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    Why you should buy an electric car in South Africa

    How long before a niche market is seen by entrepreneurs? Fields of solar panels where you bring your car to recharge after using the battery to power your home because of Eskom uselessness? You don’t need to use Eskom because the car battery lasts for months (a Tesla vehicle, not the miniature...
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    Government wastes R5 million to fly empty aeroplane to fetch vaccines

    Americans then? They've already crashed a Martian satellite because metric confuses them.
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    Housing activist wants to lodge criminal complaint after being told to 'shut up' by Cape Town mayor

    There is no try. There is do or not do. -Yoda
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    Mazibuko M1B is a Mzansi-made battery bakkie

    I hope it includes the Tesla battery management gubbins for emergency power. We can mitigate the load shedding shambles of the incompetent and corrupt Eskom. With beefy lithium/iron phosphate battery chemistry + plus Elon Musk’s influence in China (Gigafactory Shanghai) + the ANC government’s...
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    Egypt's Suez Canal blocked by large container ship

    Many years ago (>30) I worked repairing ships navigation equipment. I was told by colleagues of the halcyon days when Israel and Egypt were at war. Israel sunk shipping in the Suez Canal and forced all maritime traffic around the Cape and up the East coast. The company had a branch in the Cape...
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    Antarctica is About to Unleash an Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City

    I learnt something today. Is it drinkable?
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    The Dig

    Thanks for warning me to avoid it.
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    Antarctica is About to Unleash an Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City

    It's salt water. The Cape has the Atlantic and Indian oceans for that.
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    The SpaceX Thread

    I’ve heard it mooted that Elon Musk is buying up all the houses in Boca Chica to turn it into Star City around SpaceX for his employees. He is paying up to 3x the value of the properties. So far there is only one holdout – the woman (Mary? A space geek) who does the drone footage around Boca...
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    Police wings clipped as helicopters don’t fly in Eastern Cape

    Why? I thought it was a bad m/c selection but the overall concept was good. Was the maintenance an issue?
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    Microsoft hack: White House warns of 'active threat' of email attack

    Microsoft is a dick. Don't have high expectations.
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    Motorcycle accident, no drivers license

    The motorcycle had it on the dashboard.
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    Here are the 'wrong' illustrations that got six Dr. Seuss books cancelled

    I see a bad moon rising.
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    Court orders 9-storey block be torn down

    This is where responsibility disappears into a vague 'collective'.
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    Ghost-busters head to Mpuma

    Thanks. I was trying to think of her. I wonder why she stopped?
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