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@JHBWater Please make sure you give the correct times in your ETR. 11 April 2025 @ 00:00 was 12 hours ago, not 12 hours from now!

#JoburgUpdates #WaterInterruption #Ferndale ^BN

@CityPowerJhb No new updates yet? I haven't seen ETR updates on Bryanston either... CPWEB4574942

#CityPowerUpdates #RandburgSDC Blairgowrie: The team will attend to this outage as soon as they are done with the task at hand; at Bryanston. Further details shall be communicated as soon as the outcome of the outage is known. We apologise for the inconvenience. ^IM

@CityPowerJhb Is it one team or multiple teams m you acknowledged the outage this morning @ 11:00 and we haven't heard a word on progress or an ETR until now. What is going on? CPWEB4577361

#CityPowerUpdates #RandburgSDC The team is enroute to site to conduct investigation in Kyasand, Northriding AH, Blairgowrie, Bryanston, and surrounding areas. We shall keep affected customers posted on developments. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. ^IM

@CityPowerJhb Hi. Do we have an ETR yet? Should we be holding out for restoration tonight or are we waiting until tomorrow? CPWEB4574942

#CityPowerUpdates #RandburgSDC Randburg SDC Outage Update Northriding Substation, Quorn Distributor (Northriding, Sundowner, Northwold, and surrounding areas): The power supply is partially restored, and the team is still restoring the remaining customers. Further details will be confirmed in later updates. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. ^MR Updates will also be available on our WhatsApp channel: whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va…

@CityPowerJhb There seems to be an outage in Blairgowrie. Not sure how widespread: CPWEB4574942

#CityPowerUpdates #RandburgSDC City Power Randburg Service Delivery Centre (SDC) is sitting with 715 open calls, with 324 of those calls logged in the past 24 hours. ^MR Please click on the link below to subscribe to our WhatsApp channel and receive first hand updates on outages and everything related to the Randburg SDC: whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va…

This isn't the only place we're witnessing this level of lawlessness. Go to the bottom of Conrad Drive in the mornings. Go to any of the feeder streets and you'll see people driving in the oncoming lane. This has to stop!

@JoburgMPD while sitting in traffic on Jan Smuts I witnessed a plethora of vehicles drive into the oncoming lane at the Gorden Avenue intersection to use the service road running alongside the properties.

Your teams are inherited from your dad. If those teams happens to be garbage when you're young, that's all the better, because you're banking huge shared joy and a point of fun adult connection with your dad years later when the team finally becomes good again.

Are you ready?

@JimmyBroadbent You're in for an incredible journey! Haters out there go on about how bad parenthood is, but the fact ia that you created life and will (hopefully) play a significant role in molding that little one into a member of society. Enjoy!

It begins

@CityPowerJhb What is the ETA? CPWEB4484705

#RandburgOutage #CityPowerUpdates Bordeaux 6.6kv Substation, Income No 3: Power supply is partially restored following a trip on Eskom's side. Operators are still on site working to restore the power supply. This affects customers in Blairgowrie, Bordeaux, and surroundings. Further information will be communicated in the later updates. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va… ^MM

@CityPowerJhb Hey @CityPowerJhb. You gave us a new year's gift here: CPWEB4484705 Should we be expecting restoration today or only tomorrow?

#RandburgOutage #CityPowerUpdates Please see the attached information for the latest updates. Also follow our WhatsApp channel for electrifying updates. ^MM

@MattWhitmanTMBH Having a hardwired backbone is ultimatly a LOT better than relying on units needing to contend with congested bandwidth wirelessly. Glad your Eero is working! Keep an eye on things, you might notice a drop in performance later if more people are adopting Wifi 7

@MattWhitmanTMBH Biggest problem in my neck of the woods is more people adopting 5Ghz in my area. What was a very smooth deployment 2 years ago have now become something that needs more looking after. That said, I do still have the option to hardwire my mesh units together.

