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Comment on Low-Earth orbit satellites – the way forward for Africa by Kobus de Kock

Kobus de Kock — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 01:52:45 +0000

All these benefits presumably available to all our neighbours before SA…

Comment on Icasa moves to free up more spectrum for Wi-Fi by Faney

Faney — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:25:44 +0000

My Wi-Fi is showing no internet in my mobile how must I fix it

Comment on Eskom pollution kills 330 people a year, company says by burnmeister

burnmeister — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:26:37 +0000

Awesome. Now do a calculation how many deaths are caused by a lack of electricity, including indirectly due to collapsing economy and subsequent brain drain.
I’ll take the benefits of stable electricity supply to millions of people over the 300 pollution deaths a year any day.

Comment on Eskom pollution kills 330 people a year, company says by XPM

XPM — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 05:09:18 +0000

People move into a polluted area, they must suffer the pollution.
If you move into an area that is known for sinkholes, do you accept them when they happen or blame the Dept of Land Affairs?

Comment on Industry disappointed in delay in EV policy for South Africa by Mark Elkins

Mark Elkins — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:16:54 +0000

1 – Remove import tax from pure BEV imports – perhaps also drop other taxes for a year or three so to encourage adoption of EV’s

2 – Give some free land to Tesla to build a gigafactory – to include battery and vehicle manufacturing. This will employ vehicle manufacturer workers. It will also allow various African countries to export required minerals to S.A.
3 – Get Tesla to build a people carrier to replace the minibus. Imagine a Taxi that obeys the rule of the road!

South Africa can then export BEV’s to the rest of (Sub Sahara) Africa!

Worldwide, the ICE vehicle will be replaced by BEV – let’s not be last to change for the better.

Comment on Showmax locks out South Africans living abroad by Kobus Van den Berg

Kobus Van den Berg — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 01:43:13 +0000

Cutting their own throuts again….

Comment on Showmax locks out South Africans living abroad by XPM

XPM — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:27:21 +0000

These streaming services are very tech un-savy and really don’t care about customers.
Showmax cutting off international streaming – why? if the account is paid, let them stream.
Netflix with its shared password issue (which they started) are now preventing users not under the same roof to stream. If I pay for 4 streams, and they limit the number of streams very well, I should be able to use those 4 streams anywhere in the world. Its paid for.

Comment on It turns out DStv Premium is actually … rather cheap by Naas Herbst

Naas Herbst — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:13:13 +0000

In reply to disqus_JMqUARAbUe. Well it's R699 which includes showmax for premium. Seems well priced to me.

Comment on It turns out DStv Premium is actually … rather cheap by Naas Herbst

Naas Herbst — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:12:30 +0000

In reply to disqus_JMqUARAbUe.

It’s sport that cost the most. Sport rights. They also have to buy this from overseas which cost alot. Overseas people don’t care what we earn when selling rights to DStv.

If your salary cannot buy premium start with what you can afford. I don’t have dstv as I cannot afford it. I live within my means.

Comment on It turns out DStv Premium is actually … rather cheap by disqus_JMqUARAbUe

disqus_JMqUARAbUe — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 23:29:54 +0000

In reply to Naas Herbst. Buddy, DSTV costs about 25% of your months salary if you earn minimum wage in SA. Whereas the overseas packages costs less than a days salary. The contrast is huge. And no you don't pay what you get for. Nobody cares about any dstv content except sport mostly. You can get high speed fibre and two streaming services with much more content for the same price.

Comment on It turns out DStv Premium is actually … rather cheap by disqus_JMqUARAbUe

disqus_JMqUARAbUe — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:31:38 +0000

In reply to Naas Herbst. Nobody said it must be free buddy.

Comment on Eskom pollution kills 330 people a year, company says by Null hypothesis

Null hypothesis — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:45:02 +0000

Eskom says load shedding will be over next year. But they said same thing since 2008.

Eskom once said the cost of load shedding is 84/kWh (Meaning it cost SA R1bn per stage per day, more than R259bn-R520bn/year).

Then Eskom it says the cost of load shedding is only 1/3 of that. So treasury confidently told us load shedding cost SA only about R90bn a year.

Meanwhile SARS tell us cost of load shedding is R900bn a year. Our electricity minister say it costs R1400bn a year.

Andre de Ruyter told us himself Eskom emissions cost SA 17 000 deaths a year.
Enough of the bull. Can we get adults in, to do the sums please?

Comment on Fibre providers urged to go ‘nano’ to cut costs by Mike Shundle

Mike Shundle — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:05:42 +0000

Whats the most expensive part of the fibre install, I doubt it’s cable. More likely labour and associated costs. Don’t see how this gonna change that.

Comment on The real Big Brother Africa by Danie van der Merwe

Danie van der Merwe — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:52:41 +0000

Extremely sad as government money should be primarily being used for services to citizens and improving their lives. A ruling party in gov is “supposed” to already be the most popular party voted in by citizens, and enjoy majority support.

Comment on More taxes and state borrowing: the mini budget in brief by XPM

XPM — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:10:41 +0000

More tax? The Government can go stuff themselves. Vote anyone except the ANC (and EFF with similar views) in 2024.
They continue to acknowledge there are problems but continue to not listen to experts and apply the necessary fixes, which includes reducing one of the biggest Governments in the world, reducing the Gov spend, and reducing the Ministerial salary spend. All they want is more and more money, but fail to recognise that there are limited funds from a small number of taxpayers.

Comment on Hurry up and wait – South Africa delays EV policy to 2024 by Andre

Andre — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:24:28 +0000

Always too little too late with the ANC regime!

Electric vehicles have been manufactured for decades now in the rest of the world … but not in SA!

No ev’s, no Starlink, no digital tv for decades, no electricity, water, roads, hospitals …

Useless cadres ! … please let’s rid SA of them in the May 2024 election!

Comment on Hurry up and wait – South Africa delays EV policy to 2024 by William Botha

William Botha — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:09:23 +0000

A government should not tell it’s citizens what to drive

Comment on Ditch the ‘useless politicians’, top CEO urges by Mike

Mike — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:28:25 +0000

Thank you Mr Titi for speaking out in public. Yes and you could also add cadre deployment as well as a civil service (including local government) receiving massive salaries, is incompetent and far too large.

Comment on Ditch the ‘useless politicians’, top CEO urges by Colonel Moyo(retired)

Colonel Moyo(retired) — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:07:21 +0000

I dont agree with the “age” here. Most ANC leaders have come through COSAS/SASCO/ANCYL to find themselves in parliament/municipalities/government, The majority with zero industrial or business experience. When they become ministers (this is based on popularity -highest nominations) they then surround themselves with ill qualified cadres in those offices. It is these young people who dont know what is going on in the world. You just need to listen to Mbalula to realise that we are in deep trouble. The first step we need is putting structures to enforce Good Governance but this can only come with a total mindset change. The disaster we see is Man-made and even the ANC ( bad as it is) can solve it should they chose to.

Comment on Facebook subscriptions launched in EU – no ads for R200/month by Chris

Chris — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 02:32:53 +0000

You can be sure the ads will still appear even if you do pay!