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George Kusche is the winner of the Comrades Marathon's 99th edition for men!
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@MbalulaFikile You and your friends no longer have power in the word โracistโ. 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
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 ๐ฅฒ
@centre_risk
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.
Hereโs 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 donโt 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.
โSavings 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.โ
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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%
๐จ๐ง 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.