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“We have to change our relationship with water and we have to start asking the uncomfortable questions; should we all be having a swimming pool in our yard, that’s probably not the way to go,” said Ferial Adam, Chairperson of the People’s Water Forum. TCG
Southern Suburbs Community Forum retweeted
❄️🧣⛄️👢🧤 FIRST DAY of METEOROLOGICAL WINTER IN 🇿🇦!
Meteorological winter:
🌡🔻Based on the coldest months of the year
📅 Start: 1 June
🏁 End: 31 August
Astronomical winter:
🌍Based on position of the earth
📅 Start: 21 June
🏁 End: 22 September
Southern Suburbs Community Forum retweeted
#Eskom
#KRNUpdate
Are you still experiencing challenges with loading your tokens? Please go to Alfred (alfred.eskom.co.za/chatroom/) and update your details. Customers are requested to wait for 12-24 hours to receive their Key Change Tokens via SMS. We urge customers not to call the Eskom Contact Centre or visit the Eskom Hubs to update their details, as Alfred, the Eskom Chatbot, has you covered for this. It is quick and easy with Alfred.
#EskomDistribution
Southern Suburbs Community Forum retweeted
SPEED KILLS!!!
105x motorists arrested for speeding by #JMPD High Speed Unit officers in the @CityofJoburgZA from the 20th-27th Oct 2024.
The highest was a motorist caught driving at a speed of 157km/h on an 80km zone.
The suspects are detained at different Police stations.
Southern Suburbs Community Forum retweeted
Cabinet rules to end captive breeding of lions and rhinos
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Southern Suburbs Community Forum retweeted
Did you know that the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, had a cat as their mayor for 20 years. Stubbs, was an American cat who was mayor from July 1997 until his death in July 2017. Rumour has hit, Stubbs never put a paw wrong during his time in office. #funfacts #cats #history
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Over centuries, Robben Island (South Africa) was used as a prison, a leper colony, a military base & more. Its most famous prisoner, in the modern era, was Nelson Mandela. If the walls could speak, oh what stories they would tell! #History
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The Māori Haka was a customary way to welcome visiting tribes & also served to invigorate warriors going into battle. These days it’s a sign of respect & often performed at major events. Haka varies by tribal region, telling the story of significant events in a tribe’s #history
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The McDonalds Quarter Pounder faced competition, in the 80’s, from a company called A&W. They launched a 1/3 Pounder. But math was their downfall. Americans thought 1/3 was less than 1/4 and they didn’t see value in paying the same money 💰, for less #burger 🍔
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An airport in Japan is sinking. The Kansai International Airport, in Osaka Bay, took 10,000 workers & 10 million man-hours to build at a cost of $20billion. It may soon be under water
#airports
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A shark 🦈 can detect one part of blood 💉, in 100 million parts of water. But it won’t necessarily attack & kill you, this is more likely to happen in a Black Friday shopping 🛒 rush by a fellow shopper.
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The largest desert & coldest continent, in the world, is the Antarctica desert. It’s 5,5mil sq miles of frozen desert with the least amount of rain on the planet. In 1983 it recorded a temp of -89,3°C. It’s also the home of the Aurora Australis (The Southern Lights).
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Pharaoh Ramses II required a passport to fly to France, for maintenance on his corpse. France requires every person, living or dead to fly with a valid passport, Egypt had to issue a passport, 3,000 years after his death. The DOB reads 1303 B.C. & the issue date Sept. 3, 1974.
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There is a light bulb, in a fire station 🚒 in the USA, known as the Centennial Light. It is the world’s oldest light bulb. It’s been burning, continuously since 1901, only switched off for short periods, due to it being moved. Proving that things were eventually made to break💡
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Did you know that the word “gorilla” is derived from a Greek word meaning, “A tribe of hairy women.” The word “guerrilla” comes from the Spanish for “little war,” used to describe Spain's 1808 uprising against Napoleon's troops.
Southern Suburbs Community Forum retweeted
The chance of you dying on the way to get lottery tickets is actually greater than your chance of winning.
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Mario Puzo, author of the Godfather books, adapted them for the movies, & won an Oscar, even though he never wrote a screenplay before. He then decided to read up on screenplays. The first chapter read. Study the Godfather, it’s the best screenplay written. He threw the book away
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Why is 1 Jan celebrated? After coming to power, Roman dictator Julius Caesar made 1 January the start of the year by changing the calendar to honour Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, whose two faces allowed him to look forward into the future as well as backwards into the past
