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Empowering South Africa through knowledge. 🇿🇦 Sharing daily insights, educational resources, and lifelong learning for curious minds. 📚✨ #WeLearnSA

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

@nhlalemafini Literally a casino in the palm of your hand.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Gambling is aggressively marketed in SA

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🎰 Share of internet users who gambled online in the past month

1. 🇿🇦 South Africa: 32.3%
2. 🇳🇴 Norway: 31.2%
3. 🇬🇷 Greece: 25.8%
4. 🇳🇿 New Zealand: 24.0%
5. 🇬🇭 Ghana: 21.5%
6. 🇭🇺 Hungary: 21.5%
7. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 19.6%
8. 🇧🇷 Brazil: 19.0%
9. 🇦🇹 Austria: 18.7%
10. 🇦🇺 Australia: 18.0%
11. 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 18.0%
12. 🇨🇱 Chile: 16.6%
13. 🇰🇪 Kenya: 16.0%
14. 🇵🇹 Portugal: 15.8%
15. 🇭🇷 Croatia: 15.5%
16. 🇹🇭 Thailand: 15.0%
17. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: 14.9%
18. 🇮🇪 Ireland: 14.8%
19. 🇷🇸 Serbia: 14.4%
20. 🇧🇪 Belgium: 14.3%
21. 🇨🇦 Canada: 14.3%
22. 🇨🇴 Colombia: 13.8%
23. 🇩🇰 Denmark: 13.8%
24. 🇷🇴 Romania: 13.7%
25. 🇲🇽 Mexico: 13.3%
26. 🇩🇪 Germany: 13.2%
27. 🇫🇷 France: 12.7%
28. 🇦🇷 Argentina: 12.5%
29. 🇸🇪 Sweden: 12.5%
30. 🇪🇸 Spain: 12.0%
31. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 12.0%
32. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: 11.9%
33. 🇵🇭 Philippines: 11.5%
34. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: 11.1%
35. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 10.9%
36. 🇸🇬 Singapore: 10.6%
37. 🇵🇱 Poland: 10.4%
38. 🇺🇸 United States: 10.2%
39. 🇮🇹 Italy: 10.1%
40. 🇨🇿 Czechia: 9.9%
41. 🇮🇳 India: 7.6%
42. 🇯🇵 Japan: 7.5%
43. 🇲🇦 Morocco: 7.3%
44. 🇷🇺 Russia: 7.0%
45. 🇮🇱 Israel: 6.8%
46. 🇹🇼 Taiwan: 6.5%
47. 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 5.7%
48. 🇰🇷 South Korea: 2.7%

🌍 Worldwide: 7.8%

Internet users aged 16+. Survey from Q2 2025. The worldwide figure is GWI's aggregate across all markets it surveys.

Source: GWI, via DataReportal Digital 2026

[🔭🌌Mvana 🌌 @nhlalemafini]

@welearnSA I am weary.
Bahluleka ukuqeda abazali bethu ngamahhashi, now this.
'Shackles of convenience.'

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

United needs quality players

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨8️⃣ Zero wins in the last 8 games for Manchester United.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

This that DNA.... .the united way!!

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Full-time.

[...... @L_N_E_N_E]

These people died and didn’t suffer for their sins

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

😂

[Dik Wallace and 9646 others @Not_Dik]

Cunt

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

@Istillhavelifee @LuGuy20 I don’t think you fully understand, or have firsthand experience with speech delays in children, particularly those on the autism spectrum.

It’s a complex issue, and the relationship between speech, language development, and communication is well documented. Look it up.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Many speech-delayed children grasp English first because media, educational apps, and speech therapy materials are predominantly in English.

It’s not a parenting failure, it’s a developmental stage shaped by their environment.

[PHUTI SEMENYA®🇿🇦 ⚖️ @PhutiSemenya14]

You Have Failed As A Black Parent, If Your Kids Can Only Speak English...

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

It will really assist if you can show me where i blamed "a medical condition a media consumption issue" & where i said majority of kids "If kids learn whatever language is on the screen, stop dressing it up as a developmental phenomenon which doesn't affect the majority of kids." ?

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Now we’re getting somewhere. Children with speech delays, which can be an early sign of autism, often struggle with communication.

In South Africa, much of the media they consume, AAC and learning apps, and even speech therapy resources are predominantly in English. So it’s hardly surprising that most of these children acquire English first and use it as their primary language for communication.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

@Istillhavelifee @LuGuy20 Let me simplify it for you. In those countries it won't be English because media (YouTube), educational apps, and speech therapy materials are NOT predominantly in English.

Are you still not connecting the dots ?

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Here is my initial tweet, read it again. I never talked about "global language dominance" :

"Many speech-delayed children grasp English first because media, educational apps, and speech therapy materials are predominantly in English.

It’s not a parenting failure, it’s a developmental stage shaped by their environment."

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

It’s all geopolitics. The automobile industry helped pave the way for American industrial dominance. Now China’s rise through manufacturing is giving the West sleepless nights. Instead of competing head-on where China has built enormous capacity, the response increasingly looks like tariffs, propaganda campaigns, restrictions and other tactics designed to slow Beijing’s momentum.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Manufactured outrage. When they can't compete fairly, they resort to dirty tactics. So much for their love of the free market.

[uMakhaza Onsundu @Nswembu184189]

When will the lying stop? Currently Chinese cars are better than EU cars.

In SA vthere are fewer new BMWs, VWs and MBenz on our roads.

BMW and VW factories in Germany have closed down and many of these factories have been sold to Chinese companies.

Even Elon Musk's mega factory which produces Teslas is located in Shanghai in China. He has voted on this with his money and products.

The consumers have spoken, eloquently.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

@Nswembu184189 They definitely won’t bow out without a fight.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Botha later refused to cooperate fully with the TRC. Despite his concerns about the process in 1995, Botha ultimately refused to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1998.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

The 1995 meeting had a potentially explosive reason behind it. Former defence minister Magnus Malan and other former military officers were facing prosecution over apartheid-era killings. Botha feared the prosecutions could provoke a serious backlash among conservative Afrikaners.

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

President Nelson Mandela with the former apartheid hardline President Pieter W. Botha, November 1995. Credit: Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

Botha issued Mandela an extraordinary warning about the "tiger in the Afrikaner."

Contemporary reporting recorded Botha warning against provoking Afrikaner anger over investigations into apartheid-era abuses. Mandela did not back down.

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

More of this please

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Zambia has opened its first Gold refinery to boost revenue.