The Catalyst

Any company hiring in South Africa…

🚨 Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted as the greatest player in Premier League HISTORY. @SkySportsPL

The growth in this relationship 😍

@Kwanda_m_ Embarrassing

F4 “58th Years” 😭😭😭

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula will this morning open a case against TV & radio personality Somizi Mhlongo at the Sandton police station North of Johannesburg. #sabcnews

#Lockdownextension Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula will open a case against Somizi Mhlongo at the Sandton Police Station for "name dropping and misinformation".

Minister Fikile Mbalula outside police station after promising to lay charges against Somizi Mhlongo dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-04-1…

.@ProfJNMoyo wants me to explain to him in detail why I say #NoToCAB3. I don’t really have time to engage him individually, but if there’s sufficient interest from all of you, I’ll find time. So if we can get 1k RTs, I’ll do a series of posts/videos explaining each issue. Deal?

@Jamwanda2 Is that JZ next to them?

Greeting former President Khama, himself a scion of Batswana royalty.

@IanECox @SikumbaRodney I think for now, Livingston must be concerned about VFIA, they are beating them hands down

Livingstone has direct flights to Botswana's safari hub at Maun and to Kruger National Park in South Africa but no direct flights to Kafue, Luangwa, or Lower Zambezi. 🦏🇿🇲 That's messed up, @SikumbaRodney. Are you doing your job?

It was a privilege to welcome my brother, President Duma Boko, to officially open the 66th #ZITF2026 today. Zimbabwe thanks Botswana for this show of solidarity. Together, we are building competitive industries & regional prosperity. Ke a leboga, Mr. President! 🇿🇼🇧🇼1

The Africa WE WANT

@sabzsgizo @JumasJohn41791 Lol do you know that Rupert stays in europe?

@JumasJohn41791 Hai fsek. Elon went to Canada before 94 and made his fortune in the USA which goes directly to prove my point.

The richest Zimbabwean doesn’t even live there. 😭😭😭. It’s a very tough place to thrive. That is so hard to explain to someone living in a democracy.

"When they are done with foreigners , they will come for you. You will be told you are Xhosa and you must only stay in the Eastern Cape" - Julius Malema

Coming soon.

If Manchester United can sell Garnacho to Chelsea for £40m, why can’t Barcelona buy Rashford for £30m? Bring him back, let’s sell to serious buyers like Chelsea.

@OkaPhusisa Well put!

This South Africa-as-indispensable-saviour thesis is peak overreach. Starlink operates in countries across Africa and the world without needing Pretoria’s permission slip. If the claim is about submarine cables and backbone access, then geography alone dismantles it: Mozambique, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana,, Angola, Djibouti, Egypt all have coastline and cable landings. South Africa is important, yes, but not irreplaceable. Starlink’s model is distributed infrastructure: satellites, gateways, peering points, multiple jurisdictions. It seeks efficient routes, not a single messiah state. The real issue in SA is regulation and ownership requirements, not some fantasy that the whole continent’s internet ends at Cape Town. Influential? Yes. Essential? No. Replaceable node in a network? Absolutely.

@SizweLo @adventurer_avid But its already working well reaching world standard speeds. Elon is after a market of 60mil people, thats all!

@adventurer_avid Starlink exists in those countries, but it doesn’t work as well and it can’t scale properly without South Africa’s infrastructure. Starlink is there, yes, but there’s a difference between a product and a scalable business. For the latter, Starlink needs SA.

Elon Musk has posted 50 times about South Africa in just 7 days, and Zimbabweans are just as angry as he is. This is because they both desperately need South Africa to allow Starlink in. We all know that the Starlink constellation is the largest array of satellites in the world. However, even with all of those satellites, Starlink still needs to connect to internet data centres on the ground. The satellites have to beam the data down to a ground station, which then sends the data across the internet using undersea cables. This is where South Africa comes in as one of the most connected countries on the continent with seven of the major undersea cables landing in Cape Town and Durban. These are the cables connecting Africa’s internet directly to Europe, Asia and the Americas. Because of this, Elon Musk wants to build a Starlink ground station in South Africa because it would ensure he gets fast, stable, high capacity routes straight into the global internet. Beyond the cables, South Africa also has world-class data centres alongside Tier 3+ infrastructure, which means high uptime, power redundancy, cooling and security. NAPAfrica, one of the largest internet exchange points on the continent is also in South Africa, with facilities in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. So, it should be clear that Starlink in SA is not about selling satellite dishes to households. It’s about plugging into the continent’s internet backbone and using South Africa to build a solid launch pad for a robust infrastructure build. Elon Musk can turn on Starlink in every single country on the continent, but without South Africa, he reaches a dead end and can never get his service to work properly on the continent. This also explains why some Zimbabweans are livid about South Africa not letting Starlink in. The service will just not work well over there without South Africa’s participation. OK, but if this is so important to Starlink why is Elon Musk stubbornly refusing to adhere to straightforward BEE requirements? Well, as pointed above, South Africa’s value to Starlink is mostly as infrastructure backbone, not as a massive retail customer base. We all know he won’t get any meaningful number of customers in SA. There’s simply no market for it. Musk just wants to use South Africa to route through neighbouring countries, and to him, this is not worth giving up a 30% stake in South Africa’s operations. For Musk, the BEE thing is just a strategic business decision. All that racism talk is just a smokescreen for a hard-nosed business choice.

@Miz_Ruraltarain Their cows are also being stolen. Who’s stealing from who here?

Basotho horse patrollers near the border of Eastern Cape province in Matatiele. Allegedly steal South Africans livestock from Bergville and Eastern Cape

Bushiri once said "I have managed to secure R500 million for the church's construction, but that R500 million is in your pocket" and the congregation went crazy. I knew gore they can't be saved. 🥴🚮🤞🏾