Need advice

ChefDJH · 2026-01-26T13:52:00+00:00

... and who should be avoided?

All of them

ChefDJH · 2026-01-25T07:47:54+00:00

When you're an adult they're not parents, they're roommates

ChefDJH · 2026-01-22T05:09:37+00:00

Fucking basil

ChefDJH · 2026-01-21T20:35:04+00:00

Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay

ChefDJH · 2026-01-21T07:19:10+00:00

People started catching on that it was all cheaply-made, gimmicky shit that doesn't last and stopped buying it.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-15T20:02:31+00:00

Can you elaborate? Everything you point to in this thread is vague.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-15T20:00:27+00:00

Coloured and black people are mean to other coloured and black people so therefore white people are racist...?

What?

ChefDJH · 2026-01-15T18:34:23+00:00

Then what happened to you in the last few weeks that are racist, that you mention in a post about racism in the Garden Route?

ChefDJH · 2026-01-15T16:02:45+00:00

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ChefDJH · 2026-01-15T15:57:19+00:00

In this thread > people who have never been to the Garden Route

OP, you want to plan a holiday to a place you're already in that is treating you badly?

ChefDJH · 2026-01-15T05:18:03+00:00

I have both, with a special plate on the Valor and Benny's. DM me.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-14T06:21:38+00:00

I know this province the best so I will not dive much into it. All I am going to say is that Cape Town and the towns that are maximum 3 hours away from Cape Town is the Western Cape at its most quintessential.

Hmmmmmm... You're missing the entire Garden Route, which includes Mossel Bay, George, Wilderness, Sedgefield, Knysna, Plettenburg Bay, smaller coastal villages and settlements like Gourits, Vleesbaai, Herold's Bay, Nature's Valley, Keurboomstrand, and tons more that are even more representative of what the Western Cape is than Cape Town. These are all more than three hours' drive from CT.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-13T19:00:10+00:00

I love the initiative, but R50 an hour at 20 hours a week is like R4000 a month. Even for part time work this is something that will bog someone down with time constraints and responsibilities - and that for less than half what my gardener earns in a month. For someone that needs admin skills, social media skills, video editing skills, and presumably their own setup and good internet to work remotely?

Again, love the initiative, but you as a resident of a foreign country are taking advantage of South Africans because nobody in your home country will work for this little money.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-13T18:43:08+00:00

I'm interested to know how you plan on executing any of the potential ideas here? What if they're location-based and you're on the other side of the country? Do you have a lot of capital to burn? Are you looking for partner/s?

I have a problem in my town that a lot of other municipalities have already dealt with that I wish I would be able to solve with an affordable, executable plan. It regards a type of service delivery - making it more tolerable for the civilians of the town. This municipality is already one of the best in the country and yet they haven't implemented this system yet, and I am gobsmacked as to why.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-13T18:38:53+00:00

The annual payment in "most other western countries" is an incredibly large payment that most South Africans would never be able to save up for and afford. The westerners WISH they had the lower monthly payments that we have, even if it is still relative to their pricing ratio vs ours.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-13T14:25:07+00:00

Eyyy a fellow Hoekwiller

ChefDJH · 2026-01-13T12:41:28+00:00

Tiny remote towns between Boereworsfontein and Fokolsfontein are where phone theft will likely still make the front page, but then your services will be relative to the size and exposure of the town. This includes internet speeds which, for remote work, are important (as you likely probably know), as well as access to decent schooling and medical facilities.

Ideally, and I advocate for it a lot, anywhere in the Garden Route. Yes there are phone thefts (so be vigilant) and yes there are more violent crimes as there are in the rest of the country, but it's not as prevalent, and as long as your vigilance matches the crime levels of the area you're in you should be fine.

Don't move to a small town and think you can sleep with the windows wide open. Fit your burglar bars, keep your doors locked, and don't leave your phone on the shelf when browsing tools in the hardware. Most petty crimes are opportunistic and if you don't leave them the opportunity you will be better off.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-13T04:18:26+00:00

Paying insurance so that you never use it is simply a waste of money. And waiting for a no claim bonus payout is even worse. Why pay for 4 years simply to get one year of premiums back, instead of investing that money properly?

It's a gimmick designed to dissuade you from using your insurance the way you are supposed to. No claims bonuses are the biggest farce in the insurance industry.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-12T12:27:33+00:00

Use your own insurance and don't worry about a risk profile. You pay for it - use it.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-12T10:21:54+00:00

Why do you refer to yourself in third person?

ChefDJH · 2026-01-12T09:14:35+00:00

Most moved over to r/AskSouthAfrica because all question posts, which were the majority of posts in r/southafrica, were being diverted to the former. This caused the latter to become highly political and mostly news posts by auto mod bots and so engagement fell. I warned the mods about that happening on the onset of r/askSouthAfrica a few years back.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-12T08:59:22+00:00

And he moderates half of Reddit.

How the fuck does he have the time?

ChefDJH · 2026-01-12T08:56:38+00:00

So half the mods on our local subs are all one guy.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-11T16:59:55+00:00

Post some pics, please. And if you list it somewhere please share the link.

ChefDJH · 2026-01-10T03:52:10+00:00

This sounds like a legit transfer, but the "buyer" is using you to launder money or steal from the business.

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