The_African_Griot 🇳🇦

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The_African_Griot 🇳🇦 @AdrianMataa

about 4 years ago

Focus on getting rich in things that money can't buy.

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Princess A

@cessadelove1

about 13 hours ago

What you've been praying for is about to happen for you. You've had many lessons and been patient a long time. You've remained strong through many trials and challenges. Nothing broke you. You're still standing strong by the grace of God. Now is the time to start receiving your blessings and miracle.

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LEAF Africa

@leafafricaorg

22 days ago

Africa produces most of the world's cocoa, yet captures only a fraction of its value. Join experts from investment, cocoa processing, agribusiness, and trade as they examine how the continent can move beyond exporting raw beans to building globally competitive value chainsAfrica produces most of the world's cocoa, yet captures only a fraction of its value. Join experts from investment, cocoa processing, agribusiness, and trade as they examine how the continent can move beyond exporting raw beans to building globally competitive value chainsAfrica produces most of the world's cocoa, yet captures only a fraction of its value. Join experts from investment, cocoa processing, agribusiness, and trade as they examine how the continent can move beyond exporting raw beans to building globally competitive value chainsAfrica produces most of the world's cocoa, yet captures only a fraction of its value. Join experts from investment, cocoa processing, agribusiness, and trade as they examine how the continent can move beyond exporting raw beans to building globally competitive value chainsAfrica produces most of the world's cocoa, yet captures only a fraction of its value. Join experts from investment, cocoa processing, agribusiness, and trade as they examine how the continent can move beyond exporting raw beans to building globally competitive value chains.

$leafafricaorg's tweet photo. Africa produces most of the world's cocoa, yet captures only a fraction of its value. Join experts from investment, cocoa processing, agribusiness, and trade as they examine how the continent can move beyond exporting raw beans to building globally competitive value chains.$

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Kalenga

@Hamnjela

19 days ago

How to buy Gondwana shares Not many people know you can own a piece of @GondwanaLodges , the Namibian hospitality group. Their shares are not on the main exchange, they trade over the counter, meaning buyers and sellers are matched directly. Here is how it works. The process is handled by PSG Wealth Management. You open an account with them at [email protected], sending your ID, proof of residence, proof of bank account, and proof of tax registration. Once set up, you place your order through PSG, either at the going price or a price you set. Now the part most people want to know, the cost. It is refreshingly low. You pay a 0.5% administration fee, plus a small stamp duty of N$2 per N$1,000 when buying. So buying N$10,000 of shares costs you about N$70, and selling the same amount costs about N$50, since the stamp duty only applies when you buy. One thing to understand. Because these shares trade over the counter and not on a live market, the price moves slowly and is set by negotiation. Gondwana has traded around N$10 recently and pays a dividend that keeps growing, so much of the value here comes from that steady, rising dividend rather than a price that jumps around daily. This is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice

Hamnjela's tweet photo. How to buy Gondwana shares
Not many people know you can own a piece of @GondwanaLodges , the Namibian hospitality group. Their shares are not on the main exchange, they trade over the counter, meaning buyers and sellers are matched directly. Here is how it works.

The process is handled by PSG Wealth Management. You open an account with them at wealth@psg.com.na, sending your ID, proof of residence, proof of bank account, and proof of tax registration. Once set up, you place your order through PSG, either at the going price or a price you set.

Now the part most people want to know, the cost. It is refreshingly low. You pay a 0.5% administration fee, plus a small stamp duty of N$2 per N$1,000 when buying. So buying N$10,000 of shares costs you about N$70, and selling the same amount costs about N$50, since the stamp duty only applies when you buy.

One thing to understand. Because these shares trade over the counter and not on a live market, the price moves slowly and is set by negotiation. Gondwana has traded around N$10 recently and pays a dividend that keeps growing, so much of the value here comes from that steady, rising dividend rather than a price that jumps around daily.

This is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice

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The_African_Griot 🇳🇦 @AdrianMataa

28 days ago

There's a reason God only gives you the vision. So stop trying to explain it to people and stop trying to be understood. He will place the right people in your life to help you execute it when the time is right.

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Martel Metellus

@MartelMetellus

2 months ago

Imposter syndrome is a rite of passage to any massive mission you have. You will always feel like you are “not good enough” for any industry you enter in the beginning. You will always compare yourself to the best in that space and see how far away you are from reaching their level. You break out of it by detaching yourself from outcomes, status and your current identity. Focus completely on the work that you are putting in everyday that maps to being at the top of the industry. As you build your competency bank and actually DO shit, you will normalize the new reality of playing at the highest level. If you don’t, you will always feel out of place.

