Ivan Pillay

“History is not our destiny”

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

Carol Paton | Floyd Shivambu and why SA capitalism is running out of time https://t.co/6reQXkxOMh via @News24_Business

[Patrick Dexter @patrickdextervc]

Amazing Grace. Happy Easter weekend from the west of Ireland 🌈

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

Jury Orders Giuliani to Pay $148 Million to Election Workers He Defamed https://t.co/2fMpWEGnIn

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

Should A.I. Accelerate? Decelerate? The Answer Is Both. https://t.co/z6WkIMIec2

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

Anti-graft summit — ‘Intensity of fighting apartheid must be harnessed to fight scourge of SA corruption’ https://t.co/6BRhMzn3vG

[Brent Lindeque @BrentLindeque]

This photo is EVERYTHING!!!

Still can't get over the game last night.

We were at our local and the mood in the bar was properly sad for most of the match. I looked around and everyone looked so sad.

It's like we had all given up. We were watching this thing unfold. And we had lost hope.

I speak about this in my Keynotes but during “cofifi”, a group of clever psychologists coined a term that the world was collectively going through. It’s called “Anticipatory Grief” and the basic meaning of it is that we were all grieving something we hadn’t lost yet.

I kinda feel like South Africans are in a constant state of Anticipatory Grief. Even way before the pandemic.

We are all waiting for another corruption scandal. Waiting to hear about more money being looted by our Government officials - how’s that couch, Mr President? Waiting to hear about another horrible crime committed against someone we know. Or maybe even to us. Waiting to hear about another sad story of a family who can’t eat tonight. More loadshedding. More potholes. More inflation. The list feels almost endless.

It can feel like we’re constantly losing.

Last night, we were all on tenterhooks. For almost 90% of that game, we were all on edge. Most of us had given up. Be honest here, we thought we had lost.

And then something magical happened. In those last 10 minutes, the Bokke somehow did it. They turned it all around.

WE WON!!!!

And all of a sudden, the bar erupted. Everyone jumped to their feet. People were screaming. Crying. And hugging each other. Strangers were all celebrating South Africa.

I think that’s a beautiful analogy to what we face as a country.

It can sometimes feel like we’re in a constant losing battle, but it takes 10 minutes to change everything.

Yes, in times of tragedy (and really hectic rugby), look for the helpers and the heroes… cause they will always be there.

I said it yesterday but our team don’t just play rugby. They play with everything they have. They play for every single South African. They play to remind us who we are. And they play to show us who we can be.

And those last 10 minutes showed us exactly who we can be.

Stronger Together!

Proudly South African... and PROUD of South Africa.

Okay. Love you. Bye.

[Rugby World Cup @rugbyworldcup]

Breathless

#ENGvRSA | #RWC2023

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

Vengeful Pathologies https://t.co/VC8QeeVx9u

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

Sidney K Powell Pleads Guilty
Powell, who spun some of the wildest conspiracy theories about ballot fraud...pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to six misdemeanor counts.
https://t.co/RPX6lU994P

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

In Poland, Unity and Optimism Prevailed Over Autocracy , by @ruthbenghiat https://t.co/B8q71aDHeE

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"The victory of the Polish opposition proves that autocratic populism can be defeated, even after an unfair election. Nothing is inevitable about the rise of autocracy or the decline of democracy," @anneapplebaum writes: https://t.co/3cNPWfHrMt

[Palesa Morudu Rosenberg @palesa_morudu]

Don't believe IDF. Don't believe Hamas. Fog of war and competing narratives. We are left with our own biases. An independent international commission should lead an investigation.

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

Karyn Maughan | Behind 'pseudo-martyr' Mkhwebane and the EFF
In the world that the EFF and Mkhwebane want to live in, the ends justify any and all means – as long as they result in their particular enemies being "dealt with".
https://t.co/8TiGNnihzv via @news24

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

"Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them."

— A Tiny Thought in the @farnamstreet weekly newsletter. Read what you're missing https://t.co/VQNhrGWrbv

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

"You can't remove struggle or emotion from life, but you can put yourself in a position where they don't control you.

Consistently doing the simplest things makes the biggest difference."

A Tiny Thought from the @farnamstreet weekly newsletter https://t.co/VQNhrGWrbv

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

SCA takes aim at Zuma over Stalingrad, strikes blow to upcoming bid to remove Downer
https://t.co/MvTP5b6hCE via @news24

[ZAM Magazine @zammagazine]

It's here: The Making of Migration, a 5 country investigation on despair & risking everything. Why are Europe's 'returnee' projects failing & why do those who would 'love to stay' eventually also join the brain
drain? What does Putin have to do with it all?https://t.co/pdsjhCXhIw

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

This court finds that the interim board members failed to comply with the SCM policy. The only finding this court can make is that the interim board members clearly wanted to benefit Mafoko.”https://t.co/lZ77VMDujx via @City_Press

[Ivan Pillay @ivanvpillay611]

“We are only at the very beginning of delineating the complexity of the human brain” . “A lot more work is needed to fully understand the diversity, variability and function of the brain structure and function.”
https://t.co/NOUIAAuUXz via @BusinessLiveSA

[Kathrada Foundation @KathradaFound]

AKF's Executive Director, Neeshan Balton, is talking about how we take activism forward today. #TIC40