Dr Pieter Roelofse

I'm a medical doctor ( Internist / specialist physician) working in a busy private hospital in Cape Town. Husband to Elize, father to James, Hein and Roelie.

[Sardieq @SardieqWP]

Worth The Read: Haashim Pead

▪︎ Ethics, transfers, and the role of cerfitied agents to protect the interest of young, world-class talent.

Very good article by Rugby 366's Jan de Koning.
#DHLStormers @CaptSpringbok @APC_Rugby
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[John Robbie @John_C_Robbie]

People still ask me: “John, if I come once, where should I go?”

My answer? Don’t come thinking once will be enough.

South Africa is never one story. It is many stories, woven together into one magnificent journey at a time.

You might start with Big Five safari and end in the Cape Winelands. Come for the golf and discover Johannesburg, our great inland courses and the small towns in between. Drive the Garden Route. Walk in the Drakensberg. Explore KwaZulu-Natal. Come back in another season and you’ll discover something different again.

But wherever you go, you’ll meet the people.

South Africans are passionate about their country. They want you to love it too.

The ranger determined to find your first leopard. The caddie who knows every break on the green. The winemaker opening the bottle they are proudest of. The chef insisting you try one more dish. The person in a small town who sends you twenty kilometres down the road because, “You can’t come all this way and not see that.”

After more than forty years here, I have yet to meet anyone who leaves South Africa feeling they have had enough.

They leave with places they want to see again, people they want to see again — and a piece of their heart still here.

Let Me Show You The South Africa I Love.

Trusted by John. Delivered by ADORE Africa

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[Dylan Bradfield @DilBradly]

This is the BEST … compiled footage to shut up every NZ whiner about the match and the series!!

#Allblacks
#bokke

[Oom Rugby @Oom_Rugby]

🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨

PERCEPTIONS, AND REALITY
"While those kinds of narratives can give you a blind spot about your opponent, what’s worse is when they give you a blind spot about yourself."

https://t.co/uJCWlGFKGY

[Rob Houwing @RobHouwing]

I really do think SuperSport's dumb-down obsession with crowd scenes and supposed 'celeb' faces at a captivating rugby Test has become insufferable. (It is being picked up on worldwide today.) They used to be so good ... and could easily enough restore reputation. STICK TO PLAY!

[A-P Cronje @APC_Rugby]

Well I dunno mate, you did kind of raise it in two press conferences. And told us you called the governing body of the sport to chat about it.

But I suppose it’s odd that we’re giving it airtime.

[Luke @lmd_3212]

The lomax one is a clear yellow.

[Megan S. @SimplyMegszcpt]

I'm speechless!!! 😳
#ANCMustFall 🇿🇦

[Brett Ben Raphael @Brettbenraphael]

Hey SARS, do these travellers need to complete your online questionnaire as well or will you be setting up mobile kiosks along the fence lines and river bed for their convenience?

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

Footage of Taylor Swift in her massive mansion tonight enjoying the fireworks with Travis Kelce 👀

This comes after she shut down half a city for a huge wedding that included many disposable props and required the air conditioning of an entire stadium.

In a 2020 Miss Americana documentary, Taylor Swift described climate change as one of the “horrific situations” facing young people. She calls on you to make sacrifices and vote for candidates who restrict your usage.

Meanwhile, her personal carbon footprint over just the last 48 hours is more than the average person uses in 3 entire lifetimes. Read that again.

[BusinessTech @BusinessTechSA]

The man who left South Africa after completing high school aged 16 and medical school at 23, and is now the richest man in Los Angeles with a net worth R139.1 billion.
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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

For three and a half minutes, an Airbus A330 fell straight down into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. The co-pilot at the controls kept pulling back on his stick. The alarm telling him to push forward instead sounded 75 times. He never did. Today, 17 years later, a Paris court called that manslaughter and fined Airbus and Air France €225,000 each.

The fine is the maximum French law allows for a company killing people through carelessness. Airbus is worth $154 billion. The penalty works out to about two minutes of its revenue. A 2023 court had cleared both companies. Today’s verdict reverses that, and Airbus is already appealing again.

On June 1, 2009, AF447 was crossing the Atlantic from Rio to Paris when it flew into a thunderstorm over the equator. Storm clouds there reach 50,000 feet, higher than any passenger jet flies. Ice packed into three small tubes on the plane’s nose. Those tubes are how the plane knows how fast it’s flying. The speed readings vanished.

The autopilot shut off. The computer that flies the plane dropped into a backup mode the pilots had barely practiced. The captain was on a scheduled break in the back. The pilot flying was Pierre-Cédric Bonin, the least experienced of the three. He pulled the stick back.

A plane flies because air flows smoothly over its wings. Pull the nose up too sharply and that smooth flow breaks. The wings stop pushing the plane up. The plane falls. Pilots call this a stall. To recover, push the nose down and let the wings catch air again.

Bonin did the opposite. He kept the stick back, climbing into the stall. The A330 reached 38,000 feet, ran out of climb, and started falling at almost 125 miles per hour straight down. The alarm screamed “STALL” for 54 straight seconds. Neither pilot mentioned it. Near the end, Bonin asks “But what’s happening?” Then the plane hit the ocean.

The tubes that iced up were a known problem. Airbus A330s and A340s had 32 of these icing incidents in the six years before AF447. In the two months before the crash, the rate climbed to roughly one a week. Europe’s aviation regulator had known for years. Air France had ordered the upgrade, but AF447 was still flying with the old part.

The black boxes lay deeper than the Titanic, almost two and a half miles under the Atlantic. Finding them took two years and €31 million. The crash rewrote pilot training worldwide. Pilots now practice hand-flying a big jet at cruise altitude, pulling out of a stall five miles up, and handling cockpits where every speed gauge is lying.

France’s official investigation found six things contributing to the crash, including how the crew responded. The appeals court today said the two companies were “solely and entirely responsible.” Both can’t be right. The next appeal will fight over which one is.

[Qeda Xhakaza @QedaZA]

This is the guy who shot the employee of Emfuleni. Maybe someone might know him, lets help the police to find him. Justice must be served!!!

[Front Row Rugby @FrontRowRugbyXV]

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Here are the highlights from Ireland's latest defeat to the Springboks.

[Michael Vaughan @MichaelVaughan]

So England got knocked out on Thurs get a charter home today .. West Indies go out last Sunday and are still in Kolkata .. SA in the same position .. That’s where the power is all wrong .. All teams in this situation should be treated the same .. just because you are more powerful at the ICC table shouldn’t count .. #JustSaying

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

This is really worth your time if you missed it.

[Best Movie Moments 🍿 @BestMovieMom]

Kevin Spacey’s speech at the Oxford Union Society on December 1, 2025, addressing his situation. Worth watching all the way to the end.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Okay I honestly cannot explain why this has hit me so hard.

I have never watched anything James Van Der Beek has ever been in.

I did expect this. It’s a message everyone should listen to.

Give yourself a moment to listen to him.

Rest in Peace James.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

An atheist Chinese surgeon didn't believe in Jesus until this happened

Video: CBN

[` @wokenupkohli]

Best Match Of The Tournament So Far 🔥🔥 https://t.co/LcAnvEkATu