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“it’s much better to walk alone than in a crowd going in the wrong direction”.

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@ConCaracal Their internal polling must be very very bad

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@SimplyMegszcpt This here sums up the entire problem with the DA, identical to the US Democrats and UK Labour, just a wilful inability for introspection when people reject you.

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Thanks for replying Tim, I eat real food at meal times and LOTS of fat, which I still do as I love it. Problem was as an 85kg male I was always fighting from behind, just could never catch up no matter how much I ate.

As per your advice I have got much better at refueling post ride as well, and learning to eat lots more during the day. For me it’s been about finding the balance between both carbs on the bike and more real food off it. I haven’t felt this good in a long as I can remember now that I am feeling correctly.

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@JohannBiermann1 @adamlipschitz Advice should be “sell and log off”

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@hazelwood_dave MSTR is selling

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@GvanOnselen My god but you’ve become a right old twat.

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@jsteenhuisen Time to quit dear John

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@Poplak Spoken like a true ignoramus.

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@RomanCabanac @RiebvJanbeeck I agree with this take

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@Oom_Rugby Brilliant article Oom, and high time someone in your position spoke about this openly.

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@Djoko_UTD In South Africa we call someone like this a “doos”.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

One of the biggest political mistakes of the last decade was redefining normal public concerns as “far right”.

Instead of listening to voters, they tried to shame them into silence.

It backfired badly.

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@Paratus2014 @JvanLogg @jmoyaha_ @Moneyweb By design

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@K_Niemietz Socialists are always working out ways to divide the pie further rather than making an effort to grow the pie which is why it’s failed wherever it’s been implemented.

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@News24 Nice try

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@niehaus_carl @kykNETtv @kalliekriel @afriforum Papbroek.

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South Africa’s current fuel prices are not just a product of high global oil prices — they reflect a fundamentally more vulnerable energy position than the last major spike in 2022. Back then, South Africa still refined around 80% of its own fuel domestically, which meant the country retained some buffer against global price shocks.

Since then, the collapse of the refining industry — with Engen, Sapref and PetroSA’s Mossel Bay plant all shutting down — has flipped that equation entirely: SA now imports over 60% of its petroleum products, buying finished diesel and petrol at world spot prices rather than simply importing crude to refine locally.

Critically, a large portion of those refined imports come from Gulf producers whose shipments pass through the Strait of Hormuz, currently in crisis due to the Iran conflict that has pushed Brent crude above $120/barrel.

Layer on top of that a rand that is structurally weaker than it was in 2022, depleted strategic fuel reserves, and the fact that fuel now represents nearly 20% of all South Africa’s merchandise imports — and the pump price pain becomes self-reinforcing: higher oil weakens the rand, which makes oil more expensive in rands, which weakens the rand further.

But the ZAR oil price is only the starting point, on top of that sits a stack of additional costs that every litre has to absorb before it hits the pump, ocean freight, tanker hire, all elevated when shipping lanes are disrupted and Marine insurance also spikes during geopolitical conflict.

In 2022 the shock was largely external and temporary; today it is amplified by structural domestic vulnerability that didn’t exist to the same degree before.

*written with assistance fom Claude but essentially this time is a little different thanks once again to our utterly inept and corrupt ruling class.

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@brivael This is a brilliant post Sir, well done.

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@KTHopkins Couldn’t agree more, tell my wife all the time that I don’t think I’ve seen anyone with such impeccable style, it’s just perfect in how classy and elegant it is. Maybe Jackie O was close but she was a tad before my time!