The Insider
Raining on Toyota’s Rav4 parade
TOYOTA in the US has announced that getting the windscreen wipers wet on some of its vehicles is a bad thing.
The company is recalling 421,000 of its Rav4 model from the years 2009 to 2012 because it says that water dripping onto the windscreen wiper link can, over time, cause corrosion on the wiper link joint.
Best to keep your Rav4 dry! Spelling it out NOT wanting to weigh into the heated to and fro around the Woolworths/Pharrell Williams event in any way, the Insider has been watching from the sidelines. But those who raise their heads and shout the odds do need to make sure they have thick skins.
The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) should perhaps spend a bit more time in the classroom as well as supporting protests.
In an open letter to Williams “from South African schoolchildren”, Cosas boasts repeatedly about its importance, saying in three instances that it is the “largest South African school leaner (sic) organiation/ organization/organisation (sic)”.
Same old, same old
IT SOUNDS like my familiar tripe; now where did I hear all this before? Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, quite sharp at 91 though getting senile, must have wondered that his opening speech to parliament last week sounded like something he’d heard before, word for word, if his memory was not lying.
It turned out, as was reported in Business Day, that he’d read the wrong speech, reading instead from his state of the nation address of August 25.
Someone later said there had been a cock-up in the president’s secretarial office — quite clearly so — adorned as it no doubt is with the revolutionary cock or rooster that is Zanu (PF)’s emblem.
Mugabe’s wife Grace was once his secretary and may well have worked in the rooster’s pen herself, though she will have been pardoned for any stuff-ups she made.
The chief rooster-for-life has long been unfit to rule, having spectacularly messed up his country, but, on recent form, he probably can’t remember that either!
Wise words
“NO MAN has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” Abraham Lincoln, the 16th US president (1809-1865).