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[The Mining Guy. 👷🏾‍♂️ @TheMiningGuySA]

Mining is all glamorous until you have to do the work.

[Brian Munyawarara @BRMunyawarara]

Running a business is not as glamorous as people make it out to be. We need to stop romanticizing it and start talking about the realities, especially here in Zim, SA, and across Africa.

[ParrotOS @MokoenaDee]

Can we please start a support group for entrepreneurs who don’t get their invoices paid on time.

[𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 @Shadaya_Knight]

> No one sees you getting up early.
> No one sees the parties you missed.
> No one sees you working late.
> No one sees how many times you failed.
> No one sees how hard you train.
> No one sees how hard you study.

But when it works out they say it's luck.

[TrafficSA @TrafficSA]

Mpumalanga - R36 Route (Latest): the deteriorating condition of the road between Lydenburg and the N4 Schoemanskloof

[The Times of Central Asia @thetimesoca]

Kazakhstan is advancing plans for Alatau, a $20B “city of the future” near Almaty, master-planned by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It will ease congestion, boost trade along the Middle Corridor, and become a smart hub for business and innovation by 2050.
https://t.co/ORtfhkN87k

[Bibi Rukwengye @Rukwengye]

Denmark is investing $83,754,486 in textbooks and turning away from its digital-first approach to education. This follows research showing that screens reduce concentration, impact mental health, and hurt student performance. Yet another dynamic to the EdTech debate.

[Vuslat Bayoglu @VuslatBayoglu]

Transnet is on their way back to old good days. 🇿🇦

🚩South Africa’s bulk exports grew by 5.2% in 2025 to 166.6 Mt according to Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) data.
This is only 3.9% less than the 173.4 Mt achieved in 2019.

🚩In September 2025, TNPA exported
17.3 Mt. If this pace is maintained for all the months of 2026, then this is equivalent to 207.3 Mt. That shows that a new record in 2026 is easily achievable.’

Source: Helmo Preuss

[Nkululeko Mhlaba @NkululekoMhlaba]

Starting a Business Needs Capital, No matter how many Conferences, Seminars, Roadshows, Mentorships, Workshops you might attend you will still need Capital.

Now imagine the Capital needed for industry disrupting startups.

[Malume @bozzie_t]

In my entire career in the oil and gas industry, I have never seen the Brent-Dubai differential show a premium of +$50/bbl (or any premium, period). This dislocation highlights the severity of the shortage in barrels originating from the Gulf.

[Lusibalukhulu 🖍 @feziledhlamini_]

In March 2019, I secured a purchase order from Vodacom worth R1.9 million for the Vodacom Durban July.
The @IDCSouthAfrica referred me to SEFA. SEFA said they never received a referral. The process stalled.
I lost the Vodacom contract because I could not deliver vehicles. R1.9 million in revenue, gone, because of IDC delays.

[Vuslat Bayoglu @VuslatBayoglu]

🚩Independent Power Producers are an overburden to the South African economy in the current format.

🚩ESKOM should stop buying power from them in take or pay basis.

🚩Let IPPs sell power that they generate to the industry or municipalities and see if they can do long term take or pay with any customer!
https://t.co/R5enGKlIgl

[Michael de Villiers @Mikedotcoza]

White households in South Africa have an average annual income of about R676k, while Black African households average around R144k. This disparity is largely the result of historic racial discrimination that ensured Black South Africans were systematically excluded from equal opportunities, despite their education and work. The so-called racial policies that exist today are attempts to address and correct these deep inequalities.

[Caledonia Mining Plc @CaledoniaMining]

Our CEO Mark Learmonth spoke to Mining Weekly about:
1️⃣ the opportunity for Zimbabwe
2️⃣ the Caledonia business model and differentiators
3️⃣development at Bilboes and exploration at Motapa

Find out more: https://t.co/ZcJNeCgOrQ

#CMCL

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

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 Niña 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 Niña 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 Africa’s 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 Africa’s 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 crop’s 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 Niño 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

[Ndzavi Derrick .CBA @NdzaviDerrick]

Supported with Funds not only through incubation and trainings...

[@DumaGqubule @DumaGqubule]

Please do not believe the R1.1 trillion public investment propaganda. Real per capita public investment will decline by more than 4% a year until 2029 after 12 years of brutal cuts since 2014. what logic is there in cutting public investment?

[Jacob Maroga @jacob_maroga]

What caused load shedding?

[SUMMARY] ‘The previous Board and CEO of ⁦@Eskom_SA⁩ prioritized clean energy and the accelerated shutdown of coal power plants at the expense of energy security’ - Clive Le Roux, Member of the current Eskom Board

[Vuslat Bayoglu @VuslatBayoglu]

While South African Government has been fast asleep Zimbabwean Government has taken action. 🇿🇦🇿🇼

‘Zimbabwe has imposed an immediate ban on exports of chrome concentrate, lithium and other raw materials, including those already in transit, in a bid to promote local beneficiation.’
@DMPR_ZA @the_dtic @PresidencyZA @DOEE_ZA
https://t.co/QtidvgSka7

[Vuslat Bayoglu @VuslatBayoglu]

Did you know that out of 78 ferro alloy furnaces (which can be potentially operational) in South Africa only 12% is working?
Imagine the jobs that are at risk or to be created if all of them are in production.