Khomotso Mathebula

phanda, pusha, pressa remove and break all barriers. gravitate towards your dreams, goals and ambitions. A son of Africa.

[Jacinta Ngobese🇿🇦 @JacintaNgobese]

Our members in Limpopo successfully negotiated the replacement of 45 staff members who had been hired illegally and who are without proper documentation with South African staff 🙏🏻 🇿🇦

[Khomotso Mathebula @mathebkj]

Add your name to this petition demanding that the Department of Small Business Development @DSBD_SA @The_DTIC @TheRealSEFA @Stellarated release all beneficiary information and funding records on the Spaza Shop Support Fund. #StellaWhereIsR500M https://t.co/zNfYpJaEGy

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Allow me give a not so brief history lesson so we can all understand what is going on here.

For much of European history, pale skin was a marker of status. An elite woman was supposed to have skin that had barely been under the sun because pale skin signalled she did not work outdoors.

In a world where most people spent their lives labouring under the sun to survive, avoiding the sun was evidence of wealth.

The rich could stay indoors and send the poor outside to work for them. This is why they wore gloves and wide hats when outside. It is also where the term blue blood comes from; rich families who never did physical labour and thus were rarely in the sun had skin so pale the veins underneath would show.

So to be tanned meant to do outdoor labour, and to do outdoor labout meant to be poor.

But as the industrial revolution came around and factories multiplied, the poor who had previously laboured outdoors were pulled indoors to work in factories, workshops and later offices rather than under the sun

And their skin became paler.

Now if the poor could become pale skinned simply by working indoors, then pale skin could no longer communicate wealth, so the elite abandoned the old signal and switched to a new one: tanned skin.

Because now it meant only they had the time and money to lie in the sun while everyone else worked indoors.

Pale meant rich, tanned meant poor. Then pale meant poor so the rich did a 180 and went back to tanned.

That is exactly the same thing that is happening here. Wiresless ear buds generally, and airpods specifically meant rich. Wired earphones meant poor.

Then when everyone could afford wiresless ear buds and their replica knock-offs, wireless meant poor and the 'rich' who differentiated themselves with wiresless in the past, switched back to wired.

It is not because they "got tired of charging their wireless earbuds"

Away from the history lesson, the broader explanation is that humans crave to be seen. We do not want to go through life unnoticed. This is why we do only spend money to enjoy ourselves, we spend money so that others can see us spending money.

And one of the most common, socially acceptable ways of doing so is through the things we wear. For example. We do not spend money on watches that could buy a car so we can check the time. We spend that money so others can see that we spent money.

The point of the spending is the spending witnessed.

And with that, we signal that we are high status and that signal brings us attention .

But this flex has a fundamental flaw in the sense that the moment the status signal works, those below begin to copy it until it loses its utility.

So what happens to a status marker when those below can afford it too?

Simple; those above abandon it.

In conclusion, The things we buy, wear, drive, or use are driven by 1) the desire to belong and 2) the desire to stand out.

You want to look like the people above you to feel among, but you also want to look different from the people below you to stand out.

So the rich adopt a signal
The wannabe middle class copies it
And the majority poor copy the wannabes

And once the signal becomes widespread enough, it stops doing the job it was intended to do. Then the elite abandon it and look for a new one.

Sometimes they move to something more expensive or difficult to acquire. Sometimes they move to something obscure enough that the wannabes and the poor can't even grasp it. And sometimes, as with tanning and wired earphones, they do a 180 and move in the opposite direction.

It happens with clothes, bags, earphones, restaurants, language and so on.

The rich keep moving. The middle class keeps chasing, and the poor keep copying. And the markers of status keep changing. And on and on and on it goes.

[Proudly South African 🇿🇦 @SayEntrepreneur]

US Backs South Africa in Rare Earth Elements project: Trump’s $50M Strategy in Phalaborwa 🇺🇸🇿🇦

​South Africa is at the heart of a massive geopolitical play. Through a $50 million US backing of Rainbow Rare Earths, the Phalaborwa project is turning 35 million tonnes of industrial waste into a strategic powerhouse—with the goal of cutting China out of the supply chain entirely.

​The Power Move:

​The Essentials: Extracting Neodymium and Praseodymium (NdPr)—the critical "magnet metals" that are indispensable for everything from EVs to fighter jets. 🦾⚡

​The Trump Strategy: 🇺🇸 This DFC investment is a direct execution of a central policy to secure mineral sovereignty. By backing SA, the US is bypassing China's 90% monopoly on processing.

