Stuart Johnson

I underestimated Durban tonight.

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Diwali full bore.

Durban tonight.

Looks like more DOGE style cost-cutting to me.

Cut away what the country really needs, waste the "saving" on the king's court.

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

Yes, we are.

And we didn't need this tech to achieve it.

Just Fox News.

Fox was delivering what is now the mindless self-reinforcing tech soup-slop the good old fashioned way long before AI.

The machines are just accelerating the age of stupid.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's challenging. Good luck with working in between 👊

Whole town wakes up at first light to go swimming, running, cycling, paddling, surfing, fishing.

Demented.

Spatial apartheid, school sports coaches, and Durban are the reasons why.

It's not healthy for anyone.
Kids are not designed for 12 hour plus school days.

Lots of kids' day starts at 6am with sport. Then more in the evening, especially indoor sports and extra-murals.

Still have homework to do.

Nuts.

Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.

No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.

"One million – the number of seconds that make up approximately 11.5 days.
One billion seconds, however, is approximately 31.7 years."

Some perspective on how big the R49bn the Zuma's and Gupta's stole from South Africa really is.

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R48k for a hat? RAF officials ‘proud’ of marketing work by billion-rand media contracts | News24 Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts questioned witnesses on the Road Accident Fund’s R1-billion media contracts on Wednesday.

#idiots

R48k for a hat? RAF officials ‘proud’ of marketing work by billion-rand media contracts www.news24.com/business/eco...

‘How is Mr Zuma going to live?’: Judge questions impact of pension benefit attachment | News24 A judge has questioned how former president Jacob Zuma will live if his entire pension benefit is attached to repay R28.9 million in taxpayer funds, which were unlawfully used to fund his corruption t...

On the R49bn he and the Guptas looted - it shouldn't really be an issue.

(Plus there is a good chance Gadaffi's missing gold is in the Nkandla basement)

‘How is Mr Zuma going to live?’: Judge questions impact of pension benefit attachment www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Trump says he would want to know Ukraine’s plans for Tomahawk missiles WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would want to know what Ukraine planned to do with U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles before agreeing to supply them because he doe...

Not much point telling Trump because then Putin will know.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Zuma’s lawyers say he could never repay his R28.9m state-funded legal bill – even with pension | News24 Former president Jacob Zuma’s lawyers say he will never be able to pay back the R28.9 million in taxpayer funds spent on his corruption trial legal costs – even if his presidential pension was forfeit...

Nonsense that Zuma can't afford to repay this after his family and cronies ripped off R49 billion.

Thanks to his "10%" he's minted.

Zuma’s lawyers say he could never repay his R28.9m state-funded legal bill – even with pension www.news24.com/southafrica/...

If ever there was reason not to select Oracle for your company's enterprise software supplier, its somewhere in here.

Pick any one.

Zuma, MKP ConCourt challenge to Madlanga Commission ‘scant’, ‘devoid of material evidence’ | News24 “Notably absent” from former president Jacob Zuma and his MK Party’s urgent Constitutional Court challenge to the establishment of the Madlanga Commission was “anything more than broad allegations tha...

Why is Zuma so keen to prevent the Madlanga commission proceeding?

And to keep Mchunu in place?

Zuma, MKP ConCourt challenge to Madlanga Commission ‘scant’, ‘devoid of material evidence’ www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Mbalula admits ANC has been infiltrated by criminal cartels | News24 While seeking to distance the ANC from corruption, the scandal-ridden party’s secretary-general Fikile Mbalula admitted that they have been infiltrated by criminal cartels.

Ramaphosa had the opportunity to clean out the ANC house in 2018.

He chose "unity" over ethics and over South Africa.

His hesitation is going to prove to have been the fatal blow to the ANC.

Mbalula admits ANC has been infiltrated by criminal cartels www.news24.com/politics/mba...

