Sandile Mahlangu IV °♡

[S.M @Sindi_Fleur]

😂 black people voting for the DA here’s a message for you 😘

[Mr Bat @linda_mot]

Spreading this so a young 20 year dude sees it 🙏🏾

[Trill. @Dtrill_]

Invest in yourself. The ROI is insane.

[Music Encyclopedia @blackguymfwethu]

Boom Shaka performing "It's About Time" on Jam Alley

Vinolia was such a vibe 🔥🔥

[kuno @kunoo]

"You got lucky"

The luck:

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Had a mentor tell me once: "When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do: get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress."

[Khandani Msibi @KhandaniM]

The Coke joke: It was in 2002 and I was the Mega Manufacturing Manager at ABI Pretoria. I shared the facility with the sales division that was led by Daan van der Merwe. Daan’s Boss was Trevor Gibbons and he has been selling Coke for over 30 yrs, pretty much the only thing he has done in his life. Trevor used to tell lots of Coke jokes and stories, he was a fun old man. Trevor was a chain smoker and we had an interleading balcony with Daan and it overlooked my bottling lines, that’s where the jokes and stories were told. There is one joke that he told that was so funny I have never forgotten it, I just could not stop laughing at the irony so here it goes. Coke ran into trouble with sales in a few consecutive years, all efforts were made to grow sales but nothing really worked. Then one Easter a Coke executive heard the Pope lead the world in the Lord’s Prayer and he thought he had found a solution, proposed a visit to the
Vatican City to meet the Pope about this idea and a team of high powered Coke Executives was dispatched. The Pope was amused as he got a request from Coca Cola to meet about a problem they think he can solve for them. At the Vatican they explained how they have a dry season with no sales growth over a few years and they would like the Pontiff to help them. The Pope asked what they think he can do for them since he knew nothing about marketing. They then explained that they heard him lead the world in the Lords Prayer and they think they too can be helped by him. The request was that he makes some slight changes to the Lord’s Prayer. The Pope was still curious at this, this is a serious company requesting help but he is lost as to what the idea is. He asked them to explain what they meant as he is still in the dark about the request. The Coke Execitive with the idea said ‘ I heard you lead the world in the Lords Prayer over Easter and we thought we could be helped by u if u change that part where u said ‘and give us this day our daily bread to say and give us this day our daily Coca Cola’ we believe this will help our sales as well’’ puzzled the Pope said u guys must be joking, and they said we are not joking we can write a cheque of $100m US right now, the Pope was getting agitated and said u must be out of your minds and the Coke executives said okay then one billion USD. The Pope lost his cool and asked security to throw them out, just as they were about to be pushed out the door the one Executive blocked the door with his foot and said to the Pope one last question, the Pope angrily said what? And the Coke Executive asked : How much do the bread people pay you?

[Khandani Msibi @KhandaniM]

Sometimes if u don’t have competition u must create it, I was in the front seat in such a situation. 1995 I was Factory Manager at Bromor Foods, we launched Energade which was a new category of still drinks (game was too weak to be considered in the game). Chris Rowan Perry was MD and he said Energade must not be marketed as strictly a sportsman’s drink like it was the case with Game. He wanted it marketed and merchandised as a refreshment drink in competition to Coca Cola buddy. But this was a daunting task as Bromor didn’t have the marketing money to lure clients way from carbonated soft drinks to still drinks. The parent of Bromor was Cadbury Schweppes and it held the rights to Powerade outside of the USA. Rowan Perry, to our horror asked Cadbury to allow Coca Cola to bring Powerade into the SA market, we thought he has gone mad. He later explained that we don’t have money to be market leader of a new category, we need a market leader that will lead the category against CSD’s by spending huge marketing funds to grow the category. Why not let Coca Cola the company compete with itself. His logic was that if we sell one bottle for every 3 bottles of Powerade we would do well. Coke launched Powerade and when I left Bromor in 1999 Oros was 100 yrs old making R100m in revenue and Energade was 5 yrs old making R100m in revenue. 2 years later I had left Bromor and joined ABI, a bottler of Coca Cola. I was General Manager in Richard’s Bay and then MegaManufavturing Manager in Pretoria. We were in a strategy session when the Coke guys walked in to make some important announcement, proudly so: Powerade has surpasses Energade in market share, I was the only one that didn’t celebrate the achievement, how do I tell them they fell into a Rowan Perry trap?

Nespars need online to chow the lunch of brick and mortar and Amazon is coming to help move consumers online. Let’s see if the Energade and Powerade game will
Play itself. May the best strategist win!

[DrMusa @DrMusaMthombeni]

“Develop a sense of urgency in getting all the things that you want out of life…”

[Jush @_Maguti]

Every time you procrastinate, you reinforce that behavior. You’re training your brain to avoid hard things. Over time, this creates a self-sabotaging identity.

[𝓐 @Sincerely_AO]

Before you sleep, here’s a beautiful message I found from God to us in Isaiah 43, it says “Forget about what's happened; don't keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I'm about to do something brand-new. It's bursting out! Don't you see it?” May God help us to let go.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see.

Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time.

To set expectations correctly, the vision will be at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually it has the potential be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge.

Much appreciated, @US_FDA!

[Melissa Kimble 💐🏁 @Melissa_Kimble]

“You’ve got to respect the gift God gave you by learning your craft.”

— Quincy Jones

[Xoli Zondo (BScHONS, MBA, PDM) @XoliswaZondo]

Not enough is being said about Cricket South Africa making a R800m profit 🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The last time CSA made a profit was in 2020, which was about R50m!

Stand up CEO Pholetsi Moseki! 💯 Well done to the entire organization

[SPORTbible @sportbible]

Jude Bellingham. That’s it, that’s the tweet.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Jude Bellingham ✖️ Trent Alexander-Arnold. 🫳🏻

[Benji Newman @acebenji]

Everything I have is because of God.

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

Carlos and the clay 🧡

#RolandGarros

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

¡ Cabeza, Corazón y CAMPEÓN !

#RolandGarros

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

CARLOS I, PRINCE OF CLAY 👑

#RolandGarros