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Be Wang Chuanfu: > Get orphaned at 15 in rural China > Borrow $30K from your cousin to start BYD > Start making phone batteries > Buy a car company with no driver's license > Have Elon Musk laugh at you on live TV > Drink battery fluid in front of investors to prove it's safe > Warren Buffett bets $230M on you (30x'd) > Make iPads, iPhones and every Nothing phone > Outsell Tesla by 3x in 2025 > Supply batteries to Tesla > Dominate AI data centre cooling systems > Build the world's largest silicon carbide chip plant > Own lithium mines in Brazil > Build 8 of your own cargo ships > Make the world's fastest production car (308 mph) > Ship 5-min EV charging > File 50 patents per day > More employees than population of SF The founder still spends 70% of his time on engineering. Thanks for the red carpet at BYD headquarters! More soon.

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I can’t believe Wits and Gibbs wanted me to do a 3yr MBA programme starting with a PGCE because I don’t have my honours. 3 UK universities accepted me for a 1yr MBA program. 3 offers 2 scholarships God Did That…. I Pray I Get It Over The Line.

@RediTlhabi The Zionists punish you for a spine, your nation can suffer so SA's stance is balancing the scales. SA isnt folding. Its just not into mud slinging

As I was saying, especially to my South African kin....this issue - Netanyahu (Israel)pushed Trump (USA) into war on Iran - is so mainstream in the USA. It is spoken and written about freely. Sanders has been a US lawmaker, for almost 30 years. He is Jewish too. Is he antisemitic for saying Israel dragged the US into war? Grow a spine. Stop allowing yourself to fold every time someone accuses you of being antisemitic. It's a nonsensical accusation.

@hewton @shanaka86 EU is not giving money to Russia , its buying. If Russia stops selling, EU will suffer.

@shanaka86 Why do you miss out the EU alone giving Russia approaching €300 billion for oil and gas since the conflict began. And will continue to buy gas until 2027. That is more than the EU's total financial, military, and humanitarian aid to Ukraine in many estimates.

BREAKING: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte flew to Washington to discuss Ukraine’s $60 billion defense requirement for 2026. He spent over two hours being dressed down about Iran. When he emerged, he told CNN the meeting was “very frank” and acknowledged that “some allies failed the test.” Trump posted in all caps that NATO was not there when the US needed them and would not be there again. Here is the part of this story that should stop everyone cold. Russia is earning an extra $150 million per day in oil revenue because of the Iran war. The Guardian reported $8 billion in additional fossil fuel revenue in just the first two weeks of the conflict, $900 million above normal. Carnegie Endowment estimates the windfall at tens of billions per annum if the disruption persists. The Swedish armed forces commander said publicly that Moscow is “pouring” that revenue directly into its war effort in Ukraine. Russian state television propagandist Vladimir Solovyov told audiences on March 2: “For our budget, the attack on Iran is a big plus.” And on April 7, Russia vetoed the UN Security Council resolution that would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz. The resolution was sponsored by Bahrain alongside Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. It had already been diluted three times, stripped of all offensive authorization, reduced to purely defensive coordination, narrowed to the strait alone. Eleven countries voted yes. Russia and China voted no. Pakistan and Colombia abstained. Russia’s ambassador said the resolution presented Iranian actions as the sole source of tension while ignoring US and Israeli strikes. China’s ambassador said it failed to capture root causes. They killed the only multilateral mechanism that could have reopened the strait without a bilateral US-Iran deal, ensuring the disruption continues, ensuring the windfall continues, ensuring the war funding continues. So the structural loop is this. Trump started the Iran war. Hormuz closed. Oil prices surged. Russia began earning an extra $150 million every day. Russia pours that money into its Ukraine campaign. NATO needs $60 billion to counter Russia in Ukraine. Trump demands NATO simultaneously support the Iran effort AND fund Ukraine. But the Iran war is financing Russia’s Ukraine campaign at a rate that dwarfs NATO’s incremental spending. And Russia just vetoed the resolution that could have ended its own windfall, because keeping Hormuz closed is worth more to Moscow than any amount of diplomatic credibility at the Security Council. Iran also exempted Russia from the Hormuz blockade. On March 26, Foreign Minister Araghchi announced that ships from five nations, including Russia and China, would be allowed to transit freely. Russia’s tankers move. NATO’s do not. Russia sells oil at tightened discounts. NATO buys oil at war premiums. Russia funds its army with the proceeds of a war that NATO is being punished for not joining. Rutte knows all of this. Which is why his post-meeting statement included a line most outlets buried: NATO’s security and Ukraine’s are “interlinked.” That word, interlinked, is doing the heaviest lifting in transatlantic diplomacy right now. It is Rutte’s way of telling Washington that the alliance cannot be tested on Iran and Ukraine simultaneously when the Iran war is funding the adversary that the Ukraine commitment exists to contain. The alliance is not failing because of freeloaders. The alliance is trapped inside a feedback loop where the war meant to demonstrate American resolve is generating the revenue that funds the threat the alliance was built to deter. And the country profiting most from that loop just vetoed the only vote that could have broken it. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

