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    Home Affairs is making it easier for South Africans living abroad to get documents

    Did you read the article? ... "The system was trialed in the UK" ... and If my location is the trial, then AUS has no hope
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    Home Affairs is making it easier for South Africans living abroad to get documents

    What Horse Sh*t... I have been trying to get an appoitment in london for 6 months. They open the bookings for 1 day at the beginning of the month! My SA passport has expired and its apparently illegal to enter SA on a foreign passport. I guess I will go spend my Euros/Pounds somewhere else.
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    MyBB'ers in the United Kingdom & Ireland

    The last 2 weeks in Cambridge.. definitely more than 5 days :-P
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    F1 2025

    Fridays Practice..
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    Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share

    Elawn is still butt-hurt about being kicked out of Paypal all those years ago.
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    Every EV you can buy in South Africa

    It would be - if you relied on charging at home. Public charging prices would not be regulated (like petrol is) and it will become a wild-west. In the UK, my home kWh charge is £0.25p per kWh - if I go on a long trip and have to use service stations, the prices range from £0.60 to £0.80p per kWh...
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    Every EV you can buy in South Africa

    There are many factors - there are many car markets for the same car. There is the 'Company' and 'Rental' market that buy cars new - after 2/3 years they sell them to the 2nd hand car market. EV's on the 2nd hand market becom 'iffy'. If an EV has been in an accident, the battery pack may...
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    Every EV you can buy in South Africa

    TCO is relative to a persons viewpoint. I am in the UK and have a Polestar2 (Volvo with tweaks) - The car payments come before TAX so my salary is lowered and I get free charging at the office. I live 120km away - and drive there+back 3 days a week. Most EV's at an average get 4.8km per...
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    SA mobile data prices compared with African and overseas countries

    Sorry... very badly researched and senstationalist. Three has unlimited for £20 a month on contract The bit not counted is that the basic income is £21000 per year (about £1400 per month = R29000)
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    Twitter threatens legal action against Meta Platforms over Threads

    its more complicated than that.. California is not friendly to non compete and restraint of trade written in contracts.. they are unenforacble. (much like the rest of the world) - even so, when they were 'fired' - was the employment contract adhered to? due process etc etc... If not, then...
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    Engine falls off a plane on take off in Cape Town

    Are you assuming my gender? :p
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    Smartspeaker recommendation for grandma with dementia.

    I use a Sonos speaker - the app is quite configurable on what playlists get played when.. For in-expensive, the Ikea Symfinisk range is all Sonos
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    Klerksdorp man dies after generator explodes during load shedding

    and then you get people who want to make free energy from water and make HHO generators and modify generators.. with explosive gasses running about. Youtube is littered with that nonsense of perpetual motion.
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    These are the stocks super-investors are buying

    The first lines about 13F
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    UK’s Brexit losses more than 178 times bigger than trade deal gains

    They are insane - but also the perspective that at UK minimum wages you will earn ~£1300 a month. In my area, petrol is £1.64 / lt
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