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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

25 days

You must wake up and fight!

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

Will come back to this in 2026

Design Deputy

@designdeputy

10 months

📍:Midstream Estate 💰: R19 000 000

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

Bsc Actuarial and Financial Maths - Cum Laude BScHons Actuarial Sciences NatDip in Mining Engineering -Cum Laude MSc in Mining Engineering - candidate

Solicitor At Large

@Zvoutete14

11 months

What are your academic qualifications?

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Manqoba Sibisi

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10 months

14 years late but we appreciate the decisiveness of the leadership. This, however, shouldn’t overshadow the biggest lever they need to shift which is fixing the coal fleet.

Princy Mthombeni

@Princymthombeni

10 months

The commencement of the 2500 MWe New Nuclear Procurement in South Africa is now official. Well done Minister @Kgosientsho_R and your team for decisive actions. We shall ensure that RFP responses align with the specified criteria and requirements. #TripleNuclear2050

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

I think this was taken into consideration. Listen to the engineer’s response

𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑴𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊 Ⓜ

@SandileKaMsibi

11 months

@ZANewsFlash Something tells me they did not take river bed gradient in to account but rushed to build, this is an important consideration for water project design because it affects the flow rate, sediment transport, erosion potential bluh bluh of the river. If you dont know the calculations

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

“Dr. Matthew” would never!

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@RuRu_Delport

11 months

Dr Delport in the house 😩❤️☝️✨

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Manqoba Sibisi

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@KingDon_za 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

The gradient question was leading to this! cc @SizweDhlomo . Still not a technical question? @Madlala_TM

Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@Madlala_TM @SizweDhlomo “What is the gradient” not what is a gradient. He wanted to understand the required pumping capabilities and the power implications thereof.

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

Students of heterodox economics ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

@SizweDhlomo Can 100% vouch for this! Some things we don’t discuss on the socials but Dinangwe is the realest! 🫂

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

Cc @nkateko_chuma LPC and me the Actuarial Society of South Africa ❤️

Last laugh. 🫶🏾

@thando_sis

10 months

My partner is eligible to register as a CA(SA) and I too am awaiting admission as an Attorney of the High Court. 🥹🤍 It was just the other day when we started varsity lol? Super grateful that God willed that it be just as we had hoped and prayed for. 🥹🥳

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

8 months

My favorite person got admitted as an Attorney yesterday and I couldn’t be more proud ❤️🥹 @nkateko_chuma

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

@UncleCul Nope!! Optimizing for two different things. Private sector seeks to maximize profit and concomitant to that is less head count.

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

We shall experience His goodness in the land of the living!

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

12 days

@TheMiningGuySA @IanChauke1 @IanChauke1 is such a selfless leader!

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

@BongaOfficial You are projected to do 6.7mil at best!

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

2 months

As long as you better than yesterday

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

Her every morning: ku laveka mali

Malume Malusi

@UncleCul

10 months

Dated a Xhosa hun back in the day

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@its_sandrra @nkateko_chuma ❤️❤️🥺

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

@UncleCul Profit is function of two things: Revenue and Costs. Cost curtailment 9/10 focuses on headcount as a cost item; especially in sectors that have the propensity to be mechanized.

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

8 months

BScHons Actuarial Sciences (12 months)

Collen

@Collenzmhlabane

8 months

A Short Course you did that changed your life...?

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

Finally taking the right steps in ensuring energy security! But we still maintain, fix the 40GW coal fleet!

@SAgovnews

10 months

[HAPPENING TODAY] This morning, Minister in The Presidency responsible for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, is expected to brief the media on the ministerial determination for the procurement of 2500 MW of new generation capacity from nuclear.

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

The proposition that presents wind and solar as baseload remains an engineering fantasy. At a large scale, they remain inefficient with an unattractive cost curve.

Jacob Maroga

@jacob_maroga

11 months

[ENERGY EDUCATION] ‘With 60 000MW of wind generation connected to the backbone of the Continent, on 6 June 2023 only 200 MW showed up’ - Jim Robb, President & CEO of North American Electricity Reliability Corporation (NERC).

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

24 days

@SamkeloHamnca Will check and revert

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

We want dispatchable power! Not windmills and mirrors that continue to negatively affect our system rotational inertia. Proposing renewables as baseload remains an engineering fantasy

Rob Forbes

@RobForbesDJ

10 months

An entire generation of kids will go from Gr R - 12 before a new nuclear power station comes online ffs. They could install 2500MW of renewable power by March.

