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    Estimated electricity savings over 20 years with grid-tied solar and batteries

    Yes, but you can't keep an 18% increase going for 20 years (unless inflation rates are anywhere close to it). An electricity bill of R1,000,000 in year 20 is irrealistic unless inflation is also well above 10% for most of the time. In which case you should work out the savings in REAL terms, not...
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    Researchers say solar power users should pay higher Eskom connection fees

    Although your analysis appears to have some surface validity, it actually doesn't work out in practice/on the ground for South Africa. Let me give you a real example (my current situation): I have just installed an off-grid solar installation (indeed City of Cape Town wants me to install a...
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    Do a speed test – win R5,000 cash

    I'm on Telkom's 4Mbps home package. This was during a loadshedding. Sometimes there's very slow connection but mostly it's fine. Streaming Netflix on bigscreen has never been a problem; Showmax usually gives bandwidth problems (very low-res video) but that's probably the Showmax servers.
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