Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "eNCA" channel.

  1. Should start to get a lot more active in prosecuting those who buy the stolen copper and lights, because if there is nobody who buys the stolen scrap there is no market for it. Yes pretty much everywhere you find the street lights are gone, there is a scrapyard within walking distance, with that scrap in it.
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  2. SAP seem to regard themselves as report takers, if insured they just give a case number, and nothing else. Not insured they do not really care. Estates often make people lax, they let anybody in, they let people tailgate them, and leave doors open. you also need to have physical security in the home, do not rtely on the outside wall, because it is often very easy for criminals to get through there by one means or the other, and then go looking for the open doors and hidden spots.
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  3. Eskom board can never be competent, the selection process selects against competent people, as those who are competent are excluded by every criteria the choosing committee uses, as they need to be followers of ideology, yes people, and willing to pay facilitation fees.
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  4. Sports cars, Johnny walker Black, luxury designer clothing, lots of KFC.
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  5. Leopard does not change it's spots, they are so corrupt that they steal, even from the party itself, with impunity.
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  6. Yet another case of we cannot enforce the laws we already have on the statute books, so let us go and write a whole raft more of them, often mutually contradictory, and then wonder why they are also being flouted.
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  7. Cape town is shocked, come to Durban, where this is an every day thing. At least they leave the poles, here the pole is cut down, because of the little bit of copper and steel in the lamp, and then the pole is cut up as well for crap.
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  8. First in line will be the ones in the village in the Cape, then nobody else, because the money will all be gone.
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  9. One million in one month, but from previous history it will be one person in a million years.
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  10. More than half the police I see around are not wearing masks properly, let alone the public. Another law likely to be selectively enforced.
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  11. Drivers do not keep the taxi after hours, it goes to the owner, so the owners are complicit in this as well.
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  12. Rural areas you just get murdered in your house.....
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  13. 9mm, probably from a certain group that is no 1 for losing firearms. Definitely a hit, and probably over routes and rival groups that want in.
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  14. Drove past a lot of police today, near Durban Central, and all of them were wearing masks under the chin. All the other people at most 40% were wearing a mask in the street.
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  15. Hopefully they will still prosecute the officials, even if they resign, but I do not think any of them will be told more than "don't be caught doing this again", with nothing else being done.
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  16. Not tested, but on the WHO list of essential medication for treating a wide variety of illness. Just nobody wanted to pay for the registration in SA, because there is little to no profit in it, and the costs are so incredibly high for any application. Approved in pretty much every other first, second, third and fourth world country though.
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  17. No insurance, no insurer will provide cover to government, so they have to self insure, which means the taxpayers are the ones who pay for this ineptitude.
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  18. You mean Dirtbin has competition. Dirty hollow suffers from both poor management and also totally inept council.
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  19. No, not voting is saying you are happy with the current ones. You must go vote, there are a lot of parties, choose one you think will do a good job, and vote for them.
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  20. Especially the top management, as in regional and national level. Branch managers that are tied because they literally have no working computers, or even paper to print receipts on, is something from the top. For a long time the post office receipt came printed on National Lottery paper, because that was the only paper the whole city post offices actually had. I would take copy paper there for them to use when getting a parcel, because they could not print the documentation they need to have. Even staples and pens for the same reason. Then eventually the branch was closed, but luckily the staff were absorbed into other branches, as I had known them for 20 years at that time. This year I stopped paying for a PO Box, because it got 15 letters other than junk in the year, so went electronic for most and changed to physical address for the rest, and the 6 weeks it takes to send a letter, literally in the same post office building, is beyond a joke. not the staff, who are for the front mostly overwhelmed but still give good service, but the back end and poor top management who are totally out of touch with reality, like most SOE top management are. more concerned with hitting a metric that they made up than actual service.
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  21. Yes, and you can collect them from 6 to 9 months later on, if they do not get stolen. Seeing as they lose half of the parcels already, this will just mean more will be lost.
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  22. With all his bodyguards, who keep him safe.
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  23. Suspended on full pay for the next year or five, till they quietly resign and all charges vanish. Disciplinary process is "naughty, do not get caught next time".
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  24. Because it is not illegal to have one, but a lion or other indigenous animal is illegal to have.
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  25. Out on bail tomorrow, or the docket got lost. Or they forgot to lock the door on the van.
