Tlou..🐘

Ordinary person, living ordinary life. Professional in science & engineering. Most RT's are endorsements.

[Tlou..🐘 @tlou_q]

don't we have new talent in SA?

[Sunday World News @SundayWorldZA]

DJ Fresh returns to breakfast radio as Kaya 959 moves swiftly after Sizwe Dhlomo exit | By Mbalenhle Zuma

Just days after the shock resignation of media personality Sizwe Dhlomo from Kaya 959’s breakfast show, the station has confirmed the return of veteran broadcaster DJ Fresh to lead its revamped morning offering.

READ: https://t.co/kf2t95UmZ3

[Mr Ayee🔴🟢⚫️🪓🇿🇦🇿🇦 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦💯 @AyeeNdeM]

@ZizinjaAbelungu I have been voting for EFF since 2014!

For the upcoming election on the 4th of November 2024.

I have taken a conscious decision that I will be voting for EFF forever and ever Amen!

Kindest regards
Asidlali lah

[landlessness is a health issue @mo4_lo]

@shufflesdu It doesn't pay leyanto

[Creo Nthali @creo_nthali]

Re-tweet if you are voting the EFF, I want to see something.

[Tsitso Kalake @mopheme_Taoli]

@Sentletse Combating global shocks with making capital more expensive is the dumbest economics ever. But then again they are doing for their friends holding assets in the money markets.

[Tlou..🐘 @tlou_q]

@433 but we know who the champions of Africa are..

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

Never be scared of dominant public opinion. We have been here many times before with; Abortion, Corporal Punishment, GBV, women’s equality, Homosexuality and tribalism.

But logic, justice & the power of truth always wins.

Xenophobia will not win! Love, Law & Order will!

[MmaneKokiey @KMokgoshi35001]

@TinLawu I cannot imagine not buying such beautiful furniture pieces because of Jacinta.....Aiy ngeke she is not that important.

[Indestructible 😛👄 @EmzaChick]

@PhutiSemenya14 @H_ezee Grandparents passed away, the children want to go to the city of gold for opportunities.. the makotis also left with their kids

[Bebé @NoozBebe_]

*denied entry due to an expired visa.

I fixed it for you.
Continue.

There are many Nigerians who are in South Africa legally and living by laws and standards of the country. You won't see them in the streets protesting against their host country, or out here spreading fear. Consult. Read beyond X. Listen.

[MingasC @mingasPC]

@ntsikimazwai “You were young” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL @koko_matshela]

From the Engineer's Desk

Some thoughts on South African engineering, unemployment, and where our graduates actually end up.

The unemployment rate gets plenty of airtime. Understandably so. But there's a quieter story underneath that's worth paying attention to—and it has to do with what kind of work our economy can actually sustain.

Here's the distinction that doesn't get made often enough.

Engineers with a BEng or BSc are trained for design, R&D, and setting assets to work—including plant modifications. Taking a concept from nothing and turning it into something physical. New mines. New factories. New aircraft. That kind of work requires an economy that's expanding, investing in the future, building things that didn't exist before.

Technologists with a BTech or Advanced Diploma are trained for operations, maintenance, and implementation. Keeping existing systems alive. That work doesn't dry up when the economy slows. If anything, it becomes more urgent. Infrastructure still ages. Plants still need to run. Planes still need to be serviceable.

You can see this playing out in renewable energy. The jobs created by REI4P sit in project execution, site supervision, installation, and long-term maintenance. It's implementation work. Necessary, valuable—but not design and R&D. Not the kind where you're figuring out what hasn't been built yet. And where design engineering roles do exist, the industry wants experience. A graduate with a degree but no solar project on their CV doesn't slot in easily.

The result is predictable. Engineering graduates wait. Technologists tend to find work sooner. And many of those waiting engineers eventually stop waiting.

The destinations tell their own story.

Austria. Sweden. Germany. The Netherlands. Places with active industrial policy. Places still designing and building new things. They need engineers, not just maintainers.

The UAE is another common landing spot. But the work there is different. It's high-level implementation. Fleet management for Emirates. Operations at a desalination plant. Project delivery on a new terminal. Sophisticated work, well paid—but still largely about running complex systems, not inventing them. The difference is that the systems actually exist there. The jobs are real.

