The anomaly in South Africa is not just high taxes - itโs paying nearly 50% of your income to the state and still having to fund your own healthcare, education, transport, housing, and security. Citizens are paying twice: once through taxes, and again for the services those taxes should provide.
โYou can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.โ - Lewis Hamilton
That is exactly what Lewis showed in Barcelona, rising above a tough practice session to deliver P2 when it mattered most. The team worked magic overnight, and Lewis answered with precision and heart.
Huge congratulations, Lewis! This is what champions do. The journey continues to inspire. Onwards! ๐๏ธ๐ฅ๐
In Bellville, a woman listed a couch on Facebook Marketplace for R4,500. A buyer contacted her and sounded normal, sent proof of payment, and said the money was โheldโ until she verified her bank account.
By 21:14, R42,870 was gone from her bank accounts. The bank said it was authenticated and they could not help her.
A Thread
Gold mining in South Africa is among the oldest in the industry, which makes conditions more hazardous than in many other commodities.
Operations are now pushed deep underground into complex environments, relying on older, labour-intensive methods.
Combined with deep-level risks like rockbursts, extreme heat, seismic activity, heavy machinery, and poor air quality. Add illegal mining and human factors, the danger is significantly heightened.
This is also a reminder that Northern Cape is home to the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in Africa and the entire Southern Hemisphere called MeerKAT (located precisely in the Karoo region).
This 64-dish array is the premier radio telescope in Africa. It is so powerful that it will be a core part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will eventually become the largest scientific structure on Earth.
Victor Glover is the embodiment of modern exploration: U.S. Navy Captain, test pilot, and NASA astronaut who piloted SpaceX Crew-1, the first operational Crew Dragon mission, helping restore human spaceflight from U.S. soil. He spent 168 days aboard the International Space Station, conducted multiple spacewalks. Coming back to earth today as the pilot for Artemis II, heโs is a true Hero of the Planet. ๐
After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.
Last year everyone from haters to paid journos, everyone was on their feet to write negatively about Lewis but it seems like all those rats have gone back to their holes once Lewis is going toe to toe with prime George and prime Leclerc
Guy is a beast at 41 and if Ferrari solve their straight line issue they could atleast match Merc
And it will be a tough 3 way battle at the very least between Lewis, Charles and George
STILL WE RISE
I watched a toddler drop her ice cream in the parking lot yesterday.
Full meltdown.
Her dad didn't rush to fix it. Didn't offer solutions.
He just sat down on the hot asphalt next to her and said, "That really sucks, doesn't it?"
They sat there together for a full minute. She was crying. He was sad with her.
Then she took his hand and said, "Can we go home now?"
I've been thinking about it all day.
Maybe the best thing you can offer someone isn't a solution, just your presence.
Martin Brundle: We have to talk about Aston Martin. That's looking very critical at the moment. How worried are you about them?
Stefano Domencali: I don't want to lie. I was surprised by that situation. But the only thing that, in my experience, cannot be accepted....
McDonald's CEO is still clearing. I've now even come around on the OG viral video of his. We simply didn't understand his game...
HE IS A CEO - it's a product to him. Apparently someone in the test kitchen asked what his favorite food was and he just said, "Fish, I eat a lot of fish."
Didn't even think to answer with an item that the company he's the CEO of produces. This is a raw input:output organism we're dealing with
Burger King CEO went for the obvious transparent burgermogging attempt by taking a bigger bite. So obviously a mog attempt that it actually puts him below McDonald's CEO because he "tried."
Wendy's CEO attempt is a nothingburger. It lacks the autistic CEO authenticity of McDonald's and even the obvious marketing move of Burger King
There's also the first mover advantage here. McDonald's CEO is gaining status with every subsequent CEO validating his format by recreating it
We seriously underestimated this man
The South African Weather Service just released a note, underscoring the point we made earlier.
Here is what we said:
We are at the tail-end of the 2025-026 La Niรฑa rain period. From April 2026, the weather is likely to return to normal. In Southern Africa, this will be a typical drier period as we approach the winter season.
The La Niรฑa rains during the summer season have helped support crop production. Early crop estimates point to a better harvest for the 2025-26 season. For example, South Africaโs 2025-26 maize production estimate is 16.13 million tonnes, down 3% from the previous season but well above the long-term average production.
Importantly, this expected harvest is well above South Africaโs annual maize usage of 12.0 million tonnes. The crop is now at the pollination stage in various regions of the country, and these regions will continue to benefit from the rains.
But from the end of March 2026 onwards, the ideal weather conditions are warm and dry, which will support the cropโs maturation and ensure robust quality.
While it is still early to take a firm view, the early prospects suggest that in the next 2026-27 summer crop season, which starts in October 2026, we may transition into an El Niรฑo season.
If this becomes a reality, we may have a tough season ahead after a few years of favourable weather conditions. Again, this is still very early; we will likely have a clearer view of this possibility around July 2026.
For now, what remains comforting is that weather conditions are favourable for the current 2025-26 season, and the rain may ease at the end of this month, permitting better crop maturation.
-wandile