koning

[Sherwin Bryce-Pease @sherwiebp]

New York’s Mayor acknowledges law doesn’t allow him to arrest Israeli Prime Minister on the ICC arrest warrant were Netanyahu to visit city.

Full statement here…

[Pitso Mosimane @TheRealPitso]

Before recognition, there are setbacks.
Missed opportunities.
Limited resources.
Moments where talent is not enough.
This is where many journeys fall away.
Not because the potential is not there, but because the system is not.
Struggle is part of the journey.
But without structure and support, it becomes a barrier.
Talent does not fail on its own. It fails when it is not developed.
That is why development cannot be left to chance.

#ChangingTheGameForGood #PitsoMosimane

[Tom Murphy @RainbowNationW]

I’m so old I remember when Johannes Vorster said multiracial schools would never work in South Africa.

Look at South Africa now!

[SizweLo @SizweLo]

Serious industrial nations don’t take accountants as seriously as South Africa does.

In industrialising nations, like Vietnam and surrounding states, for instance, the most prestigious roles are found in engineering or industrial management because the economy is physically building things.

Meanwhile, in South Africa, SAICA’s CA(SA) is viewed as the ultimate golden ticket.

But it’s not only in developing/industrialising nations where accountants take a back seat. In the US, Germany and Japan, CEOs are generally product people or engineers, while in South Africa, a massive percentage of JSE-listed CEOs are chartered accountants.

The reason for this is that the South African economy has been deindustrialising for decades, so the existing companies don’t grow by inventing new things or expanding production. They “grow” through the financial engineering of mergers, acquisitions, cost-cutting, and “tax optimisation”.

The consequence of this is that if you compare SA to an employment-dense industrialiser like Vietnam, you find that the latter focuses on vocational excellence. Over there, an accountant is just a back-office functionary who supports the factory. The hero is the plant manager who meets a production quota.

But South Africa, to its detriment, is obsessed with compliance excellence. The factory, if it even exists, is a “risk” to be managed, and the chartered accountant is the high-priest who tells the board if that risk is acceptable.

By taking accountants this seriously, South Africa has perfected the art of measuring value, but has neglected the art of creating real tangible value.

The worship and adoration of the CA(SA) is a symptom of a services-led economy that has skipped the labour-intensive industrialisation phase, and this is primarily why the unemployment epidemic cannot be resolved.

[SABC News @SABCNews]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated a medical team responsible for the surgery that separated conjoined twins at Mankweng Hospital outside Polokwane in Limpopo. https://t.co/rzT5b8j49I

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This is dumb. AI can’t ever be actually conscious because it doesn’t have subjective experience. It isn’t like anything to be AI. There is no experience there. Consciousness is the awareness and experience of self. AI has neither, and never will. The real risk (which I’m extremely worried about) is that AI becomes kind of a version of what has been called a “philosophical zombie,” which is something that acts and speaks entirely as though it has consciousness even though it has no genuine inner experience. When this happens with AI, millions of very lonely people will isolate themselves from the world even more, believing that their relationship with AI is a sufficient substitute for human interaction. So the nightmare scenario is a world where the average human has friends, coworkers, and even a spouse, who are all AI, all really nothing inside, not real. I think this probably will happen, and is already in the process of happening. And to me it’s an even greater horror than AI actually becoming conscious.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

🚨🚨🚨🚨IN A BOMBSHELL INTERVIEW PROFESSOR JIANG PREDICTS THE UNITED STATES WILL LOSE THE WAR AGAINST IRAN AND EXPLAINS EXACTLY HOW🚨🚨🚨🚨

After everything thats going on and watching Iran's methods of retaliation. This all makes sense.

🚨THIS IS A SHOCKING MUST WATCH!🚨

[Bhut'Bae @chev_llouw]

Please help me by spreading my campaign.

[Karyn Maughan @karynmaughan]

I love South Africa.
There’s nowhere like it. ❤️🇿🇦❤️

[koning @chordnvm]

@MetrorailWC Wellington to Firgrove.

[Siv Ngesi @iamSivN]

You did great @jsteenhuisen!

[Simon Brown @SimonPB]

Big day for SA

° April inflation due 10am
° Budget 3.0 at 2pm
° Oval office meetup with our pres at 7.45pm

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Wildlife in all its beauty - a thread🧵

1. When its cold enough you can see their song

[Progress Bar 2026 @ProgressBar202_]

2023 is 98% complete.

[Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan]

This guy Jmart has some potential as an up and coming reporter

[koning @chordnvm]

@HanBenet Yip. All of South Africa

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Please tell others that take these. We expect to add more than 1k more meds over the next 12 months, if not sooner.