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[Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL @koko_matshela]

I want to share with you what I shared with my peers on a platform made up exclusively of engineers.

Let me put it this way: Eskom’s own tariff filing projects flat Standard-tariff sales in FY2027 while revenue rises by R30.9 billion. Price therefore carries the entire increase. Every rand of that additional R30.9 billion comes from higher prices, not higher volumes: households, farms, mines and factories are not buying more electricity. A utility that recovers every new rand from the same kilowatt-hours is pushing out customers who can pay while trapping those who cannot.

Now consider LNG. Even at €28/MWh (≈ $9.2/MMBtu)—which excludes shipping, regasification, capacity charges and the efficiency penalty of mid-merit cycling—you are adding R31 billion a year to costs, a cost currently not included in MYPD6.

I put it to you that:

The day South Africa adopts LNG-to-power, there will be a mass exodus from the national grid, because cheaper alternatives to grid power exist.

The only people left reliant on the grid will be the indigent and the missing middle. Everyone else will choose cheaper alternatives.

It looks less like a single incompetent mistake and more like a system that rewards price recovery while ignoring customer exit — which is arguably worse.

In academic literature, this is called a utility death spiral

[SizweLo @SizweLo]

Most men are naturally polyamorous and polygamous. They just want to have multiple relationships, whether in marriage or otherwise.

Unfortunately, European men created a society where this nature became shameful, by building a system where monogamy is “civilised” and polygamy is “barbaric”.

So now, for centuries, every single one of them, with a straight face just stands there and pretends they’re happy with one woman because of fear of being judged by people who want and are doing the opposite.

Timur Kuran called this behaviour “preference falsification”, which is basically when people misrepresent their true wants in public because of social pressure and fear of disapproval.

Centuries ago, very powerful European men created a closet and now they’re all stuck inside like gay men in the 1950s, trapped in a performance, threatening to out and expose each other, and every single one of them is terrified of the shame, the gossip and the ruined careers.

Honestly, how many men publicly champion monogamy while privately seeking affairs, consuming porn and fantasising about other women? The gap between stated preference and revealed behaviour is so massive that it’s embarrassing to continue to pretend it’s not happening. But, here we are.

In any case, because of the stigma they created, European men and the victims of their colonisation around the world have to continue pretending monogamy is natural, when in reality, the Europeans made it the default to formalise marriage as a property-and-inheritance contract.

It was Western men who forcibly imposed monogamous marriage as a standard of “civilisation”, which left the impression that it was some kind of biological truth, when many cultures, Europeans themselves included, had naturally practiced polyamory and polygamy for all of human history.

Not out too fine a point on it, but monogamy only became enforced in Europe to create clear inheritance lines and for political stability, because the fewer able-bodied unmarried men you have in your society, the less unrest the state has to contend with.

Now, to be fair, many men genuinely prefer monogamy, mostly because they lack the energy or resources for multiple relationships. But this does not take away from nature and biology and the fact that the loudest men enforcing monogamy are screaming from inside the closet where they’re busy policing each other.

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@Am_Blujay @Julius_S_Malema The white lady talks for all whites while he’s asking for himself 😎

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@vmandla7 @mekgatla @ewnreporter @MkhontoweSizwex @_NMabaso @vote_ifp Thank you. I really appreciate your respectful approach. I think your questions do deserve answers. I hope the gentleman will do us a service and guide us in choosing a proper political for a country.

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@Inqubeko_news ELIMPO-MPO���.. Phuma ey’nsizwen!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸Make hunting pedophiles great again.🇺�

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@MabuthoDubazana What about abangahlawuliwe and batholakale ngaphandle komshado?

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@kotecinho The first frame is like Geely Something… those new Chines brands

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@businessXplain It took them 30 years to trust him?

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@__Mbaliz If it’s his family. The fish is swimming!

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@Khabise_M Someone had to say it. This thing of Zulufying Nguni History is nonsense. Zulu was a house like any other houses up until the British invaded the land and rewrote the history according to what they wanted to teach us.

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@AfricaisBlack Nothing surprising here. ATM is Christian based political party… their religious beliefs automatically aligns them with Israel.

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@FirstDoctor You are a “Doctor” in which field? Before we risk taking you serious?

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@KhandaniM @Markosonke1 @FabAcademic Ignored reality is sometimes that’s the only level of math you need to make it in life. Not everyone solve X to make money. In fact, in many cases X solvers depend on the Math lit’ers for their monthly survival. So I disagree with Prof.

[Agent Nala @MainlandAfrica]

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[Penuel The Black Pen @penuelist_]

The Zulu king was dating his babymama when he was summoned to become king.

From there, they did a rush-job to pay damages & marry the babymama.

In the midst of that mess, Zulus expect him to be able to offer directives on sex before marriage, customary marriage, pregnancy, damages, etc. Zulus do not have good leaders who can actually guide them on really pertinent matters.

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The late Zulu king, uZwelithini, had a wife under civil marriage and then his other wives under customary... which the law doesn't allow.

The custodians of culture themselves straddle Western living and Cultural living, and confuse the hell out of their subjects.

It's such a mess.

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The truth is: Black people have NO cultural leaders who have clarity & authority.

There is NO BOOK that can be referenced for guidance.

It's all word-of-mouth, vibes, drunkenness, confusion, and just a lost bastardized Black nation.

Pen.

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@CrimeWatch_RSA @NPA_Prosecutes @SAPoliceService Sorry boy. 😔 and sorry to th families as well🙏🏽

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

If it walks like a dude, talks like a dude, and is listed in the French tax registry as a dude, then it’s the First Dude of France. 🇫🇷

[Pinot Noir @OldPinot]

@MkhontoweSizwex Mengisabona ubab’Name ngibuyelwa ithemba kuMkhonto