Technology is dangerously great! It makes people lazy & comfortable, silently killing the realization that WE are creators (more destroyers) in our own skin.
@pookiepolls I stopped 16 years ago. When I started, I promised myself 10years. When the 10 year anniversary came, I stopped. It is mostly about mental programming and keeping yourself busy.
🇿🇦 Patrice Motsepe and why you have blackouts or loadshedding
Motsepe is Ramaphosa’s brother in law
In 2009 Patrice Motsepe said electricity was too cheap and that was preventing independent power producers from entering the South African market.
16years later electricity has gone up by over 600% and Mr Motsepe owns over 50% of the independent power stations
#Loadshedding
TIMELINE- THE RISE OF IPPs in SOUTH AFRICA.
▫️2008 Brian Dames became the chief officer of Eskom Generation.
▫️2009 Patrice Motsepe says Eskom electricity is too cheap and that was preventing independent power producers.
▫️2010 Brain Dames became CEO of Eskom.
▫️ 2011 first bid window for solar and wind projects to be funded by eskom.
▫️2012 Globeleq established HQ in Cape Town. Globeleq is the leading IPP company in Africa and is owned by the UK government.
▫️2012 Cyril Ramaphosa returns to frontline politics and is elected deputy president of the ANC.
▫️2014: 121 hours of load shedding recorded.
▫️ March 2014 Brian Dames resigns from Eskom
▫️Sept 2014 Brian Dames joins African Rainbow Minerals and Energy owned by Patrice Motsepe.
▫️ Dec 2014 Cyril Ramaphosa assigned to oversee the turnaround of Eskom in what was labelled the “war room.”
▫️2015 : 858 hours of load shedding
▫️ 2017: Cyril Ramaphosa wins ANC conference.
▫️ 2018: Cyril Ramaphosa becomes president of South Africa.
🔑 Pravin Gordhan appointed minister of Public Enterprises- overseeing Eskom.
▫️2018: 127 hours of load shedding
▫️2019: 528 hours of load shedding
▫️2020: 859 hours of load shedding
▫️2021: 1099 hours of load shedding
▫️2021: IPP bid window 5
▫️ 2021 Ikamva Consortium - secured 12 of the 25 projects on offer.
🔑 info : The Ikamva Consortium includes Oslo-listed Aker Horizon's Mainstream, South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe's Africa Rainbow Energy & Power, local firm H1 Holdings and Globeleq, which the development finance institutions of Britain and Norway owns.
▫️2022 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has awarded an electricity trading license to Remgro’s The Energy Exchange. Remgro is owned by Johann Rupert.
▫️2023: R41 billion spent by Eskom on IPPs which represents 27% of expenditure. Ipp’s only generated 8% of the power in 2023.
🔑 info: Between 1988 and 2007, electricity tariffs increased by 223%, whilst inflation over this period was 335%.
‼️From the 2008 there was a clear and sharp inflection point for electricity tariffs in South Africa. ‼️‼️‼️‼️
From 2008 to 2022, electricity tariffs increased by 653%, whilst inflation over this period was 129%. Thus, electricity tariffs increased four-fold (or quadrupled) in real money terms in 14 years.
“Connect the dots”...‼️
This toxic ideology isn’t “enlightenment” - it’s dogmatic groupthink that silences debate, crushes critical thinking, and breeds fear in our kids.
Schools should prepare young South Africans for the real world, not turn them into fragile pronoun warriors terrified of the “wrong” opinion. Enough with the cultural pandemic infecting education!
Read this and push back hard. Free speech, merit, and truth over woke nonsense.
https://t.co/uuRbQEFOrp
Patriotic parents & educators - your move. 🇿🇦
Another South African favourite is the hoards that swarm your vehicle in traffic.. for many, the last thing that they see is members of these roving groups going through their pockets before they bleed out.
@Saffa_GenXer My first thought was: ‘what hatred towards white people are going to be spewing from this Zulu’s lips 🤦♂️!’ - well, again I have learned today to not judge the book by the cover. Wise words Sir. Thank you for seeing and speaking the truth! 🙏
A woman was murdered this morning (Friday 14 August 2026) in a cold-blooded rock-throwing attack on the R24 freeway near Bedfordview, east of Johannesburg.
At approximately 07:38, while driving eastbound on the R24 just before the Gillooly’s Interchange, a large rock was deliberately hurled from the Concord Road Bridge (some reports also refer to it as the Van Der Linde Bridge) straight onto her vehicle. The rock smashed clean through her windscreen, striking her in the head and causing catastrophic head injuries.
She lost control of the car instantly and crashed into the road barriers. She was certified dead at the scene.
This is not an accident. This is premeditated murder by cowards standing on a bridge, selecting a random motorist, and dropping a heavy rock from height specifically to kill or maim.
The rock ended up on the passenger-side floor mat, blood sprayed across the dashboard, door, and interior.
These bridge attacks keep happening because the ANC-run state has zero control, zero will, and zero consequences for the scum who treat South Africans as target practice from overpasses. Same bridges, same method, same predictable outcome. Another family destroyed while the government pretends it’s just “crime.”
I agree 100%, I wish the whole world could grasp and practice this profound truth!
We are becoming numb-and-dumb in every sense, 'forgetting' the two greatest blessings God gifted us with:
1. FREE WILL and
2. The ability to CREATE.
Social media and poor diets are not the problem. They simply expose and amplify it.
The real problem is that too many people lack discipline, character, and self restraint. Put a microphone in front of most people and this is what you get.
Freedom has never meant doing whatever you want. True freedom is the ability to govern yourself. That is why strong families, institutions, traditions, and the rule of law are essential. They do not restrict freedom. They make it possible.