Tami Jackson
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@Our_DA Proportional Representative Councillor at the City of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined May 2016
Evictions finally concluded at the Castle in Cape Town. Nearly every national minister before the GNU delayed appropriate action on this. Credit to the Mayor @geordinhl and Minister @DeanMacpherson for moving the needle on this issue. This is a win for the rule of law.
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R24 000 per head for catering on Ramaphosa’s presidential jet for every person on board. For one trip! While most South Africans live under the poverty line. What type of food do cadres eat that the rest of us don’t 😩.
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This year South Africa will be in its 14th year of experiencing ROLLING BLACKOUTS. Better known as loadshedding. Job shedding. Economy shedding. Livelihood shedding. Country shedding. Viva ANC ✊🏽.
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The ANC has NOTHING to do with the Springboks World Cup victory. Most of South Africa’s rugby successes are not as a result of our corrupt government but rather private sector investment into the sport, from schools to universities. The ANC must stop claiming wins. It’s gross!.
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The biggest mystery of our time. The EFF can fill up a stadium in Johannesburg but they can’t win a single ward in Johannesburg.
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The face of Law & Order in a state where ANC politicians & criminals are indistinguishable from one another. The real test of leadership is whether one holds or folds in the face of immense pressure & threats from all sides. They DID NOT fold. Thanks for putting Cape Town first!
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Today a student told me that the only reason he and his friends vote for EFF students on campus is because they disrupt lectures and shut down university activities which always end up delaying academic deadlines. Appreciate the honesty but students are foolish for doing this.
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Few months ago this grifter applied for a job in the same DA municipality that he bashes on a daily basis. Word on the street is that he’s scammed people out of their money, so his move to the MK party is a fitting choice, he’ll fit right in with those criminals.
🚨 New episode and more breaking news: @CampherDarren reveals that he's joined MK Party and will be heading up their research wing in Parliament. Watch the full episode:
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The whole country could be like Cape Town if you just vote correctly on the 29th May. Let’s go to the polls South Africa!🫡🇿🇦.
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The taxi industry is losing public support. They’ve exposed themselves as thugs. Carrying assault rifles, stoning people & burning buses. But there’ll always be those on Twitter who’ll justify this. Their political bias won’t allow them to see past their hatred for the City of CT.
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The EFF must really hate seeing South Africans unite around the national rugby team. They probably discussing a plan to problematise rugby after this World Cup 😩🤣.
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Stage 4 loadshedding = 3 periods of ROLLING BLACKOUTS in one day. Remember this when you go vote on Monday. A vote for the ANC is a vote for loadshedding. Job shedding. Livelihood shedding. Economy shedding.
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Almost 2 months into lockdown and the EFF and its leaders are practically nonexistent. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for them to be relevant in a time where they can't blame colonialism, apartheid or white people for the pandemic.
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The clean-up around the Castle in Cape Town continues! . We will NEVER apologise for doing the work of a caring government. That work is to restore public spaces meant for the public good while offering help to those who need it. This is the DA difference! 🇿🇦
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Local EFF leadership are busy dropping piles of tyres in communities around Cape Town today. It’s clear that their intention is to cause anarchy on Monday. Glad the City of Cape Town was able to have foresight and seek an interdict against them. We know their playbook by now.
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Cape Town VS Joburg. DA VS ANC/EFF/PA/Al-Jamaah coalition. The choice has never been easier.
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Julius Malema is an ill-mannered human being with traits one would only associate with cruel dictators. How anyone can regard this person as leadership is beyond me.
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Let’s throw this same energy behind removing the ANC from government next year.
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While eThekwini residents are without water and Joburg politicians continue to play coalition chess, here in Cape Town our government is making huge inroads to becoming South Africa’s first loadshedding-free city.
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The internet was loud when this story broke and those who had the most to say had no idea what had actually transpired. Turns out the racism allegations were false and this charlatan has been ordered to pay R1.25 million in damages. As a loyal customer of Hanks I am very happy!
