Thomas Holtz

Engineer, CEO, Father, Runner (enthusiastic about many other things)

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

If i were to choose to live my life over again,I wouldn't live it this way --- Must watch video

[Nicole Radziwill @nicoleradziwill]

People NEED to matter more than ever now. If we don't value each other, the agents are unlikely to either.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So, we lost the Munk debate on "anti-Zionism is antisemitism" last night.

Given the pro-Israeli audience jeered @gideonle when he mentioned Palestinian deaths & then booed me when I mentioned the ICC & Oxfam, I can't say I was shocked.

Who boos... Oxfam?

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

What Really Happened on October 7 @pularjs

[RISE Mzansi @Rise_Mzansi]

"South Africans need to come together to build the country that future generations can be proud of and that we can be proud of in our own lifetime." RISE Mzansi's National Leader, Songezo Zibi, outlined the RISE Mzansi vision at a meeting with local business owners and community leaders in Lenasia, Johannesburg. 

#VoteRISEMzansi
#SongezoZibi
#WeNeedNewLeaders

[Nimrod Flaschenberg @Nimrod_Flash]

18-year-old Sofia Orr was sentenced to 20 days in prison for refusing to enlist in the Israeli army and take part in the war on Gaza and the ongoing occupation.
Sofia refuses because she believes war has no winners, and she wants to show that there's another way.

[Prof Thuli Madonsela #KindnessBuilds @ThuliMadonsela3]

Thank you ⁦@BafanaBafana⁩ for showing us what infragility, resilience and grit in action look like. To me you are a bunch of winners #AFCON2023 #BafanaPride

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

Heartbreaking, just awful.

Chris Hedges an honest, brave man is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper.

Israel's Lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazis' depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear.
Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water.
Block shipments of food and fuel.
Impose telecommunications blackouts.
Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day.
Let starvation and epidemics of infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary.
Israel has killed or seriously wounded close to 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza, almost one in every 20 inhabitants.
It has destroyed or damaged 60% of the housing.
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The Nazis ship their victims to death camps.
The Israelis will ship their victims to squalid refugee camps in countries outside of Israel.
This is the plan. No one, especially the Biden administration, intends to stop it.
The most disturbing lesson I learned while covering armed conflicts for two decades is that we all have the capacity, with little prodding, to become willing executioners.
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We can all become Nazis. It takes very little.
in eternal vigilance over evil, our evil, we become, like those carrying out the mass killing in Gaza, monsters.
Perhaps the saddest irony is that a people once in need of protection from genocide now commit it.

[Citizen Leader Lab - Learn Act Become @CitzenLeaderLab]

Do you care about the future of South Africa?

Join our very own CEO @KomalaPillay for a 60mins discovery session as she shares on how you can be part of creating the South Africa we want!

Date: Friday 3 November
Time: 8am
Venue: Zoom
RSVP: [email protected]

[Thomas Holtz @thomashholtz]

@CindyPoluta We have to win this!

[Thomas Holtz @thomashholtz]

@ryansandes May this be the year you break the this nemesis!

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

our world order is on a collision course w/ big tech

thanks to @tedtalks for inviting me to speak on what that means for every person on this planet

i don't have all the answers, but i hope to be asking (& inspire you to ask) the right questions: https://t.co/IjXIzB5jAq

[Nick Hedley @nickhedley]

HDF Energy will build 1.5GW of solar plus hydrogen storage in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province.

This will be dispatchable clean energy.

https://t.co/aRdrYJI5ay

[Thomas Holtz @thomashholtz]

@CindyPoluta Bosch B Stock in Kramerville on Archimedes Rd

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Africa’s dynamism is unstoppable & its potential is breathtaking.

This #AfricaDay, I urge the international community to stand with the continent.

With cooperation & solidarity, this can be Africa’s century.

[Eusebius McKaiser @Eusebius]

43.9% of black African men are unemployed, and 51% of black African women are unemployed. Unemployment isn’t gender-neutral, nor is it colour blind. To silence these realities is to wilfully and wrongly refuse to understand and come to grips with the full nature and structure of the unemployment problem in South Africa.

Given the cost of living crisis, with inflation above the 3-6% inflation target, the direct implication of these facts is that millions of black South Africans exist precariously in democratic South Africa. This is worsened by a state that constantly and viciously asks South Africans to be resilient and hopeful, as if these tired old linguistic tropes from the early 90s can fill an empty stomach or provide cover and respite from the harsh winter that is worsened by brutal power cuts. South Africa is a tough place to be in right now, but it is particularly harsh for black women, who are the worst off.

https://t.co/0E74RWz6P9

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Sorry, I couldn’t follow the dress code of #TIME women of the year event but my outfit was the most beautiful last night because it depicted the brave women of Iran who had lost their eyes by the Islamic republic in a revolution, called “Woman, Life, Freedom. In Iran women are getting killed, raped, and blinded for not having the freedom to choose their own dress code. Let’s end the gender apartheid regimes.
#MahsaAmini https://t.co/aLcf0LksQ7

[Mining Weekly @MiningWeekly]

[#MI2023] While there have been numerous concerns relating to global macroeconomic issues, the mining industry has been relatively buoyant over this period, says @Multotec's Thomas Holtz at @MiningIndaba

Visit @MiningWeekly for more: https://t.co/9riGUyxSTM

#MiningIndaba2023

[Citizen Leader Lab - Learn Act Become @CitzenLeaderLab]

Located in Ceres, Nduli Primary School thrives despite challenges: Principal’s leadership makes the difference!

To read more visit:

https://t.co/0d2rKMv4Uv

#TheFutureWeWant #leadership #education #principals #SONA2023