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[WATCH] "Singling out BEE laws is quite dishonest," President Cyril Ramaphosa responds to South African-born American businessman Elon Musk's claims that SA policies are racist. #Newzroom405
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@nikgeneburn 6 Min if I am lucky 8 to 10 min most of the time. Africa - South
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@TheNamibian Wow - still propagating someone as a Nazi where there is actually not a shred of proof. Dudley is really grasping at straws - why not rather something that brings the Iran riots into the limelight - nah, rather keep spreading these lies.
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Isn’t it ironic how Elon’s Starlink wants to drop free, unlimited, super-fast internet into 5,000 rural South African schools, but SA’s bureaucracy insists on saying no.
I think the 2.4 million kids in SA without proper access would benefit immensely. Starlink is even putting R500 million (about $29.4 million USD) on the table themselves, no cost to the government or the schools.
All they’re asking? A normal licence to operate in SA.
Here’s the crazy part: because of the 30% black-ownership rule (B-BBEE), ICASA keeps saying “nope.”
Starlink says, “Cool, we won’t sell shares, but we’ll just give you this giant school project instead,” using the same Equity Equivalent programme that Microsoft, Amazon and IBM already got approved with.
The Communications Minister is literally begging ICASA to accept it. Neighbours like Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique are already connected and loving it.
Yet here we are, end of 2025, and those satellites are just flying over South Africa doing nothing while kids in the bundus still can’t pursue their dreams.
Come on, South Africa, don’t be the only country turning down free internet for millions of learners.
The irony, to me, is that Elon was born in South Africa, the very place that is telling him no to such a generopus offer!
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BREAKING:
The Swedish judge who ruled that the Eritrean migrant who raped 16-y-old Meya Åberg won’t be deported after serving a 3-year sentence because ”the rape didn’t last long enough” has spoken out about the criticism & say judges can’t take into consideration people’s anger.
The decision not to deport Yazied Mohamed has sparked global outrage.
The Court of Appeal Judge Lars Viktorsson now tells @samhallsnytt about why the 19-year-old Eritrean shouldn’t be deported.
“It was a short-lived incident,” he tells Samnytt.
He remains unfazed by the storm of criticism:
“I don’t think about it at all. We judge. We have our tasks. We judge, and we cannot take into account what different people think or whether they get upset. We can’t follow the winds (trends) blowing in society, whether we hear one thing or another. We go in and evaluate based on the legislation and the precedent that exists and judge accordingly.”
One particular phrasing in the verdict has garnered so much attention that it has been translated into other languages and spread internationally:
“Given the nature and duration of the act in question, the Court of Appeal finds that the crime is indeed serious but not of such an especially grave nature as to warrant a decision to deport Yazied Mohamed.”
The judge explains:
“It’s about him holding her, groping her buttocks and breasts, kissing her against her will, and persistently touching and penetrating her genitals with his fingers,”
Furthermore, Judge Lars Viktorsson argues that the rape did not last particularly long.
“Normally, a rape is considered an especially serious crime that can lead to deportation. But an overall assessment must still be made, and in this case, we came to the conclusion that it didn’t quite reach that level,” he says.
“It was a short-lived incident. It was a rape, but he inserted his fingers into her and not his penis. He didn’t carry out vaginal intercourse with his penis. I think the verdict makes it clear that we weigh the arguments for and against and ultimately decide whether it should lead to deportation or not.”
The newspaper asked the judge how long does a rape need to last to be considered sufficiently “persistent”? Should it be 15 minutes, half an hour, an hour, several hours?
The judge responds to the question that there’s no particular time limit:
“It’s impossible to say anything about that. It’s not just about duration. It’s also about the method. We described another rape case under knife threat but that wasn’t the case here. So you can’t say 12 minutes: deportation; 8 minutes: no deportation. Or 3 minutes: deportation; 15 seconds: no deportation. It doesn’t work like that; you have to make an overall assessment.”
In addition to Lars Viktorsson, Court of Appeal Judge Elida Sundkvist, Acting Court of Appeal Assessor and Rapporteur Hanna Hamrén, and lay judges Lena Berggren (Left Party) and Sammy Lie (Sweden Democrats) ruled in the case.
Sammy Lie from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party was the only one who dissented and wanted Yazied Mohamed to be deported for life after serving his prison sentence.

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@Saxon_African I know a bit more and can say with 100% certainty that it was financially motivated by certain individuals on the Namibian side.
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Shame on Sky News for this utterly misleading headline. Anyone pushing this false narrative deserves complete contempt.
Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED, yet they name me even before Prince Andrew, who did visit.
Sky News@SkyNews
Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release trib.al/qIwSQwd
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@Frechette456 @tarkov Absolutely—never said I did that. Being said, if you look at how busy the servers are and the bulk of the comments, I might have a point.
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New balancing changes to the Hardcore Wipe mechanics in #EscapefromTarkov:
● Adjusted repair costs for some items;
● Adjusted repair costs at Skier and Mechanic.
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@Morgann45391144 @tarkov Not that I feel the need to explain myself, but you do realize people work full-time, etc.? Charging 200k for an armor repair is not viable in that instance, hence the above statement and their retraction.
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New balancing changes to the Hardcore Wipe mechanics in #EscapefromTarkov:
● Added the in-game task line to unlock Labrys access keycard barter;
● Increased the weapon and armor repair cost at traders;
● Increased the weapon and armor repair kit spawn chances, and adjusted their durability;
● Increased the leveling speed of skills related to weapon and armor repair;
● Increased the enhancement chance when repairing weapons and armor via repair kits.
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@TheNamibian Will you do the initial investment to justify the 51% ?
51 % so you can dictate where the tenders must go ?
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@AthlendaM These are Chinese Type 56 semi-auto civilian versions, sold in the ZA market for several years.
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