Mark Slingsby

Entrepreneur, investor, Founder of RSAWEB, Octotel & Olarm and more. Pro-market, compettion and less government regulation and buffoonery.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Plett/George areas - we are seeing firsthand why satellite services like @Starlink need urgent approval in #southafrica
@Eskom_SA being down for 5 days already after the storm cuts power to cellphone towers and wisps. Nothing works outside of towns & remote areas are struggling with comms and no power.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

The real impact on people is telling a different story. Partly true but I know people who will be forced to sell because they cannot afford these rates increases purely because their surrounding suburb has significantly increased in value. Unfair and unethical to force people to sell their property because of this system that penalises unrealised capital growth in their own home.
What is your total budgeted collections going up by because of these revaluations?

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Massive rates increases from the @CityofCT people literally cannot afford to live in their own homes. There is no sugar coating rates increases of 200-300% on a property.

This is effectively a tax on unrealised gains! @geordinhl don’t hide behind laws that clearly don’t work. #woketaxes

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

The value of Cape Town's properties are growing! 👏🏡

We're now proposing a 10.2% decrease in the rate-in-rand, to help shield the impact of rising values. ⬇️

This means you could see lower rates bills, even as your property value increases. ✅

More info: https://t.co/0MxqyHjvWJ

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Massive rates increases from the @CityofCT people literally cannot afford to live in their own homes. This is effectively a tax on unrealised gains! #woketaxes

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

@Moneyweb “High” executive pay is simple economics. Undersupply of high quality executive candidates (who are globally mobile) due to BEE/Labour policy/safety risk/emigration vs massive oversupply of low skilled low productivity workers.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

We must do everything we can to get these kleptocrats out of power. The future of South Africa and all her children depend on it

[Disprin @DisprinXtra]

#VoetsekANC Friday.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

@HermanMashaba , I’ve supported you in the past but you’ve completely lost the plot!

[Herman Mashaba @HermanMashaba]

This is a deliberate and well orchestrated Plan to get poor people out of Cape Town, and make use of illegal foreigners as a means of cheap labour.
This Plan is not going to succeed anywhere again in South Africa, including the eventual collapse of such a decisive system, including in Cape Town itself.
Some of us are fully aware of this Plan, and will work with all like-minded South Africans for Social Justice.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Remarkable that we have gone from the world’s most reliable, plentiful, cheapest power producer to extremely unreliable and almost the most expensive producer. Our economy needs reliable cheap power!

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

A major milestone indeed. I remember 3 years ago unplanned breakdowns averaged at 18 000 MW. Good news.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

What absolute nonsense! Continued ridiculous racist laws, huge increases in electricity prices, massive corruption. Nothing about your ANC policies is creating a favourable investment climate.

[Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa]

We remain committed to growing our economy by retaining existing investors, safeguarding jobs, and attracting new investment opportunities. We are creating a favourable investment climate through structural reforms and identifying catalytic projects that can drive growth. Our goal is to stimulate economic growth and job creation through various strategic initiatives.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

The @MYANC continues to strike again, successfully delivering decolonisation. It is succeeding in closing down an essential to development ~70 year old businesses employing ~3000 people because of ludicrous electricity price increases, a rail network unable to deliver.

Wake up south african voters - before there are no jobs, no taxes and no grants left.

[Alice VL @RiseAgainstEvil]

Thanks, @MYANC. This isn’t apartheid’s fault, YOU get the credit for it all.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Confirmation of yet more high quality “reporting” from @News24

[Renaldo “Ngamla” Gouws 🇿🇦 @RenaldoGouws]

Below is a public response to George Claassen and News24, as I know I won't get a right of reply based on past treatment.

A Spicy Roast of News24’s 2025 Shenanigans

Oh, News24, you’ve been stirring the pot in 2025, haven’t you? In their latest self-righteous opinion piece, Media24's Press Ombudsman, George Claassen, insists News24 is as independent as a lone springbok, far from the ANC’s pocket and untouched by bias. But let’s turn up the heat and see what’s really cooking, shall we?

The Press Ombudsman has been busier than a barista during a morning rush, handing down rulings in 2025 alone that found News24 guilty of breaching the Press Code against a whole cast of characters: the Southern African Agri Initiative (SAAI), Jan Braai, Renaldo Gouws, Gayton McKenzie, Lucia Page, AfriForum, and, lest we forget, the doxxing disaster with Twatterbaas. That’s a rap sheet longer than a Cape Town queue for free Wi-Fi!

