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Here is why Helen should be the mayor of JHB; thoughtful, strategic, detail oriented, and laser-focused on service delivery. This is exactly what we require of a Mayor in JHB, and why I support her.
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🚨 MBAPPÉ VIENT DE FAIRE PERDRE 400 MILLIONS D’EUROS EN 3 SECONDES !
LA CHINE SUSPEND CARRÉMENT LA DIFFUSION DU CHAMPIONNAT ESPAGNOL APRÈS QUE KYLIAN MBAPPÉ AIT RIGOLÉ D’UN MÈME LE REPRÉSENTANT EN MAO ZEDONG 😱
La Liga génère 1 milliard d’euros de revenus grâce aux droits TV à l’international, dont 400 millions provient seulement de la Chine…
The gastrointestinal outbreak in Bronkhorstspruit is the result of nearly two decades of ignored warnings and systemic failure at Tshwane's water treatment works. Experts warn accountability must go beyond plant operators. 💧📉 thenational.co.za/news/2026-…
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France is about to find out if they have any hard men left to take care of the bad times their weak men created.
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Cuba rations sugar. The island that once supplied one-third of the world's sugar exports now tells its citizens they get five pounds per person per month, when supplies arrive at all, which they often do not.
Nationalization created this shortage. Fidel Castro nationalized the sugar industry beginning in 1960, seized the privately owned mills and plantations, and handed control to state administrators who had no skin in the game. By the 1990s, production had collapsed from 8 million metric tons annually to under 4 million. By 2023, Cuba produced roughly 350,000 tons. The land did not change, the climate did not change, but the incentive structure did.
A private mill owner in 1958 watched global sugar prices, maintained equipment, paid competitive wages to keep skilled workers, and expanded or contracted accordingly. Strip that owner out, replace him with a ministry bureaucrat whose salary arrives regardless of output, and the information loop breaks. Nobody loses money when the harvest fails. Nobody profits when it succeeds.
Capital does not wait around for better politics. The irrigation infrastructure, the milling equipment, the agronomic knowledge held by exiled plantation families, all of that dispersed across Florida and Spain decades ago. Reconstruction now costs multiples of what preservation would have cost.
Socialists point to the U.S. embargo as the culprit. Cuba trades sugar with dozens of countries. The embargo prevents American purchases, not Cuban production. A state that cannot organize harvests on some of the world's most fertile cane land lacks property rights, not trading partners.
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I'm honestly baffled by how much Saudi Arabia sucks at war. Their military expenses are $83.2 billion. Twice as much as Israel's. Ten times as much as Iran's. They actually have allies on the ground. And yet they're able to do nothing at all against a bunch of bedouins. How?
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We are really not serious people here😂🤣😂 @Fly_Airlink
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77% of South Africans aged 25-34 gamble with 55% of all problem gamblers within this age group
-- SA National Gambling Board
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I am very sorry to hear that RW Johnson has died.
His writing was deeply scarring, fearless, unforgettable. He had a rare gift for exposing malfeasance with clarity and wit.
He annoyed and outraged many of the worst people.
A truly great South African author.
Like a post on X and you'll have a SpaceX rocket launching...How cool is that 🌙
Elon Musk
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The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
