The rule of law prevailed today! Six years after Edward Snowden's revelations, the High Court of South Africa declared that bulk interceptions practices are unlawful. The case was brought by amaBhungane, we intervened with Right2Know. privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/…

And #relax #beachclubvibes chilled house music good cocktails and my hubby. Just what I needed to prepare for 2020. @ Potato Head Beach Club instagram.com/p/B7-MjFRnNca/…

Legal letter in my local Woolies, advising that the enforcement authorities are acting unlawfully in seeking to stop the sale of cooked food from counters, and that they potentially face a "significant civil claim".

US$0.90c per unemployed person per day is the safety net the South African Government is giving our poor. #humanitariandisaster #onlyninetycents

The Australians are bloody hilarious. 😂 c/o Greta Lee Jackson

Could the Western Cape Gov help explain why we are only 14% of tests but 44% of active case? Why we have higher deaths than gauteng and share videos of temporary facilities being established like Nasrec. This would be reassuring along with radical uptick on testing. Premier Alan Winde

Western Cape remains the leader of most tests per capita making their numbers more credible. The Province also has an effective strategy that tracks cases and targets screening and testing to identified hotspots. What’s the rest of the country doing? mediahack.co.za/datastories/co…

I have never understood the perverse logic of some who argue that they are entitled to steal now because others stole under apartheid.Or the other expression of this perversion: why arrest these thieves who stole from poor pensioners when those thieves have not yet been arrested?

I couldn't loathe this ANC - African National Congress government any more than I do today. Government is ending free housing projects. #VoetsekANC businessinsider.co.za/business/gover…

1659 MW of #renewableenergy registered with NERSA_ZA in 2022, compared to 86 MW in 2021. 398 projects, including 14 above 50MW. The impact of policy changes is clear! A thread🧵 1/7

Bacteria turn farm waste into profitable cellulose strands for tough bioplastics. #AdFeature with Kusano Sakko Inc.

In case you were wondering how much South Africa spends bailing out State Owned Enterprises: *R331-BILLION* between 2013 and 2022 (55% to Eskom). In 2023 it was R65-billion 😳😳😳 Source: National Treasury (2023: p8) via PMG static.pmg.org.za/230314_NT_-_SC…

In South Africa's Western Cape province, the unemployment rate has fallen to 21.6% (from 25.2% a year ago). The next-best performing province is the Northern Cape, with an unemployment rate of 26.6%. The Eastern Cape's jobless rate is 40%.

"M-Kopa, which pioneered a pay-as-you-go-model for solar panels and smartphones in east Africa, has raised more than $250 million in debt and equity in one of the largest fundraisings by an African technology start-up." ft.com/content/de0a34…

Expanded unemployment rate in South Africa's major cities: Tshwane (Pretoria) : 38.6% Nelson Mandela Bay: 36.6% Johannesburg : 36.4% eThekwini (Durban) : 35.6% Cape Town : 26% Nationwide expanded unemployment rate: 42.4%

Worth a listen!

Patience.

*Reflections about five common myths about agriculture and land in South Africa.* South Africa’s land reform policy remains highly contested. But, in our view, a number of persistent myths about farmland statistics and the structure of commercial agriculture skew debates.

This massive pipeline would obliterate rolling blackouts: 66GW of wind & solar projects are in the pipeline in South Africa. Many of the planned projects would be coupled with battery storage. The pipeline also includes some 2 GW of gas-to-power. engineeringnews.co.za/article/renewa…

BREAKING: A new report shows that the end may be in sight for AIDS, the world’s deadliest pandemic. The Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS says that Botswana, Eswatini, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe have all reached “95-95-95” targets, meaning 95% of the people who