Pieter du Toit | The Tembisa pillaging will be how SA remembers the ANC, Ramaphosa | News24 The Ramaphosa-led ANC is no different from the Zuma-led version. The plunder of Tembisa Hospital provides all the evidence, argues Pieter du Toit.

What we all know and is absolutely guaranteed is that this is just the tip of the ANC's institutionalized corruption across every sphere of government and public services.

Pieter du Toit | The Tembisa pillaging will be how SA remembers the ANC, Ramaphosa www.news24.com/opinions/col...

KZN water entity axes chairperson over undeclared business interests | News24 uMngeni-uThukela Water has axed the chairperson of its subsidiary, uMngeni Water Services, after investigators found that he failed to make a full disclosure of his interests in a series of companies,...

He won't be axed off the main Water Board - he's obviously a connected and influential cadre to have these roles in the first place.

And let's be honest, he's just doing cadre things.

KZN water entity axes chairperson over undeclared business interests www.news24.com/investigatio...

Quite a piece from @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

Bullseye commentary 🎯

Inevitable consequence of the Trump Presidency.

PGA silent after Ryder Cup MC leads foul-mouthed chants abusing Rory McIlroy The Ryder Cup host organisation did not respond beyond boosting security and posting requests asking for decorum that were booed

"the female master of ceremonies employed to inject some life into the crowd at the 1st tee was recorded using a megaphone to lead a chant of 'Fuck you Rory!' ”

What has happened to this country and its people?

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Absolutely - there were many courageous individuals who refused to be cowed and made a contribution in the way they felt they could.

‘Damn it, I’m gonna do it’: Zille says she entered mayoral race after failing to find a candidate | News24 After shopping around for a suitable mayoral candidate for the beleaguered City of Johannesburg, DA federal council chair Helen Zille decided to throw her name into the hat for party nomination.

Ah, the ginormous exploding ego does it again!

(Disclaimer - if I lived in Jo'burg I'd probably pinch my nose and vote for Zille as Mayor)

‘Damn it, I’m gonna do it’: Zille says she entered mayoral race after failing to find a candidate www.news24.com/politics/dam...

POWER CONNECTIONS | R64m paid for R32m project: Hawks target more alleged City Power graft | News24 The Hawks raided Johannesburg’s electricity company, City Power, on Thursday as a high-level investigation intensifies with expected arrests.

Transformers needed to restore power to townships.

Citizens robbed blind.

There is nothing the ANC and their cadres haven't corrupted.

They don't care one fig.

POWER CONNECTIONS | R64m paid for R32m project: Hawks target more alleged City Power graft www.news24.com/investigatio...

POWER CONNECTIONS | R64m paid for R32m project: Hawks target more alleged City Power graft | News24 The Hawks raided Johannesburg’s electricity company, City Power, on Thursday as a high-level investigation intensifies with expected arrests.

Transformers needed to restore power to townships.

Citizens robbed blind.

There is nothing the ANC and their cadres haven't corrupted.

They don't care one fig.

POWER CONNECTIONS | R64m paid for R32m project: Hawks target more alleged City Power graft www.news24.com/investigatio...

Torture and death in Port Elizabeth 1985: Whistle-blower looks Apartheid dehumanised black people by subjecting them to treatment that denied their humanity, and it dehumanised white people by allowing, even encouraging, us to treat black people as less than huma...

Only those who were alive in 1985 will understand the courage this took for a young female doctor to stand up against the monstrously oppressive Apartheid regime.

Kudos to Dr Wendy Orr.

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History will judge Israel ‘very harshly’ for the atrocities in Gaza, says Ramaphosa President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is concerned that Israel has ‘completely ignored’ the rulings of the International Court of Justice, but the atrocities ‘will and must’ come to an end.

Ramaphosa is absolutely correct on how history is going to view Israel, and the people of Israel, in the wake of the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Completely inevitable outcome.

Musk and the whole DOGE fiasco will end up costing the USA far more than its imagined savings.