Episode 23 Trend It Up
Watch Level Up with Ziyaad, Nabihah, and Isa Plaatjes on Radio Islam International MW 1548
Episode 23: Trend It Up
Sunday 15th February 2026 / 26th Sha'ban 1447AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
Listen to Level Up with Ziyaad, Nabihah, and Isa Plaatjes on Radio Islam International MW 1548
Episode 23: Trend It Up
Sunday 15th February 2026 / 26th Sha'ban 1447AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
Transcript
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To dear listeners, it's just past 200 p.m. here in South Africa and it's our favorite day of the week, Yomul Aad.
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It's the 26th day of Shaan, 1447 AH, which corresponds to Sunday the 15th of February, 2026.
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I'm Zad Plachies and with me are my co-hosts Nabia and Issa Plachis.
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Welcome to Level Up where we listen, learn, and grow inshallah with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's guidance and we break down the week's news and talk
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about what really matters to young Muslims today.
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Our WhatsApp line is open. The number is 0727861548.
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You can call in on 0185472 or DM us on iilz.com. That's Lov
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Zoom M. We on Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tik Tok, Threads, as well as Upscrolled.
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Yes. So, can you believe that it's just a few days until Ramadan, inshallah?
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Maybe. a month filled with baraka for all. Inshallah.
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Remember to look for the moon on the 18th of Feb. Inshallah.
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Inshallah. Uh there might be a lunar eclipse in Saudi. So they might not be able to see the moon on I think it's
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Tuesday night. They're supposed to be looking for it.
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Tuesday is the 17th. We're going to be looking on the 18th night, isn't it? I mean on the 18th of Feb, the Wednesday night. Inshallah.
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A. So let the man kickers go out and and do what they do best. Inshallah.
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Inshallah. May Allah guide them. And yeah.
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A mean. Um so yeah, we'll I think we we'll get more into our Ramadan program next week. Inshallah. Inshallah.
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And if our listeners have anything that they'd like to share, I know I have a few messages that I'm hoping to read next week. Inshallah. So if our
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listeners have any more tips that they'd like to share be um you are more than welcome to send them through to us inshallah. Inshallah.
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So this week was uh I think a packed week in terms of news.
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Um I don't know if we'll be able to get through everything um in today's show.
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Maybe we'll have to move some things to next week inshallah. But let's just let's just talk about what what's happened in the recent in the last few
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days in fact. Um so we know on Friday was um world uh radio day which is quite a big uh thing since we're on radio.
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We're talking right here on Radio Islam International. And it's been celebrated for I think about um
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uh 15 years now if I'm not mistaken. And um and radio still going strong. Alhamdulillah.
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Yes. A lot of people thought that, you know, um, TV or even YouTube, you know, video streaming would kill that. But I
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noticed that a lot of people like to listen to the radio while they're busy doing. We are all busy with something.
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You know, we have things that need to be done. And um, people tend to like to hear other people talk. So they'll like
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to have radio on or even audio podcasts on. But I think it's it's more the um
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you know because there's so much content video content um that you can just scroll through and just uh you know
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consume. There's so much of it especially like with these apps like Tik Tok and and YouTube and Instagram. Um
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it's it's almost like a calming effect to just listen to somebody's voice, you know, talking. I'm not saying my voice,
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but you know, like and and just imagine what's happening in the studio or um let them paint a picture for you of of
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whatever they're telling you. I like that you said that because basically that still shows that we can use our imagination
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and that's a very very good thing that you know um I think when we were growing up a lot of the elders then were so
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worried that um we're we're going to lose our imagination and creativity.
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Yes. And I I think that's that's why radio has stuck around for so long and and like these audio podcasts and stuff
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has gained quite quite a lot of um traction in the last few years.
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I'd like to ask our younger um presenter here. How do you feel when you listen to a radio? Um do you imagine things in your mind?
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Sometimes I like um imagine like stuff and then then I think of other people
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listening to that same thing I'm listening to like in a car or in their room or in the kitchen.
