Recent content by geezer

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    Cycling

    If that safety net wasn’t there he would have gone down that cliff.
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    South Africans spend 23 days driving to work every year

    Out of curiosity I calculated my approximate time getting to work and back, and it worked out to roughly about 3.3 hours per week, 6.5 days per year. But, >99% of that time was spent cycling to work and verry occasionally driving to work.
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    The 140-year-old South African small town with a preserved Victorian village that attracts famous politicians, writers and sports stars from around th

    I still remember standing on Matjiesfontein's station at 2am in the morning of 6 July 1981, waiting for the troop train to arrive coming from Cape Town, on my way to start my two years' national service in Phalaborwa. Not fun with it being in the middle of the winter in the Karoo. Arrived in...
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    Passenger 'nearly sucked out of window mid-air' on Ryanair plane

    Flysafair's fleet is an average age of 19.4 years and the oldest is 37.2 years.
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    Important South African dam so polluted you cannot see the water

    Someone give that oom 'n kopklap for recording in portrait mode and not landscape.
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    What is your primary source of drinking water?

    And here I thought that Nico Pieterse was the only water sommelier in South Africa, but reading some of the posts, I seem to have been mistaken.
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    I am shocked just at how buggy DStv stream actually is..

    Your streaming device was just rebelling because you were watching "Die Kantoor." ;)
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    End of an era for spam calls in South Africa

    For those interested, here is where you have to register: https://eservice.thencc.org.za/Consumer/CreateConsumerHomePage But as @Creag has said the site is sooooooooo sloooooow.
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    South Africa has 8.1 million unemployed people, so why can’t businesses find the right skills?

    No, an Afrikaans speaking person that also says, "I will throw you with the ball." instead of "I will throw the ball at you.". (Ek sal jou met die bal gooi.)
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    The 250-year-old hospital that is the oldest of its kind in South Africa still operating

    Randomly choosing the middle of September, you get the following results on a date and time calculator. The 250 probably is a typo.
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    SARS eFiling 2025/2026

    SARS themselves say so on your Notice of Assessment (ITA34)
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    Sad news ... celebrity deaths.

    Suicide, he hanged himself.
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