Heinrich Böhmke

Deep-rooted metaphors

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

@calvin3000 Nice guy, but doesn’t understand averages.

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

@MDNnewss Incoherent, a level below incompetent.

[I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA @Lolita721611021]

🇿🇦 Read and weep... its about time the truth starts coming out...‼️

"I am a contractor and I worked at the Medupi Power Station. I wish to add a few comments...

"The working staff get the last day of each month off as well as half the previous day for pay day.

"General workers arrive between eight and nine and start working on the new substations by ten.

"Lunch starts at about 11:30 and finishes about 14:00
They leave at about 15:30

"These are the general workers pulling in new cables, moving panels etc.

"So very little real work gets done because of the short working hours.

"I was working in a substation. The air conditioning system was not working because the controller is the wrong type. It has taken four months to find a replacement. It was 40 degrees in the substation

"The two main chimneys at Medupi have been built facing the wrong direction. They are 180 degrees the wrong way round. This means the pipework will all have to be changed. The efficiency of the blowers will be affected as the pipework is incorrect.

"The management of staff is a mess. The staff sit and look at you if you ask them to do anything. They know that if they don’t like what you are asking, they can on strike and they have done it. So nobody messes with them.

"The engineer who signed off the building of the chimneys the wrong way round has disappeared. There was insufficient management oversight. The wrong air conditioning unit in the substation was also due to lack of management.

LUNCH

"Apparently the “kitchen” or food contract is run by the local ANC mayor or leader.

The workers are guaranteed a hot lunch every day.

There is a central kitchen and mess.

"Thus a worker who is an hour away from the kitchen, is transported in a little bus. His lunch hour only starts when he picks up the plate to be served.

"So an hour lunch break lasts 2 or 3 hours in some sections.

"When the workforce was on strike the lunch providers were paid full value – not just the profit section even though they were not supplying any meals.

"The lunch contract has come up for review many times and every time the same person is awarded the contract despite better or other bids."

Now this is just lunch.... Imagine the rest ?

[B. Miller @BlaiseInKC]

There’s some quirk in physics where, if there’s a small hole in a bag of mulch it will leak all over your vehicle.
But if you rip a giant hole in the bag and try to dump it out into your landscaping, almost none will fall out.

[Marmalade @MarmaladesWorld]

I strongly suspect some of us were not designed for modern life…

We were meant to live in crooked little cottages, speak to birds, dry herbs from ceiling beams, and dramatically stare out of rainy windows whilst soup bubbled nearby!

Instead…there are emails to be sent.

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

Tried to look extra suspicious to get chosen for a search by this magnificent specimen.

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

Durban can be pretty

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

@Absolute_Kganki @Dijosti @ParliamentofRSA This level of bravado comes from fear an ego cannot show.

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

Bushveld, photo by Ziggi Hugo.

[Dirt Cheap Banks @dirtcheapbanks]

I have built a spreadsheet. It has 847 rows. Each row is a community bank in the United States with a market cap below $200 million, a price-to-tangible-book ratio under 0.85, a non-performing loan ratio below 0.4%, and a CEO who has been in the role for at least twelve years. I update it every Sunday from 6 AM to 11 AM while my family attends church without me. I have visited the headquarters of nineteen of these banks in person. I have eaten a complimentary lobby cookie at each one. The cookies are how you can tell. A bank with a good cookie is a bank that respects its depositors. A bank with a stale cookie is a bank that will be acquired within 36 months at a 40% premium. I am never wrong about the cookies. The cookies have never lied to me. The cookies are the only thing left that tells the truth.

[The Real KING OF THE JUNGLE @EdwardthembaSa]

Comrades ready for that R2 Trillion SARS Revenue Collection…🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[South Africa First @Kvnza_SA]

The craziest thing about the AdHoc committee is that we are watching crooks question other crooks about their crook behaviour.

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

Autumn. Swapped SA Communists Speak and a book on Whiteness for a Life of Seneca and Middlemarch at Ikes.

[Ken James @openshutter21]

I couldn't stop taking photos a few months ago of this lilly pond under some of the greyest skies I've seen. But every once in awhile you'd get a little brightening and it would put out some incredible contrasting light.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Damn it's crazy how close the meteor came to hitting the visitor center...

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

When Authority Forgets Restraint: Process, Power, and Constitutional Risk in the Chauke Inquiry https://t.co/J0JXrLnGsU

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

Judge Bess Nkabinde is petty, prickly and ponderous at the Chauke Inquiry. Whatever one may think of adv Batohi's testimony, she deserved the relief of this eyeroll.

[Heinrich Böhmke @hbohmke]

This is now the rule not the exception when exposing government rot.

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

This—this, is everything.