Michael Robert

It’s easy to destroy, it’s hard to build.

@A_K_Mandhan @grok @grok Please explain the that the solution to high oil prices is, high oil prices.

BAD news for stock markets Oil is now at $112. big crash is coming @grok explain with 10 points why crude cheap price is good and high is BAD

@HEINLAG Then he shouldn’t be an umpire because my son can’t see all the clothes laying on his bedroom floor

@MichaelRobert Maybe the umpire can't see so good

Even my 8 year old could see that that ball bounced first… #proteafire

@Mufasa0062 They have very little to no natural resources.

Lesotho and Swaziland never had APARTHEID. What's holding them back? What is their excuse?

@Derek_Hanekom Like the pass rate…. 30% means you win?

As far I know, in most countries, a party that gets almost twice as many votes as the next biggest party is considered to have won the election by quite a big margin.

@Constitution_94 @PhunyukaBamphet Rand is not strong… dollar is weak

@PhunyukaBamphet Down from R19, wena ntlokwakho !!

I rate President Ramaphosa's SONA last night very highly. He gets a score of 8/10. It was very long, but most of the key points landed. There are green shoots everywhere: 1. The economy is growing. 2. The rand is strong. 3. No load shedding. 4. Tourists are pouring in. 5. Cash-in-transit heists are down. 6. The matric pass rate is high. 7. The national mood is positive. 8. Most roads are in good condition. 9. Real investors are coming in, even fake ones, like those from China. 10. There’s a property boom in Gauteng and KZN. Imagine if the ANC had been removed from power in 2024 and we were left with these permanently squabbling doomsayers. South Africa would have ended up like a baby Somalia by now. #SONA2026 #SONA

@LibertarianZA Depends who the building inspector is a: scared of and b: can afford to pay a bribe.

I have yet to hear a coherent explanation of why some people have to get building permission and pay rates in Cape Town, while others do not and can simply build structures where they feel like it. What is the criteria for this? Seriously. Is it just because one piece of land has a title deed in your name and the other illegally occupied land has a title deed in someone else's name, or is public land? Where is the cut off defined between who gets a rates bill and building inspectors? Who decides that a property in Parklands must have binding inspections, a rates account, etc, but a building on the side of Baden Powell drive is exempt from those things? I am struggling to work out how this works.

@Kate558140 @LibertarianZA That’s not what the building code says. Anything with 3 walls and a roof is considered a structure and requires building plans. In some areas a pergola is considered a building

@LibertarianZA There are building laws for brick structures. Do you want tin shacks that don't have running water or toilets to have building plans?

@pietleroux Did he really say… “the burden of a black partner?”

Major milestone: South Africa's mining minister calls BEE (mandatory black shareholding) a "burden" that deters investment. He's only applied the analysis to prospecting/exploration so far, and he thinks "exploration adds no value", but still – this IS progress.

@Markosonke1 Not even a good motivational speaker

The state has commercialised EVERYTHING😭 Healthcare? Private medical aid. Education? Private schools and tutors. Transport? Uber, Bolt, private buses. Security? Armed response. Electricity? Inverters and solar. Water? JoJo tanks. Even refuse removal is becoming a side hustle now Our state can’t pride itself on providing anything except SONA and SOPA speeches and press statements. Citizens are paying taxes and paying again privately just to survive . We’re basically living in a country where government is a motivational speaker, not a service provider. It may sound funny… but also very painful 🇿🇦💔

@BarryRoland19 Dear Jimmy I am writing to formally notify you that I will not be renewing your lease at the end of its current term. Sincerely, Landlord

2022 Tenant: toilets broken Me: I'll send a plumber over right away! Any other issues? Tenant: no 2023 Tenant: sink is backing up Me: I'll send a plumber over right away! Any other issues? Tenant: no 2024 Tenant: water in bath not draining fast Me: I'll send a plumber over right away! Any other issues? Tenant: No 2025-2026: Tenant: Dear Barry, I am writing to formally notify you of a serious mold problem in the bathroom my of unit at 1234 Figueroa St, which requires your immediate attention. The ongoing presence of mold has created unsafe and unhealthy living conditions for my family and me. Members of my family are currently experiencing health symptoms consistent with mold exposure. As you are aware, landlords are legally required to maintain rental units in habitable condition, and the current condition of the bathroom fails to meet basic habitability standards. I hope this matter can be resolved quickly and professionally. I expect your prompt response. Sincerely, Jimmy

@PhumlaniMMajozi I would suggest moving far right. Politics is often extremism. Playing the middle ground is making no friends and no enemies, it’s the ideal but for some strange reason doesn’t seem to stick.

My advice to the next DA leader: Shift the DA slightly to the right. Slightly. South Africa is a conservative society. South Africans hate crime and illegal immigration. Support and encourage legal immigration, but don't tolerate illegal immigration. Take a tough stance against crime. If you do that, you will get far more votes. #politics #markets #MajoziCommentary

@GodPenuel Really though provoking questions but I am not sure one could answer positively or negatively. Yes progress was made at a fast rate but does that mean better. 🤷‍♂️ Hopefully we can unity and dream of a future where all South African succeed.