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

4 months

Oh Spirit of the Living God. You hold your word above your name, and your foundation standeth sure! On account of that we stand sure. Thank you for everything - what you’ve done, what you doing and what you still going to do! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

8 months

Ancient Pharaoh would wire you in Egyptian Pounds 🔥🔥🔥

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

@UncleCul Generally, empirical data suggests otherwise. These sectors have grown y-o-y in their key financial metrics with less headcount. I’m not saying they’ve completely removed people but they doing more with less people now even in agri.

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

7 months

Felt!

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@bantu2_

7 months

That mgowo that makes you want to register for a new degree 📍📍

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

1 year

Mood📍

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@real_zunaidmoti Fully concur! However this usually comes with an inherent risk to the business, especially if the function being outsourced is a critical aspect of the value chain. Therefore, requiring even more resources on over-site and consequence management.

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

9 months

I bring you to these!

GHOST

@reign_thuto

9 months

-If they pray in tongues, don’t invite me. -if the pastor is foreign, don’t invite me. -if there’s miracles happening, don’t invite me.

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

We try again today ✨✨✨

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

1 year

@nkateko_chuma You make it so easy for me 🥺😍❤️

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@hkrugertjie Agreed! In as much as the fixed tariff will allow for their service fees; Eskom’s collection is still not optimized. Here’s to consider: Eskom collects fixed tariff + service fees and repays municipalities. Rebalancing monthly to manage liquidity

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

2 months

@Abuti_Kokx They have become my escape to a rather unraveling reality

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

2 months

Glory hunting!! Give credit to the Eskom executives and ground soldiers who fixed the existing coal fleet!

Busisiwe Mavuso

@BusiMavuso2

2 months

We have almost achieved the end of load shedding because of the private sector's embrace of electricity generation. Billions are being invested in new renewable energy plants, adding significant capacity to the grid, I write in my newsletter.

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

Funded experts 😂

Financial Raccoon

@lungile_mashele

10 months

The energy experts: Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute Koeberg Alert Alliance Earthlife Africa Green Connection

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

9 months

The concepts of Intermittence and Capacity Factors are still overlooked! I don’t know if it’s intentional or they are putzing around.

Hügo Krüger

@hkrugertjie

9 months

Dear Media: installed capacity does not mean the amount of output!

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

7 months

@Vumington @VuslatBayoglu @follow_transnet @ReliableTFR Operating at 71% of nameplate capacity is hurting downstream economies. We hope they can improve further than this.

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

The NEAREST NHI-ready facility is what the bill says. Both private and public facilities and providers would need to meet minimum standards. The assumption that under-resourced facilities will be utilized as they are is a bit disingenuous.

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@NalediChirwa

5 months

Please Panyaza doesn’t even know the basics of NHI Bill. Government won’t own or need to buy hospitals. Government will outsource services. Panyaza and co only know how to grandstand and do PR. Not real work. Not technicalities. Not governance. You go to the NEAREST facility.

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

2 months

Fixing Eskom's coal fleet has left some cold feet. No Pun intended!

Khaya Sithole

@CoruscaKhaya

2 months

From February 2024 to August 2024...

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@marupin56444610 Material handling?

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@hkrugertjie It is definitely higher. I’m however more interested in the collection modalities. Will the current hybrid model still work? The same municipal collection model that has left a dent in Eskom’s topline. Would be interesting to learn your proposed view on this

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5 months

@nkateko_chuma 🥹🥹🥹 it’s been tough sugar

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

6 months

@OB_Lelaka Bottle jobs 😂😂

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

2 months

@Titan_RZA What are you mining here?

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

2 months

On a journey to prove my commercial assumptions. That’s what I’m optimizing for daily!

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

Without any political interference, I trust the new Chairman and CEO to prioritize this! We don’t necessarily need new generation, we have enough installed capacity with the coal fleet!

Hügo Krüger

@hkrugertjie

10 months

@Manqoba_Sibisi Eskom's board should commit in law to fixing the coal fleet

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@ScenesWithMike @Caleb_Snd Had a career pivot about 6 years ago. Actuarial was not exciting for me anymore

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

6 months

Did they vertically integrate too early into energy storage? I feel they could have deployed that capital to streamlining and optimizing their vanadium operations into defendable assets even during price downturns. The move to energy storage batteries seemed a bit premature.

