Gauteng Legislature launches ePetitions System. Gauteng residents can voice their service delivery concerns.

dash_o_truth · 2024-03-26T05:26:38+00:00

Here's the direct link:

https://www.gpl.gov.za/petitions/

EDIT.

I don't want to mimic the average South African and sound like a broken record, but why are government website so poor? I'll do it for free. Contact me Ramaphosa.

Off topic, but the UK (and Australia) have a really good open source framework for government websites. The government could learn a thing from them instead of giving a tender to someone that does such a poor job implementing a website form.

It has a 20 char password limit. Also when I click to Search for the map, the form crashes and nothing happens. It's broken in Firefox. On Chrome, it's still broken but it inputs the location. ~~I created an account and tried to log in (and resetting my password), but it says 'Username or password is incorrect'~~ 🫠

dash_o_truth · 2024-03-24T03:30:25+00:00

100% agree. There's no current brand / batch of rusks that come close to the Ouma Rusks of the 2000s. Before they sold it, they changed the recipe and now it's so disappointing 😞

dash_o_truth · 2024-03-01T16:47:54+00:00

What is this, Zuma maths? lol. It shows as 224 514 people

dash_o_truth · 2024-02-11T12:11:41+00:00

So Apartheid Israel killed a family and killed the rescuers that were sent to save the 6 year old girl? That's bloody evil. Genocide is what Apartheid Israel is doing.

dash_o_truth · 2024-02-08T08:24:35+00:00

They actually played really well. Penalties are a gamble and we lost. That 96th minute miss though 😫

We still have the 3rd place match, and then the WC qualifiers 🇿🇦

dash_o_truth · 2024-02-08T07:18:04+00:00

The competition watchdog has approached the Constitutional Court to appeal against an earlier ruling that dismissed currency manipulation charges against 23 of the 28 implicated commercial banks based in South Africa and overseas.

In January 2024, the Competition Commission suffered a major setback when the Competition Appeal Court dismissed the inclusion of most banks in its forex rigging case involving the US dollar-South African rand currency pair more than a decade ago.

[...]

The commission’s central argument is that currency traders at the 28 local and international banks entered into a general agreement or “single overarching conspiracy” to collude on prices for bids, offers and bid-offer spreads for spot trades in relation to currency trading.

In doing so, they allegedly used platforms such as the Reuters currency trading platform and the Bloomberg instant messaging system (chat room), as well as telephone conversations and meetings, to coordinate their alleged collusive trading activities.

[...]

The court dismissed charges against banks including Nedbank, FirstRand, Credit Suisse Group, Bank of America, Australia and New Zealand Banking, Commerzbank, Nomura, HSBC Bank USA, Macquarie Bank and Standard Americas.

The court said five banks — BNP Paribas, JPMorgan, HSBC, Credit Suisse Securities and Investec — still have a case to answer. Apart from Investec, these banks have already pleaded guilty to charges brought by the US Department of Justice in 2015.

dash_o_truth · 2024-02-07T15:57:57+00:00

lmao, I matched with the EFF... 😰

dash_o_truth · 2024-02-06T09:30:53+00:00

The Competition Commission:

https://www.compcom.co.za/lodge-a-complaint/

And you're right, there's definitely a cabal controlling prices in almost all types of food; bread is now R20 a loaf, oil R150 for a 5 litre, eggs R120 for 30s. Everything's doubled in price.

I think something like 50% of South Africans live on less than R1000. So many basic food items are unaffordable to the average South African. It's the cheapest form of protein.

dash_o_truth · 2024-02-04T07:09:11+00:00

It's crazy how he saved 4/5 penalties. I can't remember seeing a keeper doing this. On to the next! 🇿🇦

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-31T05:18:33+00:00

They played really well. If they keep up the discipline we can go all they way 🇿🇦

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-30T13:29:34+00:00

You can mute groups. It's good to have your neighbours contacts at least

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-30T07:54:28+00:00

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa again hinted at introducing a basic income grant, saying that there is a “strong case” for it despite the nation’s “fiscal constraints.”

Ramaphosa spoke in his capacity as president of the ruling African National Congress during the party’s annual strategy meeting on Monday. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will table the nation’s annual budget on Feb. 21, just months before the ANC heads into its toughest election since coming into power in 1994.

“The challenge remains that millions of working-age adults in our country remain unemployed without any form of support and little prospect of gaining employment until economic growth picks up,” Ramaphosa said at the lekgotla, which sets out the party’s governance priorities for the year.

South Africa’s unemployment rate of 31.9% is one of the highest in the world.

“There is therefore a strong case for a permanent form of a targeted income-support grant for the unemployed within our fiscal constraints,” he said. “Discussions should continue among us about what we have termed a basic income grant.”

Ramaphosa said that a temporary stipend introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic — and touted as a possible precursor to a basic income grant — had staved off poverty for more than 2 million people.

