Robert Hartmann

Born in South Africa, living in the United Kingdom. German heritage.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@DrEliDavid If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio.

His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure.

Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and monumental breakthroughs are created through merit, relentless innovation, and visionary execution.

They are not created through bureaucratic gatekeeping, red tape, and ideological obsession. South African politicians hate him because his mere existence exposes their profound failure to build anything of lasting value.

Elon Musk's story is the absolute opposite of the South African story.

Had the environment allowed it, he could have built SpaceX in South Africa. Decades ago, the country possessed a first world military space and missile infrastructure.

Instead of being nurtured into a global commercial aerospace hub, it was dismantled and collapsed under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and political patronage.

We cannot even talk about Elon Musk freely investing his billions back into South Africa. Despite being born in Pretoria, race based economic policies and restrictive BEE ownership mandates have historically locked out global builders who refuse to bend to political dictation.

The South African story has become a tragic tale of what could have been, tainted by toxic governance, race politics, and destructive economics.

[U.S. Mission SA @USEmbassySA]

Given how gracious @SAFA_net was in expressing its gratitude for the speed with which the United States expedited its visas, you have to wonder about these Iranians (@IraninSA ) and their hysterical posts. Either they are incapable of managing the process properly or they are acting in bad faith.

[Megan S. @SimplyMegszcpt]

Make this trend people! 🇿🇦
#FundTheMadlangaCom.
If treasury can find money to bailout failing SOE's, and if the can fund a case at the @CIJ_ICJ, and they can use taxpayers money for frivolous lawsuits and they can keep funding failed projects where money has been looted over and over, then they can find the money to investigate corruption so that South Africa can finally get justice. Money from the proceeds of crime should be used. The Madlanga commission has produced more results than most commissions have, and in a commendable period of time. The ANC has postponed the justice we are still awaiting in the Zondo Commission, and now the president wants to halt the Madlanga proceedings because a can of worms has been opened, and people are being held accountable.
#FundTheMadlangaCom
@PresidencyZA
@Treasury_RSA
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[Kanthan Pillay 🇿🇦 @KanthanPillay]

This is what the ANC fears most about Starlink — a rural populace with access to knowledge will no longer be voting fodder.

[Robert Hartmann @RobGhartmann]

@MOSSADil 👍

[Wayne Duvenage @wayneduv]

This is a very telling statistic. Uncontrolled employee and primary fuel costs, plus corruption, have led to Eskom’s abuse of its citizens. Eskom’s employee costs to produce the same amount of electricity increased by 1,195% since 1994 – MyBroadband https://t.co/YyjlAxHNKh

[Robert Hartmann @RobGhartmann]

@PhumlaniMMajozi Kill off Bargaining Councils.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

I attended the State of the City Address today. Most of you have probably never heard of it. But don’t worry, you didn’t miss a thing.

No vision, no plan, no accountability. While this failing coalition government was cheering for itself, I was taking notes. Tomorrow I will release a series of videos on the real state of Joburg.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Tiff Needell 🏁 @tiff_tv]

As entertaining as the opening laps at Miami were, I did have to hastily wind my @SkySportsF1 volume down to One as Crofty went on a full heavy metal, crank it up to Eleven rant that spoiled the moment. Could his best friends please have a whisper in his ear ... at Volume Eleven!

[Ian Cameron @IanCameron23]

This weekend an ambulance was stoned on the N2 near the Macassar bridge. This is completely unacceptable.

Emergency services respond when people are injured, sick, or in danger. Attacking an ambulance that is trying to save lives is reckless and puts both medical staff and patients at risk.

Sadly, this kind of violence is not isolated.

Police officers experience the same thing far too often when responding to incidents, especially in high-risk areas, like we saw again this weekend.

Emergency responders should never have to fear being attacked simply for doing their jobs.

Very often when police then follow up and investigate, ‘no one knows’ who stoned them.

There must be consequences for those responsible. If we allow attacks on emergency services to become normalised, we undermine the very systems meant to protect and assist our communities.

Respect for emergency services is non-negotiable. IC

[Sunday Times @SundayTimesZA]

The Special Investigating Unit is zeroing in on water tanker tenders on which billions were spent in Tshwane and Johannesburg.

https://t.co/3w5NLQ9vme

[One Nation SA - Corruption Buster @OneNation70290]

Zapiro roasts showerhead Lesufi 🤣🤣
https://t.co/HM57T4VTZT

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Robert Hartmann @RobGhartmann]

@pontsho_mp State of the disgraceful

[Robert Hartmann @RobGhartmann]

@jsteenhuisen I purchased nectarines from Lidl 🇬🇧 on Saturday.
They were delicious.

[I AM A PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN @ArnoldMpawu]

When South African patriots tried to protect jobs for South Africans, you said we are xenophobic. I hope you are learning something.

[Robert Hartmann @RobGhartmann]

@KP24 Prosecute and punish those that break the law. No exceptions

[Kallie Kriel @kalliekriel]

The ANC leadership’s attempts in this media statement to intimidate me personally with blatant lies, and in the process to place my personal safety at risk, expose the #ANC as a party that is increasingly undermining democratic principles and basic human rights. Unfortunately, there are also some in the media such as @PieterDuToit and @AdriaanBasson from @News24 who are actively participating in the ANC’s intimidation efforts. This intimidation will, however, not force me or @afriforum into silence. On the contrary, it motivates us to fight even harder, for the sake of everyone in the country, for the protection of human rights.

The struggle for human rights and for the country necessarily includes resisting the ANC’s corruption, maladministration, and its attempts to turn South Africa into another Zimbabwe through expropriation without compensation. It would be disloyal to the country not to fight to prevent the kind of suffering to which Zimbabweans have been subjected from being repeated in South Africa.

AfriForum will also continue to oppose, among other things, the BELA Act, which threatens the continued existence of Afrikaans schools and, consequently, Afrikaans cultural communities. Furthermore, we will not rest for as long as @PresidencyZA Ramaphosa and other ANC leaders refuse to unequivocally condemn the “Kill the Boer” chant as a call for ethnic violence against Afrikaners.

[Robert Hartmann @RobGhartmann]

@elonmusk My suggestion would be to lock up indefinitely the direct family members of any mass shooter. This may give the perpetrator pause for thought. Prevention is better than cure.