Giulietta Talevi
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Someone please explain this to me: how’s it ok to leave the lovely clean welcoming park you found when you arrived looking like this when you leave? Is it really that hard to clean up after yourself? Zoo lake on a Sunday:
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Does anyone actually want to FIX Joburg, or do they just want to be in charge?
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Good grief,
@CyrilRamaphosa
, Why did you ever want the job if you’re going to do nothing with it?! Clean out the rubbish in your cabinet, already. Sure, the ANC might hate you, but you’ll get a country on board. And then ditch the useless party and form a new one. It’ll be fun!
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South African politicians, abroad, continue to behave as if we were a country of exceptionalism and a beacon of moral superiority. In reality, we're disorganised, mediocre, self-satisfied no-hopers who no longer deserve a seat at any global negotiating table. Grow up!
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Maybe one day someone will explain why it was so hard for the ANC to do the right thing. Whether to maintain sewage plants & roads, keep towns clean, help people with access to telecoms and transport, keep people safe with a decent police. Why do the opposite of everything good?
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I understand the pressure that alcohol-induced trauma cases place on hospitals and their staff. But to summarily remove the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people - and their dependants - with absolutely no offer of financial assistance is unconscionable.
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The taxi industry just went ahead and did its own thing. Why should SA’s tavern owners, bars, restaurants, bottle stores, brewers winemakers, cigarette producers, tobacco farmers and bottlers not do the same?
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Then, with all due respect Sir, use the ANC's money to help Cuba out, not the country's.
Friendships that last forever. Cuba and the ANC. OR Tambo and Fidel Castro. 💪🏿💪🏿
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The most dangerous man in this country needs to be removed from Government, NOW:
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While we're bombarded with all the expected double standards in SA, I'd like to say,
@CyrilRamaphosa
that ministers like Cele, Mbalula, Zulu, Patel and cupcake Stella would really struggle to find jobs as low level managers in the real world. They're...pathetic
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Taxi owners and drivers have become so used to operating outside of the law they seem truly shocked and feel victimised when the law finally puts its foot down. For the rest of us who look agape at their everyday flagrant disregard, it's about bloody time.
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So,
@GwedeMantashe1
, you said Eskom (De Ruyter) was actively agitating to overthrow the ANC govt, in Dec 2022.
Now that you have your own man in charge, essentially, and loadshedding is every bit as bad, what is the message?
Aren't you tired of your own nonsense?
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It's day 80 of lockdown. So almost all workers in salons, hairdressers, spas, restaurants, bars, hotels, BnB's and events companies are looking at their third month of no income. And no help, either, while Mme Zulu & co profess themselves surprised at the devastation around them
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Get all squeamish for whatever bizarre reason you advance for not voting DA. But bear in mind that the Western Cape spent R2.55m cleaning schools, and Gauteng spent R431m. But, do, by all means, continue as you were
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If I were big business, I'd be demanding a meeting with Pravin, Gwede, Cele and De Ruyter, in the same room, to get this shit sorted out. This weekend. Still no fucking sense of crisis here. Find a spine, people!
@businessforsa
@BLSA_Official
@BusinessUnitySA
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The PIC's slammed the appointment of Arrie Rautenbach as anti-transformation. Are we moving to a point where being white disqualifies you from top management, no matter your skills or work ethic or your desire for social justice?
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I really do want to believe in SA, but when you drive through areas like Malvern or Cleveland, the forgotten parts of Joburg, and you see the decay and the absolute destruction of public infrastructure, it is very, very hard to have faith in a turnaround.
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The revulsion of "Kill the boer" is not whites' fear of "Die Swart Gevaar". It's dismay at an awful song that no longer stands in a democracy, or a country with unspeakably high murder rates & vestiges of racial animosity. It does nothing for the collective goal of a better SA
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Aren't you in jail yet?
Don't forget who brought you to stage 6 load shedding.
Remember their faces 😭
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Durban people, exactly why did you guys vote back the ANC? You lot (sadly not the opposition voters) deserve every sewage choked waterway there is.
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Yep. He and his odious, holier-than-though finger wagging can fuck right off.
Pravin Gordhan is simply part of the same criminal syndicate that is leading us to our doom.
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Sure, Rob Hersov's an objectionable trust fund kid. But he's not wrong, is he? Maybe if we spent less time getting into a froth over who he is and, more on the complete fucking mess Cyril and co have led us, then we'd be on the right track to fixing SA.
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Just one question,
@GwedeMantashe1
: if Karpowerships are needed as an emergency stop gap, then why a 20-year contract?
