ANC and DA are the same shit ... no service delivery ... DA only do service delivery to only whites ...
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Two mining stories are trending in South Africa right now, and only one of them tells you the truth about this industry.
Story one: a chrome contractor from Rustenburg started with 38 workers in 2018. Seven years later he's running 2,500 people and moving 200,000 tonnes of ore a month for one of the majors.
Ordinary South Africans see the Volvo fleet, the growth numbers, and the tender questions swirling around him, and it feels massive. It feels like proof that anyone can break into mining and get rich fast.
Story two: while that story was trending, Gold Fields quietly banked around R95 billion in revenue for 2024. One company. One year. The industry those old houses sit inside made R865.8 billion in total mineral sales last year, up from R302 billion in 2010. It employs almost 470,000 people directly and feeds close to 1.9 million more through their wages.
That's the part nobody screenshots. The new player everyone's talking about is real, and the hustle is real. But next to mining houses that have compounded wealth for a century, it's still small change. Scale in mining isn't built in seven years. It's built in generations.
The loud story gets the attention. The quiet one gets the money.
AmaZulu King Misuzulu encourages women with children to take part in traditional ceremonies alongside virgin women, saying some men should consider marrying them as second wives to “wipe their tears.”
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Me and 50 new pairs of school shoes for our deserving students.