My apologies to both you and Star! I have not kept up with latest developments, I was concentrating on Northern Cyprus (Turkish control), they of course are not EU.ryanrich wrote:Why not? They're part of the EU... What are the other requirements? I thought that was it...lancelot wrote:You will not get an EU passport from Cyprus, however having a Cyprian passport is better than just having an SA one.
This is true, though my (possibly mistaken) impression from the emails quoted is that the first support guy made promises without checking with management first.ryanrich wrote:Backtracking on what they initially said is pretty annoying though...Stuart wrote:Loyalty is really not a big issue here. I guarantee you that no SP compensated customers for days of lost bandwidth during the Seacom outage. Afrihost acted in accordance with the well-known ADSL concept of "best effort."Prime wrote: And Its not their customers fault that they couldn't use their bandwidth. Sorry but I think the courteous thing to do would have been to roll it over. Roll it over for 3 days or come to a compromise and roll it over for 1 day.
Its the small things that make customers loyal.
lancelot wrote:My apologies to both you and Star! I have not kept up with latest developments, I was concentrating on Northern Cyprus (Turkish control), they of course are not EU.ryanrich wrote:Why not? They're part of the EU... What are the other requirements? I thought that was it...lancelot wrote:You will not get an EU passport from Cyprus, however having a Cyprian passport is better than just having an SA one.
Sorry about that.
Hmmm, great press we're getting overseas. I think they're overexagerating, but sadly, only a little bit...Herald sun wrote: AUSSIES heading to South Africa for the World Cup are in more danger of becoming a victim of violence than in Afghanistan.
A private security expert has warned Aussies could be putting themselves at risk by heading to the country, which has one of the highest rates of violent crime on the planet, The Herald Sun reports
It comes as the Government revealed that just a fraction of Australian travellers headed to the event next month had registered through the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The situation is likely to create huge difficulties when it comes to identifying or finding Aussie travellers when they get into trouble.
But Socceroo Harry Kewell said Australian football fans had nothing to worry about.
"Like anything, if you walk down the wrong street in any city you will probably find trouble,'' Kewell said.
"My family's coming. I feel safe, it's safe enough for my kids, so the more the merrier.''
More than 10,000 Australians are expected to fly to South Africa for the event. Just 1631 have logged their names with the Foreign Affairs' Smart Traveller registry.
Australian fans have been warned of a high risk of becoming victims of fraud, muggings and even kidnapping.
Expert Doug Nicholson said inexperienced travellers could be most at risk.
"South African metropolitan areas are a very dangerous place,'' he said. ``I would honestly say they would be at more risk there than somewhere like Kabul, which you have to realise has a very heavy foreign military presence.''
The Foreign Affairs Department said it had issued advice through its website to ensure travellers could make an informed decision.
"The Australian Government takes the safety of Australians travelling overseas very seriously,'' a DFAT spokeswoman said.
"Travellers should be aware there is a high crime rate in South Africa and they should pay close attention to their personal security at all times.''
where the ever-wily jamin_za lies in wait.. .jar of finest mayonnaise close at hand?jamin_za wrote:the backstreet of our CBD or the less reputable stretches of our beach-front...
except the italians...rustypup wrote:where the ever-wily jamin_za lies in wait.. .jar of finest mayonnaise close at hand?jamin_za wrote:the backstreet of our CBD or the less reputable stretches of our beach-front...
i think the europeans are going to be permanently scarred by our traffic...
so... it's true... some people lack the facility to learn from their mistakes...news24 wrote:Johannesburg - The Hawks arrested four people implicated in a 419 scam at the weekend after they allegedly held a US woman hostage for nearly a month, an official said on Monday.
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The gang started scamming her last year and fleeced $60 000 from her between April and July.
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She was told to come to South Africa in person to claim her prize and bring $2 000.
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The four people - three Nigerians and a South African woman - were arrested on Saturday.
No he is waiting for the return on the investmentjamin_za wrote: Her husband must be pissed she lost $60K of his money!
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well... that all seems perfectly reasonable...iol.coza wrote:They had apparently wanted to watch a gospel show on television, while David Makweya had wanted to watch the soccer on Sunday night.
Perfectly....rustypup wrote:well... that all seems perfectly reasonable...iol.coza wrote:They had apparently wanted to watch a gospel show on television, while David Makweya had wanted to watch the soccer on Sunday night.
Bail amounts seem perfectly reasonable as well.His wife, son and daughter were granted bail of R1 500 each
SourceSo close to escaping hellhole of Jo'burg
One way or other, the All Whites will be out of this hellhole in days, and we will be off with them.
To Durban, probably, or home, and quite honestly, preferably the latter in some ways.
Johannesburg is an eye-opener, in a way that makes you want to shut the eyes tight and dream of elsewhere.
This is the most dangerous dump I have ever been in.
Sepp Blatter and his superstar Fifa mates may have been right to bring the World Cup to Africa, but they will be enjoying a luxury ride.
Blatter hasn't had to wait outside Ellis Park in the dark, surrounded by people, police cars driving by, hoping the promised van turns up before violent robbers do.
The stories I have heard of life here are heartbreaking, tragic, awful.
We have met some wonderful people, without a doubt.
We have also met wonderful people with doubt, because you quickly learn never to trust.
One in our contingent has had his credit card skimmed, probably by the smiling, waving bloke at our only regular cafe.
And while trying to get money out of an ATM, a hand that came with a happy face suddenly grabbed the card, supposedly with the offer of help. Sure.
