My time at CNBC, BBC and Bloomberg was about gaining experience and Exposure, not conditioning to be reduced to a Talking Head. Walking AWAY was always an OPTION!
Mikel Arteta rebuilt a broken Arsenal and restored our soul, we will forever be grateful to him. While he’s at the helm, we must stand by him! But true ambition demands the hard truth: has ‘the process’ hit its ceiling? Does he stay or go at the end of the season?
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.
@JLioundris@Julius_S_Malema Malema knows how the political industry works. He's making riches for himself in the role he's playing fooling blacks who believe in his gunk ideology
Julius Malema, the ultimate political prostitute 😂
From singing ‘Kill the Boer’, ‘slit the throat of whiteness’, calling all whites criminals to be crushed… to posting pics of your white Jewish senior counsel as ‘my Jewish brother forever, related by blood’
The same ‘whiteness’ you want to slit is the one you run to when the law catches you firing guns at rallies like a clown.
Zuma era: ‘Save the country, drop the charges against my president!’
Then: ‘Zuma must go, prosecute him!’
Now crawling back when it suits you.
Flip-flop king.
No principles, just whoever keeps you out of jail (even if Hodes couldn’t stop that fresh 5-year sentence).
How’s the ‘revolution’ tasting now, Commander?
Hypocrisy this thick could choke a nation. 🇿🇦🤡
Bill Gates says the merging of biometric digital ID, bank accounts and payment systems is needed to safely monitor people's health records, keeping tabs on farmers, and tackling "climate problems."
Manchester City will drop points.
Bournemouth away will be extremely difficult, they are the most in-form team in the league.
Everton and Brentford are fighting for European places, very tricky ties.
Aston Villa on the final day is NOT going to be easy by any means!
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🚨Mikel Arteta has reportedly submitted a list of players re-enforcement to the club's board as potential summer signing.
The names included on the list are
•Kvaratskhelia 🇬🇪 (£65m)
•Hill 🏴 (£20m)
•Jumal Musiala 🇩🇪 (£65m)
•Julian Alvarez 🇦🇷 (£55m)
•Rodrygo 🇧🇷(£50m)…more
Looking at that Arsenal line up, Arteta didn't go to win but to draw. And that's why they're going to lose both the match and title. He doesn't have the killer instinct.
35 out of 56 Commonwealth countries do not directly elect their head of government. That’s 63%.
We may not be in the Commonwealth, but most of its members are our development peers—so on democratic governance, that’s a useful benchmark. Worth asking: how do we compare?
#CAB3