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The building next to mine is being turned into luxury apartments, starting price R9m but what’s wild is that the current tenants have been renting (some for 40 years) & only found out on social media 😭 Gentrification in CT is wild, not even the previously advantaged are safe.

A truly historic moment for Team SA. 🇿🇦 Puseletso Mabote has delivered an outstanding performance in the T63 400m, setting a new world record time of 1:00.74. #TeamSA #ForMyCountry

Burkina Faso is one of the hottest countries on earth, yet 500+ students are learning in full thermal comfort, no air conditioning required. This school’s thick clay walls absorb the heat, while elevated steel roofs push it out. Eucalyptus ceilings, local labor, rainwater harvesting, everything possible came from what was already there. This is a technology institute built with the technology that suits our climate and needs. The West calls it “low-tech.” Africans call it working with your climate, not against it. 📍 Burkina Institute of Technology, Koudougou, Burkina Faso 🏛 Kéré Architecture 📷 Iwan Baan

The Strait of Hormuz is not closed. It is sorted. Iran has built a three-tier access system for the most important waterway on earth. Tier one: allies transit free. Malaysia cleared seven vessels through diplomacy at zero cost. India negotiated zero-fee passage. Pakistan secured clearance for 20 ships. Iraq transits without charge. These countries proved geopolitical alignment and the IRGC waved them through the Larak corridor without collecting a rial. Tier two: compliant neutrals pay. At least two tankers, likely Chinese-linked, paid up to two million dollars each in yuan through Kunlun Bank intermediaries. COSCO container ships attempted the corridor, were turned back on first approach when documentation was incomplete, then succeeded days later with revised paperwork. These are the vessels that prove the system works. They submit IMO numbers, ownership chains, cargo manifests, and crew lists to the IRGC’s Hormozgan Command. They receive clearance codes. They are escorted by pilot boats through the five-nautical-mile channel between Qeshm and Larak. They pay in a currency that does not route through SWIFT. Every successful yuan transit is a live proof-of-concept for non-dollar energy settlement. Tier three: adversaries are denied entirely. The committee plan bans American vessels, Israeli vessels, and vessels from any country participating in sanctions against Iran. These ships do not get vetting. They do not get codes. They do not get escorts. They get the AL SALMI, burning off Dubai, as illustration of what the corridor looks like without permission. But the toll is not the real cost. War-risk insurance is. Premiums have surged from $40,000 per VLCC transit before the war to $600,000 to $1.2 million today, a 30-fold increase, now running five to ten percent of hull value. A VLCC carrying $50 million in crude oil can absorb a combined $3 million in toll and insurance as a fraction of cargo value. A container ship carrying $5 million in manufactured goods cannot. The insurance premium alone exceeds the profit margin on non-oil cargo. The strait has become an oil-only VIP lane. Crude flows selectively for those who can pay the combined cost. Everything else waits, reroutes around the Cape of Good Hope, or does not move at all. And the US Navy is not inside the strait. The Abraham Lincoln strike group operates from standoff in the Arabian Sea. Three Littoral Combat Ships sit in the Persian Gulf. Marine expeditionary units are positioned for contingency. But zero American warships have transited the strait or escorted commercial traffic since the war began. The Navy told the shipping industry it has “no availability” for Hormuz escorts. The world’s most powerful fleet keeps respectful distance from a waterway controlled by a country whose navy is 92 percent destroyed because the mines, drones, and shore missiles that remain make close-in presence prohibitively risky. The result is a geopolitical sorting algorithm operating at the molecular level. One hundred and eighty-one vessels transited in all of March. Pre-war traffic was 138 per day. Of those 181, roughly 70 percent were Iranian-affiliated. The remaining 30 percent were vetted allies or yuan-paying neutrals. The 20 percent of global oil that once flowed freely through this strait now flows selectively, conditionally, and in currencies chosen by Tehran. Iran lost its air force. It lost its navy. It lost two thirds of its production capacity. It retained the only thing that matters: 39 kilometres of coastline on both sides of the narrowest point. The US Navy will not enter. Chinese tankers will. And the sorting algorithm processes another vessel, collects another yuan payment, and demonstrates once more that geography is the one military asset that cannot be degraded by precision strikes. The strait is not closed. It is under new management. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Cape Town’s Housing Problem nytimes.com/video/world/af… With the commuters priced out of the city. Affordable housing is not what the tourists see from the city's affluent centre.

Like I keep repeating, the Iran war is a non-stop global ad campaign for Chinese green technology: Thailand's Prime Minister is now showcasing himself driving around in his personal BYD.

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse You thought wrong then.

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse I've always thought that if you had developed the bantustans, apartheid wouldn't have mattered to you.

Lesotho is a British project, just like South Africa

@notinheritable @Mavumavu91 Lol, afrikaners created none of that🤣🤣

@Mavumavu91 The white people arrived with iPhones, Mercs and Italian suits. Did I get it right?

Before 1652, in Cape Town, the lions roamed Table Mountain, white rhinos browsed the slopes of Signal Hill and many, many more species in healthy populations. Guess what happened in 1652?

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse Since when is south africa in east africa?

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse That's the reality.

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse Ofcos it was rejected, you have a problem with that?

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse The white people gave you independence, but you rejected it.

@wilkinsoncape @helenzille Where did she defeat woke activism? She is clearly disliked by most voters according to the polls that were recently released. Her anti woke nonsense was preaching to the converted like you and other DA voters

Woke identity politics distracted South Africans from what should be the two core objectives of government: service delivery and economic growth. Had @helenzille not confronted and defeated Woke activism she wouldn’t be able to do what she’s doing now. SA squandered ~20 years.

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@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse You can see for yourself. You were slaves of the Somalis. #Society" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate…

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse Unfortunately some Africans enslaved their own people like west Africans

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse Are you not of the same race?

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse Which country should we govern, Nigeria?😂

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse I would like to clarify something: governing a country built by white people is no merit.

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse When did they enslave us? Evenbl the Dutch had to bring slaves from Indonesia west Africa and east Africa, they didn'tget any slaves here. No scrawny Somalis enslaved people here

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse I think they are proud of having enslaved you.

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse They're deluded, makes sense that their country is always in a civil war, utter delusion

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse The Somalis enslaved the Bantu. The Bantu and you are of the same race.

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse Somalis where? No Somalis in southern Africa, if Somalis captured slaves, that's on them. We never sold our people here

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse No, you were actually slaves of the Somalis.

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse We never enslaved fellow Africans here in South africa

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse Secondly, slavery is something that has always existed. The Egyptians enslaved Jews, the Berbers enslaved Europeans, the Ethiopians enslaved South Sudanese, the Malians bought Turkish slaves, the Somalis enslaved Bantu people

@madenigeria001 @PereDaHorse Igbos yorubas etc captured their fellow Africans and sold them to Europeans, we still see this behavior with the prevalence of human trafficking with nigerians here in South Africa

@ClassicalZD @PereDaHorse First, Nigeria did not exist before European colonization.