Desmond Thomas

Persistence personified! Entrepreneur servicing entrepreneurs. Director at TP Consulting, Accountants, Auditors, Management Consulting, Training.

[Pele @Phesheya_OG]

@Kristinartz A man at peace

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

My favourite type of intelligence is noticing when someone feels left out and quietly making room for them.

[Desmond Thomas @MosDez4]

@BafanaBafana as an assistant coach, when you see a train smash in slow motion like last night, what is your role? Im genuinely asking if noone said “haai man” bra Hugh

[N’wa Mucanyi 🫶🏾 @KhananiShingan1]

If someone’s making an effort to lose you, let them

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

Don’t let someone get comfortable with disrespecting you.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Master the art of the fresh start. From a bad morning. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.

[Kermit Romeo Erasmus @Erasmus_95]

“Play the way u know how”

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

Me refusing to sleep because i didn't get enough time to feel like human after work

[iDiski Times @iDiskiTimes]

🚨 Breaking:

South African defender Aden McCarthy has completed his transfer from Kaizer Chiefs to FK Sabah ahead of the 2026/27 season. https://t.co/DL1ZA6RmFQ

[Othell Yarwyck @bigbrovar]

Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)

Just silence.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Eduardo Camavinga studying "Business of Entertainment, Media and Sports" at Harvard Business School.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Pep Guardiola: “What is Barça missing to win the Champions League? The Champions League is a competition that DESTROYS projects, and I hope that’s not the case at Barça”.

“We must not think that just because you don’t win it, everything that has been built is no good. The league is the competition that gives you consistency and continuity. In the Champions League, you need to reach the decisive stages in good condition, without injuries, and refereeing also has a huge impact”.

“What matters is that the daily work is excellent, that the team keeps growing and improving, and that they don’t believe the season is a failure just because they don’t reach the Champions League final or win it. The league is what sets the foundation for judging whether a season has been good or not”.

[Bocasho Braaf @bocasho_braaf]

You can't build a serious economy on malls, fintech, tenders and imports.

We need factories, farms, mines (which also link to beneficiation), refineries, rail, ports, engineers, nuclear plants, artisans, workers.

[Masechaba C Kobola @mckobola]

Rent. Petrol hike. Talking stages. Electricity hike. 8 liters a day. Ashwaganda. Supplements. Vitamins. Degree. KPIs. 10 000 steps a day. Exercise. Tax free savings. Retirement annuity. Smell good. Therapy. Heal your inner child. Madlanga commission. March and March. Blended families. Baby mama/daddy drama. Levies. Laundry. Kids. Text back. Lunchboxes. Living on a budget. Car insurance. Being a wife. Mom. Dinner preps. Hobbies. Staying in touch with your loved ones. Weekend = saturday only. Church. One book a month. Applying sunscreen. Probiotics. School fees. Kegel exercises. Praying. Meditating. Balanced diet. Vacations. Tax. Interest rates. View once salary. 8 hours of rest. Saxophone is getting louder. Payflex. Pay just now. Living beyond our means. Networking. Multiple streams of income. Travel. Fasting. Build your investment portfolio. Unemployment. Kind regards.

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[Mashudu Modau @Mashstartup]

Arsenal showed you that failure isn’t the end of the story. You might fail once, twice or even three times. But you have to try again. Keep building. The things you believe in are worth it.

[Highbury49 @49Highbury49]

"The donkey doesn't run with the horses, yet he laughs at the loser."

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Emmanuel Petit on Premier League clubs mocking Arsenal after the final defeat:

🗣️ “I have to say, I found it embarrassing.

The second Arsenal lost, some Premier League clubs couldn't wait to jump on social media and remind everyone about their European trophies.

That tells you everything.

Instead of supporting an English club representing the league on the biggest stage in club football, they were busy celebrating Arsenal's pain.

For me, that's not rivalry. That's insecurity.

Arsenal were 90 minutes away from doing something special, and rather than show respect, people were desperately searching through the history books for old trophies to post online.

Why? Because they were terrified of seeing Arsenal join that club.

Let's be honest, some of these clubs spent the entire season watching Arsenal compete at a level they couldn't reach.

The jealousy was obvious.

The moment Arsenal fell short, they treated it like they had won something themselves.

That's the mentality of people who would rather see Arsenal fail than focus on their own success.

The trophy may have slipped away, but the reaction from some rivals showed exactly how much Arsenal still live rent-free in their heads.”

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City and a long-time supporter of Arsenal, writes about what it means to see Arsenal win the Premier League trophy and his hopes for Saturday’s Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain. https://t.co/f4joA3i5sT

[Mashudu Modau @Mashstartup]

Seeing South African startups acquiring other startups is such a major step forward for the ecosystem 🙌🏿

[Morgan Ofori @morgankofori]

Some musings for The Long Wave on why so many people in the Black diaspora are Arsenal supporters

https://t.co/ROItEVfeq3