Gavin Mabie 🇿🇦

Software Engineer, Founder of Kwikstore ecommerce and Khoizar ERP, Rugby, Swing Voter

[Gavin Mabie 🇿🇦 @GavinMabie]

Political False Positive (noun):
An idea, slogan or policy proposal that sounds morally compelling and intellectually persuasive, but proves so impractical, unworkable or unattainable in reality that its continued promotion substitutes for meaningful action or measurable results.

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@dailymaverick I’ll consider supporting the Just Transition academics and activists only if they produce viable alternative energy themselves, but they don’t! Their aim is to block energy producers while they only produce papers, rallies and summits which are of no use to the underdeveloped.

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@phakxx If the illegal migrant selling drugs on my street corner died as part of the liberation struggle, how come he's still alive today? He must be a heroic struggle veteran zombie!

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@TMFoundation_ @HelloThando Mbeki’s level of distrust is deserving of a dedicated scientific research field.

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It was on 17 May 2019 that the Guardian updated its editorial style guide to encourage the use of terms like "climate crisis," "climate emergency," and "climate breakdown" instead of "climate change". That escalation wasn't backed up by solid scientific evidence - just vibes

[Julian Rademeyer @julianrademeyer]

@GavinMabie There is nothing "so-called" about the climate crisis.

[Gavin Mabie 🇿🇦 @GavinMabie]

@julianrademeyer It was on 17 May 2019 that the Guardian updated its editorial style guide to encourage the use of terms like "climate crisis," "climate emergency," and "climate breakdown" instead of "climate change". That escalation wasn't backed up by solid scientific evidence - just vibes

[Gavin Mabie 🇿🇦 @GavinMabie]

The Big Bad Theory | To say that the so-called climate crisis is behind every contemporary malaise is not just convenient oversimplification, it's also selective causation designed to fit a particular ideology.

[Julian Rademeyer @julianrademeyer]

"Every story of human movement now is a climate story, whether we like it or not. Pretty much every case of forced or ‘voluntary’ migration has a climate element built into it.” https://t.co/JiqLhz8Uvz

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@dailymaverick It doesn’t get more populist than this. Seriously, what historic sun did we commit to incur this level of divine punishment?

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@News24 SA’s elite tier of Nostradamuses have been warning about iminent revolution since 2011, yet we’re still waiting.
Prophets who foretold "Arab Spring":
• Vavi (2011)
• M. Mbeki (2011)
• Phosa (2012)
• T. Mbeki (2022)
• Malema (2022)
Welcome to the club, Jonathan Jansen (2026)

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Green organisations, mainly based in well developed Western countries continue to block development in the Global South. If we allow them to dictate we will never gain energy sovereignty.

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

South Africa's environment minister has dismissed a challenge lodged by conservationists against an environmental authorisation to allow exploration in TotalEnergies-operated Block 3B/4B off the country's West Coast. https://t.co/DRiYCetI1C

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@GovernmentZA When the government calls on the government to do something, it’s the clearest sign that the governing party operates in a zone between governing and playing opposition, which explains why nothing gets done.

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When the government calls on the government to do something, it’s the clearest sign that the governing party operates in a zone between governing and playing opposition, which explains why nothing gets done.

[South African Government @GovernmentZA]

🎥 Deputy President Paul Mashatile calls for affordable electricity and water including more opportunities for young people and the protection of existing jobs. Addressing FEDUSA’s Eighth National Congress, he stresses that a fair transition to a sustainable economy must include everyone, backed by action.

#GovZAUpdates #FEDUSAcongress2026

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@russ421 @aycawe A glaring paradox emerging from the contemporary judicial construction of the South African constitution is that in order to transcend race, the state must continuously measure and rely on race. That it's not acknowledged is both a function of history and an opportunistic exploit

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@JustineLimLaw Or corruption on their part!

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Totalitarianism is when citizens are seen as enemies of the state. We’re seeing signs of exactly that, right here, in a country boasting the “best constitution in the world”!

[Calvin Phiri @CalvinPhiri8]

Gauteng to open criminal case against student who reported a security flaw in its R269-million app – MyBroadband https://t.co/OP1ItRqQYr

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@pierredevos Interesting

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@Abramjee Colossal waste of time and resources. At least we're getting dashboards with pretty graphs.

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@zilevandamme It’s basically the job of the UN to warn everybody about anything everywhere. And don’t be surprised when you see it popping up in NGO funding proposals.

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@IrvinJimSA I believe Moa used punctuation .... correctly!

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@EFFSouthAfrica @ferialhaffajee Not the @EFFSouthAfrica subtlety implying that Navi Pillay is not currently a South African, or perhaps that she never was - only recognising that she was born here. Clarify pleas?