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Coronavirus Amplified: Part 1 – Defining Coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 & Covid-19

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Do you know what SARS-CoV-2 is? What about COVID-19? It’s technically incorrect to refer to our current health crisis as ‘The Coronavirus’ when it’s only one strain of several in the coronavirus family. It’s also incorrect to identify the current coronavirus as COVID-19 when the latter is a disease caused by the 7th strain. After a brief history, I’ll explain the differences and correct terminology. WHAT ARE CORONAVIRUSES Coronavirus are a family of viruses thought to be zoonotic i.e. spread from non-human animals to human animals. They can also inflict … Read the full article…

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The ANC Zuma T-Shirt Scandal

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If the poor wanted to stage a true protest, they’d burn the R118-million worth of Jacob Zuma t-shirts the ANC gave them as part of their election campaign. Turns out that the clothes were brought in by a Taiwanese businessman with connections to the ruling party. Apparently the t-shirts got held up at Customs because of unpaid import duties. The ANC leaned on Ivan Pillay, then acting commissioner of SARS, to release the goods but the good man refused, thus making the bankrupt ANC fork over R41-million to the tax … Read the full article…

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Awesome SARS Tax Joke

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I finally received my tax return for 2013 back from the SARS. It puzzles me! They are questioning the number of dependents I claimed? I guess it was because of my response to the question: “List all dependents?” I replied: 16 million unemployed people 8 million illegal immigrants 1,5 million drug dealers nearly a million people in overcrowded prisons 234 members of Parliament and a useless President with 6 wives I queried SARS and they said that that was NOT correct. I’m really becoming forgetful in my old age… I … Read the full article…

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