Useful stuff online
What's the weather forecast? What's the time in Tokyo? How much is that in euros? How far is that in miles? What's the postal code for Middelburg? Which Middelburg? Check out our rag bag of useful online odds and ends.
- Phone services
- Postal services
- What's the time in London, Tokyo ... ?
- Currency converters
- Loan & savings calculators
- Conversion calculators
- Traffic fines online
- Companies that queue for you
- The White Pages online - telephone number listings for residential Telkom subscribers for all of South Africa, searchable by name and region.
- The Electronic Yellow Pages - Telkom's searchable online directory of businesses, services and products nationwide.
- Apply to have your Telkom listing updated electronically (click the box "click for amendments")
- Telkom online services
- Telkom phone number changes
- Track & trace - Online facility for tracing missing parcels and letters (click "track & trace")
- Online postal code finder (click "postal codes")
- Telkom's online time difference calculator has the answer.
Calculate how much you can borrow, what your repayments will be, how much you can save by paying extra repayments. Calculate a lease, calculate your interest on a savings plan, calculate your compound interest earnings from a deposit.
- Calculators Online loan calculators
- Business Report loan calculator
- Business Times finance calculator
- Standard Bank finance calculators
- Nedbank finance calculators
- First National Bank finance calculators
- Mortgage SA home loan calculator
Struggling with different measures of length/ distance, weight, volume, temperature? Calculators Online's conversion calculators will sort things out for you. (If you're getting in deep, they've also got a scientific calculator.)
Traffic fines online
Where and how to pay your traffic fines; paying your traffic fines online; viewing photos taken by speed and traffic light cameras; finding more info on traffic fines ... Web sites offering these and similar services include the following:
- Payfine.co.za Residents of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Swellendam and Mosselbay can use this service to pay their traffic fines.
- Speedtraps.co.za has information on traffic regulations and fines, speedtrap locations and details, vehicle hijacking risk areas, vehicle safety hints, navigation aids and more.
Tired of queuing up to renew your passport or vehicle licence, get your vehicle through roadworthy and registered, apply for police clearance or change of ownership, or pay your traffic fines? Need a new ID book? A copy of a birth certificate? A marriage licence?
Companies that will do all the necessary legwork for you - for a fee, of course - include the following:
Article last updated: May 2007SouthAfrica.info reporter
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