Nikolas Marich

Isaiah 41:13

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

LIVE | SA’s George Kusche storms to record Comrades Marathon win https://t.co/9VCfpNrPOQ

[SABC Sport @SABC_Sport]

🏃‍♂️ ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕟 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟞 🏃‍♀️

George Kusche is the winner of the Comrades Marathon's 99th edition for men!

🚨 LIVE
📺 SABC 2
🌐 https://t.co/26PdrPrnVE

#SABCSportAthletics #Comrades2026

[Roland Schoeman @Rolandschoeman]

@MbalulaFikile You and your friends no longer have power in the word “racist”. You use it whenever you have done something wrong. When people point out now useless you are. When people pointed out international trips etc etc etc. when your lies are exposed. THAT IS NOT RACIST. ITS RECKONING

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

"Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets—and can be lost in a heartbeat."

— Charlie Munger

[Chris Hattingh 🇿🇦🌐🚢🏭📈 @ChrisHatt11]

Petrol going up between R3-R5, diesel possibly going up by R10 per litre...

Imagine if South Africa had a functional, safe, and affordable public rail network 🥲

@centre_risk

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.

In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.

In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.

A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.

Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.

Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.

One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

[Jozi vs Jozi @jozivsjozi]

Train station in Jeppes Town, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2007 vs 2025

[Jozi vs Jozi @jozivsjozi]

530 Nicholson Road. Johannesburg. South Africa.

2009 vs 2025

[Jozi vs Jozi @jozivsjozi]

37 Soper Road. Johannesburg. South Africa.

2009 vs 2025

[Jozi vs Jozi @jozivsjozi]

Rail tracks along Booysens station road.

South of Johannesburg. South Africa.

2010 vs 2025

[Nikolas Marich @NikolasMarich]

@cleans_letsrun @wada_ama Ja neh... eish

[The Common Sense @CommonSense_ZA]

Gauteng shows just how much untapped potential South Africa has. Read the full article below.

#SouthAfrica #Gauteng #AfricaEconomy #Growth #TheCommonSense

https://t.co/DOBLIGDprn

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“Savings can be created by spending less. You can spend less if you desire less. And you will desire less if you care less about what others think of you.”

— Morgan Housel

[Johann Biermann 🇿🇦 @JohannBiermann1]

Stats SA released the latest unemployment numbers today.

Below chart shows the "expanded" unemployment figures for the country (orange) and youth (blue).

Q4 2015:
Country 33.8%
Youth 63.1%

Q4 2025:
Country 42.1%
Youth 68.3%

[Johann Biermann 🇿🇦 @JohannBiermann1]

South Africa "expanded" unemployment by year:
2008 - 28.7%
2009 - 33.6%
2010 - 35.2%
2011 - 34.8%
2012 - 35.2%
2013 - 34.0%
2014 - 34.6%
2015 - 33.8%
2016 - 35.7%
2017 - 36.3%
2018 - 37.0%
2019 - 38.7%
2020 - 42.6%
2021 - 46.2%
2022 - 42.7%
2023 - 41.1%
2024 - 41.9%
2025 - 42.1%

Source: Stats SA, Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), 4th Quarter 2025. LU3 unemployment.

[Jozi vs Jozi @jozivsjozi]

Booysens Train Station, Johannesburg, South Africa.

2014 vs 2025

Timelapse-video in the comments.

[Drikus Combrinck @DrieksCombrinck]

“If you don’t know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.”

- Adam Smith, The Money Game

[DA Gauteng @DAGauteng]

🚨💧 Joburg is losing millions of litres of clean drinking water because of unattended water leaks. This is the real reason why you do not have water in your taps.

Watch the DA Johannesburg Mayoral Candidate, Helen Zille, report on the ground.

[Jozi vs Jozi @jozivsjozi]

84 De Villiers Street. Johannesburg. South Africa.

November 2013 vs January 2025.