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Oh, so you you think of the other people that might be listening to it. But what about when you listen to someone talk on the radio? Are you pretending or imagining to know what they look like?
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Like you you're creating a picture in your mind. M. Oh, okay.
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He means So, I think it's it's more because he's on the other side of of it most of the time, you know, like he's the one
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delivering the message on the radio. So, that's why he's thinking of the listeners who are listening like he said
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in the radio, at home, in the car, uh you know that that that type of thing.
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So I think yeah inshallah may Allah grant the radio and broadcasting uh
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baraka and um us all guide us all so that we can continue what we're doing and and this
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entire radio station radio Islam international and the industry inshallah so that happened on Friday and then we
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had during the week we had uh the state of the nation address which I think is a lot to unpack. I'm not sure if we're going to be able to get through that
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today, but I mean you've you've seen what's happening in the news as well and people talking about different things
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and we know our very own Molana Ravit um spoke to Gayton McKenzie and you've seen that video as well. We even shared it on
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on our platform iOS as well with Toyota which you were blessed to go to.
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Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah. So they had a few reveals and they told us you know um basically spoke about how the motor industry is
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changing um in with the disruption of the the the Chinese uh manufacturers coming to South
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Africa. We know um that the uh was this cherry have have taken over Nissen's plant here in South Africa and you know
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like what are the effects? We've seen that VW themselves might be closing down as well and that might be quite a lot of
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jobs and how do we navigate through this especially like a legacy brand like Toyota. But again, I think it's a lot to unpack.
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Um there's a lot of stuff on our website as well. There's a lot of stuff on Radio Islam International. um you know other
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podcasts, other uh articles you know for you to listen to, for you to read and and to basically inform yourself of you
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know what is happening in around the world in a mean and then um we've all been following the um Roodin saga as well.
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that as well has a lot to unpack because um I believe that there's an open letter that you shared on our website as well
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to say that you know um children and and sports should not be apolitical but again that is you know something that we
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need to like and and and I mean Roodin had to give a a letter of apology but where was you
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know like it it shouldn't be from one side um you know but like I said let's not get into that. Today we we're talking
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all about the latest news and trends in the tech industry. So today is a more tech focused um episode or program. Um
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and let's start with some of the top stories. Well, we spoke about quite a lot of the top stories this week, but let's we also didn't manage to speak about the
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the water crisis. And uh, alhamdulillah, it has been raining sporadically the past few days, but we need more of a beneficial rain inshallah.
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Inshallah. I mean, yes, I know there's a lot of reservoirs that have been depleted. And I, you know, I I I don't
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know how to say this without sounding um, rude or crude. Uh, it's a reservoir,
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you know, like it's so big. How do you let it go to empty? like completely empty. It's not a 5 L bottle or one
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liter bottle. It's not even your petrol tank, you know, like some of us, you know, try and and and let our petrol uh uh fuel tank go to empty.
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Yeah. Some you But but it's a reservoir and I mean it's it's affecting millions of people. Yes. Exactly.
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And what has been done, you know, are they pumping more water in? I know that we're obviously going through in inverted commas a drought at the moment
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because we've had like severely hot days around the country and we haven't had uh much rain but I mean there are uh dams
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that you know are there for for these crisis and stuff um I mean spending 10
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million rand to to get water these water tanks out um you could use that money to
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basically repair the the damaged reservoirs or you know have some something else. But I mean like I said we're not getting into it again. We just
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make dua that Allah sends beneficial rain like Nabia said so that there is a a sustainable solution inshallah.
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But Issa I believe you're going to take over the news today.
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Yes. So I'll do some of the top stories this week.
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So first look at upcoming rail extension upgraded cow train.
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This upgraded cow train is or will be called the rapid rail. So before I tell
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you about this uh upgraded cow train, let me just tell you some of the key points that was in this article. So um
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has published a mockup video showcasing its planned training upgrades and rail extensions.
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It explains the ongoing process for the establishment of the extended railway including private land expropriation.
