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    R410 billion and 19 years later: Eskom’s megaprojects to end load-shedding remain unfinished

    I would like to see that analysis if anyone has a link, as that "limited" is probably doing a lot of heavy lifting. 90% of harmful emissions is a lot, plus EU as trading partner, this is quite important once they do taxes based on emissions for imports.
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    Three taxes punish South Africans for saving and investing

    "punish" is dumb, if you use it as savings/investment, it's capital gains tax and is way lower than income tax, your article states it. And dividends tax is lower than income tax for most, avoiding it, so it's more of a "reward" than a punishment. Of course fixing the headline sorts out the...
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    Because there is a minimum cost to provide, I would guess that the cheapest package on most providers is probably already break-even. For restaurants and stuff, pensioner's usually visit during off-peak as they aren't working, so it brings in business during times that are slow, and for parks...
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    But that but directly contradicts taking advantage of the inertia of people not going through the effort of changing it so you can charge more?
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    Not really client data, it's me setting up data generation based on real data and then putting it through a lot of tests to make sure it matches client data close enough while not being real data, it's just that much due to system being based on data extraction, so lots of variants etc. (data...
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    Most of the time it's useful having faster for gaming if people decide then and there what game to play, e.g. Wanted to play sniper elite with brother, it's a 33GB download, at 50Mps that's near 2h, so wouldn't be able to play, at my current 600, it's under 10 min. Allows you to adapt rather...
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    That's not really correct, it's whatever the peak throughput is for the network, so as long as you're under that, costs are pretty much the same. It's why I'm pro just 100Mbps and then 1Gbps packages, the 100 being the makes a small profit one, while the other makes an actual profit, but the...
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    Eskom calls for an 8.8% electricity price hike, and the Oura ring goes public

    Just remember, oura ring is quite an expensive ring that's a paperweight without the subscription and has a partnership with palantir. Their financials were $1.4bn revenue, of which $240m is membership, while saying they had a $59m net income but reporting a $924m loss. They had a 74% jump in...
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    New tax on licence discs proposed, and top South African retailer under siege

    Bot writing: It lost value, that's not what I'd consider an improvement. That's besides the two weeks before having the dollar weaken a little, yet rand weakened even more.
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    It's the easiest way to keep people on a higher priced package, people research when they get it, then just leave it as long as price increases are around inflation matched. Providers also hope that people get used to higher speeds, e.g. 50-> 100Mbps doing something like a one hour download...
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    South Africans feel like they are paying for fibre speeds they don’t need

    People get fiber packages based on price, not speed, with obvious exceptions who will just want a bigger number, and those who actually would like to use (e.g. faster steam download).
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    Hybrid and electric car sales increase 88% in South Africa, with one big shift

    There are enough that have 50km+ range, some 100km+, did specifically say the charging time would be short.
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    Hybrid and electric car sales increase 88% in South Africa, with one big shift

    Disagree there, if can charge electric, charge electric. That said, just plug it in overnight at home if you can, most don't drive enough that it wouldn't already be fully charged. If it's a road trip, electric charging makes sense, then after go fill with petrol if need the added range...
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    Fatalities and 28 injured in horrific crash on N7 near Dunoon

    Not sure what you're talking about, I'm saying there have always been a lot. I was on the road every weekday from table view to either the CBD or other areas around parrow and stuff, for work I did years with koeberg road. I'm saying there have always been a lot of taxis, myciti has been the...
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    Fatalities and 28 injured in horrific crash on N7 near Dunoon

    Last January, I am there for about 2-3 weeks a year, will be visiting soon again, still have family I visit. If your statement was serious, then I feel like you have no idea what Cape Town was like 20 years ago.
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