Hands Off Gen. Mkhwanazi! A society that doesn’t protect whistleblowers is doomed to become a mafia state! They have already killed Babita. What do you think they will do to Mkhwanazi?
He must be shielded from all petty, egotistical, pompous & parasitic attacks!
All who try to reduce his mission to “personality fight ”, or even factions within the SAPS are all wrong. Journalists, politicians & many experts have been peddling of this line.
What this line seeks to do, is to neutralise the correct momentum against SAPS generals who have protected, advanced & benefitted from organised criminals with the endorsed of top politicians.
Mkhwanazi’s mission is simple: Organised criminals are embedded with top politicians & top generals, and they must all be exposed and meet the full might of the law!
Fact: All who oppose Gen. Mkhwanazi are not with the people! That is the bottom line!
If Mkhwanazi doesn’t win this battle, which is a peoples battle, then ours will become a banana republic, a mafia state ruled by men with guns!
Society must defend itself!
ACRONYM, ABBREVIATION, INITIALISM.
Read to learn 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
VISA is actually not an acronym or abbreviation. It’s a Backronym.
A backronym is when people take a word or phrase that already exists and try to force a full sentence into its letters. The word "Visa" comes from the Latin phrase "charta visa" meaning "paper that has been seen." It’s a noun.
Here is a short lesson for those who care to read.
Most people use "Acronym" and "Abbreviation" like they’re the same thing, but in reality, they aren’t even on the same street.
Think of an Abbreviation as a word haircut. You’re just cutting the tail off to save space, but you still pronounce the full name.
Examples: Gov. Sanwo-Olu, Gen. Musa, or Prof. Soyinka.
An Acronym, however, is a new identity. The first letters of a group of words fuse together to create a brand new word you can actually pronounce.
Examples: JAMB, LASPOTECH, or NAPTIP. You don't spell them out letter-by-letter, you say them as one single word.
If you have to call out the letters one by one, like EFCC, FCT, or DSS, that’s technically an Initialism.
Shortened word = Abbreviation (Dr.)
Pronounced like a word = Acronym (UNILAG)
Pronounced as letters = Initialism (N-P-F)
Stop calling everything an abbreviation.
Class don end.
INALEGWU.
BREAKING: China is pressuring Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
There is one problem. Iran did not close it.
Seven insurance companies in London did.
China buys 80% of Iran’s shipped oil. Beijing has a $400 billion, 25-year cooperation agreement with Tehran. China is Iran’s economic lifeline. If any country on earth has leverage over Iran, it is China. And China is now using that leverage to demand the Strait reopens.
But the Strait was not closed by a sovereign decision. It was closed by the withdrawal of reinsurance capacity from five to ten firms, mostly in London, backstopping twelve P&I clubs that cover 90% of global tonnage. Iran did not order those firms to withdraw. Iran cannot order them to reinstate. Neither can China.
Even if Tehran capitulates entirely tonight and the IRGC stands down, not a single reinsurer reinstates Gulf war risk coverage on a phone call from Beijing. Reinstatement requires rebuilt risk models, voyage-by-voyage re-underwriting, repriced treaty capacity, and a threat environment that actuaries can quantify. None of that exists while 440.9 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium remains unaccounted for and the IRGC is still launching drones at Oman.
China has leverage over Iran. China has zero leverage over Lloyd’s of London.
This is the part nobody is modelling. The country with the most to lose and the most leverage over the belligerent cannot fix the mechanism that actually closed the Strait. Because the mechanism is not geopolitical. It is actuarial. And actuaries do not take calls from the Politburo.
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Layoff Watchlist: Feb 6, 2026:
Dick’s Sporting Goods
EY
Fidelity
KPMG
MLS
Unilever
AWS
Siemens Healthineers
Sysco
Santander
Ashley Furniture
Goldman Sachs
Stanford University
Dartmouth College
Android
NBCUniversal
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Emerson
Blue Owl Capital
The Ladders
Robert Half
Westinghouse Electric Company
Chewy
J.Crew
BioSpace
New York Life
Warner Bros. Discovery
SharkNinja
Barclays
JPMorgan Chase
BlackRock
Kaiser Permanente
Citi
Salesforce
S&P Global
Korn Ferry
Evercore
Lionsgate
Saks Global
USAA
Ford – Greenfield Site Strategy
Stripe
Meta
Volvo
Google
Lyft
Royal Caribbean Group
Blue Origin
Coca-Cola
Cargill
Okta
Voyager
Walmart
Autodesk
DocuSign
Aon
Activision Blizzard
Qualtrics
Adobe
HelloFresh
Disney
Visa
Flock Safety
L3Harris
Workday (2/5/26)
Empower Pharmacy
Pep Boys
Merck
CLEAResult
SanDisk
Supermicro
Bain & Company
The Cheesecake Factory
Affirm
Local, State, & Government Positions
I will start putting out overviews for each including timing, divisions and estimated totals in the coming days.
someone once told me “emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough to understand it before you hand it to someone else” and that honestly changed how i move.
whatever you do, pray for the ability to see your own sins, your own hypocrisy, and your own shortcomings. never lose sight of that. never get so carried away pointing fingers that you forget that you too, have excesses that need tending.
If I were a man I too would be the loudest advocate for marriage. In fact I’m constantly impressed by how thoroughly women were convinced that an institution offering men comfort and unpaid labor was somehow their prize. Imagine waking up to a life where your domestic needs
No Ash, we don’t need more expensive resorts built on KZN’s coastlines, privatising access to the beach. DBN certainly does NOT need to compete with CPT on ridiculously expensive property that pushes locals out. Not everything needs to be “developed”. Developers must be stopped😭