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    The average commuting motorist in South Africa would save roughly R60 per day driving an electric car at current fuel prices

    these AI photos are not just the Geelyt E2..it looks really good and well priced, had one for 3 weeks now. The Geely E2 features a design that incorporates the 0.618 Golden Ratio
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    Geely undercuts BYD with new cheapest electric car in SA

    Wife bought the Aspire Geely E2 last week without even test driving it, its dam cute and solid, am impressed by the safety features and handling.
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    Cape Town wants to roll out AI-powered traffic cameras

    Will this work with tinted windows. And stating the obvious ,Taxis ,doing all sorts of dangerous manoeuvres such as conveys in emergency or parking lanes, using left right turns to push in front and jump red lights, loading off-load passengers in intersections, driving into incoming traffic...
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    Tax consulting expert explains Sars regulations on crypto asset reporting

    According to this article https://techfinancials.co.za/2025/06/24/south-africans-spent-r20m-via-luno-pay-since-nov-2024-launch/ South Africans have spent over R20 million through Luno Pay since its launch in November 2024. So does that mean for each of these transactions, SARS needs to know...
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    Binance and Luno on crypto wallet growth in South Africa

    Luno suggest the services of Recap to calculate the tax owed on crypto tax events which is what happens when you spend crypto for payments at merchants. The basic subscription plan to download your crypto report is R2400. It seems a lot of trouble and expense to go through unless one plans on...
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    Improving home security using CCTV AI monitoring

    I installed an IMOU camera at my folks house that is empty after my dads passing and it picked up a couple that trespassed & forced open a back door in Jan. SAPS were saying they didn't break in as they were hiding in front garden, but the footage I showed them proved they were walking round the...
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    South Africa’s oldest university deteriorating in front of everyone’s eyes

    The 28 January 2005 murder of the gentle Dr Brian Hahn by Dr Maleafisha Stephen ‘Steve’ Tladi and the way that was twisted as "acted against oppressor Hahn in self-defence" speaks volumes.
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    Crypto explosion in South Africa

    Unfortunately, this is a trap. You buy something with your crypto, bingo "TAX EVENT". Now you need to figure out how much of what crypto purchased at some point is a profit/loss for tax purposes or pay an advisor (more cost/time). Way too much trouble and complicated and also unfair considering...
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    Luno and VALR expand their payment systems support

    What about the tax implications of making a purchase using your Crypto wallet...from my vague understanding, converting from crypto is a taxable event, which means a complicated process to figure out which part of what crypto was 'cashed out' and whether there was a gain and therefore subject to...
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    Taxis withdrawing their services until August 10 after clash with Cape law-enforcement

    My observations are that Taxis are taking far more risks and regularly see Taxis skipping red robots, using slip lanes to speed past and push in front of traffic at intersections, driving down the wrong side of the road and terrorize other oncoming motorists. This behavior then becomes...
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    Need Help on Dhelphi for my son's school project

    I persuaded my 15 yr old to do IT lessons which is held at SACS. I was totally gobsmacked when I learnt we had to install Delphi (Embarcadero) on our home PC. I asked the teachers why Delphi and not Python and they assured me they do teach them the basics and that the course was sponsored...
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    Khoi and San groups battle over redevelopment of River Club site for Amazon's new Africa HQ

    Observatory suburb is on the opposite side of the Liesbeeck River within the floodplain which they are currently raising above the flood line to ensure their development won't flood. The developers were "sold" this land in a floodplain for 12milliin rand so they could developit and rent to the...
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    Fight over Amazon Africa headquarters in Cape Town could cost 15,000 jobs

    We been gaslighted by the developers and City into believing that flooding is insignificant. Here are some pics showing why I am so concerned that infilling and developing a Century City in a flood plain is just greed and folly. The flood in 2013 swamped the river club and canal and sports...
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    Fight over Amazon Africa headquarters in Cape Town could cost 15,000 jobs

    The river club is within the flood plain and has flooded numerous times. Observatory lies within the same floodplain and is now at greater risk of flooding post development, however the developers hydrology report claims it's insignificant. This report also only allowed for a 15% increase in...
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    Cloud Nine Mattress: Any good?

    Cloud Nine make the spring free mattresses. It's stiffer but comfortable. Find the nearest official showroom for cloud nine, they don't sell direct to public, but will refer you to the retailer. Retailers usually have own branded models of the basic factory models. You pay for how thick the...
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