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Two ways to escape South Africa’s high petrol prices

We compared the once-off and running costs of a petrol car converted to run on LPG to an electric car and its recharging costs when travelling over the same distances.
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"South African motorists concerned over high fuel prices in the country can by buy an electric vehicle (EV) or opt to have their car converted to run on liquid petroleum gas (LPG) to escape these fees," (also the comma at the end of the sentence)
 
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Winter is coming — how to keep warm during load-shedding

We compared the cost of buying and running a gas heater to using an electric heater and a portable power station to keep warm during load-shedding sessions.
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Section heading: Electric heater and a power station
Using an eclectic heater
Correction: *electric

Third paragraph in same section
However, the draw of 800W creates a significant challenge — and expensive —when it comes to finding
Correction (word order): *creates a significant — and expensive — challenge

Caption for final article picture
Alwa 800W Quartz Heater and
Correction: Alva
 
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Grocery and takeaway app delivery fees in South Africa

Grocery and take away on-demand platforms have widely-ranging delivery fees.
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Paragraph 5
Pick n Pay, Spa,r, and Woolworths customers have no free delivery options on their respective Pick n Asap!, Spar2u, or Woolies Dash services.
Corrections (remove comma within word & insert full name plus branding): *Spar *Pick n Pay ASAP! *Spar2U

Paragraph 6
Checkers offers subscribers on its XtraSavings Plus plan free Sixty60 deliveries for orders with a minimum basket value of R350.
Change word order for fluid readability (thus not technically an error): *Checkers offers free Sixty60 deliveries to subscribers on its XtraSavings Plus plan, for orders with a minimum basket value of R350.

Paragraph 9
However, if you are willing to shop in person at Checkers once every month, you could [VERB?] 10% off your basket up to a discount of R200 per month as an XtraSavings Plus subscriber.
Correction: word missing; save?
 
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Car sales plummeting in South Africa while EV sales surge

South Africa sold nearly 11,000 fewer new cars between March 2023 and March 2024 than it did in the previous 12 months.
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...which shows that June 2023 was the last month in which monthly sales exceeded [?} the same month in the prior year.

*Exceeded what?

Section heading: South Africa shatters EV sales record
Despite the significant drop in car sales year-on-year. More new electric vehicles (EVs) were sold in the country in 2023 than in any other year.

*One sentence: add comma, change upper case to lower case 'm'
 
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Big movie ticket price hikes in South Africa

Movie ticket prices in South Africa have typically doubled and even tripled at some locations compared to 2014.
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Paragraph 18.

Currently reads:

According to the South African Reserve Bank, the rand was trading at R10.53 to the dollar on 17 April 2024.

Potential Should Read:

According to the South African Reserve Bank, the rand was trading at R10.53 to the dollar on 17 April *2014*.

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Shell planning to exit South Africa: reports

Shell is reportedly planning to exit South Africa, with its BEE partners not happy about its share of the spoils.
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“At the end of 2024, CEO of Volkswagen (VW) Passenger Cars, Thomas Schaefer warned that South Africa is becoming an undesirable location for manufacturing cars – especially amid the global shift toward EVs – due to issues such as load-shedding, rising labour costs, and problems with Transnet”
 
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DStv’s big fight in South Africa

MultiChoice is proactively cracking down on one of its biggest enemies — pirates.
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One of the company’s drastic measures to combat privacy was when it started limiting the number of concurrent streams paying customers could use to just one in early 2022.
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privacy should be piracy
 
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Bad news about N1 sinkhole

A large sinkhole next to the N1 in Centurion will cause traffic disruptions for a long time to come.
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The location also makes it more difficult for motorists from the R21 northbound carriageway to enter the N1 south at speed.

The closed lanes cause a deviation from a normal gradual merge over a longer distance into a sharper and shorter entry into the N1.
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This is not very accurate, those R21 people have a whole lane for themselves until after the sink hole road works.
 
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Cheapest way to renew your car licence disc in South Africa: Post Office vs FNB and more

Here are price comparisons of the different ways that you can renew your car licence disk.
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The South African Post Office (SapoMVL) is next at R147, which involves a R72 service fee and R75 delivery fee.
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I am pretty sure you guys are putting in the ENATIS transaction fee into the overall price again (as has been pointed out in previous articles), everyone pays the R72, whether using FNB or whatever, please investigate and rectify.

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DStv nails pirate

MultiChoice, in collaboration with Irdeto and the Western Cape Cybercrime unit, successfully arrested an individual believed to be involved in a large pirate streaming network.
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"one of the most extensive pirate operations on the content continent."
 
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South Africa’s R281,290 per GB scandal

Visitors to South Africa can be charged exorbitant data roaming fees — as high as R281,290 per GB for some networks.
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"While operators worldwide have introduced roaming packages that subscribers can buy, they have failed to reduce"

Reduce what? Costs?
 
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