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We don't need a white government. We don't need a black government. We need a COMPETENT government. Forget race. Forget loyalty to failing parties. Do it for the child who can't find work.

We should focus on building a prosperous South Africa driven by markets. Things like BEE must be scrapped - they are toxic and anti-growth. Black people don't need BEE to succeed. They can succeed without it. BEE is an insult and undermines black achievement. #economy #politics #markets

That’s a separate but parallel issue. No one is opposed to social grant recipients being the elderly and disabled for example. Had the number of recipients grown exponentially because of including previously excluded citizens because of racial bias from the previous regime, there would be no quarrel. Instead - grant recipients now extend to able-bodied adults who are under “unemployment distress” and able-bodied female adults who despite having free access to family planning are rewarded for ignoring it with a sizeable grant per child. The ANC celebrates this and parrots it as an achievement at every opportunity and during every election campaign.

“But we are not yet liberated!” Nonsense! You were liberated more than 30 years ago. Now take responsibility: educate and upskill yourself, be a law-abiding citizen, take care of your family, hold your leaders accountable. Stop voting for incompetence and corruption! #politics #markets #macro

Every socialist scheme boils down to the same formula: take wealth from those who create it and redistribute to those who vote for you. They dress it up as "justice" but socialists fundamentally believe productive people owe them something simply for existing. Look at Venezuela's oil revenues or Cuba's sugar wealth—socialists always inherit functioning economies, then systematically destroy them through redistribution schemes. They call entrepreneurs "exploiters" while living off the taxes entrepreneurs pay. The productive class builds civilization. Socialists then vote to confiscate it. Pathetic.

The hidden cost of "enterprise" .NET architecture: Debugging hell. I've spent 13+ years in .NET codebases, and I keep seeing the same pattern: Teams add layers upon layers, to solve the problems they don't have. IUserService calls IUserRepository. IUserRepository wraps IUserDataAccess. IUserDataAccess calls IUserQueryBuilder. IUserQueryBuilder finally hits the database. I've seen a lot of classes having one-line methods whose sole purpose was to call the next layer and that's it. But to change one validation rule, you step through 5 layers. To fix a bug, you open 7 files. The justification is always the same: "What if we need to swap out Entity Framework?" "What if we switch databases?" "What if we need multiple implementations?" What if this, what if that. The reality: Those "what ifs" don't come to life in 99% of cases. I haven't worked on a project where we had to swap the ORM. But I've seen dozens of developers waste hours navigating through abstraction mazes. This happens with both new and experienced developers. New developers asking on Slack all the time: "Where to put this new piece of code?" But senior developers are too busy to answer that message. Why? Because they are debugging through the code that has more layers than a wedding cake. The end result? You spend more time navigating than building. Good abstractions hide complexity. Bad abstractions ARE the complexity. And most enterprise .NET apps? Way too much of the second kind.

@aabljvz645481 The racial rhetoric and the scapegoating of whites will get worse the closer we get to the local government elections and the more desperate the ANC becomes. It is all the ANC has left.

@aabljvz645481 No one younger than 55 today could vote for/in the "old South Africa" (1989 last election) - they were not adults yet. Only people who are 51 or older today, could have voted in the 1992 referendum (⅔ voted yes) 😠 CR is divisive, he drives hate.

@aabljvz645481 @ProfTimNoakes The older whites in SA have voted Apartheid out and voted black people in power, handing the governance of SA to black people. Unfortunately, the ANC cannot exist without Apartheid. They need Apartheid to try and motivate for votes. Apartheid is dead!!!

The President of South Africa labeling white South Africans as "all supporting the apartheid regime". While most whites today were too young to even vote during those times. Or were not born yet. This is abhorrent. And the world sees this. #racism accepted in parliament.

@Markosonke1 I'm just asking for a friend in my head: Doesn't the cANCer ever worry about negative optics or perceptions? I know they authored the 'Art of Not Giving a Fuck' but surely at some point the emperor realises he has no clothes? I personally can't fathom the blatant abuse. 😟

Mention ONE thing that is functioning efficiently in South Africa 🇿🇦 under the leadership of Cyril Ramaphosa!! Just one thing please besides the full protection of comrades like Senzo Mchunu & Lamborghinis Guy😑💔

“Socialism always attacks 3 basic social institutions: religion, the family, & private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; & property, because it means material independence of the state”

We have the same problem in South Africa. Our president and most ministers are not qualified to run the county or their ministeries. In fact, most of them are complete idiots.

You don't need a PhD to understand why people are poor. Poverty goes away when prosperity shows up. And prosperity doesn't fall from the sky or get delivered by a UN truck.  It gets built by entrepreneurs who start businesses, hire people, and create things worth buying.  But those entrepreneurs need somewhere they can actually operate without spending half their life begging for permits and paying fees to people who produce nothing. Countries that get this right get rich. Countries that don't, stay poor.  The whole thing fits on a napkin and yet we've got entire university departments overcomplicating it.

I fully agree with this perspective. Too often, we are expected to celebrate big numbers from institutions like the South African Revenue Service without asking the most important question: what are citizens getting in return? Tax collection on this scale should reflect a growing, inclusive economy; but many South Africans are not experiencing that reality. Instead, people are under pressure, and the cost of living continues to rise while basic services remain inconsistent. Celebration without accountability creates frustration. Citizens are not wrong to question where their money is going when they don’t see meaningful improvements in their daily lives.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth about this 2.01 trillion collected by SARS That money didn’t come from thin air, it came from citizens who are already under pressure, people paying income tax, VAT on almost everything they buy, fuel levies, and small businesses trying to survive in a tough economy When politicians celebrate big tax collections like this, some of them look like clowns because they are cheering a number without acknowledging the pain behind it Many South Africans are dealing with unemployment, rising food prices, expensive fuel, and slow economic growth Higher tax collection often means people are paying more, not necessarily that the economy is thriving If people were earning more, if businesses were booming, if unemployment was dropping, then it would make sense to celebrate because it would reflect real growth But right now, it feels like the burden is increasing while service delivery, infrastructure, and accountability are not improving at the same pace So the frustration is not about the number itself. It is about what people are getting in return

Talk about Roadblock 😁😁 Good morning bahlali #Myoffice 📍KNP

Black capitalism is the only thing that can close the wealth gap. Not socialism, not communism. More black entrepreneurs; not more black welfare recipients.

Europe got rich by ingenuity and enterprise. America got rich by an even more free version of ingenuity and enterprise China got rich by abandoning communism and adopting a free market manufacturing hub. I fear that Africa is destined to remain poor in spite of its vast mineral resources because Africa continues to vote for incompetent and thieving politicians who are clueless about economics and if you vote for rubbish to rule you you can expect nothing in return.