"Yesterday Camden had forgotten money for the cake sale so Nkazimulo gave him R10 to spend. Today Camden treated Nkazi to chicken strips and chips....can't life just be this lovely 😍 👌"-Hillcrest primary school
And so South Africa loses another productive, employment creating family..
Tired of paying more than R400,000 p.a. in income taxes for zero family benefit. Tired of crime, of living in fear, of endless, unpunished state theft & corruption. Of reading about it all by candlelight
Just a quick reminder...
After the curtain has come down on
#ICJ
proceedings, South Africa will - notwithstanding the findings of that court - STILL be gray listed, still be the organised crime, drug smuggling and terrorist financing capital of the world, still be home to the…
Sies! Over a century of sporting tradition swept aside because fewer than 10% of people are colour blind? Imagine having to don this abomination after having, for a lifetime, dreamed of and worked towards earning a Green and Gold jersey? You're a disgrace to rugby,
@BillBeaumont
!…
"The problim is she is not alive.."
Happy 40th Birthday princess 🥰
28 years since I was last able to gave you a hug, a kiss and a gift on the 2nd of September. Why do I still cry? Why should I not?
#Fatherhood
Garden helper just arrived for work, 90m later than usual. Had to walk 8km, after being beaten by Taxi Thugs for daring to come to work. Thugs also stole his bicycle (recently serviced at a cost of R1,200) and cellphone. He's worried about getting home safely this evening, with…
I've terminated my "Insider" subscription to
@DailyMaverick
and unsubscribed from all emails. Those funds (+50%, because "PBO" tax deduction), will now go to
@OUTASA
, an organisation making a really POSITIVE difference for all South Africans. An organisation which also appears…
45y ago I proposed to my (then 20yo) wife just 5 days after we met. "Yes! Why did you wait so long to ask me?" she said.
Now our 24yo laatlam daughter is all acting all starry eyed over some guy she's known for 3 months and I can't tell anyone what's going on inside my head.
Next to my bed stands a small picture of our daughter, Bianca, who left us on Christmas Day 1993, aged 12. This morning I opened the frame to clean the glass & found that it also contains a picture of Bianca's mother Wendy, at age 12. Such a small discovery, so many❤️💔 emotions.
@KayeSteinsapir
You will. Bianca left us on Christmas day 1993, aged only 12. She never really did though. Never really will either. Wish I lived closer and could give you a hug.
My heart is beating just as fast right now as it did 45 years ago, when I first saw her drying her then auburn mane in the sun..
#MarriedLife
#WhatALuckyManIam
Western Billionaire
@CyrilRamaphosa
bleats once more about “rich countries hoarding
#vaccines
,” yet says not a word about the fact that, but for he & his thieving, murderously incompetent
@MYANC
cronies, SA would today have been the richest nation in the Southern Hemisphere.
Been thinking a lot about this since last night.
Thinking of how very proud the
@Springboks
have made me feel to be a South African.
Thinking of how deeply ashamed the profoundly corrupt, utterly racist and immeasurably incompetent government of South Africa has made me feel to…
Pretty clear summary by Philip De Wet...
Israel:
1. May continue military operations in Gaza. Ceasefire (as requested by SA), not ordered.
2. Should (continue to) take steps to minimize civilian casualties.
3. Should (continue to) provide food / other humanitarian aid and…
Grocery shopping again this morning. Pretty much same shopping list as three weeks ago, but total cost around 15% up. How the hell do most South Africans even begin to cope with this situation?
SOUTH AFRICA APPROACHES THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE UNDER THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION WITH RESPECT TO ACTS COMMITTED BY ISRAEL IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS ATTACKS ON GAZA
South Africa is gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks on the…
@MrPBee
I was 6 or 7yo when I saw two policemen beat a young black man senseless (perhaps even to death?) on a sidewalk In Potchefstroom. I had never before in my life seen so much blood. He had apparently entered a shop via a “Whites Only” door.
