🇿🇦Municipalities are fast approaching states so broken we simply won’t be able to fix them anymore … stand up, break the chains of cadre deployment, appoint competent management now!🇿🇦
Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.
And the reason is worse than they think.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.
Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.
Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.
Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.
A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.
Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.
Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.
That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.
A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.
Yup. The real giant leaps forward for humanity are unlikely to come from politics, economics, universities, protests, oil prices, ideology or primitive tribal activities.
Well done @elonmusk
Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.
She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.
Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.
She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.
This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.
Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.
- @multiplanet1
21-05-2026 : Happy Belated Birthday, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi!
We extend our heartfelt wishes to a leader of unwavering integrity, dedication, and courage. Her steadfast commitment to justice and the safety of the people has inspired the nation.
May this new chapter bring him the same sense of pride and joy that he bring to his work every day. May the year ahead be filled with continued success, good health, and the deep respect and admiration he so richly deserve.
A General indeed — in title, in spirit, and in service.💙🇿🇦🫡
Here is a basic summary of what the crime stats of today mean practically:
For Q4 of 2025/26, January to March 2026, South Africa recorded:
• Murder: 5 181 people murdered in three months
That is 1 727 per month, 58 per day, 2.4 per hour.
• Rape: 9 782 reported rapes in three months
That is 3 261 per month, 109 per day, 4.53 per hour.
• Sexual offences: 12 590 reported cases in three months
That is 4 197 per month, 140 per day, 5.83 per hour.
• Assault GBH: 43 576 cases in three months
That is 14 525 per month, 484 per day, 20.17 per hour.
• Attempted murder: 6 916 cases in three months
That is 2 305 per month, 77 per day, 3.2 per hour.
IC
@KanthanPillay Battery Beach was declared multiracial in 1982. All beaches in SA in 1989. So we are still hating each other after nearly 40 years. When will it stop seeing colour instead of just people. When do we stop being victims of our past. Are whites the future victims in 40 years time.
20 May 1983 16 people were killed and near on 200 injured by the bomb explosion in Kerk Street Pretoria. The ANC claimed responsibility for the explosion.
This is how cases collapse.
Not because a firearm was not recovered.
Not because an arrest was not made.
But because the basic SAPS evidence process failed after the firearm was already taken off the street.
I have taken note of correspondence from the City of Cape Town raising serious concerns about firearms and ammunition seized during April 2026 that were allegedly still sitting in SAPS 13 stores and had not been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for ballistic analysis.
These exhibits include illegal firearms, firearms with serial numbers filed off, zip guns and live ammunition.
The listed stations include Philippi East, Manenberg, Mitchells Plain, Philippi, Khayelitsha, Nyanga, Delft, Mfuleni, Athlone, Grassy Park, Steenberg and Bishop Lavis.
Firearm and ammunition exhibits are supposed to be sent to the FSL within 24 hours, or on the Monday after a weekend.
If that does not happen, ballistic evidence may be delayed, fingerprint evidence may be compromised, the chain of custody may be questioned, and prosecutors may be left with weaker cases.
This is not paperwork.
This is the difference between a docket that can stand up in court and a case that gives violent criminals another gap to escape accountability.
Communities cannot be asked to trust the criminal justice system if firearms are removed from the streets, but then not processed properly by SAPS.
The question is simple: who failed to ensure that these exhibits were sent to the FSL, and what consequences will follow?
South Africa does not only need more arrests. We need arrests that become properly investigated cases, properly prepared dockets and successful prosecutions.
I have already written to the National Commissioner requesting urgent answers, including whether every listed exhibit has now been sent to the FSL, why the delays occurred, and what steps will be taken against those responsible.
I will provide feedback once SAPS responds.
This is how cases collapse.
Not because a firearm was not recovered.
Not because an arrest was not made.
But because the basic SAPS evidence process failed after the firearm was already taken off the street.
I have taken note of correspondence from the City of Cape Town Safety and Security Investigation Unit raising serious concerns about firearms and ammunition seized during April 2026 that were allegedly still sitting in SAPS 13 stores and had not been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for ballistic analysis.
These exhibits include illegal firearms, firearms with serial numbers filed off, zip guns and live ammunition.
The listed stations include Philippi East, Manenberg, Mitchells Plain, Philippi, Khayelitsha, Nyanga, Delft, Mfuleni, Athlone, Grassy Park, Steenberg and Bishop Lavis.
Firearm and ammunition exhibits are supposed to be sent to the FSL within 24 hours, or on the Monday after a weekend.
If that does not happen, ballistic evidence may be delayed, fingerprint evidence may be compromised, the chain of custody may be questioned, and prosecutors may be left with weaker cases.
This is not paperwork.
This is the difference between a docket that can stand up in court and a case that gives violent criminals another gap to escape accountability.
Communities cannot be asked to trust the criminal justice system if firearms are removed from the streets, but then not processed properly by SAPS.
The question is simple: who failed to ensure that these exhibits were sent to the FSL, and what consequences will follow?
South Africa does not only need more arrests. We need arrests that become properly investigated cases, properly prepared dockets and successful prosecutions.
I have already written to the National Commissioner requesting urgent answers, including whether every listed exhibit has now been sent to the FSL, why the delays occurred, and what steps will be taken against those responsible.
I will provide feedback once SAPS responds.
IC
@koko_matshela@Eskom_SA In 1970 only 70% of the registered voters voted. The Nats got 55% of the votes. In 1974 only 52% of white SA Voted. Voter turnout in 1977 was 49%. Unfortunately there was little option for liberal SA voters and many simply didn't vote. So if you think your vote doesn't count.