Douglas Gibson
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Writer, analyst, public speaker. Was Opposition Chief Whip &Amb to Thailand,Laos,Cambodia andMyanmar(Burma) &Perm Observer to the U N ESC for Asia & the Pacific
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Joined January 2013
Jaw -dropping interview on eNCA by Annika Larsen /Andre de Ruyter. He didn't say so, but Mantashe, Gordhan, & Pres Ramaphosa,ought to resign immediately. Knowledge about Eskom corruption goes right to the top; they did nothing about it. De Ruyter leaving Eskom immediately.
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I cannot believe that ordinary, decent South Africans approve of the disgusting behaviour of the EFF at SONA. The example set by these thugs is appalling. Can you imagine what the rest of the world must think of us and our Parliament.?.
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The news that Fikile Mbalula has been elected Secretary General is the best we have heard for ages. He has been an extraordinary failure as Transport minister (as well as all his previous portfolios) and one hopes that he will make as big a mess of the party organisation.
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Our voters never cease to amaze.The ANC has proved that it is incapable of governing reasonably at any level.Whatever they touch they destroy.Yet, when elections are held the ANC does not get punished as it should.They can loot, rob, wreck, and still get votes & win seats.
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Lesufi is a bad faith negotiator.He does what he likes. The ANC at national level has lost control over him. He never wanted a deal with the DA, proved by his ferhood of the coalition of doom in Joburg between the EFF, ANC, and PA. I suspect he has a private deal with EFF.
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Thank you, Cilliers Brink and your wife and family, for the sacrifices you have made to serve all the people of Tshwane. You are a gifted leader, and your public career is just starting. Go well.
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Rob Hersov, the billionaire private investor who wants to buy 6 regional airports from the government, says he has little faith that the government could run a successful business."Our government is useless, fundamentally incompetent and extremely corrupt.".
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Thank you for your concern. You have forgotten that I was fighting Apartheid before you were born. I also helped form the PRP, a forerunner of the DA, in 1975. I know a racist when I see one. Shockingly you have become one. Lesufi& EFF, your new constituency are racists. Shame.
I am worried about Douglas Gibson. His amnesia for the Apartheid era has become so deep to an extent that he is unable to hide his colours. Douglas, your divide and rule is not going to work. You don't have the Apartheid evil machinery to help you. Why are so concerned about.
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I opposed the NP from 1950 until it disappeared into the ANC and the DA. I never voted for FW de Klerk. I remain convinced this extraordinary man together with his unlikely partner, Nelson Mandela, saved SA from unimaginable civil war and bloodshed.He deserves our gratitude.
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The UK minister of Health was fired for kissing a woman in his office in contravention of social distancing. Our minister is still in office, drawing salary and all benefits like cars, houses and domestic staff despite jaw-dropping allegations. Great to be an ANC politician.
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Am I correct in saying that CR has been busy fixing ESKOM since 2014 when JZ appointed him to head a task team? 5 years later, rolling blackouts and the promise of splitting it into 3. I am expecting big things by around 2024, or even 2034.
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Yet another diplomatic disaster for Pres. Ramaphosa.He and his party are making SA look ridiculous again. "Standoff at Warsaw airport after officials try to confiscate weapons from Ramaphosa’s Presidential Protection Unit
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Adv Dali Mpofu SC, who is rumoured to have lost more trials than anyone else in the history of the Bar, preparing to lose another case ( while being paid tens of thousands day).
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Thank you, ANC and EFF for inflicting on Johannesburg the worst mayor ever when the allegations against him were common knowledge. "Former Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda arrested for allegedly scamming residents
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You were rejected by the voters of Gauteng. The previous 58% vote fell to 36%. This means that 64% of Gautengers reject you. Any decent leader would have accepted responsibility for the debacle and resigned.
I'm sure many of you have now witnessed the relentless and desparate campaign the DA is running to first to unseat me as Premier., second to destabilize and chocke the GP Province. The DA has vowed to do this since I am deemed to have robbed them a seat at the GP table based on.
