Being in your 40s is wild. One friend is a grandma, one has a newborn, one is celebrating 20 years married, and another is dating a 25-year-old. Half of us look 28, the other half pulled a muscle sleeping. 😂 No timeline, just vibes. 😭
Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala
Tender value: R50M paid out (R228M contract)
Court ruling: Rejected an 8-year plea deal for being "too lenient " proposed 12 years effective jail time.
Michael Lomas
Tender value: R745M (Kusile power station scheme)
Court ruling: 15-year fully suspended sentence — 0 days behind bars.
Different rules for different people. ⚖️🇿🇦
SARS takes up to 45% of what we earn, then we pay 15% VAT on almost everything we buy. Inflation eats whatever we manage to save, municipal rates & levies come for the property we already own, and fuel levies are waiting every time we fill up. At this point South Africans aren’t citizens, we’re shareholders with no dividends
THE BLOODBATH CONTINUES 🩸
Investors continue to avoid clothing retailers because of weak discretionary demand and offshore competition.
🩸Foschini Group = (-34.89%) 🔴
🩸Pepkor = (-19.93%)🔴
🩸Woolworths = (-18.65%)🔴
🩸Truworths = (-8.15%)🔴
🩸My Price = (-3.43%) 🔴
This is arguably being driven by the rise of platforms like Shein and Temu, which have put significant pressure on retail margins.
At the same time,
consumer spending habits are shifting away from traditional brick-and-mortar stores toward online shopping, further reshaping the retail landscape.
The older I get, the more I understand why people disappear into gardening baking, reading, and long walks. Not because life got boring. Because peace became valuable.
Zlatan Ibrahimović had never worked a single day of television before this summer. Fox handed him the biggest World Cup ever staged, America started comparing him to Charles Barkley within a week, and after a month and a half he retired from broadcasting on live air.
Understand how rare that asset is. Networks spend decades trying to manufacture one breakout studio personality. TNT built a 25-year franchise around Barkley. ESPN has burned nine figures on ex-athletes who never learned to talk. Fox found a natural on the first try, a 44-year-old with zero reps who made pregame shows must-watch in a country that barely follows him.
Then he gave it back.
Zlatan has run this play his entire career. Ajax, Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, PSG, United, Milan. Ten clubs, 573 goals, 34 trophies, and an exit at nearly every peak. The scarcity is the product. A pundit who shows up every Saturday for 20 years becomes furniture. A pundit who appears once, dominates, and vanishes becomes a legend you quote for a decade.
The next network that wants him now has to pay for a comeback, which is a completely different price than a contract renewal.
Barkley has announced his retirement from TV more times than anyone can count and still shows up every Thursday. Zlatan said it once, thanked the desk by name, and walked.
Every broadcaster talks about leaving on top. Zlatan did it before the confetti was swept.