Mbhazima Shilowa
@Enghumbhini
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Follower discretion advised. I tweet about everything: Jazz, socio-economic, political, promotion of Xitsonga. I mock. Do not follow if you take X too serious
Joined February 2012
Bumped into her at Lanseria airport in 1993. Turned out we were going to the same destiny - Ngala lodge. Got cold fit even as the heart said please sir. Met again in Jozi at a conference. Then at Madiba’s inauguration, asked her out for dinner. We went out on 29/05. Shot my shot
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Meanwhile when the government says Starlink like all companies in that space should have local ownership, our Rambos calls it some communist policy.
President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive TikTok access in the US by executive order after he is sworn in on Monday, but said he wants the popular social media app to be at least half owned by US investors.
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My only comment on the budget. Even the much hated Class of 1996 never increased VAT because they knew of its impact on the poor. The poor are not only those who receive social grants but working people who rely on basic foodstuffs for survival, looking after large families.
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MKP members don’t see anything wrong with their president fighting to remain a member of another party?.
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I do not support the call for Multichoice to remove ANN7. It's moes not compulsory to watch. I too pay for DSTV but don't watch everything. How can we talk of political tolerance but can't stand a channel you're not compelled to watch?.
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I really like the zama zamas. They have exposed those who peddled the notion of them trapped. These are illegal miners who do not intend to come out but need new supplies since those who used to supply them in the dark can’t do so since the police arrived.
[READ] Illegal miners, who remain underground in Stilfontein, have written another letter, this time requesting for various items including medicine and food items, including mayonnaise and tomato sauce. #Newzroom405
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Only in Satafrika would a ruling party vote for a cut in budget today and march against it tomorrow.
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I hope someone asks the government to indicate who lobbied them if ZCC, Methodist, Muslims, Jewish, Rhema and the Jesuit sections say they are not opening.
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Why don’t you just write a manual on how we should react when we feel undermined, disrespected or insulted?.
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I’ve said this before and will say it again. Never try to appease the taxi industry. Close routes if necessary. Impound their cars. Commuters may suffer but are likely to be safe. You let them do as they wish, accept that rest of the country should too. Your move @MbalulaFikile.
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Can anyone from the DA explain to me why the load shedding is because of Mantashe and never PG?.
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A thread. Some who speak of Madiba having sold out have never been with Madiba in engagement with the NP and its surrogate the IFP. They don’t know how close we were to a civil war. It’s not what you could do but what the other side could do to destabilize the country.
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1. Before the ANC disbanded the Scorpions, the country had capacity to solve difficult cases, arrest and successfully prosecute perpetrators. When Pagad exploded bombs in Cape Town (1996) and killed people randomly, they got caught and served time, some 20 years.
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Bosasa is not about Zuma, VBS, Steinhof of the Guptas. It is about how cadres established and used an entity to loot from the state. A President not tainted by corruption would ask all depts & SOEs to terminate all contracts with Bosasa. A private sector not corrupt would do same.
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CJ Mogoeng Mogoeng is just about to receive a practical lesson in life.
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Today, 28 years ago, was just getting into my car for Boyne when a message came on my pager to say Chris has been killed. Rushed to his house and found his lifeless body. What a loss for the country. We do not know how history would have turned out. We can only speculate.
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Why do we pretend JZ pension payout is a special dispensation applicable only to him? It applied to Madiba, TM, Kgalema and De Klerk. Can’t apply rules selectively. He was not impeached or removed by a motion of no confidence requiring loss of benefits. Play fair.
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The ANC will pay dearly for treating the matter of the removal of JZ as President of the country as an internal matter. It has been internal for years when a section of the country have wanted him gone a long time ago. Keep us in the dark at your own peril.
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You gotta give it to comrades. Somebody is eating for these prams
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President Zuma is right. You guys are just mean. Nine good years, you cheered him on, couldn’t even explain to him what wrong he had done that warranted his recall. When the masses marched demanding his recall you said they were racist. And now you say it was nine wasted years.
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Siku lerinene ro velekiwa manana Xilowa. From a Taurean to a Gemini
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It is possible to disagree with Ndlozi and still treat him with respect. Calling him an “Ice boy” or other names does not enhance the argument you may be trying to advance. It either diminishes it or shows you do not have one.
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I can’t just walk to a pharmacy and ask for ARVs with no script. Mass distribution of ARVs as in T-shirts at rallies?.
