It’s astounding how people easily excuse his actions as ‘it was a rape scene, he was in character’ but disregard that she was portraying a woman being raped when he crossed the boundary discussed in the blocking of the scene. Method acting or not, the reality is she was harassed
Violating her personal space in the name of ‘being in character’ is still a violation. Same way you wouldn’t physically stab or hurt someone in an action scene in the name of authenticity
Heavy (Intro)
Chasing Summer (all of it please 🥹)
No evil
D’evils
Satisfaction
Ohh nah nah
Footsteps in the dark (both parts)
Sin again
Poetry in motion
So the IDC just ran a paid News24 piece telling South Africa how great they are. Allow me to do something the IDC apparently cannot: basic maths.
They say they approved R26.6 billion in “transformation funding” last year and “created or preserved” 15,000 jobs.
That is R1,773,333 per job.
One million, seven hundred and seventy-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three rand. Per job.
You could pay someone the average South African salary for nearly seven years with that money. Or you could give it to the IDC and they will “create or preserve” one job. Maybe. If the company does not end up in their R30 billion distress portfolio.
Oh, did I not mention that? The IDC’s distress portfolio, that is the money they invested that is now in trouble, is R30 billion. That is bigger than the R26.6 billion they approved this year. They are underwater. They are losing money faster than they are deploying it.
And of that R30 billion in distress? R9 billion is in black-empowered entities. So roughly a third of the “transformation” money they are bragging about in paid newspaper articles is currently circling the drain.
But wait, there is more.
Since 2017, the IDC has given R8.5 billion to 128 black industrialists. Sounds impressive until you learn that a single manganese company got R6.1 billion. One company. That is 72% of the total. Three companies consumed virtually the entire allocation.
The average per industrialist? R66.4 million.
Here is my favourite part: the IDC says 88% of its funding goes to black-owned businesses. Beautiful number. Very clean. Very round. Very paid-media-friendly.
But when NAFCOC went to Parliament and said the IDC is undermining black industrialists through “aggressive recovery actions, premature legal enforcement, and liquidation processes,” the Portfolio Committee Chair responded: “It appears that the IDC has not effectively embedded issues of transformation in its business processes.”
That is Parliament. Not me. Parliament.
So here is what R26.6 billion in “transformation funding” actually looks like:
1. R1.77 million per job (if you believe the job numbers).
2. R30 billion in distress (which they do not mention in the paid article).
3. R9 billion in black business distress (which they definitely do not mention).
72% of black industrialist funding going to three companies (which they will never mention).
But sure. Run the paid article. The maths will still be here in the morning.
60 years ago today, District Six was declared a whites only area.
I took this video in District Six. A lot of people in the comments failed to grasp that the point of the post was the connection between the forced removals policy from 6 decades ago and what’s happening today.
A brief re-introduction: I’m a technologist and farmer, and I currently work with the Green Software Foundation to host community tech meetups in Budapest.
You’re always welcome to join us if you’re passing through: https://t.co/SvJAglhSEr
Tonight at 7pm, my comedy special will be available on my YouTube Channel for free. I decided not to sell it to a streamer, so I can have full ownership of it. It is a financial hit, comedy specials aren’t cheap to make. But it’s me, betting on myself.
Please watch it🥺🙏🏾