Ginning Tatum

[IOL News @IOL]

🚨HAPPENING NOW | Dr Muzi Sikhakhane SC, Reverend Dr Allan Boesak, Arthur Fraser and Prof Isaac Shai are launching the civic movement Vuka Azania in Sandton.
The new decolonial advocacy think tank says it is not a political party but will focus on land reform, economic opportunities, education and improving the lives of Black South Africans.
📸: Simon Majadibodu/IOL

[Nwabisa Mzamo @svz22vm8f5]

I don’t believe Andrea Johnson misunderstood the law.

It was malicious and intentional. She knew the ends they wanted to achieve. They just never anticipated a commission of inquiry that would require them to justify every step they took 💀

#MadlangaCommission

[Tina @Tina_Hokwana]

‘Even a law student doing their first year would know that…’ - Commissioner Madlanga to Advocate Johnson, the head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption within the NPA. A senior prosecutor with over 26 years of NPA experience being lectured on the difference between a subjective and an objective test.

[KM @KhanyaMsika]

Madlanga: Do you agree?

Adv Johnson: I understand.

Madlanga: Do you AGREEEEE????

Adv Johnson: I agree.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#MadlangaCommission

[Ginning Tatum @GinningTatum]

@_Skosh_ The disrespect 😭

[Ginning Tatum @GinningTatum]

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[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

You finally built the business, now you can clearly see why it was an untapped market.

[#UNPLAYABLE @UnplayableZA]

𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬𝗦!

#BafanaBafana coach Hugo Broos has been offered a 1-year contract extension to stay until after next year's AFCON, as per SABC Sport.

𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨❓️❓️

#BafanaPride
#UNPLAYABLE

[Ash Müller @Askash]

Cape Town just approved 2 new data centres so big, they’d cover 14 rugby fields. And Capetonians are not happy…

The data centres measure 120 000m2 of development, planned for the King Air Industria site near Cape Town International Airport.

Here's what we know so far:

• The Cape Town Municipal Planning Tribunal approved the land use application from King David Country Club, the landowner
• The plan rezones 3 erven into one General Industry zone and removes an old limit that kept floor space under 300 000m2
• A small land swap with the City (involving a substation) is part of the deal
• US company Equinix is set to build the facilities
• Estimated needs: up to 174 megawatts of electricity and 4.4 billion litres of water a year for cooling

The application didn't spell out exactly how much water or power the centres will use, or what their greenhouse gas emissions will look like. For a city that came within a hair of Day Zero water droughts and a country that's lived through years of blackouts/loadshedding, you can understand why citizens are concerned.

Some see it as essential digital infrastructure and investment for Cape Town. Others argue that approving a project this size without answers on water and energy demand is putting the cart before the horse, especially with scarce resources already under pressure. Groups opposing the approval say the public deserves those numbers before a project like this gets the go-ahead, not after.

From what I have learned, there are currently 4 large data centres proposed for Cape Town. If approved, they will consume 34% of our electricity.

There is also a 400 megawatt facility planned for Durban, proposed to be the largest in SA. This will consume 25% of Durban's electricity.

Many countries are declining to build data centres, with the USA lobbying against building them. Switzerland is building their alternative to big tech AI called Euria. It runs on renewable energy, and the heat that the servers generate is recycled into 6000 homes in Geneva.

What do you think about the newly approved data centres for Cape Town? Let me know in the comments.

Image: the site where the data centres are to be built. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Ken @K3N3_X]

Bro, times have truly changed.

[Business Insider Africa @BusInsiderSSA]

South Africa🇿🇦 has secured a $1.5 billion World Bank loan.

The funding targets electricity, transport and water reforms.

The programme could help create nearly 600,000 jobs.

The deal signals growing international confidence in South Africa’s🇿🇦 reform agenda.

[Scrumming Flyhalf @scrumming_ten]

Rugby's greatest dominance 🇿🇦

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

What do you mean the World Cup is over? 😔

[SABC News @SABCNews]

MADLANGA COMMISSION | The Investigative Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) head Advocate Andrea Johnson is expected to take the stand this morning.

[SANTO @ssentongopeter5]

They all played with Messi but how is Messi still playing?😂😂😂

[Ginning Tatum @GinningTatum]

@_Skosh_ Badayisa nemphepho yakhe in F3

[Lu_Guy @LuGuy20]

Understaff it, defund it, delapitate it, deregulate it, devalue it then when it's nice & ripe for the picking privatize it.
The 6 step playbook of "privatisation by stealth"...

[EWN Reporter @ewnreporter]

[JUST IN] The NPA has been granted a forfeiture order to hold the assets of the ‘Maumela Syndicate’ worth R326 million.

This relates to the Tembisa Hospital corruption, flagged by the slain Babita Deokaran.

Businessman Hangwani Maumela has been implicated in the corruption.

[NPASouthAfrica @NPA_Prosecutes]

NPA’s Assets Forfeiture Unit Granted Final Forfeiture Order of Assets Belonging to the Maumela Sindicate Valued at Approximately R326 Million