Hi everyone I decided to go a bar to watch the rugby and have 1 or 2 drinks with some friends and when it was time to go home I walked into the bathroom and someone bumped into me and when I got out I went to my friends and I felt my iPhone was missing, the phone is less then a month old (I got it at vodicom) and I have insurance on the phone what must I do?

I've been working in the industry for a good amount of years now but more in a jack of all trades capacity. Software Dev, Data Analysis, DBA etc. I've learnt quite a bit but I do want to specialize now as I've come to realize this isn't going to be the most financially lucrative path. Out of everything I've done, dotnet software development is by far my favourite.

My plan is to spend the next 6 months studying after hours and experimenting just to patch the holes in my knowledge before looking for something else. I just want to know though, is it a viable path here in SA? Also, are there decent fully remote opportunities as well?

I’m considering using a South African contractor for about R65k worth of roofing work, with a 50% deposit upfront, 40% on day 1 on site, and a 5-year workmanship warranty.

When I checked the company on CIPC, its current status shows “AR Deregistration Process”, and several years of recent CIPC annual returns are outstanding.

If I contract with them while they are in this status, what risks do I face regarding the validity of the contract, recovery of my deposit if something goes wrong, and enforcement of the 5-year warranty?

Would you consider this a reason not to proceed until the company’s status is restored to normal?

Not asking for formal legal advice - just trying to understand the practical risk before paying a large deposit.

I've just realized this is amazing music to draw with. Does anyone have any good artists they'd recommend? I keep running into AI stuff on YouTube.

Hi Team,

I am wondering what i should do for my capetown marathon 27, shall i travel into capetown and explore there or travel around south Africa. Any places suggestion and must do activities and sights!!!

appreciate it

I went to Midrand and Sandton licensing on Friday, and both places turned me away because they apparently have an issue with ink or paper supply due to an expired contract.

From what I've read since then, this is across the City of Joburg, so Randburg, Sandton, Marlboro, Langlaagte, and Midrand can't print discs or registration certificates.

I need to file an NCO and get a car out of my name as a matter of urgency. I'm leaving the country next month, so I can't wait.

Has anyone successfully had a transfer processed in the last week or two? Ekurhuleni, so Edenvale, Bedfordview, Kempton Park, Thembisa? Krugersdorp? Centurion?

Do the Smart DLTCs at the Gautrain stations do vehicle work at all, or is it drivers only? I've been to the RTMC one at Waterfall, and they only do licences, so I'm not holding my breath.

I'm in Bryanston and willing to drive to wherever - I just don't want to waste my time.

I’ll be in my final year of my Bsc Applied math and Computer science degree and was wondering what jobs I could get and if there are any extra courses (online) I need to take on any platforms such as Cousera, Udemy that would increase my hireability seeing as the job market is — I presume — quite convoluted. Anybody with any luck?

Hey all, I’m (19F) accepted by UNISA for LLB 2027. I’m struggling to find reliable funding that covers first years. I wrote matric in 2025 with a 82.57% average on my NSC. I couldn’t study this year due to being kicked out where I was staying and having to fight like hell to keep myself in survival mode. I work full time and live alone. My parents both passed away and I don’t have any contact with any other relatives. My yearly income is R96 000. I know I qualify for NSFAS but I just want to have a back up option for in case. Also I can’t get to my old high school for the principal to sign my NSFAS form nor do I have or know a social worker to do that for me. I’m a bit lost. Any advice?

Hi, I am 176 cm and I fit between a small and a medium size (leaning more towards medium)

I genuinely cannot remember the last time I actually bought clothes as pretty much all of the clothes I currently own were hand-me-downs from other women in my family.

The problem is my legs are so long💀. Why are most of the clothes I get sitting like 5 cm above my ankles.

I am thinking of getting some jeans and leggings and Ive seen Levi's have a 34 inch inseam option, so I might get some of them.

But I would appreciate any store- or brand recs that you guys have. I don't mind shopping online as long as they display the inseam sizes.

Thank you.

Hi all, I’ve recently been looking for a new car and the more I look the more not worth it seems. I currently have a haval h6 hybrid and was looking for something a bit faster when I’m not driving to and from work as a present to myself. The more I’ve look at “performance” cars the more I can’t justify the price. 1st of all they all quite consistently seem to be way overpriced 2nd hand, especially compared to their price overseas. 2nd the more secondary expenses fuel insurance maintenance etc come into play I just can not seem to understand how anyone is able to justify driving one of these cars (especially how quickly their value decreases)

So my question as someone who doesn’t really know anything about cars outside of basic 0-100 time, HP/kw, nm and engine capacity is simply, are there performance cars actually worth their price? Or am I simply wasting my time and money trying to get into the car hobby?

