South Africa is food-secure at a national level — the most secure country in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The real challenge is “household food insecurity”, and the main cause is partly income poverty. The challenge isn't agriculture, but the fact that people have no income.

There’s a simple reason Netflix cancels shows so quickly independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

These accounts are gut wrenching. If metros are experiencing this decay and decline, with larger capital budgets, how much more for poorer municipalities outside the industrial areas? Sure capital flight (see Jozi vs Jozi on Sandton) has contributed …

In Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 over 6million people live in tents, their lands have been taken by sponsored arm groups who subject people to labor where they mine resources. Despite the killings and displacement Congo has the busiest airspace in Africa where minerals

Deadbeat parents: The amendment to the Maintenance Act to blacklist maintenance defaulters with credit bureaus is on track. Stats indicate that 70% of deadbeats default on child maintenance in the first two years of court orders being granted. The DOJ is currently updating

🚨34 African countries spend more on debt than on healthcare or education. This fuels global malnutrition, Christian Aid reports: bit.ly/4fqoHA6 As the #G20 meets, debt relief should be on the table, so nations can prioritise food security & nutrition. #HungryforAction

WE WANT TRILLIONS, NOT BILLIONS! Incremental funding won’t solve an existential crisis. Africa demands a systemic overhaul of global climate finance - fair, just, and reflective of the scale of loss and damage and adequate for adaptation and mitigation for our communities #COP29

[NEWS] The Gauteng Government has spent R16,6 million supporting 9 concerts by international artists over the past 5-years. This was revealed by Matome Chiloane, Arts & Culture MEC, in a response to questions from the DA. TCG

Comment: Joburg people. In case you don’t know this: Pikitup is chaired by ANC Joburg treasurer. Johannesburg Property Company is chaired by ANC Joburg deputy chairperson (the mayor is the Joburg chairperson). Cadre deployment explains everything about our city.

I’ve been thinking about the crisis in Gauteng for a few weeks, trying to understand it and the response to it. Yes, I said crisis. I’ve asked questions, read, analysed, and this is where I’ve landed. A long post. 📝 It’s 2017. Cape Town is in the midst of a once-in-400-years

Uber is still cheaper than bail money hey. Please don't drink and drive this festive season toe 🙏

I want us to understand that to this day, we don't have a full understanding of the mysteries of genetics. People are born replicas of long forgotten aunts from 3 generations back, born with mixtures of birthmarks, born showcasing loud phenotypic secrets that nobody knew prior-

Joburg People: I'm not sure you can see this so well, but Pikitup CEO earns R4.3-million/year. For what, I wonder? By the way, thank-you for your traffic light information. I have answers coming next week.

Rwanda directly profits off the genocide via destabilising the country with its military invasion and funnelling precious metals from Congolese mines through it to sell those metals off to the West. This book goes into it in a lot more detail

Corruption and incompetence are destroying us. And we all know it.

“There’s the biggest mall that’s coming to Johannesburg,” says Panyaza Lesufi with aplomb. “Twenty-four thousand square meters. That’s the BRICS investment we managed to get.” Yep! We continue to build palaces of consumption, and none of production.

You know, the fact that Black farmers account for roughly 10% of South Africa's commercial agricultural output is rooted in some serious policy issues and inefficiencies in government and organised agriculture. It is not just an issue of "inefficient farmers". In this short

We are seeing ACTUAL beheaded babies on our screens and this is not even a news story? Wtf is going on.

A lot of men aren’t heartless, they’re hurting. They’re not emotionally unavailable just emotionally unstable. And there’s a big difference. That’s why so many of them show up as avoidants. But it goes deeper than fear of intimacy. Let’s talk about it;

An American married to an Afrikaans woman welcoming Afrikaaners to America.