Mike Balmer

@KobeissiLetter Target the companies with what? Their drones, missles and navy are mostly destroyed and Iran is not exactly known for any cyber warfare ability.

BREAKING: Iran's IRGC issues a warning that they will target 18 US technology companies if the US continues "targeted assassinations" of Iranian leaders, beginning on April 1st. The companies include Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Tesla, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Meta, Boeing, and others.

@KobeissiLetter 🤔 This is political grandstanding by Spain. This restriction has no impact whatsoever on the USA and its war in Iran.

BREAKING: Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved ​in attacks on Iran, per Reuters. The closure of the airspace forces military ​planes to bypass Spain's airspace when en route to their targets in the Middle East.

@Abramjee His buddy clearly wasn't too impressed by this masterclass stunt and decided to ditch 😅

WATCH: Video A dramatic video gives motorists a rare look at how quick thinking and proper driving skills can mean the difference between becoming a victim and making a clean escape. The footage shows a driver being boxed in by suspected hijackers on a public road. Instead of freezing or trying to force his way forward, the motorist immediately switches to reverse and makes a split-second decision that likely saved his life. What follows can only be described as a masterclass behind the wheel. With the suspects attempting to close in, the driver accelerates in reverse at speed, maintaining full control of the vehicle while navigating the road with precision. His passenger opens the door and jumps out leaving the door open but that does not stop him. Despite the chaos, the driver keeps his line clean, showing remarkable spatial awareness as he continues reversing over a considerable distance without losing control or veering off the road. The hijackers, clearly caught off guard, could not keep up. Via SA Trucker

@Mzombe @businessXplain Ita not ridiculous. Woolworths has had no share growth over 5 long years. This while Shoprite has almost doubled. Woolworths is drastically underperforming and the target is doable with a strong turn around under a new CEO

@businessXplain The employees are about to squeezed dry to meet these ridiculous targets while only him and the shareholders get the rewards.

NEW CEO COULD GET R100M Woolworths has offered incoming CEO Sam Ngumeni a massive R100-million share incentive, but there is a catch... To collect the full amount by 2031, he must double the current share price and deliver huge profit growth. This "all-or-nothing" deal is rare in South Africa because it requires a total turnaround of the company's recent performance. Unlike the previous boss, Ngumeni will only get paid if he hits these tough financial goals. With 30 years at the firm, the board is betting he can return the retailer to its former glory and reward shareholders. Full details - ln.run/4Vgkh

@GeniusLeigh Poor Starlink. They are missing out on 0.0125% of global GDP by having Namibia show them the door. Meanwhile 35% of your population dont have access to broadband. Who is losing more? Your arrogance sadly blinds you to common sense and logic. 🤦

In Namibia, the law is very clear, 51% MUST be owned by LOCALS! We don’t care who you are. Comply or pack up! Finish! Starlink this, Starlink that! Tell Elon Musk that it’s very simple! Whether his is to spy on us or not, that’s NOT the bone of contention. It’s the 51%! Finish!

The former Google CEO just dropped a terrifying Al timeline.

@DrLifesgud Zoom out. Does it look like BEE is working for the majority?

South Africa’s 🇿🇦 black middle class moved from ~1.7 million to 5.6-7 million people between 2012 and 2024. ~ 64% of black Africans live below the poverty line compared to ~1% of White South Africans. We need to accelerate BEE to close this gap. Poverty & Inequality are evil!

@Phislash @IraninSA South Africa gets the vast majority of its oil from non middle eastern countries. We have no shortage of oil and can simply make up any shortfall from our existing partners. We also have zero oil and gas tankers. Not sure why people think this is some victory 🤷

Iran has officially given South African cargo ships and oil tankers safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. One love ❤️❤️🙌🏽🙌🏽🇮🇷🇮🇷 @IraninSA

Men socialize by insulting each other, but they don’t really mean it. Women socialize by complimenting each other, and they don’t mean it either. 😂

The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never allow the dumbest member of the herd to lead them.

Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them. And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy? Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?

Misleading packages are illegal in Japan

@MichaelAArouet Yuri Orlov, about to land in the desert to drop off a few anti aircraft missiles on priority order from Iran 😛

Who is this guy? Wrong answers only.

@Polymarket 🤦Bernie hasn't learned a damn thing from the California exodus of billionaires on the mere proposal of a wealth tax.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders's new proposed legislation includes an annual wealth tax of 5% for all American billionaires.

