Love the FT

Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk 💪

The millions Vodacom spends protecting its CEO techcentral.co.za/the-millio…

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Obscene!

This guy’s done. It all over bar the shouting.

Prediction: this guy is going to be more consequential in history than Elon Musk or Sam Altman

Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

Apple WWDC time. Does anyone outside of the tech press still watch these?

South Africans are deeply frustrated and with good reason about illegal immigration and the pressure it places on already scarce opportunities. But the real crisis is not the immigrants themselves. The root cause is our failure, over the past fifteen years, to deliver inclusive economic growth that creates enough jobs, dignity and hope for our own people. This failure has been driven by three systemic issues we can no longer ignore: • A collapse in the rule of law that has enabled corruption, criminality, land invasions, illegal migration, and the brazen theft of electricity and water. • Bureaucracy and red tape that continue to strangle enterprise, deter investment and kill job creation. • Incompetent and, in too many cases, corrupt leadership in key positions across government, state-owned enterprises and parts of the private sector. As leaders, we must have the courage to look in the mirror and ask a difficult but necessary question: How have we allowed these conditions to take root and persist? This question is not about blame. It is about responsibility and that is precisely why it is empowering. It places the power to change things back where it belongs: with us. We are not helpless. We are not victims of forces beyond our control. By focusing on what lies within our sphere of influence our decisions, our standards, our willingness to confront uncomfortable truths and act decisively, we can begin to reverse the damage we have helped create. The time for self-criticism and honest reflection is now. The time for excuses has long passed. South Africa’s future will be determined by leaders who are prepared to own their part in the mess and do the hard, disciplined work required to fix it.

The reality of state corruption/capture in Zimbabwe. Well worth watching, but very depressing: youtu.be/YZtg-AN9zts

I’m really enjoying the fact that this grotesque goblin is losing his evil war against Ukraine

Open Letter To the President of the Russian Federation From the President of Ukraine When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past. Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.

Elon hitting a personal wealth of a trillion dollars with this ludicrously overpriced SpaceX IPO is probably the peak of this bubble. Or it should be. Only question is whether it pops before or after the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs.

Bubble? What bubble?

Aggressively priced. The fight between Amazon and Takealot is now well and truly under way...

Significant development in South Africa's telecoms industry. Not great news for the MNOs, but likely very good news for consumers... 👇

The Strange Rise of Arch Linux youtu.be/y8ts6ZSv4ko?si=TJEs…

The team working on the covers @TheEconomist really deserve kudos. Incredible run of amazing cover designs in the last year...