Nicole Graham
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MBA at the University of Sydney. Former eThekwini Councillor and opposition leader. In the business of self-discovery.
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I was on the bus behind the Springboks with all the MECs and city politicians in 2019 and a lady on the beach front yelled “Voetsek, we didn’t come to see politicians”. And honestly, valid.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube welcomes the
@Springboks
in Durban.
The Parade is on route to KwaMashu💚💛
#StrongerTogether
#RWC2023
#SpringboksRWC
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Please remember how this woman got rich. She used political contacts to get huge tenders she couldn’t deliver on. RDP houses crumbled, the state was looted and poor people suffered. I don’t want to see her cars or her outfits. She should be shamed, not celebrated.
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This guy happily participated in the looting of Glenwood
@WOOLWORTHS_SA
and then hopped into a brand new Merc (NUR32896). Anyone recognise him? Will link car vid in next tweet.
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She was killed by an intimate partner who was previously arrested for strangling her and later released. How many women are going to be let down by this system?
32-year-old Nomaphelo Sifuba had her tongue gouged out, right cheek on her face and throat slit. She also has stab wounds around her thigh and chest.
#Newzroom405
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A few small parties, whose names you probably won’t even know, handed power back to the ANC in eThekwini. The IFP, EFF, DA, ACDP and ActionSA didn’t. Make no mistake, these guys have cash in their pockets and we will hold them accountable.
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Capt Klyde Ross Naidoo (left) has done his first solo flight and is now the youngest fighter pilot and first Indian fighter pilot in the SA Air Force. He’s 28 and comes from Reservoir Hills, Durban. Well done Capt Naidoo!
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A lockdown is a lockdown. Please stop trying to find loopholes. You cannot go surfing and you cannot do tai chi in the park and you cannot ride mountain bikes. Just. Stay. Home.
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Looted a
@WOOLWORTHS_SA
, made up an elaborate lie about how he found goods outside (also a crime) and didn’t realise there was a longer video. Whoops.
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The EFF have voted with the ANC Councillors in
@eThekwiniM
to give themselves a 4% salary increase. The DA, IFP, ACDP, MF, DLC and MOSA voted against. 42% of our constituents are unemployed, our city’s economy is collapsing and these guys are increasing their own salaries.
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I have resigned as Leader of the DA in the eThekwini Council. I am moving abroad to pursue an MBA at the University of Sydney. I remain a proud and committed member of the DA. Full statement below 👇🏼
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The Deputy Head of Metro Police says the service only has 400 officers available at any one time. Contrast this with 60 councillors being guarded by 137 guards in 90 vehicles daily. 60 politicians get 34% of the protection from the city that 3.5+ million people do.
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The ANC just lost a vote on eThekwini EXCO (to increase fees for valuation roll objections by 200%). DA + IFP + EFF = 5, ANC alliance 4. Mayor tried to vote twice, then put his camera off and claimed he 'lost connection' after I said they had lost. /1
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Former eThekwini Mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda, called me last night for a chat. I’ve told him to leave his office keys under the mat. 😂
On a serious note, the ANC in eThekwini are in a flat spin.
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The EFF are very upset with me today. I spoke once and immediately invoked their wrath. Methinks it has to do with the fact that we made it very public that they supported their own salary increases whilst “fighting” for the poor.
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Really looks like he needed that basket of groceries… 🤬🤬🤬
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The DA have won NINE wards off of the ANC in eThekwini and the ANC will come well under 50%.
What a time to be alive!
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I resume my role as Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the DA in eThekwini and a member of the city’s EXCO. This remains a hung council and the DA will be the moderate, loud voice of the people that will often be needed to reach consensus.
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The eThekwini Council will end up with the ANC on 96 seats, the DA on 59 seats, the EFF on 24 seats and the IFP on 16 seats. The council has no clear majority as the ANC is on 42%. This is going to be an interesting, robust five years. Thanks to everyone who voted DA! 💙
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I miss South Africa but good lord, I do not miss South African politics.
