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[Constitutional Court @ConCourtSA]

(1/5) Judgment on 08 May 2026 at 10h00: This Court has exclusive jurisdiction to hear the application with respect to the challenge to Rule 129I of the Ninth Edition of the Rules of the National Assembly (National Assembly Rules).

[@luphumlongcayisa @luphumlongcayis]

As a political organisation battling a credibility crisis, the African National Congress continues to behave as though reputational damage is a peripheral issue rather than an existential one.

It is difficult to understand why the party does not adopt a clean, non-negotiable rule that states any member credibly implicated in wrongdoing gets removed immediately with no debate, no delays and is only reinstated once formally cleared. This should not be seen as punishment or an infringement of someone’s rights , but as a basic act of institutional self-respect. I’m aware of the ‘step-aside’ rule that currently exists but seldom enforced.

Take the so-called “Chinese car minder” saga around the Women’s League President. The clumsy optics alone should have triggered an immediate leave of absence. Instead the party is quiet and it is business as usual for the lady save for parliament that has since instituted an investigation on the salary being shared in half with the said Ministers daughter who is also alleged to have been a babysitter of one of the two Chinese cars.

The ANC appears more concerned with internal sensitivities than with the message it sends to the public that is already fatigued by political scandals.

Then you have the case of Senzo Mchunu; it took nearly a month to relieve him of official duties, and even then, the separation is partial. He remains active within party structures while under a gigantic cloud. One is left asking; what exactly is the threshold for decisive action?

This is where the ANC continues to misread the room. South Africans are not demanding perfection; they are demanding consequence management . A visible, consistent standard that says: the country comes before the organisation and its individuals.

There have been more than enough opportunities for the party to begin restoring trust and redeem itself. All it takes are simple procedural interventions that require no grand policy conference, no ideological overhaul. Just discipline. Just a willingness to act swiftly when the integrity of the institution is at stake.

Iyahlebisa maan iANC. Kakhulu

[@luphumlongcayisa @luphumlongcayis]

With my own limited and humble exposure to Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, I find myself listening for voices that are no longer here to speak; those of her daughter Zindzi Mandela and her granddaughter Zoleka Mandela. Their absence in this documentary leaves a gap.

Like many, I am disappointed. What was presented as Mama Winnie telling her story in her own voice feels, instead felt like a narrowing of that voice. To reduce a life as expansive, as politically charged and as symbolically loaded as hers to the Stompie matter and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is, at best, incomplete.

Yes, that chapter must be confronted, history demands honesty. However, when a singular narrative is repeatedly foregrounded, it begins to function less as reflection and more as framing. Sociologically, this is how complex figures are flattened through a selective emphasis that privileges scandal, controversy over context, and unbalanced individual moments over the broader political machinery within which those moments occurred. This documentary stripped away the conditions of apartheid brutality, the gendered nature of her persecution, and the burden she carried as both symbol and human being.

Mama Winnie was not a footnote in the struggle. She was a central force within it. A woman who embodied defiance under a system designed to break both body and spirit. To tell her story responsibly requires a wider lens. A lens that holds contradiction, yes, but also honours scale, influence and historical positioning.

Alas. For many of us who lived through those years and for those who have studied and understood them. No selective retelling will dislodge what we know to be true. She remains, unequivocally, one of the most recognisable faces and formidable forces of our liberation struggle.

Long live Mama Winifred Nomzamo Nobandla Madikizela-Mandela.

PS. Oh but I loved her Miranda Priestly moment “The little boys and girls of Lusaka” 🤣🤣🤣Be ku shoda nje u rha sies

[Tips Excel @gudanglifehack]

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You can drink clean and still destroy your filters slowly.
Here is what most people never get told.

[Earn Knowledge @earnknowledgee]

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[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

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[Tips Excel @gudanglifehack]

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[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

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[Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL @koko_matshela]

The Budget Speech vs. The Grid Stability .

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The Budget Speech says: "We are stabilising electricity supply and building a competitive, reliable energy market."

The Research (Koko, 2026) says : We are running out of time.

Here is the reality the Minister left out of his speech:

1. The "Stabilising" Mirage

Yes, load-shedding is better today. But the research warns this is the calm before the storm. By 2030—just four years from now—9.5 Gigawatts of coal (13.6% of our peak power) vanishes in a 24-month window. It’s not a phase-out; it’s a power cliff.

2. The "Building" Trap

The Minister sees this as a fiscal challenge (we have the money, we are writing the cheques).

The research proves this is a physics and timing challenge.

· Building the transmission lines to connect new solar/wind to the grid takes 5–7 years.
· The coal plants retire in 2 years.

You cannot bend the laws of physics with a budget speech. You cannot build a 765kV power line overnight, no matter how much money is in the envelope.

3. The Cliff Index

South Africa’s "Cliff Intensity Index" is 2.16. This means baseload power is exiting the system 116% faster than we can physically plug new energy in. Even if governance were perfect and there was zero corruption (which there isn’t), the Index would still be 1.80. We are structurally locked into a deficit.

The Verdict

The speech treats this as an investment portfolio. But you can’t spend your way out of a calendar.

The research suggests the only real options left are the ones too politically difficult to mention in Parliament:

· Extend the life of coal plants (and risk losing climate finance), or
· Accept 4+ TWh of annual blackouts (and breach the constitutional rights to healthcare, education, and security).

We are trying to decarbonise in the dark. And the Minister didn’t mention the cliff, because acknowledging it means admitting we are about to fall off it.

The relevant extracts from the research work are attached here.

