Sipho Masondo
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Investigative journalist at News24/ Columnist at News24 / Book Worm / Multiple award winning journalist / Traveller/ Global Citizen & student of history!
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An elderly lady saw my nails and she asked: "how do you garden with these?".
My response was simple: I am not a gardener!
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Like travelling between Cape Town and JHB in three hours.
This is the fastest HSR train between Beijing and Nanjing. 1025 km, 3 hours and 17 minutes.
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Im currently reading Harvard University's report on South Africa. It says the state has all but collapsed.
The report is frightening! It's sending chills down my spine!
It's a long report - 178 pages. But all South Africans should read it, even if its over the Xmas holidays.
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Sad that SAA workers r abt 2 lose jobs. But we shouldnt forget that SAA's problems r a direct result of yrs of corruption which Numsa knew abt & did NOTHING. In some cases union bosses were accessories 2 the crimes. Imagine if Numsa had stopped operations in protest of Dudu Myeni
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In Midrand there is a Chinese Property Development company that employs Chinese people only. In fact, they even import their doors, handles, baths and other finishes from China. Literally, all their construction guys are Chinese!
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To be honest, what is happening has got nothing to do with John Steenhuisen.
John just happens to be at the place and at the right time and in the most opportune moment in history!
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u guys must stop this nonsense abt the "Black Vote". There is no such thing as the "black vote".
Black pple r not one big mass. We have agency. We identify as Christians, gay, lesbians, Rastafarians, liberals, conservatives, socialists, communists, libertarians, democrats etc.
You know what the Oppenheimer funding succeeded in doing? Dividing the black vote😔
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I feel sorry for Kanya Cekeshe, but the idea that you can destroy property and get away with it because you were fighting a good cause is totally absurd. You do the crime you do the time!
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Prince Mashele tells JJ Tabane that if you give Floyd Shivambu the finance ministry, "there would be no purse left after five years". 😅😅😅
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The idea of giving
@MYANC
one final chance keeps nagging. But everytime i see or hear Ace Magashule, my attitude is hardened. Im sorry, i dont wanna live with the feeling of a buyer's remorse for another 5 years...
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I've entered into a deal with my 11-year-old lytie that I will pay him R100 every time he finishes reading 2 English books. I will up it to R150 if he adds an isiZulu book.
The only condition is that all books must have more than 200 pages.
He had promised to bankrupt me.
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My six year old daughter's first attempt at saving money. She has been saving in a piggy bank since January.
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I have zero sympathy for the MK Party for being outmanoeuvred by the ANC, IFP, DA and NFP in KZN.
The MK party set up a meeting with the IFP to discuss a possible coalition govt in KZN. They then stood Velenkosini Hlabisa up for four hours. He gave up and left...
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A man sets up a criminal enterprise to operate parallel to the state, and black people are expected to throw in their lot with him and let him walk because "he is one of our own". What fuckery is this?
(I am not an ANC member and never will be)
I am at pains posting this picture.
But I want this memory to remain forever that we once did this to 1of our own, while the likes of De Klerk, WB Botha and many others lived like kings & queens in the new SA😧
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stay home & stay safe. The Corona is no joke. I tested + on Friday & it is ravaging my body. I was so sick on Friday evenin I nearly passed out while driving on the freeway. Even with a decent home 2 self-isolate with books, uncapped data & the whole shebang, I feel like im dying
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The conclusion that the ANC is simply not able to govern is inescapable.
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Build One South Africa (Bosa) leader Mmusi Maimane
@MmusiMaimane
has just told SAFM's Stephen Grootes
@StephenGrootes
that he doesn't believe that Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine.
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I'm an eternal optimist but I can tell you that the NHI is a gigantic and ill-fated fuckery of epic proportions...
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Next year some of you guys will leave your loadshedded houses, go vote for the ANC and come back and complain about loadshedding. 😅😅😅
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Here, read for yourself the letter which VBS Chairman Thifhiwa Matodzi sent to the Reserve Bank & Treasury on Friday. It details the circumstances which led to the SARB placing VBS under curatorship. It hasn't happened yet, but I believe the SARB will announce it today.
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Yesterday I visited a restaurant that doesn't serve anyone who doesnt have a vaccination certificate.
#GetVaccinatedNow
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u probably know this already, but in case u didnt, let me remind u -sooner or later the MK Party will self-destruct. Everything Jacob Zuma touches becomes chaotic. By the 2029 general election the party would have splintered into several factions.
U can take this tweet 2 the bank
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No. Stop it. Stop rewriting history. South Africa has had passenger trains for many years.