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The province is also planning to build a cow cow
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train extension into Limpopo. Okay. So basically this upgraded cow train as it
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will be now called the rapid rail and there will be a cow train extension into
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Limpopo and probably probably other provinces. And they actually showed in this article of where it will be, but it
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said in February 2025, the provincial government of Khao selected nine areas
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to be connected in the extension alongside existing areas including new stations in Little Falls, Jabulani in
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Suetto, Rudaport, Cosmo City, Lanceria, the cradle of humankind, fourways,
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Sunning Hill, Oliv Bosch and the smart city station.
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The municipalities that the rapid rail will go on or over is the city of
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Johannesburg, the city of Dashwan, the city of Kureni and the Westand district municipality.
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Okay. Uh let me tell you a little bit of this uh rapid rail design. So the design
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of the rapid rail train uh also looks different to the car trains themselves
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including a new black and gold color scheme.
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So that's what I can tell you about this upgraded cow train called the rapid rail.
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Okay. Okay. So, that's nice to know about this rapid rail that there's going to be new stations and then an extension as well. Alhamdulillah. That's good. And
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in in addition to our current train, this one is going to Limpopo. Um, and it's a pretty color. What did you say?
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Black and gold. Black and uh gold color scheme. Alhamdulillah.
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Yeah. So, I even saw they even had like uh pictures in this article of the the
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color and it actually looked like looked nice and the way Yeah. Okay.
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So, it looks like a like a gold like stripe kind of thing and a black Oh, wow. body. Okay.
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And it says rapid rail.
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Okay. So uh this next article I'll tell you about is new way to pay at checkers.
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It says in this article, Shopright says that with the new smart way to pay has
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received positive customer feedback on the smart trolley, it is testing at two
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Cape Town stores which is checkers hyper brackenfell and checkers costia with a potential wider roll out on the cards.
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Okay. So, basically with this smart trolley that they call it the checkers express trolley with this uh smart
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trolley has some cool features but I didn't see it because it's in Cape Town obviously.
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Um so getting back to the story. So the smart trolley has uh a tablet screen on
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it. So um with this tablet screen you uh that's so
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it's by like the you know where you hold the trolley part the the screen is there
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and then there's a scanning part uh on underneath the holding um part that you
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push the trolley. Okay. So, with this tablet screen, you put your extra savings card on the scanner
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um at the bottom. Uh and whatever groceries you put in the trolley, it will say how much it costs and the total
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amount. And say you need to go to the bakery and you don't know where it is.
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It's like a new checker store that just like opened or something. And with this
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trolley where it um it will tell you where to go on obviously on the screen.
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That means if you have to rush and buy groceries, it will make your shopping
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more quicker and faster. So you don't have to waste your time uh looking
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through the aisles to see, okay, there's the cake mix or like something like
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that. And then um you just and also with this smart trolley, you won't have to
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need to pay at all. You just pay when you go out on and and you pay on this uh
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tablet screen. Wow, this sounds interesting. And I know Zad, you have a lot that you wanted to say about both these articles. I know I have some as
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well. I know our listeners have some input. Um, so if you'd like to join in the conversation, our WhatsApp line is
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I think before we get into uh what Issa was talking about the the new trends, I
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just wanted to touch on the two articles that Issa spoke about before the break.
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So the one was the rapid rail and I've been saying it for the longest time that we need some sort of transport even if it's from Johannesburg to Durban. I
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think it's not only going to, you know, like help us in terms of a better public transport, but also, I mean, in terms of
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like accidents and stuff along the highway, it's can reduce that. Um, we also can look at, you know, like businesses along the way. So, it's going
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to boost the economy as well. Um, and I think going from Johannesburg to Limpopo, I know the the tall roads are
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ridiculously expensive. So, so you know, that is a plus as well.
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Yes. So I I actually have met quite a lot of people recently who are originally from Limpopoa and I feel like
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that would be more of like a safer route to travel. I don't know if it would be affordable enough for them to take but I
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would I do believe that it might be a more safer way to travel and um yeah if it can extend amongst to the other
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provinces inshallah and like you said inshallah if there's businesses along the way so that creates employment as well in
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I think in terms of affordability we should look at something like if you have a South African ID you you know almost have like a subsidized rate or you know just tax the foreigners more.
