Taxi bosses get arrested for extortion. They apply for bail, and the State Prosecutor handling the case fails to appear in court for the bail hearing due to threats and intimidation. The Magistrate strikes the case off the court roll and issues and warrant of arrest for the State Prosecutor. The NPA initiates a disciplinary hearing against the State Prosecuter.
The NPA puts a complaint against the Magistrate for the manner in which she handled the bail application. The Magistrates resigns
No one could have written a better script for the country than this.
It's a thrill a minute.
🚨Remove your ID number on your CV..And NEVER I repeat NEVER send a CV with a certified copy of your ID.
You will get Married without you knowing and your SASSA money will be eaten by them. That is why when you apply you get REJECTED for SASSA.
Like to give some special shoutouts to
MilkyTheDon
Boitytheepk
Yandiitheunicorn
Bustylwa (hate dat she went corporate and quit💔)
DineoKhumy
Primadonna
PetiteTumi (slowly becoming Xoli 2.0 tho🥀)
Ontlametse Moloi
Rubimya (Top Tier🏆)
A hard lesson from administering my late mother's estate: read the fine print on life rights before your parents sign one.
For those unfamiliar: a life right is a popular retirement-village model in South Africa. You don't buy the property. You pay a large lump sum (often R2m+) for the right to occupy a unit for the rest of your life. The operator retains ownership and the title.
When the holder dies, here is what nobody really explains up front.
1. The operator takes a fixed chunk regardless of how long you lived there. Typical contracts deduct around 40 percent of a notional "Listing Consideration" as the operator's effective fee, amortised over five years. If your loved one lives in the unit for two years, three years, or even just under five, that 40 percent disappears anyway. My mother paid R2 million in 2021. Five years later, the estate stands to receive less than half of it back.
2. The estate keeps paying levies after death. Indefinitely. The contract terminates automatically when the holder dies. But you, as the estate, remain liable for the full monthly levy, rates, and consumption charges until the operator finds a new buyer. There is no deadline. No reasonable-time obligation written in. We are six weeks past hand-over and the invoices keep arriving.
3. The estate cannot use, let, or even allow family to enter the unit. The right to occupy was "personal in nature." It died with the holder. The estate cannot put a tenant in, cannot let it on Airbnb, cannot even allow family to stay there without the operator's written consent. Every mitigation lever sits with the operator at their sole discretion.
4. The operator has zero incentive to re-sell quickly. They hold your capital interest-free until a buyer is found. They earn the levy every month you wait. They earn a remarketing fee on re-sale. The longer they take, the better for them. The worse for you.
5. The contract usually contains a CPA exemption-by-design. Most of these schemes acknowledge the Consumer Protection Act on paper, then carve themselves into clauses that allow exactly the kind of one-sided continuation of obligations the CPA was meant to police. Sections 48 and 52 of the CPA, and the Constitutional Court line on fairness in contract (Barkhuizen, Beadica), give real grounds to push back. But you have to know to push.
If you or a family member is considering a life right, please:
- Read the full agreement including every annexure, not just the marketing brochure.
- Model the worst case: holder dies within 3 to 5 years of taking occupation.
- Calculate the estate's expected net return, including post-death levy bleed if re-sale takes 6 to 12 months.
- Get independent legal advice before signing. Not advice from the village's referred attorneys.
- Ask explicitly: what is the operator's contractual obligation to re-sell within a reasonable time? If the answer is "none," walk away.
There are genuinely good retirement villages and well-structured life rights out there. But the structural risk to the estate is rarely disclosed up front.
If you've been through this and want to compare notes, please reach out.
DSTV laughed until Netflix arrived. Taxis slept until Uber moved. Shops ignored Shein and Temu. Newspapers mocked social media. Celebrities dismissed influencers. Every giant thinks disruption is noise, until it becomes the market. The real question is: who is sleeping now?
Not necessarily. If you pay R9.5K as a bond premium, you still have to factor in rates and taxes which could suck another R3K.
I dont think we spend enough time discussing the real costs of owning a property.
A man getting to this age and still haven't figured out his life exactly shows how he lived in his earlier days. You're thirty and you're not stable in every aspect of life yet because you spent your whole life chasing women, cheating on women, gambling and more, you must have enjoyed this things to the point you continued having no savings till you turned thirty and didn't even realize you just did..
Mark Zuckerberg engineered a custom hardware device for his wife in 2019. No clock face. One faint light. A one-hour window.
Priscilla had a specific problem. She'd wake up in the middle of the night, check her phone for the time, and the number itself spiked her anxiety. 4am meant worry about the kids waking soon. 5:30 meant calculating whether to just get up. The information was the trigger.
Most engineers approach "can't sleep" by adding things to the bedroom. A meditation app. A Hatch alarm. A weighted blanket. A sleep coach.
Mark removed the variable that was running the wake-up loop.
The Sleep Box sits on Priscilla's nightstand and shows nothing for 23 hours a day. Between 6am and 7am it emits a single faint light. Faint enough not to wake her if she's still asleep. Visible enough that if she's already up, she knows it's okay to start the day. The rest of the night, dark. No clock. No time display. If she wakes at 3am she has no data to push her cortisol up with, so she goes back to sleep.
He wrote the firmware and built the enclosure himself. No team, no procurement, no Meta resources. He posted the result on Instagram and said it worked better than he expected.
The design move most CEOs would never run is the personal one. The instinct is to outsource a family problem to a specialist. A sleep coach. A doctor. A consumer electronics startup with a Series B and a marketing budget.
Mark intervened at a specific link in the chain. Time data hitting Priscilla's brain at 3am was what broke sleep. The phone got moved off the nightstand and replaced with a box that physically cannot deliver that data.
The box has no clock. That's the entire product.
The reason I asked this is because sometime ago when we were implementing a fraud system for one of the banks, the fraud system supplier was charging the bank for every login.
When we ran the numbers, the average customer was logging in 25 times before they even transacted.
That pricing model obviously became uneconomical.
Then we brought in facial verification. The supplier wanted to call the Home Affairs API every single time. That only made sense for linking a new phone or high-value transactions. Most banks were happy to eat the cost at first… until @Leon_Schreib pushed the price per API call from 30c to R10.
Luckily most banks had already built their own internal face databases by then and didn’t need to call Home Affairs every time.
Without those internal databases, banks would have had no choice but to start charging customers for every login just to recover the verification costs.
When a woman feels anxious about her partner's female friends, late nights, or phone habits, it is immediately validated as "women's intuition" and he is told to respect her boundaries. But the exact second a man expresses discomfort about her entertaining certain male orbiters or moving recklessly, he is immediately gaslit, labeled "deeply insecure," and accused of trying to control her.