China sits at the other end of the spectrum. They're building out the full engineering stack. Domestic aerospace programmes. New chemical plants. New materials research. They need designers and R&D engineers at enormous scale. But access for South African graduates is limited. The door isn't open the way it is in Europe or the Gulf. So the talent flows elsewhere.

What all this points to is something a standard jobs report won't capture. South Africa is not just losing people. It's losing a particular kind of capability. We're keeping the capacity to maintain and operate. We're exporting the capacity to design and create.

That shift matters. And it won't reverse itself just because the unemployment rate eventually moves. It requires an economy that decides to build again.

Until then, the planes will keep leaving.

Engineer Matshela Koko

[Andre Vlok @vlok_andre]

@Arfness BMW salesman: Buy the BMW
Me: No thanks, I have another car
Salesman: Buy the car, it's a great, wonderful, marvelous product.
Me: I can see that, it's great. But no thanks
Salesman: Buy the car or I will get people to f#ck you up

[Nigel_Branken @Nigel_Branken]

So this video of me has been trending... people have offered by land, klipdrift, even EFF membership... but all I want is the Madam to acknowledge there is a genocide and retire...

[Ndabzinto @OMG_ITS_NDABA]

Elon Musk who has never
Built a school in Africa
Built a university in Africa
Built a hospital in Africa
Built a library in Africa
Given an African a morsel of bread

Suddenly cares about poor black Africans. Don’t make me laugh

[African @ali_naka]

Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti has been in power since 1999. After amending the constitution to remove the age limits, he contested against himself yesterday and won with 97%. This is how Djibouti looks like and your colonial clerks you call Presidents thought it best to give you an AU leader from this Shithole!!

[Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧 @Sentletse]

Iran’s delegation to the Islamabad Talks is made up of four men with doctorates:

- Dr. Ghalibaf (Speaker of Parliament)
- Dr. Araghchi (Foreign Minister)
- Dr. Ahmadian (Secretary of the Defense Council)
- Dr. Hemmati (Central Bank Governor)

The US delegation is made up JD Vance, a failed author, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s gold buddy and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. None of them have the technical range to negotiate complex nuclear issues.

[🇿🇦 Apostle Dr D Mekgwe🇹🇼 @ApostleDeza]

Wait, so the EFF President Timpakgolo @Julius_S_Malema Writes to the Chief Justice on the Phala Phala Matter, The Chief Justice responds to Julius Malema…Then @Newzroom405 invites & interviews @Action4SA 🙄 Make it make sense!

[Finance & economics @Ndala_Momane]

An engineering problem that most SAns choose to listen to none engineers for solutions.

[The Counterhegemon @GillianSchutte1]

Mawubuye Umhlaba

Mawubuye!

Mawubuye umhlaba!

Umhlaba wethu!

Mawubuye umhlaba!

UJesu wavuka ngosuku lwesithathu,
Wamemeza wathi, “Awubuyiswe umhlaba!”
Wavusa abampofu nabaphukileyo,
Wabiza abakhathele ukuba basukume.

Mawubuye umhlaba kithi futhi,
Mabasukume abantu bethu futhi,
Mabezwe labo abasiphula imihlane
Ukuphakama kwamagama ethu.

Ikhorasi
Mawubuye umhlaba,
Mawubuye!
Ngumhlaba wethu,
Mawubuye!
Isithunzi sabantu bethu,
Mawubuye!
Mawubuye umhlaba ngobulungiswa,
Mawubuye!

Sisuka othulini nasemasimini,
Sisuka ezimayini nasezitaladini,
Sithwale ubuhlungu iminyaka eminingi,
Manje siyabuthana, manje siyakhuluma.

Ibhuloho
UJesu wahamba nabampofu,
UJesu wema nabacindezelweyo,
Okwathathwayo akubuyiswe,
Iqiniso lizehlise iziqhwaga.

Ikhorasi yokugcina
Mawubuye umhlaba,
Mawubuye!
Umhlaba wethu,
Mawubuye!
Kwangathi le Phasika ilethe ukubuyiselwa,
Mawubuye!
Umhlaba nesithunzi kanye,
Mawubuye!

Uma ufuna, ngingayenza ibe yisigqi sangempela sengoma yomzabalazo, ifushane, iphinde, futhi ilungele ukubizwa nokuphendulwa.