Rod MacPhail
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Those who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis were breaking the law: those who took her to a concentration camp were upholding it. Don't confuse the law with morality
Born Scotland, lives Cape Town
Joined February 2016
The alcohol ban is a direct attack on the Western Cape. Our wine farms will be destroyed. This is a direct assault on the success of the DA Provincial government.
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Nearly 300,000 people arrested for lockdown violations. None for state capture.
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The Netherlands is the second largest exporter of agricultural produce in the world after the United States. The Netherlands is only 3,4% of the area of South Africa. What’s wrong with us?.
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Spend R22 million on a Flag? Has the government completely lost the plot? 40% of South Africans go to bed hungry every night and the ANC wants to spend R22 million of our taxes on a flag?????.
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Cyril’s net worth is over R8 billion. That’s R8,000,000,000. Not bad for someone who never started a business, never invented anything, never became a best selling author, and never excelled in the international top leagues of sports or the Arts. He has good connections.
@Abramjee The extreme inequalities in Cape Town will result in more of these incidents. You can’t have a cost of living that is so ridiculous that the locals can’t survive. They’ll turn against the rich.
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"White people are still reaping the benefits of apartheid," says Ramaphosa. For someone with a personal fortune of R6.4 billion, who didn’t invent anything, nor did he start a new venture, it looks like Cyril is reaping the benefits of BBBEE.
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Absolute horseshit! Musk demonstrated that he could run Twitter with half the staff used by the previous owner. He’s going to try & do the same with the American government departments. Comparing Musk to the Guptas is despicable. Musk earned his money. The Guptas stole our tax.
MANDY WIENER: Elon Musk captured the US on a scale the Guptas could only dream of.
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As the tourism industry is closed, is the Tourism Minister still receiving her salary?.
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Doesn’t it irritate you when that scoundrel Zuma gets referred to as “His Excellency President Zuma”. It a complete perversion of the English language.
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Myeni bankrupted SAA. She was a total disaster for the airline. She made no effort to grow SAA. She looted it. Condolences to her family, but she’s no loss to South Africa.
Breaking :Former Chairperson of SAA, Honorable Dudu Myeni, has passed away. A gentle, humble soul dedicated to empowering the previously disadvantaged, may the gentle soul of Mama Myeni rest in peace. Dr. Myeni aimed to transform SAA into the best airline in Africa. Under the
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I will say this only once. (No I won’t) For every R1 million spent on infrastructure, 4.7 jobs are created. The ANC, notably Zuma, stole or wasted R 1.5 trillion. If that had been spent on infrastructure it would have created 7,000,000 jobs. i.e. 70% of our unemployed. Treason!.
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Hong Kong’s population is 7,5 million. It’s area, 1106 sqkm. Western cape has a similar population & an area 117X that of Hong Kong’s. Hong Kong’s GDP is 4.4X the WC GDP. So land isn’t the answer. Education, training, ingenuity & diligent work might be a clue. And a free market.
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The area of the Ingonyama trust land is 2.8 million hectares. The trust and King Zwelithini get R93.3 million per year. If land is the key to prosperity, why does the King and the trust need grants? Surely the land could yield a commercial profit?.
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Correction: the bridge is being built by Concor with funds provided by the SA taxpayers.
The Msikaba Bridge being built by the ANC led Government, which will be the 3rd highest bridge in Africa once completed in 2025, will feature in the National Geographic series of "Building Impossible with Daniel Ashville", from 12 September on DStv’s channel 181. The bridge will
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Yes. Every time in business I come across a BBBEE requirement which excludes me.
As a white person have you ever experienced racism?.
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Just like Robert Mugabe did.
"We should not underestimate the ANC's desperation to hold on to power. They are willing to destroy the country to retain power.". - Barend Uys (AfriForum)
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So, Julius Malema and his cohorts are celebrating Van Riebeeck day with a visit to Stellenbosch!!😀😀😀.
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I have been hosed and had firecrackers thrown at me for protesting the tourism and restaurant lockdown.
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Driving home on N2 to Cape Town, I had car trouble. I free wheeled onto the verge at the Nyanga turn-off & a young man attempted to steal my phone. Within seconds the Metro Police swooped & the thief ran away. Well done to the City Cops who stayed till breakdown help arrived!.
