Justin Howard

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Justin Howard

Justin Howard

@JPHoward69

I just am!!!!

South Africa Katılım Ekim 2010
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Justin Howard
Justin Howard@JPHoward69·
@theogarrun They all special, I enjoy them all for different reasons. As a old Johanian I loved the cooperation that KES and St John’s had in the past, let’s hope they tone down the commercial side and keep the gees
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THE UNKNOWN MAN
THE UNKNOWN MAN@Theunk5555·
A Pakistan flagged oil tanker was destroyed by Iranian missiles few hours earlier while crossing strait of Hormuz. Pakistan has earlier betrayed Iran by re-routing Iranian oil to US. This is a reply by Iran to Pakistan
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Land Owner@NathiSibiya8·
Too much alcohol is a problem, this happened on Thursday Styen city. #livgolfstyencity
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Justin Howard
Justin Howard@JPHoward69·
@elonmusk And once voted should be marked with indelible ink as a proud mark of your democratic rights
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Justin Howard@JPHoward69·
@MaxduPreez It’s astonishing that a nation that once had Nelson Mandela as president now has Cyril Ramaposa
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Bernie
Bernie@Artemisfornow·
This is Spain… Where hundreds of thousands of ancient olive trees are being ripped out and replaced with solar panels. Trees, bees and insects all wiped out. You know .. to save the planet 🤡
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The Common Sense
The Common Sense@CommonSense_ZA·
Africa is booming while South Africa stands still. The continent is fast becoming one of the world’s strongest economic regions, yet South Africa is barely moving and missing out on a huge consumer market and investment wave.  The numbers tell a clear story. Read the full analysis in The Common Sense. #SouthAfrica #Africa #EconomicGrowth #Jobs #Investment #Infrastructure #PolicyFailure #TheCommonSense f.mtr.cool/tyeclvbokc
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Paul Mashatile🇿🇦
Paul Mashatile🇿🇦@PMashatile·
In my capacity as the Chairperson of the Water Task Team, I will conduct an Oversight Visit to the City of Johannesburg Water facilities in Midrand, Gauteng Province tomorrow. The visit follows a meeting that I convened last week with Ministers and government officials to assess the water supply challenges across Gauteng. Johannesburg Water continues to monitor all systems closely and implement the necessary interventions to stabilise supply. The scheduled Oversight Visit is important as a measure to monitor progress and unlock bottlenecks to resolving the water challenges faced by the people of Gauteng. #Water #PaulMashatile
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Justin Howard
Justin Howard@JPHoward69·
@jsteenhuisen Why don’t you do a vaccination counter on your website and the cost of each vaccine to the farmer, something like target, and actual vaccines to date, show us the progress
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John Steenhuisen MP
John Steenhuisen MP@jsteenhuisen·
Today, I can announce that we will be receiving a delivery of 1 million vaccines from BioGenesis Bago this Saturday. The largest single import of vaccines to date. This will bring much needed relief to the most affected provinces and regions.
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TheNewsHawks
TheNewsHawks@NewsHawksLive·
🔴Jack McBrams, a veteran Malawian investigative journalist who grew up in Zimbabwe, wrote an interesting opinion which has been widely circulated - a good read. He is currently a correspondent for AFP and has contributed extensively to the Platform for Investigative Journalism Malawi. Read the opinion-editorial: WHY I AM ANGRY (AND WHY YOU SHOULD BE TOO!) By Jack McBrams Everytime I travel and introduce myself as Malawian, I brace myself. Not for curiosity — that would be welcome — but for the predictable interrogation that follows. The moment I hand over my passport, I stop being a private citizen and become an unofficial spokesperson for a country whose failures are now globally legible. What happened to your Vice President?” “Why is your country so poor?” “How is Pastor Chakwera?” Or, depending on the audience, “How is Prophet Bushiri?” I answer politely, of course. I explain that our Vice President died in a plane crash after authorities thought it acceptable to fly him in an aircraft that never should have left the ground. I struggle to explain poverty without sounding like an apologist for incompetence. I feign ignorance about pastors-turned-presidents and prophets-turned-fugitives, because even satire has its limits. Yet, almost without fail, the conversation ends with the same compliment: Malawians are so friendly. So honest. So hardworking. And that, right there, is why I am angry. Globally, Malawians are known for integrity and work ethic. We are trusted employees, reliable neighbours, tireless labourers. We survive. We endure. We hustle — legally, quietly, patiently. Which makes what has happened to this country over the past two decades not just tragic, but obscene. A major daily recently reported that Malawi may have lost 10 trillion Malawi Kwacha — over $5 billion — through fraud, corruption, and illicit financial flows in the last twenty years. That number is so large it risks becoming meaningless unless we translate it into real life. That money is not “missing.” It is visible everywhere. It is in clinics that were never stocked, where nurses improvise with empty shelves. In classrooms that were never built, where children learn under trees. In roads that were never maintained, now monuments to neglect. In jobs that