@nickhedley@nickhedley adding: I agree with you.. this is a good idea. It's the norm in many countries, including low income countries. It's our future and their present. It's good for the commuter, and the transport owner. But it removes cash, introduces tax and removesities driver graft.
@nickhedley It's been tried before (decade or more back) and from what I understand is the taxi industry wouldn't accept the devices. Cash is king... maybe one ticket for bus and rail but never taxi.
@CMogoeng@BrentLindeque Sadly, Khayelitsha and Nyanga are ANC governed wards, and with national not provincial policing makes it hard for DA to intervene and help.
@WandileSihlobo Will ineffective port/rail issues hit agri export as seriously as its hit steel, ore and car manufacturing...I've tallied 16k job losses in only 4 recent announcements linked to inadequate power and transport making for an impossible business environment. AMSA, Sibanya, VW, Anglo
BREAKING: A new report shows that the end may be in sight for AIDS, the world’s deadliest pandemic.
The Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS says that Botswana, Eswatini, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe have all reached “95-95-95” targets, meaning 95% of the people who are living with HIV know their status, 95% of those people are on lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, and 95% of people in treatment are virally suppressed.
Across eastern and southern Africa, new HIV infections have been reduced by 57% since 2010. Also since 2010, the percentage of pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV who have access to antiretroviral treatment has nearly doubled, and new infections among children have more than halved.
There’s more work to be done, but the UN said the world could end AIDS by 2030 with sufficient investment from global leaders.
@AnneeErasmus@askash I work in Cape Town and employ 70 people, I've had companies here for 15 years and I've yet to experience lower salaries. I wish. We have to compete with jozi for talent..
@ThuliMadonsela3 Confirming you meant 2019 land audit not 1919? If 2019, it's astonishing. But a recent presentation from prior statistician general shows that the whole country is worse off today than 20 years back, and so, how can we reform without black economic growth.
This massive pipeline would obliterate rolling blackouts:
66GW of wind & solar projects are in the pipeline in South Africa.
Many of the planned projects would be coupled with battery storage. The pipeline also includes some 2 GW of gas-to-power.
https://t.co/hyjKHrETdk
*Reflections about five common myths about agriculture and land in South Africa.*
South Africa’s land reform policy remains highly contested.
But, in our view, a number of persistent myths about farmland statistics and the structure of commercial agriculture skew debates.
This makes it difficult to reach some common understanding about the realities of land and agriculture in the country.
In 1994 when South Africa became a democracy, white farmers owned 77.580 million hectares of farmland out of the total surface area of 122 million hectares. The new government set a target of redistributing 30% of this within five years. This target date has been moved several times and is now 2030.
According to popular belief, between 8% and 10% has been redistributed so far.
But as we show in the linked article below, this is incorrect as it omits a number of critical statistics.
https://t.co/BtszSC1EvC