A Failed state... @mxomandla

World Bank & IMF only loans money to countries it plans to destroy and privatise it's assets

Sihle Mavuso @ZANewsFlash

7 hours ago

South Africa's 1.5 billion dollar development policy loan from the World Bank has been met with mixed reaction. ewn.co.za/2026/07/21/mix…

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😂🤛🏿😂

Pro Philani @prophilani

14 hours ago

Indeed…

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@MainlandAfrica that giraffe view 😭😭

IOL News @IOL

11 hours ago

Defence Minister Bantu Holomisa says South Africa must explore innovative funding models and public-private partnerships to strengthen the country’s defence capability, warning that the SANDF cannot rely solely on additional allocations from National Treasury to address growing

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Le Giraffe View 🦒

Malome @Malome_ZA

7 hours ago

@MainlandAfrica that giraffe view 😭😭

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Le Giraffe View 🦒

Business Day @BDliveSA

2 days ago

Transnet, whose Port of Cape Town was recently ranked as the worst performer out of 400 in the world, has kick-started a process to bring in private sector cash and expertise to operate the key multipurpose terminal at the port. Read the full story: tinyurl.com/2nthkt55

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The body, the mind, and the spirit are not separate worlds. The food you eat influences your strength. Your strength influences your work Your work shapes your character. Your character influences your relationships. Your relationships shape the peace within your home. The peace within your home influences the quality of your sleep, and the quality of your sleep shapes the clarity of your dreams. What modern thinking divides into separate categories, indigenous wisdom often understood as one continuous circle. This is why cleanliness mattered. The floor was swept. The hearth was maintained. iCansi was rolled away each morning and opened again only when it was time to rest. These were not empty rituals. They reflected a deeper understanding that order should never be allowed to decay into disorder. The condition of the home reflected the condition of the people who lived within it. There is another tradition that deserves our attention. Many elders have long taught that iCansi does not easily rot and is not readily consumed by worms when buried with the deceased. Whether this reflects the natural durability of the matting rush, the conditions in which it was used, or a symbolic understanding passed down through generations, the belief itself reveals how highly iCansi was regarded. Before wooden coffins became common, many families wrapped the deceased in an iCansi together with cowhide before returning them to the Earth. This invites a profound question. Why was the same mat that carried a person through every night of life also chosen to accompany them in death? Perhaps because iCansi was never regarded as ordinary furniture. It welcomed the body into rest every evening, and in death it welcomed the body into its final rest. Life began with sleep upon iCansi, and the final journey ended upon the iCansi. It quietly reminded every generation that death is not merely an ending, but also a return. The cowhide carried its own meaning. Among the Nguni, cattle represented family, continuity, responsibility, and the bond between generations. The matting rush came from the meeting place of Earth and water. The cowhide came from the animal that sustained the household. One connected the deceased to the landscape. The other connected them to the family. Together they accompanied the person back into the embrace of the Earth. The greatest lesson hidden inside an iCansi is not found in the matting rush itself but in the philosophy it carries. A single stem is easily broken, but hundreds woven together become strong enough to support human life. One person survives through community just as one stem gains strength through many others. Nature quietly teaches principles that books often struggle to explain. Perhaps the greatest mistake of the modern world is believing that intelligence began with paper. Long before ink touched paper, wisdom was already written into rivers, mountains, trees, birds, stars, grasses, and the humble matting rush. Our ancestors did not read nature as though it were scenery. They read it as though it were a living library. The Earth was their first book, the seasons were its chapters, and every living thing was a lesson waiting for those humble enough to observe. iCansi was therefore never just a sleeping mat. It was a philosophy woven by human hands from a plant that had already mastered resilience. It carried the body through the silence of every night and, in many traditions, accompanied the body back to the Earth at the end of life. When you understand that, you no longer see woven matting rush. You begin to see an entire philosophy of existence hidden beneath the place where our ancestors chose to close their eyes.🍃🫶🏽

Today, 20 July 2026 ADVOCATE Daniel Malesela Teffo was acquitted on all six charges that the Legal Practice Council brought against Teffo was struck from the roll, as a result of these charges against him. The LPC must now reinstate him and enrol him again on the roll of Advocates. He represented himself in this matter. #SenzoMeyiwaTrial

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The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter

a day ago

BREAKING: Iran directly rejects US-backed Qatar's new proposal of a 10-day ceasefire that would halt US strikes on Iran in exchange for Iran opening two Hormuz shipping lanes, with Iran's senior negotiating member Marandi saying "don't even think about it." This follows Iran's

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African Bank is majority-owned by the South African Reserve Bank (45%) and the Government Employees Pension Fund (22.5%). The remaining 22.5% is held by a consortium of commercial banks, which includes FirstRand (5.895%), Standard Bank (5.355%), Absa (4.455%), Nedbank (3.69%), Investec (2.205%), and Capitec (0.9%).