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says it would be legally wrong for the Stilfontein illegal miners who refuse to leave the mine shaft to be sent ARVs as they requested. Motsoaledi says he does not understand the legal basis for the SAPS to issue ARVs to the zama zamas because
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Old age advice to Manana. First thing to do when in a hole is to stop digging. If she was picking protective gear, narcists that he is is he would have posted that picture and said so. He posted what had happened. She stopped for lunch on her way. We are not children.
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President Zuma must go for broke, call a press conference and name everyone who he thinks is behind his troubles. Time for that book to be released live.
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Pitori chicks have no chill. A friend saw this young lady and thought he would take his chances despite his advanced age. But it never went beyond the greetings . Him: Hi babe.Her: Le ra nna malome?.
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Let us be fair comrades. CR was just a DP who couldn’t do much under Zuma and not risk being fired like he did PG, Mcebisi & others. It is also unfair to keep harping that CR was the Chair of Eskom task team for 4 years and did nothing. He will deliver now that he’s numero uno.
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Could it be that the beneficiaries of this flag tender have already been identified and 10% earmarked that it can’t be cancelled or shelved for another time? Has the ANC become so arrogant that they can’t be moved by such an outcry from artists who slept outside his offices?.
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Not blacks who are themselves beneficiaries of Affirmative Action saying it is not necessary. Most companies that you’re in that seem transformed with some of you in senior positions is because of the dictates of the EEA and not just the goodness of the heart of the employer.
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I understand the water problem in GP. It needs to be addressed pronto. I however think there’s media bias because it affects them and businesses directly. But most rural areas have been experiencing this for years but are just a footnote in the media. Let there be water for all!.
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Ten years from now someone will tell us how corruption was thriving even under the new dawn and why he couldn’t say anything. He will then call on us to give him a chance to clean up the mess. Being the good citizens that we are, we will clap hands, vote and hope for the best.
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I once went to a trade union conference in Arusha. At the time they could be without electricity for 12 hours. On seeing my surprise, a leader of the Zambian federation told me it will soon be our turn. I told him not in South Africa. He said that’s what they thought as well.
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I think it is undermining CR to suggest that he was overruled in a cabinet meeting. Cabinet never votes. CR chairs the meeting, and summarizes. No decision of the cabinet could be taken without him agreeing to it. It is OK to critize NDZ, I’ve done so, but it’s not her decision.
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1st Frame 5/10/1994 - Houghton.2nd Frame 15/10/1994 - Holofani.3rd Frame 5/11/1994 - Honeydew.4th Frame 5/11/2022 - Italy
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@tito_mboweni Talk is cheap. You are the governmnent. You said during election campaign there will be no impunity. You knew people stole funeral money, food parcels and from projects such as the one in Muyexe. You put no steps to stop it. What made you think they wont eat now?.
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Guys please leave me alone. I did not accuse ANC leaders of being corrupt or doing business with the government with their kids. Ace did. Go argue there. He’s just confirmed what some of us have said: that die hele lot is vrot. When we said so, you posted a flag. Ace soiled it.
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Sometimes, just sometimes the media should starve those who are advocating for violence and anarchy oxygen. Try it and see what happens. There’s no shooting in the air when media is not there. It is all for show. Don’t become the propaganda tool.
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The people arrested after posting videos being at a funeral with more than fifty people has just had their defence bolstered by the ANC and the government.
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Department of Home Affairs, SAPS and DIRCO are answerable for Bushir’s escape and not the NPA or Department of Justice. NPA opposed bail, judge granted it, said to report to police Monday and Friday. Those in charge of immigration or intelligence police dropped the ball.
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Matamela set him up. There’s no way he could do such a stupid thing.
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The multiparty coalition in Jozi has given up making Jozi an African world city. You just look at potholes, traffic lights not working, the filth in Alex, Roodepoort, Randburg, not to mention the Jozi CBD.
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Imagine the president making half measure announcement because of a self imposed deadline. We would slaughter him. While time is of essence it is better to have a solid and comprehensive message and decisions than half baked ones.
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Why is PW defying the TRC our reference point and not Madiba responding to a summons even when his legal team thought the judge was playing politics? Madiba took seriously his oath of office. We never recognised PW, so he can never be our reference point. J.
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No spin doctor can spin this Qedani thing. It is a mess. The more they speak the more incoherent they sound. And silence is not golden too.
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Those of you who were too young or didn’t see the De Klerk, Mandela debate then but saw it last night would have seen that the Mandela we know and the one you’ve been told about are not the same: Ours stood up for the country, yours sold blacks out. Same guy.