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Listen to the Mayor of Cape Town. When the Western Cape Government and City of Cape Town tried to negotiate with taxi operators, they showed up to the meeting with illegal machine guns. How exactly does one apply diplomacy with people who hold a gun to your head?
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The national transport minister blames the apartheid government for the collapse of rail transportation. Yet passenger rail journeys have gone down from 49.2 million in 2013 to 3.2 million in 2023 all under the ANC’s watch. The apartheid blame game has reached its expiry date.
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The EFF and its leadership are deliberately spreading fake news to inflate their own influence. It’s clear that their planned shutdown is a monumental failure. They may have gotten the attention they wanted in the media but in reality people have rejected the EFF!.
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DA surpassed the 3 million mark. “Where did all their votes come from”. Definitely not from social media. Maybe from real people who resonate with them and want to live in a non-racial country with an ethical government and working economy? . Crazy idea, I know right.
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It was at this moment when Bheki Cele realised he got taken to school at his own press briefing.
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Remember the incident that took place in January when SAPS water-cannoned older folk queuing outside SASSA offices? Ipid released their findings this week and well you guessed it: Nobody is being held accountable. Not a single person was found guilty. Pathetic but not surprising.
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The transport minister really exposed how intellectually lazy she is yesterday by referring to a city by-law as illegal. Does she understand the law making process, the numerous consultations & legal compliance one has to undertake in order to pass one? A national embarrassment.
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The taxi industry strikes again. Honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry sometimes. They are now making it their business to fine people R2500 if they give hitchhikers a lift. With what authority exactly? This is extortion and thuggery.
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The DA yesterday revealed that while 2 500 SANDF soldiers were deployed to KZN and Gauteng to stop the chaos, Premiers and Ministers across the country enjoy the presence of 8 000 security personnel members in total. Priorities, right?.
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Stay in the queue .Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue .Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue .Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue .Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue .Stay in the queue.Stay in the queue. 🇿🇦.
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It feels like New Years Eve in Cape Town but better! Well done Bokke 🇿🇦
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The last few hours in Cape Town have been rather unpleasant as a result of storm-related disasters. Best believe not even 24 hours passed and the city’s municipal staff are already out clearing our streets and doing electrical repairs. I love CT. Things here actually work.
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Gayton Mackenzie tells Rapport that he wants to be “fokken president” in 2024 and this is what he wants:. 1. To bring back the death penalty.2. Coerce youth to join the army.3. Get rid of foreigners.4. Bring God into schools and SA’s Constitution. Inspired by North Korea 🇰🇵🇿🇦.
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Unbelievable that a local government which actually enforces the law came as a culture shock to the rest of the country. What a week it has been.
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Another clean sweep for the EFF yesterday.✊🏽. In terms of losing every bi-election it contested across the country.
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Mashaba must be examined. Everything is not okay with that man. Few months ago he vowed to never coalesce with the ANC. Then vowed to oppose the GNU. Three months later he does a 180. Gave Joburg ANC’s Morero & will now give Tshwane the ANC & EFF. Why the radical change of heart?.
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ANC can’t grow an economy for all to participate in. So they resort to quotas. ANC can’t fix Home Affairs & border control. So they resort to xenophobia. ANC can’t fix public healthcare. So attempt to diminish private healthcare. Their solution to problems is to add more problems.
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Andre de Ruyter will likely drop more bombs on Eskom, the ANC’s interference in SOE’s and their interest in the coal value chain as he spends his last few weeks as CEO. Sadly, none of this is new. He is simply confirming in public what we’ve known all along.
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This plant is the reason why the CoCT can protect its residents from one level of loadshedding. When Eskom clients are on stage 2, City clients have NO loadshedding. Another R1.2 billion has just been invested in Steenbras to expand. A functional local govt that takes
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A top police officer was assassinated in Cape Town yesterday after threats were made to his life for simply doing the right thing and investigating hard criminals. What does this tell you about the state? If they can’t even protect one of their own, how can they protect you?.
