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Economic freedom is the beating heart of liberty.

Western Cape
Joined January 2024
Reading through the 500+ parties that competed in this election and there are some banger names here
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Maybe those leftists are onto something when they say we should be more like China...
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Kind of baffling that biltong hasn't conquered the US by now. Superior to American jerky in every way. 1-3 billion dollar industry there for the taking.
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One of these is not treated like the others.
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Data search going so badly ChatGPT has started searching Spotify for gross investments time series data 😭😭😭
International dataset that contains all the data I need contains every country except South Africa
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International dataset that contains all the data I need contains every country except South Africa
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Figure one: Eskom nominal revenue in cents per kWh from industrial customers 2001-2023. Figure two: YoY growth rate of Eskom nominal revenue in cents per kWh from industrial customers 2001-2023. Note: CAGR 2001-2008: 5.91% CAGR 2008-2023: 13.75%
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Insane blunt rotation
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Recent Afrobarometer report highlights how local government has become truly rotten in the public's mind.
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Replying to @AngloSaffer
It just all came crashing down on me to realise that people really don't know that all their data and internet activism is stored in data centres. "No to data centres" is such a preposterous notion, again, that I struggle to accept it is real. Psychosis is right!
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Be so serious right now
It is bewildering how long you can read about SA industrial policy and manufacturing decline without anyone mentioning electricity and water prices going vertical or labour unions making sectoral bargaining a nightmare.
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China is never overtaking the US economy
Updated IMF Growth Forecasts for 2026: 🇺🇸 US: 2.3% 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.7% 🇫🇷 France: 0.6% 🇬🇧 UK: 1.0% 🇨🇳 China: 4.6% 🇯🇵 Japan: 0.6% 🇮🇳 India: 6.4% 🇷🇺 Russia: 1.1% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 2.4% 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 1.7% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 4.1% Explore the full projections: imf.org/en/publications/weo/…
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