Category Archives: in the news

Cape Town e-Toll Calculator

By 6000 | 6000 | February 10, 2011

As Gautengers gear up for hefty tolls on their new state of the art car parks roads, those lovely people at ensightnetworks have launched a handy e-Toll calculator so that you can see just how much extra it’s going to cost the Vaalies to sit in queues all day get from one place to another. [...]

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What more must they do?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 9, 2011

The dry-run of the dry-run for tomorrow’s Opening of Parliament and the State of the Nation Address was last night. Having two dry-runs means that any problems discovered in the first dry-run can be ironed out in the second dry-run and any problems discovered in the second dry-run might be ironed out by the time the real [...]

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Road Closures for the Opening of Parliament 2011

By 6000 | 6000 | February 7, 2011

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when Parliament finally comes back to work after the summer break (noting that the rest of us have been back at least 5 weeks already) and JZ stands up and tells us how many jobs he intends to create this year. Then we can all laugh heartily [...]

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No fly

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2011

Love this from American site loweringthebar.net: According to the Daily Mail Online, an immigration officer who worked for the UK Border Agency managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years by putting her name on the no-fly list while she was visiting the in-laws overseas. Officials confirmed on January 30 that the [...]

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Incoming

By 6000 | 6000 | February 2, 2011

Screenshot of Cyclone Yasi approaching the Queeensland coast (flimsy white line on the left of the picture). Taken from this site. Appropriately reminiscent of a Chinese Dragon at the start of the Chinese New Year, I felt.

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