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Travel › See South Africa's First Highway Sky Circle As It Nears Completion (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 3:17pm On Oct 24*

Work on constructing South Africa's first-ever freestanding elevated traffic circle, known as the Sky Circle, is well under way.

It will see the conversion of the existing four-way intersection between two major roads into a raised circular structure approximately 6.2m above ground.

The elevated circle will be exclusively dedicated to MyCiTi buses (BRT buses) and will accommodate vehicular traffic to and from Nyanga, Strandfontein, Wynberg and Athlone.

By elevating the bus route, the design intends to reduce congestion at the ground-level intersection, ensuring more reliable and efficient public transport services.

In addition to the elevated circle, the project includes reconfiguring the existing intersection, adding dedicated turning lanes, upgrading traffic signals, and providing dedicated lanes for pedestrians and cyclists. These enhancements aim to improve overall traffic flow and safety for all road users.

Sky Circle represents a pioneering effort in South African civil engineering, reflecting Cape Town's commitment to innovative infrastructure solutions to improve urban mobility.

"We are so proud to see this happening right here, in Cape Town," said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Urban Mobility, Councillor Rob Quintas.

"The metro-south east MyCiTi expansion is the biggest financial investment in public transport by any metro to date. The Sky Circle will be constructed on the traffic circle, meaning, every time road users and residents go around the traffic circle they will witness the progress of this engineering achievement."

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Foreign National Beaten To Death By A Mob In South Africa by RandDigital: 9:37am On Oct 24

Absolutely unacceptable, including mob justice against suspected gay people in Nigeria as we saw on frontpage last week.

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Travel › Re: See New Waterfront Amusement Park With Rollercoaster Coming To S. Africa (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 5:45pm On Oct 23

seppuku:
in south african tone...'WE DON"T CARE!!"

You would care if the project collapsed.

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Travel › Re: See New Waterfront Amusement Park With Rollercoaster Coming To S. Africa (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 5:36pm On Oct 23

seppuku:
I am as interested in SA politics as you are in posting threads on nairaland.

Ok then, this thread is about the Durban beachfront - not Joburg politics or race.

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Travel › Re: See New Waterfront Amusement Park With Rollercoaster Coming To S. Africa (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 5:17pm On Oct 23

seppuku:
Speakinga about obsession with white people, you better work double time to make sure Helen doesn't take away Joburg from you lot because if the "white" party manages to do that. Its game over.

Seems you're more interested in our elections than unseating French Tinuboo who's been a disaster by all accounts.

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Travel › Re: See New Waterfront Amusement Park With Rollercoaster Coming To S. Africa (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 5:04pm On Oct 23

seppuku:
You and your girlfriend Irongalaxy should be focused on canvassing for ActionSA and ATM Mfethu. November is just round the corner.

Why are you here flashing new playground projects to us Nigerians

I should flash bad SA news? That's what turns you on more, right?

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Travel › Re: See New Waterfront Amusement Park With Rollercoaster Coming To S. Africa (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 1:20pm On Oct 23

IronGalaxy:
Every single day without fail

You mean every single minute?

Can't even tell whether he was being serious, delulu or crackin a joke coz white worshipping is so real in Nigeria. It's a pandemic.

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Travel › Re: See New Waterfront Amusement Park With Rollercoaster Coming To S. Africa (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 10:16am On Oct 23

christejames:
You mean, more playground for the white kids?

You're beginning to sound delulu - is it tinubulation? Shem, askies.

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Travel › See New Waterfront Amusement Park With Rollercoaster Coming To S. Africa (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 7:53am On Oct 23

Durban beachfront is getting their own amusement park valued at R1 billion - they are redeveloping the old Funworld Site🎪🎢🎡

I have been waiting forever for this announcement. The eThekwini Municipality shared renders with me earlier today, and they look incredible.

•⁠… pic.twitter.com/BBfmAK37Hq
— Ash Müller (@Askash) December 10, 2025

The City of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa has announced that it has secured 980 million rands ($60 million) in funding to build the Durban Amusement Park.

The amusement park will be constructed and developed on the site of the former Durban Funworld, which closed in 2023 after 75 years of operation.

“With funding approved, the development has completed its design stage, and technical planning work is underway. Statutory development work will follow and is expected to run to the end of the first quarter of 2027, with construction to follow,” said the municipality.

The municipality said that the development finance institution funding the project will also cover the statutory work and support the project’s planning and technical aspects.

