GogoM 😎

Writer, Historian/Classicist, Literature, Storyteller, Retweets/likes not endorsement. Love to laugh. 😎

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

A historic moment for the Basilica of the Sagrada Família. This is how we experienced the solemn Mass presided over by Pope Leo XIV and the subsequent blessing and inauguration of the tower of Jesus Christ.
Thank you to everyone who joined us! 🙌

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

One of the most mind blowing 10 minutes of video Christianity has ever produced.

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

Serious questions are being asked about whether the Democratic Alliance has what it takes to turn the country around.

https://t.co/FdcPZBgeV3

[Looking Glass @Dominic64104692]

@Rolandschoeman In the war between Reason and Leftism,Reason is undefeated.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The Maxim of Impotent Rage: The more successful a man becomes, the greater the density of weak and pathetic men who will be obsessively consumed with him. Highly secure, successful, and confident men are never threatened by other men's accomplishments. But the Sneaky F**kers are driven into unhinged mad hysteria. It is the ultimate form of impotent projection. "Why is this a**hole successful whilst I languish in obscurity with my brilliance yet to be discovered"?"

My advice: Stop focusing on the success of others to fuel your cosmic envy-based hate. Build. Create. Innovate. If you become successful, you won't have to obsess about the success of others.

Have a great day! Off to the beach.

[Jarrod Delport @Jarrod_Delport]

I have taught History in South African high schools for over a decade. I do not support the proposed curriculum changes.

History should develop critical thinking, evidence based analysis and understanding of multiple perspectives.

Read my thoughts:

https://t.co/wjaHYOuV9T

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

Simon Lincoln Reader writes on the spat between the DA and the FF+.

"Hill-Lewis’s best defence relies on the theory that nobody is immune to crime – making every dimension of it, including correctional services, fair game. But that implies Groenewald is doing a bad job – which he most certainly isn’t – or failed to convince the public he’s capable, when the truth is that he’s fashioned a rare and enviable soft power, catching the eye of young black musicians (in the song Nangu Mlungu)."

Read Simon's full analysis in The Common Sense.

https://t.co/Qm8aDr57wU

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

There’s a nastiness to the DA that shouldn’t be there. In the agriculture ministry, it has often been contemptuous of farmers. Not just simple frustration under pressure, but mocking contempt.

The same in Cape Town.

Just this week, the Pinelands Residents Association urged residents to object to de facto state seizure, dare one say expropriation and nationalisation, of the Mowbray Golf Club.

In response, the DA’s de facto CEO under leader Geordin Hill-Lewis, Ryan Coetzee, took to X to mock the residents, writing, “You can’t complain about property prices being too high and also object to new housing developments. You cannot want better public transport and also object to densification. You cannot want a city that attracts investment and also object to urbanisation.”

Then, fully embracing Marie Antoinette, he told the residents, remember these are his party’s voters and the city’s ratepayers, “You can’t, in short, have your cake and eat it.”

Read this week's Diary in The Common Sense.

https://t.co/5w5t4V1Z1B

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔴BREAKING: International airlines freed from racial licensing in South Africa

This follows Sakeliga's victory in the Pretoria High Court on Friday.

Here's the latest 🧵

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

Forget the hype about which private individuals are giving money to political parties. That pales in comparison to the vast sums parties receive from taxpayers. South Africans are the biggest backers of political parties, and these amounts keep growing through the budgets that parties themselves approve.

https://t.co/Hrhcz0PKQ8

[GogoM 😎 @DamnGG01]

@CommonSense_ZA Never mind the destruction of the cities … they are just the last of what is still standing … most small towns (outside of the Western Cape) are gone … ruined by mismanagement and neglect. 😢

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Norway releases its World Cup team photo

🇳🇴

[GogoM 😎 @DamnGG01]

😂😂😂

[Mntaka God🙏🏾 @g0dsvryown]

FlySafair pilots are just like quantum drivers 😭😭

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

The Democratic Alliance takes you for a fool, and that is very dangerous for the country. Are there no depths of arrogance, disdain, and dishonesty the Democratic Alliance won’t plumb to protect its cadres from accountability?

https://t.co/KOa1uImHse

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Elon Musk single-handedly shattered the global silence on South Africa's institutionalised extortion.

Without him, the world would still be blind to a state-sanctioned shakedown disguised as "compliance."

Investors are forced to surrender equity to a handpicked pool of ANC cadres and cronies just to operate.

Wealth creation is held hostage by political gatekeepers. They rebranded systemic corporate theft as policy.

Every major business has been extorted, they did not invest in the economy, but rather paid off the ruling elite to buy peace and the green light to operate.

You either cut the cadres in, or you get locked out.

It is a parasitic framework where corrupt politicians contribute absolutely zero to the economy, yet take the biggest cut.

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

American officials have told Ambassador Roelf Meyer that Washington’s conditions for a trade and investment pact with South Africa remain firmly in place.

https://t.co/tzu8XNrMEE

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

Parents paying for elite South African schools often trust the school must have their child's best interests at heart. Many of them are wrong.

A new piece in The Common Sense argues that something has shifted inside many elite SA schools. They have stopped teaching children how to think and started training them what to think. Education has been replaced by indoctrination, usually dressed up in the language of inclusion, equity, and transformation.

The cost falls on the children: one burdened with inherited guilt, another with inherited grievance, both denied the dignity of moral freedom.

https://t.co/DAxas0umVf

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

Parents at South Africa’s elite schools face a growing challenge in ensuring that ideological and political activists don’t turn their kids into narrowed, anxious, rehearsed children whose minds have been captured and stunted before ever being allowed to grow.

https://t.co/d4k0vwqqsf

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

What is wrong with Geordin Hill-Lewis and Ryan Coetzee? Fresh off the DA’s township ward-winning success in Emfuleni, the pair engaged in the most childish and scurrilous squabble on X with Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald.

https://t.co/FlOq0SjFbP