Bantu Madikizela

A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber ~ Japanese Proverb

[Fanbrizio Ronaldo @FabrizioRonald0]

🚨 Cristiano Ronaldo's Free Kick against Arsenal has been voted the greatest Free Kick of ALL TIME. 🤯

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🚨👶 Jérémy Doku could temporarily leave Belgium's World Cup camp to be present for the birth of his son, and the debate has exploded across Europe. 🇧🇪

French journalist France Pierron didn't hold back:

🗣️ Pierron: "Are you seriously telling me these players have sacrificed everything to come to the World Cup, and you're leaving just to cut an umbilical cord? 😳

You're lucky enough to play in a World Cup. It's an incredible privilege, and hundreds of footballers would do anything to be in your position. That opportunity might never come around again in your life.

And you're going to throw it all away just to attend your child's birth?

It's a moment where the father isn't really needed. He has a symbolic role. You hold her hand and take a photo. And then what?

You're going to miss 10 hours, experience an emotional high, and be exhausted afterwards. You can't miss a World Cup.

Some people may have gone into debt just to get to the World Cup, maybe sacrificed everything to be there, and you're leaving to cut an umbilical cord..." 😳

The reaction has completely split fans. Some believe family comes before everything, while others see the World Cup as an opportunity that may never come around again. 🌍

What would you do: stay with your national team or be there for your son's birth? 🤔

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

Walk through Lisbon, Barcelona, Rome or any great Mediterranean city and the roofs tell you something immediately. They are terracotta. They are clay. And most of them have been sitting there for over a hundred years without being replaced.

Walk through most of our cities and the roofs tell a different story. Aluminum sheets weighted down with stones so the wind does not carry them away. Black roofing absorbing every degree of tropical heat. Roofs that leak every rainy season and lift off every harmattan, then get patched, then leak again, then get replaced, then leak again.

When this argument comes up, the response is always the same: clay is too heavy. This from people who spend every dry season watching their aluminum sheets fly off and every wet season putting buckets under the holes. The roof that requires stones to stay on the building is apparently lighter than the one that has been sitting on buildings in southern Europe for a century without moving.

Clay tiles last between 50 and 100 years when properly installed. They are fire resistant, rot resistant and their natural thermal properties keep interiors cooler without electricity in the exact climate we live in. Africa has the clay, the soil and the kiln tradition to produce them locally. What we are missing is the willingness to think past the next rainy season when we build.

The aluminum sheet is not affordable. It is cheap today and expensive for the rest of your life.

[Katlego Maseng 🧠 @KatlegoMaseng1]

Meet Norman Motsepe and Agobokwe Motsepe, a father-and-son duo who launched Essence Hair Care in 2019.

Today, their products are stocked by Pick n Pay, Shoprite, Cosmetic Connection, and Takealot.

From humble beginnings to owning their own warehouse in Centurion, they now manufacture 23 cosmetic products and employ more than 22 people.

[Ms. Moyana - Funds of Affirmation @marcia_breeze]

Essie is a woman from Soweto who stopped her hair business when Jonasi started giving her an allowance. She spends her money on alcohol and doesn't like expensive things. This wig is exactly how her character should look like. Attend any kasi funeral, you'll find this wig

[SportsGully @thesportsgully]

The 10 most expensive FIFA World Cup stadiums ever built — ranked by construction cost. 🏟️💸

[Momo_🎱 @momo_sow0]

On a trop banalisé que Ronaldo a sauté si haut que ses genoux ont atteint le niveau de la tête de son adversaire.🤯

[Jeff Wicks 🇿🇦 @wicks_jeff]

Tembisa Hospital’s extraction sprint

A procurement meeting convened at Tembisa Hospital - meant to be a check against corrupt contracts - approved 50 deals in two and a half hours.

All the deals went to the same man. The full story on @News24 on Monday.

[eNCA @eNCA]

FIFA is drawing criticism as president Gianni Infantino clocks up air miles at the World Cup. It's causing unrest among environmentalists who are questioning his indifference to climate change.

https://t.co/3SehYg8eVK

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

“Elf” actor Faizon Love makes his first court appearance in Florida after being arrested.

Love is reportedly facing two contempt of court charges relating to a child support case where his ex, Tiffany Lee, claims he owes her $250,000.

[Phume @phume22]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

After 15 years, Indonesia’s rare Rafflesia bloomed, the world’s largest parasitic flower that smells like rotting meat, has no leaves, and lasts just 5 to 7 days.

[Prasenjit @Star_Knight12]

these two software carried a whole generation of internet

[tanık @tanik_tr]

Müzelerdeki hayvan iskeletleri, eti kemiklerden temizleyen özel böcekler sayesinde hazırlanır.

Bu böcekler, kemiklere zarar vermeden tüm yumuşak dokuları tüketir.

