“Success for me is whether you have created something you can really be proud of. Nobody should be remembered on how much money you have made in life, but what matter is, whether you have created something special – something that made a real difference in other people’s lives”
In the year 1531 a Austrian monk was torchered by soldiers of the pope. Until his dead he kept secret where he hided his ‘Treaty about Power”. 400 Years later the ‘tractato’ was found in Florence.
The little book is a manual about obtaining power and absolute sovereignity. A quote (freely translated): “Powerful is somebody who is able to sow discord and take personal advantage of it”.
Many (would be) politicans try to be powerful but don’t always succeed in taking advantage of it.
But it might sound so for the easy to manipulate herds and that makes ANC-youth leader Julius Malema a power not to underestimate. History learns that demagogues are always believed by the masses. History also learns that demagogues don’t always have a high IQ and surely don’t die peacefully.
A man, his wife and 2 children arrive at Soekershof with in the back of the Toyata landcruiser more than 30 boxes (x 6 bottles) of wine of which the majority (like most mainstream wines from Robertson) is cheaper in de local supermarket in Cape Town than at the wine cellar. Definitely not a ‘connaisseur’, that’s for sure.
He’s been on ‘wine hunting’ the previous day and wants to do his family the “pleasure” of visiting the maze and the gardens. “Oh … I don’t have money left for the admission fee. I didn’t know that you charge people for this”……..