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When we need a surgeon we demand the best. When we need a lawyer only the top one will do. And the pilot in command of the aircraft we travel in, better be the finest there is. Why don’t we expect our government to comprise the most skilful and competent people?.
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You are either a liar or have a poor understanding of English. She said KZN would be “thrown to the dogs”. That’s an idiom Dali.
Subtle threats to “bring KwaZulu Natal down”??👀. Calling lawfully registered political parties voted by the majority of Africans in KZN “dogs”??🤷🏾♂️. Imagine (the fake public outrage) if she was black……👇🏾.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO MINISTERS DLAMINI-ZUMA, PATEL AND CELE (cc President Ramaphosa, Dr Mkhize and all South Africans) I write this letter as a committed patriot and someone exponentially more concerned about the plight of the poor, than about myself. 1/25.
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Fancy that! 300,000 people with criminal records for having a fag or a glass of wine! And yet the rotten, thieving, corrupt, ANC get away with stealing and wasting R1,5 trillion!. 300,000 arrested for breaking lockdown laws: Bheki Cele via @TimesLIVE.
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Went for a sunset walk on Clifton beach at 19:15. Was told to exit the beach as beaches close at 18:00. I was unaware of that. Cautioned for no mask. The beach was empty. The regulations are irrational. Masks in shops, ok. Masks in the veld or on the beach. Totalitarianism.
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Is anyone surprised? This man is a disgrace to humanity.
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No Gwede. It’s not the captains of industry that are responsible for low investment levels. It’s ANC corruption, statist policies, sloth, incompetence, BBBEE and the 116 Acts of Parliament rediscovering apartheid.
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The DA attracted 1,800,000 more black voters than the EFF. Are you saying that those voters are racist against themselves?.
@rodcampsbay 80% rejected the racists DA.
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Mugabe is dead. A man wth so much promise, so much education, so much political skill. He could have been revered like Madiba. Instead he chose racism and destroyed the prosperous Zimbabwe and turned it into a beggars’ state. I hope we shall never see the likes of him again.
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Apartheid was the law, but it wasn’t moral. The lock down is the law, and it isn’t moral. To deny people the right to earn their living is an immoral act.
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Lesufi must rank as one of the most harebrained incompetents that SA has spawned.
[WATCH] Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi calls for private and public school matric pupils to write one examination. #Newzroom405 #MatricResults2024
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Just salute excellence. The fact that Adv Ngcukaitobi is black has no bearing on the matter. It’s his competence that makes him great. Not his colour.
We Thank Adv Ngcukaitobi!! This guy made sure the judiciary cannot be a laughing stock and undermined. Salute to black Excellence. #ZumaArrest
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SA has a bigger problem with thieving politicians.
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The evidence is in. The DA is a much better party to govern SA than all the others. Every thinking voter can see that. But thinking voters are not a majority.
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Cyril says 80% of jobs are created by businesses. And businesses must come to the party to create more jobs. Well, scrap the following: b-bbee, draconian labour laws, EWC, and the kilometres of red tape. And remember, 100% of the taxes are paid by the companies and the citizens.
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Population of China is 1,400,000,000. Unemployment rate 3.82%. Population South Africa. 60,000,000. Unemployment rate 43.2%. Well done ANC! Every policy you’ve implemented has created more unemployment.
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The South African government is about to implement a change in the Constitution which will permit expropriation without compensation of private property. This is a clear violation of article 17 of the UN charter of human rights. What are you going to do about it? @UN.
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It’s a shame. I hoped that MT was wrong at the time. Sadly I was wrong and she was right.
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You’re out of touch Max. Women fought hard for their rights including sex discriminated toilets, changing rooms, sporting events. The chromosomes are either XX or XY. That’s biology.
What an ignorant, bigoted man you are. Stop parroting the MAGA bullshit here.
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I’ve got a certificate which says I am a citizen. I’ve paid millions in tax and created over 500 jobs over the years. I’ve trained and upskilled over 100 people. What’s your contribution Sbusiso?.
@rodcampsbay This is not your country! Don’t impose yourself to us! Settler!.
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De Ruyter made a good comment. Unlike coal, wind and solar energy can’t be stolen and neither can it be shipped to China for processing.
