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Dolby said:
A friend was ready to emigrate and moved from JHB to CT - with the intention being to go abroad for good.

He says after being in CT, his plans have changed and isn’t even looking at leaving anymore. Things just work. No potholes. Working traffic lights etc
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I don't understand why it is so bloody hard for these politicians to understand this simple concept?
 
Nerfherder said:
It looks like that because you are zoomed out.

Think about it like this, in Orania the FF+ won a ward with 450 votes, because the ward is very small.
In my ward the DA won the ward with 2500 votes and that's only 60% of the votes.
Both these results count for one seat.

So then at a national level you see this:
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The ANC has 7% more support than the DA but more than double the seats... for the same reason as above, its because the ANC has won a lot of these little small villages and each one of those are a seat in a district some where.

Even if you zoom into the province level it looks like the seats and support are disproportionate - but the number is actually meaningless in this context because we are not voting for provinvicial government.

at a metro \district level it makes more sense:

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So here, ActionSA has 15% of the vote but hasn't actually won any seats. You can get 49% of the vote in a ward and lose to someone with 51%. So I think here is where it gets messy, they will need to make alliances at ward level to gain seats at metro level (I think). So that they can turn those votes into actual power.


*from my limited understanding*
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Yoh, complicated, to be honest the weight was supposed to be different for bigger wards.
 
Dolby said:
A friend was ready to emigrate and moved from JHB to CT - with the intention being to go abroad for good.

He says after being in CT, his plans have changed and isn’t even looking at leaving anymore. Things just work. No potholes. Working traffic lights etc
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We also have those things here in dbn.
 
Dolby said:
A friend was ready to emigrate and moved from JHB to CT - with the intention being to go abroad for good.

He says after being in CT, his plans have changed and isn’t even looking at leaving anymore. Things just work. No potholes. Working traffic lights etc
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In general CT is a springboard, you move here to decide if you are going to leave the country(or come back).

Loads of people move here and realise this is as good as its going to get and then emigrate.

So ya, its weird to be a transit lonunge for dissatisfied people.
 
Mista_Mobsta said:
I don't understand why it is so bloody hard for these politicians to understand this simple concept?
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They understand very well but they decide to steal the money allocated for those type of things then they cry and say the city doesn't have money.

Or the best part is, a robot that has been vandalized for it's copper only to be repaired with copper then a few weeks later it happens again. Why they don't use aluminum cable for robots and street lights as standard and reinforce them is another story on it's own.

Someone at the top probably getting kickbacks from the theft.
 
Rickster said:
They understand very well but they decide to steal the money allocated for those type of things then they cry and say the city doesn't have money.

Or the best part is, a robot that has been vandalized for it's copper only to be repaired with copper then a few weeks later it happens again. Why they don't use aluminum cable for robots and street lights as standard and reinforce them is another story on it's own.

Someone at the top probably getting kickbacks from the theft.
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Case in point, R120m robot bill in East Rand. DBN spends R4m. CPT spends R7m.
 
TheChamp said:
The most likely thing is that Ekurhuleni will remain with the ANC, Mashaba has a problem with the fact that being in a coalition with the DA is a sure way to kill ActionSA as we have seen previously, ActionSA supporters just don't like the DA, so he will probably prefer a unity government more than his party and DA forming a government.
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Unity government works out for everyone, but they will have to share portfolios proprtionally. The real problem is Mashaba has too much ego, he will want to be mayor of Joburg with 15% because he won't be able to live with himself if Zille gets it over him. This is the real problem, ASA doesn't have a DA/Zille problem, it has a Mashaba problem. He needs to go for ASA to succeed...
 
Dolby said:
A friend was ready to emigrate and moved from JHB to CT - with the intention being to go abroad for good.

He says after being in CT, his plans have changed and isn’t even looking at leaving anymore. Things just work. No potholes. Working traffic lights etc
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Bro doesn't leave this circle.

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wingnut771 said:
Why is meat so **** expensive in cape town? Its on another level compared to dbn.
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I mean... the Western Cape is dry as hell compared to KZN. Not to mention KZN is closer to places like Limpopo... which is basically just farms (there's probably orders of magnitude more cows in Limpopo than people... probably why ANC does so well there).

I imagine you'll find farming near CT, and shipping meat from the other end of the country into CT, is significantly more expensive than it would be for DBN.

Honestly if it wasn't for the historical significance of CPT as a shipping refueling station I'm not sure it would be the major hub it is today. It's in a truly kak location for almost everything else.
 
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