"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you.
Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways.
Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride."
Anthony Bourdain
Yesterday there was a debate about the high price of eggs, with someone suggesting “We should just keep chickens for eggs.” Many replied that this isn’t allowed in urban areas of Johannesburg and Tshwane.
After checking the actual bylaws for both Johannesburg and Tshwane, here’s the correct position:
1) You ARE allowed to keep chickens in residential areas of both Joburg and Tshwane.
2) Up to 10 hens per property is permitted (no permit required in most cases).
3) No roosters are allowed (to prevent noise complaints).
4) Hens lay eggs perfectly fine without a rooster, so you get fresh eggs with zero crowing.
Keeping a small backyard flock for eggs is 100% legal and practical in both cities. The myth that “chickens are banned in urban Joburg/Tshwane” is simply not true.
How much time do you still have left, and do you want to spend it fighting, or would you rather spend it thriving? We don't get more time here because we've lost some of it trying to hold on to something that'll anyway mean nothing when you leave this world. It'll just continue to taint your soul and pull you down. If you want to spend the next years fighting, you might end up looking back and wishing you had rather chosen peace, love and living the rest of your life as your best. It's not the where that matters so much, home is where you choose to make it and how you want to live it. You gotto be alive to thrive. I hope our stubborn people whom we love so much will just remember that time lost, are moments lost forever. ❤️
📍 #TipOfTheWeek: Whenever a claim feels too dramatic to be true, pause and check the evidence. Be mindful of how a message makes you feel—it might be trying to manipulate you.
Tomorrow, Premier Lesufi will deliver the State of the Province Address.
He will attempt to paint a picture of progress & success but what he won't tell you is the full story—the failures, the mismanagement & the broken promises that continue to plague Gauteng.
#GPSOPA2025