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Why slam the guy for being a racist, a liar and no doubt a crook but never for the many Black and women owned companies that never got work because our government and comrades gave the tenders to Bosasa in exchange for bags, fake watches, braai packs and monthly stipends?.
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Ndzi khensa nkarhi lowu ndzi nga va na xona na n’wina. Ndzi dyondze swo tala hi manana, kokwana N’wa Xiluvani, vana na vatukulu va vona. Na tati Chinghisa hi rivala na leswaku loyi hi nga mama ra kwe vele u fambe khale. Mi famba kahle manana. Ti basa. Va mi amukela no mi vukarha
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So Ramaphosa says I will celebrate my birthday under lockdown. If it saves life, I’m in. There will be another, next year.
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Can someone do a list of areas with no water, sanitation, housing, etc so he isn’t shocked every time he arrives at an area.
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa says he’s disturbed to hear that some of the villages in Moletjie, outside Polokwane, still don’t have electricity and water. He promised government will attend to these issues. @eNCA
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Last I checked the fellow couldn’t string a coherent sentence let alone a paragraph. Must have taken a lot of effort.
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I am not sure what some in the media hope to gain by gaslighting Dr Ndlozi. Whether he stays or leaves is his decision. What is the end game? Whatever it is seems to have little to do with his interests but to feed the narrative of a resurgent MKP and a declining EFF.
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Whoever is burning the trains is no friend of the working class. It is them who will fork out more money in buses and taxis. Blaming Metro rail instead of the arsonists is plain daft.
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If you guys touch me I’m dropping files on judges and journalists.
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After listening to the President I am now more convinced that they’ve no clue what to do to end loaf shedding. I mean really, comparing it to apartheid?.
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Mkhwebane has every right to investigate anyone, PG included. I just find her overzealous on him and slack on others. The complaint about Faith divulging cabinet secret was lodges ages ago. To date nothing has been said or done. Same on Batha following CC saying she lied.
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Many MPs are for the reduction of the wage bill until you ask them to forego perks such as free housing, free flight for family members, VIP protection services, cut wages by a third and reduce the cabinet. They want to reduce the number of teachers, nurses, doctors, police, etc.
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If ever there was a middle finger to the people of the Republic and to the President this is it.
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Let me set this straight right at the beginning of the year. I need no one’s permission to tweet in Xitsonga. I owe no one an explanation. It’s never to exclude but to express myself best way I know. Can’t translate too because like most languages meaning would be lost.
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The issue is not Mmusi but Tony and the DA’s attitude to black members and leaders. He more than anyone has articulated what others whisper: We are a white party, to be led by whites. We tried to see if opening it up at all levels works, it does for blacks, but we don’t like it.
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If you want to see where the working class ranks on loyalty and deserving of service delivery by the ANC look no further than response to SAA and Prasa: Move heaven and earth to find billions to fund SAA but not Prasa whose trains carry the working class. Any plans Cosatu/ Saftu.
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The Gemini in the house celebrates her 21st birthday .
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Anywhere in the world with what Matjila and other officials have said about Bruce Koloane coupled with his testimony at the Zondo Commission he wouldn’t have been allowed to return to the Netherlands let alone represent a country. But this being a new dawn, it’s no big deal.
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Buffalo and distractions. Why wait till Fraser’s revelations to tell us about the arrests. We are focussed on Phala Phala farms for now.
Media Statement : Ministry of Justice confirms Gupta arrest
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The Zuma being described by Ms Hogan is the same Zuma we described in 2008. Some of you feining surprise and dismay dismissed our views then.
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I am are not sure what we want. We called on the government to lift restrictions. We said they are treating us like kids as if we could not look after ourselves. They said fine, it is in your hands: sanitize, observe physical distance, wear masks and avoid large gatherings.
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We have long passed the situation where we wait for the government to dictate what not to do to survice COVID-19. We are at a stage where we must use common sense. Is it really necessary and if so how can it be underataken in a safe manner? It is not what CR does but what we do.
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How is this possible? The ANC and DA have more members of parliament than the EFF yet they contributed more than both to the solidarity fund established by CR? The cabinet and ANC caucus are higher in number. It means the cabinet and the ANC paid lip service to the call by CR.
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Why is this issue of those who drop out between Grade R and 12 raised as an issue only in relation to the Matric results and not during different stages of education? Do we know the reasons for dropping out? Are they societal or Department related? Drugs, poverty, employment, etc.
