Thank you for having us at yo beautifully crafted institution, and for ilanga..!!!🥹Such thought-provoking and fruitful engagements had with welcoming seasoned scholars in the field.
It was great sharing my research w/ you @UniMpumalanga. See you in Wits! ✨ #StelliesInMPU#SASA
📢 UMP will be hosting the South African Sociological Association (SASA) 30th Annual Conference under the theme: “Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Realities: South Africa, 30 Years Later.”
🗓 23–26 June 2025
📍Mbombela Campus
#SASA2025#UMP#SociologyInAction
South Africa is amazing 🇿🇦. Warrant Officer Karl Sander's Back A Buddy campaign is now over R275k. The target was only R5k for his coffee machine. It's the politicians that divides the people.
I think this is done to save time and money...
Two times I applied for such jobs, I got the offers... but then tried to negotiate pay. They didn't budge. I declined. 🙈
Getting rejected by jobs you’re overqualified for is really wild because how tf are you going to reject me when I was selling myself short by even applying to your tragedy ass job in the first place 😒
Getting rejected by jobs you’re overqualified for is really wild because how tf are you going to reject me when I was selling myself short by even applying to your tragedy ass job in the first place 😒
Grootman is gatvol. Paging all files "looking for the statement he filed to the commission". Lol, my man ain't want noooooobody's help! 😂😂😂😂 #MadlangaCommission
The board fees post has clearly struck a nerve.
If it made you realise that you may already have the experience and credibility to serve on boards, but simply need the governance language, structure and a bit of chutzpah, this is for you.
Want to serve on boards but don’t know where to start?
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Google photos just reminded me that on this day, in 2018, I submitted my History honours proposal which eventually became my dissertation on Ulwaluko. I dedicated it to my late brother who died from complications at initiation school. What a time. RIP Fez ♥️
“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”
It seemed far fetched when I said that I was removed from the position of the head of Hawks in Gauteng when I was about to arrest a Nigerian drug dealer in December 2016. In that operation we arrested two of our own Hawks members in December 2016 who were conniving with the drug dealer. I was transferred to a ‘graveyard’ division in SAPS and began in January 2019.
Backed by unscrupulous media houses and NGOs, the dark forces within law enforcement had all along unleashed the IPID, the Office of the Judge of the DPCI, the NPA and internal disciplinary processes and concocted lie detector test. I was quite overwhelmed by the onslaught and my psychiatrist said that was too much to withstand I that I better leave, and so I resigned, and took early pension.
When officers like W/O Sanders, #GeneralMkhwanazi testify at the #MadlangaInquiry my heart melts because I know the script, I have experienced it. It is just interesting that the players and characters are somewhat connected.
Being an educated woman is such a flex. Earning a degree, regardless of the career path you chose, is a huge accomplishment. You put in the work, stayed committed, and made it happen and that’s major.
ABSA’S PROPOSED BOARD FEES AND THE ECONOMICS OF BOARD ACCESS
As Absa continues to dominate public conversation, shareholders are today expected to vote on the proposed remuneration of non-executive directors for the 2026/2027 period.
If approved, the fees will apply from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027.
The proposed fees are:
*Board Chairman: R8,124,334
*Lead Independent Director: R290,306
*Board members: R728,556
These figures are exclusive of VAT where applicable.
The numbers matter.
Not because board service should be reduced to money, but because they reveal a truth many professionals are never taught:
Board access is also economic access.
June marks the end of the first half of the year. It is a natural moment to review income, positioning, visibility and missed opportunities.
I have often hesitated to speak openly about board fees because a board seat is not a side hustle. It is a fiduciary responsibility requiring judgment, preparation, ethics, oversight and accountability.
But we must also be honest.
Part of the reason the same names continue to circulate across boards is that they understand the economics of governance access. They know that board appointments can strengthen their finances, expand their influence and keep them visible for future opportunities.
Meanwhile, many capable and ethical professionals do not even know what board fees can look like, or that advisory roles can become pathways into formal board appointments.
This is why board fees must be demystified.
Not to attract greedy people.
To inform ethical people.
In my view, serious board candidates should aim, over time, for a maximum of three meaningful board or advisory roles per annum.
Three roles where they can prepare properly, contribute meaningfully, read deeply, ask the right questions and serve with integrity.
One of our own candidates started with an unpaid advisory board role.
Zero fees.
Just proximity, learning, positioning and governance exposure.
Today, at only 34, she holds two paying board roles over and above her primary professional income.
One pays approximately R589,000 per annum.
The other, converted from a dollar-based committee role, pays approximately R627,000 per annum.
That is an additional board-fee portfolio of:
R1,216,000 per annum
This is not her salary.
It is additional income created through governance readiness, credibility and positioning.
Board service is not a side hustle.
But let us stop pretending board fees are irrelevant.
#AskAsanteOnBoards
A Back-a-Buddy campaign has been launched to buy a Coffee machine for W/O Sander. I think it is worth contributing to, someone earlier said i one of the posts, even a supply of coffee beans would be nice. 🙏🏽😊❤️
Back-a-Buddy campaign launched for Warrant Officer Karl Sander's coffee machine https://t.co/NF8T7oxecm
I love seeing competed Black men who know their job. Experts fondini.
He got me on the sampling lecture and the hypogeometric* plan. 🔥 #MadlangaCommission