@Iam_Kamow When the Bible says “do not lean on your own understanding” the Bible is being serious. Your heart is deceitful, your emotions fluctuate, your understanding does not see the overall, big picture. God never lies, God never changes, God knows all. Trust Him.
The wealthiest people in a capitalist country are business people.
The wealthiest people in a socialist country are the party leaders and the top government bureaucrats.
I don’t trust the DA’s obsession with the private sector when it comes to essential services. Electricity, water, transport and other critical infrastructure cannot simply be treated like businesses waiting to be handed over to whoever can make money from them.
So the state must step aside and let capital deliver water, electricity and refuse? For what then is government elected?
This is literally an open admission that they have no interest in building a capable public sector. Just hand the functions to private companies so profit can be extracted from basic needs.
The poor will pay more. Prepaid meters will cut people off faster. Unprofitable areas will get inferior service. That is how privatisation of municipal services always works.
The crisis in municipalities is cadre deployment, corruption and zero accountability. The answer is not to sell the work to their white friends companies. The answer is to rebuild public institutions that actually deliver and face consequences when they don’t.
Government is not a tender board for capital.
The model allows for large scale movement of state assets into private hands without removing the risk from the fiscus.
Then when that model fails because it invariably does, it allows the private sector to come back and ask for concessions, subsidies, negotiated agreements..
Pieter Du Toit's apology regarding his coverage of Andrea Johnson strangely centres mostly on her accomplishments and achievements. A list of reasons why he acted as he did rather than a true reflection on his practice of journalism, like his hero vs villain framing, that led to the mistake in the first place.
Brazil’s🇧🇷 President Lula da Silva:
'Brazil doesn’t want war with the US. I don’t want war with China. I don’t want war with Russia.
I don’t want war with Uruguay. I want peace. I want my country to develop. I want my people to live well.'
Brazil may not want war, however the US will not settle for anything less than total domination of Latin America with a revived Monroe Doctrine.
If Brazil and Latin America do not have credible deterrence, the horrors of the 20th Century’s Operation Condor will repeat again.
Arguably, those horrors are already beginning.
The DA’s in the news today pushing businesses to run public services. It’s not new - it’s their manifesto’s default, from water to electricity to policing.
Cape Town is proof it doesn’t work the way they claim - the City’s own electricity supply model is already run for profit - surplus up from 8.38% to 12.60% - and it still overcharged residents above what NERSA, South Africa’s independent electricity regulator, approved, for three straight years running.
The model is more profit & less accountability.
Businesses don’t run public services out of charity - they run them for a return. Cape Town already paid the price.
🔴 THE RISE AND RISE AND RISE OF @Simphiwe_Dludlu 🔴
I enjoyed every minute of this chat with a true icon on #MSWOn947. Imbokodo for real...!!✊🏽
Good luck to @Banyana_Banyana
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As a new coach at football clubs like Durban City, you dont open your luggage & take out all your clothes,
You keep your clothes inside the luggage, ready to leave lest you get fired tomorrow
Only results will save me.
I was told that assessment will be made after 15 matches. I am expecting 3 more players nextweek
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Relebohile Mofokeng scores his first league goal for Royal Union Saint Gilloise as they beat Westerlo! 🇿🇦
The former Orlando Pirates star scored four minutes after coming off the bench. 💪