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by buyx 14y ago
I doubt many South Africans would see it in racial terms. I live in SA, and see plenty of ads advertising credit relief for people who have been "blacklisted" (have poor credit scores).
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by buyx 14y ago
In rural areas, certainly. There's plenty of cable that's been laid in South African cities.
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by buyx 14y ago
Reading this makes me glad that South Africa retains exchange controls for larger sums of money. The cash may be plundered but it doesn't get siphoned offshore, so there is a realistic chance of it being recovered when the political wheel t
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by buyx 14y ago
Even if there was a requirement for certifications etc (which I seriously doubt), it would not have inflated the price to this extent, especially considering that other companies submitted much cheaper bids.
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by buyx 14y ago
The website in question: http://www.freestateonline.fs.gov.za/
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South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPress site(techcentral.co.za)
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by buyx 14y ago
I had LASIK done in 2002. Only diagnosed with myopia in high school, it was relatively mild, and I hated having glasses/contacts on my face/eyes. My experience was very similar to the one described, including the halos, which faded within m
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by buyx 14y ago
One of the measures is giving utilities monopoly rights in return for their servicing rural areas. This is an interesting observation. In South Africa, Telkom, the state monopoly had its monopoly status extended in return for rolling out
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by buyx 14y ago
It's interesting, because just last week I looked up the South African Computer Society, and they too, seem to be fading into obscurity. There is a role I think, for software developers to organise in some form, to accredit training courses
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by buyx 14y ago
Having witnessed the hoops that 2 colleagues with significant experience, skills and strong qualifications- both had university degrees, and were white (meaning that they received a high quality education) -had to jump through to migrate fr
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by buyx 14y ago
I've posted about this before- I live in South Africa. My domestic worker started playing Angry Birds last year with my then two-year old. It was a hook that got her into computers, something that intimidated her until then. She got a compu
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by buyx 14y ago
The diamond trade is absolutely disgusting I am not sure that the people of Botswana would agree.
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by buyx 14y ago
I know someone (also in his early 50s) who was driven to hospital by his doctor wife after experiencing vague chest pain and other non-specific symptoms. He didn't know he was having a heart attack. His heart stopped while in the ER waiting
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by buyx 14y ago
I agree, in South Africa we have a new rail system called the Gautrain linking Pretoria and Johannesburg. Initially I, and many others viewed it as an elitist boondogle aimed at the middle class who wouldn't abandon the cars, particularly b
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by buyx 14y ago
Poorly thought-out websites seem to be a pattern with high profile sporting events. The 2010 FIFA World Cup site was shoddier than the Olympics, with rapid time outs, and other instabilities. They also lacked any way of keeping bots out, an
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by buyx 14y ago
Yes, the fundamental problem is a weak state. However, deregulating the industry made the problem far worse than it could have been. Our law enforcement is not entirely ineffectual, and a permit system would have provided more control than
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by buyx 14y ago
We don't miss regulation until it's gone. The apartheid government, in its dying days, decided to promote free-marketism and it deregulated the minibus taxi sector, thinking that each driver would run a one-man business. What really happene
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by buyx 14y ago
I don't know much about India, but what has always me from making the leap to entrepreneurship in South Africa is that there is no safety net if things go wrong. I wonder if a similar dynamic exists in India. Yes, we have a public health se
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by buyx 14y ago
South Africa's education outcomes are worse than the rest of Africa[1]. And some schools are worse than staying at home (sexual abuse by teachers). [1] http://www.economist.com/node/15270976
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by buyx 14y ago
Agreed. People seem to overestimate the power of the government to fake things. If it was that easy to pull off a hoax of that magnitude, it is quite likely that WMDs would have been "found" in Iraq after the invasion.
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by buyx 14y ago
I agree. South Africa spends large amounts on education has a huge amount of human potential that is being wasted because of the dysfunctional public school system (I speak as an almost-victim of that system). I don't see the grip of SADTU
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by buyx 14y ago
"In kind" does not mean "kindly". It means "in the same way".
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by buyx 15y ago
I have to agree. South Africa is left with costly white-elephant stadiums, and any investment goodwill we would have gained was probably squandered by an out-of-control ruling party politician. The short term effects were spectacular - the
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by buyx 15y ago
The article gets carried away: @pigspotter is largly used to locate speed traps, the graft and violence are relatively uncommon. Bribes are usually paid by offenders to be let off the hook, and the average law abiding driver (unfortunately
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by buyx 15y ago
Not suprising, a few years ago, I forgot my password for the Ted Ed South Africa website. I phoned in to reset, and had my password read back to me over the phone.
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by buyx 15y ago
I have worked for some of the biggest companies in the world fixing some of the rubbish out there, and you know why SAP has so much money? Because the business just order another instance to migrate to each time they mess it up. SAP seems
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by buyx 15y ago
No one is advocating this, especially not the health professionals involved. ...except when they wear bracelets and tatoos stating "NO CODE".
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by buyx 15y ago
Just this weekend I met a relative on the street (mid fifties), doing some shopping. A few months ago, he had some chest pain, his wife thought it was a heart attack and drove him to the ER. As he was being admitted, he went into cardiac ar
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by buyx 15y ago
These mostly sound more like issues with South Africa than Apple. Not really. People in countries like Australia can buy games, even through they have a similar classifications regime. Based on what I've read, Apple hasn't even bothered t
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by buyx 15y ago
I meant rating for age restrictions by the App Store, not end-user ratings. This is done on a game-by-game basis by a government agency in South Africa, and requires an additional fee, but, based on what I've read, other manufacturers have

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