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Johannesburg & The World.
Joined December 2018
She Mastered.
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Now this I can behind, the multiplier effect of this tax w.r.t its's effect on the cost of goods relative to how much it generates and it's intended application of those funds just is not necessary.
SA LONG-TERM PLAN IS TO REMOVE GASOLINE LEVIES FINANCE MINISTER ENOCH GODONGWANA (ON 702)
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You will run yourself into an early grave being everyone’s go-to person.
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Unemployed doctors, defunct SANDF, dilapidating water infrastructure, under resourced border management, more private security guards then police officers, and yet we are still pursuing budget surpluses.
PetroSA Mossgas requires R5.8 bn restore its 18 000 barrels per day (bpd) A further R8.5bn to increase to 46 000 bpd. An important hedge against global supply shocks. MTBPS 2026 projects R140bn of primary budget surplus this year. Our Zombies in Parly are shameless.
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And their economic growth is also higher than ours despite us being an "emerging market".
Learning that in America they buy their house mortgage at 3% interest rate😳, while us in SA with the highest unemployment rate, we buy them at 10,75.% 😭
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From a unit economics perspective, MKP’s donors got such great ROI in terms of funding to votes ratio. The DA is one of the highest on the cost curve with BOSA and Rise being higher but understandable due to their place in the business cycle.
IEC: Political Party Funding Declarations, 2021-2027 Q1 (Total≈R1.13b) Donors - DA/ANC/IFP/ActionSA; Fynbos Group (crypto)≈R223m Oppenheimers (mines)≈R115m Moshals (gambling)≈R96m Slacks(Oppenheimers)≈R67m MKP/ATM: Funded mostly by People #GovZAUpdates #MadlangaCommission
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Closer to my dreams. 🤍
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I found out only now that Moses Mabhida was based in Mozambique and deeply tied to the regional liberation movement, Mozambican President Samora Machel honored Moses Mabhida with a state funeral 💟
President Samora Machel and First Lady Graça Machel exchanging pleasantries with Oliver Tambo at Moses Mabhida's funeral in Maputo in March 1986. Machel was a great ally of the liberation movement. 7 months later that year he was gone. 📸: ANC Archives
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The investors must be extremely concerned. This action is really going to FDI - the citizens should find a better outlet for their grievances.
Massive protests in France against the high cost of living and the deterioration of public services.
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We'll be told that economic growth is a local government competency when in reality one of biggest issues with our little economic growth is that it lacks localisation and disproportionately benefits the large urban centres and leaves our rural towns + provinces behind.
Why is lack of economic growth not an election issue, but immigration is? Are we being defocused?
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South Africa could only dream, our factories are probably applying for banking licenses.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia's "Made in Ethiopia" initiative revived 1,115 factories and created 1.58 million jobs between 2021 and 2025, driving import-substitution production to $5.96 billion. The Ministry of Industry announced the next phase will focus on expanding exports, building new capacity, and modernizing services.
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So so proud of you my friend!
Parents: Put that phone down, it won’t take you anywhere. Me in Spain 🇪🇸 with NIVEA Men because of my phone:
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read and support african literary magazines. read @lolwe_ read @sarabamag read @doeklitmag read @iselemagazine read @kalaharireview read @podapodasl read @omenanamag and many others out there doing the work!
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Less than 10% of South African matriculants got 50% or higher in mathematics since 2008. A low number of people passing maths means an even lower number of capable maths teachers being produced. Give your kids all the support you can afford.
I’m hoping and I say HOPE because there’s really no confirming with kids… I hope I don’t have to do Kumon and the likes as they get older. It seems like a norm these days. We never had all that extra stuff and we passed. Now every child needs it. How come? Ay ay.
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Guess you could say bahamba ngeNyawo eJozini 🫣
Mind you, these are twins and that's their Dad
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This austerity thinking is how we’re going to end up with dilapidated cultural institutions and no museums one day. Addressing issues of unemployment and underdevelopment can co-exist with creating a strong arts, culture and tourism sector.
Hot take but hosting f1 should be the least of South Africa’s priorities right now
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Re tlo phala ke badidi because every time we want to do anything discretionary we'll be told about better priorities 👐
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Cairo Mathebula retweeted
I strongly encourage women and girls to stay intellectually curious and become women who are impossible to shame into silence.
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I'm shocked at how Smoking made a comeback through vapes, the agenda against smoking was so strong growing up - I never thought we were gonna be a smoking generation.
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You can if you get off your phone. I wish I was joking
No, you cannot walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is nonsense. Free yourself from it.
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