Tumbone Asukile

I am from Limpopo and I don’t use the N1. There’s too many ways to get to Limpopo.

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Your premise assumes that what’s happening is irrational or personality-driven. It’s neither. The United States does not make foreign policy decisions based on sentiment toward leaders or sympathy for populations. It acts based on alignment of interests. Countries are treated as partners, competitors, or adversaries depending on how they position themselves within that system. If a country aligns itself politically, economically, or diplomatically with actors that the U.S. considers adversarial, then friction is not surprising. It’s a predictable outcome. Not because of who is in office, whether Donald Trump or anyone else, but because incentives and alliances are misaligned. So the real question isn’t: “Why would someone support Trump?” The real question is: “What strategic position has South Africa taken in the global system, and what consequences flow from that?” Blaming individuals is a distraction. Personality politics is intellectually cheap. It avoids the harder analysis of ideology and alignment. If South Africa chooses a posture of non-alignment or leans toward blocs that are in tension with U.S. interests, then pressure — economic, political, or otherwise is not sabotage. It’s standard geopolitical behavior. Supporting or opposing a U.S. politician from Africa doesn’t meaningfully change that reality. These systems operate at the level of states, not sentiments. So the deeper issue isn’t whether Africans are “foolish” or whether one leader is “idiotic.” It’s whether African countries are clear-eyed about their strategic positioning and whether their internal narratives match external realities. Until that gap is addressed, people will keep arguing about personalities while the real game is being played at the level of ideology, incentives, and power.

Building a tech business in South Africa is incredibly tough. A lot of the incredible stories that we celebrate are anomalies - they are not the norm. A lot still needs to be done. Especially when it comes to very early stage risk capital.

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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.

The AWS Console is a social experiment to see how many UI frameworks can coexist in a single website. Every click is a journey to a different decade of web design.

the hack for surviving corporate is honestly overcommunicating with your direct manager

What's up with WeBuyCars? Massive volumes yesterday (biggest one-day volume in history as far as I can tell).

Africa is rich. Just finished a valuation of a mine in East Africa. The ex-pit ore stripping ratio is less than 1. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