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  26. Ex ministers all get a state pension, though it is a lot higher than that for any other people. Not R2000 per month the SASSA pensioners are expected to survive on.
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  27. Every complaint those cameras are going to be "broken", or the video was not working.
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  28. Strong material, what about going after the suppliers who gave you inferior material in the first place, or was this another case of the tenderpreneur getting the cheap stuff, and selling like it was made from gold cloth. Even the Proudly SA clothing lines were all made in China.
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  29. Give them 10%, but you first retrench the top by 20%, one in 5, and then for all those below middle management retrench one in 10. Close all those positions and remove them, and next year you can do the same for the remaining who want an increase. Public sector has way too many top and middle managers who do literally nothing of value.
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  30. Sweep under the carpet, hope that something new comes up, and corruption as usual again.
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  31. Try your local shebeen, or failing that your local cop shop........
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  32.  @maximummax7  Yes there are certainly plenty of people selling, and you probably will find it easily on Fakebook as well.
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  33. Even before the floods the sewage was running in the streets, this was not only from the floods, but from long term neglect, and ignoring the problems. The floods were just another thing that came, because they have been so busy and ignoring the basic maintenance of things like storm water drains and such, that the floods showed were both blocked, neglected and broken. After all heavy rain is not exactly unknown in Durban, and is generally an expected thing to occur.
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  34. Tasnat, the company that runs buses where the majority run near empty, and where the schedule and timing can be described as "hopefully some time soon", along with it seems every bus they have has either major damage, or the engine covers are wide open while they drive.
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  35. Simplest method to stop this is to only use virtual cards for the transactions, which pretty much every bank offers today. Every online transaction I use a virtual card for that merchant, and only transfer the amount they are taking into it. Only ones that do not have that are those I have long term relations with, where they have proven they do not do this. Note this does not include Metro payments, those are not automatic, but only on invoice, as they mess up that online direct debit all too often. Never give real bank details, only a virtual card, which has all the attributes of a regular debit or credit card, except you can set a hard limit on it, stop it immediately it is used, and change the verification codes right from the banking app if need be.
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  36. Note he says people are protecting what they believe is theirs, but which really is regarded as not yet expropriated.
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  37. With banking world wide, the USA still believes in cheques, despite so many of them being fraudulent, but the banks do not care, as it still makes them money.
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  38. Along with the officers who let them walk for money.
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  39. Bolting the stable door, they should be looking at the scrap yards who buy the stolen stuff, and take them to the cleaners, though also the board members responsible for the stopping security should be told to pay back the salaries and benefits they got, for not doing any sort of effective job. Not that you see any copper or brass along the main lines, even those in stations, and even those right next to the security companies that rent the properties from Transnet. 100 plus guards 24/7/365, and they did not see the stuff being stolen literally outside the door Marshall?
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  40.  @sakabula1285  Christmas 2050 perhaps, or might be 2080.
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  41. He will pop up in 2 days or so, in the bays around the far side of the dam. Normal pattern for the dam is for the body to surface there, or in the far corner by the cliff. Divers looking are not going to find him easily, that water is regularly used by scuba instructors to train people in black water diving, as it is so turbid that even 5m down noon sun is almost invisible there. You dive by feel, and need a ultra strong torch to even see your diving gauges right in front of your face.
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  42. Easy, the test was probably not taken by the person whose name is there, and the test was done without them being present, with cash changing hands. Or the test was simply done by the RTI inspector, and the driving test was just filled out and passed, quick and simple.
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  43. I used to sit often out there, just inside the shark nets, and watch the big sharks swimming inside the nets. They do nothing to the sharks aside from killing every other thing that swim into them.
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  44. Probably he USA and UK, along with France, where the sale is allowed, and where sales have gone through the roof.
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  45. Only roughly 10 years after the recall was initiated in the rest of the world. Wonder how many people have been killed by this in this case.
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  46.  @truth-Hurts375  To the AWB and the countrie tannies it was extreme porn, no amount of stars or stripes could cover that there were women in there, wearing less than head to toe cover.
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  47. Taxi owners are averse to card payment, because then they cannot evade declaring income and paying tax on the money.
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  48. Only place doing this is vehicle licence, who work Saturday and Sunday now. Got my renewal this Saturday, after applying in February. Just get the eye test done at any optometrist, and bring that form and the money, plus a black pen, along with ID and old license.
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  49. Considering that alcohol is almost a pure calorie, yes you also gain a lot of weight. IIRC 2 beers is basically equal to a full meal calorie wise, and you normally eat a meal with it as well.
