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Her name is Martha Mani, She was Killed for exposing a 16 million Tender at the Fleet Department at Emfuleni Muncipality, 5 Bullets where Pumped into her head 💔💔 REMEMBER HER NAME SAY HER NAME

The Hawks arresting a R1 billion investment scam operation in Gauteng is being reported as a major fraud bust, but what matters here is not the arrest, it is the operating model behind it, because this was not a scam, it was a fully functioning financial enterprise designed to extract and move capital across borders at scale. A Thread.

Chris Hani faced challenges due to his military background and experience, as South Africa white government feared him. Here he is with the genuine and authentic Umkhonto we Sizwe military.

Did you know that Checkers shelf life is 1 week and after that they send the products to Shoprite, Shoprite keeps for 2 weeks and send to usave, usave sell at discounted prices until rot. But this is not deep its just business.

Chris Hani was assassinated on this day in 1993. Credit: Afravision

In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.

Ms Lauryn Hill said “is it ok if I do a lil sum?” AND WENT ABSOLUTELY CRAZY 😭🔥🐐 I still haven’t recovered from this

So the IDC just ran a paid News24 piece telling South Africa how great they are. Allow me to do something the IDC apparently cannot: basic maths. They say they approved R26.6 billion in “transformation funding” last year and “created or preserved” 15,000 jobs. That is R1,773,333 per job. One million, seven hundred and seventy-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three rand. Per job. You could pay someone the average South African salary for nearly seven years with that money. Or you could give it to the IDC and they will “create or preserve” one job. Maybe. If the company does not end up in their R30 billion distress portfolio. Oh, did I not mention that? The IDC’s distress portfolio, that is the money they invested that is now in trouble, is R30 billion. That is bigger than the R26.6 billion they approved this year. They are underwater. They are losing money faster than they are deploying it. And of that R30 billion in distress? R9 billion is in black-empowered entities. So roughly a third of the “transformation” money they are bragging about in paid newspaper articles is currently circling the drain. But wait, there is more. Since 2017, the IDC has given R8.5 billion to 128 black industrialists. Sounds impressive until you learn that a single manganese company got R6.1 billion. One company. That is 72% of the total. Three companies consumed virtually the entire allocation. The average per industrialist? R66.4 million. Here is my favourite part: the IDC says 88% of its funding goes to black-owned businesses. Beautiful number. Very clean. Very round. Very paid-media-friendly. But when NAFCOC went to Parliament and said the IDC is undermining black industrialists through “aggressive recovery actions, premature legal enforcement, and liquidation processes,” the Portfolio Committee Chair responded: “It appears that the IDC has not effectively embedded issues of transformation in its business processes.” That is Parliament. Not me. Parliament. So here is what R26.6 billion in “transformation funding” actually looks like: 1. R1.77 million per job (if you believe the job numbers). 2. R30 billion in distress (which they do not mention in the paid article). 3. R9 billion in black business distress (which they definitely do not mention). 72% of black industrialist funding going to three companies (which they will never mention). But sure. Run the paid article. The maths will still be here in the morning.

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Iran is proof that preparation can beat wealth and access to resources any day.

To the next generation of kids: good luck finding usernames

Rajeev Thakkar from PPFFAS explained how to identify growth companies in a masterclass in 2013

How crude oil is extracted from the ground

Dangote will make so much money this year. Oil and fertilizers? Bro

Ray Dalio gives a 39 minute master class on wealth creation.

I built a database of 1,248 South African businesses funded by the IDC and NEF. 856 from the IDC. 392 from the NEF. Every company name. Every amount. Every province. The data tells a story the public needs to see. NEF UPDATED: bit.ly/NEFFUNDED IDC: bit.ly/IDCFUNDED E&O expected.

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. @feziledhlamini_ The IDC and Black founders is trending. So I did what nobody else is doing, I pulled the actual funding data.854 companies. R65.9 Billion. 7 fiscal years. Every deal. Every shareholder name. Public record.The data is now live. Go look for yourself 👇 📊 bit.ly/IDCFUNDED SHORT PRESENTATION canva.com/design/DAHEMN0… (E&OE)