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Andrew L
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6 reviews107 months ago
Buy from Sahara if you support state capture
<p>Buy from Sahara if you support state capture. That could be just about the only reason any sane person would do so.</p>
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108 months ago
Fake reviews
<p>Have a look at all the one-review wonders which post compliments for Open Web. All of them specially registered an account with Hellopeter to compliment this ISP. Riiiight.</p> <p> </p> <p>OpenWeb is at the least, an ethically unsound company. If you block the fake reviews out, you will see the multitude of 1 star posts from people who have encountered them. Do your homework and know who you are dealing with before signing up for anything. The MyBroadband forums are a good place to start.</p>
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113 months ago
Poor registration service at Parow campus
<p>I had to visit Unisa Parow today to register for a studies today as their website had trouble with my registration. As a longtime Unisa student, I know better than to expect much from their staff, but today just reminded me why Unisa has the reputation it does.</p> <p> </p> <p>I arrived at 08:15 this morning and took a seat on a chair in the area where the student advisors work. Chaos. No coherent queue and no effort by Unisa's many "Queue marshalls" to create order. Eventually a couple of students took charge and eventually organised the queue.</p> <p> </p> <p>When I took my seat, I had a queue of about 30 people ahead of me. Not too bad, you would think.</p> <p> </p> <p>Wrong. I eventually left just before 12:00. It took about three and a half hours for the four advisors to process 30 queries. The last five people ahead of me in the queue took more than an hour to help.</p> <p> </p> <p>Being busy is one thing, but I had a lot of time with nothing to do but sit and watch these advisors go about their business.</p> <p>One spent a large portion of the 3.5 hours that I was watching her reading the You magazine.</p> <p><br />Another had a perpetual flock of staff members around her, typically 4-6 people, with whom she joked and laughed for a while (about 15 minutes or so) between helping each student, meaning that much of the time there were really only three (or less) advisors helping people. These ladies and gents were casually walking around, sipping their coffee and looking like they were on holiday.</p> <p>Not like they were working for a short staffed and poorly organised university during its busiest time of the year.</p> <p> </p> <p>When I eventually reached the front of the queue I arrived in front of the more social advisor and her gaggle. "Student number!" she barks, after I describe my enquiry. After repeating myself three times, she starts typing at her keyboard for about 5 minutes in silence. She gives me a piece of paper, gets up and walks away without a word. I stand around in mild confusion, waiting for further direction. She looks over to me and says "You're registered". I try to thank her but shes already turned back around again.</p> <p> </p> <p>Come on Unisa, please sort out your people. Us students are paying so much money in the hope of making something more of ourselves, but all we get is disrespect and poor service. I want to believe in Unisa, you are what our country needs and the key to building a better future for everyone, but how can we have pride in an institution that acts like this.</p>
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114 months ago
Pizza getting cold while staff is chatting
<p>A few months ago I visited Debonairs Tyger Valley and was served by Patrick. I waited for my pizza for about 25 minutes before asking him about my order. Turns out my pizza had been standing on the shelf for most of the time I was waiting, he just forgot to tell me (or activate the remote notification gadget he gave me). OK, mistakes happen.</p> <p>Fast forward to this evening, which is my first visit after this previous incident. Store is quiet and no other customer in sight. Patrick comes strolling in from the back and takes my order. 15 minutes later, recalling my previous visit, I interrupt his chit-chat with the delivery guy and ask him about my order. He looks confused and checks the shelf, asking me what I ordered. Lo and behold, he picks up the pizza I saw him placing on the shelf 10 minutes ago and hands it to me. I ask him why he didn't let me know my order was ready (I was standing right by the counter throughout). Blank look.</p> <p>This guy needs to catch a wakeup. I'll steer clear until then.</p>
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127 months ago
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
So Shameel Joosub is at it again. This time he is calling for government regulation of \over the top"service providers such as WhatsApp in order to sustain the oligopoly his greedy company and fellow cartel members have over the local market.<br> <br> To spell it out: Vodacom wants government to somehow extort money out of companies like WhatsApp or otherwise make it more difficult for them to provide their services. They want to do this for no other reason that the treat of healthy competition.<br> <br> \""But we spent billions building our network. Why should WhatsApp be allowed to benefit from it?\"" says Shameel. The answer: Vodacom makes billions of Rands carrying data for services like these. Services demanded by their customers"
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131 months ago
Endless spam
Like clockwork, this guy surfaces at the start of every semester to try and sell you his services. I have lost count of how many times I've asked to be removed from his mailing list but he keep on sending his badly formatted and grammatically lacking emails to me.<br> <br> Apart from this incessant spamming, I can't help but wonder about the existence of some kind of corrupt relationship with someone at Unisa in order to access student details.<br> <br> It is also interesting to read some of the other Hellopeter complaints. It would appear that that there are more than a few people who have been parted with their money without this guy holding up his end of the deal... Let the buyer beware.
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