Alex Mohubetšwane Mashilo

The @CityofJoburgZA has a dysfunctional attention to service. I logged a call in July for an underground water leak to be fixed. The city closed it without doing anything but claimed it fixed the problem. I reopened the call on 6 August. Until now nothing, not even taking calls.

New York University Press (Imprint: Wits University Press) Caught in neutral: Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry Author: Alex M. Mashilo Foreword: Imraan Valodia nyupress.org/9781997461142/c…

New York University Press Caught in neutral: Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry nyupress.org/9781997461142/c…

Ladies and gentlemen. My modest contribution. New book, forthcoming. Release 1 October 2026. witspress.co.za/page/detail/…

We might differ on some but we agree on other aspects based on verifiable data. What I like here is that naamsa became the first auto manufacturing industry actor to respond to Donald MacKay. I expect auto component manufacturing & labour to respond but only if still necessary.

Take a break and read scientifically, meaning through verifiable-findings inquiry. Here I have to think about the present as a product of the past and platform to advance into the future.

Important alert: "Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it's only as good as the information you use to train it" as Ford Motor Company had to learn. bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd4…

This is one of the basic circuits we had to be trained and trade-tested in from design to building, operating and fault finding. There's an automatic one, perhaps for discussion in a different post. The pass mark was 100%, meaning anything less was failure. Do you know why?

This morning I listened to the @CityofJoburgZA Dada Morero on Radio 2000. He was humble, articulate, impressive. I even thought I would find electricity restored in my area, robots broken or stolen for more than a year fixed when I come back. I was disappointed to find no chage.

Dear @CityPowerJhb your outsourcing of electricity work and the contractors you appoint are part of decay factors. You're ruining what was a beautiful place that many wished to live in. Please sort out the mess now. @CityofJoburgZA @SABCNews @News24 @IOL @TheCitizen_News @eNCA

Digital capitalism and its limits: Technotopia, power and risk first published in May 2025 is now available. My contribution is Chapter 7. It's Open Access and thus costs nothing but data to download but please share only the link and NOT a PDF file - library.oapen.org/handle/20.…