Batho Pele - What is It?

Batho Pele was established by Government to

"enhance the quality and accessibility of government services by improving efficiency and accountability to the recipients of public goods and services".

promising the user of government (local, provincial and national) services that eight service delivery principles be implemented

* regularly consult with customers
* set service standards
* increase access to services
* ensure higher levels of courtesy
* provide more and better information about services
* increase openness and transparency about services
* remedy failures and mistakes
* give the best possible value for money.

Do these things seem to be being done in the areas you interact with? - definitely not for me!

Even Sweets Can Be Healthy

Food & Drink Europereport that Lallemand Health Ingredients (LHI) have anounced the launch of a chewy fruit containing PACran cranberry powder eith the claim that "One daily 'PACran softchew' is recommended by the company to support urinary tract health"

This appears to be a growing tend - Euromonitor value the functional and healthy confectionery market at $7.4bn (€5bn) in 2005 representing 24 per cent of the functional food market.

Interesting Maps

I'm looking for what I should be doing on this blog now that I am well into my "second life" and my more business related things are blogged and published elsewhere.

Maybe its just a place to put things that interest me - so what about Cartograms which aim to present information on a world map where the country area represents it's performance compared to the rest of the world.

Look at Africa's situation as far as number of internet connections goes.

from Maplecroft Maps

 

Pedaling Water Filtration

Reminds Me Of Times in My First Life!

Yes there is a competition for the best Fish and Chip Shop in the UK, although I understand there are now more curry shops!

Click on the image of the page to read about the winners

AT LAST!

What am I doing now?

Having been retired for just over a month, I come back to this blog.

One of the things I have focussed on, besides the festive season and holidays, is Stregthening African Food Processing. This was a site that was set up for a USAID funded project that I ran at CSIR. At the end of the project I funded and maintained the site.

This was unfortunately not very efficient and was therefore not very well done.

This is one of my main focuses. It the moment I am trying out various options and the blog is currently at http://web.mac.com/digivuza/SAFPP with some of my other things reachable through http://www.digivu.co.za.