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    **** Cancer

    Re Skin Melanomas: My best friend passed away 2 weeks ago from cancer complications because he didn't excise or have removed a melanoma on his leg earlier enough (Stage 0/1) about 3 years ago. I heard only after the fact, as he never told me, that the Melanoma on his leg was Stage 4 back when...
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    City of Cape Town’s fixed tariffs declared invalid and unlawful

    I hear the Taxis have threatened the same in Cape Town.
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    City of Cape Town’s fixed tariffs declared invalid and unlawful

    I'll pay because I believe I'm getting adequate service in our area. For example. All the main roads in our area are being resurfaced, this night-time project started on the 23rd of April and will continue until the 15th of June. That contract must be worth millions. In our back street, a...
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    City of Cape Town’s fixed tariffs declared invalid and unlawful

    Expect more delinquencies going forward.
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    What sleeping accessories do you use?

    Re Demotex Mites on your face and eyelids. You may have to Google "Demotex Mites" as these microscopic critters live inside your skin follicles, come out at night and eat your dead skin. While this is normal, if they get too many it can become problematic and as we get older the number...
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    City of Cape Town’s fixed tariffs declared invalid and unlawful

    I've pondered about that a lot. The work on the MY City Bus thing has been going on for years, and its nowhere near completion. Millions, probably billions going into bus routes that the Taxis will ignore or take over anyway. It must be a fortune that the COCT has spent so far. This one bridge...
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    City of Cape Town’s fixed tariffs declared invalid and unlawful

    Water is a revenue that isn't regulated. The COCT is a business. For electricity tariffs we have NERSA, questionable yes. We also need a NERSA-type body guiding water tariffs. I'm in full agreement with you about the hype and psychological brainwashing; few people even picked up on it back...
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    Windows 11 Support Thread

    And every now and then while using edge you get a nag screen asking you to go back to Chrome.
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    City of Cape Town’s fixed tariffs declared invalid and unlawful

    In my opinion we were soft targets ripe for the picking during the 2016/2017 Day Zero Water Crisis. They (COCT) slipped in that Fixed Water Charge nicely to little or no objections, and when that went OK, they slipped in the Fixed Electricity Charge on top of that. I think it was R100 at first...
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    City of Cape Town’s fixed tariffs declared invalid and unlawful

    Memory serves, the COCT actually discouraged people to use well points. The terminology they used confused people. There were people who've had well points for decades that were questioning its use around that Day Zero period. I'm extremely disappointed with the COCT with regards to its...
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    Steve Biko road drag racing turns deadly

    Here is something you'd find hard to believe unless you saw it with your own two eyes. Outside our business a couple of years ago, this car does a series of donuts at the intersection, screeching tyres, engine revving, smoke everywhere, in the middle of the day, a Saturday I think, while people...
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    Steve Biko road drag racing turns deadly

    "On Saturday, 2 May, officers in Gugulethu arrested a 2-year-old for the possession of a prohibited firearm and 14 rounds of ammunition." Say what!? Many people in Cape Town don't realise the problem with these Drag Racing types as its not within their communities. I see no stats provided...
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    Steve Biko road drag racing turns deadly

    I'm not sticking up for the cops, but often these drag racers use private property to host their events. so their hands are tied. Private property as in a Petrol Station or Garage as we call them here in South Africa. Garages usually have extra parking after hours, a shop with food and coffee...
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    New data centres set to swallow 34% of Cape Town’s current electricity supply

    I'm not entirely up to speed on this topic, it is after all a US problem, so not following it. Best to search using Google with phrases like "data centres causing higher electricity bills" or such like terminology. Infrastructure, negotiated pricing etc. South Africa is different to the US; our...
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    New data centres set to swallow 34% of Cape Town’s current electricity supply

    Less populated states in the US experienced Data Centre booms in their areas, initially unopposed I'd expect. Today I'm not so sure... Homeowners in certain US states are now faced with higher electricity bills. Why? Those homeowners believe that the government or rather companies I'd expect...
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