Gavin Craythorne

@MightiJamie @WWDke70 The timing is super-suspect.

He was asking hard questions.

@RealEmirHan Monica Bellucci and Beth Gibbons. What’s not to like?

This Monica Bellucci movie was so disturbing that when it premiered at Cannes, her then husband and co-actor Vincent Cassel literally cried seeing her bloodied on screen She just told him: “It is just a movie.”

@MightiJamie 😂

Riddle: why are some generals and sergeants afraid of this product?

@MrPitbull07 Remarkable achievement by Gordo.

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

@feziledhlamini_ @ScooterRSA You'v got a lot of class. Fight hard but also play some.

We’ve been around for a while… @ScooterRSA

@Manikipi 2 PhDs. Alexkor’s PSJV board also had two. They greenlit Scarlet Sky resulting in the biggest illicit diamond dealing prosecution in SA history. Drs John Bristow and Roger Paul.

Markus Jooste is probably the top corporate criminal this country will have in our lifetime. I mean who would single handedly wipe R200b from JSE, commit corruption while supervised by two Phd's in accountancy, dribbling top Deloitte. Then leave penguin blood on rocks😂

@moneyacademyKE @Gov_pub1 PWC said Alexkor’s JV was not governed by the PFMA. Knuckleheads.

World Bank has banned PwC Kenya, PwC Africa, and PwC Rwanda for 21 months over a Sh150 billion fraud case linked to an electricity project in Ethiopia.

@Mufasa0062 😂

Ai tog Maralize. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi Colleen @GeminiJourno, I am the person who submitted the petition. Thank you for covering the matter. linkedin.com/pulse/alexkor-…

@Nama_Khoe @IDCSouthAfrica 😂 sjoe!

Get this through your head. Development finance is risk finance. There are many components missing, the business model may need remodeling, many times. Whilst that happens, you provide finance until they get it right. If you want perfection, you are in the wrong business. Did you not read what it took to get businesses like Facebook and Alibaba to be viable? 13 and 15 yrs of no profit or even breakeven, the business models had to be revised hundreds of times. The problem is that you are incompetent and very arrogant. You think nothing of rejecting funding for young brilliant entrepreneurs. You sit in those offices and think it's your home. You better change your tune very quickly or ship out of these institutions. You are what is strangling development in this country. Fezile's business is straight forward innovation. You act like it's a project to reach the moon, which I doubt you have the brains to even imagine. Go get yourselves proper education, and learn what is business model finance. Just because you are a failure in life it doesn't mean you must hold back everyone who is trying. The world is moving ahead, while you have to be taught how to fund development. You are a disgrace of an institution, evil even. Don't patronize us with your nonsense. Do you want the President to come down to your offices to help you evaluate proposals? He gave you a mandate to create industrialists...not to cross t's and dot i's. What will it take for you to finally wake up and do your jobs? Stop playing games, and help build this country. Had you funded Fezile 8yrs ago, he would have developed new battery technology by now. I hope this reaches the President and fires the lot of you. You are not professionals, you are just furniture and useless furniture at that. Don't ever think we are all stupid. With all due respect...of course!

We note social media commentary on Mr Fezile Dlhamini’s IDC funding application. All applications follow due diligence and governance checks, incl. market access & commercial viability. The IDC has repeatedly requested outstanding info; it remains unsubmitted. We welcome good-faith engagement. Read our full statement here: idc.co.za/social-media-c…

PLEASE REPOST: I built South Africa's first black-owned electric vehicle company. I have deployed 70+ EVs with Blue Chip Companies, Local SMEs and exported to the UAE. I have invested R9.5 million of my own money over 10 years. The IDC has given me R0. They gave a white-owned competitor R69.9 million. Thread. 🧵 @businessXplain @ParliamentofRSA @sedfa_dsbd @DSBD_SA @the_dtic @IDCSouthAfrica @PublicProtector @NAFCOCKZN

@Nicole_Barlow1 @feziledhlamini_ This story is inspiring and demoralising at the same time. What's going on here @IDCSouthAfrica?

@feziledhlamini_ What an awesome project 👏🏻 💛

@Inqubeko_news Wild.

General Mkhwanazi says he was directly involved in the capture and arrest of Witness D’s alleged killer, Matipandile Sotheni. He further revealed that Matipandile is his former colleague and once served under him, as he was his senior at the time. He added that the firearm allegedly used has an aim pointer, allowing a shooter to take an accurate shot within a second.

@gwjphantom It has to feel good sitting in that Martin Baker chair.

@athol_williams Congratulations Athol. Our loss is their gain.

Mitchells Plain poet appointed as Oxford business school's first laureate novanews.co.za/tygerburger/mi…

This morning the righteousness of the Lord rose like the dawn over @ParliamentofRSA . Soon the justice of His cause will shine like the noonday sun.

@EverettStern1 @HSBC Inspiring story, thanks for sharing it.

At 26 years old I made a decision that changed the course of my life. I was working as an Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer at @HSBC when I uncovered activity that raised serious concerns about terrorist financing and cartel money moving through the banking system. At first, I quietly passed intelligence to the @CIA. Eventually, I walked into the @FBI with the evidence. What happened next was not the heroic movie version people imagine. I lost everything. My career collapsed. My finances disappeared. I was targeted by terrorist organizations and drug cartels. There was a period where I was sleeping on a camping cot because I could not even afford a bed. At one point, I went to work at @PFChangs. I often reflect on how surreal that moment in life was. I went from working inside a Chinese bank investigating financial crime… to working inside a Chinese restaurant trying to rebuild my life. But those years taught me something I will never forget. Dignity comes from doing the right thing — not from your title or your job. Slowly, things began to change. People in my professional network stepped forward. Mentors gave me opportunities. Friends believed in me when I had nothing left. Because of them, I was able to rebuild. Today I lead a private intelligence agency working alongside former CIA, FBI, and military intelligence professionals investigating corruption, financial crime, and hidden assets around the world. But I will never forget those years. They reminded me that integrity has a price — but it also attracts the kind of people who help you stand back up. To everyone who believed in me when I had nothing… Thank you.

@yaseen_ag @HeinzZzA Can only be in Oranjemund.

Which one of y'all took a gemsbok to spar? 🤨🤔🤯🤣

@SongezoZibi Right on.

There’s no reason to delay disciplinary action because an SIU report hasn’t been finalised.