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South Africa is no longer headed towards a failed state. We are a failed state. But Cyril thinks that if we all just do the jerusalema dance everything will be sunshine and rainbows again.
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Never cared about beauty pageants but have to say I am proud of Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane. She represented our country in Israel without the support of the ANC government and despite the hatred from BDS. We support a queen that doesn’t allow herself to be bullied!❤️.
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The ANC has no moral compass but wants to tell the most developed nations in the world how to treat people. It’s all cheap electioneering.
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The City of Cape Town has just become the first metropolitan in the country to successfully wheel solar power from the private sector into its own energy grid. Good things happen when the state is an enabler of innovation and does not stifle or view the private sector as enemies.
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Cape Town’s Bree Street will be closed every Sunday from 10am to 5pm to create pedestrian-friendly zones in the city. Great to see people skating, riding bicycles and enjoying the streets on foot. I suspect it will be bustling from next week onwards. Well done @young_urbanists 👏
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Ramaphosa is telling the world that “vaccine imperialism” is preventing African countries like SA from vaccinating people. Even the most underdeveloped African countries like Zimbabwe is vaccinating far more people than South Africa. The issue isn’t the west. It’s this government.
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You can get proper alcohol and ciggies almost anywhere. Yesterday I saw special alcohol deliveries being made to someone's house in my street. Did I have airtime to call the police? No. If I had airtime to call the police, would I have done so? Also no.
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I just realised that Cape Town is spending R850 million over the next three years for a sewer pipe infrastructure programme in Gugulethu township alone, that’s almost 5% of eThekwini’s entire municipal infrastructure spend for the same period. Sounds insignificant but this is.
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So the DA is doing in 3 months what the ANC couldn’t do in 30 years.
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The EFF’s parliamentarians are trying to revive the renaming of airports debate yet again. In a country that has barely recovered from a pandemic, where poverty and lawlessness is out of control. And some people think these clowns are fit to be our next government. What a joke.
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The EFF has truckloads of money to throw parties and roll out red carpets for its Gucci revolutionaries but cannot declare its funders to the IEC. What’s the point of the funding act when people are openly disregarding it? And why the reluctance from the EFF to declare?.
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@Our_DA Bheki Cele really thought he could show up in front of the Mayors office and have a press conference alone and humiliate the City. Only to get a real beating on national television.
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I know it’s only Wednesday but Herman Mashaba is definitely the mampara of the week.
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“I have tried very hard to find a more delicate way of putting it, but I believe in plain speaking: Your readership is plummeting because of the bullshit you publish.” - HZ 😭🔥
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The EFF should be classified as a terrorist organization in the same way the international community classifies Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram.
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There are 209 VIPS (read: ANC cadres) curently under the protection of SAPS. It cost the taxpayer R8 million per VIP for this financial year. While the budget for visible policing has decreased by R3.8 billion! Bheki Cele is the Minister for VIPS, not citizens. Priorities, right?.
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The ANC hate that the people of uMngeni are experiencing life under a DA government. That’s why they want to merge uMngeni with Mooi River and Impendle which will effectively make the municipality ANC-run again. This is dirty politics. Christopher Pappas is a threat to them.
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So tired of the president always paying lip service to violence against women and children in our country. Fix our criminal justice system and start convicting criminals. Maybe get that right @CyrilRamaphosa.
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Go register to vote this weekend so that we can save South Africa from an ANC-EFF coalition.
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The biggest mystery in South African politics today. Another clean sweep for the EFF in terms of winning everything else except actual elections 😭👏
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Interesting optics in Cape Town streets today. SAPS gone out in their numbers, trucks, vans in abundance. Restaurant staff are protesting peacefully in the CBD, don't you think it's better to deploy your troops to Khayelitsha, Joe Slovo and other crime ridden areas Bheki Cele?.
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People are saying JHB’s Mayor Thapelo Amad should avoid the media to prevent further humiliation. I disagree. These interviews must serve as a reminder of how bad coalitions under the ANC, EFF & PA are. Putting puppets in critical positions so that looting can continue unabated.
