CarelJacobs

Dad of a 20 year old young lady and #metastaticbreastcancer widower

[Snow Report Southern Africa @SnowReportSA]

❄ ADVANCE SNOW FORECAST: Widespread snow possible in South Africa and Lesotho next week – Gauteng on the radar again - more details at https://t.co/qs5oMScTA4 #snowreportsa #africansnow #weather

[CarelJacobs @vynal999]

@RoryPetzer Right next to the 224

[CarelJacobs @vynal999]

@jandirkbosch Ware woorde

[CarelJacobs @vynal999]

RIP #Dolly 😢

[CarelJacobs @vynal999]

@RoryPetzer Pretoria north 1st team can NEVER win Grey collage 1st team — NEVER

[CarelJacobs @vynal999]

@RoryPetzer I smell a fish…

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Paul Cézanne, Village behind Trees

[CarelJacobs @vynal999]

@julste111 She has been indogtrinated behind the scenes.. of the commission.. it came out naturaly… if your superiors contant rant ooze to the juniors. It is not her fault.. its what she is use to hearing..
think about it for a minute
@pule_jones

[Art Guide @ArtGuide_db]

Vincent van Gogh
Irises

[Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) @The_CESA]

Marizel Pienaar from Bigen Africa Services also receives a commendation the Young Engineer of the Year category for the #CESAAonAwards2026. Congratulations!

#EngineringExcellence
#YoungEngineers

[Mel Gibson @MelGibson_1th]

The first images of the moon, taken by the current Artemis II mission. Magnificent and fascinating."

God is wonderful. 😊🙏✝️

[Giselle @gisellecaldei3]

Pablo Picasso, 1951.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Van Gogh painted this in one of the darkest years of his life, and it might be the most hopeful thing he ever made...

The painting is Almond Blossoms, made by Vincent in 1890. Branches of white blossom open against a clear blue sky, and there is nothing sad in it anywhere, which is remarkable, because of when he painted it.

His brother Theo, the person who had loved and supported him his whole life, had just had a son, and named the boy Vincent, after his struggling uncle. When the news reached Van Gogh, he started painting right away.

He chose almond blossom on purpose. In the south of France the almond is the first tree to flower, sometimes as early as February, breaking into blossom while winter is barely over. It is the tree that announces that life is starting again. For a new baby carrying his own name, Van Gogh painted the most beautiful symbol he knew for new life.

He was, at that very moment, seriously ill. This was the period of his breakdowns in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, and not long after finishing the picture he suffered one of his worst attacks and could not paint for weeks. And yet what he made for his nephew has no shadow in it at all. He gathered whatever strength he had and poured all of it into something joyful, a gift for a child he wanted to welcome into the world.

Theo and his wife hung it above the piano in their home, and it stayed one of the most treasured paintings the family owned. The baby it was painted for, Vincent Willem van Gogh, grew up, kept it safe, and went on to found the museum in Amsterdam that holds most of his uncle's work to this day.

This, to me, is what makes the painting extraordinary: a man at the limits of his strength, who would be gone within months, looked at a new life just beginning and painted hope. He reached past everything that was breaking in him and made, for a baby, a picture that says the same thing the almond tree says every year: winter does not get the last word. Something is starting again…

[The Secret @thesecret]

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[CarelJacobs @vynal999]

@Derek_Hanekom You are correct. Hosted the ANC. They did not host the country. We are a country of many different people. So the “debt” is owed by the ANC alone.

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Sunset by Monet

[Ernest Somolekae @esomolekae]

MARIETTE BOSCH

Does anyone remember her?

Mariette Bosch was a South African citizen who was executed by hanging in Botswana on 31 March 2001, during the presidency of the late former President Festus Mogae. She was 50 years old at the time of her execution.

Bosch was convicted of the 1996 murder of her friend, Maria Magdalene “Ria” Wolmarans. She was accused of shooting Wolmarans in Gaborone. The alleged motive was that Bosch wanted to marry the victim’s husband, Tienie Wolmarans, with whom she was reportedly having an affair.

The case attracted significant public attention, particularly because Bosch became the first—and remains the only—white person and woman to be executed in Botswana since the country gained independence in 1966.

Her execution was carried out swiftly and secretly at the maximum-security prison in Gaborone. In a development that generated considerable controversy, her family and legal team, led by attorney Kgosikgolo Kgafela, reportedly learned of her execution through the news, like members of the general public.

How old were you at the time, and what do you remember most about this case?

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Monday morning at the Johannesburg Road Agency’s Asphalt Plant. The conduct of the ANC-aligned officials working here is telling. Watch the full video to see what unfolded.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[jennie bleijenburg @republiektrien]

Claude Monet

[Claude Monet @artistmonet]

Sainte-Adresse, Fishing Boats on the Shore - 1867 #artbots #monet