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    Police investigate targeted shooting at Marine Circle café

    Vhahangwele Makolana was a Lesotho National whose job was true cost and feasibility of renewable and energy projects. eg if a company quotes someone (eg government) 500 000 million rand, his job would be relook at the project and give an independant cost analysis. Tenderpreneurs do not like facts
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    Fireworks - festive fun or unnecessary nuisance?

    I drove in from Somerset west on the N2 today. I was shocked at the unusually high amount of dead dogs on the road in proximity to all the townships. I assume its from all the fireworks. Hopefully the dogs died quickly and painlessly, and they are out of their anguish
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    AWS outage crashes Amazon, PrimeVideo, Fortnite, Perplexity and more

    it is a very quiet day with slack struggling to load threads at times, and jira being intermittent. With no managers to bother me, this is looking like my most productive Monday in a long time Our servers run via AWS EU so thats stable for us
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    The state-owned company in South Africa that’s seen a 670% improvement in 5 years

    Its safe and cheap. The north eastern line to strand is safe due to the fact that the doors are locked so when you get stuck forever on the 2 hour journey from strand to cape town, at least you wont get knifed as in precovid. The 2 hour+ journey is a bit of a change from the 1 hour and 5 min...
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    Capitec app offline

    I used to use the website, now I cant login without some photo identification on the app, or something and that does not work for me. I am sure it works for some people though So what was the effect of this outage.. People could not buy R20 electricity or they could not play the lotto its nice...
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    One ride-hailing driver was killed and another was injured in a violent attack at Maponya Mall in Soweto

    Gosh, we should investigate the socio economic conditions that caused people to behave this brutally Perhaps some of our educated youngsters at universities can write a thesis on this. Golly, would I be surprised if the result is that its due to Apartheid:rolleyes:
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    Serious allegations against Shoprite regarding Checkers Sixty60

    News flash delivery drivers. Many people have crap jobs. It's not just you, but it's just you and uber drivers complaining non stop. No one asked you to crawl across the border to come here and whinge
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    Is consumerism killing the middle class?

    I feel as if anything against consumerism is an attack on my culture :cautious: From chatgpt: "Jan Van Riebeeck and his Dutch East India Company (VOC) crew mainly traded beads, copper wire, iron tools, tobacco, and alcohol with the Khoikhoi in exchange for cattle and sheep. These were valuable...
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    Interest rate cuts coming for South Africa

    no warning? ie "Warning - interest rate cuts coming" :rolleyes:
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    South Africa desperately needs these skills

    I dont see BEE middle manager on the list. Is that not a critical skill anymore:unsure:
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    South Africans are in the danger zone

    I always thought all my friends with the new vw polo, new samsung phone, samsung tv and nike takkies just make more money than me. Are they in debt:unsure:. No way, no one would be in debt just for that
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    Spar announces grocery and liquor delivery partnership with Uber Eats

    pnp works on asap and mr d. Now spar will work on spar2u and uber eats. And checkers just works..
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    The South African bank that turned R1,000 into R1.28 million

    Good for them -I signed up when you could withdraw R3000 for R10 - now its R10 per R1000 - same as tyme and bank zero - They also used to give a semi decent interest rate on the savings account, now its 2% or something stupid. Bank Zero's savings account is better - Touting a lack of the ability...
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    National state of disaster declared in South Africa

    Government should prob should invest in farming and assisting farmers :cautious: Farm hard when the land and weather is good, and save up for a rainy day. Even a squirrel understands the this concept .
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    Curious about your opinion re: these stock picks

    Some of us like to live on the edge. Buying a bit of stocks that I do not understand is the closest I come to gambling. Dont take my dopamine away please:)
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