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Actually, not just pathetic. You are a deceitful bully,
@GwedeMantashe1
. YOUR party shoe-horned in the corruption now eating Eskom up from inside. You failed to fast-track the REIPP process, you impeded private sector generation. And WE pay for it - not you.
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Of course NUM wants De Ruyter’s head. Unions have been totally complicit in Eskom’s destruction
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This travel ban is infuriating! Don’t tell me other countries aren’t producing new variants too?!
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Hope it’s really clear to SA at large that the single factor behind your cost of living explosion is Eskom’s inability to supply enough, reliable, reasonably priced power. And that’s thanks to the ANC government. No one else.
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Another thing about this here
@CyrilRamaphosa
sale. Has any tax been declared?
@sarstax
, you going to look into this or just hound citizens over their pissy assessments for a spare R4k or such?
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You guys can't even keep the M1 and M2 motorways around Joburg clean, weed-free and well-lit,
@GautengProvince
, and you want to run a bank and a pharma business? The level of self-delusional, cynical bullshit populism is off the charts here!
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Somehow I sense that this is where the money, meant to maintain, fix and better our province’s infrastructure, ended up
Preparing ANC machinery for a decisive electoral victory in Gauteng
#Siyanqoba
#VoteANC
#PanyaPanya
#RegisterToVoteANC
🖤💚💛
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Also, when on earth are you going to have a proper media Q and A session,
@CyrilRamaphosa
?!
Are we still a democracy?
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So now that that ridiculous brthday party is over, can we see some evidence of your other day job,
@CyrilRamaphosa
? You know, the one where you're President, and here to address the many crises we face, but, principally, the one called Eskom?
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You wouldn’t know an act of service, let alone a life of such, if it crunched over you with a Gelandewagen
EFF Statement On The Death Of Queen Elizabeth
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Someone please tell me we're not watching the real-time economic death spiral of the SA economy?
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Just stop with the “family meeting” bullshit already. It’s insulting and inane.
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Among the worst characteristics of the lying Mantashe and Gordhan is that they never, ever, take responsibility for our mess. It's always someone else's fault. Take your pick: Foreign NGOs, colonialists, imperialists, Western running dogs blah blah blah. Dinosaur comrades.🙄
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It’s hard to overstate how screwed SA is right now: we have stage 4 load shedding and while big companies are now almost all on generators, the price of fuel is going to kill them. And where in some countries commuters can shift to train transport, we can’t (
@MbalulaFikile
). 💣
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How old are these people? 5? Good grief. The level of maturity in this country among people who purport to serve it.
Council sitting being disrupted by the ANC & EFF, they tried to assault the mayor
@CityofJoburgZA
@DA_JHB
@Our_DA
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So, those of us who can drink responsibly without killing or hurting others are, once again, penalized for those who can’t. Fuckers
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What's happening at Eskom - theft & ill-discipline - is simply the manifestation of SA's almost-entrenched lawlessness. Now patently manifest in the way people blithely ignore traffic laws, drive through red robots, litter, bribe traffic cops, etc. These things count, too
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Apology accepted Mayor. Yours is a bloody tough job and you cop a lot of flak, often unfairly. Thank you
Upon reflection, I owe
@GTalevi
an apology for my response. My skin has been worn thin by a level of unfair criticism. I should not have reacted the way I did and for that I sincerely apologise.
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Ugh. When your government - which has had almost 28 years running the show, delivers functioning toilets to the, what, 1600 schools that STILL DON'T HAVE ANY - then we will listen to you pontificate about human rights,
@CyrilRamaphosa
@PresidencyZA
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Imagine how prosperous SA might be if we didn't have to pay double for everything?! You don't need a vision to run this place, you just need to run it properly so that we can use state hospitals, send our kids to state schools, rely on the police. Etc. Screaming into the void!
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If
@GwedeMantashe1
had upped the generation cap for private power producers 18 months ago we wouldn’t have this loadshedding, says RMB’s chief economist. It’s infuriating
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When you wake to a massive water leak from outside your house, flowing into it, with loadshedding on the go, having gone to bed with loadshedding, is when you want to give up, and get the hell out of here.
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Really, if the ANC had actually set out to fuck every function in government in a remarkably quick two decades then they have done an absolutely brilliant job. Bravo!
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The question that wakes me up these days is: doesn't the
@MYANC
WANT to be associated with success? A booming economy, advances in tech, using our manifold resources so that we are the best in Africa. A productive, cohesive nation of go-getters. Why on earth not?!
