Prosperous Project Management: This can only happen in the "New" South Africa

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Friday, January 11, 2008

This can only happen in the "New" South Africa

My parents still live in South Africa. My wife and son came with me to the USA in January 2001.

This week my mother went to renew her drivers licence in South Africa.

A drivers licence renewal now requires fingerprinting - I guess you never know which 60 year old grandmother poses a national security threat :)

The digital finger print scanner would not detect my mother's fingerprints.

The operator told my parents "Aaiii! We cannot get your fingerprints because your skin gets thinner as you get older. Your fingerprints go away when you turn 60 years old".

Just another reason that I am grateful to be living in the USA.

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Name: Wayne Botha

Location: South Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.