“The approval strengthens the city’s position as it highlights the alignment of national government, the development finance sector and the municipality.”

The Durban Amusement Park, in the central beach precinct, is expected to offer multiple rides, an extended reality and digital zone, a selection of retailers, and an “upgraded events-focused amphitheatre.”

In 2025, the municipality announced that the new park would offer attractions such as the Lightning Roller Coaster, Disko 24, Vertical Swing, and a 1 500 square metre Virtual Reality Theme Park with more than 160 interactive games and global e-sports activations.

The amusement park is expected to operate year-round, remaining open even in the evenings and during rainy weather.

“The mix of indoor and outdoor attractions allows it to trade year-round, including on wet-weather days and in the evenings.”

The eThekwini Municipality said that this new development is located in a prime destination on the Golden Mile promenade, which sees over 17 million visitors every year.

“The park is designed to give those visitors more reasons to stay longer, return more often and spend more in surrounding hotels, restaurants and other tourism businesses.”

The municipality said that the amusement park should create around 1,400 jobs across construction and operations, and will integrate local small businesses into the park’s supply chain.

“It is the entertainment centrepiece of more than R2 billion in investment spent or committed on Durban’s beachfront.”

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Black Trump Supporter Kicked Out Of MAGA Rally - Because She's Black by RandDigital: 6:50am On Oct 22

DiamondsAreFore:
They later explained that she had been mistaken for another woman who was a paid agitator for Democratic Senate candidate James Talerico.

Classic racist case of all blacks look the same. How can any self-respecting black person anywhere in the world associate with or defend such? Super inferiority complex.

In Australia she would've been mistaken for a kangaroo and ran over with a car.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Black Trump Supporter Kicked Out Of MAGA Rally - Because She's Black by RandDigital: 6:36am On Oct 22

Blessings to MAGA for rejecting their white worshipping behinds. Following this they'll desperately go seek validation from Netanyahu 💩💩💩

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Science/Technology › Re: Elon Musk’s Predictions For The Next 10 Years (Photos) by RandDigital: 6:29am On Oct 22

Make I change my moniker to RandAI.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: See Top Contenders To Be New Joburg Mayor (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 10:16pm On Oct 21

seppuku:
Is that a rhetorical question cause we already know ActionSA's stance on black foreigners in general.

ATM wena...

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Foreign Affairs › Re: See Top Contenders To Be New Joburg Mayor (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 9:11pm On Oct 21

KingCold:
Two parties for me, its ActionSA if not the ATM. Vuyo Zungula is one of out country's brightest minds

Hmmm, I'm not sure about ATM🤔 Are they getting a foothold outside of the Eastern Cape?

What's their stance on trolls like Obilikom and seppuku?

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Foreign Affairs › Malema: SA Should Bill Countries Whose Citizens Access Our Services (VIDEO) by RandDigital(op): 9:03pm On Oct 21*

VIDEO:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DetCTVAt5RP/?mdxt=MWE3NDJlbzlwNG1jag==

EFF leader Julius Malema has sparked a heated online conversation after laying out a bold immigration accountability proposal during a podcast sit-down with media personality Nandi Madida.

Malema appeared on The Motherhood Network's Election Series, making him the second political leader to feature in the series following Action SA's Herman Mashaba.

The podcast is designed to give South African mothers direct access to political leaders ahead of the 4 November 2026 local government elections.

Malema argued that frustration over immigration in South Africa is not a product of xenophobia but rather a consequence of African leaders failing their own people.

HOST, NANDI: That's why I was saying South Africans are truly, and you've even mentioned it, that we're a very friendly country. You know, we're very welcoming, but obviously our African leaders failing our fellow Africans has caused this mess. So, is it not natural that we will be frustrated?

JULIUS MALEMA: One of the options we have, which the EFF government will do if we take over, we will treat (medically) every person who's in this country. By the way, they are not all Africans. To say, shouldn't we hold African leaders accountable? There are a lot of whites here without papers. Yes, absolutely. There are a lot of Indians here without papers. There are a lot of Chinese without papers, and that's where my anger comes from. Because everybody who speaks about all of these people speak about us, and never speaks about these other people.

So all of them, if they were to be found here in South Africa, and they had to get some form of state intervention in their lives about medication, about education, about this or that. We have to collect that information and bill that particular country.