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The state does not have the capacity to enforce the lockdown for every single citizen if they attempt to break it. It has to rely on the goodwill and cooperation of its citizenry. I am fairly certain that this illogical nonsense has squandered that goodwill.
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Good morning to everyone except the ANC leadership in
@eThekwiniM
who spent R526 million on annual bonuses in the adjustment budget when service delivery in the city is the worst it has ever been.
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Then the municipality should give your money back. Delivering services is not a charitable affair- we pay for them. I am all for the occasional clean up, but people need to do their damn jobs.
The good thing that I enjoy amongst others about Makgobaskloof, is that we look after our environment. We don’t wait for the municipality. We do things ourselves!!
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We have really done it-
@Our_DA
has won our first municipality in KZN with an outright majority.
Midlands native and former eThekwini councillor Chris Pappas is set to become the Mayor of the Umngeni Municipality.
Well done team Umngeni!
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South Africa’s cabinet ministers- who earn R2.5 million a year whilst ensuring that the country fails on every metric- don’t have to experience load shedding. They don’t pay for water and electricity, either.
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Mxolisi Kaunda has been re-elected as eThekwini Mayor. He got 113 votes to my 106.
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I’ve been sick for a few weeks now, despite having made a lot of lifestyle changes and living a pretty healthy life. I saw a specialist last week and having some procedures and scans on Thursday. I am just so tired of feeling sick and nauseous and unproductive 🤕 Please send love
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Today, we voted against an attempt to spend over R2 million on clothing allowances for 153 Councillors’ bodyguards so that they can buy suits. (I am not joking).
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I’ve been a Councillor for 9 years and at every council meeting in that time, (+-100) at least one ANC Councillor has said “our people...” I’ve never heard a single journalist ask any one of them who “our people” are or who they speak for.
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I cannot explain to you what it feels like to finally have some kind of breakthrough in eThekwini. Long may it last.
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Never mind. Good morning!
If I suddenly disappear tomorrow, it means I won the R110m Powerball.
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We live in one of the most dangerous countries on earth and our Police Minister calls a presser to pour booze in a bin. This guy is a dead end.
[MUST WATCH] Police Minister General Bheki Cele is at this hour destroying alchohol that has been confiscated by
@SAPoliceService
from illegal establishments and police search and seizure ops conducted across the Cape Town metropole from 15th of October 2021 to 16th of December.
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The last report said that 9500 were displaced and living in halls across eThekwini. At the sites I have visited, people have almost nothing. There is no food security, no dignity, no hope. The ANC insists that spending R8.3 million on parties is still necessary. God only knows
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Durbanites are losing their temper. Street and neighbourhood committees are forming to protect their communities and taking no nonsense.
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The ANC are desperately trying to collapse eThekwini Council. They claim the tent we are in is a safety hazard and are now just repeatedly raising points of order.
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Why should ordinary ratepayers have to pay R500 (up from R250) to simply object to the value of their homes on the valuation roll? Because the ANC are so bloody comfortable with rates income that they cannot allow people a fair process? Get out of my office, man.
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I am so honoured and delighted to announce that I have been re-elected as the leader of the Democratic Alliance in eThekwini. Thank you to our wonderful
@Our_DA
team for supporting me and congrats to everyone else who was elected.
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This idea (that is being widely and confidently peddled on Twitter) that ending the hard lockdown and opening the economy is anti-poor and panders to rich people is honestly so bizarre I don’t even know where to begin with it.
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I have written to the Speaker and Acting City Manager to get written confirmations about tomorrow’s proceedings and we have legal teams on standby. We are not playing silly buggers. Democracy will prevail in eThekwini.
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Applied for a driver’s license in Aus today. Made a booking online, printed forms, got seen to immediately as I arrived and could apply for an ID card at the same time. In and out in 20 minutes. Technology + people management + customer service- it should be simple, right?
