Lindsey Schutters

You think compute hardware is expensive now? I got bad news for you... Thoughts and prayers for the enterprise techies who need to procure new gear. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…

On This Day in 1960: The Sharpeville Massacre. Photo Credit: Ian Berry

Adriaan Wildschutt produced a sensational performance to claim victory at the New York City Half Marathon, delivering a composed and clinical display to take down a world-class field on the streets of New York. 🇿🇦 .@OfficialTeamRSA .@nycmarathon

Haters will call it bootlicking. Go read for yourself and make up your own mind. On shelf right now.

NO WAYS!!!!🤯😳 @BDliveSA took down the orginal tweet and then replaced it with THIS?! This IS WORSE. @BDliveSA writing “according to the letter writer” does NOT absolve you of responsibility for publishing something that is not true! Did you check if the IMF said this or not?!

After hours checking IMF publications I have NOT found ANY stating this. What I DID find? A 2025 Free Market Foundation & Solidarity study claiming BEE compliance costs R145bn–R290bn (allegedly 2-4% of SA’s GDP) and cuts growth by 1.5–3% @BDliveSA @FelthamLuke what’s happening?!

According to this post writer someone should contact the Press Council. Credible news outlets should probably be more cautious when publishing any claims associated to the Institute of Race Relations and its subsidiaries eg. Free Market Foundation.

@Mapentz Huge potential, but limited contracts.

@SharpSchutters Thanks for this wake up call. Could also dig deeper into the potential of job creation for artisans? x.com/Mapentz/status…

Haven't been on your screen in a while... now I'm talking datacentres. youtu.be/wDpgwvzHwaQ?si…

One of the YouTube comments had a bro watch complain about deciding to use an iPhone as an entry into an AI datacenter story... in the opening 90sec I went from how dumb phone AI is and how it is driving memory prices. Sure, bro. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…

Rosenior said he was implementing a new style of pressing, it’s called depressing

MTN gave media 17min to study the SENS before the results call. It was nine pages. Luckily I had a line of questioning ready to go so I could speed read while the CEO layered on the icing. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…

Hoërskool Brackenfell High recently launched their new container-based broadcast and podcast studios on their rugby field, and went "live" for the first time this past weekend at the Harcourts Dunn Brackenfell Festival. ​Cameron Smith (Gr 6A3) was a vital part of the production team. Reinhardt Hamman, the Head of Live Streaming, says he was incredibly impressed as Cameron directed and controlled the camera switching for the U19B game on Friday, as well as three games on Saturday, including the main U19A event. ​ With over 1,600 viewers per game, the pressure was on, and Cameron handled it like a pro. ✒️Laerskool Brackenfell Primary

Iran did not close the Strait of Hormuz. It converted it into a tollgate. The toll is not money. It is alignment. And the country with the world’s largest navy is not on the list of those who may pass. Foreign Minister Araghchi stated it explicitly: the Strait is “open but closed only to our enemies and their allies.” Ten countries have been offered safe passage: China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Iraq. Iran ships approximately 1.3 million barrels per day to China through the “closed” strait via shadow fleet and dark transits. India is in active talks with Tehran for the release of three seized tankers in exchange for medicines and equipment. The waterway that Goldman Sachs says collapsed from 19.5 million to 0.5 million barrels per day is not closed to everyone. It is closed to the coalition that bombed Iran and open to the rest of the world on terms Iran dictates. This is not a blockade. It is a permissions system. And the permissions are rewriting the geopolitical map in real time. Every country on the safe-passage list gains a competitive energy advantage over every country excluded from it. Chinese refineries receive Iranian crude at $9 to $12 below Brent while Western buyers pay $96.72. Indian tankers negotiate passage while American carriers patrol outside. Turkish trade continues while British Airways cancels flights. The selective enforcement creates a two-tier global economy: countries that can access Gulf energy because Iran permits it, and countries that cannot because Iran does not. The first tier includes every major non-Western economy. The second tier includes the world’s superpower and its allies. Iran’s endgame is not victory. It is attrition toward terms. Araghchi told CBS the war ends only when Iran is “certain it will not be repeated” and reparations are paid. No ceasefire has been requested. Resistance continues “as long as it takes.” The selective Hormuz enforcement is the mechanism: it sustains revenue through China flows, preserves diplomatic options through India and Gulf talks, and inflicts maximum economic pain on the coalition while minimising alienation of the countries Iran needs for long-term survival. The US objective is the mirror image: targeted degradation of nuclear, missile, drone, and naval capabilities to restore free Hormuz transit without a ground war. Fifteen thousand strikes have destroyed Iran’s air force, navy, and air defences. But they have not reopened the Strait because the Strait was not closed by military hardware. It was closed by insurance cancellations, mine threats, and a permissions list that no bomb can erase. The war has produced a paradox that neither side anticipated. America can destroy everything Iran builds but cannot open the waterway Iran controls. Iran cannot stop the bombs but can decide who sails. The military supremacy is American. The chokepoint sovereignty is Iranian. And the ten countries on the safe-passage list are watching both sides bleed while their tankers transit under the protection of the regime the superpower is bombing. Araghchi demands guarantees and reparations. Trump demands warships and coalition escorts. Neither has what the other requires. The guarantees require American withdrawal. The escorts require allied participation that Japan, Australia, and Germany have refused. The war continues because neither side can offer what the other needs to stop it, and the Strait remains a tollgate because the toll, political alignment, is the one currency America cannot pay. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

I would now like to illustrate the problem in the Strait of Hormuz with this crude graphic...

In one of those increasingly more frequent loop closings in my personal journalism corpus, Necsa is making the same "PBMR gets into serious consideration next year" It's just that they said the same thing almost a decade ago... Fool me once. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…