We are incredibly lucky that the Richest man alive is Right Wing and hates Woke. 👏✌️❤️🙏

Nine Bangladeshi nationals were intercepted at O.R. Tambo International Airport on Thursday after attempting to enter South Africa using fraudulent South African visas and fake Indian passports. According to the Border Management Authority, immigration officials detected irregularities during processing and discovered the visas were allegedly issued fraudulently through the South African High Commission in New Delhi. Three women travelled on Bangladeshi passports, while six men initially presented fake Indian passports before later producing Bangladeshi passports. All nine were denied entry and arrangements were made for their deportation back to Bangladesh. BMA Commissioner Michael Masiapato praised officials for the interception, saying it highlights both the growing sophistication of international document fraud syndicates and the importance of strong border security. Investigations are continuing into the origin of the fraudulent documents and possible links to transnational criminal networks. @TheBMA_SA

Elon Musk's statement that Africa's poverty is not rooted in colonialism is a harsh but necessary economic truth. Clinging to centuries-old colonial grievances has become a bankrupt strategy used by modern ruling elites to excuse their own policy failures and institutional decay. Ethiopia avoided colonial rule, yet it stagnated for decades. Vietnam endured brutal French colonization and war, yet it is now a booming economic power. If colonialism were the sole determinant of wealth, Ethiopia would be rich and Vietnam would be broke. The core issue is present governance, not past extraction. Former colonies like Singapore grew because they protected property rights and enforced the rule of law. Africa remains trapped because leadership prioritizes elite survival over economic productivity.

I genuinely do not understand how people hate this man Look at the earnestness in his eyes in this video He’s put 100% of his money on the line and come within inches of disaster a dozen times And in the midst of it, you can see can see the emotion of sadness at being dismissed by people he cares about Anyone with a functioning brain can see this is his genuine heart and soul behind this He has prevailed against the longest of long odds. It just gets me fired up. I want to be even a small percent of this great. What an inspiration. x.com/iam_smx/status/1991582…

Elon Musk has officially become the world’s first trillionaire. His milestone reshapes conversations about wealth, innovation, and global influence, marking a new chapter in financial history. Read on tinyurl.com/585drdaa #news #ElonMusk #TrillionaireStatus #GlobalInfluence

South Africa had real space ambitions that dated back to the late 1950s. The program was launched primarily through partnerships with NASA. In the 1980s, while a young Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria, South Africa was on the absolute cusp of becoming a global space superpower. The country possessed the Overberg Test Range, advanced rocket technology, and a first-world infrastructure built on precision engineering. South Africa had the exact blueprint to stand among aerospace giants. Then, the ANC cadres took over. Under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and a toxic ideological obsession, that entire world class infrastructure was systematically dismantled and run into the dirt. They replaced meritocracy with political patronage, drove out elite engineering talent with restrictive racial mandates, and broke the power grid so badly that heavy manufacturing became impossible. Instead of letting infrastructure rot, a functional South Africa would have expanded its historic NASA partnerships. South Africa would have become the absolute go-to hub for tracking and communicating with global Mars missions, lunar landings, and deep space probes.

BREAKING: Times Square’s iconic ball has transformed into Mars to celebrate the SpaceX IPO.

Dumb people are impressed by complexity. Smart people are impressed by simplicity.

Elon Musk on learning:

Alzheimer’s may be linked to gum bacteria, new research shows. Scientists have repeatedly found Porphyromonas gingivalis—the chief bacterium that causes periodontitis—inside the brains of people who died with Alzheimer’s. When researchers deliberately infected mice with this oral bacterium, the animals rapidly developed key Alzheimer’s pathology, including the buildup of amyloid-beta plaques. Perhaps most alarming, the bacteria’s toxic enzymes have been detected in the brains of people showing early Alzheimer’s changes years before memory loss or other symptoms appear, suggesting the infection may quietly initiate damage long in advance. These discoveries have sparked serious interest in new treatment approaches. An experimental drug called COR388 (from the company Cortexyme) has already succeeded in lowering both bacterial load and amyloid-beta levels in preclinical models. Although large human trials are still needed, the evidence is mounting that at least some cases of Alzheimer’s may have an infectious trigger rather than being purely degenerative. [Dominy, S. S., et al. "Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors", Science Advances, 5(1), eaau3333]

More job losses under the anc communist regime.

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

I buy a piece of land for $1 million and farm it by hand, feeding 100 people. I then invest in equipment and scale up to feed 100,000 people - making the farm worth $10 million. Finally, I pour every profit back into inventing a revolutionary new way to produce food that now feeds millions. The farm is suddenly valued at $1 billion. Am I now an evil hoarding billionaire who must give it all away? Do I actually have $1 billion sitting in the bank? And what would society gain by confiscating that $1 billion from me forcing me to sell the farm that feeds millions and employs thousands to an investor who doesn't have the ability to do what I did?

My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends: Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.

A fundamental truth that none of their supporters in this country will face is that @MYANC came to power to steal - period. They believed that years of fighting to end apartheid - despite contributing relatively little to its eventual demise - and decades spent in exile meant they were owed a debt. And they have been collecting that debt every day since 1994. There is no room in South Africa for innovation, entrepreneurship, or development that benefits the country and its people at large. Theft and destruction are so deeply entrenched in the ANC's DNA that they have become its defining characteristics. The overwhelming majority of South Africa's new billionaires owe their fortunes to political patronage, B-BBEE rent seeking, and/or outright theft.

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀

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