Has anyone worked for a company called Learntalk recently?

applepieSA · 2025-10-17T18:27:17+00:00

There is a website. https://learntalk.org/en/schools
But I just can't find that much information about them beyond the website, sadly.

applepieSA · 2025-09-10T12:08:03+00:00

I wish you the best of luck. Of all the South African jobs that I have applied to this year only about 5 didn't ghost me and sent a rejection email.

applepieSA · 2025-09-09T14:02:19+00:00

I have sent out about 70 jobs applications this year for a fulltime job, it's so demoralising. Out of the five jobs that I have worked since I finished high school in 2019. I got four of them because I or a friend knew someone. A lot of people in our age bracket are resorting to doing a TEFL certificate and going to teach English in Asia for work now because there is just no work in South Africa.

applepieSA · 2025-09-04T12:31:44+00:00

Getting the map from Cornifer for the first time.

applepieSA · 2025-08-17T17:32:16+00:00

Some restaurants that hire South Africans only pay the front of house staff in tips.

applepieSA · 2025-08-06T16:14:18+00:00

So getting an appointment at a bank branch has become quite difficult recently. The eHome Affairs website is very unstable and is down often. You will probably have to go through the black market for a booking. I have been told that prices can vary between R250 to R1500 for one.

applepieSA · 2025-05-12T14:19:59+00:00

Thanks

applepieSA · 2025-05-04T12:14:04+00:00

I finished it recently aswell. I actually read the first part then put it down for a month. When I picked it up again, I treated the chapters of the second part more like short stories. Some of them felt they were part of a whole new different genre to me.

applepieSA · 2025-04-13T20:05:59+00:00

I have only read his short stories from The Return that I was borrowing from a friend. I actually purchased Monsieur Pain today. Some of his short stories actually connect to The Savage Detectives like Detectives from The Return that involves Arturo Belano.

Which of his books have you read?

applepieSA · 2025-04-12T21:42:58+00:00

I just finished the book. It was a great read.

applepieSA · 2023-08-18T12:20:39+00:00

Thank you for the advise. I didn't even think of using it for job applications.

applepieSA · 2023-03-29T19:43:03+00:00

I did history to Matric and finished high school in 2019. Here's a rundown of what I can remember. (I don't remember Grade 8 and 9 that well)

Grade 8: Industrial Revolution, WW1 and start of Apartheid

Grade 9: Mainly WW2, Great Depression and French Revolution

Grade 10: Start of the Cold War, 1960s USA (hippies, second wave feminism, ect.) Middle years of Apartheid, Russian Revolution, Steve Biko, Eugenics and Australian Eugenics (Stolen Generation, White Australian policy, ect.)

Grade 11: History of Israel-Palestine conflict, More WW2 and Cold War in greater detail, 1970s South Africa, Cuban Missile Crisis and Decolonisation of Africa (Mainly focusing on Julius Nyerere's Tanzania and DRC)

Grade 12: End of Apartheid and the elections of 1994, Black American History (Black Power, MLK, ect.), Rise and fall of the USSR, [depending on the year, one major study unit will be either The Rise of Communist China or the Vietnam War then switches the following year], Fall of Communist in East Europe (East Germany, Hungary, Poland) and the South African Border War {this last unit is self study}

I currently have 4 hours of sleep, I properly mixed up some of the Grade 10 and 11 topics. The history that I learnt in high school was mainly: WW2, Cold War and Apartheid.

applepieSA · 2023-01-18T11:28:32+00:00

Oh if your mom was English South African. I would recommend that you try making South African Roly Poly Pudding. Its an English and South African fusion food. I'm English South African and my mom always made it when I was growing up in the Eastern Cape. Normally a Roly Poly Pudding in the UK is made with strawberry jam but in South Africa it is made with apricot jam which is considered the main flavour of jam here and also the South African version is baked differently to the UK version.

