Kevin O' Pablito🇵🇹🇿🇦

@__Shezi You can't open doors to a building you don't own.

I also think we are at the money phase now though. I think everyone is sufficiently inspired and has access to inspiration. Young people now need investment and doors opened for them.

@Lord_Ori_ Malema is a big flip flopper of note.

I was watching the podcast of Julius Malema with JJ Tabane, and I am glad he has debunked the MYTH that the EFF is pro-foreigners over South Africans.

That's True. This is not a flex you think it is. There's about 11 KFC Franchises in our whole country.Basotho have long depended on organic food/meat way before all these franchises came in the country, which is still the thing now. Most households in Lesotho have a bunch of animals including chickens, not only hardbody Chickens. Basotho Ba rekisetsana diphoofolo(animals) le di peo(seeds) We have an abundance of so much land where we grow our own fruits and vegetables, extremely normal in Lesotho... That's why in the midst of inflation Basotho ALWAYS cry about things like oil, petrol and gas MORE! . It's never about food! It has never been about food. Ever, but congratulations on your millions of franchises.

@SizweLo That's not logical. How do you realistically do that?

The ONLY solution for South Africa is to drastically reduce the size of its financial sector relative to other industries. Anything less, EVERYTHING will keep getting worse.

@Sophie_Mokoena Fight for these jobs as well. We need more women in these fields.

It’s a men’s world. No single woman at the table.

@Olivia_LaGrange They will tell you that he has experience and that the education does not matter. Yet will turn and tell DA black people that they need qualifications to hold higher positions in office.

So, big news for the day, and even I am shocked. MP Dean McPherson (you know the one that stole 350k from us to spoil his boyfriend in Brazil, that one)... Has ZERO TERTIARY EDUCATION!!! Seriously I am shocked. I thought the DA actually chose clever people 🫣

@EmmiieTLO 4

Apart from 6, which other number?

@__Poisonivyyy You still have a chance to delete this nonsense.

Ashanti being pregnant at 43, Janet Jackson being pregnant at 50 and Halle Berry being pregnant at 47 is proof that you don't have to rush and start a family 🥰

@DeliaByliefeldt @Starlink @elonmusk The goal posts keep shifting. South Africa is one of the most stable economy in the world.

To build real factories and grow the economy, we need serious investors. Investors need a strong, stable economy which starts with scrapping BBBEE laws that are blocking international investment, like @Starlink because @elonmusk is white, like me. The same applies to malls: they can build as many as they want, but without international brands and genuine economic stability and growth, those malls will end up mostly vacant or filled with knock-off shops. South Africa needs real reform, not more empty infrastructure.

@rolsocool @AnnUdoh5 Agreed.

@OnePablo20 @AnnUdoh5 In as much as I agree with everything you have said but South Africans can put pressure on their government to make immigration very difficult and also make sure undocumented immigrant should be deported instead of attacking them.

We need to fix Nigeria. Nigerian 🇳🇬 nationals are being chased out of Vietnam now. Some other countries are beginning to shut their doors.

@talkcentss He is threat to the likes of IMF and the world bank.

This man is really an African Patriot 🇳🇬 He has looked at the African economy at whole and seen how countries are exporting crude oil and then re-importing the refined product back in because of a lack of refining capacity. Overall, denting their reserves and the country’s development. When he first embarked on building out refineries, he was blocked by the oil Mafia. He waited years to get land, permits, etc. He was purposefully delayed so that the current beneficiaries (dubbed oil Mafia) of this export/re-import regime would not lose out. He (Aliko Dangote) wanted to build the largest refinery to protect Nigeria (and many other African countries) from exporting crude and then re-importing the refined product again. He is astutely aware of Africa’s potential, and this is why he believes Africa’s biggest opportunity is in industrializing. He is even putting his money where his mouth is. 🔥

Hi Fezile, I read through your note 3 times now. Thank you for this. A friend of mine is caught up in capital raising cycle, he in fintech "early stage", he has not raised a single cent, he is funding the whole thing with his salary so far. Investors want him to prove that his model works, but for for his model to work he would need to partner with a bank to hold customer deposits, but the bank wants him to prove that he has sufficient capital before they even give him the letter of intent (LOI). How does one navigate that?

Unemployment is bad for everyone, including those with good jobs.

@Dr_Biohacker I call B.S on this. Women (most) and children don't have hair on their feet altogether.

Hair on your toes: a sign about your cardiovascular health. It may seem like an insignificant detail, but clinically it reveals crucial information about how your body is functioning inside. If you don't have hair on your feet, this is what your body is warning yo

@leodey4uu Ask white people. They are the only ones who have an issue with this. This was normal when we grew up. I started seeing it being labeled as taboo on TV because white people see breasts and lose their minds.

What’s your take on women breastfeeding in public?

@linda_mot 4 adults working for a bank sharing 45 square apartment. Hai!

You'll be sharing a R50k bachelor pad in the UK/London

@mommy_moneyza Companies substituting people with machines was always going to happen because of technological advancements. But new skills would've come from new industries. Suffice to say our country prioritized party politics over real economics.

When SA was an industrialised country it was easy to pack thousands of unskilled workers on assembly lines to do repetitive tasks. But with the bargaining power of unions pushing up the cost of labour, companies either substituted people with machines, imported, or left SA…

@RamaphiriMpho Malls are not built by the government. The private sector builds them because banks are willing to fund those. Your PIC's and IDCs should be funding infrastructure but they are led by stupid leadership.

They also need to stop with building malls all the damn time . Build the factories Bathong

@VusiThembekwayo @feziledhlamini_ They will hire Mckenzie to build this for R5bn.

I think we need a publicly available web resource to capture announced funds and track their disbursements & performance. @feziledhlamini_ did something akin to this for IDC & NEF. I would say we need it across the length & breadth of SME funding landscape in South Africa. Not a report published once a year. A live running tracker with names of beneficiaries, funded companies and initiatives, underlying portfolio performance data etc. It would track: 1. National funds announced & launched by the national government. This would include NEF, SEDFA, they yet to be closed Transformations Fund, SA SME (did they 2. regional funds managed by Gauteng Enterprise Propeller, Free State Development Corporation, et al 3. Department sector-specific funds; 4. Enterprise & Supplier Development funds announced by corporates (collectively, these must surely be in the billions now) 5. We would need a standalone page for the (yet to reach first close or launch) Transformation Fund Any developers out there willing to take this up? We @MyGrowthFund would be happy to house the team working on this at our offices. More visibility. More tracking of live or latest data and (where possible) portfolio committee reports. Less guesswork. Lastly, I seem to remember that the government was committed to allocating R1Bn to the SA SME fund. Did they fulfil that commitment, or has that been left to being a pure private sector initiative?