There should be an international law where, if we give Zimbabwe a bill and it refuses to pay, we can subject them to international law. That there is this money that Zimbabwe owes us because there are a lot of Zimbabweans in South Africa that have treated them, and Zimbabwe is not paying for their medication. Therefore, Zimbabwe ought to somehow take responsibility. That's how we're going to hold other Africans and other world leaders accountable.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: South Africans Celebrate Over 500 Days Of No Electricity Blackout by RandDigital(op): 3:21am On Oct 20

QuinQ:
Nonsense. There was constant light durring apartheid.

I knew Nigerian white worshippers would be triggered by this statement 😂😂😂😂

Where you there in the black areas (majority of the country) during apartheid to witness "the constant" or even any electricity at all?

Sit down! 🇳🇬💩💩💩💩

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Foreign Affairs › Re: South Africans Celebrate Over 500 Days Of No Electricity Blackout by RandDigital(op): 2:15am On Oct 20*

Black excellence brought light back to SA after years of failed white CEOs. 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆

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Foreign Affairs › South Africans Celebrate Over 500 Days Of No Electricity Blackout by RandDigital(op): 2:05am On Oct 20

South Africa has not experienced load shedding (planned blackouts) in over 500 days, reflecting the cumulative impact of improved fleet performance, lower unplanned outages, increased generation capacity and reduced reliance on emergency generation resources, Eskom said.

In a statement on 04 October, Eskom said South Africa had recorded 504 consecutive days without load shedding since 16 May 2025.

“This milestone demonstrates the sustained progress being made in restoring reliability, strengthening energy security and supporting South Africa's economic growth and development,” the power utility said.

It further added that the year-to-date Energy Availability Factor (EAF) has reached 68.11%, reinforcing progress in restoring energy security and supporting economic growth.

“Supported by lower unplanned outages, improved generation fleet reliability and an 80.49% year-on-year reduction in diesel expenditure, South Africa has now achieved more than 500 consecutive days without load shedding,” it said.

Eskom’s operational improvement continues to deliver measurable results, with unplanned outages improving by 6.69% year-on-year and approximately 2 943MW of generation capacity returned to service.

Compared with three years ago, Eskom has improved its EAF by 12.76 percentage points and returned approximately 6 492MW of generation capacity to the grid, demonstrating sustained progress in enhancing generation reliability and strengthening South Africa’s energy security.

From 1 April to 1 October 2026, diesel expenditure declined by R4.79 billion, or 80.49%, compared to the same period last year, decreasing from R5.95 billion to R1.16 billion. Over the same period, the Open Cycle Gas Turbines (OCGT) load factor reduced sharply from 6.72% to 1.02%, reflecting the impact of improved plant performance and the contribution of additional generation capacity to the grid.

“Combined, these results demonstrate Eskom's continued progress in delivering a more reliable, cost-efficient and environmentally sustainable electricity supply for South Africa,” it said.

LOAD REDUCTION VS LOAD SHEDDING

Alongside its operational recovery, Eskom continues to make substantial progress in its commitment to eliminate load reduction by March 2027 through the Load Reduction Eradication Programme.

Seven out of nine provinces remain free from load reduction, with approximately 1.5 million customers restored to normal supply conditions.

The number of customers affected by load reduction has declined from 1.69 million to 202 590, representing just 2.8% of Eskom’s customer base.

Load reduction occurs when Eskom cuts off areas with vast illegal electricity connections.

https://www.eskom.co.za/more-than-500-days-without-loadshedding-eaf-improves-to-68-11-diesel-costs-fall-by-r4-79-billion-sustained-emissions-performance-below-target-levels-and-load-reduction-reduced-to-202-590-customers/

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Foreign Affairs › Re: France Faces Unrest As Looting Highlights Growing Economic Hardship (Video) by RandDigital: 1:21am On Oct 19

🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 We get what France is going through.

Macron has been pro-business and anti working class.

Great on fighting Trump and Israel but unfortunately bad on the local front. Reminds me of our Ramaphosa.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: See Top Contenders To Be New Joburg Mayor (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 5:46pm On Oct 14

Action SA poised to take over SA's richest province as it has announced very appealing candidates in various cities:

1. Joburg - Herman Mashaba (Tycoon)
2. Pretoria/Tshwane - Dr Nasiphi Moya (accliamed mayor)
3. Ekurhuleni - Bongani Khumalo (Nigerian drug buster)

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Foreign Affairs › Re: See Top Contenders To Be New Joburg Mayor (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 5:07pm On Oct 14*

motymop:
The DA should win

Maybe they will make Jh like cape town

The action SA guy has nothing to offer other than nationalism and spread hate on nigerians

DA can't rule without black votes and ActionSA came out of the DA.

