Dr Neil T Stacey

@Bruceps @WandileSihlobo Potentially quite rough on Johannesburg's water supply. With Lesotho Highlands Phase II delayed, there's a real chance of the taps running dry 😬

It doesn't look good @WandileSihlobo ... Strongest El Niño in a century? What this rare phenomenon could bring. wapo.st/3PVFJOS

@business R3 takes the edge off for petrol but it'll still be a huge hike for diesel. And the situation is unlikely to have improved by May, unfortunately, so one has to ask how long this measure can be continued

South Africa will reduce a tax imposed on fuel to offset the impact of surging oil prices on domestic gasoline, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@katteri38639998 @Mark_O_X @business It's incorrect. It's the (somewhat out of date) cost for SASOL syncrude from coal, which covers less than a third of our national needs.

@Mark_O_X @business WTF? Where do you hear this bullshit?

@Mark_O_X @business SASOL synthetic amounts to 180 000 barrels per day equivalent of, nationally we use ~625 000 bpd.

@business Did you know that SA produces fuel at less than ~$ 35 per barrel…. and not $ 110 per barrel. There is no reason to increase fuel prices whatsoever…

@Bruceps I mean, I'm almost 100% sure it's not actually going to happen 😅. But if we're spitballing ideas it's one worth tabling for a hypothetical future

@NeilTStacey Thanks Neil. It's just that we e spent the past 16 years avoiding making EVs here.... check out recent iterations of the master plan. It makes sense, obviously, but the government is painfully new to the prospect...

Hahahaha

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0… Ick

@Scienceofsport @lynne_ogilvy We demand an entire cycle of preparation from athletes, we can at least give them an entire cycle of rules certainty. We're shorting ALL athletes if we don't give them that

@Scienceofsport @lynne_ogilvy The whole frigging point of organized sport is that everyone competes under agreed-upon rules. Any change in those rules needs to have a time period aligned with the preparation period, otherwise we're asking athletes to give up their lives in the dark.

At last women’s sport is protected.

@Scienceofsport @lynne_ogilvy Athletes who embarked on Olympic campaigns, at unimaginable personal cost, shouldn't be the ones who carry the burden of the change - administrators should have shouldered this sooner

@Scienceofsport @lynne_ogilvy I agree with getting on with it, but what's happening is the crime of not getting on with it is sitting on the wrong shoulders. Rules should be designed to protect athletes first, and administrators a distant second

@Scienceofsport @lynne_ogilvy I feel equally strongly about all rules changes. Up the weight of the javelin, or cut lightweight rowing (this is the most personal one for me as a lightweight rower), fine, but have a time period that doesn't destroy lives and dreams

@Scienceofsport @lynne_ogilvy For an Olympic hopeful, an Olympic cycle is an entire lifetime - the rules of sport shouldn't be set up so that a person can throw their life into something just to be denied because the rules changed halfway through

@Scienceofsport @lynne_ogilvy Oh, I agree that decisive rules changes are overdue - this should have been decided on quite a while ago. I just think that people should compete, at the Olympics, under the same ruleset that existed at the start of that Olympic cycle

@NeilTStacey @lynne_ogilvy And if the rule change is delayed then the women who lose out on fair competition are robbed. There is no basis to delay the integrity of women’s sport, at this stage. If it was 2027, maybe. But kicking the can down the road helps nobody, and is unfair on women.

@lynne_ogilvy @Scienceofsport That's not hyperbole; most Olympic debutantes begin preparation before the Olympics prior to that debut, and plow EVERYTHING into that cycle. Getting the plug pulled two years out because the rules changed, can destroy a person The rules should be designed to not harm athletes

@lynne_ogilvy @Scienceofsport I agree with the final decision but, considering the human and financial cost of committing to an Olympic cycle, I think ANY rule changes should be a sunsetted by one cycle. Chasing an Olympic dream, based on the rules as they exist at the time, shouldn't destroy someone's life