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SA waits anxiously for the results of the GNU negotiations. It seems the ANC has forgotten that it was rejected by 60% of the voters because of its failure as a government. The DA is not easily bought off by a few inconsequential ministries because it is a party of principle.
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900 operations cancelled at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital. Great performance by ANC run hospital services in Gauteng.
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Johannesburgers will be happy that their governors are so relaxed. No doubt, the two are dreaming that all is under control. "When the Mayor and the Chief Whip are both asleep in Council"
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Have I missed something? Has Hamas released the hostages as ordered by the Court? If not, why not? And when?.
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Mmusi, You know that I always supported you and helped where I could while you were the leader. This tweet by you is beyond the pale. If John is Judas, do you see yourself as Jesus? You ought to be ashamed of yourself. I suggest you retract and apologise.
The previous administration was dismal. All opposition parties were critical of the ANC under Zuma. A key element of being leader of the opposition is to show the deficiencies in the ruling party. Judas Steenhusien was in full agreement with our approach.
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Can you believe that the SANDF has had its lights switched off by Tshwane because it owes and has not/ cannot pay? Is there anything that works under the ANC? ttps://twitter.com/CityTshwane/status/1491326140702625792?s=20&t=s4FLrI80BVxS2ZnqiTCuAQ.
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The UN says 10million Ukranians have been displaced. President Ramaphosa fawns over Pres. Putin and holds the Ukranians, not the Russians, responsible for the greatest tragedy in Europe since the 2nd World War. Beyond shocking.
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Can you imagine the CIC of UK, Aus, Canadian, NZ forces, Queen Elizabeth, appearing in Army overalls with cap and no insignia; or Trump, or Macron or any pres or monarch in Europe,or Japan or any constitutional democracy? Why did Cyril downgrade himself to a Castro or Savimbi?.
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It is unbelievable that ASA wants to evict a DA led Coalition, of which it forms a part, with an outstanding Cilliers Brink as mayor, and replace it with an ANC/EFF led coalition in return for a puppet mayor from ActionSA. Spitting in the face of their voters, few as they are.
We see this as an opportunity. There is a great opportunity here to actually have a government that is led by a party that has a constituency on both sides of the proverbial railway tracks, so that service delivery is not the case that some have it and some don't. #LetsFixTshwane.
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Dear Herman, as a failed leader (self-appointed) with a narcissist personality, you should keep away from the social media. You make a fool of yourself too often. I wonder why Athol Trollip and Beaumont don't tell you to keep quiet. Perhaps they fear being called Racists? (3).
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You might be a doctor of something, but you are seriously short of manners. Referring to a senior retired attorney, politician and diplomat as a "thing" shows you up for exactly what you are. No wonder the EFF is on the skids. You are now a 9% party, rapidly losing ground.
@dhmgibson @HermanMashaba We don't have such a thing called Douglas Gibson as our freedom fighters.
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Dear Herman, Why carry on being an idiot? Like the bogus video, this is doctored, misleading, & a lying depiction of the DA. Several of these have died; several left Parliament 5 years ago; only 53 faces are shown. The DA has 99 MPs. You omit all black MPs. You shameful racist.
The decision makers of the DA. A truly multi racial party in South Africa in 2024, mind you, not in 1948.
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SADTU has been a malevolent influence on abysmal education standards in SA- among the worst in the world, especially in areas dominated by its members. Shame on you SADTU. For once you have a highly competent young minister, but of course you will undermine her at every turn.
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Dear Olivia, all the vehicles are fitted with blue light apparatus. They need to be switched on, just like the light in your lounge. DA ministers do not permit them to be switched on. Surely someone as sophisticated as you understands that?.
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It saddens me that Zindzi, honoured by SA with a diplomatic appointment, does not know how to behave herself as an Ambassador. She is a disgrace and ought to be ashamed of her failure to do the right thing.
