Soyiso Maliti
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politics reporter. for tip-offs and contact: [email protected] https://t.co/rCfVdD5vCd
Joined September 2015
It didn't look good for Deputy President Paul Mashatile. He did tell students he had 'food poisoning' and was sick a day before.
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Eastern Cape comrades are looking for ways to loot Queen Elizabeth's funeral money. Akukho chance, masela ndini.
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TWO-POT: The Msunduzi Municipality has allegedly cheated more than a 100 workers from their pension funds. The elders are fighting for their estimated R30 million in pension funds while the ANC-led municipality pays a R27-million cash sponsorship to a struggling Royal AM FC.
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Former president Jacob Zuma's convoy arrives in Nkandla for the MK Party's mini rally. Supporters chant "Zuma, Zuma, Zuma". @TeamNews24
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This story will keep on giving until Ramaphosa comes clean.
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EFF's Carl Niehaus tells @news24 the EFF will, before a capacity crowd Moses Mabhida, declare SA "EFF territory". He said Malema's address will talk about "true liberation", and "not the nonsense Cyril Ramaphosa tried to pawn off to us" in his Sona this week. @teamnews24
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The Buffalo City Metro bought two laptop bags for R30 000 and a “memory stick” for more than R6 000.
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I have that report. The investigator who compiled it denied it, but the metadata shows he compiled it. Sisulu's people confirmed the report. When I sent Mabuyane's people questions about it, two lawyers and 16 other people called me on the same day.
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The 65 000-seater Moses Mabhida stadium is almost packed to capacity, with some empty seats on the top and lower tiers. Some supporters are still entering the stadium, while others are milling about outside. @News24 @teamnews24 #EFFManifestolaunch
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Malema, Shivambu and other party leaders are walking around the stadium to greet supporters and clap with them in song and dance. @News24 @TeamNews24 #EFFManifestoLaunch
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WATCH: EFF president Julius Malema is delivering a youth day lecture at the Fort Hare University in Alice. He says it's NB to decolonise the content of education. #YouthDay #YouthDay2019 #June16 #June1976Uprising
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When his newly-found supporters find out about Adams' prejudices against black people are not so far off FW de Klerk's racism against black people. .
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Benni McCarthy's bleskop is long overdue. The skreets will never forget that S-Curl, though.
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Mbalula tells the crowd that Zuma must start his own "uMsholozi Party" and leave ANC property, uMkhonto we Sizwe.
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ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula, party provincial chairman Siboniso Duma and MK Party lawyers advocates Dali Mpofu and Sikhakhane exchange jokes about their legal showdowns. They're about to commence with the copyright infringement case between the two parties. @TeamNews24
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@PatriciaDeLille describes this as a proud moment for South Africans and Indians. She makes special mention to the six "brave sisters" who steered the #Tarini in daunting waters in their quest to circumnavigate the globe. @IOL @WeekendArgus #Holi2018
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@Yamscasino Delete those T.I videos and start reading books, bro. Because what you think is big words is embarrassing.
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Consider the DA's stark reactions on Stellenbosch University racism & Ukraine. Alan Winde issued 4 statements at the start of the Ukraine war & Steenhuisen went as far as visiting the country. Commenting on Theuns du Toit's racist actions risks upsetting their constituency.
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Science boffin Chase Newel, headboy @ Pinelands High, flies to 🇺🇸 today for the International Science & Engineering Fair. He'll be displaying a power bank that produces energy to charge your phone as you walk or run. @IOL @WeekendArgus #InternationalScienceAndEngineeringFair
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Buffalo City Metro officials once bought a USB for R6 500.
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BREAKING: Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula believes it's not in the best interest of Parliament for Professor Calland to sit on the panel.
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I present to you a KZN mayor whose municipality paid R10 million in 14 months for his 12 bodyguards in less than a year, in a municipality that runs on an unfunded budget.