Passenger trains were a division of Spoornet - now Transnet. In 1996 Metrorail was separated from Transnet & established as stand alone entity. In 2009 Metrorail was renamed as PRASA.
What president Zuma and Honourable Lucky Montana gave South Africa. It can never be undone, no amount of propaganda can ever erase it.
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The argument that the "haves" r resisting the NHI bcos they want to protect their privileges is total bull.
What is so privilege abt paying R20K for medical aid every month?
Don't buy that argument. It is a deflection from the reality that the ANC itself knows the NHI will fail.
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Irvin,
History has no blank pages. NUMSA supported Zuma for the ANC's presidency ahead of the 52nd Conference in Polokwane. Numsa also supported Zuma for his 2nd term in Mangaung. You played a significant role in the ANC arriving where it is today. So spare us your fake outrage.
Indeed white led unholy Alliance between DA and the ANC it must Go !
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I voted for
@HermanMashaba
's
@Action4SA
. I couldn't be bothered who he goes to bed with. I trust, maybe naively so, that whatever he does will be in the interest, first, of the people of Soweto where i come from and the residents of Tshwane where I now live.
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I think people who tweet under pseudonyms and fictitious names should not be engaged, especially on serious topics. They are cowards who would never utter a word in front of a real crowd.
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Some of us have been around enough to remember that former finance minister Trevor Manuel announced a budget surplus on his budget speeches every yr starting around the early 2000s all the way to 2008.
Then along came Jacob Zuma, and from there it was a race to the bottom.
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South African should lose sleep over this. Prasa inherited an efficient train system from Metrorail, which was a division of Spoornet. I used trains in high school & I was never late 4 classes. The collapse of Prasa is further proof that the ANC cant run anything.
#SpeakOut
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I just bumped into a director general of a National department. After exchanging pleasantries, he says: Masondo, the ANC is too corrupt and as a party, we have to accept that we are finished.
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South Africans, ya"ll are a funny lot. You spend days arguing who is more racist than the other. In the meantime, Chinese kids are taking lessons on Artificial Intelligence (AI). I hope you even know what AI is...
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It wont be long before Zweli Mkhize and Ace Magashule appear in public gatherings together!
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Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga's public onslaught against JP Smith is outrageous, so crass and totally unrefined. No attempt at civility and decorum expected from a person of her stature. 🤮🤮🤮
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SARS
@sarstax
may have interest in this.
The Hawks may have an interest in this.
The NPA
@NPA_Prosecutes
may have an interest in this.
The SIU
@RSASIU
may have an interest in this.
The Financial Intelligence Centre may have an interest in this.
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Dear South African, u have media 2 thank 4 exposing:
Nkandla
Watergate
state capture
GuptaLeaks
Life Esidimeni
Nuclear deal
list is endless
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Stop laundering Zuma's reputation. He will be remembered as a depraved and corrupt man who perverted justice at every opportunity. He wanted power without accountability.
He is the worst president in South Africa's democratic history.
Hail The People's President
The Truth about him is this
*He introduced FREE education at Tertiary
*He built 2 Universities
*Spent R1tr building infrastructure
*He improved the lifespan of South Africans by rolling out Hiv/Aids medicine
*He started Black Industrialist Program
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If I was an employer, I would not make it mandatory for my workers to vaccinate. But I would demand that unvaccinated employees produce lab results of their Covid-19 status every Monday & Friday. Fair deal, right?
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it is quite unsettling and unnerving that South Africans have accepted it as fait accompli that the IMF's R70 billion will be stolen by cadres!
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My issue is not what Malema thinks. Im heavily bothered by the fact that pretty much all EFF supporters agree with him. Why the group think? Shouldn't grown-ups have their own opinions? Surely, they should!
According to Julius Malema this animal represents apartheid and everyone in the EFF agrees with him😂😂😂
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When is
@EFFSouthAfrica
's next elective conference? Are there any fighters who are brave enough to contest the party's presidency?
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Does Cyril Ramaphosa have the balls to tell Mr Lekganyane that the annual Moria pilgrimage will not happen this Easter weekend?
#covid19SA
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Dry January was cool, effortless and free of pain. I didnt miss alcohol. I am considering permanently staying on the road less travelled. Wish me luck!!!
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This morning, in this piece, I argue that the
@MYANC
is exceedingly corrupt. I contend that the party has run its course and has nothing more of value to offer South Africans. Your thoughts are welcome.
