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Beautiful autumn morning at Fijnland Estate

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve ✨ Val de Vie, the boyhood dream of Martin Venter. Top 10 Global Lifestyle Estates. South Africa’s only residential Polo Estate. The architecture here is world class 👌🏾

Ken Griffin on the single factor he looks for when hiring at Citadel: "show me an athlete who did well academically." "an athlete because they know what it takes to win and they've had to experience loss." talent is everywhere. what's rare is someone who knows how to lose, recover, and still perform at a high level. same thing separates profitable traders from everyone else.

@Adrianne_DeVaux Congratulations from South Africa!

#devauxsonthegeaux the final throwback. Win or lose, the accomplishment of making it to the big dance is beyond compare. All the years of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears have led up to this moment all because of a little girl that never gave up. Let’s go Golden Tempo! @reredevaux

Wiesenhof Lifestyle Val de Vie Evergreen, stunning venue and location to enjoy a delicious Wiesenhof meal and Coffee on a public holiday in South Africa. @FranschhoekLife @valdevieestate @4KobusWiese #Evergreen

@FrancineHigham @capetown2040 That sounds great. I think it is time something similar is done with the Newlands Pool.

A major step forward for the Bellville Athletics Track and Velodrome 🏃‍♂️ This morning the Mayco approved the proposed upgrade of the Bellville Athletics Track and Velodrome, with the recommendation now going to Council for final approval. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/41LMd5G

Larry Ellison just asked the one question no journalist on Earth can answer. A Wall Street Journal writer told Ellison to his face that Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing. Ellison didn’t argue. Didn’t get emotional. He just asked a question. Ellison: “This guy is landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. You ever land a rocket?” One question. No recovery. Ellison: “Who are you? Why should I believe you as opposed to my friend Elon?” This is the question the entire media class has been dodging for a decade. Who are you to judge? What have you built? What have you shipped? What problem have you solved that didn’t involve a keyboard and a deadline? Ellison: “You’re there in front of your Apple Macintosh typing up an article saying Elon’s an idiot.” They sit behind a laptop they did not engineer. Using a network they did not build. Running on silicon they cannot explain. To tell the world that the man sending humans to space doesn’t know what he’s doing. They have never built anything heavier than a Word document. And they publish it with absolute certainty. That’s the part that should disturb you. Not the criticism. The confidence behind it. The total absence of self-awareness it takes to judge disciplines you wouldn’t last a single semester in. Musk does not operate in opinion. He operates in the physical layer of the universe where the math closes or the rocket does not come home. His critics operate in a text editor. He built the vehicle that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The satellite constellation delivering internet to active war zones. The EV that forced every automaker on Earth to abandon their combustion roadmap. His loudest critics built a byline. So why the coordinated hatred? Because they lost the leash. The attacks didn’t escalate because Musk got worse at engineering. They escalated because he bought X. He cracked open the algorithm. He handed the public square back to the people. And he shattered their ability to control what you’re allowed to think. They don’t hate the engineer. They hate that the engineer took their monopoly. You cannot cancel a rocket. You cannot publish a hit piece on gravity. You cannot edit the laws of physics. They own the syntax. He owns the physics. One of them is going to Mars.

🏆 BATALEUR TROPHY 8 GOAL 🥇 FIJNLAND 🇿🇦 Plettenberg Bay Polo Club | Plett, RSA 📅 30 Mar - 05 Apr 2026 It was a tough trophy to win. The winner comprised of; 1. Ryk Neethling (0) 2. Josie Spilsbury (1) 3. Ryan Robertson (3) 4. Gareth Evans (4) 📸 ryanfrenchphotography

🏆 SEVEN OAKS 10 GOAL 🥇 FIJNLAND ESTATE 🇿🇦 Plettenberg Bay Polo Club | Plett, RSA 📅 23 - 29 Mar 2026 It was a fine battle to victory. The winner comprised of; 1. Ryk Neethling (0) 2. Harry Muddle (3) 3. Ryan Robertson (3) 4. Jack Spilsbury (4) 📸 ryanfrenchphotography

@pookiepolls Good memories! My family spent most December’s there so that I could practice in the 50m pool on the beach. Would practice 6am to 8, body surf and play on the beach all day and then practice again in the pool before it got dark.

