Boikhutso Eric Nare

BA LLB | Humans Rights | Geopolitics | International Relations |

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

One of the most serious public health and social challenges faced by young people today is substance abuse.
The reality is that young people turn to drugs because of pain, trauma, neglect, peer pressure or hopelessness and if our response begins and ends with punishment, we have already failed them.
Protecting children requires investment in prevention, mental health support, strong families and safe communities not just arrests.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Please RETWEET.

[Thandekile Moyo @Mamoxn]

@VMusinachirevo Whenever the urge to turn to tribalism hits you,
Resist it.

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

One of the most serious public health and social challenges faced by young people today is substance abuse.
The reality is that young people turn to drugs because of pain, trauma, neglect, peer pressure or hopelessness and if our response begins and ends with punishment, we have already failed them.
Protecting children requires investment in prevention, mental health support, strong families and safe communities not just arrests.

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

Illegal immigration is a major issue in South Africa especially when it comes to employment and the labour market as in most cases, employers hire undocumented immigrants because they are willing to accept lower wages, which reduces business cost. It’s often less about skills they have and more about the wages they are willing to accept.

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

@Dzungie007 because they accept lower pay, that makes them more attractive to employers looking to cut cost

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

Is international law becoming irrelevant in modern conflicts?

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

Wars are happening day in and day out, and crime wars are committed regularly even though international law clearly defines and prohibits such act through frame works such as the Geneva conventions.
Does it mean that international law is applied selectively or is it becoming irrelevant when it comes to wars and war crimes ?
#WarCrimes
#IranWar‌
#Isreal

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

Are there any alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz for transporting oil and gas?

Yes, there are other routes that can be used which include the Saudi East West pipelines and Abu Dhabi crude pipeline.
However these have a limited capacity and cannot replace the scale of the Strait of Hormuz. That is why disruptions there have a huge global impact•••
#Iran #Israël #usa

[Habu Sadeik @HabuSadeik]

Nicely explained. Oil shortage challenges.

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

20 to 30% of global oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz. The tensions involving the US, Israel and Iran have disrupted this route leading to the increase in fuel prices around the world. This shows how a regional conflict can quickly affect the global economy•••
#Irán #USA #Israël

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions.

Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum of hydrocarbons with different molecular weights, and the composition of a given crude determines how easily it converts into the products refineries actually want to sell: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil. The measurement that captures this is API gravity. Higher API gravity means lighter crude with shorter carbon chains, which means lower energy cost to crack, lower processing cost to refine, and higher yield of the light distillates that carry premium pricing. Lower API gravity means heavier crude requiring more energy, more processing steps, more capital equipment, and producing a higher share of lower-value residuals.

Iranian Light crude runs at 33 to 36 degrees API gravity with sulfur content between 1.36 and 1.5 percent. That is the refinery sweet spot. It is light enough to yield high fractions of gasoline and middle distillates without excessive processing costs, but heavy enough to produce the full range of products that complex refineries are designed to process. It is what petroleum engineers call an optimal blend crude.

Now compare the alternatives.

Venezuelan Merey heavy crude runs at approximately 16 degrees API gravity with sulfur between 3 and 5 percent. Refining it profitably requires a coking unit, a hydrocracker, and an extensive desulfurization train. The equipment exists. The economics work for refineries purpose-built around Venezuelan feedstock. It is not a substitute for Iranian crude. It is a different product requiring different industrial infrastructure.

US West Texas Intermediate runs at 39 to 40 degrees API with sulfur below 0.25 percent. In theory, the cleanest and easiest crude to process. In practice, it is so light that it does not yield the heavier middle distillates a complex refinery needs to run at full capacity. European and Asian refineries built around medium crudes cannot switch to WTI without blending it with heavier crudes to achieve the molecular weight distribution their process units require. WTI is not a drop-in replacement for Iranian medium.

Iranian oil fits where both US shale and Venezuelan heavy do not. It is the liquid that flows through the middle of the global refining system without requiring either the coking infrastructure for heavy crudes or the blending operations for ultra-light shale. That molecular fit is why it commands a persistent premium above comparable grades. It is why Indian refineries maintained Iranian crude purchases through every round of sanctions and negotiated the logistics to keep that flow moving. It is why the Dubai shadow banking and trading network that the UAE is now considering dismantling existed in the first place.

The Strait of Hormuz does not just carry oil. It carries the specific category of oil that the global refining system was built to process most efficiently. Closing it does not just reduce supply. It removes the grade of crude that the system runs best on and forces every refinery in the world to run less efficiently on whatever it can find as a substitute.

That is the premium embedded in the $82 oil price. Not just volume. Molecular weight.

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[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

Have a good day.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I was deeply embarrassed and I felt ashamed when some Zimbabweans actually defended the killing of Renee Nicole Good by those ICE thugs in Minneapolis. Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three and a poet, was fatally shot by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a federal operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 7 January 2026, sparking nationwide outrage and protests.

It was distressing to see my own people, who have themselves been subjected to brutality, support that simply because they are misguided enough to be sycophants of Donald Trump.

The Trump administration defended the agent’s actions and described the shooting as self-defence, a characterisation that has been widely challenged by eyewitnesses and critics, with local officials condemning the killing as avoidable and unnecessary. The same type of feeble excuses used by brutal regimes including in Zimbabwe.

The whole trade tariffs and all those crazy policies are harming people in Zimbabwe as well, yet it takes an informed person to understand how such things affect them. Sometimes I just read comments on social media and feel so sick, and I feel so sorry for the children who are being brought up by clowns like that. It is so sad to watch.

It makes you realise that our education system teaches people to read and write but not to think critically.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

The role of intellectuals is to challenge authority, not serve it.

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

Is international law still relevant, or only applied selectively?

[Fox News @FoxNews]

TRUMP: "If we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor. Okay?"

"I would like to make a deal the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way."

"I'm a fan of Denmark...but, you know, the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."

"NATO's got to understand that. I'm all for NATO. I saved NATO. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have a NATO right now."

[African @ali_naka]

Overnight 16 800 people cancelled their World Cup Tickets. This is commendable

[Jawhar Sircar @jawharsircar]

They predicted it all.

[Boikhutso Eric Nare @EricNareIR]

@daddyhope It’s not about dictatorship or drugs. It’s about OIL and if you’re still in denial you need prayers.