never materialised, leaving young people idle, angry, and expendable. Cashgate. The looting of COVID-19 funds. The K39 billion Greenbelt Authority plunder. These are not isolated scandals. They are symptoms of a system that allows a small clique to extract obscene wealth at the direct expense of public service delivery. Let us be clear: this is not patriotism. It is not politics. It is greed — unembellished and unapologetic. What angers me more than the theft itself is what follows it. Headlines are plentiful. Arrests are announced. Investigations are launched. But cases drag on, stall, or quietly fade away. The absence of consequence weakens deterrence and erodes public trust. In Malawi, accountability is loud at the beginning and silent at the end. Only a handful of Cashgate suspects were meaningfully held to account. Almost no one has answered for the plunder of COVID-19 funds while Malawians gasped for oxygen in ICU wards. And to this day, the President has not unequivocally condemned the Greenbelt haemorrhage. Silence, in this context, is not neutrality. It is complicity. Now let me explain why this anger is not theoretical. Beyond journalism, my work takes me deep into Malawi’s remotest villages — places that do not trend, do not vote loudly, and do not matter in boardrooms. Off the grid, far from press conferences and ribbon-cuttings, you meet the real Malawi. You hear stories, raw and unfiltered, of people scraping through daily life through no fault of their own. Farmers broken by climate shocks. Families crushed by fertiliser prices that have pushed a basic input beyond reach. Mothers who are not asking for handouts, only a chance — a small push — to get back on their feet.
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Justin Howard
Justin Howard@JPHoward69·
@barneygirnun @MartGillingham Not sure Barney, it may be easier, same can’t be said for all the other talent that are not choosing to stay, I love it here but it’s not easy to find the quality we need to drive forward in most industries, we need to fix our education
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Barney Girnun
Barney Girnun@barneygirnun·
@MartGillingham How about its a lot easier for young Josh to play international rugby for Ireland than the Number 1 rugby nation in the World- South Africa! Simple really
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Justin Howard@JPHoward69·
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Katherine Boyle just identified Elon Musk’s most important contribution to America, and it has nothing to do with the products he shipped. Boyle, General Partner at a16z: “I think Elon’s most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers to work with their hands again.” For ten years, America’s sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and built messaging apps. Software consumed ambition. The physical world became something you abstracted into APIs, not something you touched or understood. Elon didn’t reverse that through inspiration. He reversed it by building companies that required understanding manufacturing or failing completely. SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade through systems, how physical iteration costs months and millions per failure. No debugging. No patches. Just physics that doesn’t negotiate. Boyle: “Training two generations of engineers.” The product isn’t the cars. It’s the people. Look at who’s founding America’s critical hard-tech companies now. The common thread isn’t Stanford or MIT. It’s time on factory floors at SpaceX or Tesla. They learned welding. They learned that “impossible” just means unsolved engineering, not violated physics. They learned failure in the physical domain where mistakes compound instead of reverting. Elon didn’t build companies. He accidentally rebuilt industrial knowledge that had been decaying for thirty years while America’s best minds chased digital scale. Boyle: “Work with their hands again.” Three words that sound quaint but describe a civilizational inflection point. Software dominated because it scaled infinitely at zero marginal cost. Physical manufacturing was slow, expensive, unfashionable. Building real things became what you did if you couldn’t code. Elon made atoms matter again. Made manufacturing the hardest problem worth solving. Made physical engineering prestigious in ways it hadn’t been since humans walked on the moon. The evidence is everywhere now. Technical talent that doesn’t default to “which app” but asks “which physical thing should exist that currently doesn’t.” Ambition redirected from optimizing engagement metrics to building rockets. From scaling users to scaling factories. From virtual products to physical infrastructure. That shift matters more than any vehicle or spacecraft Musk delivered. Products obsolesce. Redirecting an entire generation’s engineering ambition from digital to physical compounds across decades and rebuilds industrial capability at civilizational scale. We stopped just coding the future. We started machining it, welding it, breaking it in reality until physics confirms it works. That transformation from virtual to tangible ambition is reconstructing American manufacturing one engineer at a time. And those engineers are now training the next wave. The compounding has started. The School of Elon doesn’t need Elon anymore. It’s self-sustaining, spreading through an entire generation that learned building real things matters more than building virtual ones. That’s not just a business achievement. That’s a civilization remembering how to make things that matter in the physical world again. And it might be the only thing that saves American technological leadership when the competition is just building faster because they never forgot.

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