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88 Kilos of Sunshine
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88 Kilos of Sunshine
@88KOS
I make songs; small stories wrapped in something you can hum. For sale at https://t.co/46GUVpG73p
https://mastodon.social/@88kos Beigetreten Nisan 2010
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One of my biggest problems with people who oppose free healthcare in South Africa, free education, and social welfare is that they always tell us to look to the Western world for inspiration, yet they don’t want us to be inspired by Israel’s free higher education, or by the free healthcare systems in Denmark or the UK.
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@merf_sdp That's like arguing that Britain invaded France and Belgium in the first World War.
Cuba was invited by the Angolan government.
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South Africa’s 🇿🇦 black middle class moved from ~1.7 million to 5.6-7 million people between 2012 and 2024.
~ 64% of black Africans live below the poverty line compared to ~1% of White South Africans.
We need to accelerate BEE to close this gap. Poverty & Inequality are evil!
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Then no growth must happen if it only happens for a single group. Screw your argument
Peter Bruce@Bruceps
Well you either abandon transformation or you abandon growth... the evidence is in and abundantly clear the ANC at least can't do both at the same time and as equal priorities.
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I think we have a pretty serious problem.
It is not the role of a NATO Secretary General to make political comments about a member state of the Alliance. It is even a sheer violation of his mandate, which requires complete neutrality.
A stern warning is in order.
#Daddy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
'The president doing this is crucial. I've seen the polling, but I really hope the American people will be with him because he's doing this to make the whole world safer" -- NATO Secretary Mark Rutte
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yes!! yes yes yes!! we should run saltwater through every ai data center!! right now!!
djcows@djcows
"AI uses water" ok bro
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The default & increasingly virulent opposition to affirmative action from South African whites denies their own history with economic empowerment processes that were specifically designed to advantage them
@JacoKleynhans @kalliekriel @ErnstRoets @willempet @RobertHersov
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@88KOS @Bruceps ...in our first 5yrs. And, we maintained a single digit top 10% to bottom 10% salary ratio throughout (like Nordic countries), of around 6-7. In fact I dare to say we might have done better than Nordic countries. Entirely possible across 🇿🇦, just req's the will to do it... ✨😊
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@88KOS @Bruceps And our growth? By adopting transformation as a foundational principle of our business & especially by putting our employees first & foremost in terms of a living wage & their happiness - we quadrupled our turnover in 10yrs, created 110 jobs & salary matched on race/gender...
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@88KOS @Bruceps ...across 🇿🇦, thus making transformation both aspirational & inspirational is a complete mystery to me. We could have done it during the pandemic as well for both health & business solutions. 🇿🇦 is the v best country on 🌍 for make a plan/creative, human centric thinking... ✨😊
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@88KOS @Bruceps ...in healthcare (one primarily committed to public support & service) that dtic noted it as being in 🇿🇦's national interest & that I be recommended for both a second business permit and subsequently my PRP. Why we haven't run a national competition for transformative models...
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@88KOS @Bruceps Have to agree & while I have to add that we didn't claim a single BBBEE point in our first 10 yrs of business, out of principle (why claim points for doing something we should be doing for the love of 🇿🇦 anyway?), we did manage to achieve such a transformative business model...
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Donald Trump is trying to kill us all.
Now is the time for Republicans to stop him.
They won’t. We will remember their transgressions for seven generations.
Michael Spyker@ShaleTier7
I am just a guy that likes making my maps but I do feel somewhat compelled to say that Iran has a particularly good power grid, and gas distribution network. Like nearly impossible to destroy. I mean, I think Iran has a better gas transmission footprint than Canada. I know know who this tweet is for, but maybe these maps are helpful. In 2017, Iran exported 7,871 GWh and imported ~4 kWh, mainly exporting to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Iran's 4.3MWh per capita of annual electricity consumption is actually in-line with the UK at 4.6MWh per capita, and ~25% ahead of countries like Brazil and South Africa. Attacking a very hardened system like this, and opening the Gulf up to attacks on far more single-failure-point assets -- seems wildly, WILDLY stupid.
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is this supposed to be controversial? and what is he doing about it as president?
Eyewitness News@ewnupdates
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the 1913 Land Act is to blame for the generational suffering of people dispossessed of their land. ewn.co.za/2026/03/21/ram…
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@mommy_moneyza I'm making a broad case study observation & you're drifting off in the weeds of outlier scenarios. In your head people earning less that R100k per annum are all tax avoidance savants with side hustles beyond their day jobs & side step SARS😂 Please think beyond a fixated agenda.
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Again. The tax threshold for income tax in SA is R95k per annum. There are approx. 17M employed; more than 10M of them work in private sector. Private Sector doesnt pay its employees enough to reach tax threshold. Thank you goodnight.
Trevor RYX@GodTRYX
South Africa has 61 million citizens yet fewer than 1 million pay 60% of all personal income tax! How is this sustainable? Taxpayers are strained and can't continue funding the ANC's socialist policies. State welfare doesn't grow the economy! Those ANC devils are very abusive!
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Interact with this post if you're part of or support the LGBTQ+ folks. 🥰
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all vacancies advertised by the state for state positions must strictly adorn state colours or the south african coat of arms. any department that allows electioneering to this degree undermines our efforts of professionalising the state!
KZN TREASURY@KZNTreasury
Vacancies
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