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The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

South Africa needs to start playing the offensive in trade if we are going to survive this period.

Smaller neighbouring economies are crumbling as we speak (see link below) and we know what the migrant implications of that will be on our fragile economy

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Demand President Ramaphosa Shut Down Embassy of Genocidal Israel Now! We call on you, President Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa, Minister of International Relations and Cooperations, Ronald Lamola, and the Government of South Africa, to cut all diplomatic ties with Israel and ...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: awethu.amandla.mobi/petitions/de...

Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Invasive weed is threatening life in Joburg dams Kariba weed on the surfaces of the dams could kill the indigenous ecosystems

Once thriving with aquatic life, two dams in the north of Johannesburg are now completely blanketed by a thick, green invasive plant species

Read groundup.org.za/article/fate... by Ihsaan Haffejee

The “biggest trout farm in Africa” and the failed R5,000 community fund Lesotho Highlands aquaculture project offers little in return for its licence

A company which claims to be the biggest trout farm in Africa contributed only R5,000 to the community fund in the Katse Dam catchment area in the Lesotho Highlands. Local farmers say the dam has changed conditions for the worse.

Read groundup.org.za/article/the-... by Sechaba Mokhethi

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People have the power!

State Capture 2.0: Mashatile, Creecy push ANC deployment candidate for SAA top job | News24 Transport Minister Barbara Creecy will recommend the worst-performing candidate for the chief executive officer job at South African Airways (SAA) after intervention by Deputy President Paul Mashatile...

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy will recommend the worst-performing candidate for the chief executive officer job at South African Airways (SAA) after intervention by Deputy President Paul Mashatile and the ANC's deployment committee.

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"

This needs to be documented in February 2025's calendar as the day/month Afriform #FAFO about what happens to you when you spread fake news and repercussions follow. President Ramaphosa must let them live the consequences of their actions and send them to Trump for discussions.

Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥

Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.

Mabusi Ntuli, Lesbian Spaza Shop Owner and Artist, Gunned Down in KZN Mabusi Ntuli, a lesbian spaza shop owner, was brutally gunned down on her birthday in KwaZulu-Natal in what appears to be a targeted attack.

Mabusi Ntuli, a lesbian spaza shop owner and artist, was brutally gunned down on her birthday in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in what appears to be a targeted attack.

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When a 5-year-old boy drowned in feces in a dilapidated pit toilet at his school while wealthy businessmen were accused of siphoning money away from building things like school toilets...the student “died because of state capture.” Eusebius McKaiser

Opinion | Musk? Trump? Who Exactly Is Running the Federal Government? (Gift Article) What should be an uncomplicated question yields a complicated answer.

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"...we are guilty of underdescribing state capture in the media, it is a guilt that lies in our failure to draw a blunt connection between political jargon and real human beings..."
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Rejection is Protection every single time. Quote: "May the bridges we burn light our way."

Let them be mad.
Let them judge you.
Let them misunderstand you.
Let them gossip about you.
Let them ignore you.
Let them be right.
Let them doubt you.
Let them hate you.
Let them run your name in the ground.
Let them make you out to be the villain.

But never let them make you question your worth.