Recent content by MrGray

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    Black X publishes nearly 2GB of what it claims to be the personal information of ANC members

    Oh no. It would be truly awful if this information was used to scam or hack them...
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    One small group of South Africans holds 40% of the country’s high-value properties

    Yes, and? These are people at the end of their careers who have spent their lifetime paying off bonds and saving for retirement. Not sure if this is considered to be controversial or unusual?
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    SARS is making it harder for South Africans to end their tax residency – even if they’ve already left the country

    With SARS deciding that they can help themselves to CGT on all your SA assets even though gains are unrealized, I'm not sure people are in such a rush to cease tax residency unless they are in a territory that steals significantly less income from them than SARS does.
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    Volkswagen is the only manufacturer in SA that hasn't started pivoting to new energy vehicle manufacturing

    The BYD Dolphin Surf starts at €19990. I know what you're going to say, but even in Europe people are constrained for cash at the moment and that trumps brand loyalty. And in SA, the differential will be even more amplified by the duties.
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    Volkswagen is the only manufacturer in SA that hasn't started pivoting to new energy vehicle manufacturing

    As good as I actually think the ID Polo looks, they can't get down to the same price points as the Chinese manufacturers for the same or similar features. And if it ever came to SA it would probably land north of R700k, in a market rapidly flooding with <R400k BYDs.
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    Volkswagen is the only manufacturer in SA that hasn't started pivoting to new energy vehicle manufacturing

    If I was a vW exec and I paid serious attention to what was coming out of China, I'd send everyone back to the drawing board. In fact, all the big established brands need to reassess and adapt. This doesn't sound like adapting, it sounds like short term coping.
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    SABC+ crashed after a last-minute update forced all users to sign in again

    Basically just a capacity issue then. Someone should have done the maths.
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    Spar in R35.8 million trouble thanks to botched software rollouts

    I don't have such a short memory that I've forgotten that they announced in 2023 that a SAP rollout had cost them R1.6bn (with a "B"). Are they really still wasting money on this...
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    John Steenhuisen under siege

    The letter attachment is also in the public domain. Hardly amusing.
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    John Steenhuisen under siege

    And the letter was a formally and properly written request for engagement. Nothing funny or odd about it.
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    John Steenhuisen under siege

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    John Steenhuisen under siege

    I really don't appreciate the way the headline makes it sound like Steenhuisen is the victim here.
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    South Africans received 14.4 billion spam calls in the first five months of 2026

    I suspect that all those robocalls where they just hang up are actually sequential dialers harvesting active numbers. So they don't even have a database, they're just trawling a number range. If they're really sophisticated they could have AI analyzing the voice on pick up - male/female...
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    Members for life — The capture of Cape Town’s planning tribunal

    In my area any development is routinely squashed, yet the most controversial ones are often pushed through. For example, a local resident gets shut down for wanting to slightly expand and formalize a small roadside farm stall that had historically been used informally for that purpose for...
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    South Africans received 14.4 billion spam calls in the first five months of 2026

    And how long before the opt out registry is hacked and spammers use it to make calls?
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