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Venezuela has known oil reserves valued at $361 trillion. If that was ours, for the next 201 years, the SA govt could cancel all taxes from all sources & provide the same level of service as now, before they would run out of money. So why is Venezuela poor? Hint: socialism.
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Shaka ruled 250,000 people and had an army of 40,000. He was responsible for the deaths of 2 million people during his reign. Conquered tribes adopted his methods and cruelty, leading to 25 years of chaos, slaughter and genocide, even after his death. Is this the hero you revere?.
We will lift high our heroes. We will name our streets and buildings after them, write books about them, make television shows about them, and erect statues in their honour.
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That is an admission of failure, not a mark of success, Cyril.
Today, more than 11 million South Africans are social grant recipients and it has been demonstrated that without these interventions poverty and inequality in South Africa would be much higher. #ANC110.
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Black children are free. And Black adults too. Free to vote out the ANC which has robbed your child of a good education and you both of job opportunities. But if you continue to vote ANC you are not a victim, you’re an accomplice.
As long as a Black Child is not free don't tell me about celebrating Rugby .
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I see you’re a logical fellow. King Zwelitini has 28,000,000,000 m² of land. He still needs a government grant of R71.3 million. That is one hellova Sassa card for someone with all that land.
@rodcampsbay Land is wealth. Evil Europeans and Americans killed innocent land owners for the land. Yes. Land is wealth.
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Don’t resign Dean. You’re on the right side of history.
🔴Mashatile Tells Macpherson To Implement Policies Or Resign🔴. ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile has called on the DA’s Dean Macpherson to implement government policies or resign. This follows the outburst by Macpherson regarding the land expropriation bill.
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King Zwelithini controls 28,000.000,000 sqm of land. There are 12 million Zulus. Say 5 to a family, therefore 11600 sqm of land per family. Some would farm, and some would trade their land and do other businesses. But it would be a good start. Then the model can be rolled out.
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Unemployed youngsters don’t normally drive around in a Porsche.
Zuma says his kids can’t get jobs because of him. He forgot to mention the rest of South Africa’s youth also can’t get jobs because of him.
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CR Speaks. “Non-essential establishments like restaurants, bars and fitness centres will need to close by 10pm. This is to allow their employees and patrons to travel home before the start of the curfew.” Cyril, there’s no such thing as a non essential business. 44.4% jobless!.
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Financially crippled ANC ordered to pay over R100m for election posters. If you can’t even manage your own finances, how do you possibly think that you can run a country?.
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SARS won’t accept a bank statement as proof of address. It’s easier to get out on medical parole than deal with SARS.
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I never thought of you as a liar Herman. Misguided yes. But to characterise the DA as an apartheid party is an obscenity. You know damn well that since it’s days as the PP it’s been a champion of non-racialism. Your natural home is with the loony left EFF.
We are happy to have removed the DA from Tshwane to ensure that Apartheid policies do not see a light of day again in South Africa.
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It’s because your thieving colleagues in the ANC stole and wasted R1,500,000,000,000! BTW. If you’re so concerned with inequality, why don’t you divvy up your R6,400,000,000?.
It is undeniable that the wealth of this country remains largely in the hands of a predominantly white and male minority. The structure of our economy continues to exclude overwhelming numbers of the poor and Black majority. #FreedomCharter65 .
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The EFF hate the Boks win. Rugby victories unite the nation and that’s an anathema to the EFF. Their popularity is predicated on economic disaster, sowing division within the communities and preaching victimhood. The springbok banner is loved by all of us loyal to a common goal.
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If the ANC were to be given the job of managing Hell, I would feel duty bound to advise Satan of the damage that they will do.
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Elon Musk’s companies are worth 3 years of the entire GDP of SA. He employs ~180,000 people. That’s what free markets, brains, ingenuity and diligence can do. He’d never have had that level of success in confines of SA conditions.
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There has been more hours of load shedding by Eskom in the first 7 months of 2023 than the previous 10 years combined. Well done ANC !!!.
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Cyril had nothing to do with the Boks’ success.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, the only president in the history of Rugby, to be two time rugby World Cup champion President . PHAKAMA RAMAPHOSA PHAKAMA!!!! . #RWC23 #Springboks #NZLvRSA
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In a competition to name SA’s most accomplished liar, you’d be hard pressed to find a better champion than Julius Malema.
