Carl Ballot

Independent Strategic Marketing & Communications Consultant. Integrity. Movement. Clarity.

[Royden Hodgskin @visedge]

@wayneduv My solar panels are doing better than Kusile. Let that sink in.
Private sector has put in 4.4 GW in the past year at ZERO cost to the state.
State spent R234 billion on Medupi (also 4.4 GW) and it took them 13 YEARS to build.
If the private sector was unleashed we would fly high

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

@HeidiGiokos Completely bullied into it, our (huge) investment into solar was entirely for emotional / mental health. Nothing to do with greener, or property value, or any of the other so-called justifications. We are by no means 'off grid' but the difference in my mental state is enormous.

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

#OutageUpdate #joburgupdates @CityPowerJhb
Still no power in Saxonwold West (2). Came on briefly after the 4+ scheduled hours, but then promptly off again since about 20:20.

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

Please support this awesome event if you can (I'll be helping to tell the story through photographs).

[The King's Singers @kingssingers]

Sharing information here about the short-notice cancellation of our recent concert in Florida:

[Ferial Haffajee @ferialhaffajee]

Comment:

Dear @SATourismOnline - in case you don’t know, you work for us, we pay your salaries. If you smoke 💨 out and target 🎯 the whistleblower of your hare-brained scheme exposed by @dailymaverick, we will stand with them. We love ❤️ whistleblowers! (RT if you agree)

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

@CityPowerJhb Please let us all work together… it would be great if @CityPowerJhb could simply, routinely and formally update @EskomSePush immediately there is any change. Why ever not?? This would help everybody, including City Power.

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

@EskomSePush @CityPowerJhb Yes, please work together - this isn’t a competition or a blame game but rather all of us trying to get through this as best we can together. As a customer / resident, I find EskomSePush by far the easiest and most accessible way of my managing this.

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

#PrayForUkraine

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

#2022 #gariepdam #orangeriver #flood #water #dam https://t.co/aufRdn5M8Z

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

MONDLI GUNGUBELE: Full vaccination is the only alternative to lockdowns — there is no other way https://t.co/09CNGWbcut # via @BusinessLiveSA

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

#freedomofspeech #understanding #voltaire #lifejourney #journey #tolerance #unconditionallove https://t.co/Aud60sPzVd

[Kevin Maguire @RainTown]

@Siege_Perilous @campbellclaret @airfrance “do your own research” is like “do your own dentistry”. Pls don’t. Plainly put, most people can’t understand research. They misinterpret data, don’t “get” statistics, think anecdotally, & generally get confused. Some people literally get paid to do research, just listen to them.

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

I registered for #EnactusWorldCup 2021! You can register too, and celebrate #PassionOnPurpose.
Check it out here> https://t.co/KqElzfzsDT

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

Business presents extraordinary opportunities for great leadership... it is the responsibility of Business Leaders to seize this. Congratulations @Discovery #Discovery for being the first in South Africa! https://t.co/oPc0zDnZRw

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

Being vaccinated for Covid is indeed a personal choice (please read: https://t.co/Cng4LMdkUL), and one's right. But every right has an obligation. And we are all ethically and morally obligated to protect our fellow travellers... Please get vaccinated.

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

Appalling and reckless failure of government re #CharlotteMaxeke reopening. Inexcusable. Possible solutions ignored without a will to find a way. #eNCA #COVID19

[Democratic Alliance Gauteng Legislature @DA_GPL]

We have requested for an urgent debate in the Gauteng Legislature on the failure to reopen the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital.

This will hopefully pressure Premier David Makhura to give a clear answer on the opening of this critical hospital.

[Carl Ballot @carlballot]

David Makhura @David_Makhura: Reopen Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. The provincial healthcare system is in a crisis! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/5j80nBlV1A via @Change

[Tom Peters @tom_peters]

I am not an asset. I am not a human resource. I am not overhead. I am not an expense. I am not a cost center. Training me is not an expense. I do not belong on the liability side of the balance sheet. I am Tom. And Tom says, words matter, clean up your language, starting Monday.