China Hyper workers in Scotsville were red-faced after a man arrived and said the Department of Labor would fire them after they reported labor problems to LACO. Then he handed over LACO and actually grabbed the man's hand and put the money on the table and said he was taking it away. The employer ended up paying the workers a minimum wage for 10 hours per day which was R2400 for 1 week. Their employees sign contracts and are registered with UIF and work in accordance with all the rules. The phenomenon of paying workers R100 a day for 10 hours has ended. LACO is the hope of the workers and the people of South Africa!!!!!!

Just curious, if killing 100 civilians in an apartment building is justified just to kill one (1) Iranian or Hezbollah official who was also amongst them - is it equally justified to kill 6,000,000 Jews just to kill 60,000 Jews who were also amongst them?

You can't but you can rage bait them till Musk coins make sense

Frest Start, Fresh Ideas, Fresh Sneakers same DRIP Sportif. @DRIP_rsa

@LekauSehoana @linda_mot You surely must have learnt a lot in your last chapter. That makes the new venture richer as I would assume you are WISER. This isnt to say you werent wise at all before. Doers like you get both cheers and critiquing, my comments arent coming from a "hater" place.

@MelchizedekJr @linda_mot To be fair, you don’t know anything about my business internally or my life. 🙏🏿 even the better you are talking about you are just talking about things you have no idea on. Just what you see online and from a distance. Not a fair call

The one that had 30 stores was liquidated in 3 years. The one that only had 4 stores built over 20 years is still around. Choose your poison.

Rich. The US passed a law forcing ByteDance to either sell TikTok’s US operations to a buyer approved by the US government or face a ban. TikTok is now 80% owned by an American. I'm sure it was "very difficult" for them to do so, but there's them apples.

@LekauSehoana @linda_mot I didnt know there was an attempt on your life. But everything can always be done better.

@linda_mot @MelchizedekJr I still travel with security, yes. From 19th of October 2021 when there was an attempt on my life, to this day. Yes i travel with Security. Why is it a Lol matter? Why is that funny?

@SneKhumaloSA Take your brother to Milpark Donald Gordons hospital. My aunt got treated from Lung Cancer there, incredible specialists. She would also pray that the specialist arent dizzy when attending to her. 100% healed.

Private hospitals are all about money. Tell me why they keep insisting on doing useless tests on my brother because his health is declining! My brother is dying. They have done at least 3 HIV tests on him and they are all negative because they dont see why a stage 0 cancer is acting like stage 4 cancer. they keep doing tests and telling us they dont know. Someone please help us. My brother is dying and doctors arent helping us

Ntombikayise Screech was employed as an admin clerk in payment section at Gqeberha Magistrate court During Covid19 lockdown, she would make accommodation for fake state witnesses at 40 Wings Guesthouse in Summerstrand 40 Wings is owned by Mari du Plessis [64]. Mari stole over R5m from the State. She then paid R2m to Screech. The state has forfeited Mari's guesthouse and pensions of Screech. The two will again appear in court on the 20 April 2026. They were arrested 3 years ago.😒

@EmmanuelMacron @soldatlunga_ Can you send arms to Lebanon like you do to Ukraine or its complicated?

I have just spoken with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam. I expressed France’s full solidarity in the face of the indiscriminate strikes carried out by Israel in Lebanon today, which resulted in a very high number of civilian casualties. We condemn these strikes in the strongest possible terms. They pose a direct threat to the sustainability of the ceasefire that has just been reached. Lebanon must be fully covered by it. I reiterated the need to preserve Lebanon’s territorial integrity and France’s determination to support the efforts of the Lebanese authorities to uphold the country’s sovereignty and implement the Hezbollah disarmament plan.

@_Unknown_D_ Hey stop using logic bro, it’s anti semetic

@Anele 🤗🤗🤗 I just wanted to do this for you Anele. Bye

Why are we quiet as Namibia and SADC when South Africa is being bullied by the US Administration. #NamSONA

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with gas