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    Gayton McKenzie's sports rights vow is populism, wishful thinking

    If McKenzie or other government official wants to fix sport in SA, instead of getting populist brownie points, he would do something about the abysmal resources at many state (township & rural) schools. Mind you, if the government has not eliminated pit toilets after thirty years, decent...
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    Are large South African companies taxed fairly?

    All companies are taxed at 27%. So that's "fair". But unemployment is at a third and underemployment at [?] tw-thirds so tax needs to be set at a level that creates employment. With SA's "jobs without people and people without jobs" scenario, caused by state educational dysfunction, the...
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    Forty-eight individuals involved SIM card fraud arrested in South Africa

    Well done, SAPS and COMRiC
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    Technology-related jobs on Home Affairs' critical skills list

    The most critical skill shortage in SA is knowing that we have people without jobs and jobs without (able) people. Hopefully the DA's Siviwe Gwarube, Cyril's new minister of education, can end this dystopia. (Cyril fixed Loadshedding by bypassing Gwede with a new minister of Electricity)
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    Eskom performance data shows improved reliability and suspended load-shedding

    Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati explained that they partnered with the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for maintenance. The OEMs have deep knowledge and expertise about Eskom’s power plant generation equipment, significantly improving the work quality. Previously, maintenance was done by...
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    Complete the LookSee Home Efficiency Survey and you could win R3,000

    Done
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    The problem with completely going off the grid

    Missing from the argument is that most solar, generator and battery installations are not costed by uptime ( the cost of own generation vs grid) but by the cost of downtime — Can my shop run without electricity? if I work from home, can I afford to be idle during load-shedding? and the like — or...
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    South Africa’s biggest telecoms employer cut 51,000 jobs since 1999

    Telkom was not only hit by bloat, cadre deployment and the rest, but by technology disruptions, first mobile then fibre (think Whatsapp). It has, however, reinvented itself, adapted to the new technologies and even improved its attitude to its customers. A lesson for Post Office, Eskom and...
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    Eskom's miraculous EAF turnaroud

    According to former CEO Andre de Ruyter, most of Eskom's problems were due to criminal mafias including poor quality coal suppliers, many headed by ANC grandees. It's almost as if, when Loadshedding became so bad that the ANC was threatened, the criminal mafias decided to take a break until...
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    Eskom's miraculous EAF turnaroud

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    Amazing Gizzu competition - Win a Gizzu load-shedding survival kit worth R7,500

    GIZZU 518WH — for optimum balance between portability and power
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    Ramokgopa says load-shedding could end sooner than expected — but no one knows what the expected date was

    It looks like CR2017 has bypassed Mantashe (former NUM sec-gen, coal miner lobbyist and tendrepreneural nomenklatura) in order to save the ANC in 2024. ↑ That's the positive view. Alternatively, the ANC is "driving" Eskom's kit in order to save itself in 2024; reducing maintenance, thieving...
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    Joburg announces plan to overhaul load-shedding, including excluding some businesses from power cuts

    They should rather focus on fixing the infrastructure that's been allowed to rot. More and more frequently, loadshedding is followed by an infrastructure outage — which can only be tested when power is up. Given the number of solar installers in business, there must be a sizeable base of units...
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    Rain ready to challenge Vodacom and MTN's dominance

    My reaction entirely. Especially during loadshedding.
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    Epic Synology competition – Win a NAS device and more

    Safeguarding data
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