Randolph In December last year, I predicted that Jacob Zuma's court case, set for 14 August 2008, would be struck off the roll or delayed. Last week, his application for having the current charges ruled unlawful, was successful. The National Prosecuting Authority was found to have been influenced politically. Interesting times ahead for our outgoing president. There's even talk of impeachment.
Meanwhile, said president is trying to placate the rest of the world over the Zimbabwe issue. The deal he brokered between Mugabe and Everyone Else is mostly pointless, but it's a good start. How quickly we forget that it took a long time for South Africa to get from CODESA to President Mandela.
In other news, FIFA's own president has stated that the 2010 Soccer World Cup is still going ahead in South Africa, and Zuma's likely election as SA president should not have any influence on this momentous occasion.
I'm not a soccer fan, so I don't really care either way, but I am very interested in the Gautrain's progress. The TBMs are making good progress, the airport's station is complete, and all signs point towards a high-speed rail link being finished according to schedule.
Work continues unabated. I have been at my new job for four and a half months now, and they're making me earn my money. I'm working on several projects concurrently, but the most important one is for a major financial institution, where I have designed the database and batch processing engine. I'm very excited and nervous about the whole thing. We're using SQL Server 2005 in a clustered environment, blade hardware, Windows 2008, Hyper-V, a Java-based decision engine, WCF, Windows Workflow back-end, and some very creative C# code.
This blog has also been modified now with some Feedburner ads, to see if I can increase my AdSense revenue. I upgraded my hosting solution about a month ago, and I need to make enough to cover my costs.
There's also a relaunch of a site in my stable coming soon, hopefully with enough appeal to drive traffic (and click-throughs) through the roof, and allow me to focus on how to spend my fortune.
Should reality hit harder than this dream, I have other plans up my sleeve. I've been poor once before, and I now have a husband, a house and two dogs to take care of.