Genuine question: If European settlers did not come to South Africa, would indigenous folk have eventually started mining aggressively & selling their commodities at fair international rates? Would South Africa be more developed than it is & would there be more income equality? Or would most natives still be living in huts, farming, hunting & very far off from mining or developing infrastructure at global levels? Are Black South Africans lying to themselves about life being better before Colonialists? If not lying to themselves, what's stopping them from moving to tribal land, building houses & farming livestock and crops? Were the British & Dutch settlers the best thing to happen to Black people, and especially Black women? These are genuine questions. I find myself grateful that I don't live a rural subsistence life, and I'm not sure if I'm just indoctrinated into Western living or if it's actually way better. Pen.

@SimbaChipsSA Hey Simba…. Remember these? My favourite. Please bring them back.

@SABCNews So when is he going to start paying for my services? He earns R120 000 a month if not more. That’s 12x the average salary

WATCH | EFF leader Julius Malema says wealthy individuals should pay more for services, allowing for subsidies to support townships.

@Kagiso_011 @NiekerkSteve @RiseAgainstEvil @grok @grok Who primarily directed and profited from colonial policies of land dispossession and labour exploitation in South Africa from 1652 to 1910 — local white settlers or European imperial powers and chartered companies?

@MichaelRobert @NiekerkSteve @RiseAgainstEvil @grok @grok How long did colonialism last in South Africa

HOW THE HELL do we dare demand that B-BBEE gets scrapped, and suddenly the entire Black South African comment section EXPLODES in hysterical meltdowns?! If we're supposedly such brain-dead, subhuman, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who couldn't survive without handouts, then WHY wouldn't you jump at the chance to be chosen purely on MERIT? Please, go prove us all wrong. Show the world you're not the incompetent charity cases you keep acting like. Why the obsession with forcing your way into controlling shares of White-owned businesses? Why the desperate clawing for quotas that explicitly shut White South Africans out of jobs, promotions, and opportunities in our own country? You demand "equality" while engineering our exclusion, how shameless can you get? And don't even start with the land bull💩. Why the entitlement to free land when every White family had to pay, work their a$$es off, and build from nothing under hostile conditions? Pay your own way like we had to during apartheid and after, or shut up about "justice." THREE FULL DECADES, and you're still whimpering for racial crutches, still insulting every Black person alive by implying your race is too pathetic to compete without rigged rules and forced handouts. You're not empowering anyone, you're infantilizing your entire people, trapping them in an ongoing cycle of victimhood while a tiny connected elite gorges itself. Grow a spine. Compete. Earn it. Or admit once and for all that the whole "redress" narrative is just a mask for institutionalised theft and an inferiority complex. This shit has gone on long enough; it's disgusting, it's insulting, and it's destroying the country for everyone, even you.

@grok @Kagiso_011 @NiekerkSteve @RiseAgainstEvil So where does the 400 decades come from?

@MichaelRobert @Kagiso_011 @NiekerkSteve @RiseAgainstEvil Apartheid in South Africa lasted from 1948, when the National Party implemented racial segregation laws, until 1994, with the first multiracial elections—a period of 46 years.

@Kagiso_011 @NiekerkSteve @RiseAgainstEvil @grok how long did apartheid last

@NiekerkSteve @RiseAgainstEvil Let me fix it for you: Idiot: Someone who wants to compare 32 years of cooperative governance to over 400 decades of colonialism and apartheid resulting to the total exclusion of the majority in the economy and their land.

@philcraig2 @grok is the any specific policies that have been mentioned by the US?

US issues official sanctions warning to South Africa southafriworld.co.za/us-sanctions-w…

@grok @PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa But south africa already has basic health care. Imaging we could cut the wage bill by 50% and add that to the current health care or education. That's not a small amount of money which doesn't create economic growth. Wasted money

That's an interesting pivot. In 2026, SA MPs earn ~R1.3M annually (post-3.8% hike per Presidency), ministers ~R2.5M, president ~R4.2M—indeed 3-10x the avg salary (~R400k-600k per Stats SA/Talent.com). Total parliamentary wage bill is ~R1B (400+ members), a drop in the R2.3T budget. Cutting it could symbolically fund minor service tweaks, but NHI needs R250B+. Better as part of broader austerity? What cuts specifically?

PRESIDENT DETERMINES SALARY INCREMENT FOR PUBLIC OFFICE-BEARERS President @CyrilRamaphosa has made a determination to increase, with effect 1 April 2025, the salary of public office-bearers by 4.1% and 3.8% in different categories. The increase of 4.1% applies to judges, magistrates, traditional leaders and members of independent constitutional institutions. The increase of 3.8% applies to Members of the National Executive, Members of Parliament, members of provincial executive councils and members of provincial legislatures. shorturl.at/YmHDT