Xolani Mazwi Mathumba

@Sir_Xolanii

6 months

The Bushveld Minerals deteriorating production output, high debt, high strip ratio from magnatite ore, dropped share price, etc. Pains me as a South African 🇿🇦 because it's a company with enormous vanadium potential to be x3 bigger than what it is now globally @Griswold01W

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

PS5 from my wife @nkateko_chuma 🥺😍❤️

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10 months

7. your favorite gift that you received this year?

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8 months

@nkateko_chuma @Jameca2011 🥰🥰🥰

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

3 months

There's a recurring theme in the journey to proving commercial assumptions: Clarity of strategy and the grit to execute.

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2 months

@OB_Lelaka It’s a beautiful day for a nice drive

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

1 year

@nkateko_chuma @sanjanacurtis This!! For us❤️🫂

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11 months

@nkateko_chuma @uhsundah Best times ❤️🥺

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

She has ANC grant mos, she can Uber from that! 🤷🏾‍♂️

Nolwazi Tusini

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5 months

Folks… this is NOT okay. It’s either you believe in agency or you don’t. It’s either you believe in the right to vote or you don’t. You can disagree deeply & vehemently with someone’s voting choices, but you have NO right to attempt to strip them of their agency & right to vote

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@hkrugertjie The lowest hanging fruit is point 1: fixing the 40GW coal fleet. A clear plan and costing prior adoption, coupled with the learnings from Koeberg’s retrofitting program they just completed! The other marginal gains can roll out as time goes.

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

4 months

@Abuti_Kokx I’m all for market penetration ( in existing market) before new market entries. Retail is big enough in SA and the brand is well positioned to capture more market share.

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

8 months

Manje clean 🔥🔥🔥

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8 months

Bread and butter 🧈 CAT 6060 with Komatsu 930E-5

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

And we are back trying again with the same eager and grit

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@hkrugertjie You are making a compelling case! Quick one: on the figure demonstrating the fixed and the variable costs, is that reflective of the current R/KWh?

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

24 days

@iam_karabo_M Mfowethu 🙏🏾

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@Madlala_TM @SizweDhlomo “What is the gradient” not what is a gradient. He wanted to understand the required pumping capabilities and the power implications thereof.

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

9 months

How can you be proud that almost 50% of the country is under welfare? #SONA2024

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

6 months

@hkrugertjie @jacob_maroga Do we then dispel their bargaining chip that renewables have the lowest LCOE? I mean a 100% back up from dispatch-able gas puts them right back at the top in terms of LCOE!

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

7 months

@nkateko_chuma You made it such a pleasurable experience

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

5 months

@021GHST 😂😂😂

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

@nkateko_chuma You make it so easy ❤️🥺🫂

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

3 months

May we also pray for the sustenance of the things we once prayed for and God answered

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

9 months

We up and we trying again today ✨

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

25 days

@onwaba_mf2 Stay on course!

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

2 months

Be better than yesterday!

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

King today, crucify him tomorrow!

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

Friendship means little when it’s convenient - Korji

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Manqoba Sibisi

@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

Been on repeat since the album came out. What a perfect song ✨✨✨

Tshepo Ranko

@Tshepo_Ranko

11 months

lol, please listen to this song. That’s all I ask. 🙏🏾

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6 months

My wife’s prayer 😭🙌🏾🫂❤️

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

9 months

@vonakalani Tell me about it 😓

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

10 months

Balloons on my profile. Cheers to 29🥂

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11 months

@hkrugertjie Double down on collection otherwise Eskom will always REALIZE less than reflective tarrif costs. Solving this can help me retire at 35! lol

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

11 months

@Madlala_TM @SizweDhlomo A positive gradient would mean a bigger pump to match required flow rate and hence more electrical power required and vice versa. But his biggest concern is obviously electrical power given our challenges!

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@Manqoba_Sibisi

9 months

He just lied to the country again! #SONA2024

@DumaGqubule

9 months

At end Dec 2022 value of SA mining assets was R1.6 trillion, according to my estimate. So why did pres Ramaphosa repeat minerals council fake news at mining indaba yesterday that black ownership is 39%? That is R640bn and is impossible. I am the expert. Black ownership is 5.4%

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