Mello. 🦾

BA analyst | solutionist| Been around the world and I'm back again. 🇳🇱🇧🇪🇨🇵🇪🇦🇩🇪🇮🇩🇮🇹

[Mello. 🦾 @Supa_Mello]

The Crowd safety Consultant of the Year award bagged.

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[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

It’s election day in South Africa.

Here’s a question worth asking before you vote:

If we built this country from scratch, knowing what we know now, what would we build?

Then ask who on your ballot is actually building it.

[Paul Berkowitz @paulyberk]

It's less than two days to Election Day. Do you know who your ward candidates are?

The BallotBox website will tell you who are your ward candidates, how your ward voted in 2021, and how many council seats each party won in previous elections.

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[Phiwokuhle Mnyandu @PhiwoMnyandu]

Things with which South African laws are exceedingly generous about are things that ‘sending’ countries are quite guarded about. This is a glaring example of the accountability discrepancy with which South Africa is confronted. The challenge remains for South Africa to find novel ways by which it can act in its own rational self-interest. Other nations have stricter integration policies, while South Africa offers extensive rights.
@EducNurture

[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

Here is a radical thought: is it time to think about South Africa from a zero base?

No nation has ever successfully built its future by focusing so heavily on the rear-view mirror that it missed the road ahead.

The past is a vital reference point, but it is immutable.

To thrive, South Africa must consider zero-based strategic planning.

A disclaimer on my lens: as someone operating across markets and regions, I have a wider view than most.

Fact: Capital flows where the future is actively being engineered.

Zero-based strategic planning means taking a fixed point in time (today, now) and designing an inspirational, multi-dimensional economy from scratch.

It means asking: "If we were building South Africa today for the 2030s and beyond, what infrastructure and policies do we need?"

Sceptics will say our historical scars of colonialism & structural discrimination run too deep to allow a blank-slate approach. I wouldn't dismiss history, but economic history shows that the nations that suffered the deepest institutional trauma benefited most from this pivot.

Look at Singapore. In 1965, newly independent & reeling from colonial neglect, its nominal GDP per capita was roughly $500 USD, on a par with South Africa at the time.

It had zero natural resources, high unemployment (close to 9%), and deep ethnic fractures.

Sounds familiar, anyone?

Instead of obsessing over its lack of assets, Singapore’s Economic Development Board, established in 1961, pivoted from scratch.

It abandoned standard import substitution and built a hyper-modern, export-led tech manufacturing hub.

By 1990, GDP per capita had reached $13,000.

But Vusi, that Singapore is unique. Who else can you reference?

They are deeply unpopular now, but let me look at the United Arab Emirates.

Upon federation in 1971, they recognised that a nation built solely on finite oil rents was structurally unsustainable. They chose to use oil to fund a non-oil future, transforming into an open, global corridor.

Today, the UAE’s intensive diversification strategies mean that the non-oil sector drives over 70% of its GDP.

Look at the Asia Pacific: South Korea in 1962.

Devastated by colonisation and war, its per-capita Gross National Product was a meagre $87 USD. It had virtually no natural resources and a tiny domestic market. Its history could have paralysed it.

Instead, through targeted, forward-looking industrial plans, it systematically shifted from basic agriculture to heavy industry and, ultimately, technology. Today, it stands as a dominant, highly inclusive top-15 global economy.

Even post-Soviet Europe offers a blueprint. In 1991, Estonia emerged from decades of systemic occupation with obsolete infrastructure.

Rather than trying to update old, broken systems, it launched the "Tiger Leap" (Tiigrihüpe) initiative in 1996.

Estonia allocated 1% of GDP strictly to digital infrastructure and schools. It built a paperless state from scratch.

Today, 100% of its public services are online, and digital signatures alone save the country 2% of its GDP annually. It skipped the legacy phase entirely.

What connects Singapore, the UAE, South Korea, and Estonia?

They all experienced deep historic trauma, resource scarcity, or sudden disruptions.

Yet each chose to build its national strategy around future opportunities, not past injuries.

South Africa possesses unparalleled latent talent, a geostrategic position connecting continents, and a youthful population ready for the modern digital economy.

But we are stalling our engine by litigating the past instead of building the macro case for our future. I am not saying forget the past. I am saying dont live there.

Zero-based planning doesn't erase history; it honours past sacrifices by ensuring they weren't made in vain.

It is time for our generation of leaders to stop managing decline & start intentionally designing an inclusive, future-focused South African miracle

Ngibulaleni ke.

VT🇿🇦

[Mello. 🦾 @Supa_Mello]

Who wrote the script?
The career. The money. The ambition. The life we’re told to want.
How much of it did we actually choose?
Outside The Script: EP. 001
Premieres today at 09:00 SAST.
A place for ideas that deserve a second thought.
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[Sabina @VirgoEnVogue]

“The person who leaves because “relationships shouldn’t be this hard” may eventually discover that they weren’t escaping a difficult relationship.

They were escaping the difficulty of becoming a better partner.”

[Mello. 🦾 @Supa_Mello]

@palesaaaaaaaaaa @didi_mothupi Saw this and immediately thought of The Odyssey.

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[Null @Vhoyde]

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[Mello. 🦾 @Supa_Mello]

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No.1 on the log, and the target is clear. STAYING AT THE TOP!
@OrlandoPirates head to Polokwane chasing another three points and maintaining their spot at the peak of the summit.
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[Mello. 🦾 @Supa_Mello]

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[Mello. 🦾 @Supa_Mello]

@TshepangNM @VodacomSoccer I’ve been getting the same error since 11:50 ish… 😂

[Mello. 🦾 @Supa_Mello]

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