Kari S. 🇮🇹

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STOP BANKING WITH @StandardBankZA ! STOP BANKING WITH @StandardBankZA ! STOP BANKING WITH @StandardBankZA ! STOP BANKING WITH @StandardBankZA ! STOP BANKING WITH @StandardBankZA ! STOP BANKING WITH @StandardBankZA ! STOP BANKING WITH @StandardBankZA !

I’d be pissed and just move all my bonds, money, investments, and any other products from that bank to another bank. There is no ways that is their response to the hundreds of stories that have come out in the last 4 days alone.

This issue is simple @StandardBankZA. A pensioner’s money was taken from her account without her permission. That money is the result of years of hard work and sacrifice. It is not spare money, it is survival. Public statements about fraud trends and references to institutions like the Financial Sector Conduct Authority or the Ombudsman for Banking Services do not solve the problem. The real issue is that the money is gone and has not been returned. The responsibility of a bank is to protect the funds people trust them with. When that protection fails and money is stolen, the only fair outcome is for the bank to refund the stolen funds. The demand remains clear: return the pension money.

Standard Bank has to overhaul the entire fraud team even on tik tok there so many people sharing their experiences 😱

Every generation’s slang reveals what they’re starved for. Boomers said “buddy” and “pal” because male affection had to be disguised as casual. Gen X said “dude” because emotional distance was the whole personality. Millennials said “bro” because closeness was finally allowed but only through irony. Gen Z says “king” and “queen” because they grew up being ranked by algorithms from age 11. Instagram followers, TikTok views, like counts. When every platform is scoring you, the counter-move is crowning each other. The slang became a micro-validation system running in parallel to the one that’s destroying them. “Twin” is the most revealing one. In a culture that monetizes uniqueness and rewards differentiation, the highest compliment became “you’re literally me.” That’s not a nickname. That’s a nervous system looking for safety in sameness. The mattress sizes thing is funny. The pattern underneath is a generation building its own status economy because the default one made them miserable.

It’s crazy now seeing the word “Pretoria” as part of a world tour. We’ve come a long way, man.

Nothing is impossible

There is no way @StandardBankZA can not be held liable....no way.....

On July 3, 1976, Tina Turner waited until her husband, Ike, fell asleep in their Dallas hotel room. Her face was swollen and bruised from another beating. In her pocket were just 36 cents and a Mobil gas card. Nothing more. She slipped out of the Statler Hilton and ran. Not toward a car. Not toward help she could call. She ran straight across Interstate 30, weaving through traffic in the dark, nearly hit by a truck, driven by nothing but survival. On the other side stood the Ramada Inn. The manager recognized her instantly, even through the injuries. He gave her a room on the eleventh floor and placed a guard outside her door. For three days, Tina stayed hidden there, too injured to even eat properly, letting her body begin to heal. Three weeks later, she filed for divorce. When asked what she wanted from sixteen years of marriage, her answer stunned everyone. She wanted nothing except her name. No house. No money. No royalties. Just “Tina Turner.” A name created to control her, now the only thing she could use to rebuild her life. She walked away with debt, an IRS tax lien, and an industry that believed she was finished. Nearly forty years old, a Black woman in a business obsessed with youth, with no ownership of her past music. The odds were stacked brutally against her. But Tina refused to accept defeat. She turned to Nichiren Buddhism, chanting daily for strength. She took every job she could find. Game shows. Hotel lounges. County fairs. Corporate events. She even cleaned houses between performances. While the world called her a has-been, she was quietly reconstructing herself piece by piece. Then came 1984. At forty-four, she released Private Dancer. It changed everything. The album sold more than twenty million copies. “What’s Love Got to Do with It” reached number one, her first solo chart-topper. She won three Grammy Awards in 1985, performed at Live Aid, and starred in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The world finally recognized her as the Queen of Rock and Roll. Her second act lasted decades. Record-breaking tours. Twelve Grammy Awards. Over one hundred million records sold. A career rebuilt entirely on her own terms. And love found her too. Erwin Bach met Tina at an airport in 1986 and never left her side. When her kidneys failed in 2016, he offered her one of his own without hesitation. In 2017, he kept that promise and saved her life. On May 24, 2023, Tina Turner passed away peacefully in Switzerland at the age of eighty-three, with Erwin beside her. She left behind more than music. She left proof. It is never too late to reclaim your life. You can begin again at forty. At fifty. At any age. All it takes is the courage to cross the road. Thirty-six cents. A gas card. And an unbreakable will. That is how legends are made.

Still think the hair/nail salon next to a car wash is a slept on combo.

“I want to look back at the end of this year and say “God knew exactly what He was doing. His plans are indeed greater than mine.”

Shaking in my boots.

I lost 300k in a short space of 2 hours from an Investment account with @StandardBankZA

After school is after school 🤝🏽

Craziest part about this Standard Bank thing is that they seem to be targeting a certain demographic, it’s mostly pensioners who they can easily frustrate and threaten using financial jargon ☹️

The conversation moved to LinkedIn yesterday with other people also sharing their experiences with Standard Bank on there. She must get on Hello Peter next.

Pretty certain Standard Bank is hoping this will go away. Insider job and they’re still silent on the matter 💀

If your system had worked properly, we wouldn’t be suffering like this. I almost lost my mom because of this. 🥹🥹. I won't stop posting about this until you refund my mom her money @StandardBankZA

I remember Old Mutual saying the same thing in 2024 until we made them dance 😌