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    How South African students performed in an international standardised benchmarking survey for mathematics and science

    This might explain some of my academic history.
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    How South African students performed in an international standardised benchmarking survey for mathematics and science

    I am sure there are many problems in education in our beloved country, but if I had spent time doing Grade 5 "Stuff", prepping for Grade 5 exams, I would probably crash and burn (even harder than normal) if presented with Grade 4 questions.
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    Top early Black Friday tech deals in South Africa

    I, too, am uncomfortable with the debt-bonds with which the Capitalist class seek to enslave us, Comrade. However, if I were an aspiring Media Professional (i.e. PodTuber), perhaps I could finesse a tax-break for my 100inch Professional Quality-Monitoring Viewstation? I mean, what could be more...
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    Top early Black Friday tech deals in South Africa

    Besides the obvious "Cash-Poor but Expectation/Hope-of-future-income-Rich, with insistent little voices demanding a TV NowNowNow" situation, could there be tax benefits to this sort of rent-to-own arrangement?
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    Vodacom launches R249 4G phone

    I'ts nice to know that someone is thinking of low-income earners. Even if the thinking is "How can we harvest that low income?". And Lo! Thinks became plastic and rare-earth minerals, and a product was offered for sale. It might be quite interesting to see what the Invisible Hand Of The Free...
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    Former Hohm Energy contractors allege they haven't been paid

    I'm glad myBB is still on this. I wonder if there are any people who were "there" before Mr Gray's time? That seems likely, unless the company was run by AI. Perhaps they have some thoughts on the subject. I hope that some means could be found to enable them to express those thoughts to law...
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    Former employee says Hohm Energy stopped paying staff salaries

    Silly, everyone knows money is made by Fiat. Is it significant that in the original article, Mr Gray is introduced as: but this now reads: Perhaps this was just a simple error, now corrected. However, this seems to leave this statement hanging: It might be interesting to know if the...
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    Cape Town unveils new solar programme and R14.6 million plant

    Sounds like positive news. More of this, please. One might idly wonder if a wastewater treatment plant might be a good source of biogas for harvesting or utilisation. It would be nice to think that I am making a contribution to the Green Revolution when I ..er.. make a contribution to...
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    Former employee says Hohm Energy stopped paying staff salaries

    I can't claim to know what is happening here, but the scenario that my AI hallucinates is: A multi-millionaire is telling people who live paycheque-to-paycheque that they are just imagining the bouncing debit-orders and the bailiffs making a list of saleable items in their home. And this bit...
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    Transnet's decline limiting production and causing job cuts

    "Transnet's decline saving South Africa from loadshedding" My invoice for fixing the headline is in the mail.
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    Eskom's performance under Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

    It can be difficult to achieve the delicate balance between "stealing sustainably" and "looting and pillaging until it's all gone", but that's one of the differences between a functional state and a failed one. Maybe our rulers are getting closer to that balance? If so, it would be nice if this...
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    Afrihost / Openserve DSL/Fibre confusion

    Yes, I managed to work that out, eventually, thanks. This is an important point, and was disappointingly difficult to work out beforehand. I was able to glean the information from threads and comments like this on myBB, but it should really be explicated in the ad. As a general comment, it...
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    Afrihost / Openserve DSL/Fibre confusion

    Perhaps other people will be doing internal root cause analyses of this problem? Herewith my impressions: Afrihost supplied feedback which they report came from Openserve, after reporting the "No Modem Sync": "Cust Feedback: CheckFibreCoverage performed, the fault will not be fixed, because...
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    Afrihost / Openserve DSL/Fibre confusion

    Thanks @Afrigirl for the feedback and help so far. We do still have a way to go. Am I imagining it, or is @Afrigirl the only active Afrihost id? I hope you are getting lots of overtime.
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    Afrihost / Openserve DSL/Fibre confusion

    I've often felt that the nice thing about working on weekends is that you get fewer calls from pathetic lusers demanding updates on their pathetic little problems. (Wait...did I type that out loud?)
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    Afrihost / Openserve DSL/Fibre confusion

    I'm guessing you also found it confusing. Fair enough. Please let us know what you need us to do. Mobile data costs are a bit of an issue for these pensioners.
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    Afrihost / Openserve DSL/Fibre confusion

    Thanks for the feedback.
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    Afrihost / Openserve DSL/Fibre confusion

    Good Day Afrihost I am trying to help a neighbour with apparently dead Afrihost DSL. It might actually be old DSL rather than Pure DSL. It seems that Openserver-affiliated technicians, in responding to the call, have installed fibre equipment, but it does not seem to be fully operational...
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    Fibre-to-the-home packages under R500 per month in South Africa

    I'm glad there's an article like this for the..er..economists among us. I am, however a little puzzled: It seems to list 2 "Afrihost Openserve Web Connect 40Mbps 20Mbps" packages, one at R329 and the other at R389. Perhaps the first actually refers to the "20mbps down / 10mbps...
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    Buying a smartphone for under R1,000 in South Africa

    I have complained, several times, that mBB only writes about stuff that is too expensive for me. But these phones are...less too expensive. So, thanks, myBB. I did not know Mobicel was slightly South African. Local is Lekker, etc.
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