Whether it is Cyril Ramaphosa or whoever at the helm, the ANC is too dirty to extricate itself from corruption. The party has run its course and has reached a dead end from which it cannot offer South Africans anything of value, writes
@vercingetorics
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The people who continue returning the ANC into power should suffer the consequences of joblessness, poor education, shitty healthcare, collapsing municipalities etc. The only pity here is that the entire nations becomes collateral damage!
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Estina arrests are imminent! You can take this tweet to the bank!
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Every single page of the Zondo 1 report is like a nuclear weapon going off every second! Ms Shamila Batohi, Ms Hermione Cronje and Mr Godfrey Lebeya should explain to the nation why Brian Molefe, Dudu Myeni, Yakhe Kwinana et al are not in jail.
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The story of what corruption has done 2 Denel, SAA, Eskom, Transnent, Prasa, SA Express, is yet 2b fully told. It is a story of a greed so infectious that only a few senior govt execs hev manage 2 escape its destructive tentacles. I wil b tellin these stories in the coming months
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South Africans have been hit by the biggest data breach yet. Hackers have stolen the personal data of 24 million south Africans after exploiting vulnerabilities at Experian Credit Bureaux. U guys should make this
#infosec
story trend. It's massive & significant! Thank me later!
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My story
@News24
this morning showing that Sars is back in business. Kieswetter's men have crushed a ring of foreign diplomats who r selling big volumes of illicit alcohol, stealing 100s of millions in taxes. I think SARS is slowly emerging from the devastation of the Moyane yrs.
The SA Revenue Service has uncovered a tax-dodging racket in which foreign diplomats buy large volumes of alcohol at duty free retailers and sell it locally, cheating the tax collector of an estimated R100 million in taxes every month. |
@vercingetorics
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u talking nonsense bro,
Zuma was not attacked "for proposing" nuclear energy. The issue is how he wanted to procure it. He wanted to procure it via a government-to-government agreement, which violates Section 217 of the Constitution & the PFMA.
Fuck everyone who attacked Jacob Zuma for proposing nuclear energy 10 years ago... but are applauding Ramokgopa & Ramaphosa for proposing nuclear now.
Specifically: the media puppets, clever blacks & racist whites.
Fuck all you, masimb' enu!
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20 yrs ago today Zimbabwe's economy crashed following mismanagement by Mugabe & his thugs in Harare. The day was later named: Black Friday. The economy has never recovered. SA may be headed the same direction. Say a little prayer for Zimbabweans. South Africans be warned!!
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In a few minutes
@City_Press
will drop a story about the SIU's court bid to recover R2.2 billion spent on the Giyani Water Project. The SIU confirmed literally everything in our 3-year investigation. No fake news!
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Dont get carried away by
@MYANC
feigning shock at the
#StateCaptureInquiry
testimonies. Most senior ANC cadres knew all these things...
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I drank my last alcoholic drink on this day in January 2019. Six months later, I have no regrets. None whatsoever!
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Cyril "Letter Writer" Ramaphosa is writing open letters instead of unleashing the Hawks and arresting people. Kodwa asikho lapho!
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The drill is the same in every SOE: executives plunder with shameless impunity. Quite often - not always - unions cheer them on. The proverbial shit hits the fan & the kitty goes empty. No salary increases, no bonuses & in worst cases jobs r shed. Same unions cry foul. Repeat...
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Today I finish 365 days - an entire year - without alcohol. This year the battle is to eliminate sugar from my diet. The sugar battle starts today
#OneBattleataTime
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Gwede Mantashe should apologize to Reuel Khoza. In 2012 Khoza, who was chairman of Nedbank, publicly criticized
@MYANC
, stating that the party was exceedingly corrupt. Mantashe was enraged, and launched an attack on Khoza.
Unfortunately, all indicators suggest Khoza was right!
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Vintage Julius Malema, disbanding structures at a whim. That's how he destroyed the ANC Youth League.
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The RET brigade should read this story I ran on Sunday. It's abt how Brian Molefe & Anoj Singh, the poster boys of RET, allowed a Chinese company 2 use black ppl as fronts. In the process, R25 billion was repatriated 2 China. The blacks lost R7.5 billion
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I feel sorry for all the 2.3 million voters who voted for the MK Party. The party will crash long before the next general election.
By the time 2029 comes, the only thing that will remain will be smaller splinter factions.
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Pertinent question:
Jeff Radebe spent 25 years in Cabinet. Does he have at least five serious achievements that he is proud of and can claim them as his own legacy? Not many, just 5?
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A colleague told me this morning that he hasn't had electricity in the last five days. Imagine being without electricity for five days on end - in winter.
Please vote wisely next year guys. The ANC is no longer interested in governing.
