DEPARTMENT OF VOETJEK!

South African National Department of Voetjek!

National Standard: Israel Matseke-Zulu.

[Kgoshi Ya Lebowa @Mothematiks]

I love her. She said what every South African wanted to say 🤭😅

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

5 laws of the universe that are surprisingly accurate:

1. Murphy’s Law
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

2. Kidlin’s Law
If you can write a problem down clearly, you’re already halfway to solving it.

3. Falkland’s Law
When there’s no need to make a decision, don’t force one.

4. Wilson’s Law
Prioritize learning and knowledge, and money will eventually follow.

5. Gilbert’s Law
It’s your responsibility to find the best way to achieve the result you want.

[Oleksandr Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki made some serious mistakes during his presidency, and the two glaring ones were HIV and AIDS policy and Zimbabwe. I would also add his failure to properly groom or allow a successor before the 2007 Polokwane conference.

But every time I listen to South African leaders speak, he still stands above all the presidents South Africa has had after Nelson Mandela. Mandela was in a league of his own and served a unique historical purpose during a particular era, so I do not even place him in this comparison.

But when you compare Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa, I genuinely enjoy listening to Mbeki because his arguments are backed by facts, empirical evidence, research, economic analysis, scholars and international journals. Whether one agrees with him or not, he constructs arguments intellectually.

Listening to this discussion in the video reminded me again that he was a great leader who nevertheless had major flaws, and unfortunately those flaws often overshadow many of the positive things he achieved for the South African economy.

I mentioned HIV and AIDS. I mentioned Zimbabwe. I mentioned the failure to groom a successor. I also think one of his major mistakes was the refusal to invest adequately in Eskom at the time when warnings were already being raised about future electricity generation problems.

But when you then look at the presidencies of Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa, it becomes a completely different picture.

Mbeki’s approach to Zimbabwe was ideological. Zuma, for all his own problems, is probably the only South African president who can genuinely say he at least attempted to engage Zimbabwe politically in a meaningful way. But Ramaphosa’s relationship with Zimbabwe appears deeply compromised by business and political interests, at worst corrupt.

And when you assess the three presidencies rationally, especially from an economic management perspective, the figures speak for themselves. South Africa’s economic growth reached around 5% to 6% during parts of the Mbeki era, levels the country has struggled to reach since.

The problem today is that many people analyse these leaders emotionally instead of rationally. Economic performance is measured through figures, and those figures are publicly available.

So every time I listen to Thabo Mbeki speak, I enjoy listening to him because of the depth, structure and intellectual discipline of the way he makes his arguments.

[Xing @Linghe_Xing]

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[Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol) @FabAcademic]

If you happen to be in a position of leadership today, please LEAD and do what you’re paid to do TODAY.

Spare us the sudden wisdom after the damage is done and the cameras are rolling. Save us from all the reflections, the lessons learned, the explanations about what should have happened when you were literally in the position to make it happen but you chose not to for whatever reason. Just save us.

You can’t exercise leadership in hindsight, no matter how angelic you become after the fact. Tragic, I know. But fortunately, you have the opportunity to act NOW. Once you do, your actions will definitely speak for themselves when you’re gone.

And if you ever feel the need to speak, at least tell us what you DID, not what you could or should have done.

With Love,
Deputy Mother❤️

[knick @Knick_RSA]

Illegal Foreigners will never understand what it’s like being South Africa 😭🇿🇦🇿🇦

This thing is blood, it’s DNA, it’s Ancestral- it’s Generational.

🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦our Music gets us Closer even more. What they hear on Radio actually begins here!!!

[🔥🔥Sbo_Blanco🔥🔥 @Sbo19DarkBeauty]

@euphonik @Dzungie007 They haven’t even scratched the surface. Not even the top of the iceberg. After everything is said and done, we will need counselling as a country

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

This is Phila Ndwandwe. In 1985, Phila was 🇿🇦 recruited into the ANC. She became an MK fighter. 3 years later, she was abducted in Swaziland by Apartheid police. She suffered unspeakable horror and was torturęd, in an effort to turn her into an informer. One always gets the sense that the fight against Apartheid was a masculine one. To a certain extent we can not fault people for thinking that it is only men, through the sacrifice of their bodies who liberated this country, because somehow history chooses to ignore the women who fought alongside glorified men.

Phila Ndwandwe was breąstfeeding, when she was abducted (A makarov in one hand and a baby in the other). Aaah! Mbokodo! Her family was made to believe that she had eloped to Tanzania when the shaIIow grave of their child was a mere 10 kilometers from where they lived. Her d.eath and grave came to be known when her k.iller asked for amnesty for her brutal m.urder. Her k.illers testified before the TRC that she was repeatedly b.eaten and kept naked for 10 days until she made herself a pair of panties using a plastic bag. When they realized they weren't going to get the Commander to b.etray her comrades, her k.illers blindfolded her, took her to a veld and shot her in the s.kull. When her remains were unearthed, the bullet hole in her skuII was clearly visible, and her killęr testified that she had been https://t.co/ACkPRqMp6P while kneeling. Other articles have suggested that she was hit over the head and https://t.co/ACkPRqMp6P while unconscious. One of the men who m.urdered Phila described her as "Brave. Very brave. "

let's celebrate Phila. Her selfless dedication to the emancipation of our people should not be undermined. It should not be forgotten! One can only hope that her targeted body is dancing free and light. This is Phila Ndwandwe- the woman who refused to betray her comrades.

[NeoRepublicZA @NeoRepublic_ZA]

Thank you Vivian Musk...your father thought you well🙏🙏🙏

[Dr Koena Moabelo🇿🇦 @Koena_za]

South Africa must document its history properly, or we risk people even denying apartheid ever happened. We need more documentaries and demographic data—without them, we leave the narrative to those with influence to shape the country as they see fit.

[Mo @Mo_7772]

Is she lying bafwethu????🤔🤔🙈

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

50 THINGS TO DO INSTEAD OF WASTING ANOTHER YEAR (start them in April):

[Cape Town, Bru /\/¯¯¯¯¯\/ @CapeTown_Bru]

I will NEVER leave this country 🤣

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[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

1968: What was life like in South Africa for non-white people during Apartheid? Footage: BBC Archives

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

MASTER MARKET MANIPULATOR‼️

[Sebzz🇿🇦 @Sebabi_M]

😂🤣imagine running from the song in South Africa, only to find it being a jam in America…

[The Counterhegemon @GillianSchutte1]

🚨🚨SIPHO SINGISWA TELLS US AMBASSADOR BOZELL TO GO BACK TO THE REDNECK SWAMP FROM WHICH HE EMERGED . IOL.
"Black South Africans will eventually rise up beyond debating the meaning of the struggle, the rewriting of the Constitution and the future of the land. They will reach breaking point. We will not allow you to turn our country into a Gaza genocide from a separate Western Cape controlled by US and Israeli diktats. Don't fool yourself, Ambassador. One day you will hear the sound of our people chanting "Phuma, Satany, Phuma Bozell, Hai... Hai Hai, Kill the Boer, the white settler." Our sense of revolutionary rhythm will scare you more than the constitutionally legal words we will chant at you.

Perhaps you should consider a self-démarche before you are chased back to the redneck swamp from which you emerged." #LeoBrentBozell #HelenZille
@USEmbassySA
🚨🚨Read here https://t.co/wXYs9XXyPN

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

Someone attached a camera to a mountain goat to document its daily life climbing rocks from a first-person perspective. 🐏

One user commented: This is like a "software glitch" in the animal kingdom!