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Actuary. Urbanist with Our Future Cities @ofuturecities. Meet me in the water, or on the mountains.

Cape Town
Joined December 2007
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
16 hours
Could be cool for Cape Town and it's messy bus system, and clear areas that could benefit from trams. It's doable.
@Sam_Dumitriu
Sam Dumitriu
2 years
In the last 25 years, France has built 21 tramways. Avignon, Besanรงon, and Caen have tramways despite having fewer than 150,000 residents. In population terms, it is the equivalent of Lincoln, Winchester, and Carlisle all having tram systems.
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
26 days
I really dislike the new Apple Watch Workout app. It feels clunky and slow to get to the sport I want. Making many mistakes. Why change something that worked well?
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@N1mzo
Nimz
28 days
Hi @FNBSA Ad-hoc eBucks rule changes starting Nov 2025 are unacceptable. Long-time Level 5 clients will now be dropped to Level 3. Those locked into 24-month device contracts are hit even harder. Total bait and switch. Please reconsider, or many will be forced to leave. #eBucks
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
30 days
Shame it finally looks like @FNBSA @Rb__sa has hit the nail in the head, and will cause me to stop banking with them and move to Discovery or Investec. The eBucks program changes are highly complex and negative for loyal banking clients.
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
1 month
France has a well functioning Digital ID (with driver's and other information available) Application. I'm so jealous about it. And now learning about the Brits being totally against an ID Number system is so odd.
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
1 month
I didn't know that the UK doesn't have an Identity Card/Identity Number system in place. Sounds like such a straight-forward common thing to have (as we do in South Africa and many African countries). Now the Brits are rejecting a Digital ID:
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petition.parliament.uk
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
1 month
Eruptions?
@RashiqFataar
Rashiq Fataar
1 month
People must really like decline. This is not a political ideology. The logic remains the same: fix the un-sexy things un-seen things (pipes etc.) consistently over a long period (20+ years) and you see benefits. Don't do this for 30 years and you see explosion(s).
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
1 month
๐Ÿ’ช
@FranceCapeTown
France in Cape Town
1 month
๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Behind the scenes of the Consulate! ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท The Consul General of France in Cape Town, @BelSophie, details our missions: protection of the French citizens, administrative support and representation of France in Cape Town and Southern Africa. ๐Ÿ“Œ Discover or daily missions ๐Ÿ‘‡
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
1 month
๐Ÿ going very well I see.
@spectatorindex
The Spectator Index
1 month
Youth unemployment ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa: 62.2% ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain: 23.5% ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China: 18.9% ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy: 18.7% ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France: 18.5% ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey: 15% ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada: 14.5% ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom: 11.6% ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States: 10.5% ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia: 9.7% ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Saudi Arabia: 9.6% ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands: 8.6% ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany: 6.3% ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
2 months
Really depressed to read this, but I noticed something is not good with the palm trees in Mexico City: dying & sick. The article expalins that they are all dying due to a disease (fungus being easoly spread) and heatstress ๐Ÿ˜ญ https://t.co/VTasTHxDzL
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
2 months
Lol
@TheStalwart
Joe Weisenthal
2 months
Albania has appointed an AI-generated government minister who will avoid getting corrupted.
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
2 months
It's been 8 years since I was last in Mexico. A lot has happened since then - to me. But excited to see what has happened in this wonderful country over the next 5 weeks. I'm really ashamed how I've lost my Spanish ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ™ˆ it's been replaced by French.
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@HannoLustig
Hanno Lustig
2 months
Italy --and a few other Eurozone countries-- needs its own Bayrou to explain to Italians how government debt crushes the next generations.
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
2 months
I know we have 'Protected Tree Species' ( https://t.co/FSFEt1INvU) & 'Champion Trees', but there are other valuable, historical, and important trees that have stood for decades that need protection.
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saforestryonline.co.za
List of Protected South African Tree Species under the National Forest Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998)
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
2 months
I would think that a tree, at least older than 100 years, deserves some protection. How would we get something like this into law @diontgeorge @alexlansdowne ?
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
2 months
South Africa is so concerned to protect old/heritage buildings (sometimes really to the detriment to healthy development & livability) by automatically protecting buildings older than 60 years. However, no such law exists for trees. ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒณ Crazy
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
2 months
I will stand up for a tree that will live longer than the people proposing to cut it down.
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
2 months
There's nothing worse to me than people wanting to cut down trees for nonsensical 'human' reasons. "it's ugly" "it makes parking difficult" "it messes my car". And that in 2025 people are so selfish to not consider a tree has been there longer than them.
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@OSlOlSO
Rouen Smit
3 months
Crazy satisfying.
@interesting_aIl
Interesting As Fuck
3 months
Slicing a square into an equilateral triangle
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@JohannBiermann1
Johann Biermann ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
3 months
This would scare the sh*t out of me if I had a gov related pension. How many will one day retire just to hear that the money has already been used? Ghost contract: No building, but govt pensions agency paid R270m for lavish refurb
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news24.com
The Government Pensions Administration Agency, which administers the pension assets of government employees, has paid millions in two further irregular contracts for the refurbishment of offices in a...
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