This is insane. No Premier, Minister or MEC have 10 bodyguards let alone the number of cars for the Jozi Mayor, Speaker or MMCs. Premier or Cogta MEC must intervene.
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EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini urges party supporters to take their seats as EFF President Julius Malema is making his way. @News24 @teamnews24 #EFFManifestoLaunch
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Bandile Qeru, 17, who was shot in the leg in the Thursday shooting at the Langa taxi rank, recounts the events of that morning to @WeekendArgus @IOL. Read the article in the Weekend Argus tomorrow. #Langa #TaxiViolence
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The ANC is paying lip service to the land question. To this day, the Eastern Cape has millions of hectares in rural land registered in Dr Verwoerd's name, the Bantu Trust & under the Minister of Native Affairs. Land Minister Thoko Didiza is sleeping on the job:
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The Boks will be watched by people who can afford to pay R900 per month. And the majority of this country can't afford that much. I don't even watch the @Springboks anymore. Unaffordable.
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ANC iNkosi Bhambatha region spokesperson Andile Kunene on their ANCYL members being excluded from partaking in the conference in Nasrec.
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It transported dead bodies, dragged some on tarred and gravel roads; and I don't imagine it was driving at 20km/ph when it drove Steve Biko, who suffered a brain hemorrhage before taking him from PE to PTA. But taking bribes is where it draws the line.
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Dudes might just erect a R100 billion statue in Port Elizabeth/Gqeberha for no reason.
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IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa makes his way to the Moses Mabhida pitch where he will read his party manifesto.
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Premier Thami Ntuli is reading his opening speech at the provincial lekgotla. He's touching on the economy. One municipal manager, part of the delegation of officials here, is reading his Soccer Laduma.
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IFP spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa entertains party supporters as they fill up the Moses Mabhida stadium for the manifesto launch.
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Nationalisation is one objective the ANC would never realise. It's just en vogue to talk about it in ANC circles. Yoohlula ooMandela and instead the ANC of today is hurtling towards privatising every State entity because governing efficiently overwhelms the party.
[ANCYL MEDIA BRIEFING RECAP]. These are some of the key areas that the current ANCYL leadership will be focusing on: . #ANCYL26
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Presidency: Mfondini, come sign the agreement with the Danish and the Futch. Mantashe:
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Fuck what you heard. Lukhanyo Am is a generational talent. We're never getting this again.
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Defunding the police is the craziest business of the many crazy businesses of this administration. I can't begin to imagine the ripple effect of this.
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There is a pattern here.
🚨New episode: @Tessa_Dooms returns to unpack all that’s happening on SA’s political landscape. Ayeye! 🔥. Full vid:
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Like the president of the 5th administration, former KZN premier Nomusa Ncube-Dube was media-averse. Ntuli doesn't seem media shy and takes phone calls from reporters and responds to messages. Good start.
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Reading in the City Press that Bernard 'Shoes' Lushozi lost his eyesight as a result of diabetes in 2020 and he's gone on to graduate with a PhD at the University of Pretoria. Soccer legends rarely have positive stories but this was good to read.
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Mamkhize before making that EFT:
🛑 Royal AM have until Monday to pay Samir Nurkovic and his representatives R12-million. They've been ordered by FIFA to do so. Full story. #SABCSport411.
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No matter how you look at Ramakgopa's policy stance, President Ramaphosa took a headache that was miles away from him and inflicted it on himself. Now he has three Eskom ministers - two of whom are now publicly contradicting one another - and load shedding.
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This is a win for media. Beautiful. All the best.
Daily Maverick is launching a newspaper! It will be available exclusively at selected Pick n Pay branches. Please vote for which Pick n Pay you think that should be so we can have a REAL newspaper to read on the weekend.
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ANC ministers need to realise the time of mizing the media and not communicating on social media, is over. The competition is tough.