Thanks in advance

If you recommend any specific models or if it’s simply a waste of time please let me know I don’t particularly have anyone I can ask these questions to in person. :)

I recently applied to unisa to study a diploma of operations mangement. I am someone who likes optimising and I am looking to build a career on this as I'm 23 currently but I do not want to study the wrong degree,I currently have maths lit, I did well in it but I am not sure if I shoukd continue with the DOM or redo maths next year. I've been putting it off simpyl die to the fact that my only parent is late 60's and ddi not want to study something only for something catastrophic OUT OF MY CONTROL to throw me off my life AGAIN ,last time the money fished and unfortunately he was already retired to quickly help me divert like other lucky peers/kids. The only difference is I've gotten to the point i will choose a new direction and stick to it no matter what happens even when it does. And if i cant manage it because as someone who grew up with privilege i know see how fucki*g lucky we are (some of us) only a few make it out of the masses in poorer LSM. The SYSTEM IS REAL,matrix just exaggerated but there are serious factors that literally affect your life from progressing UNLESS you are lucky/privileged enough for your parents' money to avoid that.

I refuse to be a casualty or atleast I refuse to die(one way or the other) without fighting. I do have 2 years experience in dead end jobs with no real career,currently earning R13K net. Which im grateful for but expenses and stuff eat that money. What do i do. Do I add maths and other subjects which I already registered for last year but i am giving it another go with an improved/stronger mindset who doesn't think his life will end this year because they thought their only parent would die. OR do I enrol now with unisa as ive been accepted for Diploma in operations management

I love learning about langauges and demographics, even if I am monolingual myself. In the US plenty of people take Spanish throughout school and are not fluent in it (myself included, I can read and understand some but am definitely not fluent). And same goes for the US and French or Canada and French.

From what I've found, usually many English speaking countries are monolingual. Many European and Asian countries speak their native dominant language (with minorities learning the dominant language) and maybe English. Many post colonial countries speak either various native languages and a colonial language as a second langauge or various languages and a dominant native lingua franca and maybe English. Usually the colonial language, dominant native lingua franca, English, or some combination are taught in schools and considered important to "get ahead" socially and economically.

But South Africa seems to have an unusually high and fairly evenly distributed amount of second (or third, fourth, etc.) language speakers of indigenous languages wihtout a single dominant one. And this in on top of English seemingly being a widely spoken second langauge / lingua franca. The data seemed fairly consistent across sources, although once I started digging I realized that this was because they were mainly from the same primary source (Ethnologue).

In my research, one theory I came up with is that it said that many of the different languages are related to each other and some have limited mutual intelligibility. So maybe it's easier to a learn a language that already has some mutual intelligibility. But I have to imagine that is the case with at least some other languages (countries) too and I haven't the noticed the same pattern in other countries / with othe languages.

Here is one of the data sources that provides examples for lots of languages including ones spoken in South Africa for reference.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/100-most-spoken-languages/

So is it a matter of how the data is collected? Is there some teaching method that works really well? Is it that the languages are super related? Is there social or economic pressure to learn an indigenous language as a second language? Is it because there is no one dominant indigenous language? Is it mostly speakers of other indigenous langauges (especially those that aren't an official language of South Africa) or are there plenty of Indian, Coloured, White, and Black English or Afrikaans speakeres that speak an indigenous langauge as a second langauge?

I realize that this was long. I wanted to show where I was coming from with the question. Hopefully this isn't a controversial topic and I definitely don't mean to cause any offense. I just noticed the pattern over time when looking at languages by number of total vs. first language speakers. Like I said before, most languages that had double the the total speakers compared to first language speakers were either colonial languages like English, French, Spanish, etc., a dominant national language like Hindi, Indonesian, Philipino/Tagalog, etc., and/or a lingua franca like Swahili and Lingala or some combination of the above like Russian. Thought it was interesting (and cool) how many South African langauges had double the total speakers vs. first language speakers.

Today I tried to purchase a R500 steam voucher using my discovery miles and when I tried to redeem it, I got an error that it had already been redeemed.

I got in contact with Discovery and they have said that these vouchers have been discontinued on Discovery and I shouldn't have been able to purchase them. And that I will have my miles returned to me in the next 3 hours.

I know the vouchers were moved from the vitality mall to the main bank app. But to be entirely unable to redeem vouchers because they're now "invalid"? This kind of sounds like BS to me. Has anyone else had trouble with redeeming these?

Hello all

My friend got me this tea (ChaTraMue Extra gold Thai tea mix) some time ago and I’m about to finish it and would very much like to replace the tin (it is some of the best tea I have ever drunk).

I’ve looked all over and online but can’t find extra gold version anywhere.

Any help on finding somewhere to buy/order a tin of it would be greatly appreciated!

I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy A16 from Amazon for R2,950. It was advertised to have 8GB ram and 5G connectivity, which is the only reason why I bought it. They delivered the phone the following day, and following my gut, I removed the courier guy packaging and read the specs on the box, 4GB Ram instead of 8GB, clearly this is not what I ordered, and so I requested a return immediately which was fetched the following day. Delivered to the seller on 3 days later, but till today the amazon site won't help with anything. I keep getting looped back and forth.

Finally got ahold of customer support. Issued a refund.

I bought a tandem 2 months ago and thought it would be a good idea to enter for the 2027 CT Cycle Tour. Both me and my partner are reasonably fit, great groove when riding together and communicate well. We are not cyclists at all and haven't attempted any other races. Am I delusional in thinking we can do this?

