ADMITTING - Zuma Admits The Need to Improve Government Capacity

In responding to numerous complaints about his government not having the capacity, to implement the plans the ANC lead government is trying to get formalised and agreed, Zuma said:

"A number of honourable members questioned the capacity of the state of carry out the undertakings we have made. We would like to assure this house that we have been putting systems in place to improve the performance of the state.

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An admission that they don't have the capacity and are now, decades after taking power, putting in place systems to "improve" not even solving the shortcoming!

A real no commitment statement which reflects how this government operates! As it grinds on planning, facilitating, compromising and talking!

APPETISING - UNESCO's Addition To Its Cultural Heritage System

Here it is "The gastronomic meal of the French"

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Its not intangible at all, every time you participate your senses are rewarded. I guess it means that there is not one you can go and see!

A PHEASANT or 35 million of them!

This really opened my eyes when I heard it on the BBc Farming Programme!

What would the answer be to the question, how many pheasant are there in the wild in England?

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The answer is around 10 million just before the start of the hunting season and around 45 million at the start of the hunting season.

This is because 35 million pheasant are bred just to lift the numbers to accommodate all those who wish to hunt pheasant. It is agreed that about 60% of the pheasants released avoid the hunters and therefore become "wild" last a year. According to British Association for Shooting and Conservation these are birds "without life skills" which won't survive in competition with the real wild pheasants. Conservationists have noted these pheasants competing for easy food with other birds and providing easy victims for raptors and foxes all of which they claim is effecting wildlife in the UK.

So not only do the UK hunt canned pheasant but they also condemn tens of millions of pheasants a year to an untimely death in the wild.