ADULTS WITH IMPAIRED DECISION MAKING CAPACITY

Clematis 29 September 2017 ADULTS WITH IMPAIRED DECISION MAKING CAPACITY AND A POWER OF ATTORNEY UNDER SOUTH AFRICAN CIRCUMSTANCES Social workers and medical practitioners all have some form of experience of adults with impaired decision-making capacity. You can give moving testimony of family members battling with this occurrence and not always knowing what they are allowed or not allowed in terms of the law. Medical practitioners and social...

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THERE ARE TODAY 40 MILLION MODERN DAY SLAVES IN THE WORLD!

 Modern day slavery Modern day slavery The UN reports that there were 40 million modern day slaves in the world during 2016. Please spread the word about this scourge and evil. Read the newspaper report at this link. This evil mostly affects women and children. Forced labor and sex slaves are predominantly in this kind of a thin...

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ARE YOU CHANGING THE WORLD ONE STEP AT A TIME TO BE A BETTER PLACE?

Are you changing the world one step at a time to be better place? Good for you!! I am also doing my bit - one step at a time and at times only to improve the life of one person at a time.   Pope Francis - he's got the world as his platform to speak out! My friend Werner Perufsky - he's got Fochville as his platform to perform good deeds. My wife referred me to the then President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt's ARENA...

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WHAT DO YOU READ?

This is a part of my rather extensive law libray I have to do a lot of legal research to serve my client's interests best and I am continuously updating my legal skills by my own research and then of course I attend a lot of legal training seminars. My wife is also a qualified attorney and she assists me in my practice. The post that prompted this write-up is more of a general kind of reading - I take it for granted that you are reading...

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS A SCOURGE ON HUMANITY

He was treated like an animal for sale - or worse  She was also treated like an animal on sale I am back on this topic of slavery and human trafficking because it is very heavy on my heart. How on earth can anyone in his or her right mind treat people as if they are animals? Please read their heart rendering stories at this link. I do thank this photographer who took his time, money and other resources to research this topic and to...

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WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR TIME? A READER'S RESPONSE TO MY QUESTION

This guy was standing still spinning about 200 k.p.h.! We all got a kick out of it!! One of my readers and a fellow genealogist took time to reply to my blog post of yesterday [5 July 2017]. I encourage you to read and to join her; please tell me what do you do with your time? My e-mail address: neelscoertse@wirelessza.co.za  I know I have readers all over the world - I would really like to hear from you.  Hello NeelsI thought I...

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WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR TIME? SPARE TIME? WASTE TIME?

My friend Alan Mason during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa What do you do with your time? We all have only 24 hours per day to "spend." I know my friend Alan Mason is a very keen photographer. Some time ago he challenged himself to take one photograph per day for 365 days. He completed it with gusto and great photos. During the World Cup in South Africa him and I went to the Mary Fitzgerald Square in Johannesburg taking our cameras with...

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