In my first act as Minister, I have immediately extended the concession to safeguard skilled workers, tourists and other people affected by visa processing delays at Home Affairs. I have done so after the previous concession expired on 30 June, which left applicants vulnerable to
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BREAKING: DA chief whip in Umngeni, Nhlalayenza Ndlovu, is said to have just been assassinated by three men while at his home.
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@TheHolyHabibee @KevinPhb @JudiciaIreview @gzcl3000 I wouldn't go over there then if it's a death warrant. Keep your sex, baby.
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At the end of it all, MK Party voters were let down by leaders who fumbled an electoral advantage in KZN.
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He was putting overtime hours for that R12m lol.
At R12.5 million, you begin to accuse Mashaba of Black Consciousness 🤣🤣🤣.ngiyayihlonipha imali!
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The time of sleepist ministers and spokespeople is over. As far as getting public reps to respond to you, this is the fourth estate's dream era. We're cruising.
News24 | 'DA is making us look bad': ANC top brass says GNU partners' successes are showing them up
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GroundUP has kept its nose to the grindstone in relation to this Thabo Bester story and the publication deserves the praise.
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There is a section with several empty seats behind the stage. But some EFF supporters are still making their way to the venue. A few can be seen outside the entrance facing the Kings Park stadium. @News24 @TeamNews24 #EFFManifestoLaunch
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I'm hoping Darryl Cullinan watched Andile Phehlukwayo hit the winning runs and pissed himself out of that apartheid mentality. He is somewhere like.
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He and his executive don't experience load shedding like average folk, so ‘committed’ for him is not the kind of commitment you and I want.
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The ANC in theory: NATIONALISE. The ANC in reality: Privatise, privatise, privatise.
Post Office placed in business rescue
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And we've brought in the Bomb Squad.
This is the Rugby World Cup of Politics .And we are The Bokke.
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You're way over your head now. Social media revolutionaries always look at Madiba as their soft target. If it were not for him and others, you wouldn't even be tweeting like this. Madiba wasn't the dummy you make him to be. You know exactly which gallery you playing to.
Hani, Biko, Mahlangu, Fransch & Kriel are all gone but somehow Mandela survived 27 years in prison…? 👀 (two-seven). I just want to understand… . I’m just young with questions🤷🏽♂️. We’re not happy, we want to renegotiate.
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@BeatRhymeLists The better rapper with the wordplay between these two once said: . 'I'm more spiritual than lyrical.I'm similar to Eli/.Why?/.'Cause I'm wearin' black shades.And I'm headed west with the word of God (Amen)'. So poetic.
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IFP students movement leader Thabo Xaba resigns over the party's GNU decision at a provincial level. The SACP, Cosatu and Sanco in KZN expressed the same sentiment about the so-called PGU and the MK Party being taken out of the equation.
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EFF president Julius Malema, party SG Marshall Dlamini and other leaders are heading organisational programmes in KwaZulu-Natal. They're expected to discuss the dismal performance in the provincial election. @TeamNews24
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ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe says expelled “hired firearm” Carl Niehaus will now “be ill-discipllined out there”.
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And community newspapers.
So young folks who are into broadcasting/ media studies must never ever undermine the power of community radio, limited resources can make you do magic and it's ok to start there, it's an incredible training ground, we started there years ago 🙏.
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Last year this time, I really wanted to quit journalism. What a beautiful year it has been.
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Malema also spoke on the class of 1976, Black Consciousness Movement, etc.
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Watch him cut his King Charles trip short because Eskom tried to sneak in Stage 6.
Comment: here’s a trend to watch. President Ramaphosa is in reelection mode - ANC branch, Sadtu, etc etc then off to see Britain’s King Charles. Meanwhile, Day 17 of ceaseless (unstoppable?) power cuts and now Joburg’s without water too. Will he be President of the Tipping Point?.
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No matter how much its PR machine tried to prop it up, the NPA remains toothless and it's about time we accept that. The next politician to be charged is likely going to walk. John Block must've upset someone.
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Pandering to the white genocide nonsense.
