Basetsana Seroto 🇿🇦

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted - Ralph Emerson

[Basetsana Seroto 🇿🇦 @BSeroto]

@MaDhlomo_ People need to start understanding what feminism is. It continuously catches strays in this app

[Liewe Heksie @LaviniaEngel]

Just seen that BP fuel stations do license disc renewals. That’s super convenient. I’ve been doing mine online the past couple of years. They usually deliver in a few days.

At BP it’s apparently issued right away like at the post office, except no long queues!

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

France confirms first Ebola case https://t.co/50sAw84Wpb

[Mkabayi ka Babakhe @na_sibanibani]

@Gugu_Noggy The National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa also funds full-time Master’s and Doctoral (PhD) studies through the DSTI-NRF Postgraduate Student Funding scheme.

[Dr Gugu Nogwebela @Gugu_Noggy]

@MorolongZA @setlhalokat There is a thing called fee remission...you register, and then during the year, the put funds in your student account, equivalent to the fees

[Dr Gugu Nogwebela @Gugu_Noggy]

In UKZN, Masters and PhD are free if you finish them in the prescribed time, if it takes longer then you pay for the extra years

[Dept of Communications & Digital Technologies @CommsZA]

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[Asante Mokhuoa @AsanteOnBoards]

ABSA’S PROPOSED BOARD FEES AND THE ECONOMICS OF BOARD ACCESS

As Absa continues to dominate public conversation, shareholders are today expected to vote on the proposed remuneration of non-executive directors for the 2026/2027 period.

If approved, the fees will apply from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027.

The proposed fees are:

*Board Chairman: R8,124,334

*Lead Independent Director: R290,306

*Board members: R728,556

These figures are exclusive of VAT where applicable.

The numbers matter.

Not because board service should be reduced to money, but because they reveal a truth many professionals are never taught:

Board access is also economic access.

June marks the end of the first half of the year. It is a natural moment to review income, positioning, visibility and missed opportunities.

I have often hesitated to speak openly about board fees because a board seat is not a side hustle. It is a fiduciary responsibility requiring judgment, preparation, ethics, oversight and accountability.

But we must also be honest.

Part of the reason the same names continue to circulate across boards is that they understand the economics of governance access. They know that board appointments can strengthen their finances, expand their influence and keep them visible for future opportunities.

Meanwhile, many capable and ethical professionals do not even know what board fees can look like, or that advisory roles can become pathways into formal board appointments.

This is why board fees must be demystified.

Not to attract greedy people.

To inform ethical people.

In my view, serious board candidates should aim, over time, for a maximum of three meaningful board or advisory roles per annum.

Three roles where they can prepare properly, contribute meaningfully, read deeply, ask the right questions and serve with integrity.

One of our own candidates started with an unpaid advisory board role.

Zero fees.

Just proximity, learning, positioning and governance exposure.

Today, at only 34, she holds two paying board roles over and above her primary professional income.

One pays approximately R589,000 per annum.

The other, converted from a dollar-based committee role, pays approximately R627,000 per annum.

That is an additional board-fee portfolio of:

R1,216,000 per annum

This is not her salary.

It is additional income created through governance readiness, credibility and positioning.

Board service is not a side hustle.

But let us stop pretending board fees are irrelevant.

#AskAsanteOnBoards

[Chinmayi Sripaada @Chinmayi]

Dr. Chirag Patel.
Raped a female patient.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

As the #Ebola outbreak in the #DRC is spreading rapidly, @WHO is now revising our risk assessment to very high at the national level, high at the regional level, and low at the global level.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Protesters set a hospital on fire in DR Congo amid an Ebola outbreak, after a family disputed the virus caused their relative’s death and demanded custody of the body.

Health authorities warn the latest outbreak of Ebola ‘is not small’ and requires ‘all hands on deck’.

[Daniel Michombero /Batubenga @michombero]

#ALERTE 🚨 : Tentative d’intrusion à l’hôpital de Rwampara

« Nous sommes actuellement enfermés à l’hôpital de Rwampara. Des manifestants tentent de récupérer de force les corps des personnes décédées d’Ebola. Ils commencent également à incendier certaines installations de l’hôpital.
La situation est extrêmement tendue et nécessite une intervention urgente des autorités compétentes afin de sécuriser les patients, le personnel médical et les infrastructures sanitaires », explique une source sur le lieu.

[Ministry of Health- Uganda @MinofHealthUG]

Regarding #Uganda, the Ministry of Health has not been engaged on the establishment of the treatment centres referred to here, and we are therefore not aware of where they may have been set up within the country.

We continue to affirm that Uganda has so far registered only two imported Ebola cases: one fatality and one patient currently responding well to treatment under close medical care. There are no local infections and the country remains safe.
@StateHouseUg @JaneRuth_Aceng @DianaAtwine @USEmbassyUganda
#MOHatWork | #FightEbolaUG26

[SABC News @SABCNews]

WATCH | Global affairs analyst Levi Mboushou says there is a risk the Ebola outbreak could spread to neighbouring countries. Nearly 600 suspected cases of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus have been recorded so far, along with 139 suspected deaths.

[TRT World Now @TRTWorldNow]

DRC health minister announces opening of three treatment centres in Ituri as he visits region amid ongoing Ebola outbreak. Prosper Heri Ngorora has more from Goma

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

There's no vaccine to protect against #Ebola #Bundibugyo. But there is a tiny bit of animal data suggesting Ervebo, the Ebola Zaire vaccine, might offer some cross protection & debate within scientific circles & at #WHO over whether to try to see if it might help. https://t.co/EjR9T4LmF2

[Wilber Sabiiti @SabiitiwWilber]

Uganda publishes the Bundibugyo Ebolavirus sequence within 4 days of the outbreak announcement. The sequence comes from the virus isolated from an imported case who came for medical treatment in Uganda. It is important to note that there is NO community transmission of the virus so far in Uganda. Well done the team @MinofHealthUG @GovUganda @ICER_Global Thanks to support coming from @AfricaCDC @WHOUganda @WHO

https://t.co/eaQdvz4Dlc?

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

After having consulted the #DRC and #Uganda where the #Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus is known to be currently occurring, I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), as defined in the provisions of IHR.

My full statement: https://t.co/EjzdjrMXHO

[Basetsana Seroto 🇿🇦 @BSeroto]

This life could never be for me hey. No thanks ✋

[jane @ijanedoll]

Hearing my aunt come home from work exhausted, then immediately start cooking dinner while her husband sat down because he was “tired from work” too.

[Nerd•ish @letukapearl]

@Miss_Neezy @tumisole Have they considered genetic testing? Sometimes people (African & Caribbean) have a genetic mutation that causes hypertension. It's either that or lifestyle choices.

[Nerd•ish @letukapearl]

@marvelmistyk @tiisetso_rea3l Fun fact, some black people inherited a genetic mutation from the San. Their bodies adapted to an environment that didn't have constant water supply, so they retained water. We inherited the gene from them in a world that has access to fast food. What saved them, is killing us.