I trust you are well. Please be advised my team charged your card to secure your booking, however when doing so they over charged you by R11915.97. Kindly be we will make arrangement to refund you the credit. Southern Sun Booking.com How does this happen?

JUST IN: The National Consumer Commission has named & shamed about 40 companies -physical and online -which accepted customers’ orders and payment, didn’t supply the goods and then disappeared. The online ones abandoned their websites or deleted them. These are mostly “after the

I’ve been thinking about the crisis in Gauteng for a few weeks, trying to understand it and the response to it. Yes, I said crisis. I’ve asked questions, read, analysed, and this is where I’ve landed. A long post. 📝 It’s 2017. Cape Town is in the midst of a once-in-400-years

The bakkie brigade working for @CityPowerJhb managed to slice through a power cable while digging and took out the sub station in Linden. Thankfully no one was injured.

In watershed judgment, Supreme Court of Appeal ruled municipal officials can be held personally responsible for unauthorised, irregular, fruitless, wasteful use of public money. Uncaring officials can be held personally liable for misuse of public funds. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-1…

The R2 billion budget allocated to VIP Protection is disproportionate and offers little value to the broader public. These services must be rethought and streamlined to ensure they are used where truly necessary. VIP Protection should only be allocated following a thorough

Can't believe that BBC News (World) can't afford to pay for a Zoom account. Now we won't find out about the pies.

Do you know what China does? It generously subsidises tech innovation to encourage R&D. There is absolutely no reason why a company like DeepSeek couldn’t have emerged from South Africa - except for the lack of funding and government support. The minds are there. The talent is

Just stayed at a hotel where check IN was 4pm. And check OUT was 11am. (Notice how hotels are taking an hour at each end). That means my stay was only allowed 19 hours. Add on the amenity fee for non existing amenities and one’s left feeling “rip off” where does this end!?

Didn't realise Amazon censors product reviews.

Our statement on the situation in Gaza⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/4hNgczn

A $500 Million Moonshot for Lenacapavir. open.substack.com/pub/reimaginin… Elon Musk

Be careful when you opt for the Etihad Airways stopover option. It's a very badly managed offer and comes with some red herrings. Hotel yet to be confirmed even though the trip is a few days away. You need to pay for your visa, the hotel does not include breakfast or transfers. #etihad

Vuma WiFi out in Montgomery park, Roosevelt and linden

Francesca Albanese would have been a worthy winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. What an amazing woman...

Following a great deal of speculation, interest & predictions, we’re delighted to announce that the first Walmart Store will be in Clearwater Mall and we cannot wait to bring a world-class shopping experience to the west of Johannesburg! Stay tuned for more details.

South Africans are loving this. Making full use of the stage is how you honour it, how you honour your hosts. This is Africa’s first G20. It’s their moment. There were attempts to trash their efforts and dampen their spirits. India stood firmly with them through this. Add to

Delia Byliefeldt I don't know why I continue to do this, but I am an idealist old fool and assume good faith where there is likely none. Delia, Belonging is something you carry in your heart, not an emotion you outsource to others. It works like self-worth: it requires no external approval.

As promised. Discovery finally solved my problem, but I've written about it anyway, because their systems seem to be fundamentally broken, and I'm a writer. So I write. mandycollinswriter.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/com…