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Join me this Sat, 15 Nov at the Book & Artisanal Faire at Cape Town Club (opposite Company Gardens) for #Christmas shopping! #presents www.quicket.co.za/events/29331...

My aunt Juliet at the 1974 #LasVegas #Entertainment Awards. Bob Hope introduces her as "the generously talented and fantastically exciting" Juliet Prowse! #dancer #dancing #singer #singing www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hdr...

That time Juliet Prowse called Kermit the Robert Redford of frogs! She was one of the first guests on the pilot episode of The Muppet Show in 1976 #muppets #kermit

Juliet Prowse #singing & #dancing on the #DeanMartin show in the late #1960s with her trademark high-kick at the end!

Launch of my first book Juliet Prowse: Born to Dance about my aunt, the #dancer #entertainer who was in GIBlues with #elvispresley and was engaged to #franksinatra. Also Female Entertainer of the Year 4x in #lasvegas www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7hW...

Love this title about my aunt, #JulietProwse, the #dancer, #entertainer who choreographed her own path to fame - Female Entertainer of the Year 4x in Las Vegas! Juliet Prowse: Born to Dance buy at Barnes & Noble - www.barnesandnoble.com/w/juliet-pro... and Takelot in SA iol.co.za/entertainmen...

#SouthAfrica does not charge the US 60% in #tariffs - it varies i.e. clothing is 40%; light vehicles 25%; original equipment components 20%. #Trump 60% is the trade deficit i.e. ($5.8 billion-$14.5 billion) divide by $14.5 billion = -60.6%. So simplistic .. 😳 businesstech.co.za/news/governm...

My biography about my aunt, the #dancer Juliet Prowse in launching! She was in #GIBlues with #Elvis & won Vegas' Female #Entertainer of the Year 4 times. She was one of the highest paid #dancers of her era on $1 million contract in #Vegas (mid-1970s): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xol... julietprowse.com

No wonder I loved living in London! Their guerrilla marketing/annoyance of the arrogance and disdain #Trump and #Musk

What a front cover...

Stunned that President #Trump does not understand how #tariffs work. A company importing a product pays the tariff, NOT the company/country selling it. The cost is passed on to the consumer. To encourage local production & not import, you have to eliminate barriers & incentivise local production

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

Imagine having a crucial business meeting about YOUR company or a discussion about your divorce, but you're not invited as your arrogant husband/wife/business partner & arrogant additional partner think they can make decisions without you! Situation in #Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This brings me great joy! By all means #Elon, do what you want, but people don't have to agree with you. I love it when consumers quietly demonstrate with their wallets - #Tesla sales are down. And in a separate comment - go #Canada for actively buying Canadian products in protest to #tariffs

Go #SouthAfrica! Ramaphosa’s message to US or #Trump in his national address: “We will not be bullied.” But the untruths from US are deadly serious as they affect 17% of SA’s #HIV budget and about 15,000 associated jobs said Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Honestly #Trump! I can assure you that Afrikaaners are not "refugees" and desperate to live in the US

For this who don't know, the #Superbowl is NOT the biggest sporting event in the world. As a single event, UEFA Champions League Final (football - the kind where you use your foot with a ball) gets almost 4 times the viewership. World Cup #Football (or soccer for American) is by far the most watched

Cartoonist Zapiro's comment about Donald #Trump and his views of #SouthAfrica

Dear America I think your dad is one of his manic phases! I was watching the news with #tariffs left & right, went to make tea & is was fire 20% of FBI, freeze USAID. I closed the window & suddenly US wants to take over GAZA never mind it being a crime. Is everything okay?! #Trump

Love that both Canada/Mexico have reacted with their own #tariffs to Trump's tactics. Trudeau says 25% tariffs on $155b US goods & Mexico says US could have dealt with fentynol issue. So much business fluctuation, but #Trump is a bullying overlord www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIEe...

BREAKING: President Petro of Colombia has just retweeted this quote from Abraham Lincoln: “Just as I would not be a slave, I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” — Abraham Lincoln

Way to go USA! Your bright spark of a President! Spain is NOT in the BRICS. He's also called Namibia, Nambia, and referred to developing countries as 'shit hole countries'. He will keep on making faux pas and being uncouth #Trump www.theatlantic.com/unthinkable/

Wonder how US got itself to where it is today at #TrumpInaugaration. Half the population see #Trump for what he is & the other half believe it's made up or they don't care. Ever since Trump said "Grab them by the p*ssy" he's been a crass man to me & he proves if over & over for those who can see

France & Germany's differences on their US relationship: Berlin concludes that European security must be constructed transatlantically, while Paris thinks Europeans must address security challenges independently of the US. The #Trump presidency requires that they rethink and work on an #EU approach

Trump & his trade wars puts AGOA (trade agreement betw US & 32 sub-Saharan Africa countries) in jeopardy as it expires in Sept 2025. South Africa is particularly out of favour due to our allegiance to BRICS. Once again, in the Trump presidency, time will tell! www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Something to cheer about at the start of 2025! As much as some conservative men don't like the idea of #equality, it's been a long slog for women to move away from the 1950s housewife (and all generations before that) to at a minimum be given equal opportunities and access. And the work continues!

