Dear @Apple and @tim_cook , I am writing to let you know that I regret to update my phone to the liquid glass < ios 26.2 > the apps look so bad, can WE atleast take the apps to the iOS that was before this glass thing. Keep everything else!
So, Elon Musk just unilaterally changed the Iran flag emoji shown on his platform. OK??
Black Economic Empowerment aside, having Starlink in South Africa would give Elon Musk control over critical infrastructure and the power to āturn off the lightsā or manipulate the flow of information if he disagrees with the governmentās stance on a particular issue.
And we already know how he feels about South Africa.
I mean, following the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, Starlink immediately provided free broadband to the country, bypassing local infrastructure entirely. They framed it as humanitarian, but it shows how quickly Musk can pivot to support specific political outcomes.
You see, Starlink has kill-switch power. That is, unlike fiber cables in the ground, Starlink is a ātop-downā service, meaning SpaceX can geofence or deactivate specific regions at the click of a button from their headquarters in the US.
It also has oversight bypass capabilities as Starlink signals go directly from the dish to the satellite, bypassing local Internet Exchange Points. This means the South African government cannot monitor or regulate the traffic for national security purposes as they do with local interest service providers.
If rural schools, clinics, and police stations become dependent on Starlink, the South African state loses its policy space. If the government passes a law Musk dislikes, the threat of disconnecting those services becomes a powerful bargaining chip.
So, for South Africa, the issue is whether the country is willing to trade national sovereignty for connectivity provided by a man who openly despise the countryās legislative frameworks.
@MyJRA@CityofJoburgZA Please can your teams work for the people and operate within your SLAs #5542653⦠monthly accidents happen on the road people trying to avoid potholes @Kenny_T_Kunene ka kopo
Dear Apartheid Nostalgics
First of all, Iām sorry you feel persecuted more than other races in the New South Africa in 2025ā¦I am sorry. For real.
I know life is hectic!
Even for us brown and black peopleā¦itās pretty bad.
I am sorryā¦but a few things need to be saidā¦
(Iām gonna use sports analogies here. I hope the Rugby one gets you)
Look, everybody agrees with the concept of merit and working hard. Black people. Brown people. White People. Everybody.
But everybody should have opportunity to access the game.
Affirmative action doesnāt mean thereās no merit. Affirmative action does not mean thereās no working hard.
For hundreds of years, people of colour were LEGALLY prevented from playing the game of self determination. Legally oppressed. Legally not allowed access.
Apartheid wasnāt like affirmative action - It wasn't like if thereās a qualified white dude & qualified black dudeā¦the qualified white person will get the opportunity. No.
The Apartheid & colonial laws meant that - no matter what - you CANāT get access. Itās illegal. If youāre black - u canāt buy the land. You canāt have the job. You canāt get the education. You canāt move up no matter how hard you work. No matter how smart you are.
Itās AGAINST the law.
Versions of this happened all over the world.
A funny example is the NBA in America.
There was a time, unbelievable as it may seem, when the NBA was WHITES ONLY.
Itās not that the white people didnāt compete hard against other white people for victory on meritā¦
ā¦but black people werenāt allowed to playā¦
even guys like Lebron James grandfather wasnāt allowed to play.
He wasnāt dunking a basketballā¦making buckets. He was dunkingā¦a mopā¦into a bucket.
Meanwhile he could probably 360 clean the backboard from the free throw line.
The idea of affirmative action is just to get people of colour or people whoāve been historically disenfranchisedā¦into the game. Let them play.
Once theyāre in the game, they still have to compete like everyone else.
Like anyone whoās given an opportunity..QUOTA players can only survive if theyāre good. They can only survive due to competence.
Another way of looking at itā¦
..black peopleās legs have been LEGALLY AMPUTATED for hundreds of years. Real, horrifically messed up laws that amputated their progress.
Now Imagine Oscar Pistorius rightā¦
When he ran, he ran with his affirmative action prosthetics. It didnāt guarantee that he won, it meant he could run the race.
Imagine Oscar had to compete with no prosthetics. Trying to run the race on his stumps.
And then Oscar has to run a race with Usain Bolt.
And on top of thatā¦Usain Boltās ancestors amputated his legs in the first place.
Might make you insecure right? May make you wanna shoot someone.
With prosthetics he can competeā¦
and to stay in the race, he still needs to be able to runā¦
and if Oscar wins the raceā¦even with prostheticsā¦
ā¦you canāt say heās not winning on merit.
If privileged people still donāt agree with what Iām sayingā¦let me use a language you may understandā¦
Golf.
The next time you play golf - donāt play with a golf handicap cos a Golf Handicap could be called Golf Affirmative action.
Or 140+ handicap based golf laws.
Itās a way to get people into the game.
Apartheid laws werenāt white people playing golf and black people getting a golf handicapā¦
Apartheid wasā¦
a black person has to be a CADDY. Youāre not allowed to ever play golf. You have to be a caddy.
Now if you still not with meā¦this is my final attempt.
Rugby.
If I canāt get through to you with rugby itās impossibleā¦youāll never get what Iām saying.
As a nation, if we figure out how to include ALL RACES into the game of SELF DETERMINATION, itāll be better for everyone.
We won the rugby this way. We became world champions this way. Many times.
And every single time there was a new black or coloured face introduced to the team, the assumption was that the black or coloured face was not qualified. Quota player. By default - the perception is 'not qualified' until proven otherwiseā¦
That assumption, bias and racism still exists.
If there were no systems of redress and so called ā140+ race lawsā or affirmative action -
ā¦because of historical disadvantage, guys like Siya, Cheslyn and Mapimpi for example would probably NEVER have played for our country.
Because there would have been no 140+ race based opportunities to get them development, coaching and access.
Iām not saying an all white team would not winā¦thereās nothing scarier than a white Afrikaner rugby player with no neck and cauliflower earsā¦
Baksteen Du Toit will bliksem you and be very effectiveā¦white people have the expertise no doubt.
ā¦but itās much better that we all won together.
Even though white people had all the expertise, itās much better that effort was put into diversity, inclusion and equity in conjunction with the obvious hard work and merit based systems.
Continuing with the status quoā¦could still have won us the Rugby World Cup with Afrikaner players called Os or Blikkies many times overā¦but more importantly the consequences of the ā140+ race lawsā won not only the World cups, but the heart of all South Africans.
We all won together.
And itās possible. And itās inspiring. And itās nation building. And we can do it in all industries in SA. Itāll just take time. And effort.
But the morality and ethics are sustainable and long lasting.
What @afriforum is doing is completely the opposite. Itās just selfishā¦and no matter how they try to disguise it - fundamentally racist to the core.
Nkosi Sikelelā iAfrika
This level of misinformation is appalling. It now makes sense why you bought this platform. It was so that you can control the narrative, and impose your hatred and act as god in this platform. You are everything you despise from the mainstream media.
Owning a powerful platform and freely able to spew and redirect propaganda should be outlawed⦠Ethics are only justified when directed to the side where itās one sided and blinded.
We condemn the silence of Elon Musk about the murder of black people in South Africa who were killed by white farmers and their corpses fed to pigs by whites. We call for immediate sanctions against this farmers and immediate deportations from South Africa to Ukraine . @EFFSouthAfrica must push for this