Caryn Gootkin attempts to provide Joe Public with a comprehensive, but user-friendly definition of Plain Language to enable compliance with the legislative imperative contained in the Consum... Read more
Caryn Gootkin is consumed by thoughts of death and the way we talk, write and sing about it following a friend’s slow, painful death. My columns are usually whimsical and somewhat irreverent... Read more
Caryn Gootkin wonders if she has bitten off more than she can chew in her quest to understand and advise her clients how to comply with the legislative imperative to communicate with consume... Read more
Caryn Gootkin discusses the concept of plain language in South Africa, analysing whether the Consumer Protection Act does enough to define and promote it. And whether we should be in the sli... Read more
Following on from her previous (rather serious) column on South Africa’s alarming unemployment figures, Caryn Gootkin scours the net and picks her friends’ brains to come up with some unusua... Read more
The latest published unemployment figures are alarming. Caryn Gootkin looks back at her own employment history and considers what people are willing to do for money. “South Africa’s un... Read more