@Lynette_SA brain dead comment.
the irony here is that giving everyone access to the internet and AI is probably one of the most valuable things that can be done to lift people out of poverty. but you reject it, because it comes from someone you dislike.
SA has a massive attitude problem.
You wanted us to give a desperate wanna be pedo, access to our internet and access to rural schools with under ages girls. And we all know the connection between pedos and the internet
Know what they do to young girls vulnerable, you owe me an apology 😂
This aged poorly for u
You don't even have ambulance. You think you have the infrastructure to know your own rape stats?! In your country, the children you marry don't even count as rape 😭😭😭
Reading African history will just make you hate the white man and rightfully so. What they did to Lumumba was pure and unadulterated savagery. They killed him, cut him up and dissolved his body in acid. Then they took his gold tooth to a museum? What?? And we're the savages?!
I stopped watching all American military and intelligence movies because they are deliberate propaganda to make you see America as the good guys and every other person as the bad guys.
So all the time, Russia and China are planning to destroy the World, and the US has to intervene.
Rubbish!
Starlink is not going to make money in South Africa.
Its product offering is expensive and still redundant for those who can actually afford it, i.e. the urban classes who have perfectly functioning fibre.
You then have to ask yourself why it’s so desperate to penetrate the country.
After all, urban and peri-urban households already have uncapped fibre, which is much faster and cheaper, alongside 5G/LTE as backup.
Meanwhile, Starlink is weather-sensitive, has higher latency and is operationally cumbersome with its dish and line of sight requirements.
There’s absolutely nothing disruptive about it.
Starlink, the Democratic Alliance and those Afriforum types claim the value is in rural and remote access. You know, where most households don’t have reliable electricity, can’t afford the hardware and can’t sustain monthly US $$$-linked subscriptions.
So the very market where Starlink supposedly adds real value happens to be the least monetisable.
The reality is that Starlink’s real customers will be mining operations, agriculture conglomerates, logistics companies, remote industrial sites, disaster-response and redundancy, etc.
These users can afford it, need independence from terrestrial networks and will buy in bulk.
In other words the beneficiaries will corporate South Africa, not the developmental state.
Then there’s Starlink’s insistence on bypassing local economic empowerment laws, which also benefits capital.
By forcing exemption from B-BBEE requirements, Starlink is creating a precedent that will let multinational infrastructure providers operate in South Africa without meaningful local equity participation or development obligations.
Large corporations will enjoy cheaper, faster, and more flexible connectivity than they currently are getting, while the empowerment framework is quietly hollowed out for their benefit.
In short, Starlink doesn’t need mass-market adoption. Limited uptake in the corporate and industrial sectors will strengthen global capital’s hand and quietly rewrite the “rules of the game” in South Africa’s economy, all while presenting itself publicly as a rural-access solution.
Essentially, Starlink’s forced entry into South Africa is all about regulatory capture and empowering corporations at the expense of broader developmental goals.
Oh, and there’s also the relationship between Starlink and Palantir, arguably the most pernicious company in the world today. Just Google “Palantir evil”.
In 1911, this Tswana community legally bought land at Mogopa, building a thriving village with schools & clinics. Apartheid classified it a "black spot" in white areas. Feb 14, 1984: 90 armed police forcibly removed residents at gunpoint to clear fertile land for white farmers.
@Spectre_1_1@RiebvJanbeeck@MxolisiBob@grok You literally steal entire countries🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 your crime stats are genocides and war crimes and our crimes are created by ur theft. This is how u "buy" land btw🤣 thief https://t.co/VK4MS3wcxb
Diamond magnete George Albu detailing his plans to the Apartheid commission to strip Black South Africans of their land & force them to work for Whites for low wages. George Albu also founded the company that would later become De Beers diamonds.
White South Africans colloquially refer to themselves as “taxpayers”. However, what they don’t mention is that they practically did not have to pay much tax for 150 years until 1994. Let’s take a trip down memory lane🧵🧵
Sierra Leone scientist who made major breakthrough in the cause and treatment of diabetes - Davidson Nicol.
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol CMG or pen named Abioseh Nicol (14 September 1924 – 20 September 1994) was a Sierra Leone Creole academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. He was able to secure degrees in the arts, science and commercial disciplines and he contributed to science, history, and literature.
Nicol was the first African to graduate with first class honours from the University of Cambridge and he was also the first African elected as a fellow of a college of Cambridge University. Davidson Nicol also contributed to medical science when he was the first to analyse the breakdown of insulin in the human body, a discovery which was a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes.
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Ancient Africans ethnicity used to conduct brain surgery centuries ago done by a Native doctor.
The patient will be given lots of alcohol, then pinned down by people and the surgeon will split their skull and remove the tumor from the brain. Then cover the gape with herbs and bind the skull together with ropes made from palm fronds.
Patient heals over some weeks. This only means that the knowledge for this type of surgery is thousands of years old in Africa.
It is now a lost art.
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