Carl Liebenberg @LiebenbergCarl

2 days ago

Oh? So Capitec is reporting super profits while the State Owned bank is losing money and jobs..every.fckn.time.

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Read books and follow someone who reads patterns 😂

Agent Nala @MainlandAfrica

2 days ago

I put it to you that the biggest beneficiaries from this arranged union between Jaheim and the Princess are Cyril Ramaphosa, Patrice Motsepe- and by extension ARM. Talk about strategic positioning for influence. Read patterns, not books.

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@Tsogang3 Land and water

China Now @ChinaNow24

3 days ago

From China… a portable device that turns various water sources into usable, clean water China has developed a mobile water‑purification unit capable of treating well water, floodwater, river water, mountain springs, groundwater, and even tap water — all without disconnecting

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Iran must stop wasting its time with futile negotiations. Nothing will come out of this. Maybe only after sinking US warships, will Trump come to his senses.

Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng

2 days ago

🔴 BREAKING: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says negotiations with the US should be pursued even if the chances of success are only 10 percent.

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If Iran had military bases in Canada or Mexico, and Iran launched missiles from those bases toward America, and then America bombed those Iranian bases located in Canada and Mexico, would we consider that an American act of aggression? Of course not, not to mention whether Canada and Mexico have been supporting Iran with money and media, distorting America's image in the media for fifty years, recruiting, funding, training, and sending mercenaries against America to inflame internal tensions. Imagine that all the Gulf states have been doing all this and more against Iran for fifty years, yet Iran still treats them with utmost good neighborliness and has only bombed American military bases so far. Frankly, the Gulf Arabs don't deserve all the respect that Iran shows them.

🛑🇧🇫- Captain Ibrahim Traore on why the government wants to control the flow of international students. He said they are currently counting the number of Burkinabè students who are studying overseas. Out of 1000 students in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦, over 800 of them left the country without the government knowing. Our embassy over there has no record of them. And guess what those 800 people are studying? Charia law and Islamic laws and none of them is learning a trade. So, he asked: where are they intending to apply those laws? In Burkina Faso 🇧🇫? Not here. Captain said he is going to bring them back home, and if they refuse, then they are no longer Burkinabè. Will your country ever address this? Radical islam is a cancer that needs to be addressed. If we pretend as if it’s not a threat to Africa, we are just fooling ourselves. Terrorism started with them. Remember, the imperialists are always using religion and ethnicism to divide Africans.

I watch people undermine and underestimate Ngizwe Mchunu. Reduce the man to a clown at your own peril. Remember Trump. Remember Zelenskyy. Remember Milei Etc Political positions are seldom a product of rationality- but rather placement for purposes. Read patterns, not books.

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This is how Rupert has positioned himself at the centre of USA & China surveillance empire in South Africa. In China, a businessman like Rupert would have either been jailed or killed. USA deep state would have co-opted him like it has done will Messi equivalent called Elon.

@mxomandla Thank you for listening 🙏🏾

Today, the City of Johannesburg secured a court order in the Gauteng High Court against Goldenrod Group, the owner of Marble Towers. In terms of the order, Goldenrod is interdicted from continuing any installation of units and from allowing anyone to occupy structures that do not comply with building regulations and fire safety requirements. Within seventy-two hours, all non-compliant structures will be cordoned off and sealed, and all structures encroaching on municipal property and public pavements must be removed immediately. Goldenrod has also been ordered to pay the City’s costs.✊✊Victory for the residents of Johannesburg

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While you are consumed by Madlanga drama series, the government has granted the USA access to SA sovereign data through licensing of Amazon Leo. What they couldn't accelerate with Starlink they are have now done with Amazon which too has a contract with US Department of War.