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Toby

@TomolaGroup

2 months ago

If you’re investing monthly, don’t try to time the market. Pick your amount. Buy the same day every month, rain or shine. When prices are low, you get more. When high, you get less. Over years, it averages out in your favour. Boring beats clever.

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Tolulope Michael

@im_tolumichael

2 months ago

I read a lot. Business books, psychology books, leadership books, biographies, books on wealth creation and books on human behavior. Most are interesting. A few are useful. And a very small number permanently change the way you think. These are some of the books that did that for me 👇🏾

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Jobs with Aramide

@AramideOyekunle

2 months ago

Certifications you can finish in under 3Months that employers actually recognise: 1. Google Data Analytics - free, 3 months 2. Google Digital Marketing - free, 3 months 3. AWS Cloud Practitioner - $300, 6 weeks 4. Meta Social Media - free, 2 months 5. CompTIA IT Fundamentals - $130, 4 weeks 6. HubSpot Content Marketing - free, 2 weeks 7. Microsoft Power BI - free, 6 weeks 8. Coursera Project Management - free, 2 months All available online.

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Wale Banks 📊

@iamwalebanks

2 months ago

There’s no single way to invest successfully. Common investing strategies: • Value Investing – buy undervalued stocks • Growth Investing – buy fast-growing companies • Dividend Investing – focus on income • Index Investing – own the market • Quality Investing – buy great businesses Choose the strategy that fits your goals and temperament.

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EasyEquities

@EasyEquities

2 months ago

💸 Dividends This Week 💸 🇿🇦 ZAR Account 🇿🇦 ▪️ Sygnia Limited • R1.22 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ Fairvest Limited (FTA) • R0.71 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ Fairvest Limited (FTB) • R0.25 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ Telkom SA SOC Limited • R2.70 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ PPC Limited • R0.30 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ Oceana Group Limited • R1.10 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ Quantum Foods Holdings Limited • R0.22 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ Reunert Limited • R0.90 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ enX Group Limited • R1.92 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 🇺🇸 USD Account 🇺🇸 ▪️ Canadian Natural Resources Limited • C$0.62 • Last trading date – 22 June 2026 • Payment date – 07 July 2026 ▪️ Super Group (SGHC) Limited • $0.05 • Last trading date – 22 June 2026 • Payment date – 30 June 2026 ▪️ Gladstone Investment Corporation • $0.08 • Last trading date – 22 June 2026 • Payment date – 30 June 2026 ▪️ STMicroelectronics NV • $0.09 • Last trading date – 22 June 2026 • Payment date – 30 June 2026 ▪️ Gladstone Land Corp • $0.04 • Last trading date – 22 June 2026 • Payment date – 30 June 2026 ▪️ Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc • $0.12 • Last trading date – 22 June 2026 • Payment date – 15 July 2026 ▪️ Seagate Technology Holdings PLC • $0.74 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 07 July 2026 ▪️ NXP Semiconductors N.V. • $1.01 • Last trading date – 23 June 2026 • Payment date – 09 July 2026 ▪️ Vail Resorts Inc • $2.22 • Last trading date – 24 June 2026 • Payment date – 09 July 2026 ▪️ Philip Morris International Inc • $1.47 • Last trading date – 24 June 2026 • Payment date – 20 July 2026 ▪️ Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc • $0.24 • Last trading date – 24 June 2026 • Payment date – 31 July 2026 ▪️ Medtronic Plc • $0.72 • Last trading date – 25 June 2026 • Payment date – 17 July 2026 ▪️ Keurig Dr Pepper Inc • $0.23 • Last trading date – 25 June 2026 • Payment date – 10 July 2026 ▪️ Danaher Corporation • $0.40 • Last trading date – 25 June 2026 • Payment date – 31 July 2026 ▪️ Walt Disney Company (The) • $0.75 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 22 July 2026 ▪️ FMC Corporation • $0.08 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 16 July 2026 ▪️ Veralto Corporation • $0.13 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 31 July 2026 ▪️ Mondelez International Inc • $0.50 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 14 July 2026 ▪️ Nucor Corporation • $0.56 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 11 August 2026 ▪️ Fifth Third Bancorp • $0.40 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 15 July 2026 ▪️ Illinois Tool Works Inc • $1.61 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 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– 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 15 July 2026 ▪️ EPR Properties • $0.31 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 15 July 2026 ▪️ Orion Properties Inc • $0.02 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 15 July 2026 ▪️ Innovative Industrial Properties Inc • $1.90 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 15 July 2026 ▪️ Annaly Capital Management Inc • $0.75 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 31 July 2026 ▪️ Realty Income Corporation • $0.27 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 15 July 2026 ▪️ Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc • $1.20 • Last trading date – 29 June 2026 • Payment date – 15 July 2026 🇬🇧 GBP Account 🇬🇧 ▪️ International Consolidated Airlines Group SA • €0.05 • Last trading date – 24 June 2026 • Payment date – 29 June 2026 ▪️ Experian Plc • $0.48 • Last trading date – 24 June 2026 • Payment date – 24 July 2026 🇦🇺 AUD Account 🇦🇺 ▪️ Centuria Capital Group • AU$0.05 • Last trading date – 25 June 2026 • Payment date – 27 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Kalenga

