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2024-11-25
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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).

2024-09-11
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Max Park’s 3.13-second world record underscores his dominance in speedcubing

American ‘speedcuber’ Max Park holds five world records in Rubik’s cube solving events. The 22-year-old also holds four average speed world records, which are based on five consecutive attempts with three counting towards the average.

In June 2023, Park set a new world record for solving the 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube, completing it in 3.13 seconds. This broke the previous record of 3.47 seconds, set by Yusheng Du in 2018.

Speedcubers demonstrate exceptional speed and accuracy in manipulating the cube’s 43-quintillion possible configurations. Park won the World Cube Association World Championship in 2017 and 2023. He is one of only two speedcubers ever to win the title twice – the other being Australian Feliks Zemdegs. 

Note: This chart was first published on 29 June 2023. Park has since lost the world record for average of five 3x3x3 solves with one hand (8.62 seconds), which he lost to Sean Patrick Villanueva from the Phillippines. Park was the first person to achieve a sub-10 second one-handed average in competition, with an average of 9.99 seconds on 13 January 2018.

2024-09-09
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South African drivers are warming to hybrid EVs

South Africans are showing a preference for traditional hybrid vehicles over fully electric or plug-in hybrids. More than 6,000 traditional hybrid vehicles, which combine a internal combustion engine with a battery that charges while driving, were sold in 2023. This is 10 times the number sold in 2021.

Fully electric and plug-in hybrids remain less popular, with only 1,147 sold in same period. This is up from 384 in 2021.

According to AutoTraderSA, the most popular hybrid cars available in South Africa are the Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid, the Suzuki Grand Vitara Hybrid, and the Honda Fit HEV.

The local market is far from developed by global standards. Fewer than 1% of vehicle sales in South Africa in 2023 were fully electric or plug-in hybrids (excluding traditional hybrids), while the global average was 18%.

2024-07-12
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2024-05-17
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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 same game.

2024-04-15
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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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