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    MTN South Africa plans to cut costs by between R4 billion and R6 billion over the next three years

    It seems like nowadays, many companies are creating value by eating themselves up instead of innovating & investing towards growth. Laying employees off in favour of automated services, or offshoring to cheaper labour markets seems to be how value is created. At some point, I imagine there won't...
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    Does anyone still use LinkedIn?

    Hehehe. "Only successful candidates will be contacted". Then a LinkedIn post about how people are applying the wrong way.
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    Major blow to director in South Africa fined R500,000 for lying about a PhD

    I am THE POWER - KOEK is power... 525x the base power.
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    Producer of Netflix films working to save industry jobs in South Africa with new app

    Everybody is building apps nowadays to look out for themselves. Consumers also seem to like every new flashy app, even when it does not really solve anything. The film industry in South Africa has many deep issues which require policy shifts. Organizations like SAGA (South African Guild of...
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    Does anyone still use LinkedIn?

    Do I use LinkedIn? Yes I do, but only to get a gauge on who is hiring. I do not like the platform - everyone is a specialist and has skills in every single area. Someone on LinkedIn list 10+ skills when they only really know 1 well, but touched the other 9 briefly. The irony of LinkedIn having...
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    Medical Aid Comparison & Selection Wizard

    Sadly, this information is kept private - most medical aid companies do not make this information public. Medical professionals do know what the rand rate is for some medical aid companies. Confidentiality agreements are also in the mix here. I did some research into this problem a few years...
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    Ghana parliament passes anti-LGBTQ+ bill

    Africa has been like this for a while, only that anti LGBT laws are getting harsher and harsher. Wish people saw through the nonsense and actually paid more attention to how most African governments fail to deliver even basic services to their people, while billionaire/millionaire class of each...
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    Medical Aid Comparison & Selection Wizard

    This is really, really cool. I am happy that someone else is putting something together to bring more clarity to shoppers of South African medical aid plans. This makes me happy. In an ideal world, South African medical aid providers would be legally bound to some forms of pricing transparency...
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    Sky-high World Cup ticket prices spark investigation by NY and NJ attorneys general

    People should not buy tickets. The best way to show a company that they have gone too far is to stop buying the product. When I saw a cheap seat go for CAD $663 in Vancouver during the early entry/draw period, I said, "hell no".
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    Pick n Pay confirms data breach of Asap! app with customer data sold on dark web

    More of these types of data breaches will become the norm. More so given that everyone is vibe coding solutions, chasing "speed * efficiency". Even with compliance certifications, one cannot trust a company to handle sensitive information with care. At least the passwords were encrypted - I...
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    Grocify for Android launched

    I see on the app's landing website, the platform avails itself to business partnership opportunities. This does make the sourcing of data question more important - if there are agreements in place with all those vendors, then all is above board. If not, then the developer is using "public" data...
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    Grocify for Android launched

    That LinkedIn post reads like something that was written by an LLM :(. The OP of that LinkedIn post kind of reflects the reality of LinkedIn - loads of hype, and people speaking about things they do not fully understand. The idea behind this app is cool. I think that more efforts need to go...
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    More job cuts at Derivco

    It is all theatrics. In my view, the best employers do not use slogans and labels; you feel it when you start working for them. The average / bad employers use slogans, labels, and marketing to make it known they are the hot stuff. I have seen companies throw amazing parties (to convince the...
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    The weight loss thread

    Visiting this thread every now and then is always nice. For 2026, I want to try get my weight to around 75kg... I am currently weighing in at 82.4kg. What is interesting is, since moving to Canada, my weight has been falling, hahaha. Came in at 91kg. This is probably from regular 5km jogs and...
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    Should I stick with Discovery Medical Aid in 2026?

    When I still had South African medical aid, I did not see the need to move from Discovery to another medical aid provider. Most providers offer more or less the same benefits for a given price point. That, and it really is difficult to do an apples-to-apples comparison of which medical aid plan...
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