South Africa

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28759991

• Temu and Shein will be getting more expensive come 25th April 2025.
• The companies are blaming increases to their operating expenses thanks to sweeping export tariffs from the US.
• Other international companies will likely be increasing their prices in the coming months, including for South Africans.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60948772

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27222369

This milestone marks the first-ever quantum satellite communication link established in the Southern Hemisphere.

Looks like it's chaos over there in the US of A:

The order empowers Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to create a plan that will facilitate the resettlement of Afrikaners through the United States Refugee Admissions Program (Usrap) to be submitted to Trump and the Homeland Security Advisor. No plan has been drawn up thus far.

The lack of a plan may or may not have something to do with the fact that on 20 January, the US president signed an executive order suspending Usrap, the exact vehicle that would allow for the settlement of the “Afrikaner refugees” and effectively instituting an indefinite ban of refugees.

When I browse https://lemm.ee/c/southafrica@lemmy.world a lot of posts are missing compared to looking at https://lemmy.world/c/southafrica

Why is that?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/22815071

He is not alone. Musk is part of the “PayPal mafia” of libertarian billionaires with roots in South Africa under white rule now hugely influential in the US tech industry and politics.

They include Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder, who was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated. Thiel, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, has been critical of welfare programs and women being permitted to vote as undermining capitalism. A 2021 biography of Thiel, called The Contrarian, alleged that as a student at Stanford he defended apartheid as “economically sound”.

David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora after his family moved to the US when he was young. A fourth member of the mafia, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the apartheid regime’s last foreign minister, Pik Botha, and former PayPal CFO, has kept a lower political profile but remains close to Musk.

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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/1962641

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of operations, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told reporters at the scene on Wednesday.

Imagine this: a young girl is shipwrecked along South Africa's Wild Coast in the 1730s.