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Thanks to everyone who entered our flash @ComicConAfrica ticket giveaway 🎫

Congrats to the winners!

🏆 Kgomotso Modise (FB)
🏆 @BackStageCiki
🏆 @lovebyt_e
🏆 @MRKRUGER1_
🏆 @VLunika
🏆 terishakonar (IG)

Enjoy Comic Con! 🎉 Tag us in your photos so we can geek out with you!

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@lovebyt_e You're welcome! Don't forget to DM us your email so we can send the ticket! 🎫

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🎟️ 6 Comic Con Africa tickets up for grabs, Friday 25 Sept!

Want in?
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Winners drawn at random, DMed by tomorrow noon. Tickets valid Friday only.

#ComicConAfrica #FlashGiveaway

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@BackStageCiki Don't forget to DM us your email so we can send the ticket! 🎫

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@VLunika Congratulations!! You won a ticket for Friday. 🎫

Please DM us your email address.

Thanks for entering!

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@BackStageCiki Congratulations!! You won a ticket for Friday. 🎫

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Thanks for entering!

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@lovebyt_e Congratulations!! You won a ticket for Friday. 🎫

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Thanks for entering!

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@MRKRUGER1_ Congratulations!! You won a ticket for Friday. 🎫

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Thanks for entering!

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Free animation workshops for teens at Comic Con Africa this week. Pixel art, storyboards, Foley sound.

Free to attend for Comic Con Africa ticket holders but registration is separate from your ticket.

https://t.co/riI2OOueU1

#ComicConAfrica #CTIAF #Animation #TechNationNews

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Claude Opus 5.5 is live.

Fable 5.1 performance, 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5, roughly R65/million input tokens at today's rate. Four API changes will break existing Opus 5 code.

Full explainer:
https://t.co/MP0oA0rQUt

#AI #Anthropic #Developers #TechNationNews

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The goo protecting #iPhone18Pro is used in F1 cars to stop vibration.

There's also a 2nm chip cooled by a vapour chamber 3x bigger than last year's.

SA prices from R28 799.

Full breakdown 👇️
https://t.co/z0ySfg7aJ6

#Apple #iStore #TechExplained #D3O #TechNationNews

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63% of SA ransomware attacks ended in data encryption last year, above the 56% global average. Recovery cost R17m on average, and only 40% of orgs were back up within a week.

https://t.co/ng10NtdmFF

#Ransomware #Cybersecurity #SouthAfrica #DataSecurity #TechNationNews

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🌧️ @SAWeatherServic upgraded KZN's weather warning to orange level 6.

Flooding expected from Thursday noon across eThekwini, KwaDukuza, Mandeni and Ray Nkonyeni.

50 to 150mm of rain incoming. Stay off flooded roads.

https://t.co/twNefCs6Hp

#KZNWeather #SAWS #TechNationNews

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SARS SCAM ALERT: AI-generated emails now pass the basic visual checks that used to catch fakes. @kaspersky found fake eFiling pages targeting SA taxpayers ahead of 23 Oct.

#CyberSecurity #FilingSeason2026 #PhishingAlert #TechNationNews

https://t.co/AqgMTM9TeJ

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SA's GDP contracted in Q2. Durban ports are backlogged. Oil's near $100.

And yet: rand near R16/$, airline seats confirmed, home loan approvals at 64.5%. Q4 2026 is sending a different signal.

https://t.co/QPtTkmbXpN

#SouthAfrica #Economy #Q42026 #TechNationNews

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Your business address might be your most underused data point.

Esri South Africa launched Know What's Around You to show what maps reveal that spreadsheets simply can't. 🗺️

https://t.co/1R2olUGVSF

#GIS #LocationIntelligence #TechNationNews

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SA petrol could hit R29.06/l from 7 Oct, breaking June's record of R28.06. CEF data shows a 229c/l under-recovery on 95 Unleaded. Oil is at $106/barrel. Government won't intervene.

https://t.co/v2lTKW5xD5

#FuelPrice #SouthAfrica #CEF #TechNationNews

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PlayStation cancelled #PHYSINT in June. Kojima Production @KojiPro2015_EN spent 3 months finding a new publisher. @Xbox signed the deal. Film and TV collab also confirmed. 🎮

#Xbox #TechNationNews

https://t.co/SqFXSK75KR

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Comic Con Africa has 4 cosplay competitions running in September, R30 000 in prizes, and a London flight for the champion. Toyota even has a vehicle cosplay category. Yes, really.

https://t.co/mQyXTX2Irt

#ComicConAfrica #Cosplay #TechNationNews

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NASA's new 34-metre dish in the Mojave Desert went live 3 Aug, tracking Chandra on day one. It's the 5th of 6 planned since 2009. The network's own manager says demand still outpaces capacity.

#NASA #DeepSpaceNetwork #DSS23 #TechNationNews

https://t.co/AGTZ5SsX1S