Hera's Golden Apple

if (mind == full) {
return mindfulness;
}

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[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

It was very sick of Lindani to suggest Mpume uses the underwear Jonasi bought for her 😩🤮

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

And to add to that trauma having to engage with police officers who act as the judge, jury and executioner???

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

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

[Fezile Rhulumente 𓃵 @_skambora]

Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku on the Bonko Khoza incident, 2024. Listen to the recording very sad 😔

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

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

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

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

[SiR @inglewoodSiR]

What’s the setlist for JoBurg?

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

@OnceUponJoburg @inglewoodSiR Soon ke neng bathong, I can’t wait 😩😭

[Msotra’s Finest @msotras_finest]

Ironic how the only institution that functions well in this country is the one that takes money from South Africans

[Lusibalukhulu 🖍 @feziledhlamini_]

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.

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

Yoh I’m missing out on Yussef Dayes again? 😭

[Minister of Menstruation™️🩸 @Candice_Chirwa]

[THREAD]: Period Products that are safe to use for now.

We’ve all seen the news. Now let’s get into which products to try out.

[Zwide @zwideservesbass]

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.

[💕Mide💕 @HaYoMiDe_]

Manifesting this for whoever needs it 🙏🏻

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

Can’t believe I have a 13h00 meeting to do technical analysis and requirements unpacking

😭😩

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

I am facing issues in corporate that my salary hasn’t caught up to, woah 😩✋🏾

[Mpho Mathabathe-Mala @mphomala]

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

[Mpho Mathabathe-Mala @mphomala]

Walk the talk.🌱💚🥰

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

When the question starts with ‘Given that..’

[Hera's Golden Apple @PreshThatGaia]

Lily Allen went straight to the studio after leaving her divorce attorney’s office

[small waist, pretty face 🫦 @oddettem]

Lusanda was at home.

💜💜💜

[Dillan Oliphant @dillanoliphant]

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🥺🙏🏾