Recent content by nicroets

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    The launch of Amazon Leo in SA was a major strategic win for Johann Rupert and Remgro

    I don't think Richemont has any stores in SA. And South African tourists buying their stuff in other countries are a rounding error. Cadres prefer LVMH's brands: Louis Vitton, Moet champagne etc.
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    The launch of Amazon Leo in SA was a major strategic win for Johann Rupert and Remgro

    Just because Amazon and StarLink both put have LEO satellites doesn't mean they are comparable. StarLink has 8500 in orbir and Amazon only 400. So Amazon can help a farmer in the Kalahari do IoT. StarLink gives him HD video. StarLink can give businesses in the cities redundancy independent of...
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    Protests mounting ahead construction of massive hyperscale facility in Cape Town

    Equinix will pay the municipality for water and will be a predictable client. There really shouldn't be a problem as long as the municipality just do proper planning e.g. build desalination plants, dams and other infrastructure. Free markets can also play a role: Water prices rise, farmers...
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    Plan to overhaul SIM card purchasing and registration in South Africa

    If a criminal really wants a SIM that's not linked to his ID, he will still be able to ask a poor person to just buy him a SIM. Just give him R100. This loophole cannot be closed. And there are many apps for end to end encryption. So government will never know who you contacted.
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    Warning about fake Ubers scamming travellers at South African airports

    "He (frequent traveller Johan van Schalkwyk) suggested that a possible solution..." This is bad journalism. Why someone with actual experience running an airport or a municipality ?
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    Elon Musk and his time at Pretoria Boys High School explained

    In some countries, saying something provocative like "Idiot!" is equivalent to throwing the first punch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words
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    Government crypto crackdown is due to tax fears — Dawie Roodt

    ELI5 how to pay less tax with this "money": What work can I do where I can earn this "money" ? Where can I spend this "money" ? Dawie is wrong: This is much more SARB peeing their pants than SARS. Countries without exchange control is much more crypto friendly. Like the US having clear laws on...
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    Eskom paying employees 1,195% more to produce the same amount of electricity as in 1994

    That the average over all the GWh that they produces. Not the salary of anyone or average salary of any group of employees. 1195% over 32 years is only 8.3% per annum compounded. That's not drastically more than inflation. I think the real devil in the detail are all the contractors that are...
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    Hacker group selling 2 million private records allegedly belonging to all members of the ANC

    Tomorrow the Information Regulator will personally go give everyone in Lutuli House a slap on the wrist.
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    Eskom's public EV charging push raises industry alarm

    Why wasn't there uproar about the deals Eskom made with the smelters ? 62c/kWh and tomorrow they will ask for another bailout...
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    Plan to expropriate cryptocurrency in South Africa

    In related news, Dlamini-Zuma will reimpose the smoking ban because it was so effective in Covid. And the department of transport report that they are not aware of any minibuses running red lights.
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    Carnarvon, once called Harmsfontein, where the SKA is being built

    The area formed part of the hunting range of the Khoi-San for many millennia. The Xhosa settled there only in the last few centuries and they displaced the Khoi-San. So the Xhosa were the original colonisers.
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    Another blow for Boeing's Moon mission contracts

    SLS has little scientific and engineering merit. But it's very expensive. So critics call it "Senate Launch System"
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    Public works department says 40 Home Affairs offices don't meet OHS standards

    Denying people access to ID documents is also illegal. There are many cases where the courts found it's "okay" to break the law. If the building is likely to collapse in the near future, then yes, close it. But if it's something like lack of wheelchair access then keep them open until the new...
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    MTN anti-fraud measure is reportedly causing headaches for delivery drivers and contract customers

    My mom ordered just a SIM on contract from mtn.co.za and her fingerprints were also rejected. The biggest problems was that she was then blocked from getting that same contract from the store while this failed delivery is being sorted out. In this day and age where next day delivery is...
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