Respair - I like this 16th century word manic fresh hope and recovery from despair

Sandwiched between the Nixon shock & OPEC oil crisis recession & the Reaganomics recession, #JimmyCarter's presidency is known for its foreign policy, diplomacy & human rights. He won the Nobel Prize in 2002 & could have won in 1978 when he successfully mediated a peace agreement betw Egypt & Israel

Barely recovered from the 2008 global financial crisis and then the UK government let the average person decide on whether the UK stays in the #EU or not. #Brexit was not the best move - £27bn in lost trade and considerable more paperwork for British companies

Do Americans realise how weird the normalisation of their gun violence is? 83rd school shooting for 2024 in #Madisonshooting. As of end Nov, the US has had 547 mass shootings in 2024 where 4 or more are shot in one location.

Honestly @time-magazine.bsky.social! Of all people in this world you pick the rapist felon #Trump. Lazy investigating I'd say #TimePersonOfYear

McKinsey settles for $122.8-million with US Dept of Justice & South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority for the #bribery scheme to win Eskom & Transnet contracts as part of Guptagate. In how many other countries, #McKinsey, & how many more consulting firm? www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

Got the popcorn ready to watch this tit-for-tat of bullying #Trump. Threatening Mexico & Canada with 25% tariffs & #BRICS with 100% tariffs if they create their own currency & undermine the US$. Interested how this will trickle down to the ave. American consumer & MAGA voters. Time will tell!

"Thanks to #Trump, we (US) now know that most of us are selfish & self-centred. It is also abundantly clear that character doesn't matter. Trump should also be commended for reminding us that racism, xenophobia & misogyny are alive and well." Yes, the US is no longer the shining city on the hill

@23carra.bsky.social remember when Gary Neville said that he was happy/relieved that Klopp was leaving almost like Liverpool would then drop off in from 😄 #LFC #YNWA @thekophq.bsky.social

SA inflation decreases to 2.8% – a 4-year annual low. Now, grocery retailers #CheckersSA #PicknPay could we please see some reduction in product prices. With feta as my barometer, prices have increased too exponentially www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around & uses women for his own power & ego. U are that man (& have been for years) & as your mother, it pains & embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad truth. When your mother says this about you! Pete Hegeth, Defense Sec pick

Just one of those days in #CapeTown 🤩 Morning run in Camps Bay. One can already feel the tourist vibes for the holiday season!

How can an import/export business plan properly with so much #Rand/#USDollar exchange rate volatility? Strengthening is due to more confidence in SA & US interest rate cuts. Could break through the R15/US$ in 3 - 6 months according to Johann Els, Group Chief Economist at Old Mutual. One year chart 👇

It's disappointing that a large corporate: Disney, was paying women substantially less than men in the same job. 9000 women joined the discrimination case for #payequity #equality edition.cnn.com/2024/11/26/m...

Great to see #SAA posting a profit of R252mi - first time since 2012. Was my favourite homebound airline in my London days, and before Dudu & Zuptas plundered it. Revenue is R5.7bi. Wondering when the flight to London will be back? #SAAVoyager #airline businesstech.co.za/news/governm...

#Poet #Writer Breyton Bretonbach died today. As an activist he was jailed in 1970s. Here's part of one of his #poems: give me a pen so I may sing that life is not in vain ... and grant me a love song of doves of atonement so I may sing my life was not in vain www.poemhunter.com/poem/rebel-s...

Went to a @cityofct.bsky.social community update on Kloof Nek Road which got washed away in Sep 2023. Unfortunately the heavy rain this year made it worse, so instead of 2 years, it'll now take 3 years to fix! They had examples of the granite and its so crumbly! #CapeTown

Just before you think everyone is married with kids! Now only 17.9% of the #US population, while #single & married with no kids makes up 58.4%! Society/Hallmark celebrates everything around marriage, while a lot of us are living our best lives as SiNKs & MaNKs - just made that up 😀

My favourite tennis player ever, #RafaelNadal, retired today. He was a joy to watch & had a great friendship/rivalry with Federer. The 2008 Wimbledon final was my favourite - almost 5 hours of tennis, a 9 - 7 5th set & my mum supporting Roger! Feliz jubilación Rafa! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EXe...

Yesterday was #InternationalMensDay & according to Scott Gallaway, there's a crisis in young US men (more lonely, & isolated). Is this more in US/UK & less so in SA or are our issues just different? The problem with frustrated men is that it's impact is broader: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyB2...

Why I like politics in #SouthAfrica more than the #US: 1. Multi-party politics rather then 'them and us' 2. Parties only bring out t-shirts/flags months before elections. None on neighbour's lawn/car! 3. You don't know how others vote 4. Much easier to create a new political party without mucho $$