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South Africa's most important elections in 30 years are due in two weeks on Wednesday 29 May.
Why vote? Will it make a difference? True, a single vote is like a drop in the ocean. Yet many drops together can make a flood, and sweep the corrupt out of power.
One thing is for sure: Nobody pays any attention to the non-voters. The non-vote is simply lost. While the ANC would love your vote, they will still take the lack of a vote as an endorsement to carry on with their ruinous policies. So, vote. But for whom?
Where the DA governs, it governs better.
But if you don't like the DA, you can still make a difference by supporting other parties in the Multi-Party Charter for South Africa: the IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party, FF+ (Freedom Front Plus), ACDP (African Christian Democratic Party), ActionSA (Herman Mashaba), UCDP (United Christian Democratic Party), UIM (United Independent Movement), EPP (Ekhethu People's Party), or ISANCO (Independent South African National Civic Organisation).
The coalition's "Shared Governing Principles" are (Source: Wikipedia):
Of course, if you want to speed our country to its ruin, there are the militaristic and racist EFF with its corrupt "Commander-in-Chief", and the MK Party (with or without Gupta lackey and eternal victim, Jacob Zuma). And of course, the ANC: Led (if that is the right word) by the man who stood by and let state capture happen, with a cohort of corruption-accused. And supported in its campaign by the former president with the blood of 330,000 people on his hands.
Please vote wisely this month!
In Windows 10, when you compress a file or folder as we suggested last month, its icon will have a double blue arrows overlay at the top right corner to indicate that it is a compressed file or folder. If you do not want to see the blue arrows, you can remove them as explained here. It's rather technical, complicated, and potentially dangerous. Personally, I would leave it alone.
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If you saved any macros for general use, you would have saved them in the PERSONAL.XLSB workbook. This hidden file loads when Excel launches. It is because it is in memory that those macros are always available. But, as with any hidden file, it is possible to unhide it. For example, with the View ribbon > Window group > Unhide and OK. The worksheet part is blank, since the file only exists to store macros.
Now you will always see Personal.xlsb onscreen when you start Excel. This may be less fun than you might have expected! It may get in the way of other work. Or you might use that tempting blank worksheet for data, with unexpected results.
Better hide it again!
The quickest way is to go to the View tab again, and use Hide. Now, Personal.xlsb will continue to open, but it'll be hidden from view. You'll still have the macros for use at any time. And you won't see that pesky blank workbook anymore (thanks to this site for the idea).
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