Today the party is growing and we have an Action SA mayor in the capital city (Pretoria/Tshwane) and the city is getting praise - a city the DA coalition ran into the ground.

Black South Africans are 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

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Foreign Affairs › See Top Contenders To Be New Joburg Mayor (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 4:46pm On Oct 14*

South Africa goes to the polls in 3 weeks to elect new mayors across various cities and municipalities.

Johannesburg is the mostly contested as South Africa’s economic heartbeat and biggest migration magnate locally and from across the world.

Johannesburg’s wider urban population is estimated at approximately 6 million.

The city which is Africa's richest has been under various unstable multi-party ANC and DA-led coalitions for a decade which has led to service delivery collapse.

The current ANC coalition leadership has been unable to announce a clear candidate for the November 4 elections with major opposition parties seen as favourites to take over the City of Gold.

Helen Zille (second biggest national party) and Herman Mashaba (DA splinter group) are generally viewed as the top contenders.

1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: HELEN ZILLE (Liberal with racial bias criticism)

Helen Zille is the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Johannesburg mayoral candidate, bringing heavyweight experience as a former Cape Town mayor, former Western Cape premier and current DA federal council chairperson.

Zille is pitching herself as the experienced fix-it candidate, the gogo (granny) who says she can get Joburg working again.

Her campaign is focused on water cuts, power cuts, potholes, billing chaos, crime and collapsing infrastructure.

Helen Zille says Joburg does not need another experiment, it needs someone who has run a big city before.

Zille is seen as the favorite to win the mayoral race but through a coalition with another big party.

2. ACTION SA: HERMAN MASHABA (Anti undocumented migration)

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba is back in the Joburg mayoral race. This is not his first round in the ring. He served as Johannesburg mayor from 2016 to 2019 under the DA, later left the party, founded ActionSA, and also stood as ActionSA’s Joburg mayoral candidate in the 2021 local government elections.

Mashaba is leaning on the comeback story.

At ActionSA’s 2026 announcement in Soweto, he framed Joburg as a city “in a fight for its future” and said he was stepping back into the ring to fight corruption, incompetence, lawlessness, decline and collapse.

Mashaba is one of the few candidates who can say, I have had the job before.

When he was mayor, his brand was about clean governance, inner-city rejuvenation, law enforcement and insourcing some workers.

His 2026 message is “unfinished business” fixing Joburg, rebuilding infrastructure and restoring order.

Mashaba also has a strong stance against undocumented migration and crime.

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Agriculture › Re: See Most Expensive Cow In South Africa That Has Sold For Record $385K (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 6:12pm On Oct 12

ElValiente:
This is how civilized country do things. Well organized ranch. Just Ike in Texas and Montana. The TV Series Yellowstone, and it's sequels Dutton Ranch and Marshalls inspire my own ranch coming to Epe Lagos state Nigeria soon. No bandit no criminals hiding under the term. Herdsmen. I love this. Give it to SA on organized farming.

President Ramaphosa's most popular game farm where he keeps buffaloes,.etc.

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Agriculture › Re: See Most Expensive Cow In South Africa That Has Sold For Record $385K (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 5:38pm On Oct 12

amaridigital:
No Naija pesin go carry #512 million go buy only one Cow. Sey na craze or wetin? Not even Dangote or Ote$dollar fit try dat shit. Cow wey fit die tomorrow morning.

When Nigerians see animal, they see meat. These are collectors items, like expensive art and craft.

That's why the bull's semen drops cost $15K so as to reproduce them yourself as an investment.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: SA Parties Asked To Stress Test Results Tech Ahead Of November Polls (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 2:36pm On Oct 12

shox:
Aw far randdigital , abeg create those threads wey dey pepper apc supporters body make I laff small

Howzit!

I don't take sides but if APC jokes keep writing themselves then people can't blame me 😁

Islam › Re: Driver Runs Over Pakistani Student Praying In The Middle Of An Adelaide Road by RandDigital: 2:15pm On Oct 12

Why I hate Australia 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

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Foreign Affairs › SA Parties Asked To Stress Test Results Tech Ahead Of November Polls (PICS) by RandDigital(op): 1:44pm On Oct 12*

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has put its Election Results System through an independent external audit ahead of the November 4 Local Government Elections, with ICT experts from four political parties taking part in the review.