#GeorgeBuildingCollapse
What was Planned and what the building looked like just before tragedy struck. On an otherwise glorious day.
Anyone else recall seeing THIS on TV News a few months ago?
Could cheap shit cement mixed with too much water and too…
1am call from son J.😱
Since being trying hard to NOT think too much about how very close to death son D. may have come last night.. 😱😬🫣
Pulled over and then hijacked / kidnapped by four "policemen."
While homeward bound after dark on the N12. About 30km from Witbank. /1
Have you guys really NEVER heard of "50 and 100 year flood lines"
@carteblanchetv
? When it rains heavily, it's "Climate Change." When it doesn't rain enough, it's "Climate Change." 🙄🙄🙄
It's all happened before and it will all happen again.
C02 or no C02.
This is why tens of thousands of South African small businesses have been destroyed. Why millions more South Africans are now jobless. Why more children are going to bed hungry than ever before in our history..
#GoFigure
Our "government" is way beyond merely evil.
I'm a generally happy person of generally even temperament but today I'm in a foul mood..
I'm submitting my 2019 tax return via eFiling, knowing that a lying, thieving sow recently appointed to a senior government post will use some of my money to shove more KFC into her face
The price you see is often not the price you pay. We all know how Massmart outlets (Game and Builders) like playing this game, but few know that
@PicknPay
are also increasingly doing so. Need eyes in the back of your head these days.
Not even halfway through today's
#ICJ
proceedings and it seems to already be evident that the SA "Government" briefs counsel as effectively as it manages Eskom and Transnet.
Although so many years have now passed since our daughter, Bianca, died aged 12, Suzie (Bianca's best ever Grade 1 to Grade 7 friend), has never failed to send us a loving message on this day. ❤️
Happy 39th Birthday Princess ❤️
#LoveNeverDies
About this time on Christmas Eve 1993 I fetched 12yo Bianca home from hospital for what we knew would be her last Christmas.. So near the end was she that we'd invited extended family to Christmas Eve dinner instead of Christmas day lunch. /1
You surely didn't for a moment really believe that the
@MyANC
"Minister of Electricity" was actually anything other than just another (expensive and useless) "Minister of
#Loadshedding
?"
The country can't afford "managers" who can't do anything other than dance and talk shit.…
So the girl of my life, the air in my lungs and the blood in my veins for the last 44 years turns 64 today. I wish I knew how to tell her how very much I love her.. 🥰🥰🥰
If you have a guaranteed income & are calling for new, "harder"
#LockdownSA
, perhaps you should think of gifting at least 50% of that income to the millions of SANs who exist hand to mouth, without such? Perhaps you should reassess your values at the same time?
At 8:30am on Christmas Day her short life came to an end, a tiny piece of pumpkin fritter still in her mouth. Gone but never forgotten. Not by us. Not by so many others.
Christmas Dinner is always on Christmas Eve now, and there are always pumpkin fritters./3
#RIP
Princess.
@jaredwright17
Criticism of the Bok's "boring, one dimensional" play has been around since I was young man, now many years back. I'll never forget Mof Myburgh (or was it Frik Du Preez?) famously replying to such a comment with the words "Just looks at the scoreboard." 😁
Yesterday I ate two homemade,cinnamon sugar sprinkled pumpkin fritters. December treats much loved by daughter Bianca, who left us age 12 on
#Christmas
Day 1993. 😢
Treats yesterday made by our daughter Lauren, who never met "my big sister who lives in Heaven." ❤️
#parenthood
💔
Why is the
@SAHRCommission
involving itself in the tragic death of Enock Mpianzi but not with the deaths, this month, of so many new born babies in Tembisa? Is the commission now based at Luthuli House?
@ValerieAnne1970
Instinct tells me to disagree.
Intellect tells me to read up on what he says before instinctively disagreeing. 😁
Anecdotal evidence tells me that 30 eggs a week for over 10 years have done me no apparent harm.