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No Sophie. The CEO is trying to turn the company into a success. But he’s prohibited from collecting the R1.7 billion that’s owed by ANC municipalities and has discovered that R1 billion of spare parts is stolen. The thieving cadres ruined Eskom.
The @Eskom_SA CEO has failed. He is a Non performer. Unfortunately the economy is going to suffer. No investor will invest in a country that can't guarantee electricity supply. #SAInTheDark.
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ANC slams 'inhumane' US airstrikes in Iraq, labels it 'international terrorism' via @News24. The utter hypocrisy of the ANC after the failure to arrest Al Bashir who was accused of 5 counts of crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape.
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Lesufi is a blight on South Africa. A carbuncle on the body politic. A cancer on the ordinary folk.
🚨 Lesufi blocks access to 177 forensic reports! DA demands transparency to expose the theft of millions meant for Gauteng’s residents. Legal action is underway to hold officials accountable. #DAatWork #RescueSA #DA_GPL @Sollymsimaga. Read more:
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To deny apartheid was a crime against humanity is treason, says Ramaphosa. To steal tax money is also treason.
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Angola’s socialist Pres, Jose Eduardo dos Santos stepped down after 39 years, he had a net worth of $20 billion. His daughter, Isabel, is Africa’s richest woman has a net worth of $2.2 billion while, 60% of Angolans live on less than $2 a day, the poverty level. Some socialists!.
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At a speech at Unisa, Lindiwe Sisulu again attacked the judiciary, referring to them as, and I quote, “house niggers.” Is it acceptable for a person who's been in the ANC cabinet for 20 years, and whose tenure has been marked by mediocrity, to use such language?.
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The S. African government adopted the Expropriation Bill, which will be sent to the National Council of Provinces for concurrence. This is a violation of the UN charter of Human Rights, Article 17. Please send a complaint to the UN. THIS IS A SLIDE TO TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT.
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If it’s difficult to live in WC why don’t you bugger off to KZN or Limpopo where the ANC thievery and incompetence is more to your liking?.
Don't give white people power through coalition government in 2024. Its already difficult to live in Western Cape.
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Helen will be the best president that South Africa never had.
I'm speaking on behalf of South Africans. Hellen Zille must be the President of South Africa.
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We don’t care if you’re tired of being reminded that the ANC dropped below 50%. Having been handed the biggest economy in Africa, instead of implementing growth enhancing policies the ANC embraced failed Marxism, rampant theft, incompetence & sloth. So the ANC lost the election.
I meant to say that we are tired of Zile reminding us at every corner that we did not win an election as if they did. We must go out there & ensure we win the election outright with a cleaned up ANC.
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I cannot concur Mmusi, with your congratulations to a party of known tax cheats and tenderpreneurs. Worse, the EFF is a racist party and peddles marxist falsehoods which will only further impoverish SAns if the EFF were ever voted into power.
Congratulations to the EFF for turning ten. It is a notable accomplishment and the party has made a mark in South African politics.
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So Andile Lungisa has been freed. Seems that there is one set of regulations for ANC cadres and another for all us other plebs.
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We are blest with journos like Pauli. Her fearless research on corruption has laid bare the poisonous politicians who blight the lives of South Africans. When our spirit was at its lowest, SA investigative journalism held a burning candle to protect our democracy.
From day one; Pauli van Wyk, told South Africans exactly what happened in VBS. Her story did not change, she came with all the facts and with receipts. She was maligned. She was victimized. She was insulted. They hurled abuses at her. @PaulivW was 100% correct about Julius
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NDZ finally managed to do what the National Party struggled to do - keep black people off the beaches.
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Firstly, Juju, you’ve got to find the platinum. Then you’ve got to mine it. Then extract it from the ore. Then stop staff from stealing it. Then sell it. The stop politicians from stealing the proceeds of the sales. I don’t think you’re up to it Juju.
MALEMA: There is a lot of platinum here, but we don’t benefit from it. That is why the EFF says it wants the mines to be nationalized, so that our people can benefit #MogalakwenaSiyabongaRally.
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Without doubt you are correct. So why do you need B-BBEE?.