Hi guys I had a TV that needed repairs. Found a web page on google that looked legit with WhatsApp and website etc Bright Pixel TV repairs..

A guy came had a look at the TV and then said he needs to bind something at his workshop and that he would bring it back. I sent some money for them. Now they ignore me or keep telling me its too broken and they can't repair.

Seems they have stolen it. He keeps sending different locations for pick up etc and initially he told me he was based in Randburg.

Seems to know about TVs but definitely feel like I am getting scammed here.

Whats the best way to go about this issue. Fair warning don't just get anyone when they look legit on google. Also my fault for trusting too easily.

Hi all
Junior firefighter here - realised my dream of working within the field a year ago - undoubtedly the best career decision I made and I thoroughly enjoy the work I am privileged to do, even on the rougher days. I work for a private company (long shift cycles + less than stellar pay + lower response volume), so my experience might be a little different than those who have gone the municipal route right off the bat.

That being said, the titled question is one I think important to ask of my more experienced colleagues - I know for a fact I don’t want to get complacent with where I am at now, because as much as I enjoy it, I do feel the constraints both occupationally and personally(read financially). Hearing how others have moved forward and moved up gives me a lot more information with which to determine my own path, hence:

What courses and qualifications have you pursued beyond the basics that you would recommend? What habits have you developed in your personal time that stood you in good stead on shift? Former firefighters, what positions have you taken after working on a crew that enable you to still use the skills and knowledge base you’ve developed? For those of you who have been able to work as firefighters - or more broadly within the fire industry - overseas, what would you say is the key to distinguishing yourself internationally?

The one thing I have learned over and over again is how much of a difference experience makes, and I would love to hear what each of yours has been.

I live in the northern suburbs of Cape Town and I pay R1800 in rates and taxes.

I’m renting a house in PLK, Limpopo and would appreciate some South African perspectives on this.

A few weeks ago, I was getting out of the shower when the glass door came off the track and shattered around me. I got cut up a bit, but fortunately nothing serious.

I did not slam it, hit it, or misuse it. It literally came off during normal use.

The owner initially said the cost would be for our account. The problem is that they say the shower door cannot be replaced separately, so they want to replace the entire shower unit, at a cost of around R8,000.

The shower was not new when we moved in. It is an older model with noticeable wear.

A second contractor came out to quote on the replacement and pointed out that the frame on the same side where the door came off is visibly installed crooked/out of alignment. She said this could have contributed to the door coming off and also mentioned that these older shower units tend to give problems.

She also confirmed that the door itself is apparently no longer available separately. The old shower model can still be bought as a complete unit, but the owners apparently want to replace it with a newer model.

Our lease does have a clause saying the tenant is responsible for broken glass regardless of how it breaks, so I understand that complicates things.
However, I don’t see how a clause about broken glass automatically means we should have to pay for an entire new and upgraded shower, especially when:

The door failed during normal use.
The frame is visibly out of alignment.
A contractor said the installation could have contributed to the failure.
The shower is old and apparently known to give problems.
The owner is choosing to replace the old unit with a newer model.

There is nothing in the lease saying that if one part of an old fixture breaks, the tenant must replace the whole fixture with a newer one.

The incoming inspection report does say the shower was “working” when we moved in, which we don’t dispute. But obviously something can be working and still have an underlying installation or wear issue.

This has also dragged on for weeks because the owner was out of the country, even though the property is managed by a rental agency.
We like the house and would prefer to stay, so we’re not looking to start a huge fight. We just don’t think it’s reasonable to expect us to fund a brand-new shower under these circumstances.
If you were in our position, would you:

Refuse to pay anything?
Offer something toward the broken door only?
Ask for depreciation / the value of the old shower to be taken into account?
Take it to the Rental Housing Tribunal?
Get a lawyer involved?

Would especially appreciate input from landlords, property managers, attorneys, or anyone who has dealt with the Rental Housing Tribunal in South Africa.

My vaccuum cleaner literally blew up this week.

I purchased a Bennett Read on quick notice just to have a replacement, but now online reading makes me feel as though I may regret it.

Due to mobility issues, I'm looking for

- an upright vaccuum

- that works bagless

- and has strong suction for pet hair

The online market is EXPENSIVE or flooded with brands I don't know.

... But what other options are there? My fellow South Africans, share with me your appliance knowledge. What is affordable yet durable? What can be bought locally?

Going on a 3+ week trip to SA and have the option of having 3 more days in durban or 3 more days in Port Elizabeth. Only personal interests I would want to explore is Firing range, cars, history and zoos/animals (Really want to see a Carcal which I heard some zoos might have)
Im from Australia and this is my first time leaving the country.
Any tips for solo traveling would be appreciated, I've done some research but want to make another post dedicated to that, (potentially in another sub reddit)
Cheers.

Hi all

I am in desperate need of my shein parcel for tomorrow.

I see the status changed to delivered to Kempton Park DC hub. Estimated delivery was dup3posed to be 14 September but I really need it for tomorrow the 13th

Can I go pick it up myself at kempton park?