Our 35yo son has arrived safely in George, with terrible news of a friend who recently committed suicide, his business driven into bankruptcy by
#CoronaVirus
#LockDown
. He leaves a wife & two young daughters. 💔💔 /1
@helenzille
Surely, Helen, why *much* more thought should have been applied? Why not, e.g., have simply shown an ANC soiled flag after being washed with "DA Super Brite" washing powder in a diesel generator powered machine? Simple message. Zero risk of offence.
I haven't stopped laughing since the moment I first said "Hello" to her.
Why?
We will have been
#married
for 42 years next Tuesday... Today she comes home and, with a big smile, says "Look at what you just bought me for our anniversary!"
#WhatALuckyManIam
Depression stole so many years from me. 😢 All gone for good (along with almost 40Kg, gout, IBS & chronic acid reflux) within just a year of starting, in August 2014, to avoid all grains, sugar, fruits & manufactured "foods".
Reborn in my late 60s.. 🙏🙏
So important. Feeding the brain properly can't change your past, but it can change your future. A brain-healthy diet can make it easier to cope, function, and make decisions that move your life forward, allowing you to reach your personal best.
Spokesperson Clayton Monyela states that the "Government of South Africa is committed to the establishment of a viable Palestinian State.."
Lol! Wouldn't it be great if the (current,
@MYANC
) Government of SA paid as much attention to creating "a viable state" right here?
We began 45 years ago today. For 45 years I've happily followed her. Her courage. Her manners. Her principles. Her common sense and intuition. What a life coach and companion she's been! 🥰🥰🥰 And
#WhatALuckyManIam
Not a day goes by without my wife making me fall in love with her all over again. How unbelievably principled, strong, soft, courageous, beautiful inside & out is this girl who - 45 years ago - said "Yes" to me just 5 days after we met.❤
#Blessed
#MarriedLife
#LoveHerSoMuch
Very happy clients this week. Retired couple, married out of community, have total assets of R24,000,000, of which around R5,500,000 is “compulsory” (retirement fund) money.
Requiring an income of R80,000/m, they're beyond impressed by the fact that thoughtful income structuring…
To invest R700k, a 77yo widow, living on the smell of an oil rag, has to jump through endless hoops to prove that she's not an international money-laundering terrorist, while
@MyAnc
ministers & SOE "executives" steal tens of millions from RSA taxpayers with ease & impunity. Huh?
After 43 years of
#MarriedLife
we're having an argument. 🙄Well. Kind of. 😄 She tries to look angry, sorta shouts at me & stamps on my foot.. I try to look 😡 & yell back & smack her on the backside. Then we start laughing! How does one have a fight? A real fight? Help please!🤷🏻♂️
@LibertarianZA
It's because we're one of world's leading drug / human trafficking / money laundering and terrorist financing nations, where fraudulent passports are freely available to international criminals.
Given the racist criteria applicable to the evaluation of tourism business applications for state assistance I will not donate one cent to government’s
#CoronaVirusSA
#SolidarityFund
. Neither should you.
#SayNoToRacism
And from she who never ceases to amaze, to care, to warm my heart, to feed my soul, perhaps the best 2021minus1946 BD gift of all.
Me. "Aramis? After all these years? Why?"
She."Because I'll never forget what you smelled like the first time we kissed."
I could never explain ❤️
Shutting down the economy has resulted in millions losing their jobs, causing unprecedented deprivation and misery. As is now evident, it's done nothing to "slow the virus" or "flatten any curve" though..
If only we could now shut down our miserable 🤬ing government..🙏🙏
Isn’t she gorgeous? 😍😍
Aren’t they too?
#Cosmos
blooms will forever remind me of that magical, long ago April day. Celebrating 44 years of wonderful
#MarriedLife
, love, loyalty and best ever friendship today. 💖
I was reborn after reading
@bigfatsurprise
Finding it too inconvenient to cook separately, my wife also started eating (It's delicious!)
