Mpho Xoli

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

Do it scared. Do it anxious. Just do it. Leap, and grow your wings on the way down - I receive this message with open arms 🙏🏽

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

I have served long enough in leadership to recognise a troubling pattern. Too many among South Africa’s elite - black and white - appear to believe the rules that govern the rest of us do not apply to them.

As chairman of an SOE, I am regularly approached by business leaders asking me to intervene in operational or procurement matters. When I explain that my role is governance and oversight, not management, they say they understand. Yet the requests continue. This reveals a belief that exceptions exist for the connected few.

It was therefore striking to see Business Leadership South Africa and BUSA, organisations that have been vocal against state capture and political interference in state-owned enterprises, actively advocate for political intervention to transfer transmission assets to the Transmission System Operator. These are the same bodies that insist on corporate governance and board independence. Where, then, is the role of the SOE board? What exactly do they believe in?

Equally concerning are recent allegations involving former Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. Senior figures within his own party, including John Steenhuisen and Dion George, have raised issues that appear to involve conflicts of interest and undue influence. This from a voice that has long lectured on ethical standards and clean governance. Do these rules apply to everyone, or only when politically convenient? Selective morality is not morality at all.

When those who position themselves as guardians of good governance apply different standards to themselves, public trust erodes. But South Africans are watching. We see the inconsistencies. We now know where people stand.

The path forward requires courage. We must expose wrongdoing wherever it occurs without fear or favour. We must demand that those who preach accountability live it consistently. We must insist that rules bind the powerful as they bind ordinary citizens. And we must model the ethical society we want to build.

South Africa does not lack good people. What we need is the collective will to insist that principle applies to all. Let us find that courage. Let us call out double standards and build a nation where no one is above the law. That is the South Africa worth fighting for. #ProudlySA

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

@zilevandamme Oh my word now I can even hear his voice! I never knew that he was Timothy Traddle 🫣

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

A crisis call and very important post particularly for those who are entrepreneurs, freelancers, unemployed or do not have formalised (or sufficient) retirement savings in place for any particular reason

[@luphumlongcayisa @luphumlongcayis]

I am 16/17 years shy of retirement age. Unlike those cushioned by an employer pension, I stand almost bare. My savings portfolio is nothing to write home about. Phela as a breadwinner every cent has had to be stretched to the maximum thus leaving little to nothing for savings. I have also not been the most disciplined with money. My retirement annuity is as good as nonexistent. The thought of how much work I still need to put in and money I need to generate in order to protect or cushion myself for retirement is daunting and scarry. What makes it heavier is knowing how little work is going around in the present moment and how shitty the economy is with no prospects of getting better.

To my age mates: how are your preparations for retirement? What is your state of readiness? Are you as unsettled as I am, or have you managed to find footing?

And to the younger ones, whether you’re fortunate enough to be employed or hustling in self-employment. I beg you, start taking these financial matters seriously. Retirement is not a far-off worry for us old people only. The regret of not planning early is unbearable.

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

Bawo 😓

[Sowetan @Sowetan1981]

When Mthokozisi Mvelase,27, was shot, and his body burned to ashes inside his car outside Maponya Mall in Soweto on Wednesday night, he had been working as an e-hailing driver for just three days, after years of looking for a job. @Nandile_Ntini https://t.co/9IOXy3HGNl

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

@LuvLee_H Amen! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ have a beautiful first day my friend and may it exceed every expectation! Can’t wait to hear all about it 🫂

[Semilore of #GenI 🦅 @semii_loreee]

I fear that my love for food is greater than the desire of a flat tummy

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

Drunk elephants 😅 a wonder I never knew I needed to see 🤣

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A herd of elephants became drunk after eating lot of fermented fruit in MalaMala Game Reserve.

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

💔

[SABC News @SABCNews]

BREAKING NEWS: The death toll from the storm that hit the Eastern Cape this week has risen to 57.

[Black Coffee Foundation @FoundationByBC]

We’re calling on our community, partners, and friends to show up for Mthatha.

Over 600 people ,young and old ,are in temporary shelters after devastating floods. They urgently need relief items.

Can your company, team, or circle help?

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

This keeps getting worse 😞

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Reuters reports that Air India plane crashed into a hostel building for doctors

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

😱

[Sihle Mavuso @ZANewsFlash]

WATCH: Due to the snow, the N2 near Kokstad in southern KwaZulu-Natal is closed.

[Vha Mabunda @vha_mo]

If you listen to him carefully, he’s saying look our Courts are failing us. The guy was supposed to be waiting for trail in jail.

Judges and NPA are failing the people

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

BREAKING NEWS:

The President of the United States of America used screen grab images from YouTube to claim that there’s a Fake White Genocide in South Africa

This was from the DRC & Red Cross was assisting

Repost 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

#CountryDuty #NoWhiteGenocideinSA

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

London 👀 no Cape Town? Peru before Greece even?! And no Vietnam? Hhayi… this list is suspect

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

World's best food destinations.

1. 🇮🇹 Rome, Italy
2. 🇬🇧 London, U.K.
3. 🇲🇦 Marrakech, Morocco
4. 🇫🇷 Paris, France
5. 🇮🇹 Naples, Italy
6. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain
7. 🇵🇪 Lima, Peru
8. 🇺🇸 New Orleans, U.S.
9. 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
10. 🇬🇷 Athens, Greece

(Tripadvisor)

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

@Synesyfe Amen

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

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[Nathan @OIuwatosin]

It’s funny looking at old photos and realizing that the period you thought you were overweight, was actually your slim phase compared to now

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

@iamSivN Well done 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[Black Coffee @RealBlackCoffee]

Khosi for life!!!!!!!✌🏿

[Farah C. Fortune @fcfortune]

It’s the fact that CweCwe’s mom works for SAPS but had to go to social media for help, that’s the part I can’t wrap my head around

[Mpho Xoli @mpho_xk]

Wow!

[Latest Kruger @LatestKruger]

Baby Elephant Trapped in Tree by Leopard is Rescued by Mom!

“I still can’t believe what I just witnessed!
This morning out of Crocodile Bridge, we turned onto the H5 and spotted a leopard in the road. We followed the leopard, and it went up a tree. But!! In the tree was an Elephant calf.
I was shocked that a leopard had somehow hauled a baby elephant into a tree.
My heart was thumping so loudly I could barely hear myself think!
Suddenly, the little elephant seemed to wake up and started trumpeting. Before I knew it, mama elephant came charging!!
She stretched her trunk up towards the calf, and with some very aggressive shoving, the baby fell onto the ground. In seconds, they reunited, made a beeline away from the tree, and were gone. I’ve never been so shocked and thrilled in my life! The leopard should have stuck to impala.”

H5, 5km W of S108 (The tree is still there if you are in the area!)
Tinged by Dr Ei Eye AP Fowls

Read the full article and see all the photos from this crazy sighting:
https://t.co/sOlT13HxZz