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Destroy one of the country's key metros and then move onto a cushy R1mil+ a year job while out on bail- the ANC way.
BREAKING NEWS: Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede has been sworn in as an ANC MPL in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature in Pietermaritzburg. This comes months after she was demoted to be an ordinary councillor in eThekwini. Story to follow.
#ZandileGumede
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I truly wonder how many Councillors across the country actually read the budgets that they have voted on. The lack of depth, capacity and effort in public leadership is truly a travesty. So much noise, so much theatre, so few people who actually think, try and work.
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The ANC deliberately collapsed Council yesterday because they knew they didn’t have the numbers and unity to elect their own Deputy Mayor and were worried I would win. Lets help these guys sink their own ship.
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This man ordered the GANG RAPE of a teenage girl. I don’t care about his spinning coffin. He’s not a celebrity.
The funeral of
#RashiedStaggie
is taking place today in Durbanville, Cape Town. Courtesy
#DStv403
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I am making careful lists of those corporates, companies & producers who have happily capitulated to government’s unreasonable demands during lockdown. If they can’t fight for their own rights & our freedoms, they don’t deserve my business. There is too much at stake.
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Durban’s tourism sector is being absolutely ravaged by a crisis on our beaches during a key period and Tourism Minister
@LindiweSisuluSA
is writing op-eds about the judiciary. Go figure.
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The EFF are absent from eThekwini Council again this month. Last month, it was raised that only one of their councillors had attended in a number of months. They want to “govern” eThekwini but don’t even come to work!
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What is happening in KZN today is just a bloody disgrace.
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Durban’s harbour has ranked 349 out of 351 according to the World Container Port Performance Index 2020. 🥴
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This is the suspended Umngeni Municipal Manager. Imagine behaving like this, getting suspended and then still showing up to try and preside over a meeting? Not a single skaam cell was found. Sies!
@MayorPappas
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Hundreds of thousands of eThekwini residents have lost access to critical services, thousands are displaced, we are in the midst of a massive water crisis and the city’s leadership hasn’t met in two weeks. Last EXCO was 26 April. I’ve called on Mayor Kaunda to call one urgently.
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Has anyone been arrested for beheading and setting two men on fire in Shallcross, with clear video evidence? I haven’t seen anything reported.
@SAPoliceService
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Correct. They spent R4 million.
I am told that these luxury cars were recently bought for the ruling elite in charge of the ANC mismanaged eThekwini municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. All this during a period when ratepayers are losing their jobs & businesses are closing down. This is not the entire luxury fleet.
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A reminder that some of the Banyana Banyana team are effectively amateur or semiprofessional players. Kaylin Swart has spoken openly about having to train from 7pm-9pm because she has a 9-5 job. An incredible outcome, given the politics and circumstances.
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I love
@UKZN
’s graduations. They’re joyous and sincere. The people celebrating their children and grandchildren’s accomplishments so passionately may have not have that opportunity themselves and sacrificed a lot to make it happen. What a thing of joy! Congrats to all. ❤️
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In the last 24hr I’ve been called a fuckwit, a mediocre mind, a supporter of the illicit tobacco trade, an idiot, reminiscent of the US right- all for saying I won’t support brands in future who are failing to take a stand while govt destroys our economy. Strange place, this.
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uShaka Marine World gets R160 million of the eThekwini budget in the coming financial year. Their board planned a feasibility study to look at their longterm prospects in 2019. Its still not complete. Why must the public keep bankrolling an entity that can’t produce the basics?
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I’ve received confirmation today that I have been re-elected as a PR Councillor in eThekwini. This is the start of my third term. I also intend to stand for re-election as Caucus Leader, which will be decided in the coming weeks. Thank you,
@Our_DA
and all those who voted for us.
