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    One bird strike away from disaster — Pilots say South Africa’s world-record flyby was dangerous

    flock of Canadian Geese, a large one, with multiple birds ingested. I have seen plenty of aircraft at Louis Botha airport that ingested seagulls and hadedahs, and, aside from a red streak on the first turbine blade, and some smears on the inside of the duct, there was little other evidence, as...
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    Bad news for people who pay for Internet in South Africa

    Because Internet is not another state controlled monopoly, they want the good old days where Telkom told you 384kb/s was all the Internet you needed, and 1G a month was more than enough total data as well.
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    South African town charging homes with solar R582.64 per month to not use its electricity

    They have run out of money sources to embezzle, so now are thrashing around to try to find any sources that are left. not realising that those who they are targeting are those most likely to abandon the town, and move away, leaving the town to deal with an ever smaller rates base, because the...
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    Personal information of millions of South Africans exposed in 8,000 data breaches

    Yes all the breaches i have had were government.
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    Airlink ultra-low-altitude stadium flyover stunt under official review

    Note the white smoke fired 3 minutes before, to show likely an observer with radio contact that the air over the stadium is absolutely still, so the final approach, which needs still air, can be safely done, as there is no air currents that can disrupt the flight. If that smoke had been blown...
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    South Africa’s largest bulk water utility allegedly crippled by cyberattack

    squirrel should ask his boss Putin and Xi Jinping to stop their underlings attacking ZA........
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    Airlink ultra-low-altitude stadium flyover stunt under official review

    And here I am under the KSIA flight path, with pretty much regular flights in on approach going over me, close enough that I can see the rivets in the skin of the aircraft, the windows with blinds open or closed, almost close enough to hand the pilot a drink, and pretty much every aircraft is...
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    Warning to people who bought power banks from popular brands in South Africa

    I got 2 Tesla branded recycled cells in a solar spotlight. Replaced them with lots of old 18650 cells and a new BMS board, because of the one cell venting, and the other having around 200mAh capacity after a year. There was room for 8 2Ah cells in there, so that light works dusk to dawn, even in...
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    Airlink ultra-low-altitude stadium flyover stunt under official review

    they would have known true clearance all the time, because all commercial aircraft do have radio altimeters, and they are pretty accurate, even though the display would have been smoothed out, that data is going to show exact measurements, though likely not too well, as the roof is synthetic...
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    Chinese companies banned in the US dominating CCTV in South Africa

    Choose which spy agency gets your data more than anything, if you have a cloud connected unit.
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    Average salary at Eskom reaches R1.16 million

    Yes publish the bands, number of employees on each band, and the average for each one. Will bet you the top management, the ones just below them, are by far the biggest part of the wages bill. you could fire everybody that works, and it would not even show up as more than a single digit in the...
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    Extreme low-altitute rugby stadium flyover in South Africa sets world record

    Because they know they cannot do that there, because of all the complaints hey would get. Look at XJet, who is being hounded by his local council, mostly for pointing out in public they are a lot of two faced twats, and do not even know the regulations and laws they are supposed to uphold, and...
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    Airlink ultra-low-altitude stadium flyover stunt under official review

    Yes, i remember military fly overs where you probably could have scraped the trees, and plenty of helicopter pilots who came back, and we had to do a little bit of work to remove the twigs, leaves and top branches of the trees from the inside of the airframe, where they got blown in. as they...
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    Warning to people who bought power banks from popular brands in South Africa

    the only fire extinguishers they have on aircraft are Halon ones, though i suppose airlines should update the regulations to carry as well a class d one, which is designed to contain lithium and metal fires, or even more cheaply just have a few cans of baking soda close to hand, as that is the...
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    Warning about the online extremist group reaching children and teens in South Africa

    Parent the children, do not use technology as a nanny, because you have no control of that nanny, and blaming this for the failure of you to parent is not an excuse. Till they are 16 the parents are both financially responsible, and legally liable, for whatever the children do, so if your child...
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