[dank @cptdankkk]

Marlon Wayans says he had $700 in the bank and $900 rent before creating The Wayans Bros

“When we left In Living Color, I had $700 in the bank and $900 rent. I was broke and my brother Shawn was looking at me like, ‘What are we going to do now?’”

“Shawn was depressed. He'd sit in a dark room and play Christmas music because Christmas was a happy time for him”

“We always had a bottle of Diet Pepsi and I would sit there like we did on In Living Color”

“One day he came out of the room and said, ‘What are you doing, stupid?’”

“I said, ‘I'm working on our TV show’”

“The first thing he read was, ‘Interior. Outside’”

“He said, ‘Stupid, how do you have interior outside?’”

“And we sat down and created The Wayans Bros”

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Holland, the Netherlands, and Dutch, explained!

This one always confuses me!

[Zona Concacaf @ZConcacaf]

¡¡ADIÓS HYDRATION BREAK!! 👏😳

Mientras en el Mundial 2026 las pausas de hidratación 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗔𝗡 en polémica, la UEFA salió a marcar 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗔. Según confirmó un portavoz al Telegraph, la Euro 2028 𝗡𝗢 𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗣𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗔 las pausas obligatorias que FIFA 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗨𝗦𝗢 en cada partido.

La diferencia es 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗔. FIFA 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗘 todos los juegos en el 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗧𝗢 𝟮𝟮 de cada tiempo, 𝗦𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗥 el clima, incluso en estadios 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗦 con aire acondicionado. La UEFA, en cambio, solo las 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗔 cuando el calor sea 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗢, midiendo la temperatura en cancha antes de frenar.

El rechazo 𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢 entre la propia gente del fútbol. En el 𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔 𝗩𝗦 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗔 y en el 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗞 𝗩𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗨𝗘𝗚𝗔, los hinchas 𝗔𝗕𝗨𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡 apenas el árbitro señaló la pausa, sobre todo porque ese día ni siquiera hacía calor. Hasta Virgil van Dijk 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗢 que el tiempo se use para meter 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗦.

Y ahí está el fondo del asunto. Esas pausas se 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗡 en una 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔 𝗗𝗘 𝗢𝗥𝗢 publicitaria que, solo para FOX, podría dejar más de 250 millones de dólares. La UEFA prefiere 𝗡𝗢 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗥 en ese juego.

[MR. HiMSELF @pushinM15]

Your income is not your problem.

Let that land.

South Africa has millions of people earning decent salaries. Teachers. Nurses. IT guys. Mid-level managers. People bringing home R20,000 to R40,000 a month.

And most of them have nothing to show for it.

Not because they didn't earn enough. Because nobody taught them what to do with what they earned.

Financial intelligence is the skill schools skip. They teach you to earn money. They don't teach you to keep it. Grow it. Make it earn more money while you sleep.

Here's what financial intelligence looks like in practice:

You learn the difference between saving and investing.

You open a TFSA and treat it like a bill, not a bonus. You buy an ETF that tracks 500 of the world's best companies every month and forget about it. You don't panic when markets drop. You don't celebrate when they spike.

You just stay consistent.
That's it. That's the whole strategy.

Kiyosaki didn't write Rich Dad Poor Dad to tell you rich people have more money. He wrote it to show you that rich people think about money differently.

You can earn R50,000 a month and retire broke.

Or you can earn R15,000 a month, invest consistently, and retire with options.

The money was never the problem.

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Schoolboy Who Discovered a Physics Paradox

In 1963, a 13-year-old Tanzanian student named Erasto Mpemba was making ice cream in his school's cooking class in Magamba, Tanzania. When space in the freezer ran out, he skipped the cooling step and put his hot milk-and-sugar mixture straight in. His froze first.

He told his physics teacher. The teacher said he was confused, his observation was clearly impossible. His classmates laughed. The incident stuck. For years, other students at his school called his blunder out by name: "That is Mpemba's physics."

A few years later, Denis Osborne, a physicist from University College in Dar es Salaam, came to give a guest lecture at Mpemba's new school. At the end, Mpemba asked him directly: "If you take two beakers with equal volumes of water, one at 35°C and one at 100°C, and put them in a freezer, the one that started at 100°C freezes first. Why?" The room erupted. Osborne was caught off guard, but instead of dismissing the question, he promised to test it.

Back in his lab, Osborne asked a young technician to run the experiment. The technician confirmed hot water froze first, then added: "But we'll keep repeating the experiment until we get the right result." Repeated tests gave the same result every time. In 1969, Mpemba and Osborne co-published their findings in the journal Physics Education under the title "Cool?" The phenomenon became known as the Mpemba Effect.

The mechanism is still not settled. Evaporation, dissolved gases, convection currents, hydrogen bond dynamics, each has its proponents, none has closed the debate. A 2024 paper in the Journal of Chemical Physics proposed yet another molecular explanation. Erasto Mpemba, who spent his career as a game warden in Tanzania, died in May 2023. The question he asked in a school kitchen sixty years ago is still officially open.

He was laughed at twice for the same question, once as a child, once as a teenager. Physics has been trying to explain it ever since.