Margate 1995 Margate used to be the crown jewel of South African holiday destinations. Did you ever visit?

@RoryDuncan1966 @KanthanPillay Congratulations Rory. Judging by the comments there is a very eager market for now. Now you just have to tell us where we can get it 😀

This is my home along the banks of the Kamannassie River just above it's confluence with the mighty Oliphants River 500 meters below the homestead in the KleinKaroo. We have water rights to pump from the river into a huge man made dam some 185 meters long x 25 meters wide and 6 meters deep. It holds millions of liters of water. Behind the dam are level fields of 4 hectares and beyond that a further 16 hectares of arable land. This year we are going to build the first 2 hectare growing house to plant Sceletium tortuosum and will expand constantly from thereon by building more shade houses to expand our Sceletium production to 10 hectares. The Sceletium plant is a small annual succulent which usually only grows in winter in the wild. But under shade cloth and with the right pots, soil, water and light management we have made it grow year round. This plant has been used for millennia by the Khoi people of the Klein Karoo and the San folk further north west as a stimulant. The compounds of alkaloids in the plant are extremely powerful and they all work inside the brain. It is a psycho-active plant, not a psychedelic plant. It is fully legal and there is no known lethal dose. When we first ventured into the Sceletium business we camped for 1 year deep in the Baviaanskloof wilderness living with a man who had made Sceletium medicine extracts and concentrates in the ancient artisanal way. We set up a growing facility and sought out a genotype from the hills above Willowmore 120 kilometers away. After a year of hard work in the deep bush we had successfully manufactured our first large batch of Sceletium concentrated paste. We did the process in a scientific way by recording all events in the process, taking and freezing samples every hour over the 12 day fermentation period and logging all activity throughout the process. We then took the paste to Professor Stander at her Stellenbosch University Central Analytics Laboratories where the multiple samples were analyzed marking step by step the changes in molecular structure of the compound of alkaloids in the mixture. Eventually we had achieved a powerful extract which with just 5mg of paste consumed by mouth would give one a powerful feeling of well being and a calm energy and focus. The substance was a thick sticky tar-like substance, dark brown and highly aromatic, but almost impossible to work with due to its tacky gooey nature. We then went to Oudtshoorn, the largest town in the Klein Karoo and we found a family business there run by the Groenewald's. A group of scientists with special skills in fermenting plants to make pro-biotics, among many other smart plant products. We formed a joint venture with the distinct purpose of commercializing the fermentation, filtering, and drying of the compound into a workable powder so that we could use it in capsules and other delivery methods. This worked well and we launched our first products 3 x capsule variants, 1 for kids and a vape juice too. However we needed to go deeper into molecular concentration and so for the next two years we worked tirelessly at the extracting and concentration of only the active alkaloids and getting rid of all plant matter, remaining only with the molecular mass of the concentrated actives. Im proud to say that we've finally done it. We now have a world class, pharmaceutical type extract, blended down from a 70% alkaloid concentrated mass to a standardized 5% inclusion of live alkaloids. This substance is incredibly powerful and effective. It is wonderfully elevating. It gives you heightened sense of clarity of vision and hearing that is phenomenal. Your energy levels increase wonderfully and yet you have complete focus and self control. You can use it regularly without any negative effects such as a hangover and afterwards one sleeps like a baby. It is simply put, a breakthrough in plant medicine and supplements and is now being used in beverages, chocolates n gummies around the world

@BlessingMonyai @African_Spring Well done! 👏

I did it guys, today was my last day at my swimming club and I’m extremely proud of myself and how far I’ve come. A whole 39 year old who dared to dream. #Adultswimminglessons

@KanthanPillay How was the festival experience?

Jacob Collier has the crowd eating out of his hands. Nice!

The non-poisonous Snake-Head Caterpillar inflates its tail to resemble a poisonous viper. It’s found in the Eastern United States in all summer long.

@KanthanPillay Very grateful to call it home

A brief panorama of Paarl valley from the top of Dutoitskloof pass. You’re welcome. 😇

See how we’ve fallen since the likes of Gwede have been complicating, corrupting and shuttering mining

@vinnehvincent Yup 👍

Ryk Neethling says it's great and creates more jobs. 😬

@iamSivN Not even if I wear flippers

You can take him!