Boardroom Tails: A turn to the bright side
If you turn away from the headlines, you discover a country that works surprisingly well
The strangest thing happened recently: I got a cellphone message thanking me for a greeting card I sent to England six days earlier.That’s four tests in a row that my local post office has passed with flying colours. And the stamp on the airmailed greeting card cost only R8.40. I felt almost giddy with excitement. I intend celebrating by sending 24 Christmas cards to foreign shores.The SA Post Office isn’t the only institution that has turned the corner (though, without being mean-spirited, it might be a tad early to declare that corner turned). Apparently the department of home affairs is breaking records with the speed with which it is issuing passports.Yesterday I had to pay a traffic fine. The grim experience would have been over in two minutes if it had only been down to the municipality’s "paymyfines" website, but the private sector, in the form of my bank, failed me. It took all of eight minutes to receive a one-time password.I’m hearing good things about the companies & inte...
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