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I made it abundantly clear that I was not leaving the DA, only my position and Council seat. I explained the reasons clearly. Despite this, many in the media are utterly obsessed with trying to find a negative angle about my departure to suit their own narrative. Shambolic!
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To be clear, today's Council vote is far from a done deal. We will contest with a clear conscience and always put our values and principles first. A large number of opposition parties need to vote the same way to pull this off. Thank you for all the kind words and support.
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I didn’t want to tweet results until IEC declared, but so far we have seemingly won wards 11 (Newlands East), 26 (beachfront), 52 (part Phoenix), ward 71, (Shallcross), ward 90 (Isipingo), ward 110 (Sunningdale/ Corovoca/ Mount Moriah) off of the ANC.
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This man is a bloody lunatic. Ramaphosa’s Cabinet are in some kind of desperate race to the depths of absurdity.
Police Minister Bheki Cele says police will request receipts from people found smoking cigarettes in public and has remained mum on alcohol and cigarettes being sold legally during level 3 lockdown. |
#Day57ofLockdown
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On behalf of strong woman who don’t steal and then use our gender to illicit fake outrage, wind your neck in Zandile.
Gumede: I'm being victimised because I'm a strong woman
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The DA, IFP, EFF, ACDP and other small parties have walked out of
#durbancouncil
over an in committee item to increase executive pay packages. We have broken the quorum as the ANC only have 85 Councillors present. We have had enough.
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@CyrilRamaphosa
can you show me one public official or representative who has faced “very, very severe” consequences for improper conduct? You’re not recovering anything. Everyone knows it. That’s why it continues.
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Imagine appointing yourself as a legal representative for an entire race group? This is stunningly bizarre.
The Lawyers for Black People is against the easing of lockdown regulations. They say allowing people to resume work puts lives in danger.They say this is discriminatory because many people going back to work will be black and from indigent communities who use public transport.
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103000 jobs have been lost in eThekwini since 2019. Considering that a single job usually supports 4+ other dependents, this is truly devastating.
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The idea that banning rotisserie chickens- which are about R70 and can be a meal for four people- is some kind of victory over the uppity middle class is utterly absurd.
Bad news, middle-class fam ha! I just spoke to COGTA on air (podcast following): the cooked food, like Woolies chicken, you have been buying should NOT be sold by these outlets :) Amended regulations today will tighten the wording to make this clear. The podcast follows
@Radio702
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Regardless of what happens at Council on Wednesday, I am really so honoured to be a public representative in this beautiful city. We all deserve better and I hope we can get started on that.
I am grateful for every kind word, tweet, message and thought today. Thank you. 💙
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If you think Solly Msimanga being assaulted, bleeding and hurt is funny because you don’t like his politics, your screws are loose.
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Every Councillor in my team (59 people) is being confronted daily by hundreds of desperate people who have no food, who can not earn money and who just want to make an honest living. People want the economy open!
#JohnSpeaksForMe
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Today was unfortunately not my day. Congrats to new KZN Leader Francois Rodgers and Chair Dean Macpherson.
@our_da
remains my home ❤️💙 Thanks everyone for the support.
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As you can see, the eThekwini Council is a shining example of maturity and democracy. 🙄
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Unsurprisingly, the party with close ties to the illicit tobacco trade are unhappy about the lawful sale of ciggies resuming.
But Cigarette and respiratory disease fall in one category... I blame Stellenbosch Mafia
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Three more ANC Councillors have been arrested in connection with the DSW tender fraud (Gumede) matter and appeared in the Durban CC Court today. In addition to Gumede and Mthembu (her main henchman), the court referenced that 61 cllrs were involved. 7 down, 54 to go!
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The ANC in eThekwini. That is all.
WATCH: ANC members fighting during a meeting to elect a committee for ward 53 at Amaoti, Inanda, north of Durban. It is alleged that ANC also disrupted elections at the DA held ward 52 when they realised that they would not win. Video: Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi
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The majority of the eThekwini EXCO have agreed to my proposal to meet urgently tomorrow to discuss the crisis that we are in. Mayor Kaunda is now required, by law, to convene an EXCO. Thank you Cllrs Nkosi (IFP), Miya (EFF), Mavundla (ABC), Govender and Mthethwa (DA).
