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Mom - wife - daughter - sister - aunt... Family...workerbee ❤

[SABC News Radio @SABCNews_Radio]

[TALKING POINT] South Africa's moment of truth has arrived. This morning, Bafana Bafana scored first winning 1 nil against South Korea.

What are your reflections and hopes for Bafana Bafana as we progress to the knockout stage?
#SABCNews #FirstTakeSA

[eNCA @eNCA]

Bafana Bafana beat South Korea 1-0 to reach World Cup knockout rounds

https://t.co/JtRT4d2CWk

[Udo Carelse @udocarelsesa]

Kudos to referee Facundo Tello. He is letting a game of football happen before his eyes. 🇿🇦 vs 🇰🇷 still goalless. Same same 🇲🇽 vs 🇨🇿 #BafanaBafana

[Proudly South African @ProudlySA]

♥️🇿🇦♥️🇿🇦♥️🇿🇦♥️🇿🇦♥️🇿🇦♥️🇿🇦♥️🇿🇦♥️🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️

#LovedHereMadeHere #BafanaPride

[SuperSport Football ⚽️ @SSFootball]

𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀 🇿🇦🏆

Bafana Bafana are through to the #FIFAWorldCup knockouts for the first time 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 🤩🚨

#DStvFIFAWorldCup2026 | #EverythingCanWait

[John Steenhuisen MP @jsteenhuisen]

Viva Bafana Bafana, Viva! 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[The Connec☠️ @ConnecReal]

YEEEEEESSS

We made it out the group stage 😭😭😭

They told us we were the worst team in World Cup history. They prayed for our downfall but God had other plans for this great nation South Africa 🇿🇦
#BafanaBafana   
#BafanaPride
#WorldCup

Ngl im in tears

[Bafana Bafana @BafanaBafana]

Its all over in Monterey as Bafana Bafana defeat South Korea 1-0 to book their place in the next round of the FIFA World Cup

#BafanaPride #BafanaBafana #FIFAWorldCup

[iDiski Times @iDiskiTimes]

𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗥𝗦 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

BAFANA BAFANA HAVE QUALIFIED FOR THE KNOCKOUT STAGES OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.

NO DNA, JUST RSA!!!

@ToyotaSA | #BafanaPride

[🎀Gretchy🎀 @Gretchy_Ndou]

I’ve seen enough. There’s nothing special about this Korea team. Bafana 🇿🇦 just need to be brave and keep pressing. The goal is coming.

[Busisiwe Mavuso @BusiMavuso2]

The illicit economy is killing jobs. https://t.co/1KiyIsqVZJ

[Sowetan @Sowetan1981]

BAT to import cigarettes as illegal trade dominates 75% of market.https://t.co/HwFrEh1DYz

[Business Day @BDliveSA]

BAT to import cigarettes as illegal trade dominates 75% of market https://t.co/P65aou2Qhh

[Times LIVE @TimesLIVE]

British American Tobacco is closing its only manufacturing plant in South Africa in a move that will shed thousands of jobs, with the group overwhelmed by the proliferation of illegal cigarettes. https://t.co/ztlb4eBo5d

[JC Louw @jc_louw]

More Job Losses...if only we had law and order

British American Tobacco is closing its only manufacturing plant in South Africa in a move that will shed thousands of jobs.

(via Bloomberg & @TimesLIVE )
#BAT #BTI $BAT $JSEBTI

[Business Explainer @businessXplain]

ILLEGAL CIGARETTES FORCE BAT CLOSURE

British American Tobacco will close its only manufacturing plant in South Africa by the end of 2026, resulting in the loss of around 1,500 jobs.

The Heidelberg facility in Gauteng currently operates at just 35 percent capacity due to illegal cigarettes, which now hold 75% of the market.

This marks the end of over 70 years of local cigarette production.

The company will continue serving the market through imports while keeping its Johannesburg Stock Exchange listing.

