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@CiroDeSiena @mybroadband @CarsSouthAfrica Dankie 🙏🙏👌

@someoak2 @mybroadband @CarsSouthAfrica Yes being published tomorrow :)

While not yet reported in Naamsa's data, this EV has potentially doubled South Africa's electric car sales in two months. mybroadband.co.za/news/motoring/…

@CilliersB "smash and grab" 🤣🤣 so funny but sadly true

Let me tell you exactly what happened in the Tshwane Council chamber on 9 July 2026🚨 Councillors voted not to suspend Johann Mettler. The Speaker deducted 13 votes and suspended him anyway. Councillors voted to treat allegations against CFO Gareth Mnisi as serious misconduct. The Speaker deducted 13 votes and let him off lightly anyway. The same number. 13. On both votes. Coincidence is not a word that applies here. Today the DA took this to the Gauteng High Court on an urgent basis. Democracy was rigged in plain sight. We will not let it stand. ⚖️

@TUXEDOComputers was it the snaps and ai stuff?

TUXEDO OS is getting a new technical foundation: Debian Testing will be used as the base in the future. Media reports about the rebase of TUXEDO OS to Debian Testing - here’s what the Internet says about: tuxedocomputers.com/en/In-the-medi… #tuxedo #rebase #debian

@GamersNexus @Google @googledocs those popups are hideous guys

Anyone have a self-hosted, team-oriented Google Sheets alternative we can try? Because fuck all of these pop-ups that @Google springs every time you open a spreadsheet (and also the data harvesting). Something locally hosted, team-based, and open source would be great.

The recent News24 investigation into Ekurhuleni's chemical toilet contracts puts Selby Manthata back in the spotlight - but it isn't the first time his company has featured in major public procurement controversies covered by amaBhungane.  Among the more recent: Toilet tender stinks (2019). It flagged Ekurhuleni spending R1.9 billion on chemical toilets over just three years (of which Manthata’s Selby Construction was one beneficiary), yet many residents were left with poorly serviced and unsafe facilities. AmaBhungane found that contractors, including Selby, billed the municipality thousands of rand per toilet each month under a contract plagued by weak oversight, while communities in the Winnie Mandela and Wolf informal settlements said their basic sanitation needs were not being met. f.mtr.cool/edwerqgqmz In 2022, Selby Construction surfaced again when it quietly took over a R368-million Department of Water and Sanitation contract, allegedly without government’s knowledge. The contract had been awarded to CMS Water Engineering – the company responsible for the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant debacle – which was on the brink of liquidation and had retrenched all its staff. AmaBhungane found that Selby carried out the work under a profit-sharing agreement and even paid R500 000 to settle CMS's tax debt to keep the zombie company and its lucrative contract alive. Read Part 5 of DEADLY WATER: a zombie in the water industry: f.mtr.cool/imdybjvsmg

@mybroadband @CiroDeSiena @CarsSouthAfrica

@mybroadband @CiroDeSiena do you guys have a review of this?

@dhh thanks @Apple this product would not have exited without u

Dell is on a roll with the revived XPS lineup. The new XPS 13 weighs just 1 kg, costs from $699, and is built beautifully. The Wildcat CPU is not for heavy multi core workloads, but it's ideal as a browser + ssh terminal. Keyboard is also superb. Much nicer than a Neo imo.

@mikrotik_build is v6 still supported?

RouterOS 7 testing update Version: 7.24rc2 (2026-07-10 10:58:23) Previous: 7.24rc1 (2026-07-01 15:53:30)

From Our Archives: Lottery jackpot: amaBhungane traced the political web of proximity behind Sizekhaya Holdings, the company that clinched the licence to operate SA’s national lottery, and found Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s sister-in-law has a stake.  amabhungane.org/lottery-jackpo…

@HelenZille4Jozi gogo has more oomf than 10 of me put together. mad respect mam. 🫡

A DA government won’t tolerate lawlessness. We’ll enforce by-laws and bring order back to Joburg! #BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

@ptdbugs @firefox

A PoC/exploit has been discovered for vulnerability in Firefox 152.0.5 Vendor: Mozilla Foundation Product: Mozilla Firefox Description: Firefox 152.0.5 on Windows contains a chain of flaws that together allow full remote code execution from a single malicious webpage visit. A memory-safety issue in the WebAssembly/Baseline-JIT engine permits an attacker to break out of the browser's content-process sandbox into a privileged internal browser context. From there, insufficient origin/authorization checks in Firefox's profile-backup restore feature allow a maliciously crafted backup archive to be accepted and restored without proper validation, including an attacker-controlled NSS (cryptography module) configuration. On restart, NSS loads a library path from this restored configuration without verifying its authenticity, resulting in arbitrary code execution under the logged-in user's privileges. No user interaction beyond visiting a webpage is required, and no prior access, credentials, or privileges are needed — making this an unauthenticated, network-exploitable, one-click RCE chain. Link: github.com/bikini/exploit…

@Newzroom405 @dailymaverick has a good point here.

Daily Maverick journalist Rebecca Davis unpacks the links between Resolve Communications and DA MP Kabelo Mgobisa-Ngcaba's work to benefit some of the clients of the public relations firm. Watch: tinyurl.com/4m58yccb

@ResolveComms x.com/Newzroom405/st…

RESPONSE TO DAILY MAVERICK ARTICLE Strip away the framing of today’s Daily Maverick piece and here's what the story actually says: a person who once worked at Resolve a number of years ago, who knows RICA and SIM-card fraud well, went on to raise it in Parliament and in the media of her own volition, after she left. That's it. That's the whole story. Despite this, Rebecca Davis of the Daily Maverick decided to build a whole story based around an inference built on the fact that someone once worked for Resolve. If that's the standard, no MP with real-world expertise could ever legislate in their own field: not a doctor, not a lawyer, not a trade unionist, not an accountant. Expertise from a past career is usually an asset for a lawmaker, yet here, conveniently, it's been recast as evidence of something strangely sinister. SIM-card fraud and weak RICA enforcement fuel real violent crime in this country. An MP who understands that and pursues it hard should be welcomed, not smeared. Turning that into a “gotcha” moment isn't journalism, it's a hatchet job.

@dailymaverick @ResolveComms x.com/Newzroom405/st…

@ResolveComms Here is what the story actually says: dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…

@RayTheGuy9 @eNCA The platform launches initially across Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Mauritius, with additional African markets planned as part of eMedia’s phased expansion strategy.

@eNCA Where is it? On Google or Play store

eMedia, one of Africa’s leading entertainment businesses, today announced the launch of Openview Stream, Africa’s first independent Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) platform. As an eMedia platform, Openview Stream extends the group’s entertainment ecosystem beyond traditional broadcasting, delivering premium live television and streaming content free to audiences across Africa. Read the full article here: enca.com/business-lifes…

@dailymaverick @ResolveComms @AdriaanBasson

What do Ekurhuleni's controversial chemical toilet contracts, the troubled Rooiwal wastewater works, and a R368-million Department of Water and Sanitation contract have in common? The name Selby Manthata.

City Power paid R121m for R11m contract, Pastor Witness ‘Acts’ Mazanga was involved brnw.ch/21x45fs

@dailymaverick @WaterCANsa

Gauteng’s rivers of filth — how broken pipes and sluggish justice poison waterways #Echobox=1783927396" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…