Changelog

The Soweto Marathon is off the 2026 calendar over unpaid prize money, and the Kota Festival moved venues to Rockville — both were still shown as routine in the research doc.

The Soweto Derby, the Kota Festival and FNB Stadium's confirmed concert dates, each with its venue and source. Also notes that the Soweto Marathon has been pulled from this year's calendar over unpaid prize money.

Nobody publishes what a taxi to town, a train ticket or a Bolt trip actually costs here, and the fares moved twice this year. Sign in, add what you paid, and the board shows the middle figure from recent reports. It needs a few reports per trip before it shows anything — one person's fare is not a price.

Pick your tariff, put in an amount, and see the units at Eskom's rates for 2026/27 — plus what they will run, from days of a fridge to hours of a bar heater. It also carries the 50 free units a registered household is entitled to each month, including Eskom's own statement that you do not have to buy anything to claim them, and lets you check a purchase you already made against the published rate.

Two neighbour boards — where the taps are dry and where the power is out, by township, with Johannesburg Water's and Eskom's real channels beside them. A contact router for the Eskom/Joburg Water/Pikitup/city runaround, including how to buy prepaid electricity safely. A getting-around guide covering the taxis, the Naledi train line, Rea Vaya and PUTCO after the 2026 fare increases. And live South African Weather Service warnings ahead of the Klipspruit flood season.

Ten research notes covering the Eskom prepaid-meter dispute and load reduction, water outages and tanker distrust, taxis, Rea Vaya and the restored Naledi train line, illegal dumping, and where residents get local information. This groundwork shapes which tools we build first.