PayPal South Africa just posted their fees on their Facebook page

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Ever paid something with PayPal and wondered how the random extra fee was calculated over and above the standard currency conversion? Well PayPal themselves just clarified it by posting their fee structure on their PayPal SA page on Facebook. Which is a bit of a strange thing to be doing at 1:42am on a Sunday morning. But ok, we’ll take it.

Soli Philander starts online radio station called The Taxi

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After Soli Philander’s unceremonious departure from Cape Talk (his full rhyming explanation is here), he popped up three weeks ago with a brand new slot – this time on his very own radio station called The Taxi. This was the name of his old afternoon show on Cape Talk but the concept of the station is anything but old. It’s all online. A bold move in the competitive radio space and one that deserves some support. 

Listen to the show/station at www.thetaxi.co.za

Sleeping around is sleeping around

Floyd Shivambu (ANC Youth League spokesperson) announced that Helen Zille (leader of the DA & premier of the Western Cape) had been sleeping around, and that meant that she’s been sleeping around, because sleeping around is sleeping around. It doesn’t involve sex. Or it might. Then again it may not. 702 DJ Redi Direko (now Redi Tlhabi) tried to find out more from Floyd, and this is what happened.

Auto and General’s ‘Dear Madiba’ banner ad

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Not sure what to make of this. On the face of it, we have a corporate company in South Africa extending good wishes to someone who is a hero in our society. But they paid for this banner to run on the sites it appears on. And they included their ‘extended’ logo here with a business description to gain some kind of commercial benefit from their non-commercial message. Yet, to their credit, the banner isn’t clickable.

So it’s nothing more than a get well soon card in banner form, with a logo, including a description of their business.

Smart? Tacky? Altruistic? You decide.