Stefaans Brümmer

I try to stay off social media. But this needs to be heard loud and clear: Mondli Makhanya | Beasts of no nation news24.com/news24/southaf…

Newsrooms are hiring newbies because companies refuse to pay decent wages. People with institutional knowledge and experience are just not paid when they freelance (if you haven't seen what happened to Niren, I suggest you do).

Oh my God, those journalists and South African celebrity @PearlThusi on a propaganda tour in Zimbabwe on a mission funded by Zunaid Moti are now wearing Mnangagwa’s scarfs🤣🤣🤣 This is very unethical for any journalist to do this, let alone to be on a trip funded by a well known crooked businessman. Embedded pre-paid journalism!

A sanctioned Russian oligarch, a multi-billion-rand manganese mine, and the impoverished communities in the Northern Cape that should’ve benefited from a lucrative deal.@MasaKekana investigates why it all went wrong. #CarteBlanche on Sundays at 7pm on @MNet channel 101

@News24 Okay. So JZ can stay in Russia so SA does not arrest him. And Putin can stay in Russia so SA does not arrest him.

Former president Jacob Zuma is currently unwell and seeking medical assistance in Moscow, Russia, News24 has confirmed. fal.cn/3zSIe

Devastating news! He has been @amaBhungane’s champion in many, many cases. It’s always such an education. 🐞

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

“[Boris] Johnson appointed his hairdresser to the Order of the British Empire”. Amid his list of cronies and crooks, there is at least one deserving recipient.

Karpower’s Maputo workaround also blocked zitamar.com/floating-power…

Eusebius was a courageous journalist and commentator. RIP comrade ❤️

“I am not Morgan Freeman, and what you see is not real. What if I were to tell you that I'm not even a human being? Would you believe me?” The entire video and audio here is AI-generated. AI is becoming indistinguishable from reality.

"Renewable energy power is prioritized for unlimited development on the basis of ensuring national defense and energy security and bringing about efficiency, high economic results, becoming a new economic sector of the country." Vietnam’s latest power plan via @BischofNiemz

Two South Africans shortlisted in @gijn 's Global Shining Light Award @viewfinderjourn for 'Above the Law' and @News24 for the Babita Deokaran story. bit.ly/43cid1r

@CoruscaKhaya @MarianneThamm He is one of the few that give me any hope.

The amaBhungane centre for investigative journalism has issued a “Selebi letter” to the police and NPA to forestall the arrests of two of its journalists and a managing partner over the publishing of the “Moti Files”. #Echobox=1683620617-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">timeslive.co.za/news/south-afr…

Those against the US$8.5 bn Just Energy Transition Investment argue that SA is being bribed into decarbonizing its power sector. It's happening anyway as coal power stations fail. @Eskom_SA's available coal plant capacity and emissions are already below IRP2019 levels for 2030.

In the LegalBrief today. groundup.org.za/article/chief-… by @GroundUp_News

Not my area, but fascinated how payload costs to space are falling radically through disruptive innovation by SpaceX. Will lead to wider & more affordable applications of satellite coms & imagery, including environmental, resource, infrastructure, crime, etc management, & more….

The state is broken, but we dare not abandon the state - amaBhungane amabhungane.org/comment/commen…

Last year former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter told us Eskom had looked at all these options. To restore Hendrina power station and run it for five years past its 2026 shutdown date would cost roughly R12-billion. “If you do the math, it doesn’t make sense." amabhungane.org/stories/the-co…