A CLOSER LOOK

1/ The Heidelberg plant is the eighth-largest factory in BAT’s global network.

2/ BAT has been present in South Africa since 1904 through the United Tobacco Company.

3/ BAT South Africa’s sales volumes dropped 40 percent between 2020 and 2025.

4/ The illicit trade costs the Treasury about R28-billion yearly in lost revenue.

5/ A company-commissioned study found nearly 80% of retailers sell illegal cigarettes, triple the level three years earlier.

6/ The Rupert family sold its remaining BAT stake worth over £1.2-billion in 2025, ending an 80-year link.

7/ BAT South Africa has proposed a minimum retail price of R37 per pack to fight undercutting by illicit products.

Full story - https://t.co/rSOBmufrhs

[Tunde @callmetunde_]

@indykaila Dropping the only guy who actually scores?

[The Stat Guy @The_Stat_Guy_10]

One Bad Season was all it took for people to Turn On Him🇪🇬🤔

Salah at LFC in numbers
◉ 224 goals + 97 assists = 321 G/A
◉ 47 G/A in 24/25 season alone
◉ 1 PL title, 1 UCL, 1 FA Cup
◉ 3 Golden Boots, 2 Playmaker Awards
◉ Most UCL goals by a PL player ever (46)

He’s not asking for protection, he’s earned it

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

You see, all these Lamborghinis were bought with money stolen from the South African government by this tenderpreneur called Hangwani Maumela.
They cost millions upon millions of rands, money that was meant to serve the public in South Africa. They have been taken away by the South African authorities.

The tragedy is that if this man had not been caught, he would have walked away unpunished, as so many before him have done. And then, as always, the political elites would find convenient scapegoats to explain their failure to deliver public services.
In Zimbabwe, they blame sanctions for hospitals without medicine. In South Africa, they blame foreigners.

Yet the real problem lies with those same political elites who plunder public funds meant to stock hospitals, repair infrastructure creating employment, and buy medical equipment.

At least in South Africa, the situation has not yet reached the depths of decay that Zimbabwe has fallen into. But this pathological obsession among the politically connected of stealing from the sick, the poor, and the defenceless to buy luxury cars and mansions, remains one of Africa’s greatest tragedies. I have never understood it, and I probably never will.

To the ordinary citizen, conditioned to believe that foreigners or sanctions are the cause of their suffering, it may take time to grasp the truth, that the real enemy is not external, but internal; a corrupt political class presiding over a rotten system, stealing from the very people they are meant to protect.

Why would a sane man want to have four Lamborghinis of the same colour at the expense of your own black people who are dying because they can’t get the treatment they require. This man stole from Tembisa Hospital, a medical facility in South Africa that serves the poorest of the poor so that he could flaunt these cars!

They steal public funds to buy luxury cars while white people build institutions and companies. When they outperform us, we complain and hide behind excuses of racism, colonialism, and all sorts of empty rhetoric peddled by our political elites where they don’t exist or fit.

This is the root of our crisis; a moral and intellectual failure disguised as revolutionary. There is nothing revolutionary about stealing from your own people. The tragedy is that those in power would rather plunder public resources than invest in hospitals, schools, and industries that uplift their own people.

Until we confront this sickness of greed and denial, Africa will continue to glorify political crooks masquerading as leaders while blaming the world for problems of its own making.

A sane human being would never use their hard-earned money to buy four Lamborghinis of the same colour. This alone reveals the alarming level of intellect and emotional emptiness we are dealing with; a complete bankruptcy of values and purpose.
It is not just vanity; it is a psychological disorder born out of corruption and moral decay, where stolen wealth is flaunted as a badge of success while hospitals collapse, children go hungry, and public services crumble.

[AA @AbbottA1]

@POTUS South Africa has a massive crime issue, black couloured and indian people are also killed daily... this genocide against with farmers exaggerated. Your claims are as unsuntiatiate...