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  1. porchrat

    3-year plan to try and save Joburg

    That's the thing. It's consistently not sustainable. Not because the administration process doesn't work. It usually works OK. They stabilise service delivery, pay off immediate debts etc.. They tend to hand back a muni that is, at least at a basic level, more functional than it was before...
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    3-year plan to try and save Joburg

    It's worked before. The problem is usually when the administration ends and the local boys take over again. Then they just drag it back into the mud.
  3. porchrat

    3-year plan to try and save Joburg

    put it under administration. The local muni has clearly lost the plot. All that budget and they can't provide basic services like water and electricity.
  4. porchrat

    Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has bad news about South Africa’s electricity prices

    Must admit I'm surprised he admitted this so close to elections.
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    Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has bad news about South Africa’s electricity prices

    You forgot to factor in the value of the property.
  6. porchrat

    UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

    No trauma brother. I think it's laughable. Your assumption of expert status here reminded me of that incident. Similar ego involved.
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    Extra public holiday for South Africa – with the date officially declared

    If they make it Monday half the country will be too hung over to bother to show up. I suppose not a terrible loss. My queues would be shorter.
  8. porchrat

    UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

    Back off man. The fellow laid an orange peel out when he was at school. He's basically an expert on maps. I also remember when that professional swimmer kid nearly drowned out here in the Western Cape Rietie was going on about how he could easily handle the waves and the kid was just a sissy...
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    Watch: HAWK S Ship Crashes Into Durban Harbour Quay in Violent Collision

    it's been towed outside the environment.
  10. porchrat

    Watch: HAWK S Ship Crashes Into Durban Harbour Quay in Violent Collision

    I don't understand why you keep asking these questions as though he's going to be able to answer. Do you think this @ToxicBunny fellow runs the port? Why don't you tell me who sets the moor status on the tracking app?
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    Goodbye Cape Town – Wealthy buyers are flocking to another South African coastal province

    Could be the Miami of the entire Southern Hemisphere. If Durban's leadership just got their schit together Durban could be amazing. The beaches are beautiful. The weather is fantastic. Yes it's humid but honestly you do adjust to it.
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    South African teachers, nurses, and police officers cannot afford to live in the areas they work

    You should check again friend. Maybe government teachers are getting that. You can get anything from R10k p/m up to 35k Starting salaries for government posts are something like R14k
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    ANC’s message to South Africa: Apartheid caused most problems and don’t judge us on our historic record

    I imagine it was a combination of factors. Under Mbeki it was exclusively voluntary early retirement packages.
  14. porchrat

    ANC’s message to South Africa: Apartheid caused most problems and don’t judge us on our historic record

    I tend to agree. It's a side effect I think of the delay in commissioning new power stations. No point in keeping teams around to handle new power station construction if you're not building new power stations. As I've said already, the man was far from perfect. He was, despite this, still the...
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    ANC’s message to South Africa: Apartheid caused most problems and don’t judge us on our historic record

    Eskom was still run by the government. It's never going to be as efficient as a privately run entity would be. I do agree that it had a lot of advantages though. For example it wasn't paying corporate tax and it was mandated to supply electricity basically at cost (obviously with enough profit...
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