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Yes definely tourists.
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No that's that's definitely a good point. The fact is um I know we look at a lot of you know tourist attractions
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and um what's good for our for tourism but think about the people who are living here in the country already. you
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know us locals make things affordable and accessible. One province comes to mind with that. Yes.
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Um so no definitely make things more affordable for locals. We are here constantly and if you have a more a
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better rate for our locals you you'll have year round um business inshallah.
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Inshallah. A mean. And then with regards to the Checkers, I was going to say uh Checkers Little Shop, but the Checkers Express Trolley, I think the whole
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concept was obviously born because of the 6060 um movement. Uh you know, you've we've seen the people in the in the stores,
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they're almost doing like a trolley dash and they want to get through everything quickly. So, I think that's that's obviously where it came from. And I've
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seen overseas as well, it's been working. um this cashless uh type setup and I know there's going
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to be obviously a lot of backlash from the unions but like we said in the previous episode you know uh there were
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jobs that we didn't have 20 years ago that we have now and in the next 20 years there'll be jobs that we don't even think of having now. So, um I'm
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sure that there must be some sort of mitigation plan in terms of how they move around the staff and like like I've just said now there's staff that would
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be dedicated to obviously checker 60. So people who want to still shop at home they have that option. So I'm sure that
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that that would be looked at. Um clearly those people also you know the trolley need to be what is it called the technicians
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you know those need to be um I mean that's a job yeah there'll be something else so they'll they'll be technicians
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or engineers or whatever they'd have to look cuz I mean it's not going to be a normal uh trolley you know your with with your wonky wheels and stuff it's
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going to be obviously I'm assuming they're going to roll it out in like isa said in Brackenfell and Constantia so
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obviously the the um upper class suburbs. Um and it's not, you know,
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going to be in the Shopright stores, but also um because it's going to have tech like like your iPad and a scanner and
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what you know, those type of things, it's it's going to need maintenance as well, like Nabia said. So yeah, I think
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Nabia, when you originally saw the article, you were saying to Issa something about, you know, um it's going to make us lazy.
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Yes. No, definitely. He said, um what did you say, Isa? That it tells us how much it costs.
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Yeah. Like the how much the groceries cost, what's the total amount and um stuff like that.
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Okay. So basically in you know my old brain my um back in them days brain was um we would train our brain to to to
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calculate the things in our mind and you know we were told that um there's going to be calculators coming around so we
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don't need to do that but to be honest we have to constantly you know as we need to exercise our mind our body we
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need to exercise our mind as well we need to train our brain so we need to do little things like that you know I calculate um this this is I mean Issa
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and I do that when we go well all three of us do that when we go into the store.
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I know the other day Issa took a long time to calculate something and that just showed me that I think his reliance on a calculator
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he he's relying more on a calculator than his brain which worried me a bit. I understand that it's more for you know
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those who want to dash in to like you say a trolley dash. So, you know, they they want to get their own groceries.
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They don't want it to be delivered to them, right? Maybe um maybe there's a certain type of fruit, you know, they like to check that this is how it looks
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and when it gets delivered, you can't really have an option with that. So, they want to do their own groceries, but they're in a rush and they need to do it
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quickly. So, I suppose in that way, but I still believe that it's going to make our brains lazy and we need to try and
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um you know, train it. I think our brains are already lazy like we spoke about brain rot as well. So um I think
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this is this is just part of the process.
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But how crazy is it that you will have to pay only when you leave you know and not at a toll. Um
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Issa you were saying something. Um so also in this article I read that uh with
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a smart trolley you won't even miss any like a customer won't even miss any
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promotions. Uh they won't it will uh you won't forget your groceries. So you
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won't forget that there's mangoes left in the trolley.
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Okay. Basically, you can't cook the system if you have, you know, like something left in the trolley and you forget to put it to the conveyor belt by
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the till to be rung up. You know, you you it will already be rung up. That's basically what you're saying.
