according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2011/12.
• South Africa ranked 6th in house price improvement indices as a % change in 2009, and 1st as a % change 1999/2009. (Economist).
• SA is ranked 10th out of 142 countries for Strength of Investor Protection, according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2011/12.
• SA is ranked 10th out of 183 countries for good practice in protecting investors in business. (World Bank Doing Business Report 2011).
• South Africa ranks 7th out of 45 countries in the "Big Mac Index 2012". The price of a Big Mac is 42% less in South Africa than in the USA. In Switzerland and Norway, it is 62% more.
• South Africa is ranked 16th out of a total of 135 economies in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2012, ahead of many developed nations, including, the UK (18th), United States (22), Canada (21), Australia (25) and France (57). (SA were ranked 14th in 2011)
• South Africa ranked 15th in terms of "largest deficits" but as a percentage of GDP is not in the top 40 countries. (Economist).
• The JSE ranks 16th in terms of "largest market capitalisation" and 19th in terms of largest gains. (Economist)
• SA is ranked 23rd out of 81 countries in the Jones Lang LaSalle's "World's most Transparent Real Estate Markets" placing it well ahead of China, Brazil, India and Russia. "Robust governance, strong auditing and a developed legal system" were cited as the main reasons for leading the developing markets in this rating.
• South Africa ranks 24th out of 192 countries in the Economist’s "Largest Gold Reserves" Index.
• SA ranks 32nd out of 165 countries in terms of the size of its US$ reserves, ahead of Australia, Sweden and Chile. The USA ranks 17th, the UK 23rd, China is ranked 1 (The Economist)
• In a survey of 192 countries, South Africa’s unemployment as a percentage of economically active population ranked 27th.
• SA ranks 28th in terms of number of cars produced and 18th in terms of number of cars sold. (Economist).
• South Africa is ranked 34th out of 183 countries for ease of doing business according to Doing Business 2011, a joint publication of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation.
• South Africa ranks 41st out of 192 countries in the Economist’s "Biggest Exporters" Index.
• South Africa ranked 50th out of 142 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2011/12, up from 54th in 2010/11.
• South Africa ranks 54th in a comparison of the overall tax burden of 150 countries worldwide.
• South Africa ranks in the top 20 countries for agricultural output.
• According to a survey of 62 countries by the World Bank and the IMF, South Africa has the 36th highest foreign debt, ahead of the US, Japan and all the European countries surveyed. The economist ranks South Africa 29th out of 60.
• South Africa is placed 14th in a list of 21 countries ranked by international companies as top prospective investment destinations for 2012 to 2014, according to the 2012 World Investment Report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). 
• MTN has been ranked Africa’s most valuable brand in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 survey. MTN becomes the first and only African brand to make the list, debuting at position 88 in the world.
• The number of mines in South Africa had increased from 993 in 2004 to almost 1,600 in 2011 (Business Day)
• Associated revenue generated from mining grew from R98bn in 2004 to R370bn by the end of 2011 (Business Day)
• Employment in the mining industry grew from just under 449,000 in 2004 to a little above 530,000 in June 2012 (Business Day)
• South Africa ranked 6th best out of 24 countries in the Contact Center World rankings for 2012, up from 9th in 2011.
• South Africa is the winner of the National Outsourcing Association’s (NOA’s) Offshoring Destination of the Year Award 2012

   

MY SISTERS

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When I started this blog I published about my sisters, so today history repeats itself and I am posting  a viewed to show how much I appreciate them every since I have went to varsity and how I cherish that I have people with experience of this kind of thing to guide me through it all

SOUTH AFRICA IS AWESOME!!!

A lot of people when talking about South Africa might have in mind the high HIV/Aids and crime rates or the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Nelson Mandela, Oscar Pistorious, Hugh Masikela or even the BRICS summit. To tell you the truth there is more to our country than some people know which is why I have decided that every Thursday I will post things that everyone must know about the Republic of South Africa. To my fellow South Africans or anyone else who wants to read I have decided that with little page views as there are I will be a part of Trevor Noah’s movement. I will try to spread the word as much as I can to get people to start emancipating from the word KAFFER. We do call ourselves the rainbow nation and it is time we start embracing it so I’m spreading the word out black, white, Indian, coloured it is time that the rainbow starts forming because no one says that they only like blue or green or yellow in the rainbow the just love the whole rainbow. Next week for anyone who hasn’t watched Trevor Noah’s “That is racist” video I will be posting a clip of the part that everyone should be focusing on. Now back to the rest of the world and all you judgemental ignorant internet or non-internet users this is what makes me love being a South Africa even with our mistakes and all.1) South Africa is now the only country in the world to have hosted the Soccer, Cricket and Rugby World Cup!2) Table Mountain in Cape Town is believed to be one of the oldest mountains in the world and one of the planet’s 12 main energy centres, radiating magnetic, electric or spiritual energy.3) The Cape Floral Kingdom is one of the world’s six floral kingdoms – and the only one which is wholly contained within a single country.4) Some countries have deserts; some have subtropical forests, right? South Africa has: deserts, wetlands, grasslands, bush, subtropical forests, mountains and escarpments.5) South Africa’s drinking water is rated 3rd best in the world for being “safe and ready to drink”. This is courtesy of Google+ South Africa is awesome. In 1991, South Africa became the first country in the world to provide full protection status　for the Great White shark within its jurisdictional waters. Countries including USA, Australia, Malta and Namibia followed suit later.Cape Town has the fifth-best blue sky in the world according to the UK's National Physical Laboratory.Johannesburg ranks 2nd among countries from Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa in dealing withurbanisation and environmental challenges, in the MasterCard Insights Report on Urbanisation and Environmental Challenges.South Africa is the only country to house an entire floral kingdom (Fynbos), one of only 6 on the planet.The Vredefort Dome (or Vredefort crater) in the Free State, is the largest verified impact crater on Earth at between 250 and 300km in diameter and is estimated to be over 2 billion years old.SA ranks 18th in terms of biggest emitters of CO², 9th as a proportion of GDP and 27th in terms of CO² per person. (Economist).South Africa has the highest level of international certification of its tree plantations in the world. Over 80% of South African plantations are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Paper Manufacturers Association of South AfricaAll paper in South Africa is produced from plantation grown trees, recycled paper or bagasse (sugar cane fibre). Fibre is not sourced from the wood of rainforests, indigenous or boreal trees. This is a myth, often wrongfully perpetuated by e-mail footnotes. Paper Manufacturers Association of South AfricaThe proportion of the South African population using improved drinking water sources was 91% in 2010, up from 83% in 1990. (WHO/UNICEF, March 2012.