Do the honourable thing, ambassador. Come home and put on a red overall - you can have it tailor made.
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Dear Herman, my respected friend, no one cares or is interested in why you left the DA. You would have been playing a significant role in the crisis; instead, you put the ANC in power in Johannesburg. You had a mandate and you rejected it.Pity, because I had great trust in you.
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Let's see if the ANC repudiates Ace Magashule's disgusting Western Cape campaign slogan :"Dont wasre your vote on the white man. " Those who call for 'strengthening Cyril' need to consider Cyril's boss. CR said that without Ace he would be nothing. Quite.
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Panyaza is a disaster. I am prepared to bet President Ramaphosa shares my view. The Gauteng voters overwhelmingly rejected him and his government. They certainly do not agree that he is doing a good job.
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I am worried about Herman Mashaba. The lift has stopped going to the top floor. He needs counselling to help him understand that he has gone from hero to zero with voters. Embracing the EFF racist line &applauding Lesufi sets new lows. Surely Trollip cannot tolerate this?.
Frans Cronje, a propagandist of note, presenting himself as an analyst. His main agenda with Helen Zille - divide the ANC by discrediting any black person on their mission. @Lesufi.
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Is there something seriously wrong with the President? How can he allow a situation like this: they spend the whole day telling SA that he will announce the cabinet changes at 7pm. At 7pm they announce 8pm is the new time. At 8pm they announce 8.30pm.They treat SA with contempt.
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Herman Mashaba has announced ActionSA will no longer be supporting the largest opposition party, the DA. His price: make him the mayor, even though in the election where he stood for mayor he was rejected by 84% of the voters and was unable to win even a single ward.
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Herman, You cannot be proud of this rubbish. While you were making money, I was fighting the Nats for 40 years.While you did nothing, I helped to write the interim and final constitutions. When you suddenly wanted to enter public life, I was there to speak on your behalf. Shame.
Vincent, Douglas was born at the time when he could not be challenged or even engaged by a black person. This new democratic system is totally foreign to him, hence they are working on a Plan to destabilise the ANC and take over power with the mandate of the black majority they.
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Dr Masiphi Moya, the puppet mayor of Tshwane, has blocked me. Success at last! This can only be because I have pointed out Herman Mashaba's failure as a leader and made him look an idiot in the debates we have held.
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Dear Herman, You are a laughing stock as a failed leader. You have no idea who my grandparents were. Insulting them (relatives of Athol Trollip) makes you look like an idiot. You are destroying your 1.4% party. You are a racist. I am not. Make way for Athol, John, or Funzi.
Dear Douglas, your brutal and inhuman grandparents thought they would render me a failed human being. It never worked then. Forget about trying it now. Too late.
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@HermanMashaba Dear Herman, I was fighting Apartheid before you were born. When you are losing an argument you play the race card. Shame on you.
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I notice she refrains from thanking Cilliers Brink for his major role, with Minister Senzo Mchunu, in seeing that there was water when she turned on the tap. Ingratitude and selfishly claiming the credit is so unattractive. Shame on you, Nasiphi.
🎥 MUST WATCH: “We could not have done this without the support of the community of Hammanskraal, ward councillors, the City of Tshwane leadership, officials, the Gauteng Government, and our National Government.”. ActionSA Tshwane Executive Mayor Dr. @nasiphim thanks various role
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For a law graduate and chartered governance professional, your arithmetic is strangely deficient. Whites are about 7% of the voters. All whites do not vote DA. DA polls 21% of the votes. Therefore DA voters are more than 2/3 black.
At least the DA has its own target market i.e., gullible, easily impressionable whites who are convicted that whites can do no wrong, even when they do the very same things they criticised in others.
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Watching Fikile Mbalula on Hard Talk on BBC. He was trying to defend the insurrection story of President Ramaphosa with very little success. Mbalula not impressive.
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Silly little man. Democratic Alliance is known as DA. African National Congress is known as ANC. Likewise, every other party in SA, eg PAC; ACDP; ATM;FF+. Why should ActionSA, ASA, be any different?For a party already down to 1.2 %, you make a lot of noise but deliver little.
@dhmgibson We are not ASA madala but ActionSA . Apartheid mentality is dealing with you.
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At the funeral of Solomon Moholo,his family expressed their shock at the state of SA public hospitals. Ironically, Premier Panyaza Lesufi was the very next speaker, but he failed to say even one word of regret about the treatment accorded to Solomon Moholo by Lesufi's hospitals.
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Have I missed the news? The SA government, I assume, must have laid a charge of genocide against Russia and President Putin. The indiscriminate bombing and the killing, maiming and displacement of Ukrainians can surely not have escaped President Ramaphosa's attention.
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What is going on at MTN?A crook scammed my account, added 3phones to contract.Sim cards handed to crook. 51 emails later &visit to MTN Headoffice, & doing an affidavit, have suffered no loss. Today, a neighbour said her MTN contract had5 new phone nos. added.This is an inside job.
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Lesufi is not an honest negotiator. He was elected with DA votes. He then reneged on the national deal. He now has a minority government. Unless he has done a secret deal with the EFF and MK, he will have a tough time getting legislation and budgets through the Legislature.
I have looked at coalition makeups for some time. I have never seen a party who finished first with less than 40% of the vote do so well in a coalition negotiation. The ANC in Gauteng have 35% of the vote but 73% of the cabinet seats. Remarkable outcome for Premier Lesufi.
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Dear Herman Mashaba,Your 2nd idiot move was responding to my query by saying I have dedicated my life to bringing back Racism. Your illustration was a laughable video, nothing to do with me, that was discredited and resulted in a huge damages award. You have had to delete it. (2).
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Mashaba has emerged as an unashamed racist. AuctionSA continually plays the race card. It will pay the price at the polls. Just like the EFF. South Africans prefer politicians and parties that are there for all South Africans. Mashaba's view of me is irrelevant to me.
@dhmgibson Mashaba said you a racist disguised as a liberal? Whats your response oom?.
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Dr Mpho Phalatse has been elected Mayor of Johannesburg and Tania Campbell Mayor of Ekurhuleni, thanks to a coalition of DA, ActionSA , FF+ and other opposition parties. This is a great moment for politics and for the voters who decisively rejected the ANC as the majority party.
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This is a disgrace. I know of a young woman who scored 8 distinctions and was similarly rejected by UCT.What is happening to this university which is fast becoming an Apartheid college? No white students wanted?.
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Unbelievably, Herman Mashaba has agreed to stab his coalition partners in Tshwane in the back. "ActionSA, Johannesburg and Tshwane @politicsweb
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'Those days are over': Public works minister to cut spending on accommodation for Cabinet members, MPs
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The sooner Herman Mashaba fires Michael Beaumont, the better. He has no understanding of what it takes to run a successful coalition. He constantly seeks to smear the DA, thinking that this will somehow promote his party.
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Dr Mpho Phalatse, who was an excellent mayor until ousted by the ANC/EFF, is available to replace the current hapless Mayor inflicted on Johannesburg by the coalition of corruption. Let's see a Council vote next Tuesday in the interests of Jhb citizens, for a change.
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Startling admission by Mathews Phosa. When will we get an admission that Iran is now financing the ANC?.
Former ANC Treasurer-General Mathews Phosa now admits that Gaddafi funded the party for years and that the denials at ‘highest level’ were lies. He also details his and Zuma’s criminal dealmaking with the Guptas which he never reported to other ANC leaders because he ‘didn’t want
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Lesufi and his friends have taken no action. One wonders why not?Forensic reports reveal mismanagement, fraud and corruption in Gauteng Department of Social Development
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Does anyone take the disgraced and impeached judge, guilty of gross misconduct, seriously? Compare him with former opposition leaders John Steenhuisen, Tony Leon, Zach de Beer, Colin Eglin, and van zyl Slabbert, to name a few.Only MKP could be proud of him.
John Hlophe has called the prosecution of EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini for assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm an "abuse of state resources". | @gerbjan.
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What the ANC is doing to SA has taken 30 years but ANC-led coalition destroyed Knysna in 18 months
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I have known Natasha Mazzone for many years since she was in the DA Youth and have applauded her progress as one of the DA's brightest stars. I was so glad to hear of her appointment as Opposition Chief Whip. She has all the qualities to make a great success of this role.
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ZANUPF says SA is their "Sister Republic." The SA nightmare is that we will end up like Zim. ANC is directly responsible for the Zim nightmare by ignoring the democratic election that rejected Mugabe. We now have to deal with the results of "quiet diplomacy.".
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Strange. When the DA struggled to get rid of De Lille, this was seen by some as a national crisis. Why is no one accusing CR of mishandling the worse court-aided Supra/NW crisis? ANC faces new court threat from members in North West. . shared via @News24.
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Dear Herman, You seem unaware you are mainly supported by former DA voters. Your whole party leadership consists of DA old boys, many of whom aspired to and lost internal party elections. The voters want you to oppose the EFF/ANC, not spend your precious time opposing the DA.
The DA only acceded to the investigation of the awarding of this tender after @Action4SA's Motion in Council in 2022. They still owe the political accountability to residents of Tshwane, in particular families of the deceased in Hammaskraal. Those lives matter.
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Rasool, a failed premier of the WC who bribed a journalist to write nice things about him, wins the prize for the nastiest, meanest political comment of 2019.
| Rasool accuses Zille of using her husband to 'salvage' her SOPA speech, Zille says accusations 'pathetic'
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I am loving the payment campaign being conducted against government departments by the coalition administration in Tshwane. At last, the smack of firm government. Pay up or else. .
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ActionSA can be forgiven for describing the amalgamation with F4SD as a big umbrella. After all, ActionSA polled 1.2% of the votes in 2024. F4SD polled .07%. The big umbrella presumably grows to 1.27%, apart from the many votes Herman Mashaba has lost by becoming an overt racist.
📢 Today, we will announce the first of many steps we are taking to bring parties together to build a viable and growing alternative to the Government of National Unity. 📹 Tune in LIVE at 11am: . #LetsFixSouthAfrica.
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Dear Herman Mashaba, It is obvious that you are a failed leader. Two major idiot moves in a week or two.The first was castigating the ANC publicly for ignoring your demand for seats on the Jhb MMC. Their silence proves they do not regard you with the reverence you demand. (1).
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My prediction for the 2026 Tshwane result is.ActionSA: 15000 votes. Plenty of their City Councillors will be unemployed and will be able to thank Mr Mashaba for their retirement from public life.
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I am delighted that John Steenhuisen has been elected, unopposed, as the new leader of the opposition in Parliament. He has the skills, the brains and the courage to be as big a success there as his term as chief whip has been.
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City Press reports today that a coalition agreement between the DA, other parties, and the ANC is in the wind. An interesting development. It will be fascinating to see if ASA is in it. If out, Mashaba will have made himself look like an utter idiot with little strategic sense.
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You can surely not believe this nonsense. State hospitals generally are appalling. The way to fix a hospital is to fix it. Don't pretend that wrecking the private hospitals will provide respectable health care for the masses of our people.
@dhmgibson This exactly why we need the NHI now!. But your DA has fighting it in courts for 20years. You have blood dripping from your hands. #hypocrites @helenzille @Our_DA #DAMustFall @goolammv.
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Dean is a champion and deserves support from us all.
I welcome the correspondence from @TimesLIVE today, in which they unreservedly apologised to me for publishing a defamatory and untruthful opinion piece by @JJTabane that I bribed a journalist to write negative stories about the IDT. Unfortunately, several political parties fell
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The whole country has been waiting for the #ESKOM plan. Now we have it: "Switch off the lights! " Brilliant. In the CR New Dawn one does not need electricity because the sun has risen. This after CR has been fixing ESKOM, with Pravin Gordhan, since appointed by JZ in 2014.
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In the UK 3.86 Million people have been vaccinated. 140 people per minute. Because of the failure of the Ramaphosa government, SA has not vaccinated even one person to date. Thank you ANC.
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Pam and I are celebrating 47 years of marriage today. We were married in Benoni on 16 October 1971.The photo was taken in Bangkok in 2010.
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SADTU plays politics instead of focusing on the education of our children. "Massive maths and science embarrassment for South Africa.
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2. How can Helen think defending colonialism is sensible or relevant to DA and SA of today? Political deafness contradicting DA aims.
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One law for the ANC, another for everyone else in South Africa. Few masks, masses of people attending meetings, no social distancing. Did the SAPS make any arrests, particularly of ANC politicians who organised these gatherings? But we can't have an election because of Covid.
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@ladyhaja @TimTeeman No wonder he and his sick wife had to travel to Lockdown in Durham. They certainly could not have relied on the kindness of these neighbours to care for their small child if the need arose.
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SA can be proud of the new (DA) minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube. An excellent interview on Judge for Yourself this evening. If anyone can put our education right, it is Siviwe.
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Disgraceful abuse of power.
Why is @CityPowerJhb allowing their vehicles to be used for political work and transporting an @ANCJHB candidate in the reg weekend. @CityofJoburgZA .@IECSouthAfrica
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With views like this, Lesufi is an unfit custodian of our children's education: Panyaza Lesufi: A language-based university is anathema to our society and a disgrace to our Constitution. . shared via @News24.
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Ignoramus. Have you never heard of the Progressive Party, the PFP, the DP, or the DA? Not to speak of the white people in the ANC (when it was still non-racial, and the old Liberal party.
@AR59446899 @dhmgibson All of a sudden there is a lot of white people who fought Apartheid! Where were they all this time?.
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Dear Herman, You are an arrogant political novice, with egg all over your face. You spent weeks persuading your largely unelected structures to enter a coalition with the EFF and ANC while slagging off the DA. ANC/EFF turned you down. Your1.8% will be 0.8% in 2026.
You have a tendency of taking people for fools. It is because you belief in your superficial superior logic. You and your party owe an unconditional apology to ActionSA for spewing lies over the last 3 weeks, denying your treacherous negotiations with the ANC. ANC dumped us?.what.
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(1) Adv Dali Mpofu has come up with a new defence for Malema, Shivambu and the EFF. Despite all the lies and denials over the years, he admits the EFF received enormous "donations" from VBS Bank. He says if illegal, EFF will repay the R16m .Why only now?.
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We might not notice the difference between them working and striking.
Public-sector unions threaten total shutdown over demand for higher wages
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Helen and Mmusi prove that SA can trust the DA with its future. Project 2019 of a new government is immensely strengthened. Hats off to both.
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Brett Herron stood for the Mayoralty of Cape Town a couple of weeks ago - without success. Now the DA is not good enough for him. Amazing turn of events?.
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Herman Mashaba and Michael Beaumont, said that ActionSA has withdrawn from the MPC. DA supporters like me, are relieved. ASA has always focused on attacking the DA, especially during the election campaign. This major error explains why ASA did so badly in the election. .
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Would you believe that President Ramaphosa is to attend the Mnangagwa inauguration? SADC and other official observers have slated the election but SA rewards election stealers with our presence and thus our presidential approval. Shocking.
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Having to put up with idiots like you must have been tough.
@dhmgibson Just mention one major sacrifice from Brink, just one Gibson.
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This should make South Africans confident that a new state bank, proposed by the ANC, will be a success. Land Bank posts R2.8bn loss as AG blasts management via @BusinessLiveSA.
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The Star front page today lists policy failures of President Ramaphosa. Many people would regard his resistance of these ANC resolutions as being among his rare successes.
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