Derick Kuün
@derickkuun
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Dedicated husband, maize, soybean & cattle farmer. Have been blessed with the 2 most wonderful children to take care of in this world.
a Farm near Balfour
Joined December 2010
The ANC are such disgusting hypocrites. SA has just abstained in the UN Human Rights Council vote to investigate the Iranian government’s massacre of over 5000 protestors.
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We will not solve foot&mouth as long as the state has a monopoly on controlling the vaccines, and the counter strategy. The R500mil which went missing will haunt the @DOAgov_ZA and undermine trust in them until transparency prevails
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Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) went from a world-class facility to a complete disaster despite receiving R500 million to revamp the facility.
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South Africa is one country with real delusions of grandeur. It imagines itself as this giant in geopolitics, and yet it’s a poverty and crime-ridden mess that is waiting to explode at any moment. Its leaders should be focused on rescuing it and restoring some semblance of
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South Africa’s economy has dramatically underperformed its emerging market peers due to poor policy, corruption, and collapsing state capacity, leaving the country far smaller, poorer, and less competitive than it should be. https://t.co/wL3sDs9wEA
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South Africa’s economy has dramatically underperformed its emerging market peers due to poor policy, corruption, and collapsing state capacity, leaving the country far smaller, poorer, and less...
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Crazy numbers coming out of parliament. Cape Town has completed 12 401 housing units for the poor. More than double Joburg and more than all Gauteng metros combined. How does Cape Town do it? Why are they so much better at delivering services to the poor than the other metros?
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Results from our first autonomous nitrogen x seeding density trial at Cambria, IA. This is evidence we can grow corn with less nitrogen with proper management (and help from weather), even in south-central Iowa.
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https://t.co/dSe8zdRMkO ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula claimed that calls for the end of BEE are against the economic freedom of the people of South Africa. However, the data tells a different story.
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ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula claimed that calls for the end of BEE are against the economic freedom of the people of South Africa. However, the data tells a different story.
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The corn price to fertilizer price ratio on inputs such as phosphate are now the highest on record, and as corn prices continue to slide, it’s creating a financial hurt on farmers. https://t.co/zQ3TUdPdfr
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People who cannot be trusted to run a Spaza shop for a minute are appointed as mayors; municipal managers; hospital CEOs; MECs and SOE CEOs. As South Africans, we then expect from them, service delivery not chaos. Crazy isn’t. The joke is on us. #ProudlySA
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Seriti inquiry - no arrests Marikana Inquiry - no arrests Life Esidimeni - no arrests “State capture” - no arrests Moroena Commision-no arrests Some says he acted decisively that’s not true . We are going to pay millions for this like we did previously .
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This is the Marine traffic cruising through South African waters a minute ago. Imagine if we had a competant government, how we could have thrived. 1000's of job opportunities. But they are more interested in stealing and fucking up the whiteman to give a shit.
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While Mbeki was swanning around Sussex university improving his knowledge of fine malt whisky, Zille was in the trenches hiding ANC comrades in her home, at great personal risk. Mbeki’s remarks are unwarranted and wrong.
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Between 1964 and 1994, the government constructed 14 new dams that can store over 200 million cubic meters of water. Between 1994 and 2024, it only built two.
businesstech.co.za
Between 1964 and 1994, the government constructed 14 new dams that can store over 200 million cubic meters of water. Between 1994 and 2024, it only built two.
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ActionSA: 3 Weeks into the job, "Look how incredible she is, she resolved the Hammanskraal water crisis instantly!" Independent Observers 6 Months later: "But we have potholes everywhere, streets are dark at night and we have constant water/electricity issues." ActionSA: "How
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🚨MASSIVE: Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s family is linked to South Africa’s new R180 billion National Lottery licence. A company co-owned by his sister-in-law, Khumo Bogatsu, is part of the Sizekhaya Holdings consortium that won the 8-year lottery operator contract. 🔹
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To Every Black South African: The Time Has Come to Let Go of the Chains You Now Place on Yourselves📷 This is not an insult. This is not hatred. This is not “anti-black.” This is truth – direct, unfiltered, and long overdue. You were handed the keys to your future in 1994. The
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Just a reminder that the person responsible for our national intelligence is 'comrade' Kumbudzo Ntshaveni. Her experience is in marketing, tourism, labour relations, and housing. She has 0 experience in intelligence, organised crime, or national security 😭💔
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MAJOR BLOCKBUSTER BREAKING NEWSNEWS: Today national minister of public works, Dean Mcperson was suppose to have a meeting the leadership of Gauteng,provincial government led by PANYAZA Lesufi and local government led by DaDA Morero. To the shock and horror of everyone
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