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Yeah. So, it automatically scans it once it goes into the the trolley. I'm assuming that's how it works. And then it's probably linked to your checker
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6060 app. So, you would um you know, it would have all your details anyway. So
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as soon as you pass the check out point, it would basically send a notification to your phone. The money's gone already.
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So I just hope uh that they, you know, like sort out their problems because I know there's been quite a few times
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where actually where we've gone and they've had like problems with their weodes and you know this and that.
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And no, he mentioned something about the promotion. So that's when when I was thinking but sometimes you know when you ring up a promotion at the till it
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doesn't even come um it doesn't get calculated you know so I hope that is also sorted out because
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um well they'll there'll have to be a customer service consultant or manager uh on duty anyway. It's not going to be
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like there's going to be nobody in the store and it's just you and just walking out or walking into the store and just buying whatever. But while we're on the
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subject of AI, um recently, well, a few days ago, uh it's quite a funny story.
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There was a motorist that was speeding and they were caught by a law enforcement officer
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and they obviously asked for the driver's license. So the the motorist gave the driver's license and then sped
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off, right? Um obviously not realizing or remembering that they that the law enforcement officer had their driver's
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license. And I must commend the police on this uh great job that they did uh by
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using AI. They actually tracked down this motorist who um I think it was somewhere down in KZN in the south coast
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or something. They took the car and they went into one of these fancy um estates
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and um they obviously tracked the camera, the number plates, everything.
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And this person actually removed their number plates and then got someone else to uh take the car out of the estate,
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you know, like obviously to hide the car.
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Um so they eventually caught up with the with the motorist. they arrested um him and yeah so I thought that was quite
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quite good that you know to show that AI can be used for good you know and that was actually the purpose of it
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of AI yeah um but you know we've seen recently and I think it's quite a big trend if um
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you have been on social media is this caricature um trend where they're using chat GPT.
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So if you don't know, um I didn't know actually, but you upload a photo on chat
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GPT of yourself or your family and you ask chat GPT and you obviously
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put in a prompt where it says these are my preferences, these are my likes, this is the job that I do. Um and then you
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ask Chachi PT to create a caricature out of that. Right now when we originally
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did it uh it was early stages. I didn't even know it was going to become a trend and I just like to try these things out
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and what I did was I thought that the information that was already available on the internet because we are in the
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med in media. So there's pictures of us, there's videos of us, there's articles of us, you know, there's there's lots of information about us already on uh the web.
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And I assumed that all I needed to say was based on the information that Chat
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GPT or Gemini or Grock have of us, they must generate this caricature. Mhm. So you didn't upload a photo of us?
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No. And cuz I didn't know that was a requirement.
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And obviously it it was disappointing at
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Yes. I I I know you were like but this is not everything that we are and this is not really what we are and even in the looks you were like I don't look like that.
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No. And also like if you look at you know people that have had caricatures
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made on chat GPT and what hours came out on chat GPT is nothing. I mean, they
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basically just took our names and um you know, like made any caricature because I
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think Issa was playing soccer and he doesn't even play soccer.
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Um yeah, it just Yeah. So, we put that out. It's on our social media. You'll see we'll say who did it best. Gemini
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obviously we use a lot. So, we don't I don't use chat GPT or Grock that often. So, Grock was the worst out of the lot.
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Um but Jim and I obviously we interact quite a bit and they you and Issa inter interact quite a bit.
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Yeah. So they had a bit of information and I mean you said kind of looked like he did but not really but they did have
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a Radio Islam International logo at the background there. We were in the studio so they kind of got it right. Um but not
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like I'm saying everybody else's was almost perfect. Yes.
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because they also very
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recently found out someone did of me um for my birthday. It was very cute and was a very nice thing but now you
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realize that you know you can upload a photo of someone else to make a caricature out of them.
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Yeah. Well, this is the scary part is that they always say that if you are not um buying a product or a service, you
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are the product or service. And basically uh because this is free um it's actually you know generating
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information about you. So we all worry about the poppy act and you know people getting our information and spam calling us and emailing us and putting us on
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this marketing list. But you've basically given your away your information for free. And not only your information, some very personal
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information. So it's not just like your name and your phone number like people normally get. This is like about your family, the way you look, your
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preferences, where you work, what you do, um, what you like, your pets, all these things. All this information is
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uploaded. And because chat GBT is open source, we don't know who has access to this information. And that's the scary part.