With today’s lesson learned I have to say I missed you like presents on Christmas in my house.

GOSH I CAN'T COPE

So I am learning a new language because in the house I live in they are a lot of people from Zimbabwe which are Mike, Simba, Michelle, Wadzi and Nancy. So lately I have been trying to learn chi Shona because Nancy is trying to learn IsiZulu so a few days ago I asked her how it’s like to have to learn IsiZulu when no one else in the house is learning chi Shona and she said that it hurts so you practically can’t ignore something like that. I have been excited with learning it because Rurimi rumwe haruzadzikisa mutauro (meaning that one language is never enough) so excited me goes and start speaking the first chi Shona sentence that I know little did I know that it wasn’t only in the reading the sentence it is with how you pronounce it. So brace yourself because by the time I post another publish I would be able to pronounce every single R and V in chi Shona or maybe I should say a little because if I say every than that will mean that I wouldn’t be posting on my blog for quite some time and it already feels like it’s been a month since I have published but thank you to all those who have been viewing even though there was nothing new. I promise you it’s the tests and the work not because I have stopped caring or something.  

I HAVE LEARNED THAT SOMETIMES "SORRY" IS NOT ENOUGH. SOMETIMES YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO CHANGE. - Claire London

I probably look stupid and I already feel stupid for changing my blog name. Firstly I take all the blame but I would also like to state my defence, every single month I look at how to get more people to view my blog and like my Facebook page and I was told to change the name because people relate more to pages that do not have personal names why this is so I don’t know, so I changed the names in hope that I would get a chance to share this with a lot more people but sadly for the past two days my blog hasn’t had any pageviews at all that is why I myself have decided to write my own ten I would rather you did not’s like the flying spaghetti monster tomorrow because I don’t want to ruin this because it is a written apology from me to everyone who tried to search for the page and didn’t find it or for any inconvenience caused by the name change. If you are a blog lover I will be trying to get Dan Pearce the writer of single dad laughing (http://www.danoah.com/) to be a guest blogger on the blog so for the next few days or weeks I will be in this prayer position hoping that he will like my content and write a post for every one of you guys. Again I apologise for my foolish choice in advisors and I have changed the name because your pageviews show me that I not talking to myself.

HAKUNA MATATA!!!

I know this my be a slight confusion for some other people yes it still the same person and the same content of Time With Mmabatho it is just that we have gone under slight renovations so don't worry I haven't left you  and I would want you to leave me only because a name change. 

TICK TOCK!!!!

Friday probably marks the craziest day of my life. Firstly my philosophy essay was due and I was writing law on Saturday. To tell you the truth I wasn’t procrastinating because it was a philosophy essay I had to spend a lot of time thinking about it and I finally decided on my initial idea on Thursday a day before it was due. Came the morning that I had to print my essay on, because I do not have a usb I don’t know why I haven’t got one I had to send my essay to my student email than print it at school, so I wake up in the morning and I’m late because my bag is heavy I decide to leave my laptop charge because my battery is always full in the morning because I charge while I sleep. When I arrive at the computer lab my laptop will not go on I check the battery light and it is red at that time it was 8:30 and I had a lecture at 8:40 with a man who goes ballistic when people are late so I decided to leave it because the latest time to hand in is 12:00. I continue with my lectures until 10:30 my quest than was to find a person with a Toshiba charge or any charger at all. When I eventually found someone with a charger and sent my essay I felt relief it only took me five minutes to send it all I needed to do was to print it out. When I arrived at the science computer lab the printer wasn’t working and by than it was 11:00 so I decided to go to the New Arts computer lab and it also wasn’t working so I went to the technician and he said “WE ARE CURRENT FACING NETWORK PROBLEMS MEANING THAT ALL OUR PRINTERS ARE DOWN”. I literally felt like I was going to die because there is only one internet café here and it was at the mall which was quite a distance and at that time it was 11:35 so when I had given up all hope in the UKZN system (which by the way I feel that they sabotage) I had to walk to the mall when I got there it was so full because everyone was printing there, when I got out it was 11:59 so I decided to take a cab stupid me I showed him how much money I had so he charged me more for a 5 minutes ride but at that time handing my work in was more important. Luckily I got there at 12:05 and Dr. Bernard hadn’t fetched the essays when I arrived. So I have officially learnt my first lesson in University and that have your work ready two days before the due date.