Category: Lifestyle
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What it costs Gauteng residents to get around
The amount spent by people living in the province varies widely, with respondents reporting spending anything between zero and R9,500 a month. The median spend is R500.
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Shifting travel habits: Gauteng residents are spending more
People in Gauteng are spending much more on transport than they did in 2017, according to a province-wide survey by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO).
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Mapping chess mastery: South Africa’s Jesse February shines as new African champion
South Africa’s Jesse February is the African women’s chess champion, winning gold at the 2024 African Individual Chess Championship. This is her second title, having first won in 2021. The 27-year-old from Gqeberha is South Africa’s top-ranking female player and has held the title Woman International Master (WIM) since 2016. Egyptian Shahenda Wafa, who came third…
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SA’s big e-sports winners
Twenty-five-year-old Ioannis Theodosiou is the top-earning South African e-sports player. His winnings to date amount to $196,451 (R3.7-million). Theodosiou, who goes by the player name JT, won most of his money by playing Counter-Strike Global Offensive. CS:GO is a first-person shooter game. Half of the South Africa’s top 10 highest-earning pro gamers also compete in the…
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Migration: Where South Africans are moving to
There were just more than 900,000 South Africans living abroad in 2020, with many choosing Australia and New Zealand as their new home.
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What Census 2022 tells us about migration in SA
About 1 in every 4 people living in Gauteng was born in another part of the country.
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Facebook stays a crowd favourite, while TikTok overtakes Instagram
South Africa’s social media scene: Facebook dominates, TikTok thrives and Threads takes on Twitter