Ravi R

Media Personality

[Craig Brockie @CraigBrockie]

Big Pharma would HATE what she discovered.

For 11 years, Kerri Kasem was stuck—misdiagnosed and chronically ill with Lyme Disease.

Her breakthrough? She didn’t need their overpriced poison.

Here’s how she ditched mainstream treatments and healed herself naturally:🧵

[Herman Mashaba @HermanMashaba]

It is a great pleasure to be celebrating Diwali, the ceremony of lights, with the Hindu community in uMhlanga KwaZulu-Natal today.

Happy Diwali to all South Africans celebrating.

[MyBroadband @mybroadband]

iPhone lost number one spot to Huawei in biggest market outside US — Analysts

If the initial estimates are accurate, they represent one of the iPhone’s worst debuts in China since around 2018.

https://t.co/Lgr7K4RpwB

[MyBroadband @mybroadband]

South Africans paying up to R1,000 more per tank of petrol than 10 years ago

MyBroadband tracked the price of filling common tank sizes from October 2013 to October 2023 and discovered some interesting changes.

https://t.co/dCowIWLk5h

[SABC News @SABCNews]

Former President Thabo Mbeki has warned about the impact of the private sector delivering services that the government has failed to provide.

https://t.co/fYq24w2XSQ

[Mark Sham @MarkSham]

For anyone thinking about leaving South Africa permanently, I'd like to attempt to share a balanced perspective on this topic as a well-seasoned traveller and someone that has lived away from home.

I spend a lot of time in Europe and whenever I visit, I’m always struck by a powerful quote:

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

On paper, there are many things wrong with South Africa. So many in fact, that I don't blame people for leaving. The problem is, most people think the act of leaving is the solution, when really all they're doing is trading one set of pros and cons for another.

Sometimes people are so focused on what they don't like about about their home country while simultaneously taking the amazing aspects for granted. You only really understand the intrinsic value of these overlooked qualities when you're on the other side of the world for a while.

The problem is, once you're in a new country, and once the rose tinted glasses come off, there will be many other things you don't like on that side of the world too.

As crazy as this may sound, I actually encourage people to leave if they really want to. We live in a global world and it's not true that just because you're born somewhere, it means you have to stay there forever. The only advice I ever add is, just make sure you have many good reasons to arrive in a new place. Running away from something will make moving even harder than it already is.

As someone that travels a lot, I speak to many South Africans all over the world. There is no question that most of them see South Africa differently after living abroad for a while. Many other nationalities feel the same about their home country too.

That said, moving away may indeed be the best thing that some of you have ever done. I think the reason for this is simple. When you move, you will either love it or hate it over time depending on what you value. But again, you never just value one thing. And this is often why moving is hard.

Like most of you, I value safety and security but I also value that warm South African spirit and friendliness.

In Europe, I really value the ease of travel. This is something that's a lot harder to get right back home. When you're in Europe, you are two hours away from 50 world-class cities. But then travel can be incredibly expensive this side compared to back home. The cost of eating out is so much cheaper and you get so much more bang for your buck.

I could keep going with the comparisons but again, no matter where you live in the world, you have to be aware of all the trade-offs should you want to leave. Leaving in and of itself isn't the solution.

The best solution I have personally come up with is that I want to live on two continents at once. As someone who doesn't have kids and is self-employed, this is possible even though most people keep telling me I'm crazy.

I absolute LOVE Europe for many reasons, but I also love South Africa for others. As it stands now, I don't think I ever want to leave South Africa completely but I also can't live in just one country my whole life. So I'm going to do both (again).

If my version of life sounds crazy to you, I think people who leave because they hate one or two aspects of a country they were born in without considering the other trade-offs are even more insane.

Last point. The reason why there's no right or wrong answer to leaving your home country is because the trade-offs are all relative. Asking someone else if they're happy they moved isn't going to answer the question directly for you.

I don't blame anyone for wanting more from life. Sometimes a move will give you just that, and other times it will show you that you had the best of life at your fingertips all along. Sometimes you will realise you were never meant to live in just one place, and sometimes you'll be crazy enough to want to live on two continents at once.

[Ravi R @DJRaviR]

@PlanetFitnessZA what does it take to get service? Three weeks later and no assistance from Umhlanga Pearls!!! Horrible!

[Ravi R @DJRaviR]

@PlanetFitnessZA any idea why the service is so pathetic at the Umhlanga Pearls branch?

[Lerato Pillay 🇿🇦💎🇿🇦 @LeratoPillayZA]

Meet Zolile Soka, a livestock farmer in the Free State. Zolile and his family sold amasi and raw milk from the back of their bakkie because they could not meet the demand of the formal market. Today, their family-owned enterprise supplies thousands of litres of milk to Woolworths dairy brand.
Blacks in Business 🇿🇦🖤

Follow @nyebe_official

#LoveFNB

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Almost 300 councillors in KwaZulu-Natal can neither read nor write, according to a Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs skills audit report. | @soyiso_maliti 

https://t.co/fQpyzFkppe

[SwatKat💃 @swatic12]

Jeera when you put it in hot oil

[فهد الشوّيب @FahadAlshwib]

Mike Tyson about McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather.

McGregor went 10 rounds, scored punches on the greatest fighter in the last 20 years — 100 years. See, people ain’t looking at it. People just wanna say ‘The Black guy beat the White guy.’ They just want to see it. But look at what he had to fight against. And look at what he did when he fought against it.

[Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA]

Huge congrats to South African MMA and South Africa, period! That is an incredible win for them inside the UFC’s Octagon! Title fight next for sure!
Let’s go S.A 🇿🇦 ❤️

[Ravi R @DJRaviR]

@EmmaSadleir That's dark!

[Emma Sadleir Berkowitz @EmmaSadleir]

The Durban July was just plunged into darkness. Apparently the City of Durban had given written guarantees that loadshedding would NOT happen today. I cannot imagine the chaos - 50,000 people, mostly drunk by this time, in the pitch dark 🙈🙈

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

People are convinced there’s a “glitch in the matrix” after bird is spotted not moving in sky 😳

[Ravi R @DJRaviR]

@being_plum Happy milestone birthday 🎂

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

https://t.co/By0KBr6fGt | Joburg girl, 3, dies after breathing machine reportedly could not function due to load shedding https://t.co/sz1VmXKEre

[Ravi R @DJRaviR]

@interrec Send us the case number.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

The happiest countries in the world:

1. Finland 🇫🇮
2. Denmark 🇩🇰
3. Iceland 🇮🇸
4. Israel 🇮🇱
5. Netherlands 🇳🇱
6. Sweden 🇸🇪
7. Norway 🇳🇴
8. Switzerland 🇨🇭
9. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
10. New Zealand 🇳🇿
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13. Canada 🇨🇦
15. USA 🇺🇸
16. Germany 🇩🇪
19. UK 🇬🇧
32. Spain 🇪🇸
36. Mexico 🇲🇽
47. Japan 🇯🇵
70. Russia 🇷🇺
85. South Africa 🇿🇦
92. Ukraine 🇺🇦
106. Turkey 🇹🇷
126. India 🇮🇳
137. Afghanistan 🇦🇫