Gideon Els

Loves business history. Accounting lecturer🎓 Musician🎹 Musical Theatre freak🌇 ☕addict 🇿🇦

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

Keir Starmer does NOT want the World to see how badly British Patriots want their country back

Would be a shame if it went viral on 𝕏

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@WhiteLionII1 Goeiemore Leeuman

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@BrentLindeque I am what I am.

[Zelda la Grange ©™✌ @ZeldalaGrangeSA]

Yep. You underestimate your enemy at your own peril. You simply don't go to war unless you know enough about your enemy's capabilities. Did America and Israel think this war would be limited to the frontlines? Now civilians dying everywhere #IranWar‌

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@Rainmaker1973 38 years

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@RetroTechChris I wrote my doctoral thesis on WordPerfect

[Slaughter. @BafanaSurprise]

The e-hailing driver that was killed in Pretoria, one suspect is being recognised. You guys can’t tell me that none of you don’t know this lady. She must be found by the end of today. Share her pictures everywhere, even on WhatsApp! She must be found!

[White Lion II (NDDN) Wittoslav Lionovski @WhiteLionII1]

Minister of Water loading? There’s an abundance of money in SA, let’s add more ministers to the already bloated cabinet.

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@WhiteLionII1 Ek gaan kyk hoe my gras groei.

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

If anyone needs cheering up today, might I recommend this. It’s the Miss Marple Theme by the legendary Ron Goodwin, used for all four of Margret Rutherford’s Miss Marple movies. All of which are bloody brilliant, IMVHO. I've posted it several times and it’s an absolute banger!

By the way, did you know that Agatha Christie dedicated her novel, The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side, to Margaret Rutherford. She hated the four films though, as in her opinion they played too much for laughs.

Balderdash!

Happy weekend one and all x

[THE TRUTH PANTHER 🇿🇦 @TheTruthPanther]

706 Foreign Teachers Employed in KwaZulu-Natal while Hundreds of Qualified but Unemployed South African Teachers Camp Outside Education Offices Demanding Jobs

Hundreds of unemployed South African teachers are camping outside the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education offices, demanding jobs while 706 foreign teachers are employed in the province.

They say they will continue sleeping outside in harsh weather until officials listen to their concerns.

Minister of Basic Education Gwen Gwarube told Parliament that in 2025 there were 253,618 foreign learners and 3,240 foreign teachers in public schools nationwide.

She was responding to an IFP question about foreign nationals in the education system.

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@Lebona_cabonena No

[Douglas Wayne @Bound2Liberty]

Another day, another ANC brain explosion disguised as legislation. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Business Licensing Bill 2025, the single most destructive, idiotic, corrupt-enabling piece of paper the ruling party has vomited onto the Government Gazette since the Expropriation Bill.

This is not a bill. This is economic euthanasia with extra paperwork.

Picture this: South Africa, 33% official unemployment, 45% if you count the people who’ve given up looking. Youth unemployment at 60%. An economy growing slower than a stoned tortoise. And the ANC’s big idea to fix it? Force every single business in the country (from Woolworths to the lady selling vetkoek outside the taxi rank) to apply for a brand-new municipal licence just to be allowed to breathe.

Yes, you read that right. Every spaza, every hair braider, every Uber driver, every Etsy store, every backyard panel beater, every work-from-home graphic designer now has to register on a national database, pay fees, submit mountains of documents, and then wait while the same municipality that can’t collect rubbish or read a water meter decides whether you’re worthy of trading.

If they don’t like your face, your race, your political connections, or if the ANC councillor’s cousin just opened a competing business, tough luck, comrade. Application denied. Business dead.

And just to make it extra spicy, they’ve created a brand-new army of clipboard-wielding “Business Inspectors” with more power than a traffic cop on month-end. These heroes can rock up any time, demand your licence, and if you don’t have it (or if they’re just having a bad day), they can fine you R100,000 on the spot, confiscate your stock, and padlock your doors. No magistrate, no appeal, no mercy. Just instant financial execution.