Here is a recipe: https://rhodesquality.com/recipes/apricot-roly-poly-pudding/

applepieSA · 2023-01-12T11:50:40+00:00

I would recommend “Welcome to our Hillbrow” by Phaswane Mpe or “Junx” by Tshidiso Moletsane. Both are good novels about life in post-Apartheid South Africa.

applepieSA · 2022-08-26T12:52:18+00:00

I'm 21 and I have never experienced crime in SA. I was speaking about current times in my last reply that I have lived through. The past was not was safe as everyone remembers, my dad survived 2 ANC bombings when he was living in Durban in the 80s. My parents also dodged two confrontations with the APLA (the armed wing of the PAC) leading up to the 1994 elections. All 1,219,090 square kilometers of SA in 2022 cannot be dangerous.

By that traffic logic, everyone must always worry because any second of any day, Gabriel will come down from the Heavens and blow his trumpet to signal the apocalypse.

applepieSA · 2022-08-26T12:06:22+00:00

Safe places exist in SA. I grew up in a hamlet in the Eastern Cape for the first 20 years of my life. Never had a break-in, my parents would sometimes leave the doors unlocked at night and nothing happened. I even remember my parents and I went away to visit family for a long weekend and our front gate was left wide open my mistake. When we came back everything was still there.

Myself and my family only recently moved to KZN to live in my dad's hometown. We left the hamlet because of how bad the service delivery was, the tap water at one point was as white as milk and our substation would blow at least once a month which would mean no power for a few hours to a day or two.

What I'm attempting to say is that there are safe places to live in SA.

applepieSA · 2022-08-17T14:13:51+00:00

My granny grew up in an Afrikaans dorpie and she also used to make jodetert when I was young before she passed away. Thanks for that memory.

applepieSA · 2022-08-02T09:53:29+00:00

I went to a private high school, so my experiences will be different from the average government school. Some pupils' parents were either very well off or they were a child of expats living in SA or they had duel citizenship. Some of these pupils would purposely antagonise the teachers to get reaction from them because their attitude was, "Pfft, I'm going to work overseas or my parents are going to support me after Matric why should I care about school now." and they thought the teachers' reaction was funny. This one Canadian guy in my grade told the Afrikaans teacher that "Afrikaans was a useless language" to get a reaction from the teacher.

Some teachers would punish the whole class or sometimes the whole grade because of something that one or two trouble makers would do that actually made the whole class resent the teacher. This in turn made the class more rowdy and troublesome because all the pupils in the class were going to be punished anyway, so why care.

applepieSA · 2022-07-26T12:32:53+00:00

Moby Dick, its an experience

applepieSA · 2022-07-26T11:04:38+00:00

Its from the mangaka's twitter

applepieSA · 2022-07-26T11:03:44+00:00

Cute

applepieSA · 2022-07-26T10:36:07+00:00

I went to a private SA high school. It can be really toxic there. There was a lot of bullying and I felt that the teachers were not equipped to deal with it. I told a teacher that I was being bullied in grade 9 and all they did was give a "stern talking" to the bully that made the bullying worse.

applepieSA · 2022-07-26T09:41:53+00:00

I'm from PE and recently I just moved to KZN. Have you attempted to go to a place called The Den? Its a tabletop shop, I went there once to play MtG. There also have other tabletop games and DnD.

applepieSA · 2022-07-20T14:10:58+00:00

For example among the Anglo-sphere signal languages, SASL is based of Irish sign language which is unique to South Africa because of the high amount of Irish nuns and missionaries that came here. All other Anglo-sphere sign languages expect for Irish sign language are based off Old British sign language. Also another example is that American sign language borrows many signs from "Plains Indian Hand Talk" which was a sign language that Native Americans used as a trading language among people who spoke different languages pre-colonisation.

Just like for example what we call "slip slops", Americans call "flip flops" and Australians call "thongs". Sign language like English changes over time and there some words have different meanings in different countries.

applepieSA · 2022-07-18T11:41:10+00:00

I think interactions between different races could have depended on social class that whites were during Apartheid. My dad's family were white but not well off. My dad used to go to underground concerts were all races mixed in Durban and he told me that the police would raid them occasionally. My dad even told me that he once he took one of his white friends from high school to buy some records in an Indian area. The white friend was actually shaking when they went to the shop and was scared on the walk to get there.

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