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Before you say we should have supported Morocco, tell us when they ever supported our bid FIFA World Cup, AFCON, etc. They supported Germany in 2006 and then put a bid for 2010. Its dog eat dog. They would be happy to play in UEFA competitions if they were allowed.
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It is ahistorical to suggest that KZN was always an ANC stronghold. That only happened in 2009 with the Zuma factor. It was bound to wear off. Check past premiers of the province. That will tell you who was dominant at the time. Surely any Editor could easily pick that up.
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I’m not sure that this reporting is factual. What soul searching when he says he started this with UBaba?.
“After a lot of soul searching I've taken a decision that I will be joining The MK Party. I'm joining MK because I believe that it is the Vehicle to which we will achieve the much needed black and progressive unity” Adv. Dali Mpofu. Video SABC News Exclusive on YouTube.Mzwandile
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I think parliament should turn down the request from the leader of the Blues for a debate on JZ. There’s no constitutional crises and they know it. Just want platform to blow the air. The sun just rose today and it will set down too.
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Why is it our concern what the ANC decides on Ace? He’s not a public official, but SG of the ANC. Surely we should be concerned about what an ANC government does on growing and economy that creates jobs, deals with poverty, quality health and education? Humani ka factions.
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“When the time is ripe I will expose the people behind the plot”. An ancient ANC proverb (Author unknown).
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Am I the only one who don’t remember any other RSA president visiting the USA? CR is really going overboard. Taking us for a ride. Meeting with a leader of the capitalist world. Madiba, Zizi or Msholozi wouldn’t do something like that, which is why the centre of gravity is upset.
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What @JJTabane said was inappropriate, doesn’t warrant a suspension, merely a reminder that there are sensitive viewers out there. He has said worse on other issues. We understood the context and never made a fuss. We from Limpopo make jokes about our prowess with the broom.
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The SCA & later CC has repeatedly told HE Zuma, that the motive notwithstanding if one has a case to answer they should. Many on CR side hold same view. Now that the shoe is on the other foot can we have consistency please. CR has a case to answer Fraser’s motives notwithstanding.
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Some of the people condemning Jozi and @HermanMashaba on the skop will be the first one to condemn the city if an outbreak of disease was to take place.
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Under apartheid police would descend on unarmed protesters. Heading would be “community clashes with police”. Let that not be the norm under democracy. EFF were attacked by a group of parents while the police stood by. Doesn’t matter what the EFF has done in the past.
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A non-racial, non-sexist, democratic, united and prosperous South Africa is worth championing.
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Imagine Bongo, a guy accused of corruption after he allegedly offered advocate Vanara “an unlawful gratification”, remaining Chair of a committee of parliament; Zwane as well and the two sitting in the NEC of the ANC deciding on ethical and integrity matters. A bioscope script.
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How should police respond? They’ve been tipped there are criminals inside a house. They approach but are shot at. Take out bikes and pray? Run for dear life or take it to the criminals? Same people who condemn police here laugh when police are chased or disarmed by criminals.
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I can’t believe what I’m hearing from Intercape owner with @bonglez who alleges that an MEC asked him to pay taxi association for his buses to operate.
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Being committed to a non-racial society does not mean being blind to racism.
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Can we shift the focus to sections of the economy and workers who are still not able to operate like restaurants, salons, spas, hotels, events areas, etc instead of making this just about tobacco products.
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A random khweshin. How many of you who condemned Ndlozi for his utterances on a journalist harassed by EFF protesters have condemned the senseless assault on women in a peaceful protest by some of the parents at Brackenfell in Cape town? Please read the question carefully.
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It would have been better for @eNCA to have kept quiet. Then we would have drawn our own conclusions without their help. We were not asking about her history but why COVID rules were applied differently according to race. From their “apology” we know it is institutionalised.
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This Agrizzi fellow just jogged my memory. Some of the cast starring in his movie once approached us for a stake in the Gautrain. We told the Advocate who was their front to go to hell. Imagine an MEC and Ministers wanting a stake in a government project.
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What’s wrong with these Limpopo ANC delegates? Not even a minor scuffle for the media? What kind of conference is this?.
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I’ve said it before that JZ was never at Codesa and that pictures of him there were manipulated. His address today made it clear. Also made clear is that what he hoped could be done, wasn’t done because we didn’t have the right leaders at the helm of government. Now is the time.
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Now that we have rightly told the US off including on Palestine, I hope we will in the same way, publicly call out Zimbabwe and Eswatini.
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