Imagine the bribery opportunities. It’s like the ANC sat down and asked, “How can we make metro police look honest by comparison?”

Oh, and because nothing says “pro-poor” like crushing the informal sector, this genius law specifically targets the two million street traders and survivalist businesses. You know, the people who actually feed their kids when SASSA grants run out. They now need formal municipal permission to sell apples on the corner. Good luck getting that permission in a township where the councillor only visits during election year with KFC vouchers.

They even snuck in a cute little clause allowing licences to be allocated according to “demographic representativity”. Translation: if you’re Indian, coloured, or white and you’re in a township, better start polishing your ANC membership card or kiss that renewal goodbye.

This is what happens when a liberation movement runs out of ideas and defaults to its factory setting: control everything, tax everything, own everything, punish anyone who succeeds without permission.

The GNU was supposed to be the grown-up in the room. Instead, the ANC just used its majority to ram through another wet dream of Soviet-style central planning while the DA issues strongly worded press statements from the cheap seats.

Let me fix that for you: the DA is in the GNU too, remember? They’re literally sitting in Cabinet while this trash fire burns.

Small businesses create seven out of every ten new jobs in this country. This bill is a deliberate middle finger to every entrepreneur, every hustler, every mom who started baking cakes during lockdown to keep the lights on.

It will kill jobs by the hundreds of thousands. It will explode corruption. It will drive what’s left of the formal economy into the arms of Mauritius and Portugal. And it will turn every municipality into a toll booth manned by comrades with fake qualifications and real guns.

This is not governance by people who have never in their lives signed the front of a payslip.

If you own a business, if you work in one, if you ever hope to start one, scream now or cry later.

Flood the DTIC inbox. Spam every minister on every platform. Phone talk radio until the lines melt. Make this bill so toxic that even the ANC’s coalition partners grow a spine for five minutes.

Time's up tomorrow, don't let this bill become law without a fight! The public comment deadline is Friday, November 28, 2025 (that's tomorrow, so get moving!). Email your objections to Mr. Thembani Masinge at [email protected], addressed to him, and demand a full scrap or total overhaul to save entrepreneurs, informal traders, and our sputtering economy from this license-to-loot disaster. Keep it short, furious, and factual: copy-paste templates from #ScrapTheBusinessLicensingBill campaigns on X or Dear South Africa if you're stuck. Your email could be the nail in this coffin! Flood those inboxes before midnight!

Because if this becomes law, the only licence anyone will need in South Africa is a licence to be poor.

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@RaziaAliani Very applicable

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up.

Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! RT!

[Zapiro @zapiro]

Today marks the 4th anniversary of the assassination of whistleblower ... Babita Deokaran #RIP - Zapiro's archival cartoon published on @dailymaverick (28 August 2021) - https://t.co/f1cbVfX1HO

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@WhiteLionII1 Die leeu is terug !

[Francois van Wyk @FjvWyk]

My naam is Francois en ek is 'n wyn snob. Ek gee nou nie om wie wat sê nie, maar vanaand drink ek wyn uit 'n boks! 🤣😂🤣

[In A Nutshell🥜 @Markosonke1]

So Mahlengi of the @MYANC says “There is no way the president can be questioned when he decides to constitute his executive.”Ma’am… even CEOs of biggest private companies have to consult the board and senior managers before making major decisions, and last we checked, Cyril isn’t the CEO of SA Inc., he’s the managing partner in a fragile coalition called GNU.

This is the Government of National Unity, not the Government of National “Don’t Ask Me Anything.”
The man didn’t win with a two-thirds majority, he negotiated power with other parties. So this idea that he can fire ministers like he’s cleaning his WhatsApp chats? Uhm, no. It’s giving “authoritarian chic with a sprinkle of constitutional confusion.” if presidents weren’t meant to be questioned, Parliament would just be a stage for decorative microphones and tea breaks

[Gideon Els @giepieels]

@acagamic For the first time in my academic career does this now make sense. Thanks