Friday, July 25, 2025

Facebook Opens Office In Johannesburg

Facebook is coming to town and they have some pretty grand plans. Here’s hoping Eskom doesn’t plunge them into darkness and leave millions with nothing to do.

Gone Are The Days Of Watery Scrambled Eggs Hotel Breakfast

Surviving as a high quality business in a high-cost area is a challenge. When rents increase, cuts have to be made and the legend of the bad hotel scrambled eggs is reinvented, in the same bland watery fashion time and time again – until now.

Spotted On The M1, Johannesburg – Garbage Truck Quality

The “dirtbin truck people” certainly do have a sense of humour. I have no doubt this beauty was thrown in the bin after a bachelor party and the garbage disposal peeps fouynd it, blew it up and *ahem* mounted it to their truck. Quality – sent in by Divan. Click ‘continue reading’ to enlarge.

Johannesburg Traffic Lights Stripped For Unlimited Phone Calls

This is sort of cool and sort of awful. Jozi thieves have stripped about 400 ‘high-tech traffic lights’ of their sim cards, modems and GPS systems, using the sim cards to make unlimited free phone calls. It will cost about R8,8 million to replace these fancy, legitimately robot-like traffic lights. Regular GPS-free traffic lights are unaffected.