@shanaka86 Your tweets read more deliciously than a Wilbur Smith Novel ❤️

Iran just announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Read that again. Twenty million barrels of oil pass through that strait every single day. Fifteen percent of all liquefied natural gas on earth transits that chokepoint. One fifth of global petroleum supply moves through a channel 21 miles wide at its narrowest between Iran and Oman. The IRGC Navy broadcast via VHF radio on February 28, 2026 that no vessels are allowed to cross. Every tanker captain in the Persian Gulf heard that transmission. Every oil trading desk on the planet priced it within minutes. Brent crude hit 120 dollars a barrel intraday. That is the opening number. If a single tanker is struck, seized, or mined, the models go to 200. At 200 dollar oil the global economy does not slow down. It seizes. Every factory in China that runs on imported crude. Every airline that hedged at 85. Every European nation that still has not replaced Russian gas and now faces LNG shortages through a closed strait. Every American who drives to work. The Strait of Hormuz is not an oil route. It is the cardiovascular system of industrial civilization. Iran just announced it is clamping the artery. Iran has threatened this before. In 2019 it seized tankers. In the 1980s it mined the strait during the Tanker War. It has never declared full closure during an active military conflict with the two most powerful militaries on earth simultaneously striking its territory. This is not posturing from a position of strength. This is the last economic weapon of a regime that has lost its air defenses, lost its generals, possibly lost its Supreme Leader, watched its missiles intercepted over six countries, and has exactly one card left to play: the geographic accident that puts 21 miles of water between the world and its energy supply. The US Fifth Fleet is headquartered in Bahrain. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group holds station in the Gulf of Oman. American destroyers carry enough Tomahawk cruise missiles to sink every IRGC fast boat, submarine, and coastal battery in the Persian Gulf in 48 hours. Iran knows this. The announcement is not a military strategy. It is a suicide note dressed as a threat. Because the moment Iran fires on a tanker, the United States does not negotiate. It executes Operation Praying Mantis at ten times the scale and the IRGC Navy ceases to exist as a functioning force. Iran is not closing the strait. Iran is daring America to open it by force. And every oil trader on earth knows how that ends. Not with negotiation. With wreckage on the seafloor and crude flowing by morning. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@LadyM1306 Sending Iran a "Get Well Soon" card with extra Loves and Kisses ❤️ doesnt help them much when they have 2 US Navy strike groups destroying all their military infrastructure 😁

South Africa 🇿🇦 stands with Iran 🇮🇷….

OpenAI just raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation. That’s 56 times its 2025 revenue. For comparison, Apple trades at roughly 9x revenue. Google trades at about 7x. But the interesting part is where the money actually goes. Amazon is putting in $50 billion. OpenAI already owes Amazon $38 billion for cloud servers. NVIDIA is putting in $30 billion. OpenAI is buying NVIDIA’s chips for 10 gigawatts of data centers. SoftBank is putting in $30 billion. SoftBank is also building the $500 billion Stargate data center project OpenAI will run on. The money goes in one door and out the other. It’s called circular financing. Amazon hands OpenAI cash, OpenAI hands it right back for AWS. NVIDIA hands OpenAI cash, OpenAI hands it right back for GPUs. Tech analyst Charles Fitzgerald told Fortune the structure is “a framework, not a deal.” The valuation math is wild on its own. OpenAI was worth $29 billion in January 2023. Three years and five funding rounds later, it’s worth 25x that. It jumped from $157 billion (October 2024) to $300 billion (March 2025) to $500 billion (October 2025) to $730 billion now. Each jump funded by the same companies that happen to be OpenAI’s biggest suppliers. And the bills keep coming. OpenAI originally told investors it had $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments over eight years. Last week, it quietly walked that back to $600 billion by 2030. The company burned $8 billion in cash last year and is projected to burn $17 billion this year. HSBC estimates it still faces a $207 billion funding gap even after this round. The growth underneath all this is real. 900 million weekly active users, 50 million paying subscribers, revenue that jumped from $3.7 billion in 2024 to $13.1 billion in 2025. But only about 5% of users pay. And OpenAI owes Microsoft 20% of all revenue through 2032. This is the largest private funding round ever, nearly 3x OpenAI’s own record $40 billion raise from last March. Every dollar raised comes with a spending obligation to the company writing the check.

@Ndala_Momane If our debt worsens and we borrow more than what we raise in revenue, then by definition it is not austerity. South Africa has not even come close to austerity in the last decade

Fiscal consolidation (austerity) is failing to stabilize debt, dismally. In 2025 budget is was 77.4%, MTBPS revised the number up to 77.9%. Now, revised up to 78.9%. Expect debt to worsen with primary budget surplus increasing & low inflation. IT IS ECONOMICS. #budget2026

@Seago_SG @Tina_Hokwana Aviator ✈️

@Tina_Hokwana Gambled over R2 million in less than a week 😭😭how's that even possible

This chap exceeded his authorised R150 000 credit limit with Investec Bank due to an internal system error. As a result, on the evening of 5 February 2025, Investec made an error of successfully processing all its client tokenised transactions regardless of whether the client has a sufficient balance or has a limit on their account.

@DumaGqubule SA has run record deficits and debt for over a decade now with no signs of slowing down. Budget cuts on single line items is not austerity when we borrow far more than we generate in revenue.

My full interview with Newzroom on the budget. Nobody benefits from these failed austerity policies except five banks and two insurance companies youtu.be/1Tp_g7CQSnY?si…