The DA is deeply concerned about the sharp rise in farm murders in SA and the dangerous rhetoric inciting violence against a particular group in society. The party calls on Ramaphosa to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate farm attacks.
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Western Cape @Our_DA leader Bonginkosi Madikizela was bobbing his head to Amanda Black's music earlier. He says he's here at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival to mingle. 🎺 #CTIJF #CapeTownInternationalJazzFestival @IOL @WeekendArgus
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Ngcukaitobi: "(the year) 1913 was a consolidation of conquest." He says this is when Xhosa people were first dispossessed. @IOL @WeekendArgus #LandExpropriation #LandReform #Land @IOL @WeekendArgus
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I've always been uncomfortable with the ANC's culture of talking politics at funerals. But ke. .
[JUST-IN] Deputy President David Dabede Mabuza says he has resigned as DP of the country and the President will make the announcement. Mabuza was speaking at his brothers burial service. #sabcnews
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Crazy thing about that Dee Koala situation is that they might be back together soon come.
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Zeenatunisa Sydow is not your ordinary UWC student or single mother-of-four. She enrolled at the university three years ago, graduating Cum Laude in Psychology last month. @IOL @WeekendArgus #Mothersday
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So many of our white heroes are dying so when I saw Mark Boucher's name trend, I started getting flashbacks of his sledging overheard through the stump mic. *sighs*
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I'd prefer a tired Du Preez than a fit Ranga Chivaviro.
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You just need to go to the BP at Merriman St, Stellenbosch, in the evenings to see a pre-1994 portal.
Orania aside, who wins the gong for most racist town/city in SA?.
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EXCLUSIVE | Court rules minister broke the law by unlawfully firing DDG who blew the whistle on corruption
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Julius Malema: "We will never chase visitors away. You're more than [welcome] here, but behave like visitors. Bring the land into the hands of the rightful owners. And this issue of land, comrades, isn't a matter that you just wake up tomorrow. uthi hayi umhlaba ubuyile."
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People who are shocked that Barry Bateman has joined the AfriForum have a short memory. Same Barry called black Twitter users 'race merchants' for supporting Ashwin Willemse when he spoke of his race ordeal with the Boks.
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Zimasa Mpemnyama, of Nyanga-East, will be one of the photographic exhibitors at the Duotone gallery. "I'm very excited to be part of the gallery and I can't wait to see what it looks like." @WeekendArgus @iol #CTIJF #Jazz #CapeTownInternationalJazzFestival
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elders don't qualify for the two-pot system, but this is one of the issues the system has highlighted - municipalities cheating the workers.
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The only time the government feels the need to cut expenditure is on service delivery - and it's never on pomp and ceremony.
[WATCH] Inside the auditorium where Panyaza Lesufi, Gauteng Premier, is expected to give the #SOPA speech shortly. TCG
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@Sgadi28 One of the many mindfucks with Zwane. But the biggest worry for me is his persistence with Dove at CB, where he's out of his depth. If the recent games taught us anything, it's that in the next game we're going to concede through Dove. So, what really is the drawing board?.
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Former President Thabo Mbeki on "receding power of the State" and the disconnect between today's leaders and society. Mbeki also says ANC renewal has failed.
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On the Wednesday before this game, Soccer Laduma carried a front page where Scara Ngobese promised to 'terrorise Pirates' [exact words]. Lo and behold. .
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The poor kicking in that one game where he came on as a sub is starting to make sense.
Sacha not disclosing his injury to Rassie and Bok management and playing two matches against the All Blacks 😩 Rassie was not impressed, saying Sacha is lucky we won those matches. Youngsters must understand Chasing The Sun is a group project.
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ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is set to address party supporters in Isipingo, south of Durban. The programme was scheduled to start at 10:30am. It's almost 1:30pm. Supporters are still waiting.
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Andrew Kolbe, Cheslin's father, takes us through his family's journey with the rugby star. #Springboks @IOL @WeekendArgus
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