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@VusiThembekwayo After how many years, bro?😅 Kodwa siyanibongela bafowethu. Congratulations 🎊 Patience pays off eventually.

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@DangoteGroup The PIC and @DangoteGroup should strike a deal to refurbish and fully operationalise PetroSA. I see the chairman of the PetroSA board was also in attendance of this meeting. South Africa requires working a refinery plant to reduce dependence on inported fuel.

Representatives of South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), alongside the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), recently visited the Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals and Dangote Fertiliser Limited as interest continues to grow around Africa-led industrialisation and long-term infrastructure investment. The visit reflects a broader shift taking place across the continent; one where African institutions are increasingly looking inward to support large-scale projects capable of strengthening energy security, industrial capacity, food systems, and regional economic resilience. As the refinery moves towards its forthcoming IPO, engagements like this reinforce the growing recognition of strategic infrastructure as a critical driver of Africa’s long-term growth and economic transformation. #DangoteRefinery #DangoteGroup #Industrialisation

The academic skills and knowledge gap created in the first 12 years of life between township and model c learners is not easy to close throughout life. You have pointed out a profound and painful reality in South Africa's education system. The academic gap formed in those first 12 years of life is incredibly stubborn, and for many individuals, it creates a lifelong trajectory of economic inequality. Why the Early Gap Persists Neurological Foundations: Over 85% of brain development occurs before age five, making early nutrition and cognitive stimulation permanent foundations. The Matthew Effect: In education, the rich get richer; early readers acquire new vocabulary exponentially faster than struggling peers. Cumulative Deficits: A child who misses basic fraction concepts in primary school cannot grasp high school algebra or physics. Language Transition: Moving from mother-tongue instruction to English in Grade 4 creates a cognitive bottleneck for many township learners. The Lifelong Impact Higher Education Barriers: Model C learners dominate the high-demand university programs (medicine, engineering, finance) due to stronger matric math and science foundations. The "Paper Ceiling": Even with identical tertiary degrees, township graduates often lack the professional networks, soft skills, and tech literacy cultivated early in affluent schools. Earning Potential: This structural divide translates directly into the labor market, cementing generational wealth disparities. Closing this chasm requires aggressive intervention long before high school, specifically targeting early literacy, numeracy, and infrastructural equity.

@businessXplain They want to increase fuel prices again.

SA TO SEND DELEGATION TO STRAIT OF HORMUZ South Africa will send a government delegation to the Strait of Hormuz as tensions in the Middle East continue to disrupt global oil supplies. Mineral and petroleum resources minister Gwede Mantashe warned that attacks on vessels in the strategic shipping route were threatening global energy security and keeping fuel prices high. South Africa remains heavily dependent on imported fuel after refinery closures reduced domestic refining capacity. Although government says there will be no fuel shortages, consumers are expected to face sustained price pressure. Full story - ln.run/3yfer

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A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

Scientists successfully reversed the biological age of human skin cells by around 30 years. This advance has the potential to transform regenerative medicine and treatments for age-related diseases. A research team at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge developed a technique called maturation phase transient reprogramming (MPTR). By carefully exposing adult fibroblasts to Yamanaka factors for just 13 days, the researchers induced profound cellular rejuvenation without allowing the cells to lose their specialized identity and revert fully into stem cells. This precise timing enabled the cells to erase decades of accumulated aging damage while retaining their original function. The reprogrammed cells not only showed molecular signs of youthfulness but also performed like younger cells. In functional tests, they produced substantially more collagen and closed experimental wounds much faster than untreated older cells. [Gill, D., Parry, A., Santos, F., Okkenhaug, H., Todd, C. D., Hernando-Herraez, I., Stubbs, T. M., Milagre, I., & Reik, W. (2022). Multi-omic rejuvenation of human cells by maturation phase transient reprogramming. eLife 11: e71624. DOI/10.7554/eLife.71624]

@tumisole @GautengHealth These men are living in high stress levels due to unemployment.

#CountryDuty Department of Health in Gauteng, @GautengHealth has issued an urgent alert relating to the high number of hypertension cases in the province. Adults under 45 are those highly at risk. “To reduce the risk of hypertension, residents are encouraged to exercise regularly, reduce salt intake, stop smoking and limit alcohol consumption. Individuals diagnosed with hypertension are advised to take their medication as prescribed by healthcare professionals and adhere to treatment plans to effectively manage the condition.”

The back of a Namibian laborer covered in scar tissue from years of whipping by a German farmer named Ludwig Cramer, (1912–1913). Taken by the Rhenish missionary Johann Jakob Irle.

Make this your affirmation today. "All good is coming to you." #RhondaByrne #TheSecret #lawofattraction #loa #visualization #manifestation #askbelievereceive

@ntsikimazwai Kanjani, Ntsiki?😅

Women will always be men’s downfall 😂 Yekelani ikuku gents 😂😂😂

Nampo is one of the biggest farm expos in the Southern Hemisphere, held every year at NAMPO Park near Bothaville in the Free State… Meanwhile people are literally arriving in helicopters 😩 At this point I’m asking… where is this level of farming money coming from? These farmers are really loaded and move in silence.

@mabetie9405 @mduduzi_mbada29 This tells you that food security is essentially national security as @WandileSihlobo mentioned.

Some interesting details to note: According to the peer-reviewed journal Nature which published China’s quantum breakthrough, "Jiuzhang 4.0" can manipulate 3,050 photons, completing a calculation in just 25 microseconds that would take the world’s fastest US supercomputer 10⁴² years. It is a staggering 10⁵⁴ times faster than anything America has. Amidst celebrations in Beijing, news emerges that China invested an estimated $16 billion of public funds into quantum research, approximately 4 times the US investment. This central planning is part of China’s latest Five-Year Plan. As Americans remain distracted by other headlines, China is solidifying its role as the global leader in two separate quantum routes (both the "Jiuzhang" photonic series and the "Zuchongzhi" superconductor series). The US remains focused on fractured, decentralized private efforts with no federal strategy.

2025 was the last year of suffering and illusion. It also represents the last number in numerology which is 9. The next number after 9 is 10 or 1+0 = 1. Therefore, 2026 is the new year according to the sacred patterns given us by our ancestors.

🇨🇳 China shatters world record in quantum computing Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have unveiled Jiuzhang 4.0 — the latest prototype of their quantum supercomputer. Jiuzhang 4.0 can manage 3,000 photons — a dramatic leap from the 255 photons handled by its predecessor — signaling major advances in photon generation, optical circuitry, and error management. Tested on Gaussian Boson Sampling, Jiuzhang 4.0 completed the model in just 25 microseconds — a task that would take a classical supercomputer longer than the age of the universe to solve.

@feela_motho @SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA @HigherEduGovZA @myNSFAS 😭😭

@SihleLonzi @ParliamentofRSA @PresidencyZA @HigherEduGovZA @myNSFAS A tla a mbora Buti I had such high hopes...ANC leadership ke burial ground ya consciousness!

NSFAS Board Members have now confirmed on a sworn affidavit before court, that Higher Education Minister, Buti Manamela, convened a secret meeting with them with no agenda, no record, no secretariat, and no minutes! To make matters worse, they say he confiscated their phones on arrival. All this to interfere with the appointment of a CEO. This is the highest level of ethical degeneration! In South Africa when you exercise public power, you must do so lawfully, transparently and with a proper record.

FOOD SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY.