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Lockdown breaches = 230,000 charged. State capture crimes = 0 charged.
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Wonderful stuff from the fearsome Glynnis Breytenbach. She has the
@G4S
execs cowering like whipped curs.
This is the person who should be heading the NPA, not the timid and out-of-her-depth Shamila Batohi.
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But how will we able to tell?
"About 1.3m government employees are expected to embark on a go-slow today..."
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Let's be accurate: These are not 'protests'. They're 'civil unrest' or 'mob violence'.
The police are not 'monitoring' the problem - they don't act because they are untrained, or are afraid, or are complicit.
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Fuck off. It's not a collective responsibility. It's yours. Do your job and stop snivelling...
We call upon organs of civil society, which include organisations like United Commuters’ Voice and
#Unite
Behind and many others, to champion the campaign against criminality in our railways. The duty to improve our commuter rail service is a collective one.
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The degree of delusion that exists in Ramaphosa's team is a reflection of the president's arrogance and over confidence.
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Why doesn't Cele apply some of his bully boy tactics to deal with the fucking torching of trucks and killing of their drivers, instead of preening on the beachfront like a sandpit Wyatt Earp...?
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SA government is making is lockdown policy for an entire country based on its urban experience and as mirrored by a totally urban media.
But this is rural reality, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape today.
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Gob-smacking, mind-blowing, tell-all numbers:
SAPS annual budget to protects a handful of VIP politicians = R3.5 billion.
NPA's annual budget to prosecute all crime in SA = R4.7 billion
@gdnewham
@issafrica
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Kanthan Pillay is an outstanding journalist and a genuinely good man. The campaign against him had less to do with hims using the word "rat" than a co-ordinated campaign to mute a critic of EFF fascism.
BREAKING NEWS: eNCA has parted company with its Director of News
#KanthanPillay
with immediate effect following his controversial "rat" tweet. Story to follow
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#FarmGate
explodes finally the myth of a “good” ANC and a “bad” ANC. It’s a single entity, rotten to the core. Ramaphosa has been and continues to be, party to and enabler of that rot. WSM column on
@Politicsweb
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Could there be any more telling a metaphor for the unravelling of the Republic? A
#Parliament
just two years shy of 150 years old has been ravaged by a fire that took hold because a terminally incompetent ANC government failed to maintain the sprinkler system.
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He's the invisible man, passing through public life virtually unnoticed, sparking neither cheers nor jeers. But the unremarkable man of SA politics, so grey as to be almost transparent, is one of the more admirable.
@TheJaundicedEye
column on
@Politicsweb
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Why does the media continue to tiptoe around the fact that Shamila Batohi – this month exactly 5 years in the
@NPA_Prosecutes
top job – has been hopelessly ineffectual? Which may be why Ramaphosa appointed her in the first place...
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#Eskom
's dark comedy:the surreal politics surrounding the imploding parastatal. WSM's column on
@Politicsweb
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Why do the courts tolerate this crap? Hoodies and masks in court?
Justice is supposed to be seen to be done and South Africans are entitled to see the Presidential Protection Unit thugs who kicked an innocent motorist into unconsciousness.
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It takes astonishing levels of ideological determination, otherwise known as stupidity, to believe this kind of crap.
The Rand is based on Johan Rupert's mood. Any economic policy that will threaten his wealth be assured the Rand will collapse. He is in control
of the economy. We are at his mercy. No man should have all that power.
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Absolutely right, Tito. Only the four legs have collapsed. The tail is still wagging furiously and the snout is still voraciously snuffling around in the trough.
For the record, I don’t agree with the business CEOs view that the SA State is collapsing . Yes, certain components are collapsing. The State is a big thing/construct.
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What's not to like? So representative:
On the R2 we have a killer minibus taxi, SAA in its glory days, and the Hawks about to drop the key of justice. On the obverse, some snarling, feral kids high on tik and about to mug a schoolmate.
On the R5, a Home Affairs passport queue...
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There's a deafening silence on covid-19 from homeopaths, naturopaths, acupuncturists, chakra manipulators, iris interpreters, anti vaxxers, and their cohorts.
Is that because they are self medicating and are not going to be demanding to use the ICU ventilators?
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And now for a carefully moderated dose of good news.
Due to the enormous response in the past few days on social media and thanks to the 16,000+ who signed the petition, the Tygerberg "stolen" chairs doctors have been hastily reinstated.
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Maybe we should start by getting rid of the pit loos before worrying about the sign on the door?
Unisex toilets proposed for South African schools.
Woke gender ideology imported straight from America.
#schoolcapture
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'This KZN disaster is part of climate change.' – Ramaphosa.
Rubbish! Whatever role climate change may or may not have played, the primary responsibility for the chaos lies with the ANC government.
WSM column on
@Politicsweb
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Great moments in
@DIRCO_ZA
diplomacy: failing to get authorisation to enter Italian airspace; flying the presidential a plane and its 100 armed security guards to the wrong city in Poland; forgetting to ask Putin not to bomb Kyiv while the CR's peace mission is there.
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And I'm sure that some tenderpreneur got Eleventy Seventy Million for producing it...
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A poignant extract from Jeremy Gordin's letter to his children late last year, explaining why – despite his and their love of South Africa – he hoped they would find a home beyond these shores.
#GordinMurder
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I love karma:
Origin of the Chinese coronavirus: "Poorly regulated live-animal markets mixed with illegal wildlife trade offer a unique opportunity for viruses to spill over from wildlife hosts into the human population."
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It is extraordinary the amount of publicity Malema gets for the most inane remarks. What's with the media?
Remove French as an official language in Africa - Malema -
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"The ANC is not for sale to the highest bidder" – Zweli Mkhize".
Nope, it will go to the person who has best greased the auctioneer's palm.
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The ANC government’s commitment to the rule of law and justice – locally and internationally – has been superficial, opportunistic and steeped in hypocrisy. On reflection, precisely the traits one would expect of the country leading the charge against Israel. WSM column on
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The ANC has broken the weather. Stations not maintained or upgraded; taxpayer funds stolen by deployed cadre.
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“The ANC will study the judgment to ensure that it is adhered to,” ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri said.
Not much studying needed. It's a two sentence judgment. Just hand over almost a decade of cadre deployment decisions presided over by Cyril Ramaphosa.
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SAAF hasn't got its Gripen fighters into the air for almost two years because there's no budget for fuel, spares and maintenance. But now it's on a 'journey to greatness' into outer space.
#delusional
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I knew it was the fault of apartheid!
"Health Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said Charlotte Maxeke Hospital could not reopen because it lacked building plans, because during apartheid it was a national key point and plans were not public."
And no-one's searched in 27 years...
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While media outrage at the
#EFF
's vile behaviour towards
#KarimaBrown
is understandable, it's unconvincing. For years EFF has wanted to kill the boer and hinted at white genocide, and mostly the media sat silent.
@TheJaundicedEye
column on
@Politicsweb
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A compelling recent analysis concluded that Ramaphosa had 15 months to steer the SA Titanic away from the ice berg.
Nothing dramatic needed. A series of small actions.
That was 6 months ago. Nothing has happened.
WSM's column on
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The 'non-racial' ANC is dead. Its national executive has few coloureds, one whitey, zero Indians. Ramaphosa will make some token minority appointments as colour-coordinated window dressing but at a grassroots level, black nationalism rules.
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This sack of dishonesty:
* Tried to foil an investigation ino multimillion corruption while Transport minister;
* Sacked the whistleblower;
* Diverted state resources to aid the ANC.
Her punishment? A brief suspension without pay.
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So who knows this "dief"?
He ended his KZN South Coast holiday today by swiping the plants that the local ratepayers' association was planting to make the little village of Trafalgar attractive to, um, up-country holidaymakers....
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Virtually every South African has a family member or friend who has been murdered. Everyone knows a Jeremy Gordin — a once vibrant, flawed fellow citizen whose life has been violently ended, often only after horrific torture.
WSM column on
@Politicsweb
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Perhaps the question one should be asking about
@AdvBMkhwebane
is not how she became
@PublicProtector
but how she became an advocate.
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Perhaps maintenance would be better if municipalities didn't typically spend in excess of 80% of their income on salaries for councillors and staff?
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Mantashe ate the entire nation's sugar tax.
BREAKING: SARS goes after Gwede Mantashe over R280k sugar tax assessment.
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"Unleashed"?
Deokoran was killed TWO YEARS ago. What's Ramaphosa been doing since then? Clipping his toenails?
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Three talented men — David Unterhalter, Arrie Rautenbach, and André De Ruyter — illustrate how South Africa is steadily moving from racial redress to racial retribution. WSM on
@Politicsweb
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The Thin Blue Line is actually the fumbly, bumbly, thick blue line.
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Don't be hard on Lesufi. He suffers from the
@NickolausBauer
Syndrome of seeing imaginary flags. Rarely fatal and a lot less harmful to your career than calling Malema a poes under your breath.
What Mr Lesufi tried to do yesterday was despicable, spreading fake outrage to ignite racial hatred and anger.
Although he did apologize, his actions though were really unacceptable
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You're right. It's heartbreaking. I think the best way to manage it is that you invite them to build on the pavement outside your house.
The City of Cape Town has now implemented a court order to remove people who built shacks on tennis courts. Should they be evicted? Where can desperate people build? How should this be managed?
#SAfmSunrise
@SAfmRadio
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So far, it's gratifying how piss-poor the EFF's performance has been despite extensive and fawning pre-election media coverage. The DA, conversely, has held up well despite media coverage that mostly ranged between indifference and hostility.
#ElectionResults2021
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Sewage on the beaches because there are turds in City Hall. Poor Durban is literally drowning in shit during its prime winter holiday season.
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A key finding by Judge Zondo was that cadre deployment was at the heart of State Capture, that it was 'unlawful and unconstitutional' and that it should be ended.
#Ramaphosa
entirely omitted mentioning this in his speech seeking to reassure the nation.
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Rise Mzansi is a textbook example of how smoke and mirrors doesn't always equate to votes in the box. It had astonishing media backing – BusinessLIVE, TimesLIVE, News24 and Daily Maverick all gave it extensive and obsequiously positive coverage.
My projection also covered four more parties for those interested:
FF+ 1.5%
ActionSA 1%
RISE 0.4%
BOSA 0.3%
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It’s not about whether
@AdvBMkhwebane
should be removed from office. It’s about how the hell she got appointed in the first place.
@TheJaundicedEye
column on
@Politicsweb
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Ramaphosa 23/03: "The funds will be administered by a reputable team drawn from financial institutions, accounting and government. It will fully account for every cent..."
Ramaphosa 06/08: "I have appointed a committee to deal with alleged corruption in procurement..."
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What the SARB governor means is that it's not okay for ordinary South Africans to launder money. But it's okay for ANC presidents, cabinet ministers and top government officials...
So SARB governer Kganyago says it's 'unfortunate' if Phala Phala probe creates impression it's okay to launder money.. FFS what other conclusion did he expect ppl to reach other than that..??
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The utter insanity of SA's "exercising" regulations and the pathetic school-prefect behaviour of senior SAPS officers.
Peaceful paddler arrested in Muizenberg for "not moving" - which would count as "exercising".
He was standing still, so now arrested.
WATCH:
@News24
@TeamNews24
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Nothing in the world more terrifying than a finely honed and disciplined fighting force. But this is not it.
#MKMVA
members marching outside the ANC KZN provincial offices in Durban to get an update about their demands.
@TimesLIVE
#MKMVA
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Newspapers produce this kind of crap under the guise of "journalism" and then are surprised that they have zero credibility and plummeting sales.
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Utterly astonishing that
#Australia
, a country characterised by miles and miles of fuck-all, earns almost five times more from tourism than
#SouthAfrica
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Instead of whining about no Salticrax, the hacks should worry about security chief Maj-Gen Wally Rhoode's forays into diplomacy. So far he has accused: the Italians of incompetence; the Poles of racism, endangering Cyril's life, and spoiling any hopes of peace. What a wally.
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The only way to deal with this kind of bullying of journalists is for media solidarity. All simply refuse to cover EFF events or publish its statements until it rescinds its ban on those it has targeted. Otherwise, slippery slope...
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'Don't touch me on my penthouse...'
Malema, who regularly threatens political violence against minorities, is curiously sensitive about claims that EFF leaders regularly partyied up a storm with a cigarette smuggler.
If these are lies, simply sue.
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The Jhb unit, without any avian nom-de-plum, has made more arrests in a year than the "Hawks" in their entire bird-brained existence...
The new Jozi anti-corruption unit started by
@HermanMashaba
has uncovered close to R16 billion in corruption, made 451 arrests, and seen over 100 city officials suspended
#HandsOffMashaba
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Feuding ANC factions have destroyed SA’s infrastructure more effectively in a few years than its rather hopeless military wing managed in four decades of struggle.
@TheJaundicedEye
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Bizarre that Lesufi wants to spend scarce state funds on the undoubtedly lavish funeral of a wealthy private citizen.
What a slimy little arse-creeper he is.
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi writes to Ramaphosa seeking permission to use state funds for AKA funeral.
Andrek Panyaza Lesufi wanted to steal the taxpayers' money.
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Why would Ramaphosa not respect the NPA's 'independence'? In six barren years Batohi has done absolutely bugger all to threaten the ANC's looting syndicates.
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Not even the SAPS can "lose" 160 firearms, which is what they claim. They've been stolen. By cops.
In the past four years the SAPS has "lost" around 4,000 firearms. But it's the civilians that Bheki Cele wants to disarm....
STOLEN firearms at Norwood SAPS the tip of the iceberg - And so the person in charge simply resigns as if that absolves him. He should be arrested and charged; but will probably be promoted
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I have a vague recollection of Helen Zille saying something similar. Wasn't she pilloried?
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Wisdom from columnist Tom Eaton: "South Africans, despite a decade of evidence to the contrary, continue to suffer under the delusion that the ANC is a government working badly rather than a pyramid scheme working very well."
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Museum to the ANC's Living Heritage
Costing R200m, 7-years to build, and not a single visitor in the 3-years since its unveiling because it's, umm, unsafe...
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Wouter Basson may be unsavoury but he's never been convicted of anything, despite 15 years of efforts by the NPA and the HPCSA.
Rather expend your outrage on the unsavoury ANC doctors the Health Ombud held responsible for 142 Life Esidemeni deaths. They remain untried and
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Two of the oldest jokes in the ANC ministerial phrasebook:
1. We reserve our right to sue.
2. We are committed to clean government.
Both phrases are utterly meaningless.
@OUTASA
Minister
@DrBladeNzimande
responds to the allegations contained in the leaked OUTA report.
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Your snarkiness is inappropriate. The president will take us into his confidence when Dlamini-Zuma is good and ready.
It’s been 15 days since the President addressed the nation. We’re in the grips of an economic collapse and a looming humanitarian crisis and he doesn’t think it’s a good idea to talk to us? We need a leader, not a follower.
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Also dogmatic, overbearing and the person who singlehandedly has done the most damage to the South African economy.
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“No president has gone through or faced the challenges I’ve faced,” Ramaphosa tells journos, his voice cracking with emotion. Poor diddums. Heart-jerking self-pity among the chaos of ANC ineptitude and chaos.
WSM column on
@Politicsweb
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In other words, the assessments confirm what the South African public already knows. Ramaphosa's Cabinet is full of useless non-performers...
The Presidency says performance assessments of cabinet ministers will remain confidential because President Cyril Ramaphosa does not want the information to be used as a “political” tool to make his colleagues look bad.
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This week's High Court ruling on a “crashed” ANC laptop and 5 years of “missing” cadre deployment minutes is potentially an electoral wrecking ball. We'll soon know whether Ramaphosa + Mbalula lied to the Zondo Commission and the ConCourt. WSM on
@Politicsweb
.
#DA
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The question to be asked is who is Cele's as yet unnamed assistant? It is it a he? A she?
And what makes his/her presence at a rugby game worth R500k to a Police minister. Or did it have more to do with after-hour scoring?
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I really don't mind spending my taxes flying them to places. It's bringing them back that I object to...
A little over R800,000 is said to have been spent on flying Zuma's spouses.
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CEOs donating expertise to bail out the ANC govt mustn't be naive. Negotiate policy concessions in return. They should remember they're not pals but rivals. It's ANC criminal enterprise vs SA private enterprise.
WSM's column on
@Politicsweb
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"The SABC, which employs about 3 000 people earning an average of R800 000 a year." But the unions and Communications minister insist that it is not overstaffed...
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If Ramaphosa were to fire all those in the Cabinet accused of criminal behaviour, it would leave a virtually empty room. And both the president and his deputy would be absent...
❌ It's time to get rid of crooks in cabinet! The DA demands President Ramaphosa to oust his 'number two', Deputy President Paul Mashatile, following serious allegations of corruption.
He has until 1 February to act and fire him. The DA has prepared a comprehensive docket.
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What a bargain for life in a dysfunctional South Africa. R45k for the four-seater version AND it comes with a three-year maintenance plan (for the donkey cart, not the donkeys).
Powering ahed to the ANC's 4thIR.
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DA mayors of Tshwane and Jozie have dramatically shown with their
#TshwaneYaTima
and
#BuyaMthetho
campaigns how small steps can have big consequences. The obvious question is why ANC mayors have never dared do this? WSM column on
@Politicsweb
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The levels of EFF megalomania are extraordinary. Self awarded military ranks, faux uniforms and now the presidency...
The incoming President of South Africa with the incoming First Lady of the Republic leaving Loftus Stadium
#EFFleadershipAtLoftus
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The SA Labour Appeal Court has just ruled that it's legal to fire workers who are brandishing sticks, clubs, pipes and sjamboks at the front gate. Who woulda thunk?
@TheJaundicedEye
column on trade union impunity on
@Politicsweb
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"We will not tolerate acts of criminality. Those involved in acts of violence will be arrested and prosecuted. This will be done without fear or favour."
Ramaphosa is worryingly detached from reality. His words bear no resemblance to events of the past 72 hours.
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Shocking news of the murder of
@Politicsweb
fellow columnist Jeremy Gordin. Condolences to his family and friends at the death of a true mensch.
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SA gets R11bn World Bank loan because of Ramaphosa's "bold" anti-Covid policies. Day later, SIU reports that in the only 10% of Covid tenders investigated, more than half of the money was stolen. Maybe "brazen" better?
#Timing
WSM column on
@Politicsweb
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Good move by SAPS! That's the highest concentration of criminals per square metre that SA will see for another four years.
Reports suggest that 500 SAPS members have been accredited to beef up security at ANC’s elective conference. On an estimated 4500 delegates, that’s 1 officer for every 9 ANC delegates. Meanwhile the police to people ratio in SA is 1 officer for every 347 people (googled stats)
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We've had the 'wit kant', and the 'groen kant', and now we have the ultimate bit of accessory dazzle, the 'blink kant' of the Webb Ellis Cup.
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Is this the same Mugs that Malema in 2017 said was a tyrant and must step down?
And this the same Malema, then castigated by Zanu-PF as a 'Gucci revolutionary... ignorant youth... shrunken, talkative joke... charlatan... drunken, shallow-minded political prostitute..."?
I'm saddened by the passing of our martyr & giant of the African Revolution cde President Robert Mugabe. Let's continue the fight & protect his legacy. We must not allow our enemies to tell us how to remember him; we know our heroes.
May his soul rest in revolutionary peace.
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What an inspiring man in these grim times: "This country doesn't belong to the government. It belongs to us." Take it back.
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A stunning blow for the ANC. The ruling is as yet not explained and one imagines it's based – aside from a desire not to see KZN go up in flames – on the fact that Zuma got remission of sentence from Ramaphosa. Another example of CR's spinelessness causing him to bite his own
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Seems that Lonmin director Ramaphosa had more influence over SAPS with an email at Marikana 9 years ago than he has today as RSA President.
But then again, the present rioting and looting hurts only his fellow South Africans. The Marikana strikes hurt his own pocket.
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There are scores of ANC cadres, including in Ramaphosa's NEC and Cabinet – and probably the president himself – who are very, very relieved.
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Utterly amazed that the pledge poster didn't spontaneously combust in embarrassment.
[WATCH] Deputy President Paul Mashatile and other officials sign the Anti-Corruption pledge at the 2023 International Anti-Corruption Commemoration event at UNISA.
#Newzroom405
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