grogfan

Run of the mill sock puppet bot

[grogfan @grogfan]

@FinanceGhost Subtweeting Moneyweb I see...

[grogfan @grogfan]

@RomanCabanac You clearly weren't around at the time, but don't let your lack of understanding get in the way of decades of nuance behind a topic you’re confidently misreading

[grogfan @grogfan]

Grumpy old codger here. In my day our parents didn't give a shit. Walking to school was normal, under no circumstances would your parents even follow you to school.

[grogfan @grogfan]

I remember these posters well. Don't know of anyone whoe ever saw any of these in real life
Remember having police escort on school bus around 16 June a few times

[grogfan @grogfan]

Doctors are just human mechanics. Proof 👇

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

I’m from a time before the iPhone.

A time when cars broke down, often.

A time where when information came in books.

A time when appliances lasted for life.

We survived just fine.

We will survive this next chapter just fine too.

[grogfan @grogfan]

People complain when tax brackets are not adjusted. Guess what, the EME and QSE brackets in BEE legislation have not been adjusted in probably 15 years. This kills small black owned businesses and favours the corporates

[grogfan @grogfan]

This is not new. What is crazy is that someone thst employs 50 people is considered a large business. What is really fun is meeting a quota of 0.5 coloured males employed...

[Aaron @LibertarianZA]

The latest "Employment Equity" legislation in South Africa is completely and utterly insane and deranged.

Every company with more than 50 employees in South Africa now has a "mandatory" race and gender quota broken down for each sector and each job level.

Yes, you read that right. A percentage level target set to the precision level of one tenth of a percent for each race and gender for each level of employee.

The minister can change the 50 employee threshold arbitrarily.

If you fail to do this by 2030 you will be fined 2% of turnover or R1.5m.

Is this really how you stimulate economic growth in a country with a tanking economy?

As if business in this country has had enough to contend with, enforcement of this immoral abomination will be the final nail in the coffin for many businesses.

It also virtually bars entry level jobs to people who are not in the "designated groups", e.g. "white".

Entry level "designated group" quota examples:

Accommodation and Food Sector - 95.9%
Administrative and Support - 95.9%
Arts and Entertainment - 95.9%
Construction - 95.9%
Education - 95.9%
Financial and Insurance - 95.9%
Retail - 94.2%

The professional level quotas are slightly milder mostly in the 70%-85% range but there are also sectors with similar racial job reservation e.g.:

Administrative and Support - 95.3%
Arts and Entertainment - 95.9%
Electrical - 95.9%
Health - 95.9%

The way the quotas are skewed lower for top management jobs seems to indicate that they think that as long as they keep some white men around to run the show for a while, it will be fine, but at the bottom end there is very little allowance for young white entrants into the economy.

If you set out to design a system to deliberately and gradually eradicate a group of people from the economy this is exactly what it would like.

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[grogfan @grogfan]

Meyer Kahn was a mensch and there is a generation of South Africans like him that will be missed forever

[grogfan @grogfan]

Really enjoyed this speech by Meyer Khan about the SAB takeover https://t.co/MTY8ooFgdk

[grogfan @grogfan]

Still true. You should question anyone labelling someone else as stupid

[grogfan @grogfan]

Stupidity is a matter of perspective

[grogfan @grogfan]

We still dumb af

[grogfan @grogfan]

South Africans calling Americans stupid over Trump, Britains over Brexit. We voted for JZ...

[grogfan @grogfan]

A true wordsmith...

[Gus Silber @gussilber]

Obama says: "The sun will rise in the morning." As if the advent of a big orange ball of gaseous flame is a good thing.

[grogfan @grogfan]

Not much good that did. The only person still caring about constitutional checks and balances is @dccommonsense and nobody listens to him anymore

[grogfan @grogfan]

This is why limiting presidential powers is so important, I hope Trump inspires the US to remove some of these https://t.co/WFxIQDr0gD

[grogfan @grogfan]

TLDR; social media will turn you into an asshole that hates everyone including yourself

[thaddeus e. grugq @thegrugq]

I just remembered: all the things which are necessary to train humans to kill are actually native aspects of the internet. Removing empathy.

[grogfan @grogfan]

Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by

[grogfan @grogfan]

In the last 10 years I have learnt to appreciate Afrikaans culture, or at least how I grew up. Problem is the culture has been seriously perverted by a right wing element with no knowledge of what afrikaans principles were even 40 years ago

[grogfan @grogfan]

I grew up Afrikaans, but see no real value to keeping it. https://t.co/Govafc6aBg

[grogfan @grogfan]

Gosh even this gig is still going

[grogfan @grogfan]

.@GarethCliff is one of the few people that has figured out how to use the Streisand effect to his advantage

[grogfan @grogfan]

All time winner of sour milk tweets

[grogfan @grogfan]

Hey Elmo why do you need my mic if I want to share a pic?

[grogfan @grogfan]

Me disagreeing with Tony now gone. He was a good guy

[grogfan @grogfan]

@toni_gon okay, my experience with desktop Linux has not been good, but haven't tried recently. Love it for servers and VMs

[grogfan @grogfan]

There is a place for taxes, butt the ANC still employing this playbook and not getting it.

[Chris Hart @chrishartZA]

The economic effect of the budget is to shift resources out of the private sector and into govt hands - from high to low multipliers