Here is the link to the research paper

https://t.co/pO6bEUiw32

#Budget2026 #LoadShedding #EnergyCrisis #KokoResearch

[Sufyan Maan, M.Eng @sufyanmaan]

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[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

One of Einstein’s students asked him: “What does logic mean?”

Einstein said: “I will answer you with a question.”

“Suppose two workers enter a chimney to clean it. One comes out with a dirty face and the other with a clean face. Who will go wash their face?”

The student immediately and without hesitation replied, “Of course, the one with the dirty face.”

Einstein said: “Your answer is incorrect. The one who will wash their face is the one with the clean face, because he looked at his colleague’s face and assumed that his own face was as dirty as his colleague’s. The one with the dirty face will not wash his face, thinking it is clean like his colleague’s.”

The student said: “That is correct and logical.”

Einstein replied: “No, it is not correct, because the question itself is illogical. It is not logical for two men to enter the same chimney at the same time and for one to come out clean and the other dirty.”

In a few words, logic itself can collapse, so sometimes the problem is not in the answer but in the flawed question itself.

- @GlobalIJournal

[Ja Loka @_fels1]

This video is less than 5 minutes long. When you find time today, watch it. Again.

[Business Day @BDliveSA]

Large-scale investment in generation and grid capacity are urgently required, writes Khulekani Mathe. https://t.co/wjWeSLZrux

[Tman @Tmanomoeasy]

@AntonEberhard Most of the loan agreements Eskom has are with DFIs, predominantly international ones. That’s where loan covenants to restrict unbundling are. Though bond holders are important, you have to start with conditions in the term loans, and seek consent from these lenders.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

So, here are corporate rules to follow in 2026:

1. Visibility beats ability, get seen more than you get work done.

2. Manage up harder than you manage down.

3. Never outshine your boss in public, ever.

4. Build alliances before you need them.

5. Document everything. CYA is your real KPI.

6. Results matter, but relationships decide who gets credit.

7. Stay neutral in every office war, until you pick the winning side.

8. Deliver just enough to be indispensable, never enough to be irreplaceable.

9. Learn who really controls the budget, not who has the title.

10. Your next promotion is decided in rooms you’re not invited to, get invited.

Performance gets you noticed.
Politics gets you paid.

Play the game or get played.

[CertifiedEcoTourismDoyenne @ms_tourist]

@RelebogileM I don’t order ice with my wine.. I always say no but no thanks.. I have always had trust issues Gorgeous… Yes, eating out expose us to a lot of stuff

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇺🇸 US Presidents (1933 - present):

🟦 1933-1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt
🟦 1941-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt
🟦 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt
🟦 1945-1949: Harry S. Truman
🟦 1949-1953: Harry S. Truman
🟥 1953-1961: Dwight D. Eisenhower
🟦 1961-1963: John F. Kennedy
🟦 1963-1965: Lyndon B. Johnson
🟦 1965-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson
🟥 1969-1973: Richard M. Nixon
🟥 1973-1974: Richard M. Nixon
🟥 1974-1977: Gerald R. Ford
🟦 1977-1981: Jimmy Carter
🟥 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan
🟥 1989-1993: George Bush
🟦 1993-2001: Bill Clinton
🟥 2001-2009: George W. Bush
🟦 2009-2017: Barack Obama
🟥 2017-2021: Donald J. Trump
🟦 2021-2025: Joseph R. Biden
🟥 2025-2028: Donald J. Trump
?? 2028-2031: ??

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

World's 30 Strongest Militaries:

1. 🇺🇸United States
2. 🇷🇺Russia
3. 🇨🇳China
4. 🇮🇳India
5. 🇰🇷South Korea
6. 🇬🇧United Kingdom
7. 🇫🇷France
8. 🇯🇵Japan
9. 🇹🇷Turkey
10. 🇮🇹Italy
11. 🇧🇷Brazil
12. 🇵🇰Pakistan
13. 🇮🇩Indonesia
14. 🇩🇪Germany
15. 🇮🇱Israel
16. 🇮🇷Iran
17. 🇪🇸Spain
18. 🇦🇺Australia
19. 🇪🇬Egypt
20. 🇺🇦Ukraine
21. 🇵🇱Poland
22. 🇹🇼Taiwan
23. 🇻🇳Vietnam
24. 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
25. 🇹🇭Thailand
26. 🇩🇿Algeria
27. 🇸🇪Sweden
28. 🇨🇦Canada
29. 🇸🇬Singapore
30. 🇬🇷Greece

Source: Global Firepower Index

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Most influential scientists:

🇬🇧 Isaac Newton
🇮🇹 Galileo Galilei
🇩🇪 Albert Einstein
🇬🇧 Charles Darwin
🇬🇧 Michael Faraday
🇵🇱 🇫🇷 Marie Curie
🇫🇷 Louis Pasteur
🇩🇪 Max Planck
🇳🇿 Ernest Rutherford
🇮🇳 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
🇬🇧 Alan Turing
🇬🇷 Archimedes
🇬🇧 James Chadwick
🇬🇧 Stephen Hawking
🇮🇪 Robert Boyle
🇬🇧 Rosalind Franklin
🇬🇧 J. J. Thomson
🇬🇧 Francis Bacon
🇩🇪 Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
🇩🇰 Niels Bohr
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 James Clerk Maxwell
🇺🇸 Benjamin Franklin
🇬🇧 John Dalton
🇷🇸 Nikola Tesla
🇬🇧 Robert Hooke
🇺🇸 Thomas Edison
🇺🇸 Luis Walter Alvarez
🇷🇺 Dmitri Mendeleev
🇷🇺 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Note: this list is compiled from the Internet and may not be conclusive.