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    VW breaks a record at its Polo factory, and Mercedes-Benz to build the new C-Class in South Africa

    Since when do you need to register to read articles on TopAuto? Is that something new, or did I miss the requirement to register for continued access to read the articles?
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    Electricity Minister will ask for Eskom to be exempt from Public Finance Management Act rules

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    Bad news about online licence disc renewals in South Africa

    I get my renewal notice e-mailed by Natis. Last year's I received 1½ months before the disc's expiry date.
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    R4 per litre petrol price blow to South Africa

    You definitely wouldn’t have gotten change from R5 filling up a Beetle in the 80s. Maybe change from R50. The VW Beetle’s fuel tank was 40 liters. In the early 80s the fuel price was just under R1 per liter. In 1985 it was at R1 per liter.
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    Things that irritate you - Part 4

    A paring knife or a pair of scissors would have worked very well, you would have had the battery out in less than a minute. And it’s a CR2032 battery. The naming convention comes from the battery having a 20mm diameter and a 3.2 mm thickness. That’s why you can use a CR2016 or CR2025 battery...
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    At what point do you sell your car?

    The moment you hand over the keys after the money reflects in your account and you signed the Notification of Change of Ownership (Yellow form).
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    Police investigate deaths of two Gauteng teenagers in Sabie

    Pervert... 😁
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    R23 billion set to disappear into thin air in a South African city

    It seems like that the government's financial systems are set up to support corruption. Where I worked it was almost impossible to spend money in a corrupt manner, except if multiple parties are involved. If I wanted to buy item X, I had to complete a purchase request describing what I need...
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    R23 billion set to disappear into thin air in a South African city

    Using "disappear into thin air" very loosely. I am convinced that there will be a trail to exactly where that money went, into which connected cadres' pockets it landed in, which corrupt officials were part of the money flowing. It's plain and simple, abusing public money without any...
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    South Africans are paying the same price for a tiny apartment and a 3-bedroom family home

    Advantage of being old is to have been able to buy a 4-bedroom house with three bathrooms, double garage with housemaid's quarters, borehole with sprinkler irrigation and a 1750 square meter yard for R185 000 and paying less than R2000 per month for it.
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    Worst movie or series plot hole?

    Bobby Ewing joining Dallas again with the shower scene, after Pam Ewing's "dream" that he was killed in a car crash in the previous season.
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    Retirement planning

    Guaranteed pension. Upon my death, my wife will get 75% of my pension until her death. If my wife passes away before me, I will continue getting the full pension till I pas away.
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    Retirement planning

    Thanks, it looks like it's giving more credible results. Although the calculator indicates that I will get only about R37 000 (after tax) upon retirement, whilst I actually am getting ±R45 750 after tax. Maybe I should play around with the assumptions.
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    Retirement planning

    Unless I am doing something wrong, there's something off with this calculator. I used a hypothetical scenario but was in line with my own situation. When I was 60 years old, I had roughly about R10 500 000 in my pension fund. That would have given me ±R65 000 per month, and ±R44 000 per month...
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    MTN had the most reliable network speeds at popular malls in Pretoria East

    OMG! Thanks for this invaluable information. Now I can jump in my car, drive form Sasolburg to Pretoria East and surf on the internet in one of those malls. My life will then be complete.
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