DANIE BESTER

South African Artist and Photographer, Eternal Student, Photography Educator, Founder of DPC

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

This is considered the greatest header in the history of football

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

@smith_lyne28021 Are you being serious? The main thrust of his entire speech was *directly* calling out Hampshire police for they way they arrested Henry.

What the hell is wrong with you?
Absolutely heartless.

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@sesamestreet This is disgusting and pure evil.

Sesame Street is grooming and sexualizing our children and grandchildren with Pride propaganda. Toddlers should not be taught about sexual desires or gender ideology. You've fallen into pure corruption — leave our kids alone.

[Daily Investor @DailyInvestorSA]

Morocco has overtaken South Africa as Africa’s top industrial economy, marking the end of more than 80 years of South African dominance.
https://t.co/RjdF13Gfpw

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

@DailyInvestorSA Total mystery as to how South Africa fell so far behind...

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@Pre_Malone @BullTheoryio @AshCrypto @grok can you answer this?

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@hicasamadim 72

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@CollinRugg This lady speaks the truth. It is ridiculous how the liberals are spinning false rhetoric and the sheeple following blindly because inherently they feel sorry for themselves.

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@SqSehrish 6

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@GrindeOptions We're on holiday... on the beach... and I try not to think of the stock market...

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@Beno10_MFC D. The bowl

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@landbourainier She's giving it to him. He was lost for words. Will teach him.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

This week I purchased shares in Ondas $ONDS

This position was built after it became apparent that the future will be dominated by autonomous systems.

From land to sea to air, the proliferation of drones and other autonomous systems is going to fundamentally change the way we operate as a society.

The threats are changing, which means the defenses will have to change. I am encouraged by the Ondas team’s recent track record of execution.

They have a lot of cash and have built a business to acquire innovative technologies, secure large government & commercial contracts, and scale the business rapidly.

I expect the company to face plenty of obstacles in the future. The macro trend of autonomy and drones should be a great tailwind, coupled with a management team purpose-built for M&A and business development.

I look forward to meeting many other Ondas shareholders in the coming weeks.

[DANIE BESTER @Danie_Bester]

@SteveUrkelDude Sorry to hear Steve. Praying for you and your family.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS BECOMES THE 1st AIRLINE TO ACCEPT #BITCOIN FOR FLIGHTS IN AFRICA

BTC BEING USED AS GLOBAL MONEY. HUGE 🙌

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

You are clearly not a Zimbabwean, because if you were, you would not be tweeting this nonsense.

I was the third biggest Boer goat breeder in Zimbabwe, selling to commercial farmers. I did not have the so called land you are talking about. I operated on my ancestral land, a three acre plot. Why?

Farming land has little to no commercial value in Zimbabwe because it was politicised. It was taken by ZANUPF under Robert Mugabe at a time when the party had become deeply unpopular, particularly after the 2000 referendum defeat, and under mounting pressure from war veterans, hence the violent land reform programme.

It was an emotional reaction, not a properly thought through economic reform.

Land theoretically belongs to Zimbabweans, but today it has limited bankable value under the current tenure system. Zimbabwe is importing maize from South Africa. Even toothpicks and toilet paper come from South Africa.

If I were allocated land today and constructively criticised the government tomorrow, I would lose it. What good is land that cannot be used as collateral and whose tenure is insecure?
You cannot even borrow money from the bank to buy that land because it has virtually no commercial value under the current system.

Before you jump onto the “Zimbabweans have land” and “Mandela left nothing” propaganda, do your research. Mugabe had no initial intention of taking land in that manner, his hand was forced by political pressures, and the literature is there for anyone willing to read.

Secondly, only a charlatan would compare Nelson Mandela to Robert Mugabe in that way. Nelson Mandela led his country for five years because he was not power hungry. Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe violently for 37 years and ultimately had to be removed by a military coup, leaving the country economically devastated.

Millions of Zimbabweans live in South Africa, both legally and illegally, how many South Africans live in Zimbabwe?

Reports from the South African government say health facilities such as Musina Hospital have repeatedly highlighted the strain created by cross-border migration.
Seventy percent of women giving birth there are Zimbabwean because there are no decent maternity facilities in Zimbabwe.

The biggest hospital there has only one working maternity theatre, built in 1977. It had stopped working and was later refurbished by a South African bank, Standard Bank.
Mandela died in a South African hospital being treated by South African doctors, Robert Mugabe died in a Singaporean hospital being treated by Singaporean doctors.

At independence in 1965, Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia, had a larger economy than Singapore. Today, Singapore’s economy is roughly 15 to 17 times larger than Zimbabwe’s in nominal GDP terms, a stark illustration of the different governance and policy paths taken over the decades.

South Africa has no journalists or politicians living in Zimbabwe in exile for fear of their lives. Today, I am a living example of how our political independence has become meaningless, I was forced out of my own country and I now live in Mandela’s South Africa.

Thousands of Zimbabweans die every month because hospitals have no medication and no medical equipment. Zimbabwean leaders come to South Africa for medical treatment. What does that tell you about both countries?

For all its ills, Mandela’s ANC has kept a country running, and it is the only liberation movement in Southern Africa that has managed to do that. The rest are basket cases, including Zimbabwe, which does not even have a convertible national currency.

So the next time you want to insult Mandela, first get your facts right.
You can praise your “heroes” without denigrating South Africa’s founding father.
Respect for your own leaders does not require contempt for Nelson Mandela or the country he helped build.

It is deeply disrespectful for anyone, whether Zimbabwean or not, to insult Nelson Mandela by comparing him to Robert Mugabe, especially considering that South Africa has given a home to millions of Zimbabweans, both legally and illegally, who continue to work, build lives and send money back to Zimbabwe to support their families.

That reality alone should make any reasonable person pause and reflect before speaking carelessly.

I will end by telling you this, land in Zimbabwe is distributed on the basis of party loyalty, not on the basis of capacity, productivity or competence.
When a country allocates its main economic asset according to who shouts the loudest slogans rather than who can use it to produce, create jobs and grow the economy, it mortgages its own future.

You cannot compare a system that rewards political obedience with one where citizens are able to live, work, build businesses and thrive economically long before they ever receive land. That is the difference. That is the argument. And that is why the comparison is clearly foolish.

Robert Mugabe left a broken country, Nelson Mandela left a democratic country that has become the go to nation for Africans who cannot survive in their own broken countries, a place where millions seek refuge, opportunity and dignity. That is Mandela's legacy.

[Vho Avendas @VendaVendor]

If you were to make R500k pm you would pay R209,133.67 PAYE tax. Then you hit a pothole on your way to work or back, while you can’t drive with your windows fully open to enjoy the air because public security is non existent and crime is rife. While having left your house with security as if you were in prison yet still worried someone may still break in your house. Chances are you may get back home and find no water running or electricity off. Then you have to call Panyaza for hotel directions to go shower while you race for restaurants not to close for takeouts. You still pay property taxes, VAT, breathing tax, sin tax and all sorts of taxes. Yup! That’s the state of the nation.

[Sebastiaan⚡Plan B @BassieTwits]

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