@Hamnjela

3 months ago

Learn the basics of investing and how to sign up for @EasyEquities

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EasyEquities

@EasyEquities

3 months ago

The “wait… we have THAT now?” update. Robotics. Drones. Nuclear. Metaverse. Family-owned businesses. Healthcare innovation. Global brands. Dividend players. A huge list of new instruments just landed across the platform. Your investing universe just got bigger 📖 https://t.co/aEJvFMce5s #EasyBlogs | #EasyEquities

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GhostRider

@0xGhostRider

3 months ago

Most rewarding part of getting a bit older is being able to call upon skills you’ve acquired that previously yielded no returns and caused you pain Stitching them together with new skills you’ve acquired and a more seasoned mindset And applying them to the current game board to make you and those around you bread

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Tolulope Michael

@im_tolumichael

3 months ago

How to become more valuable in any industry 1. Learn how money flows in your field. 2. Improve your communication skills. 3. Become reliable. 4. Learn sales and persuasion. 5. Understand people. 6. Adapt faster than others. 7. Build proof of your work. 8. Learn continuously. 9. Network genuinely. 10.Solve expensive problems.

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Katli @Katli_T

3 months ago

I work incredibly hard man. That’s why I do not ever cut corners when it comes to my overall wellbeing and happiness. Nothing is ever too much for myself… I treasure down times, soft living, memorable experiences, dope travels, sdwadlo se top le ntho tse grand nje 👌🏾

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Ous'B 💚

@BongsMahlangu_

3 months ago

I think one of the scariest parts about adulthood is realizing how many systems only work if people quietly accept being exploited.

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The Random Recruiter

@randomrecruiter

3 months ago

The higher you climb the corporate ladder, the more relationships matter. At entry level, your output is visible. You do the work, it shows up. It gets seen and you get a raise and promotion. At director and above, almost none of your work is visible. You're not doing the hands on dirty work, or at least in large amounts. You're making decisions in a room with a few people and the results show up 6 months later. Nobody can trace them back to you. So how do they decide who belongs in those rooms? They pick people they already know. Not "know of." Know. People they worked with and have seen operate under pressure. That person gets the call more times than not over the stranger with the better resume. The stakes are higher, so the trust threshold is higher. A bad hire at $70K is annoying. A bad hire at $300K who controls a $50M budget is catastrophic. And yeah, it's political. Not in the "office politics is a game" way. In the "if you make a mistake at this level, it doesn't just hit you, it hits your boss, your boss's boss, and so forth. So people protect themselves by surrounding themselves with people whose body of work they've seen firsthand. This is why "networking" advice misses the point. The goal isn't to collect contacts. The goal is to do good work with good people so that when a seat opens at their next company, your name is the first one they think of.

randomrecruiter's tweet photo. The higher you climb the corporate ladder, the more relationships matter.

At entry level, your output is visible. You do the work, it shows up. It gets seen and you get a raise and promotion.

At director and above, almost none of your work is visible. You're not doing the hands on dirty work, or at least in large amounts. You're making decisions in a room with a few people and the results show up 6 months later. Nobody can trace them back to you.

So how do they decide who belongs in those rooms?

They pick people they already know.

Not "know of." Know.

People they worked with and have seen operate under pressure. That person gets the call more times than not over the stranger with the better resume.

The stakes are higher, so the trust threshold is higher. A bad hire at $70K is annoying. A bad hire at $300K who controls a $50M budget is catastrophic.

And yeah, it's political. Not in the "office politics is a game" way. In the "if you make a mistake at this level, it doesn't just hit you, it hits your boss, your boss's boss, and so forth.

So people protect themselves by surrounding themselves with people whose body of work they've seen firsthand.

This is why "networking" advice misses the point. The goal isn't to collect contacts.

The goal is to do good work with good people so that when a seat opens at their next company, your name is the first one they think of.

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Sharran Srivatsaa

@sharran

4 months ago

Money loves speed. Wealth loves time. They’re not the same game.

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Tai Lopez

@tailopez

4 months ago

You get wealthy by “stacking” an old thing on a new thing. Uber stacked an old thing, taxis, on a new thing, mobile apps. Now it’s worth $180 billion. Combine your new idea with something old.

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Anish Moonka

@anishmoonka

4 months ago

A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks. It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design. In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself. The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it. This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials. Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against. Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.

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