An average black South African can communicate in 3-4 languages. This alone is a mark of inborn intelligence. Which languages are you fluent in ?.
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A complete Covid 19 vaccine rollout will cost to between R8 billion and R16 billion. A hard lock down costs R13 billion a day.
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3 hours at Cape Town vehicle licensing dept. At R4,000,000 a year the city manager should be thoroughly ashamed of this inefficiency.
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I’m so sick of the blackout. Zuma and his Gupta accomplices plunder Eskom and the ineffectual Ramaphosa just flaps about like a fish out of water.
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I’m celebrating 50 years since my arrival in Cape Town. So I’ve been here longer than 83% of other South Africans.
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If you vote anc, you’re not a victim, you’re an accomplice.
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No we don’t. Putin is a vile warmonger who has invaded a sovereign state. If you can’t see the annexation of Ukraine as the parallel of Hitler’s invasion of European countries you’re either blind or illiterate or a Nazi.
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The British government has no problem in closing the borders with SA. The implication is that they have no faith in the vaccine. I thought that the idea was to vaccinate and let the world get on with business.
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Eskom turned down help from trade union Solidarity who listed 480 skilled professionals who had offered their services. Eskom have not contacted a single applicant who registered their interest on a website in digging Eskom out of the mire. Sell Eskom. Dump the incompetents.
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The tourism industry is losing R748 million a day. Well done Cyril!.
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If you vote ANC, you’re not a victim, you’re a culprit.
If you vote ANC on Wednesday, then I don’t want to hear you complain about unemployment, loadshedding, sleeping on a state hospital floor, living in fear of criminals, and every other consequence of keeping a crime syndicate in power. 0 sympathy after 30 years.
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You, are a nutter.
De Ruyter helps destroy Eskom and plunge South Africa into darkness and then looks for a brighter future overseas . & some say he is a patriot 😱 . No, he is just another incompetent white man
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Why not start a black university? Then you can show us how it’s done. And what a decolonised transformed University looks like. You wouldn’t have to transform anything because you could have it perfect from the word go.
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Do you think that the government wants to remove private gun ownership for fear that one day the citizenry will be so gatvol that they’ll shoot the thieving bastards?.
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All kudos to the City of Cape Town! At 14:30 on Christmas Day a water main bursts in Camps Bay. By 16:30 the pipe is repaired and at full service delivery. Well done Cape Town!!!.
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George Floyd was a career criminal. A drug abuser, thief, criminal trespasser, and armed robber. Steve Biko was an educated thinker. A political activist. A humanitarian. George Floyd was no Steve Biko.
Ramaphosa likens George Floyd to Steve Biko: ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has compared the killing of American George Floyd to the killing of anti-apartheid hero Steve Biko.
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Imagine that! South Africa has 28 million people on grants – but only 7.4 million income taxpayers. And Cyril has only just realised that the numbers are unsustainable! That’s the problem with left wing lunacy. Eventually socialists run out of other people’s money.
"President Cyril Ramaphosa is worried about the high number of social grant beneficiaries. While Ramaphosa commended the government for its efforts, he believes the situation is not sustainable.".He finally sees the light. 🙄.
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Rubbish! The ANC inherited the biggest most sophisticated economy in Africa. 700 functional SOEs. An education system that educated children. Municipalities that were solvent and functional. A competent civil service. An effective police force. The ANC plundered an wasted it.
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1970s Britain was described as the sick man of Europe. Inflation at 27%. Loony trade unions bent on the destruction of the economy. The French held up Britain as an example to avoid. Then Thatcher. She broke the power of the unions and ushered in an economic miracle. C’mon CR.
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Starlink is Musk’s free internet. The ANC confirms again that it is not the friend of the poor, it is the friend of poverty.
ANC blocks @SpaceX Starlink in South Africa 🇿🇦 . Crooked @MYANC Politicians claiming a share for the back pocket to the detriment of millions of South African citizens as usual. F them @elonmusk. … via.@mybroadband.
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I am. I’ve got an I.D. number and a certificate of naturalisation. And I’ve probably been here longer than you, employed more people and paid more tax. What’s your contribution?.
@rodcampsbay When are you going back to your country Scotland? Because u are not South African.
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