Vanessa

Showing up and trying, Unicorns and lollipops, Metallica, Linkin park and Alanis Morisette fan

[Maverick @MaxPatricius]

A young Afrikaner from Pretoria looked at the uncertain future in South Africa and chose a path few understood.
Roelof Botha bet on possibility.
Born in South Africa, raised speaking Afrikaans, he pushed himself through an English university, excelled as an actuary, then took a pay cut to join McKinsey.
Still hungry for more, he moved to Stanford on student loans for his MBA, arriving with little but drive and intuition that the future was being built in Silicon Valley.
In 2000 he joined a scrappy startup called PayPal.
No guarantees.
Just Belief and Resilience.
By 28 he was CFO, steering the company through the dot-com crash, taking it public, and navigating its sale to eBay.
Big institutions might have played it safe.
Roelof kept opening doors.
He joined Sequoia Capital in 2003.
There he backed bold founders, led the investment in Instagram, and helped build companies like YouTube, Square, MongoDB and more that touch hundreds of millions of lives.
Today he leads one of the world’s most iconic venture firms, a South African Afrikaner shaping the global tech future from Silicon Valley.
Recently, Roelof was appointed to the SpaceX Board of Directors as an independent director and audit committee member.
The biggest opportunities often lie beyond what feels comfortable or familiar.
Roelof didn’t just chase success.
He carried the quiet determination of his roots and turned it into a legacy that opens doors for dreamers everywhere.

[Vanessa @VanniePret]

@SimplyMegszcpt As do u, name calling doesn’t make u great, you tried w oom Pieter, go on… plot your own downfall

[Vanessa @VanniePret]

@NiemandAlfonso @geordinhl @Our_DA If you want him for president, vote DA….🥹

[Vanessa @VanniePret]

@AndiswaMadikazi Lol, funny how Oom Pieter doesn’t need a rally…🤔

[Vanessa @VanniePret]

@D_Molatoli Karma is a beeaaatchh

[Vanessa @VanniePret]

@chrisw_co_za They are moving to cancel….let’s see some action first, we’re used to empty promises, DA lost my vote after 30 years, try harder

[Vanessa @VanniePret]

@RomanCabanac @KanthanPillay @Saxon_African Voting FF + next election, ANC and DA are done…

[Nhlanhla Sbusiso Mkhwanazi @africans80288]

Compose yourself WO . Your tears will not be in vain.
#Senona
#MadlangaCommission
#CRTT

[Morné Naudé @MorneNaude]

@GroenewaldPJ @geordinhl @Our_DA Geordin is net jaloers op Minister se eie viral song.👌🏻

[Boeremeisie @XnBoeremeisie]

@GroenewaldPJ @geordinhl @Our_DA @GroenewaldPJ Please teach this idiot how to be a REAL man, like you! ❤️

[AfriForum @afriforum]

Kyk:
Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile sê Afrikaners moet hul historiese rol in die onteiening van swart Suid-Afrikaners se grond erken voordat gesprekke oor erkenning as ’n inheemse nasie kan voortgaan.

Grondherstel en vergoeding het die staat sedert 1995 sowat R60 miljard gekos. Die departement van grondhervorming en landelike ontwikkeling gaan ’n oudit van staatsgrond doen. Die regering het sedert 1995 ongeveer 3,9 miljoen hektaar grond teen ’n koste van sowat R27 miljard ingevolge sy grondherstelprogram toegeken, sê Mzwanele Nyhontso, minister van grondhervorming en landelike ontwikkeling.

[Brett Ben Raphael @Brettbenraphael]

Tragically murdered in Kruger — for what seems like a bakkie. One of the world's most iconic and last true wildernesses has lost its innocence. The myth that our national parks are safe sanctuaries and an escape has just died as well.

[Athol Trollip @AtholT]

Gwede Mantashe has failed as the Minister of minerals & energy & should be replaced. Yet he is firmly entrenched in Ramaphosa’s bloated cabinet of ministers who clearly are not evaluated against real KPI’s & KPA’s. If they were he would have been fired long ago @HermanMashaba

[Tasunungurwa Mufumiri @freemufumiri]

Today, President @CyrilRamaphosa visited Zimbabwe and was photographed with Wicknell Chivayo, a man currently under investigation by South Africa's own FIC for allegedly laundering over R800 million in Zimbabwean public funds.

South Africa's Financial Intelligence Centre found that over R1.1 billion from Zimbabwe's Ministry of Finance @ZimTreasury flowed into a South African printing company, with more than R800 million rapidly transferred into accounts belonging to Chivayo-linked companies.

The Hawks, SARS and SAPS are all involved. A South African High Court has already frozen Chivayo's bank accounts at FNB, Absa and Standard Bank and grounded his private jet in a case brought by his estranged wife Louise Sonja Madzikanda.

But it gets worse.

Wicknell's younger brother, Joachim 'G6' Chivayo, was arrested in November 2024 by the Hawks' Serious Organised Crime Unit in Brakpan for possession of six gold bars worth approximately R15 million. He was granted bail of R20,000 with strict conditions; he could not leave Gauteng or South Africa. He then failed to appear in court, and a warrant of arrest was issued against him on March 11, 2025.

He jumped the border and never came back.

Joachim Chivayo was subsequently appointed ZANU-PF's deputy secretary for information and publicity in Harare province in September 2025, a fugitive from South African justice, rewarded with a political position.

So here is the full picture: South Africa's FIC is actively investigating the elder Chivayo. South Africa's Hawks have an outstanding warrant for the younger Chivayo. A South African court has frozen the family's assets. And Ramaphosa flew to Zimbabwe and posed for photographs with the man at the centre of all of it.

What does this say about South Africa's rule of law?

When a sitting president shares a frame with someone his own country's financial intelligence unit is investigating for money laundering and whose fugitive brother is sheltered by the very government hosting that visit, the message sent to criminals everywhere is clear: connections trump consequences.

You genuinely cannot make this up. 🇿🇦🇿🇼 @Leon_Schreib @Sophie_Mokoena

[Vanessa @VanniePret]

@LCabonena Absolutely! Never has there been a better president in the world!!!

[I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA @Lolita721611021]

🇿🇦R32 Billion in Hidden Irregular Spending Raises Alarm Over Government Accountability‼️
A staggering R32 billion in irregular government spending that was not disclosed by accounting officers during the latest audit cycle, adding to the R42.6 billion already flagged by the Auditor-General.
#SouthAfrica #CyrilRamaphosa #Ramaphosa
#anc #IrregularExpenditure #GovernmentSpending #Accountability #CorruptionWatch #StateCapture