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  50. Very slippery slope that, soon it will be filtering everything, including the school itself, because it might have a bit of something that somebody somewhere finds offensive, so it gets filtered out. Better to actually be a parent, and teach your children, and be a little more involved with what they are doing, rather than simply put them in the corner and ignored. Used to occur before the widespread use of Internet when they got copies of those scandalous magazines, You, Scope, and those scandalous books that the library should ban, like Lady Chatterlies lover, Shakespeare, 1984, the entire encyclopedia, the Bible and Quran along with the Torah, because all of those have either had images, text, or thoughts, that somebody considered to be impure at some time. Ban them all, including all children's books, because some might be offensive. Then all adult books as well, because some are not suitable for children.
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  51. Museum is in some house, with some person now very happy with the money
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  52. Too dangerous, plus all those dangerous criminal surfers and authorised film crews on the beaches........
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  53. Will just have a lot of broken and stolen cameras after a month, with half of them turning up as used to spy on people and to take holiday video.
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  54. When it is their houses being looted......
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  55. Quicker and easier to use the banks that offer the service, and cheaper than the bribe as well. Plus only 2 hours, one the appointment to apply, and the other the collection. Was great to use my Durban bank branch to get it done, and they were running on time as well. 3 officials doing the job, very friendly, very nice to interact with as well, and great service. Plus the collection was fast, SMS and email to collect with a date and time frame as well.
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  56. Going to pull a Zuma and claim she is very very ill, with a bad case of allergy to orange overalls, and grey walls with bars.
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  57. Lots of areas have water issues, often for days at a time, and no real fixes done.
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  58. Hard to think of the people who voted them in when you are way too busy trying to get ahead in politics and getting a kickback for everything.
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  59. Public works should go to the auction and buy it, though likely it will be bought and converted into housing by a developer, who will want to make a profit, and not suck from the public teat. Please Wait Department could not do anything in a rush, even a building on fire takes them 10 meeting to agree on that it is burning.
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  60. Just do not buy Koo cans......
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  61. He will give a sick note....
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  62. We already have one........
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  63. Card machines under R500 they will happily do offline transactions, either tap or dip, or magstripe, all of them though will also request PIN entry, and simply store and forward later on. Over R500 sorry, online only. Pretty much all banks do this, they all know how a small glitch can drop the machine off line for a little while for one retailer or the other. Do not think though that many retailers actually know any more how to do telephone confirmation, which will pretty much always work so long as you can dial the call centre, and I really doubt if any stores, other than those small ones that have been around for 50 years, still actually have the Zip Zap card impression machines, and the slips that go with them either. Think those died out around 2000, though I have no doubt there are still some sitting on a shelf in some shops, with nobody there knowing how to actually use them.
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  64.  @gidondejong1802  It is Oracle, totally legal according to the weasels they have as lawyers. Ethical, honest, in the best interest of anybody but Oracle never. Remember this is the company that delights in suing it's own customers, from the smallest to the biggest.
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  65. Because the schools outsource IT, and they get the cheapest service possible. Then the teachers complain because they cannot get the porn so the filters are turned off. Blame the parent for not actually parenting, and not actually checking the things their children do online, as you also find a lot of online bullying of children, by other children.
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  66. Normally the last thing on the budget. you will find that most is never serviced, and often is stolen, especially in a public hospital where there is little to no controls in place.
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  67. Yes, and owned by a pretty big holding company as well, so not likely to be around by monday when the trademark infringement notice arrives.
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  68. Make by Schabir Shaik though.....
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  69. Bust policing a beach......
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  70.  @sandilentshangase621  the blue lights will be the target for old fridges and sofas thrown out from windows in Hillbrow, same for pretty much all inner city areas.
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  71. I see a lot of people without masks, going out to public places without a care. Not worth telling them to put on a mask, I just avoid them with a wide berth, because you cannot fix stupid. Banning alcohol and such will not fix stupid, they just will binge drink when out on those days, and will do the same at home as well.
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  72. What do you expect when they base security company performance on the kickback paid, not the job performed.
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  73.  @rockrabbit253  Staff found her, so where was the so called security, they only came when called.
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  74. If those with corruption are removed we will have no candidates available.
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  75. Likely they tried to get a comment, but none of the spokespeople would reply on camera, or even reply at all.