The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Alliance (DA) and uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) have designated ICT experts to review the system.

The exercise began on Monday and will conclude on October 12.

The Results System is used for capturing and collating election results, as well as assigning seats to contestants.

The IEC said the exercise formed part of measures to ensure “transparency, credibility, and confidence in the electoral process”.

The Commission traditionally makes the Results System available to political parties and contestants to assess its “integrity, functionality, security, and reliability”.

The latest review comes as the IEC strengthens its election technology ahead of the local government polls, following technical problems experienced during the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.

The IEC has previously said it had strengthened its systems, including upgrading and stress-testing voter management devices and conducting end-to-end functionality testing of the Results System.

Interested parties had until September 30 to indicate their intention to participate and submit the names of their experts.

The IEC said it remained committed to ensuring that the 2026 Local Government Elections were administered in a manner that was “credible, transparent, inclusive and compliant with the law”.

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Agriculture › Re: See Most Expensive Cow In South Africa That Has Sold For Record $385K (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 12:45pm On Oct 12

QUEEN ARUSHA'S BROTHER

Optimus Prime is a prize-winning Ankole bull owned by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, housed at the Ntaba Nyoni cattle operation near Phala Phala in Limpopo.

Key Details

• Impressive Horns: Optimus Prime is recognized as one of the largest Ankole bulls in South Africa, with massive horns measuring about 68 inches (173 cm) per side.
• Record-Breaking Genetics: His genetics are among the most valuable in the country's livestock industry. Female-sexed semen straws from Optimus Prime have sold for a record-breaking R250,000 ($15,000) each.

Agriculture › See Most Expensive Cow In South Africa That Has Sold For Record $385K (PICTURES) by RandDigital(op): 12:30pm On Oct 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV0dTdupxw?si=njHWf_KZX4cD5lqw

Queen Arusha arrived at a cattle auction in Limpopo province and left with a 6.4 million rands ($385K) price tag, reportedly the highest ever paid for a female animal of any cattle breed in South Africa. She is an in-calf Ankole heifer from Ntaba Nyoni, the cattle operation owned by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The sale happened on 3 October at the Ntaba Nyoni & Friends auction at Phala Phala in Limpopo. Farmer’s Weekly reported that Queen Arusha, registered as NANK23 001 and offered as Lot 20, went to an anonymous buyer.

JP Smith, chief operating officer of auction company Veilingswinkel, told the farming publication that the sale set the national record. The auction turned over R22.5 million in total, which means one heifer accounted for more than 28% of every rand spent on the day.

The price rests on Queen Arusha’s genetics. Smith described her as a full sister to Optimus Prime, an Ankole bull with horns measuring 1.73 metres (68 inches).

Two straws of sexed semen from Optimus Prime sold for R250,000 each at the same auction, another reported South African record across cattle breeds. Queen Arusha’s buyer was paying for the chance to produce and sell calves, embryos and other genetic material from the same bloodline.

“The buyer is buying access to future genetic production,” Smith told Farmer’s Weekly.

The auction results show just how enormous the premium was. Four pregnant heifers fetched R7.48 million between them. Remove Queen Arusha and the remaining three averaged R360,000 each, making her nearly 18 times more expensive than her pen-mates.

That is pedigree doing some fairly violent arithmetic.

The wider sale included 19 embryos for R1.445 million and 37 semen straws for R1.235 million. Ten bulls brought in R2.75 million, with the most expensive selling for R650,000.

Ankole cattle entered South Africa through a complicated route. The Ankole Society of South Africa says disease restrictions prevented direct imports from Uganda, so embryos produced in Kenya were brought into the country instead. The breed was formally approved in South Africa in May 2019 after performance testing under the Animal Improvement Act.

Ntaba Nyoni says Ramaphosa first became interested in Ankole cattle during a 2004 visit to Uganda. The operation now lists Ankole, Bonsmara, Boran, Nguni and Wagyu among the breeds it farms.

The R6.4 million is an auction price paid to the cattle operation, not proof that the same amount landed in Ramaphosa’s personal account. Costs, commissions and tax still have to come out of the sale proceeds.

For Queen Arusha’s anonymous buyer, the expensive part is over. Turning one record-breaking heifer into R6.4 million worth of future genetics is the longer job.

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