​The SA Edge: We aren't just mining; we’re leading. By reprocessing decades of phosphogypsum waste, South Africa is set to become one of the world's lowest-cost, greenest sources of rare earths by 2028. 🏗️📉

​Despite recent diplomatic shifts, the US is prioritizing Phalaborwa because the future of tech depends on it.

[Sive ✨ @SiveXaluva]

Chinese 🇨🇳 Vessel 🚢 “Liaowang” is currently heading towards Iran.

Currently Iran 🇮🇷 owns Uranium which is used to produce dangerous nuclear ☢️ weapons.

Iran 🇮🇷 is currently in a war and is paving a way for itself to be a superpower.

Credo Mutwa prophesy is becoming a reality!

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

Here’s the Chief Admiral sharing his views.

#CountryDuty

[ThabzAfrika wa EFF @WorldofThabiso]

When we say @EFFSouthAfrica is far ahead of times

EFF propagates for

-Unity of Africa
-Nationalization
-Industrialization
-Corrupt free and accountable gov

Many parties are funded to destroy EFF which carries DREAMS and ASPIRATIONS of black people

Here is the Old Strategy

[Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧 @Sentletse]

This is the @helenzille who pretends to have been a political activist during apartheid.

Helen wrote lies Rand Daily Mail about Credo Mutwa in 1976, resulting in him being beaten and stabbed, his wife raped and his children assaulted by a mob.

Helen has no struggle credentials

[SABC News @SABCNews]

[WATCH] KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi on the arrest of the businessman Vusimuzi Matlala and the alleged relationship with the Police Minister Senzo Mchunu.

[Gozie007 @Goziedragon007]

American senator asked Gen. Langley ~
what are we doing in Africa?

General response =

Ans, FOR ACCESS & INFLUENCE

[Dasen Thathiah @DasenThathiah]

KZN SAPS commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has basically told officers who are not interested in serving citizens here to get out.

He praised those excelling at their jobs and reminded them not to back down when doing the right thing.

He was speaking at a meeting with his commanders earlier this week.

🎥 | @SAPoliceService

@eNCA

[Sive ✨ @SiveXaluva]

Scrap the Democracy off,

Adapt the Traore Doctrine!🇧🇫

[Khomotso Mathebula @mathebkj]

@NeoentleDesigns Coffee table included?

[Mt. Kenya East Commentary @itsjim_ke]

Captain Ibrahim Traoré speech at the first AES summit in Niamey

[Khomotso Mathebula @mathebkj]

@NeoentleDesigns @MDNnewss Your website is too dark

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @beyondB_DAG]

This does not make any sense. I am just furious. Something has to give, we can't continue like this, Africa must break this cursed cycle.

Why can't we buy from each other, for goodness sake?

a) Angola buys $300M worth of milk from Portugal and New Zealand yearly.

b) Mozambique spends $94M on Russian wheat, while Zambia has over 250,000 tons of wheat nearby.

c) Zimbabwe imports over $30M in chicken from Brazil, despite South Africa’s massive poultry production.

d) Nigeria spends over $500M yearly importing tomato paste, while over 45% of local tomatoes perish due to poor storage.

e) Ivory Coast exports over $3.6B worth of cocoa beans annually, but imports chocolate products at 3–5x the price.

f) Kenya imports over $200M of rice yearly, despite Tanzania producing a surplus.

g) DR Congo imports over $60M of fish annually, while having the second-largest river system in the world.

h) Ethiopia imports $500M+ in tomato paste while domestic harvests rot.

i) Ghana exports over $6B in gold annually, yet spends millions importing jewelry.

j) Malawi imports $12M+ of maize during shortages, even though Zambia next door has surplus stock.

k) Angola buys milk from Portugal & New Zealand. SA has 3.3 Billion liters of milk yearly

l) Mozambique spends $94 Million on Russian Wheat. Zambia next door has over 250 000 ton of wheat

About $167 Million yearly is spent outside SADC on things we can buy from each other

[Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL @koko_matshela]

I agree with him!

[Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh @SizweMpofuWalsh]

Truth bombs dropped on the state of South Africa here by @DavidMashabela…

[Vuka Africa @Thisthat_Acadmy]

Parents come this side

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This video will help you understand the origin of the killings and displacement that is happening in DR Congo today.