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Greytown, South Africa
Joined July 2012
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Guys, what is happening here? That crown? Is that plastic party crown? The cape? Hhayi bandla! #MissSA2026 #MissSouthAfrica2026
The Steve Madden shoes are letting the ladies down! And were some of them coached to speak like that?!😔😔. #MissSouthAfrica2026
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Wenzani manje u Azana bakithi when I’m rooting for her so much? #MissSouthAfrica2026
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i dream of a world when people aren't so easily pulled in by attention seeking rage baiters. read the post. recognize you're being baited. then keep scrolling. please!
I wish I could’ve asked the people in AMS to just bath & wash their hair but I was gagging everyday in the tram in summer! I eventually took Uber to work because I was kwara-to 🤮
If your pregnant colleague asked you to change your perfume because the smell makes her sick, would you actually change it ??
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Nokuthi they weren’t the pilots flying those planes is giving some people chest pains!
I posted yesterday about the Airlink flypast in Cape Town and like many professional pilots, I was aghast.
The reaction to this flypast has been fascinating.
For some, it was spectacular. A moment of national pride, flown by experienced South African aviators and apparently carefully planned, rehearsed and approved.
I understand that.
But here’s why so many professional aviators are uncomfortable with what we saw.
Aviation is extraordinarily safe precisely because we question ourselves.
We debrief. We challenge. We report. We investigate. And sometimes, even when something was legal, authorised and went exactly as planned, we still ask…
Was that really a good idea?
That isn’t negativity. It isn’t disrespect. And it certainly isn’t an attack on South African aviation.
It’s mature safety culture.
The lead aircraft reportedly cleared the stadium roof by around 40–50 feet. Hundreds of professional aviators around the world have looked at those images and expressed concern.
That deserves more than “nothing to see here”.
Perhaps the eventual conclusion will be that everything was conducted entirely within the approved parameters. But a mature safety culture should still be capable of saying: we planned it, we approved it, we flew it, and with hindsight, perhaps the margins were tighter than they needed to be.
Because aviation didn’t become one of the safest forms of transport by defending everything that worked.
It became safe by relentlessly examining the things that nearly didn’t. And this is wholeheartedly one of those times.
Every time pilots challenge something, file a report, admit an error or question an accepted practice, somebody flying tomorrow is a little safer because of it.
That’s why professional aviators can sometimes sound overly cautious. The flypast fun police!!
We’re not trying to take the spectacle out of aviation. Quite the opposite in fact.
We’re trying to make sure everyone gets to enjoy it again tomorrow.
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Cebile Xulu retweeted
Article borrowed from Bruce Askham:
Now that the internet has had 24 hours to lose its mind over the Airlink flypast at DHL Stadium…
As a pilot, I thought it was magnificent.
Yes, it was LOW. That was rather the point.
But low does not automatically mean unsafe.
This was a planned, rehearsed and approved flypast, flown at around 150 knots and conducted within the altitude and speed parameters approved by the SACAA. Air Traffic Navigation Services was also involved in the planning and support.
And this wasn’t a couple of cowboys having a crack at it.
Each aircraft carried THREE senior Airlink captains, acting as commander, co-pilot and safety/technical officer. That is a serious amount of experience sitting up front.
What we watched was precision flying.
Two Embraers. Formation. Low level. Precise timing. A stadium packed with Springbok and All Black supporters. And a spectacular piece of aviation to kick off one of the greatest rivalries in world sport.
Was it close?
Hell yes.
Was there an incident?
No.
Was it some unplanned near-disaster requiring an internet investigation by every newly qualified Facebook aviation expert?
Also no. 📷
Airlink’s own recorded flight data confirms that both aircraft remained within the SACAA-approved and rehearsed safety parameters.
So perhaps we can stop manufacturing an accident that never happened and simply appreciate what we were privileged to see.
And thankfully, despite what another highly reliable Facebook image may suggest, the crews were not dreadlocked, doobie-smoking, “trust the vibes” cockpit philosophers. 📷
So no, Cheech and Chong were not flying the formation.
Thank you Airlink. That was something special.
May there be many more.
Oh, and the Boks won 33–26.
Lekker. 📷 #Flypast #Flover #Airlink #SouthAfrica #Rugby #Springbokke #SANZ #Crybabies #TIA
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Hi kuphi? We will bring the braai salt🙈
House party at @FNBSA? @Fly_Airlink you bring the wings, and I’ll bring the wings 🍗✈️
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BREAKING NEWS: World shocked to find out that an African country does many things very well
Family said “you’ll be dead, so it won’t matter”! But don’t come to my home after my death. Memorial service will be at the town hall, streamed. No religious service. There WILL be food. Don’t come to the burial, which will be at 8am, burial rites of my clan. Family only.
Nokwanda Mbanjwa-Khumalo launched the Grace Fellowship Bursary Fund this weekend, at the Leading with Grace book launch. 32 women. 32 stories. 32 leadership reflections! It was epic! The coffee table book is gorgeous & ALL proceeds go the bursary fund!
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I don’t care what MaBlerh says this year! Next week is Spring and I’m done with this miserable cold weather!! Futhi nje it’s Spring kwangoku!!!!😂😂😂
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What the hell is Zoleka doing kwaMabandla??? Mmmnc.
Where are her friends???? #inimba #inimbamzansi
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Never underestimate the blessing of being able to pick up your phone and call your mother anytime you feel like it😔
I didn’t even recognise SK Khoza until a few episodes later! Honestly, I like his matured look. #umthetho
Sawubona Sisi…@Nomonde_sky 😍❤️🫶🏾. Oooh Sisi, was so blessed to catch your performance tonight at Poetry Under the Sky. You are magic🤌🏾👌🏾
We’ve just signed a lease on a prime spot that was rented to undocumented Pakistanis who peddled drugs (the cops knew). They’ve been evicted by the landlord. A second lease is on the way. We employ rural youth from our village and town. Any other question?
So now that #MarchOnMarch has concluded, did you guys get jobs, better health care, access to the economy, spaza shops?
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