Tshego

A girl with political tendencies| Never quite on injustice| Love everything Finance|

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi says war with the United States is over.

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

Very encouraging news. Well done to the Transet folks! We need this to continue and to put more effort into Cape Town.

Our industry, agriculture, relies on efficient logistics. We have struggled in Cape Town.

But the improvements in Durban have been visible, and our citrus and grains, amongst others, have performed well in exports.

[Madame La Directrice @jenny_gxo]

Just found out that the designer and creative director of JMakxParis, Alvin JMak got into a partnership through an organisation that helps victims of the conflict in Congo and those victims helped create the uniforms 🥹

[Tshego @Tshegoc]

@Jeanwandimi Love this 👌❣️

[Tshego @Tshegoc]

@Nomaswazi_11 MAM!😭😭😭

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

VIETNAM IS BACK BUYING SOUTH AFRICAN MAIZE IN A BIG WAY

It remains encouraging to see Vietnam buying so much of South Africa’s maize in the new 2026-27 year. For much of the past year, we didn’t enjoy much demand from the Far East; the big buyers were the neighbouring countries.

For example, last week South Africa exported 127 182 tonnes of maize. About 88% of it was exported to Vietnam, with the rest going to the Southern African countries.

South Africa’s maize exports in this new marketing year, which started in May 2026, currently stand at 343 530 tonnes. We still have a long way to go until the end of the year in April 2027.

We think we could see more exports this time around, likely 3.0 million tonnes, a notable increase from the 2025-26 maize exports of 2.0 million tonnes.

We have an ample maize harvest of 17.1 million tonnes, a record harvest, in addition to the large carryover stock from the past season. The reason for the slow exports last year was weak demand, not supply issues.

It is encouraging to see Vietnam return now, and we hope more countries in the Far East will resume buying South Africa’s high-quality maize.

[Tshego @Tshegoc]

@nozipho_mashaba Congratulations to her, CB was messing up the Miss World SA☹️

[Tshego @Tshegoc]

@CityPowerJhb when am I gonna get assistance City Power call ref CP3499807? This is insane

[Tshego @Tshegoc]

@Prosper_selorm 🤣🤣🤣

[Hinokami Kagura @Khuze_Elikhulu]

Okay now this, this is very clearly and unambiguously an act of treason. Calling for a foreign state to interfere in domestic affairs is wholly treason

[Tshego @Tshegoc]

@kamuhinda He must fire his PA for being sloppy and not blame South African immigration for following rules.

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

THE GRAIN HARVEST IS UNDERWAY IN SOME REGIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa is likely to have its largest summer grain and oilseed harvest on record in the 2025-26 production season.

This is on the back of the expansion in area plantings and the large yields due to favourable summer rains.

The country’s 2025-26 summer grain and oilseed output is estimated at 20.8 million tonnes, up 1% year-on-year (y/y).

[Columbia | SIPA @ColumbiaSIPA]

Graduate Reflections 🎓

As an international student, Shudufhadzo (Shudu) Musida MPA '26 learned that she can find community anywhere. And what better place than NYC!

[Tshego @Tshegoc]

@NigeriaStories Honestly ridiculous!

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

SOUTH AFRICA IS SET TO HAVE A RECORD MAIZE HARVEST OF 16.8 MILLION TONNES.

Our annual consumption is about 12.0 million tonnes.

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

“We launched the refinery in 2013, and for five years we had issues with the land. Everything was being blocked by the oil mafia. We had to build our own port because no port in the country could handle the heavy equipment. We also had to build a harbour, roads, and a water system with a capacity of 440 million litres. Our water facility alone covers more than 30 hectares.”

— Aliko Dangote

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

Africa Forward Summit was so chaotic that President Kagame was stranded outside at some point. Total’s Global CEO was also blocked, and was seen yelling at security.

Some presidents & dignitaries left without speaking as things spiraled. Kenya (or France?) dropped the ball bigly

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

SOUTH AFRICA IS NOW THE WORLD’S LEADING CITRUS EXPORTER.

South Africa has overtaken Spain and is now the world's leading exporter by volume.

Citrus is the leading agricultural export product, accounting for 17% of South Africa’s agricultural exports of US$15.1 billion in 2025.

[Tshego @Tshegoc]

@ewnreporter May their souls rest in peace. Sad for the young boy

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

Imagine being a Minister, seeing the ability of an adversarial state to now use Starlink to see who is online, and potentially access highly sensitive state communications, a national security digital risk so severe it could bring South Africa to its knees. The devastation would be absolute.

Equally absolute would be the
emptying of ordinary South African’s bank accounts, the theft of their confidential personal information by hackers and malign actors who buy this technology.

Imagine seeing this, and all the repeated revelations about Starlink’s digital security vulnerabilities, data exposure, and the profound national security risks it poses, and deciding:

“Yes, this is what South Africa needs.”

Imagine handing the keys to South Africa’s digital sovereignty and strategic communications infrastructure to a man repeatedly implicated in corruption and state capture scandals, in and out of court over discrimination against people of colour, a self-confessed supporter of colonialism, who has quite deliberately and intentionally adopted an adversarial posture toward South Africa and its people having launched a damaging global disinformation campaign against it, and deciding:

“Yes, this is who South Africa needs.”

All without a single public impact assessment, national security review, or meaningful public consultation.

I do not think a greater risk to South Africa has existed since the Guptas were handed the keys to National Treasury. This is no different.

It is breathtaking in its recklessness.

It is diabolical in its incompetence.

It is a corruption of the soul to have zero care for the digital safety of the people of South Africa and its national security.

Just pleasing a base that sees Elon Musk as its White Knight. Votes. That’s it. A couple of thousand votes. Selling South Africa for votes.

Sies.