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@Vodacom #VodacomlovesBokke💚

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@Zero2Turbo @k9_reaper

[Zero2Turbo @Zero2Turbo]

Lamborghini lovers, this one is for you...

WIN this 1/24 remote control Lamborghini Huracán STO.

Simply like and retweet this post, make sure you are following and tag your fellow fan(s) of The Bull.

The winner from South Africa is announced on Thurs 12th Feb.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Jeremy’s brutally honest speech to the staff of his pub. 😂👏🏻🇬🇧

[micky @pasolaclub]

@SARugbymag @PUMASouthAfrica @BlueBullsRugby Canan Moodie and David Kriel- 9 tries each

[Aashish. @AashishRamnunan]

Good morning,

As promised here’s the R1000 shopping voucher at Pick N Pay. All you gotta do is retweet to enter.

Apologies for the late giveaway. Family responsibilities came first after losing my aunt this weekend to Tuberculosis 👎

Note: DMs will be disqualified immediately.

Have a blessed week ahead.

[micky @pasolaclub]

@MDNnewss @grok @grok, will there be a winner.....

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[Love Music @khnh80044]

Freddie is looking down and giving y'all a standing ovation. That's spectacular!😍💗
The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!!
With 30 musicians and singers in the STREET of Paris 😍
Cre : Julien Cohen Pianist

[Dane Wigington @DaneWigington]

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[Sitdown Comedian @BouwerBosch]

Blom squad vs the Bomb squad. #Springboks #WomensRugby 🌻🇿🇦🏉

[Zero2Turbo @Zero2Turbo]

Fancy a Kyalami cap to wear when the F1 hopefully returns?

Just Retweet, Like and make sure you are FOLLOWING!

Winner must be from South Africa and will be announced on Friday 1 August.

[Buster Beaver @BusterBeaver69]

The Burden of B-BBEE: A White South African’s Perspective

I’ve kept quiet for years. Maybe out of fear, maybe out of guilt, or maybe because speaking honestly as a white South African today gets you labelled before you even finish your sentence. But I’m tired of pretending everything is fine. It’s not.

Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment, B-BBEE, was supposed to be about lifting people up. I supported that idea in the beginning. Truly. After apartheid, we needed healing. We needed fairness. We needed justice. What we got instead was a slow, painful replacement of one unfair system with another. Today, being white in South Africa feels like carrying a target on your back. You don’t say much. You keep your head down. You work hard, pay your taxes, try to stay afloat, and still, you’re told you’re the problem. You’re guilty by default. You’re told every opportunity you’ve had is because of “privilege.” Even if your parents had nothing. Even if you worked two jobs to study. Even if you’ve never known wealth or comfort. Disqualified before you even apply. Not because you’re unqualified or unworthy, but because of the colour of your skin. And it’s not just in hiring or tenders. It’s in the silence when you speak up. It’s in the fear that your children will have no place in the future of the country you were born in.

I’ve seen family businesses lose government contracts they held for years, not because they stopped delivering quality, but because they didn’t tick the new racial boxes. I’ve seen highly educated friends overlooked for jobs while inexperienced candidates were chosen to meet quotas. And we’re not supposed to say anything. Just smile and “check our privilege.” Meanwhile, the B-BBEE gravy train keeps rolling for the elite. Let’s be honest, it hasn’t uplifted the majority of black South Africans. It’s lined the pockets of a small, politically connected few. We all see it. You can’t preach empowerment while the same handful of billionaires walk off with the spoils year after year.

International companies aren’t pulling out of South Africa because they’re racist. Let’s get that myth out the way right now. They’re leaving because they’re tired of trying to navigate an economy where business is no longer about value, excellence, or innovation, but about ticking racial boxes and surrendering ownership to people who didn’t build a thing. And while we keep shouting about identity and historic debt, the economy quietly hemorrhages in the background. This isn’t a theory. It’s happening. Companies that once proudly set up shop here are gone, or planning their exit. They won’t make noise. They won’t hold a press conference. They just leave. They cut jobs, close local offices, and shift operations to countries that still understand that competence matters. That investment deserves reward, not punishment. We’ve made South Africa toxic for investment. While we argue about identity, the economy burns.

What hurts the most is the division this has caused amongst our own people. B-BBEE didn’t just create resentment among many whites, it created false hope for many blacks. It told people: “You will rise if we push them down.” But no one truly rises through exclusion. That’s not empowerment. That’s revenge dressed up in policy.

Unemployment is through the roof. Crime? You don't even flinch anymore when you hear about another hijacking, another break-in, another child shot in the crossfire. Corruption? It’s not even shocking anymore, it’s just how things work here. We’ve normalised the abnormal. And yet, through all this chaos, the ANC and its loyal media echo chamber still want us to believe that Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment is “progress.” Seriously? What exactly have we gained? Because from where I’m standing, B-BBEE hasn’t uplifted the masses. It hasn’t built schools or created jobs or fixed potholes or kept the lights on. All it’s done is make the rich richer, a very specific kind of rich, and the poor even more hopeless.

Ask yourself: Who’s actually benefitted? Not the unemployed black youth standing on the corner with a degree and no job. Not the underpaid nurse working double shifts while the health department “loses” another R500 million. Not the everyday citizen trying to start a business with no political connections, no BEE points, and no friends in Parliament. No, the real winners are the tenderpreneurs, the fake CEOs, the connected few who know which hands to shake and which pockets to fill. That’s not empowerment. That’s exploitation with a smiley face sticker.

Here’s the part no one wants to talk about: South Africa has over 100 race-based laws. One hundred. Let that sink in. We have more race laws now than during apartheid. Wrap your head around that. More than the USA. More than China. More than any so-called free country in the world. And it’s 2025. We’re not talking about colonial times. This is post-democracy, post-Truth-and-Reconciliation, post-Mandela.

I don’t want sympathy. I want honesty. I want fairness, for everyone. I want to see poor black kids and poor white kids lifted together, not pitted against each other. I want a country where being born white doesn’t automatically make you the villain of someone else’s narrative. I want my kids to believe they still belong here. B-BBEE has failed. It’s time we said it out loud. It hasn’t transformed the country, it’s broken it. We need a system that helps the poor, not the politically connected. A system based on need, not race. A system where everyone can compete, contribute, and belong. Because if we don’t start talking honestly, and soon, we’re going to lose the only home we’ve ever known. And that’s something no skin colour should have to accept.

[micky @pasolaclub]

@grok who sings bosberaad song

[Captain Springbok @CaptSpringbok]

Rayno Nel was doing Worlds Strongest Man as a side mission while still having a full time job! All the other athletes do strong man full time! No one gave him a chance! What a legend! 🇿🇦 💪

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

South Africa has now passed 142 laws forcing discrimination against anyone who is not black!

Even though I was born in South Africa, the government will not grant @Starlink a license to operate simply because I am not black.

This is a shameful disgrace to the legacy of the great Nelson Mandela who sought to have all races treated equally in South Africa.

[Jaco Kleynhans @JacoKleynhans]

Interview on American television a few hours ago:

[micky @pasolaclub]

@SteersSA cheese burger