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Glad Helen’s letter was leaked, it’s brilliant. If the ANC wants the DA to occupy roles that doesn’t allow it to focus on what it is good at (attracting investment, job creation, cleaning up civil service etc) then there’s no point in the DA’s participation in the GNU. Simple.
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The City of Johannesburg spent R250 000 to rename a road but cannot fix one pothole or robot. Want to know what your government prioritises? Look no further than where it spends its money. Clearly ideology takes preference over functionality.
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9 land grabs within 72 hrs in Cape Town last week. People burn community down after thieves stole electricity cables. An entire covid-19 field hospital burnt to ashes by Khayelitsha residents. And so it goes. Is it me, or is the attack on Cape Town becoming a bit too insidious. ?.
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Cadets, marching bands and drum majorettes play a massive role in Cape Flats’ culture. It brings people together, keeps kids off the street and is a way of welcoming people to the community. I don’t expect you to know that, the only community you know is Twitter and Facebook.
HAHHAHAHAHAHA. Warning: you won't be able to unsee this . and the DA uhm marches on 😀. (That's the Mayoral candidate for Cape Town waving "howzit")
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John is spot on. I’ve come to the conclusion that parties that would rather focus on Western Cape and Cape Town aren’t serious about fixing SA. Voters got to ask themselves why these parties won’t campaign in Limpopo, Free State or Mpumalanga where everything has gone to 💩?.
WATCH | RISE Mzansi announced that one of their missions is to unseat the DA in the Western Cape. Speaking to the Mail & Guardian, here's what DA Leader John Steenhuisen had to say about RISE Mzansi. #Elections2024 #MGElections2024
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The national transport minister really thought she was onto something with that press briefing. She thought she could rein the City of Cape Town in, instead got reined in by her own cabinet.
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I’ve gained so much respect for The Kiffness over the past few months. Anyone else feel the same?
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I'm sure there are really smart South Africans revising a model to enforce a nationwide tax revolt in the foreseeable future. How will it happen? I don't know. But will I participate? Most likely yes. We're being abused by a corrupt govt. At some point we will have to fight back.
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There's no such thing as either the economy or either lives. The economy is lives!.#JohnSpeaksForMe.
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The ANC has no shame in promising basic things they could not deliver in the last 30 years. Time to throw this cancerous organisation in the dustbin of history and give another party a chance to govern South Africa.
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So the EFF in Tshwane voted against insourcing today. This is the same EFF that supported insourcing weeks ago and ran a disinformation campaign against other parties. Just shows you how their entire existence evolves around theatrics and sloganeering.
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Imagine taking on Helen Zille and thinking you can win.
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This is what EFF really thinks about our national rugby team. Anything that unites South Africans they will break down because it’s not convenient for the type of toxic politics they advocate for! Don’t fall for their fake congratulatory messages, it’s just an election ploy 🚮🥱
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The last thing SA needs are smaller parties who spend their time being official opposition to the official opposition such as ActionSA, Good, PA. Competing to topple the DA because calling the DA out for “arrogance” is more convenient than doing the real work of taking on the ANC.
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Statement by JP Smith. It’s a long read but worth it. Not to mention scary 😦. For immediate release:. *The real version of truth*.As has been reported in the media, SAPS obtained a search warrant for my office and conducted the search today. I respect the work SAPS do and.
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This here has got to be South Africa’s most tackiest politician.
I am richer than you, I have started more businesses than you, I give more jobs to people than you, my books sell a hundred times more copies than yours, don’t let your white privileged give you the slightest idea that you can lecture me on economics, go get tomorrow’s news ready.
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Seems like the EFF will have to revise its entire political strategy.
Disrupt council sittings and you will be criminally charged! This is according to new regulations recently gazetted by the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Thembisile Nkadimeng. | @soyiso_maliti .
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Pauli👏Van👏Wyk👏. That is your word of the day South Africa.