Let's start with me, Renaldo Gouws. The Ombudsman scolded News24 for omitting my clarifying statement in a story about a 2010 YouTube video critiquing Julius Malema’s “Kill the Boer” song. They left out the part where I said I didn’t mean what I just said, leaving their article as lopsided as a poorly stacked shelf.

Then there’s Gayton McKenzie, smeared in News24’s “gravy train” headline about his Paris Olympics trip. The Ombudsman cited breaches for unbalanced reporting and not bothering to get McKenzie’s side before hitting publish. “Send me!” was less a headline and more a plea for fairness.

Jan Braai also got burnt. News24’s coverage of a viral video accusing him of racism was slammed for “race-baiting” without fact-checking. CCTV footage later cleared him, but not before News24’s clickbait headlines did their damage.

SAAI, Lucia Page, and AfriForum weren’t spared in 2025 either, with the Ombudsman calling out News24 for twisting facts faster than a politician dodging questions. And then there’s Twatterbaas, the pseudonymous X user News24 doxxed, exposing their identity and their family business in a move that earned them the wrath of the South African public. Nothing says “ethical journalism” like outing someone’s private details, right?

So, News24, while you’re polishing your halo and preaching impartiality, take a look at your 2025 track record. The Ombudsman’s rulings are spicier than a Nando's extra hot peri-peri sauce, suggesting your pockets might be stuffed with bias, sensationalism, and a dash of doxxing.

The Press Ombudsman is watching, and so are we!

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Madikwe is being destroyed by elephants where there are an estimated 3000 on a carrying capacity of 300. Go look at the trees/bush, it’s at the point of no recovery and effects on the entire ecosystem are devastating. Contraception is slow and unfortunately the only solution is to start culling immediately. Similar needs to happen in Kruger. @andrewdeblocqmp

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

South African needs to break free from ANC socialism!

[Trevor RYX @GodTRYX]

Moeletsi Mbeki speaks the truth — BEE is pushing money away from South Africa.

Never has a policy guised as empowerment impoverished so many. The ANC knows it, we know it, investors know it, everyone knows it.

South Africa can't afford ANC socialism anymore. THE ANC MUST GO!

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Beware of the comrades! A great assessment by @CitizenConcern_ - Does @CyrilRamaphosa actually believe his own idiotic communist rhetoric (scary because maybe he does)

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Minor rates adjustment from the @CityofCT - come on @geordinhl - we love your work but 20% nett rates increase is ridiculous. This is not what we voted for. The argument that rates are lower than elsewhere is invalid. Rates should be linked to costs to deliver not the value of a property.

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Hahaha. @Julius_S_Malema you rank even lower than an immigrant to the UK - they usually let anyone in!

Serves you right for being a racist, race baiting socialist! Couldn’t happen to a better chap!

[Julius Sello Malema @Julius_S_Malema]

The British authorities have denied me a visa to London for the Cambridge Conference this weekend, providing no substantial justification. It is clear to me that this is an attempt to silence a dissenting political perspective. We are currently at the OR airport, as we were promised that everything would be sorted by 15:30. Instead, we received a regret letter just four hours before our departure. This is unacceptable and spineless.✊🏿

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

Well said @Rolandschoeman

[Roland Schoeman @Rolandschoeman]

This tweet is peak irony coming from a man whose platform, News24, has repeatedly pumped out disinformation dressed up as journalism. Adriaan wants to strip others of anonymity and call for consequences, while his own publication gets away with smearing people, pushing race-baiting nonsense, and then hiding behind “press freedom.”

If public interest outweighs privacy, then let’s start with News24’s editorial board. Or is the rule only for those who disagree with you?

[Mark Slingsby @markslingsby]

The VAT disaster, economic sabotage and untold cost to the economy is something the @MYANC trolls cannot comprehend.

As an entrepreneur it is so frustrating watching these buffoons play politics instead of prioritising policies that create employment and beneficial outcomes in our collective best interests.

Even the mere suggestion of this VAT change creates economic uncertainty and doubt. The incompetence just scares investment away.

It seems lost on them that government is inefficient & corrupt and it would be more beneficial to optimise current spend instead of burden taxpayers and the populace with more economic theft (I’m mean taxes)