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by buyx 4y ago
they won’t ever be voted out South African voters have voted opposition parties into power in multiple municipalities. Trends indicate that the ANC is losing its grip, and one party dominance will be replaced ny coalitions in the next few
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by buyx 5y ago
Are there examples of successful communities where second and third generation immigrants didn't adopt the dominant language in their region, or country? Coming from South Africa, where there are eleven official languages [1], but En
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South Africa: 12 masterminds planned and executed insurrection on social media(dailymaverick.co.za)
3 points by buyx 5y ago|0 comments
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by buyx 5y ago
Basic resources like...(...Remdesivir) I've been following this on social media, and the Indian desperation for Remdesivir struck me (now it seems to be for oxygen, sadly). It's heartbreaking, but also interesting to see how man
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by buyx 5y ago
When I was in high school, in the 90s, I also vehemently opposed the death penalty. In English class, I’d be on the anti-death penalty side during debates (I’d be the only one). My country was in the process of abolishing the death penalty
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by buyx 6y ago
Then, in early March, the country recorded its first Covid-19 infection and imposed a strict lockdown that would contribute to South Africa’s biggest economic contraction in a century. By July, Kganyane’s employer, one of the country’s la
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by buyx 6y ago
I specifically stated it was an unsophisticated example. GP wanted to know what happens with the "simplest transaction" when he buys a banana.
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by buyx 6y ago
If your banana is for consumption and you pay cash: Then debit Food Expenses (decrease equity) and credit Cash (decrease assets). Accounting equation is balanced. If your banana is for resale and you pay cash: Credit Cash (decrease assets)
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by buyx 6y ago
Accountancy is(was?) widely taught in South African high schools. It was certainly quite common in the 1990s. I found it quite amusing when I realised that double-entry isn’t widely understood around the world, a realisation I came to after
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by buyx 6y ago
You can add Edgars, one of South Africa's oldest, most profitable, and largest retailers to that list. They filed for bankruptcy recently in the aftermath of a botched Bain Capital 3.5bn USD buyout in 2007. https://businesst
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by buyx 6y ago
To clarify: no one is compelled to use the South African Post Office. There are dozens of courier companies that offer much better service (legally). The SAPO operating model is the same as many/most other legacy postal services around
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by buyx 7y ago
The newspaper used to be called the "Weekly Mail", but there was a short-lived tie-up with the UK Guardian in the 1990's, and a renaming. I remember eagerly reading the UK Guardian stories in the M&G in the pre-internet e
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by buyx 7y ago
If there’s any comfort to be had, South Africa’s intelligence agencies are a shambles, and unable to deal with real-life threats right under their noses. The idea that they’d be able to do anything actionable with bulk—collected electronic
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South African bank advises against the use of password managers(twitter.com)
58 points by buyx 7y ago|74 comments
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by buyx 7y ago
The difference is that developed countries usually have functioning police and intelligence agencies that can keep a lid on mob violence.
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by buyx 7y ago
It’s great to talk about lessons in critical thinking for sophisticated first-world countries, but in third-world, poorly educated countries, people with poor literacy are being exposed to a firehose of propaganda. The critical thinking les
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by buyx 7y ago
South Africa’s constitution guarantees freedom of expression, and that right has generally been interpreted very liberally.
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by buyx 8y ago
It's a worldwide phenomenon. Bain Capital brought a huge, thriving retail business (Edcon) to its knees in South Africa, after a botched leveraged buy-out: https://www.biznews.com/sa-investing/2015/07/15&
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by buyx 8y ago
You're correct, Bell Pottinger is not to blame for the structural problems in the South African economy, and I never said otherwise. However, many of these issues date back decades (apart from a period of economic liberalisation from t
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by buyx 8y ago
Concerned South Africans fought Bell Pottinger, a UK PR firm that was known for spreading nastiness around the world; driving it to bankruptcy, after it tried to destabilise the country, as party of a programme of looting being carried out
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by buyx 8y ago
Bain and McKinsey have been implicated in enabling the massive looting of state resources unde former President Jacob Zuma in South Africa. These consultancies aren’t covering themselves with glory.
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by buyx 8y ago
That’s a ruling about a state law, not a Facebook policy.
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by buyx 8y ago
South Africa’s fertility rate has dropped in the last few decades and is now 2.34. It was 6 in 1960. Your own link shows a fertility decline (look at the table at the bottom of the page). There is no reason to suppose that this won’t happen
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by buyx 9y ago
The "too big to fail" argument is what saved KPMG in South Africa: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kpmg-safrica-exclusive/ex...
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by buyx 9y ago
FT had a lot of coverage, if you're looking for a non-South African source (linking behind the paywall is probably not going to work, but you can Google for it). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09
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by buyx 9y ago
KPMG was also implicated in the massive South African "state capture" scandal involving the (now fugitive) Gupta family and former president Jacob Zuma. Among other things, KPMG issued a-later withdrawn-report that was used to und
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by buyx 9y ago
I avoid third-world sources of tumeric (and most other food, especially when given to my children). Corruption and food safety make poor bedfellows IMO.
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by buyx 9y ago
I’m wary about where I source my turmeric from, because of Lead Chromate contamination: https://www.bu.edu/sph/2017/04/04/high-levels-of-lead-detect...
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by buyx 9y ago
why would they not move water from one place in SA to another Not my area of expertise, but: South Africa has some massive water transfer schemes: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project and others. The Western Cape Province and Cape Town are
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by buyx 9y ago
Africa is huge, complex and diverse. Gross generalizations about “Africa” even when made by Africans are not particularly useful, and mask the local problems that stymie development. As an example, because of private courier companies, Sout

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