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  76. Fuel going up, VAT going up, taxes going up and bracket creep going up. Only ones getting an increase are the parlimentarians, as the cannot be expected to survive on only four million rand a year, plus benefits.
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  77. Banks really do not want your personal accounts, they want business accounts and loan accounts, which make them money. Loans they loan you money, but now you pay them, plus now they also have a loan that they can then use as collateral, and sell on, making the money back. Your interest is then all profit, which is why you see the first part is paying off interest alone, then the capital, so best to pay a little more each month and bring that capital amount down, as you either finish a few years early, or have very reduced payments near the end.
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  78. Pretty much every dealership that has EV sales has a charge point or three for them, and yes there is always security there, because cars do get broken into and stolen. However every EV also comes with a charge cable, and if you buy one you likely will have a garage, to put your million plus rand vehicle in, and a standard socket outlet there to plug it in. Overnight charge will work for most use, street side charge really is for you wanting to go long distance, more than the range, where you plug in for 30 minutes to 45 minutes to get to around 70% charge, go have a break, and then carry on for the next 400km of driving. People who buy an EV normally also only do 100km or less a day, mostly in city traffic, where you recover a lot of the energy in braking back to the battery. No idling engine, and AC will only slowly use charge as well.
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  79. Even if it is only 60% efficient, they should get it, as having 60% of them surviving is still a lot better than the current 100% of the susceptible dying. The extra prevention will be of benefit, even if it is mostly psychological, in showing that at least there is some protection above "hope you survive" for them. It at least is a good enough stop gap approach, and even if a better vaccine comes out there is no real problem with giving it as a second dose later on. One million doses for the health care workers at front line, administrators can come later on, as they do not in the most cases interact with patients, except in rare cases, will go a long way to making them feel appreciated.
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  80. The nickname of Sleepy Hollow does not give a clue?
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  81. Nobody wants that job anyway, he is the hatchet man being sent in to cut out the rot, and see if anything can be salvaged.
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  82. not available legally, but the informal market is booming, even if you are paying R500 for a quart, people will pay that. R1000 for a bottle of whiskey as well. Last time my neighbour cleared me out, you can't not help a old lady over 90 who has a glass of red every day for lunch, and has been doing so since she was a 5 year old child in the Old Country. Grumpy Italian women are not something you want to be near.
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  83. Yes, no way to legally own an AK47 in this country, and likely the 9mm guns used were all stolen or bought from the police, so all the guns are both illegal, ex military and police, and not stolen from legitimate gun owners.
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  84. Must have run out of bribe money to pay the police there to get amnesia...... Or they got caught with a pack of Enterprise.....
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  85. Dig down, put a pipe in before the meter and use that to fill the pool. Or put in the pipe, and connect to the house, so the meter does still run, but very slowly.
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  86. Just will make it go underground, and smuggle the stuff over the porous borders to other countries. Will just mean more theft, as they get less money, so will steal more to get the same money in. Just needs to have the police actually check, but first you have to get rid of the corrupt cops first, as they will take a bribe way too easily.
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  87. four legs good, two legs bad. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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  88.  @hookedupboer  The looters are willing to kill, so why not the people who actually are the owners?
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  89. Too bad the Never Done Correctly will never do this, even for the routes that are short enough that the bus could run the entire day on a charge.
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  90. Well of course, truck brakes are not meant to be applied for 20km down a hill, that is why you have an exhaust brake, jakes brakes, and a retarder, plus the sign at the top saying heavy vehicles must stop and engage low gear, so the engine can do all the braking against compression. Flew over the top at 100, and around 1km down the brakes get too hot, expand past that the drum actuator S cams will go to, and then no brakes. Cannot change gears down, because the gearbox in neutral cannot get the input shaft up to a high enough speed to engage the lower gear, and now it is a runaway. Saves 1 minute off the time to accident in total. Also due to roadworks arrestor beds are closed off, so back to how it was in 1970's, except there are 50 times as many trucks, and no more traffic police doing spot roadworthy checks there on the top of the hill, like they used to. They would check, and at a minimum you would get a fine for a blown bulb, unless you had spare bulbs and tools, and changed it there, when you would just get a warning.
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  91. Yes, and not like the equipment can be sold for anything, Axia systems are pretty much only used by broadcasters, and nobody will buy them when stolen, so they are useless. First time they are turned on and connected they call in to check for updates, so can easily be traced that way.
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