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Yes. So, like you said, when something is free, you are actually the product. Yes.
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Um, and you know, a lot of people say, "Oh, but we're just doing this for fun." But it's it's not really for fun. It's
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not these apps weren't built for entertainment.
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They were built to collect data. And Yeah. Well, you see the thing is the
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more um these uh machines learn the better they supposed to be getting. So
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like like we said in in our previous episode, I think that the information that's been uploaded is making the
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machines dumber. But um you know like now they're getting this personal information and they're gathering and
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they know that you know and and and it's based on your location as well. So they can say they can basically run a census
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and they can say how many Muslim people are living in this area and how many of those um have pets and how many of them
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work at a certain place and you know they already gathering that information and who do they sell that information to
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that that's the that's the thing so just be careful when you um uploading photos
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I know you know even in terms of our uh accountab.com just has a logo. So, we
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don't have a picture of ourselves on our account. Obviously, there is pictures or videos of us for the content that we're doing at the events that we attend or
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whatever it is, but there are like really like private accounts. There's um faceless accounts and people are are now
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sharing these caricatures and you can actually see their face because you know that that's that's because they've uploaded these pictures. Yes, you've
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mentioned that also that um you know accounts where you thought that it was only previously I mean not previously but run by maybe
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say just a female and then there's a caricature of a male coming. So that also
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um vice versa or you know that is quite scary because now um you
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know all of that information is out there which is actually good you know for for a person to know okay who's running these accounts.
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Yeah. So um I think that you know like in terms of that also you you're quite surprised of you know who is actually
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running the accounts when you see these caricatures which like you said it helps but at the end of the day we're not just creating a cartoon or a caricature.
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We're actually creating a profile. These um trends are actually engineered. They tested they done for a reason and we
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know about this profiling. We know what they can do with this information. And we've seen it in Kaza in Palestine um what they can do with the information.
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We've seen what they do with the people's information that are on the flotilla that's going to um to Gaza. So
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imagine what they're doing with your information where you just sitting at home and you think, "Oh, it's a fun game and it's a fun trend." So just be aware.
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May Allah guide us in whatever we do, especially when we on social media, especially our children. Um, and those youth that are listening, be careful
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when you upload information. Um, when you upload pictures, be careful who you interact with on social media, inshallah.
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Um, but another trend that's uh been going around, I don't know if anybody's seen it. It's mainly on Tik Tok, but
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it's the airport theory. And I think this is just the craziest thing ever.
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Um, I know in 2016 they said it was uh the year of um the dumb challenges, but I think this year the year of the dumb
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trends. Basically, it's people who are challenging themselves to get onto the airplane within 15 minutes. So, they're
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going at like the last minute. They're boarding the plane at the last minute.
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And there's people videoing themselves or I don't know like using GoPros or whatever and going through like airport
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security and rushing and running and uh trying to get onto the plane at the last minute just before the gates close. Um there's some people that are like
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sipping coffees and watching their plane depart because they they've missed it. That's so reckless.
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Yeah. and and and so expensive because I mean surely you're going to um waste your time and then not manage to get there on time.
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Yeah. Well, now the the um airports have obviously put in strictter regulations and they're trying to, you know, like
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minimize this this whole thing that's happening. So again uh be aware because
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you might not be doing the trend but you might be um you know like in the vicinity of this trend happening and
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obviously like you say it's reckless behavior people jumping over other people pushing through to get through airport security and stuff and it's just
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um it's just crazy. Okay, but shifting our focus now to something um a little bit lighter and good news for those who
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are listening on DSTV audio at the moment. There's some good news from DSTV. So, if you didn't know, Canal Plus
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have taken over um DSTV and there's been a lot of changes and one of the changes is they're now splitting your bill. So
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if you for example on premium it's 800 rand bill um you can split it between two people in the household. So each of you pay 400 rand. So not one person is
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paying 800 rand. Um obviously it's supposed to uh be for the consumer as in
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you know we are like for example if I'm paying 800 rand then Nabia can pay 400 rand I can pay 400 rand cuz we're in the
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same household and we're watching DSTV together.
