A doting Mom 🌸💕

Can’t wait for the sun to come SHINING in! ☀️|| She who pours from a place of abundance.

[A doting Mom 🌸💕 @MaseBeat_]

Deuteronomy 30:3 God, your God, will restore everything you lost; he'll have compassion on you; he'll come back and pick up the pieces from all the places where you were scattered.

[Chris Hattingh 🇿🇦🌐🚢 @ChrisHatt11]

Couldn’t have scripted it better.

[Henriette Frohlich @henriettefroh]

Every vote counts. #LetActionLead

[Dr Nasiphi Moya @nasiphim]

23 years ago, when I was in Grade 11, I met Dr @sthembete

She used to come to our school with @UCT_news through an organisation called SHAWCO. For some reason, she is the only person I remember from that group.

I can safely say that my obsession with going to UCT was inspired by her.

When I got to UCT, I joined SHAWCO and she later became my tutor.

To this day, she remains one of the women who inspired me deeply — without ever knowing it 🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦

[Nondaba🇿🇦 @ShweleNgelosi]

We will
We will
We will
Since 1994🚮🚮

[Nthanda Manduwi 🌍 @NthandaManduwi]

Hurts me to say this: Africa will not be saved by entrepreneurship. We cannot vibecode ourselves into the 4th industrial revolution. We still need to industrialize. To achieve this, we need stronger and better public institutions. We need extremely competent leaders at the helm.

[My Aunt Fanny 🇵🇸🇻🇪🇮🇷 @Dienne_7]

If capitalism breeds innovation, how come all the innovation is happening in a socialist country?

[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

We must never forget the media houses that gladly and without any independent verification kept repeating the lies of Paul O’Sullivan and Fadiel Adams.

Two half-educated men who kept tarnishing the mechatronics engineer who chose to take her skills to serve the SAPS.

[🇿🇦gqimm shelele💎 @MaDhlomo_]

Nah man. African leaders must burn in hell😭 there is just no ways. Where are the fire hydrants??????

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So anyone - Iranian, Omani, etc - born in the Strait of Hormuz gets U.S. citizenship under the 14th Amendment?

[Trev @Tokyo_Trev]

And they have the audacity to ask for tariff increases every year. We are always burdened by the consequences of corruption!

[Neli M 🇸🇿🇿🇦 @NellyM_0]

As someone who has lost a parent. I don’t remember calling my friends one by one to talk them. The friend who stays close to my house heard the news and told all my other friends.
Can’t be nursing friends’ feelings while grieving the loss of a parent.

[Big Sis 🇿🇦 @Bokang_BigSis]

He doesn’t even look clean 😩

[xoesh @xoesh]

Look at these thugs

[Garrett Hughes @Garretthughes]

Contractor came by this morning, shook my hand but not my wife’s.

Brother, I cannot emphasize enough how badly you have misidentified the decision maker in this transaction.

[I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA @Lolita721611021]

🇿🇦 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”...‼️

[RI & The Blog @Riri_Roundy]

Foreign nationals are purposely being obtuse about this SA citizen issue. Almost all African countries have no birthright citizenship and they understand this law in other countries but somehow fail to grasp it when they’re in South Africa.

[Ta Iceman🧊 @BhutAndy]

@SiyabongaOnX The same ‘Cyril is a billionaire. He won’t steal our money’ gang

[Siyabonga @SiyabongaOnX]

“Ze comes from money, and he’s a legit businessman”. Kusho nina in 2019 nisdakelwa!”

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

🇺🇦The World Bank says 41% of Ukrainians are living under the poverty line. In the middle of a devastating war...

🇿🇦Meanwhile, 75% of Black South Africans live under the poverty line

The number is 1% for White South Africans🇿🇦

There’s a lot to be “learned” from this.

[knick @Knick_RSA]

You outshine all the journalists in South Africa 🇿🇦