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Let's be clear: the Patriotic Alliance - a party of venal backstabbing bank robbers - is the issue. I understand realpolitik, but there's also a point at which extortion is, you know, not good. Next time don't vote for these shits. They do not have your best interests at heart
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How exactly did the ANC, until so recently bankrupt, bankroll its Mbombela bash?
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Hi,
@JoburgParksZoo
- this is the scene at 9.30am on a Saturday. So not only are you not clamping down on rampant littering at your zoo, you can’t be bothered to clean up the mess from the day before. You can do so much better.
@CityofJoburgZA
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It’s actually astonishing how wrecked the M2 is. Weeds, rubble, filth, neglect. it’s falling apart —and this is your main highway into SA’s supposedly most economically important city.
@CityofJoburgZA
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I suppose there's no hope ever of seeing the VIP protection budget cut and that money diverted to the NPA, is there,
@PresidencyZA
?
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South Africans mostly all supported the lockdown. But the contract was: if you shut down businesses and livelihoods, then make damn sure you have mechanisms in place to support your citizens. That was it, all the state had to do, and it failed. Rebellion is perfectly justified
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Imagine staking your future on dependency? Grants, not growth. What a terrible legacy,
@CyrilRamaphosa
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You fail to re-open Charlotte Maxeke on time, your field hospitals lie abandoned, you have failed to organise the required nursing staff for your new hospitals, so what do you do?
You resign.
Just kidding! If you're
@David_Makhura
you panic and you push for level 4 lockdown.
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People of Gauteng, remember, when you go to the polls tomorrow, that the ANC, EFF, PA and Al Jama-ah would prefer to spend R4.5m a month on VIP security and bodyguards than services to the public in the
@CityofJoburgZA
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I wonder if
@sarstax
appreciates the existential rage that engulfs provisional taxpayers when they look about them and see the extent of SA's collapse, not to mention the proceeds of theft in the gargantuan consumerist orgy enjoyed by the nation's tenderprenurs,
@EdKieswetter
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Also: put Pravin out to pasture, for the love of anything remotely resembling progress,
@CyrilRamaphosa
! The disgrace of an SAA deal taking almost 2 years, the complete failures at Eskom, Denel, Transnet, etc etc etc etc etc. Enough!
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Don’t ‘us’ us,
@CyrilRamaphosa
. It has only ever been your pigs at the trough, and the rest of us.
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Meanwhile, in
@City_Ekurhuleni
, we made the mistake of driving through Germiston last week to avoid an accident on the N12. OH MY GOD. Words will fail you. The best thing that authorities could do would be to evacuate everyone, drop a bomb, and start again. Horrific
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Can only think that the voters of E. Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga suffer from some hideous civic form of stockholm syndrome.
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Grim open letter to
@CyrilRamaphosa
from the consumer goods council on power crisis: "If this continues, we will not be able to guarantee stable supplies of food, meds & other essential goods. The govt needs to understand this, rather than believe we can maintain biz as usual"
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Good grief. You’d think, reading
@CyrilRamaphosa
‘s comments, that the last 26 years of rule under the ANC government didn’t happen. Pretty pissed off at being scapegoated for rampant corruption, dim economic policy and woeful municipal management
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Israel got its first vaccine quotes in April. April!! You and your useless coterie of inept fools have utterly failed SA,
@CyrilRamaphosa
.
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Ok, seriously.
@CyrilRamaphosa
, this is not professional. Prasa ghost workers, desecrated railways, ballooning fuel costs and potholed roads everywhere, and this is what he's tweeting?! Get outta here.
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When I see what Cyril says today and what his ministers like Ntshaveni spew in parliament I just want to scream. Your cabinet hates the private sector,
@CyrilRamaphosa
, your party is stuck in an ideological time warp, so who do we believe?!
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TAX REVOLT! I'm so down for this revolution
Comment: So reports suggest personal income tax and VAT will both increase. We get less and less but have to keep feeding the rapacious, wasteful state. At the weekend our local councillor said residents must fix fucked-up traffic signs as Johannesburg Roads Agency can't.
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The Emmarentia fountains are flowing! We walk here every week and the park is truly as beautiful and well-maintained as any in the world. Kudos, and thanks
@JoburgParksZoo
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Honestly, Athol, you say that with a straight face given Dada Morero’s comments this week, and his track record? What on earth were you thinking? And please explain why you want to remove Cilliers Brink?
This is why ActionSA &
@HermanMashaba
have decided to cooperate with the ANC in Joburg, not in a coalition but in cooperation, where the ANC & its partners govern & hold executive office and we hold legislature office and hold them to account. 👍🏼
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Sweetie, you're delusional. Also, there's that thing called working from home. Doubt you've ever experienced such a thing but there you go!