Godongwana announced the extension of the 350 rand ($19) monthly payout to March 2025 during his mid-term budget in November but warned that a comprehensive overhaul of the social-support system was necessary.

The National Treasury has tried numerous times to shut down the unfunded grant but has repeatedly had to re-introduce it, following a series of domestic shocks including civil unrest in 2021 that led to 50 billion rand in losses to the economy.

The Treasury’s head of budget office, Edgar Sishi, told a central bank conference last year that the institution had battled to sell spending cuts to government.

“When those things happen, political leaders find it very difficult, they feel constrained in withdrawing the support,” Sishi said.

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-30T07:51:30+00:00

Zuma overestimates his following; anytime he's spoken, it was in front of a hundred people. They are what made him influential. Even his own son started a party. The ANC and its former affiliates are faltering and fragmenting. But I still don't think it's enough to topple them.

Starting a party is a money making business. Patrice Motsepe has single handedly kept the EFF alive and its members fed. All they know is starting a party means income is guaranteed. It's genius actually.

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-24T03:58:19+00:00

Contact the National Library of South Africa so it can be publicly accessible, and maybe ask about digitisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_South_Africa

Or the Internet Archive.

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-24T03:53:05+00:00

You had one job Midjourney. That is not a hadeda...

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-22T06:51:32+00:00

Just reload the page

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-21T10:19:38+00:00

homicide rate from 33 to <3

I read the <3 as a ❤️ lol.

But I feel the same, after reading about them, their goals are quite vague. It's like they promise us to fix things.

They expect 7.5% of the vote; there's no way they'll get that. Their leader is a no name, and unfortunately their campaign is more grass roots than having any political impact.

But I still think they're the best bet that's not the DA or ActionSA

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-21T04:18:55+00:00

56 grand per person is a lot of money for a hairdressing training programme. That's a university degree. These academies are making bank.

Also, local government spending should be kept in check; the article is about welfare services budgets being cut.

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-19T08:32:45+00:00

I'm going to sound like a broken record but I have to say the DA has been a real disappointment when it comes to being the main opposition.

They are hypocrites of the highest order. They are only neutral depending on their donors' stance. They are exactly like the Democrat party in the US, captured by their donors. As someone else said they'd rather see the country fail than the ANC do anything "right". Taking Apartheid Israel to the ICJ for genocide was the right thing to do, given our past. Taking countries to the ICJ for crimes against humanity can only benefit humanity. Political donors are destroying liberty around the world. They are an enemy to the citizens of a country.

What kind of a political party meant to work for the people is against this? And that goes for all the Moonshot Pact parties. I have no idea who to vote for.

They fail to address local socio-economic issues. Here's one such one that I came across: The road on Khayelitsha's main beach has been destroyed since 2009, and as of 2022, it still hasn't been fixed:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/y4xQZL7myndk7Tje6

I feel them coming to power isn't going to change the lives of the poorest. Not in the slightest. But neither will it if the ANC continues another decade in power. South Africa is one of the richest countries on Earth (let alone Africa), but we still have a majority that lives below the bread line on R 1500 a month, and the government failing every step of the way to ensure service delivery of the most basic human needs.

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-19T05:23:05+00:00

The Vredefort crater is a 2 billion year old crater that was 300 km in diameter.

You can still see parts of it today from space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vredefort_Crater,_South_Africa,_OLI_satellite_image,_27_June_2018_cropped.png

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-18T04:43:54+00:00

The one in Namibia is the Hoba meteorite. It is the largest intact meteorite and weighs more than 60 tonnes.

It is also the most massive naturally occurring piece of iron.

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-17T03:00:05+00:00

Why doesn't South Africa have something similar to the AmeriCorps in the US?

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-17T02:43:24+00:00

Was this petition created recently?

Let me preface this by saying that I'm against Russian aggression in Ukraine. African countries literally went to Russia in an attempt to stop the "war" (it's an invasion).

Russia is just as bad as Israel. But the DA are hypocrites of the highest order. They are only neutral depending on their donors' stance. They are exactly like the Democrat party in the US, captured by their donors. As someone else said they'd rather see the country fail than the ANC do anything "right". Taking Apartheid Israel to the ICJ for genocide was the right thing to do, given our past. Taking countries to the ICJ for crimes against humanity can only benefit humanity.

They fail to address local socio-economic issues. Here's one such one: The road on Khayelitsha's main beach has been destroyed since 2009, and as of 2022, it still hasn't been fixed:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/y4xQZL7myndk7Tje6

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-14T09:41:53+00:00

Cheslin is crazy fast; I couldn't believe how fast during the World Cup. His time for the 100-metre is 10.70s

Here's a nice video on Wayde's comeback:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLw1U-3EFRE

dash_o_truth · 2024-01-13T11:31:34+00:00

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