There is a fairly large number of South African passport holders who can barely speak Afrikaans, let alone read/write it, I'm a reasonably fluent speaker, but useless at reading/writing it. It may have been taught in schools as a second or even 3rd language option, but the percentage of the South African population who would be "native" speakers of the language is around 10%.
Employers complaining about not being able to employ employees.
Potential employees complain about employers unwilling to pay a decent rate for the expected work.
I know that I certainly won't work for a pittance, and maybe it is time the employers realised this, too.
Directly copied from the By-Line of the article
"...By Christopher Buckley
Mr. Buckley is a novelist and humorist...."
So this is more likely a spoof piece?
And the comms loss would only become apparent when the data was needed, and by then it is too late to back-track and fix anything. I admit it would be nice to have whatever data could be archived in real-time, but too many ways for it to be lost forever.
Apparently based (very loosely, or not at all - depends which reference you read) on the events around Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who did this between 1988 and 2006 while he waited to obtain a visa for onward travel.
This is just one of several South African State Owned Enterprises that are in financial difficulties. The others are not as visible outside the country.
A sad state of affairs.
This website actually mentions "car radios", but not the band used; https://www.vilnius-airport.lt/en/news/aerocinema-a-drive-in-movie-theatre-lands-at-vilnius-airport