And don't step out of your compound at night alone. Don't even think about it.
Our van driver took us to a posh shopping mall he said was safe, except for the carpark.
This is a place where you look over your shoulder, without making eye contact.
As for the stories ... I don't know how people live here. They say they become immune.
The include a man whose wife was stabbed for a cellphone, had a friend shot and paralysed in her driveway and a mate taken on a carjack ride.
There's a motorway off-ramp that was once more like a shooting gallery for robbers. People are left for dead, or needing wheelchairs.
How is the World Cup coming across at home? It's all about the soccer, I suppose.
Not when you are here, though.
We have been through a magic ride with the All Whites in and around Jo'burg and, on leaving, it will be for the last time.
Subject: WARNING- Received 17th June 2010
Not sure if its true, worth keeping in mind.
On July 12 we will kill all the whites...' Afrikaners, black workers warned…
11 June 2010 - “Alex” writes: “My husband happened to be in one of the firearms shops at the East Rand, whose owner is a friend. While they were talking a black man walked into the shop and started blowing the vuvuzela really loudly. The shop owner told him to take the vuvuzela elsewhere or he'd stick it in a very uncomfortable place.
"The black man then turned on my husband and the shop owner in a tirade, saying that 'you'd better enjoy your shop for a few days more, because that shop is going to belong to me after 12 July 2010 because I am going to come and take it.'
"On July 12 we black people will be ready to mow down all you whites,' he reportedly said.
This man ‘s identity is known to the gunshop-owner: he regularly purchases firearm for Winnie Mandela's security staff and had just ordered 400 bulletproof vests through them.
“The man said that they were going to kill all 'your people's' children, women, old people and men, and that time they won't be fighting with knobkieries and pangas, they now are well-armed. We are going to come and fetch nice stuff from you whites,' he said.
Alex: “The shocked shop-owner still tried to laugh it off but he must have seen the angry look on my husband's face. The black man threatened my husband with the words ‘I will see you on 12 July or even before depending on how Bafana-Bafana (the South Bfrican football team, the name translates to ‘boys-boys’) is faring.' The man also added that when ‘they were finished killing the whites they would turn on the Chinese”. He also mentioned a black tribal whose people would also be attacked and murdered but my husband couldn't recall the tribe’s name afterwards because he'd become so angered.'
Alex: “The black man told my husband that he would 'shoot at people's legs'. My husband responded that he never did - he would shoot right between the eyes - and that he would not miss.’
“ After a sleepless night my husband went to visit his friend at the gunshop again. His friend confirmed that he’d asked a black woman who works there to find out more about this threat, and she confirmed that the black workers are constantly being told on the trains between home and work that ‘the workers will have to start helping to kill them on July 12 when they will start killing all the white people. And if the black workers didn't help they would be killed too. “
The shop owner said ‘the intelligence service was well-aware of the threats to start killing all the whites on July 12.”
(article by Adriana Stuijt a.j.stuijt@knid.nlThe sources of this article are reliable and known to me. They greatly fear victimisation and refuse to be identified.)
Google "Adriana Stuijt". She's more right wing than anything that's left of the AWB, known to embroider upon the truth to fit her agenda and very much into sensationalistic (is there such a word?) journalism.SykomantiS wrote:Did the rounds in an email. Hogwash
Will see if I can find the mail.
Edit: found it
This guy should be shotryanrich wrote:A Kiwi reporters view on Joburg and the World Cup...
SourceSo close to escaping hellhole of Jo'burg
One way or other, the All Whites will be out of this hellhole in days, and we will be off with them.
To Durban, probably, or home, and quite honestly, preferably the latter in some ways.
Johannesburg is an eye-opener, in a way that makes you want to shut the eyes tight and dream of elsewhere.
This is the most dangerous dump I have ever been in.
Sepp Blatter and his superstar Fifa mates may have been right to bring the World Cup to Africa, but they will be enjoying a luxury ride.
Blatter hasn't had to wait outside Ellis Park in the dark, surrounded by people, police cars driving by, hoping the promised van turns up before violent robbers do.
The stories I have heard of life here are heartbreaking, tragic, awful.
We have met some wonderful people, without a doubt.
We have also met wonderful people with doubt, because you quickly learn never to trust.
One in our contingent has had his credit card skimmed, probably by the smiling, waving bloke at our only regular cafe.
And while trying to get money out of an ATM, a hand that came with a happy face suddenly grabbed the card, supposedly with the offer of help. Sure.
And don't step out of your compound at night alone. Don't even think about it.
Our van driver took us to a posh shopping mall he said was safe, except for the carpark.
This is a place where you look over your shoulder, without making eye contact.
As for the stories ... I don't know how people live here. They say they become immune.
The include a man whose wife was stabbed for a cellphone, had a friend shot and paralysed in her driveway and a mate taken on a carjack ride.
There's a motorway off-ramp that was once more like a shooting gallery for robbers. People are left for dead, or needing wheelchairs.
How is the World Cup coming across at home? It's all about the soccer, I suppose.
Not when you are here, though.
We have been through a magic ride with the All Whites in and around Jo'burg and, on leaving, it will be for the last time.
, i mean seriously the only news, most of the time that makes the headlines, is negative news, and i rate the SWC situation has been handled quite well, considering crime etc...except now for that 1 American tourist who got gunned down 
ryanrich wrote:Well compared to what he's used to JHB city centre probably does quite resemble a hell hole...
Just googled it now, Cape Town is actually rated as a more dangerous city than Joburg 