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NMB council was suppose to elect a new mayor today. But of course the ANC is so desperate to cling onto power, they STAGED a kidnapping of the Council Speaker to prevent a DA mayor from being elected. A taste of what’s to come when they finally lose power in this country. Chaos.
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@NeoMkwane @IanCameron23 A whole taxi found with petrol bombs this morning, and we are expected to feel sympathy for them. Imagine.
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I’ve always maintained that ActionSA is a DA revenge party; nothing more and nothing less. The DA works with the ANC to keep the EFF/MK out of government while ActionSA wants to work with the ANC to keep the DA out of government.
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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Lies run a sprint but the truth runs a marathon. Very important statement by Hanks Olde Irish Pub regarding those fake racism allegations. Christopher Logan publicly stated that he will appeal the court’s decision and maintained his innocence. Yet he missed the deadline.
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There’s no way one can downplay the fact that South Africa is a country defined by lawlessness and criminality at this point in time. Nobody is safe. Whether you’re rich or poor, black or white, you’re ON YOUR OWN.
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The DA released the ANC’s cadre deployment records. This is huge. If you think this is just another court battle the DA has engaged in, think again. They are doing the work of an effective opposition & exposed CD as early as 2000 when the rest of SA ignored the red flags.
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A political clapback so brutal, it’s hard to believe that it could possibly be true. But it is. This councillor from Rise Mzansi got put in his place by the mayor of Cape Town at today’s council meeting. A land invader who masquerades as a social justice activist.
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A coloured nationalist group plans to shut down Cape Town tomorrow because they are convinced they're the most oppressed people on earth. The truth is that some people are their own worst enemy. I lived my entire life in a gang infested community. I know what I'm talking about.
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The ANC has systematically ruined Chapter 9 institutions & anything that enables checks & balances in a democracy. They destroyed the office of the PP, the SAHRC, parliament and now the SARB. I’ll give the IEC the benefit of the doubt for now but I’m even sceptical about them.
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Taxi operators are behind much of the chaos we’ve seen recently. Those arguing that taxi operators also have food to put on the table, what about bus drivers & passengers who are being shot & pelted with petrol bombs? I suppose they don’t have to put food on the table, do they?
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This week was living proof of why the SAPS Amendment Bill and the Firearms Control Amendment Bill is nonsensical and morally reprehensible. Removing firearms from civilians and further centralising policing to an incapable government would be disastrous. The people have spoken.
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I’m happy that elections will be held on the 27th October this year. But even more happy that the ANC and EFF’s plan to postpone it failed dismally. Another win for our constitutional democracy! And also I’m voting DA!
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The Western Cape’s unemployment is officially below 20%. A lot of work still to be done but it feels incredible to have a government that works for its citizens in the face of budget cuts and overall decay everywhere else. It’s like getting a bang for your voting buck 👏
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BREAKING NEWS: SAPS in Howick declares Passas ‘missing’ after ANCYL’s unsuccessful attempt to find him yesterday. Now is the time for South Africa to unite and help find him. We are stronger together.
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A vote for the PA is a vote for the ANC. Gayton has handed over municipalities to the ANC in Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape. We need to keep this ANC shill out of government.
The Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader, Gayton McKenzie, will run for premier of the Western Cape in the upcoming general elections. | @MarvinCharles_.
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ActionSA is playing a dangerous game. First they said they’ll never coalesce with the ANC. Then they chose to campaign against the GNU. Now that they realise their imminent electoral collapse & irrelevance they are ditching their coalition with the DA for a coalition with the ANC.
The quest to remove Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink is intensifying. ActionSA is in discussion with party structures and the ANC about removing the DA-led government from the capital. #DStv403 #eNCA
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The EFF threatened to once again shut down Cape Town today. As of 09h20 this morning they only had 30 protesters gathered. I think the words by the Mayor below pretty much sums up how all of us feel about these petty shut downs. Lame!
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Videos of "white people" in America kneeling, apologising and performing cult-like rituals is the most nauseating, cringe-worthy content on the internet right now. Where exactly do you place that on the madness scale? 😳 #GeorgeFloydProtests.
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