Ruby Tuesday

This is a very telling statistic. Uncontrolled employee and primary fuel costs, plus corruption, have led to Eskom’s abuse of its citizens. Eskom’s employee costs to produce the same amount of electricity increased by 1,195% since 1994 – MyBroadband mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/64…

Thailand is reducing its visa-free stay from 60 days to 30 days for tourists from South Africa. The government says the decision follows rising concerns over South Africans visitors involved in crime, illegal business operations, visa overstays, drug offenses, and other inappropriate behavior.

A Christian man from the U.S. named Aaron Hutchings traveled to Pakistan to free a family from 140 years in slavery, paying around $4000 for their freedom. The family had remained trapped in bonded labour for generations in Pakistan’s brick kiln industry after an ancestor took a loan in the 1880s. Multi-generational bondage persists in Pakistan despite having been banned in 1992. The system revolves around “peshgi” (advance payments or loans) given by kiln owners to workers, often for emergencies, weddings or illness. Wages are extremely low and owners add high interest, arbitrary fines and manipulated accounts. This makes repayment nearly impossible. Debts are treated as family obligations and passed to children and grandchildren. Children often start working as young as 4-5 to help “repay the debt.” Estimates suggest hundreds of thousands are enslaved in Pakistan’s 20,000+ brick kilns. Pakistan outlawed bonded labour in 1992, but enforcement is extremely weak due to corruption and political influence of kiln owners. Families can’t just pack up and leave without facing severe risks. The system relies on coercion beyond the debt itself. Kiln owners or their jamadars (middlemen) often use armed guards, physical violence, or threats against the worker and remaining family. Family members left behind can be held as hostages. The police frequently collude with owners and escapees may be arrested on false charges, beaten or forcibly returned to the kiln. Workers often lack documents, education, alternative skills or safe places to go. Women and young girls face heightened risks of sexual abuse or forced marriage as “repayment.” Few in Pakistan care about these families. It often takes for Europeans and Americans to come over to help buy families out from slavery. Just like the British Navy waged war against slave traders of all nationalities after 1808, capturing 1600 slave ships and freeing 150 000 slaves.

An analysis of South Africa’s most valuable companies showed that only two were founded after 1994, and none since BEE became law in 2004. dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/1…

@r0ck3t23 So the song was correct. We are stardust.

Elon Musk just measured your existence by how many times your atoms have been inside a dying star. Musk: “How many times have your atoms been at the center of a star? I think it’s like on average three or four times.” Every atom in your body has already survived the core of a star. Multiple times. Crushed under pressures that would flatten planets. Superheated to millions of degrees. Blown apart in explosions so violent they forged new elements. Then gravity pulled those scattered pieces back together. New stars formed. And the cycle repeated. For 13.8 billion years, your atoms have been fuel for the most violent process in the universe. And they are not done. Musk: “In terms of existence as measured by the number of times your atoms will be at the center of a star, we seem to be roughly halfway.” Halfway. Your atoms have been through the furnace three or four times. They will go through three or four more. But right now, in this impossibly thin sliver between cycles, those atoms are doing something they have never done before. They are conscious. For billions of years before you, they burned through stellar cores with no awareness. No memory. No sense of what they were or where they had been. After you, they will return to that state. Unconscious matter drifting through space until the next star claims them. This is the only moment in their entire journey where they can look back at the stars that made them and understand. Musk: “If you want to look at the big picture… that’s the really big picture.” The big picture is not that we are small. Everyone already knows that. The big picture is that we are temporary witnesses to a process that does not need witnesses. Stars do not need observers to burn. Atoms do not need anyone to understand where they have been. The universe ran for billions of years with no one in it. It will run for billions more after the last conscious thing disappears. But right now, matter is examining itself. That has never happened before in 13.8 billion years. You are not a person who happens to contain ancient atoms. You are ancient atoms that briefly figured out how to think. The universe did not design consciousness. It designed stars. Consciousness was the accident. And the accident is half over.

Anyone else has a yahoo id ???

This is really sad.

🚨 BREAKING BOMBSHELL ALERT! 🚨 Auditors just blew the lid off a MASSIVE SCANDAL at the Compensation Fund – missing files, PHONY bank accounts, cyber security DISASTER, and a JAW-DROPPING R71 MILLION vanished into thin air over just TWO years! Heads MUST roll! 😱 @CompensationFnd @UIFBenefits

@BongsMahlangu_ Listening is a special skill.

I adore people who remember the little things you casually mentioned.

@WhiteLionII1 I never salt and leave, etc. I slice them and fry in a generous amount of olive oil until nice and crispy golden brown on the outside, soft and cooked. THEN I salt them and eat them. Usually with an egg and some toast. Instead of bacon, I brinjal.

A few essentials. What’s the best way to prepare eggplant? Just a bit of olive oil? PS: Don’t change the contents of my trolley!

Auditors have uncovered missing documents, fraudulent bank accounts, cybersecurity flaws, and a staggering R71 million loss in the past two financial years at the Compensation Fund. ewn.co.za/2026/05/21/com…

@LudidiVelani Bit of a con then. That's really disrespectful to the language.

During his trial, San and Khoi traditional leader Wayne Aah Xammi Petersen, who also serves as a Cllr in the Kouga Muni, requested a Khoisan-speaking interpreter to translate the court proceedings. It was, however, established that he neither spoke nor understood the language 😂

@ISephara @SAMiR_5777 That's really so sad.

Here is the young Pharmacist that was killed yesterday. Her name is Nomzila Madinane. She worked as a Pharmacist Intern, Pharmacist Assistant then as a Pharmacist before starting her own independant Pharmacy in Durban. She was killed only a week after opening her 2nd pharmacy outside of Durban The motive for her death is currently unknown. May her soul rest in peace 🙏🏽✨️🕊

Retiring from the British Army can be complicated... Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension. The letter read: “Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren, We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366. Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course. Yours sincerely, Army Paymaster” Col Maclaren replied: “Dear Paymaster, Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month. I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III. By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p. I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course. Yours sincerely, Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)” A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col Maclaren’s letter box, it read: “Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren, We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst. We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month. We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586,619.47p. However, We also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles: *The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton) *The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland) *The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War) *The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade) *The Boer War (1899 -1902). We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations: *9765 Cannon *26,785 Swords *12,889 Pikes *127,345 Rifles (with bayonets) *28,987 horses (fully kitted) Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners. We have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p. WE have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course. Yours sincerely . . . .”

@MarioNawfal Bloody stupid fools.

This is how tourists stage "tough guy" photos with tigers in Thailand My money's on the tiger if that milk runs out

The America you grew up in, no longer exists. America: Then and Now

A wealthy private sector makes the nation rich. A wealthy public sector makes the nation poor. That's just how reality works.

The kitten conquers the bull with …. his heart

Foal's Love for His Human Dad Is So Deep

I'd prefer a car made in SA.