Preetika Jasmath

Mommy of 2, Wife, passionate Communication Specialist, Yogi, retired Party Animal. My Motto: I can do this... yes I can... (Views expressed are my own)

[RISE Mzansi @Rise_Mzansi]

[READ] Rise Mzansi has laid a solid foundation on which to build for future elections

https://t.co/PKJ53sKMnG

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Voters go to the polls in South Africa tomorrow, 30 years after the country’s first democratic elections. But the ruling ANC is facing headwinds, with speculation that for the first time, they might not reach 50% of the vote. One of their many challengers is @Rise_Mzansi, who are hoping to reach young voters with a message of change. I spoke to party leader @SongezoZibi about the choice facing South Africans at the ballot box.

[George Philipas @GeorgePhilipas]

Rise Mzansi campaign team reacting to their presidential candidate, Songezo Zibi’s appearance on Christiane Amanpour’s CNN show yesterday

#southafrica #elections #cnn #may29 #may29th #risemzansi

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

We are about to go live.

Tune into DSTV Channel 401

#WeNeedNewLeaders
#VoteRISEMzansi

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

We are in Cape Town, over 4000 of us marching to the provincial legislature.

A government that denies you basic services is a government that doesn’t care.

We are standing with all residents of this province who have been neglected by the DA government.

#WeNeedNewLeaders

[Preetika Jasmath @Preetiks]

@Rise_Mzansi WOW WOW! New leaders are coming...

[RISE Mzansi @Rise_Mzansi]

“South Africa needs new leaders and RISE Mzansi has the power and the ability to mobilise across South Africa,”

RISE Mzansi National Leader, Songezo Zibi

#WeNeedNewLeaders
#VoteRISEMzansi

[Preetika Jasmath @Preetiks]

@SAMNET786 @WomensCulturalG Rip in peace.
Best recipe book ever for South African Indian cuisine

[RISE Mzansi @Rise_Mzansi]

The people shall indeed govern. We are going live shortly at the #RISEPeoplesManifesto

#2024IsOur1994
#ForThePeopleByThePeople

[Lawrence Manaka -RISE Mzansi🇿🇦 @Lawrence_Manaka]

I got a call this morning telling me that my former high-school Jb Matabane in Ivory Park was on fire. The fire ravaged the school library, the administration office and the Principals office.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest.

Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, & Reebok were all selling more shoes.

So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest.

The winner was

A corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield.

"Two days after the competition," he said, "I wasn't even asked—I was told that I was now a footwear designer for Nike."

As he got to work on his first official shoe design, he thought about a building he had studied in architecture school: The Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The Centre Pompidou is an inside-out building, meaning that the structural, mechanical, and circulation systems are all exposed.

“That building,” Tinker said, “was describing what it was to the people of Paris. And I thought, ‘Well why not do that with a shoe? Let’s cut a hole in the side and show what’s in the shoe.’”

So Tinker designed an inside-out shoe:

The Air Max 1.

The Air Max 1 was a massive success, and it steered Nike's design direction from then on.

"To this day," Tinker says, "Phil Knight says I saved Nike."

Takeaway 1:

Had he not studied that building in Paris, Tinker says, he couldn’t have created the Air Max.

Creativity, he says, is a function of the “library in your head."

“When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.”

Takeaway 2:

Tinker Hatfield went to architecture school and then he was a corporate architect for 4.5 years. Then, literally overnight, he became one of the best shoe designers in the world.

This makes me think of a counter-intuitive discovery made by psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904.

Before Spearman, the natural assumption was that the more you specialize in one thing, the worse you’ll be at other things.

Instead, Spearman discovered "the positive manifold" phenomenon.

He found that different abilities tend to be positively correlated. That the expertise gained through specialization is transferrable. That the cognitive and creative abilities cultivated as an architect could positively correlate with being a shoe designer.

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"Creativity is a function of the previous work you put in."  — Robert Greene

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[Faeezalok @faeezalok]

2024 is our 1994 – this is a rallying cry that encapsulates the hope and trust we have in South Africa's transformative power🇿🇦

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

The biggest theme in tomorrow's SONA must be the almost R1trn we need to fix some of our biggest problems, money we no longer have. Pres Ramaphosa needs to say where that will be found and used. If he doesn't, then the SONA will just be talk.
https://t.co/XjmJT1OIGQ

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

We've reversed 20yrs on some key measures like unemployment (at 2001 levels), electricity generation (more than 30yrs), gov debt (service costs are now the Number 1 budget expenditure item). This is what a crisis looks like. Full vid with "what to do now" coming up next.

[Rivonia Circle @rivonia_circle]

What is the money intended to do?
Where is the money going to come from?
How is the money going to be allocated?
Who is responsible for ensuring the money is used for what it is intended for?
@SongezoZibi explains why we need to focus on the money for #SONA2023

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

We Need a Crisis Recovery Plan - Not Business As Usual https://t.co/lEByGtOtqV via @YouTube

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

I spoke to eNCA about the depth of our crisis, the areas in which we have erased the gains we made since 1994 - and what needs to be done to begin digging ourselves out of this hole.
https://t.co/6ioqtse856

[Preetika Jasmath @Preetiks]

It’s not just my house but several houses in Roosevelt park. Kindly respond.

[Preetika Jasmath @Preetiks]

Our power has been out since yesterday afternoon at 2pm. What is the eta on the repair. City Power call ref is : CPWEB3584505

[Preetika Jasmath @Preetiks]

@CityPowerJhb We lost power at 14:00 on Schroder street, Roosevelt Park. Now it’s load shedding. We’ve logged a call. Any idea on an eta. Call logged, City Power call ref is : CPWEB3584505