Not sponsored recommendation: I've been trying to figure out my Wi-Fi mesh network for a month. Today, I got the new eero Max7, and this ONE unit is outperforming seven of these beacons on the left. Dang.

The BELA Act unpacked As promised, I said I would outline, as succinctly as possible, the catastrophic issues with regard the legislation. To say that the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act is an existential threat to education in South Africa, is by no means an exaggeration. Mandatory Grade R There is simply no money to compel all government schools to implement a mandatory grade R. Most schools within the quintile 1 – 3 categories don’t even have textbooks, toilets, stationery, proper classrooms, yet they must now accommodate a brand new Grade. Admission policies It removes the power of school governing bodies (SGBs) to make any decisions about the administration and composition of the school. That is government overreach and authoritarianism on a steroidal scale. A provincial administrator will have to approve every single admission, can you possibly imagine the administrative nightmare when you consider that most officials can barely find their desks. Language policies South Africa has 13 official languages, has anyone considered the administrative and financial issues that will arise in an attempt to cater for all languages. Removing the decisions about language policy from the SGB’s is yet another move by a government that is becoming increasingly authoritarian. Corporal Punishment There is a complete lack of discipline. We have frequently seen videos circulating of students assaulting their teachers, which is a direct result of the absence of discipline in the classroom. This will only amplify the sense of entitlement. There must be consequences for bad behaviour. Centralisation of power The entire Act is structured to strip schools of their responsibility and decision-making authority, transferring it to an already dysfunctional and corrupt provincial ANC government. The government has granted itself the power to dissolve an entire School Governing Body (SGB) within 14 days through the Head of Department (HOD). Regulation of the homeschooling sector The Department has not sufficiently engaged with the homeschooling community to identify the most effective and suitable methods for assessing students. Additionally, it has not adequately responded to parents’ concerns about learner registration and the inspection of educational facilities. Admission The Act clarifies that schools cannot deny admission to a learner based on a lack of documentation, such as a birth certificate or valid residence permit. This basically opens our schools to every child in the rest of Africa, should they wish to come to South Africa and study at the states expense. From firsthand experience, I can tell you that schools in the quintile 4 and 5 categories can only remain operational if all students pay their school fees. Depending on the school and location, these fees can range from R2,900 to R5,000 per month. When a school that depends solely on fees is faced with the decision of admitting a child from foreign parents who can afford to pay the fees, versus a South African child who cannot, which child do you think is more likely to be admitted? Democratic Alliance capitulation The Democratic Alliance can spin this as much as they like, using Bell Pottinger-style manipulation, but it will never change the fact that they capitulated. In a statement, basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube confirmed that her department will implement the Act with the “support of the national regulations, policy and standards [document which will be] developed, publicly scrutinised and finalised in the best interest of the learner.” Neither our Minister of Basic Education nor, it seems, anyone in the DA, understands fundamental legal principles. These principles make it clear that without actual changes to the wording of the legislative sections, these so-called "regulations and policy standards" are meaningless. Legislation always takes precedence over guidelines. After the debacle surrounding the BELA Bill, now the BELA Act, many of us are confronted with the harsh reality that voting for the DA is essentially a vote for the ANC. #BELA #belaAct Image courtesy of enca

@KarelMoricky I had the set labelled #1! But yeah, I really wanted more...

Who else remembers wishfully staring at this picture in the days leading up to Christmas Eve?

@EvanJKnowles Why does this hadida have a shell that looks similar to that of a pangolin?!

"Braai hadedas" to the tune of "Feliz Navidad" obviously.

@ThePrimeagen I prefer the pronunciation "seekoei". It's Afrikaans for hippo and sounds like what most people would pronounce SQL as, but this is a hilarious twist that a friend used during a piece of training I presented to them at work.

sql is pronounced squeel

@EvanJKnowles @shoptemu Dude... I literally just wanted to see a description of an item. Sent on a roundabout with a promise of "free items" only to lose patience at being unable to go view the item...

Every time my resolve breaks and I click on a @shoptemu ad, that stupid spinning wheel manages to put me straight again.