#LCHF
. The Asthma she had expensively medicated for >30y disappeared within 3 months. Her stiff, painful knuckles (arthritis?) soon healed too.
Peanut update.. 😭😭
Sweetest little guy Peacefully crossed the
#RainBowBridge
sometime last night, warm and cosy while in bed with us. A tiny, tiny boy who leaves a great big hole.
#PetLove
South Africa was ruled by a corrupt government before 1994.
South Africa has been ruled by an even more corrupt government since 1994.
Raid on German company revealed ‘bribe’ to Yengeni to secure purchase of corvettes.
@tlsibanda
Wonderfully informative and interesting thread! Thank you! 😀👏👏
Wish I’d been taught a little less European and a lot more of this South African history at school.
Today heard that the aged parents of one of my colleagues, tired of "waiting to be called to be vaccinated," simply presented themselves at Grey's Hospital in Pietermaritzburg. Jabs done, no problem..
Who really knows what is going on?
According to
@worldometer
, South Africa is presently home to 59,799,000 (and counting) people.
As of yesterday, 1,502,637 of those have been infected by
#CoronaVirusSA
. Not even 3 / every 100, but our Government has seen fit to destroy our economy? Put millions out of work?😭
Another take on what endemic
@MyAnc
corruption does.
Send Deceased Estate "Letter of Executorship" to bank of deceased client, requesting copies of bank statements and other docs. Bank replies "Sure. As soon as we've verified your LOE with the Master. That could take 2 to 3…
Here we go again... 🙄🙄🙄Victim Victim Victim...
Not a worthwhile day's work done in her entire life.
Were it not for the
#Racism
#Greed
#Sloth
#Corruption
#AntiSemitism
, shitty "friends" and utter incompetence of
@MyANC
, South Africa would ALSO be an "Economic Superpower"…
"You don't take ANY chronic meds at 77? No BP blood or Cholesterol control?!"😳
"Yep. I only take
#RealFood
once or twice daily. My 115/70 BP needs no help & I couldn't care less about my cholesterol. I don't personally know anyone of my age who is still as alive as I am."
@2StefanMoore
You don't know until you do know. I'd be banned for life if I posted pics of our daughter's face after a third of it had been removed and we had to do the wound care at home... 😖😖😖😭
"Corruption in South Africa is now worse than it has ever been since the end of Apartheid.."
Is this the "New Dawn" which you promised us
@CyrilRamaphosa
?
@RayMahlaka
That's my understanding too. As a shop owner, you display goods for sale at your own risk. Malicious damage (like setting a police vehicle alight) is another matter entirely.
I'm 75 years old and have just been asked to go to the pharmacy to buy 2 dozen condoms to be filled with ??? for a 21st birthday party.. Life never ceases to surprise. 😜
Naturally, but you and I better not be caught hiding a few million US Dollars of undeclared foreign currency inside the cushions of OUR living room couches!
The stench, oh the stench... Beyond overpowering 🤮
Placing an apostrophe before the letter "s" is the new normal for many..
Yum! Bacon and egg's for brekkie.
She owns blonde and brunette wig's.
We still have two bottle's of dishwashing liquid..
WHY?????
Very interesting from
@alechogg
via
@BizNewsCOM
At almost 75yo I'm 200% behind
@NickHudsonCT
@PanData19
and
@MLevitt_NP2013
.
Only 0,05% of total *WORLD* population ((mostly older folks) dead so far. Bad flu is all it is! Time to let our kids and their parents get on with life!
".. WHO ignored warnings from Taiwan and continued to reiterate China's false talking points — that "there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission" of the novel pathogen even as late as Jan 14..."
@ValerieAnne1970
Hardly anyone believes before the experience is personal. How many who have now *completely* healed Type 2 Diabetes were once told (by mainsteam medicine) that "The condition is irreversible?"