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I shall be quiet tomorrow

By 6000 | 6000 | January 5, 2012

That’s because I’m using my last R4 of Vodacom airtime to post this. Tomorrow, back in range, I shall revert to my MTN SIM and contract cellphone usage. And then, tomorrow evening, back in Cape Town, I shall revert to the wonder of broadband internet. Who ever said that this place wasn’t civilised? (Although if [...]

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Chris Moerdyk’s list of selfish bastards includes Chris Moerdyk

By 6000 | 6000 | October 31, 2011

Chris Moerdyk has finally had it with the selfish bastards who don’t pay their taxes and cut red lights and talk on their cellphones while driving and get behind the wheel after one too many. And that includes him: But then, it suddenly dawned on me that if Colin didn’t pay his taxes, government would [...]

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Cell use ‘worse than driving drunk’

By 6000 | 6000 | October 24, 2011

Interesting quote from Gary Ronald of the AA in the Cape Times this morning: Driver distraction is probably six times more dangerous than driving drunk. If a driver over the legal alcohol limit of 0.05 already has the potential risk of being involved in a crash 15 times more than a sober person, the context [...]

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Missed by blitz, but…

By 6000 | 6000 | June 4, 2011

While I drove all around the city this week, I didn’t pass through a single roadblock in the supposed traffic blitz that was an attempt to rake in the almost R600m that the city drivers owe in fines. We all heard about the roadblocks though. Especially the big finale on the M5 on Friday afternoon, [...]

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Avoid costly mobile phone bills while in South Africa

By 6000 | 6000 | June 3, 2010

I can’t actually believe that I’m writing this. This sort of thing is so basic, it shouldn’t need to be written. And that’s going to open the floodgates to all sorts of other basic advice posts like how to wipe your bum after going to the toilet and how you should use a spoon instead [...]

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