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But it's more the fact that they're building a database again. So instead of having and they instead of reporting
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they have a,000 subscribers, they now can report that they have 2,000 subscribers because they're splitting the bill because you have to put that
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information in to say that you are another subscriber to DSTV. They can also obviously upsell you. So they can
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say instead of you splitting your bill, you can now have your own bill or you know like so but it's it's a good thing
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in terms of uh you know one person is not burdened that was their whole thing
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not burdened with uh settling one bill uh and obviously they're trying to make sure that the bill is paid but it and
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they know that like Netflix people are sharing DSTV accounts so there's sometimes you're not even living in the same household but you're using someone's DSTV account in another
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household, so they're trying to get that information.
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Um, so yeah, but just again, um, be careful of who you give your information to. I mean, it's DSTV, so if you are
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using the service, you should trust them. While we're on the subject of, uh, DSTV and the TV, uh, recently um, there
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was a proposal put through. So, we know that for the last few years, uh, actually quite a while, the TV license
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has been a problem and people haven't been paying the TV license. In fact, there's only 16% of South Africans that
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pay the TV license and um, I think there's a simple solution and I won't go into too much detail about it. The
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article is on our website. But uh basically what I wanted to say was that the easiest way to collect TV license
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instead of making us the consumer always have to pay is go after the the large corporations you know the Samsungs the
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TCL's the highends people who are selling the TVs just add or or take a percentage from their sales. It's a 8
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billion rand industry. uh they're selling I mean there's TVs from 2,000 rand up to 300,000 rand sure so if they
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just take 1% of that 8 billion rand that they make in sales a year I mean there's enough money to fund SABC there well
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partly you know and um instead of trying to get 20 what is it 50 rand or 265 rand
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annually from 16% of South Africans um yeah so yeah go on to my website.com.
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I've explained the whole process and how it works and how I think I haven't put in a proposal but I mean if SABC want to
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use it they they can just contact me so I can also get my share of that 8 billion
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I mean but before we go I think what's very important um recently well the last
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few days we've been sent there's a message going around if you haven't seen it on social media just send us a DM on Instagram and we and send you the
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information. It's um basically home affairs is going into a supposedly a more digital environment
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and one of the requirements is that we have a digital death certificate before
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someone can be buried and obviously it's going to make it difficult for us as Muslims to obtain this because we know what happens at home affairs and how
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long they take. We hope inshallah that it will improve. Um but for example if
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someone passes away at night and to you know obviously we know that it's a process to have them declared deceased
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and then obviously uh you know if they have to have um go to the morttery we
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know the process but now to still wait for a home affairs officer to issue a
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digital certificate it might take So say for example it's a Thursday night and then we have to wait for Friday and they're offline then it means it's the
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whole weekend. So um there is numerous uh burial services that have sent
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messages around. You need to fill in the form. we need to send an email um to the
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Department of Home Affairs uh to make sure that this bill is not passed or if
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it is passed that we are excluded from it or there special circumstances
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because of our burial rights. Right? So, like I said, if you haven't received the message, the deadline is today, the 15th
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of February. Um just DM us on Instagram at iOS. I L O V E Z A C O M and we will
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send that information to you. So please uh it's a humble appeal to all those who are listening and to send it to your friends and family as well. It's very
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important. It's um that it needs to be filled in today inshallah. Inshah.
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Yes. And with that it's um I L O V E Z A O M. And um
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to our dear listeners for joining us this lovely Sunday afternoon. Please join us next Sunday inshallah right here
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on radio Islam International from 2:00 p.m. to 300 p.m. from myself Nabiha from Isa and from Zad. We wish you a lovely
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Sunday and enjoy the rest of your week and Ramadan to all inshallah. Amen.
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