Oh and pop into our office if you want some coffee sometime today. We're hard at work but could do with some light relief.
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It is actually unconscionable that not a single government leader, let alone you Sir,
@CyrilRamaphosa
have apologized for the mess you have made at Eskom. The economy is on its knees as a result. We do deserve better
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Kudos however to the EFF for being all over the news for their effort. Cloete Murray's murder, not so much. The latter, arguably, a far greater assault on our democracy.
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Could
@NPA_Prosecutes
take note: it took German prosecutors about a week to arrest Wirecard's former CEO Markus Braun on charges of fraud.
Our own Markus, Jooste, is still wafting around Hermanus 2 and a half years later....
Pathetic
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Having just driven Sandton-Parkview in rush hour loadshedding, I'd like to say a big fuck you to the
@JoburgMPD
for the ONE set of pointsmen I encountered; not to mention the wretched, self-interested political parties who are busy collapsing this city. Screaming out loud!
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Hi
@CyrilRamaphosa
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@Khu_Ntshavheni
? You've just said that the private sector is critical to fixing Transnet's mess - she thinks it's working to collapse your government. Which is it?
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Oh spare us the platitudes. And remove your knee jerk, economically devastating, travel ban.
Excellent to speak to Dr Joe Phaahla
@HealthZA
, my counterpart in South Africa today to express my thanks for rapidly alerting the world to Omicron.
The UK is working closely with our South African friends to share any new information on Omicron.
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Not only is our present cabinet and state almost universally corrupt, but the only conclusion to all the unanswered questions - who are the 12 instigators, why is Nosiviwe still minister? etc, is that they simply don't have a fucking clue what they're doing.
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Joburg residents: OBJECT to your rubbish new prop valuations! City says our house is worth R1.2m more than when we bought it 7 years ago; estate agent today reckons we'd be lucky to get what we paid for it. This is the cost of a dysfunctional city.
@CityofJoburgZA
@OUTASA
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Could she deal with the 200-plus collapsing municipalities under her watch, rather?
Dlamini-Zuma raises concerns over Cape Town’s high crime rate
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Not so silent screaming today at Cyril’s lack of action on, well, everything. Taking SA down with him.
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What happened to the ANC's commitment to non-racialism? Or, um, diversity in the party ranks? Silly me! All whites are obviously like that pair of Free State yahoos. Nothing to contribute, nothing to offer (other than taxes, obvs).
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Everyone, please help your city, irrespective of the political party that runs it, by not littering! Do better!
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If I use myself as an example of the contraction of disposable income in SA: Salary cut: 30%; Income from rental property -44%; City rates and power bill +41%.
= very little to spend on life's niceties. (Throw in rampant state corruption + mismanagement and the rage is +100%)
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Four actual young kids have been abducted and people are out here talking about nonexistent decuplets. Wtaf, SA?
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Hopefully one day we will get to the point in SA that we are able to criticize the action of Govt (or anyone) on the basis of those actions, without the presumption that said criticism is made on the basis of race.
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Good grief! The
@CityofJoburgZA
has just totally blitzed Empire road, and I mean blitzed. Seriously impressed and appreciative. Whether it's our ranting or not, thank you. (
@mphophalatse1
)
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Can you think of a single cabinet minister who is either lucid or well-informed? The DA is absolutely right: a more woeful collection of arrogant, inane, confused bombast you will not find. How is it possible that these are the best of us?
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When you have neither knowledge, patience, logic, wit, wisdom, or simple decency, this is the result. Naked, unhinged aggression. And you're still going to vote EFF?
[WATCH] A scuffle broke out between EFF and DA councillors at the Ekurhuleni municipal council this morning.
The DA said four of its councillors were injured during the commotion.
@Alpha_Mero25
Video: Supplied
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Wow,
@MpumalangaGov
, when are you going to do something about your roads? The drive between Sabie and Hazyview is more pothole than tarmac. You have such a magnificent province: how about looking after it? I mean, how’s this for a view…
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I’m sure there are plenty people here who will helpfully explain things to me, but how is advocating legal immigration xenophobic? SA’s borders are abysmally porous, & legal routes in a nightmare. Fixing that and providing decent social services to qualifying residents is bad?
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Not a single streetlight working on Beyers Naude between Kelland and upper blackheath. And then only intermittently after, along huge stretches too. Like Oxford, Jan Smuts, Milner, you name it. What a horror is the visible decay of a city,
@CityofJoburgZA
@MyJRA
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R19.84. I asked at R18.91 if the
@PresidencyZA
were panicking yet. By now, if they understood the gravity of this, they should be hysterical
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