This is the state of twitter. A Romanian carpet cleaning company's promoted tweet about the collapse of the rand with a link to a faked page of a South African news outlet written by someone that doesn't exist. Half a million views. FFS.

X doing away with headlines and only showing a picture feels like less like a final straw for me than the whole haystack. Dramatic decrease in my desire to click things, which is producing a dramatic decrease in my desire to be here.

Imagine how surprised these people are going to be when they discover something called World War 1 and something else called World War 2. Although it is a bit weird that white nationalists like Britain First don't know about the second one.

Looking forward to discussing 'Legends' with its authors this evening. If you're in the southern suburbs of Cape Town, come along to Cavendish Square to discover a book that is both fascinating and reassuring.

SAEON's Dwarsberg weather station in Jonkershoek has recorded over 300mm in the last 24 hours. A wild night. Jasper SAEON

Nothing says you're an impressive person with a solid case like paying someone to photoshop horns onto one of the country's most respected journalists.

Elon wanting to make everyone pay for a thing that no longer works, after successfully starting a pyramid scheme to make a small number of people pay, is the most South African thing ever.

Thoughts and prayers to the long-suffering cadres of South African Communist Party who are finally seeing Marx trend on Twitter.

You will be incredibly surprised to learn that this man, who wants half of all workers to be made jobless so they can be forced to be more grateful to bosses like him, started his property empire with a loan from his boss and his grandfather.

The damn NGOs.

And as pointed out by Aaron Richardson, the first to do it as captain.

Bavuma becomes the 13th player in ODI history to carry his bat. 2nd South African after Herschelle Gibbs who did it in 2000 v Pakistan. Ends up with third-highest score after N Knight 125*, D Martyn 116*. #SAvAUS

Just when pyjama cricket seems completely soulless Bavuma puts together an epic that would make most Test batters proud. #SAvAUS

Seeing more PR for tourism in Saudi Arabia and wondering: if you tweet a bad hotel or restaurant review, are you also sentenced to death like when you criticize the Saudi government?

Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets.

Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist.’ Not even a “concerning”.

Ace Magashule has officially launched his new business, called Ace's Pension Plan and - wait, sorry, I'm hearing it's called 'African Congress For Transformation', or – and I'm not making this up – ACT.

My column today about Cinderamaphosa's hangover seems to have peeped out from behind its paywall, so until it gets recalled, here you go... businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/col…

When 6 countries join BRICS next year, the grouping can finally get a more honest acronym: I ARE BECAUSE ASIA. It can also ramp up the fight against democracy and human rights. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times-d…

Tom Eaton Aan Bongi se kant The last part is bullshit. There are LNG terminuses in Simon's Town, Coega and Richard's Bay.

The problem is the pipeline infrastructure is WAY behind schedule.

'Complicated but talented' is truly Godfather-level tribute to a person he killed. Ice in his veins.