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eThekwini is trying to spend R8.3 million on parties, events and concerts over the next few months. This includes a R1.3 “Flood Benefit” concert. Sheer madness!
The Democratic Alliance in eThekwini has rejected a report by the eThekwini Municipality’s Business Support, Markets and Tourism Unit to spend R8.3 million on parties, events, and R1.37 million on a ‘flood benefit concert’ over the next three months.
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Not a single one of these losers was arrested or apprehended. The guy in the white shirt wasn’t even removed from the venue. Anyway, that’s the ANC for you.
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A mob of ANC supporters (unarmed, mostly women) have broken into Council and marched around our benches. Metro Police, SAPS, security galore and dololo. Everyone just sat and watched. They’ve walked away with no arrests.
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The headband my mum does not approve of 😂 Happy Friday, pals. Stay safe!
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The writing is on the wall: the ANC are coming under 50% in eThekwini. This is a historic opportunity to show them the door.
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Council is starting! Dress is from Nkosazane at The Fifth in Glenwood.
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#NewProfilePic
(I think the lovely
@ThabisoGoba2
took this).
Dress is Miss Moneypenny. Both dress and I were made in Durban. ❤️
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I cannot imagine a single South African feeling comforted by the idea that David Mabuza is in charge of the vaccine committee.
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There is no doubt in my mind that Makhosi Khoza voted for the ANC in November in exchange for being elected as MPAC chair. This is a commonly held view amongst main opposition leaders. The ANC even seconded her nomination, for heaven’s sake. She is fooling no one.
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I am so angry. Government has money. There are so many ways they could adjust budgets, temporarily reduce certain levels of pay, cut spending and look after desperate people. People- even some middle class folks- are literally starving and the state is completely fucking useless.
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COVID is proving a bit rough but I seemed to have escaped the worst symptoms. My isolation end date is 1 January 2021. So far, solo festive is proving occasionally sad but manageable. Love and light ❤️
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Our DA ‘battle bakkie’ was hijacked last night coming back from Richmond. The driver and passengers were tied up with cable ties and the vehicle was stripped and burnt. Devastated and so worried about my colleagues. 💔
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Leaked overtime reports show that the majority of eThekwini’s bodyguards are claiming so much overtime that they earn between R60 and 70 k a month. These are the same folks who get a R1200 clothing allowance because they ‘can’t afford suits.’ Story in the
@mailandguardian
.
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A friend of mine was meant to fly out of OR Tambo this AM to Mauritius on honeymoon. She says they’re letting you fly if you can sign an indemnity form saying you have funds to survive in Mauritius for three months.
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Despicable. Picking fights with security guards/ shop assistants/ workers who are just trying to do their jobs is sheer cowardice, not to mention this blatant racist condescension.
Who is this anus? Anyone know him?
I’d like to put some money towards the
@TOPSatSPAR
employees legal fees as this looks like self defense to me.
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The ANC just voted against a DA motion to introduce WhatsApp reporting lines for Metro Police, DSW, Electricity, Parks and Roads. So petty and counter-productive. The call centers fail and everyone just suffers.
#durbancouncil
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I don’t understand why we are still acting like only white people speak Afrikaans, and that being/ speaking/ learning in Afrikaans is in and of itself racist. Utterly bizarre.
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Does anyone know what kind of legal support this woman has? I will crowd fund to help her if necessary.
She’s being hailed as a hero. When she walked into her family kraal to find a man with his pants around his ankles standing over her one-year-old niece, she jumped into action. |
@DrumMagazine
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The Durban City Hall security scanners are broken and have been for some time. Security say they’re not authorized to search people. So basically, its a free for all.
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