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Not that there r no criminals in SA. We have more than enough. But as a journalist with senior sources in intelligence circles, I can tell u that authorities are worried about the involvement of foreigners, Zimbabweans in particular, in CIT, hijacking & violent armed robberies
Asylum seekers were caught in a CIT heist. Some people think we are unreasonable in calling for an enforcement of the immigration laws.
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BREAKING:
@Radio702
reports that
@Momentum_za
has offered Natalie Ganas R2.4 Million. Johann Le Roux has just told
@brucebusiness
. many other clients in similar position will also be paid. A number of clients have already been identified
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ANC always on "rebuilding" mode.
Rebuilding itself
Rebuilding country
Rebuilding municipalities
Rebuilding government departments
Rebuilding SARS
Rebuilding Hawks
Rebuilding Eskom
Rebuilding Post Office
Rebuilding Prasa
Question is: why do you destroy in the 1st place?
Comrades, we accept the outcomes of the first council meetings, sad and painful as it is this is a call to focus on rebuilding our beloved and glorious movement. ✊🏿
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The Cressida GLI-6 was once Toyota's top-of-the-line model. Kitted with a 3 litre automatic transmission engine, this car was way ahead of its its time.
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What's the obsession with a cabinet reshuffle, guys? It's not like Cyril will appoint competent people who have the country's best interest in their hearts and minds.
You are in for a bunch of apparatchiks whose loyalty is to Luthuli House and their pockets.
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A new word enters the South African lexicon: covidpreneur!!!
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The DA fired Mmusi Maimane for poor performance in the 2019 general election. Imagine what fate awaits John Steenhuisen for the results he will deliver on May 29. 😅😅
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If you look carefully around you, you will notice that this society is broken. It is is collapsing and disintegrating. The entire country is mangled! We are self destructing. No one seems to have answers!
#RIPUyinene
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Delta variant! What Delta variant. I just rode past Centurion Chesa Nyama and as football writers would say: "it is packed to the rafters." People are at groove and dont give a hoot about Covid-19.
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We have come full circle. I exposed this blatant theft in 2017. The media doesnt always get things right but our democracy will be so much poorer without journalism.
Software firm SAP ordered to repay more than R413m after water dept contracts set aside
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This Dada Morero guy comes across as clueless as Kabelo Gwamanda. The circus 🎪 continues in Jozi.
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All the patriarchs have departed. We are now left with lowlife scoundrels!
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Of Tom Moyane, the Zondo Part 1 report says when he arrived at Sars, "he dismantled elements of governance one by one. This was more than mismanagement. It was seizing control of Sars as if it was his to have."
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Read a bit before posting Jimmy. Yesterday morning
@News24
published a detailed story about Markus' properties, girlfriend, horses, and some of his cars. You may also want to buy
@FinancialMail
If Markus Jooste of Steinhoff was black, by now WMC media would have told us about
* His holiday house
* His mansion in upmarket surburb
* His sports car
* His girlfriend
* His tax affairs
* Where his kids go to school.
#SteinhoffFraud
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I'm getting depressed every minute I spend in front of news channels and as I try to process what lies ahead for our nation!
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A huge chuck of the people in this stadium are unemployed. I struggle to understand why they continue supporting the ANC. Are they convinced that someday the ANC will deliver the jobs?
WATCH: Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban where the ANC is today launching its manifesto is now full. Some busses are still stuck in traffic along the N3, meaning it is likely that the overflow areas would be utilized as well. Video: ANC
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Totally not true. Markus Jooste was covered extensively. His lifestyle, mistress, horses were widely covered. The PWC investigation, FSCA investigation & fines were all over the media. For crying out loud, there is even a book about the rise & fall of Steinhof. u just don't read
Really is strange that Jooste didn’t get the same amount of coverage as Mam Nqakula. Thank God for that Showmax documentary because without that we still wouldn’t have know the depth of that thuggery!
Billions vs 4million but here we are.
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When are corporate mafias such as Bidvest, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, KPMG, WBHO, Stefanutti, Murray & Roberts, Aveng, Basil Read, Werkmans, Hogan Lovells, McKinsey, Trillian, Regiments, Nedbank, Absa, Multi Choice, FNB, Standard Bank etc appear before the Zondo Commission?
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I'm sure the people's general
@BantuHolomisa
regrets nothing.This was
@SundayTimesZA
's Horgath over 2 decades ago
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Durban is really gorgeous hey. It's my favorite city in the whole world. I just snapped this from the window of a hotel in the city centre.
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These two books simple show that the difference between a pre and post 1994 South Africa is the skin colour of the band of criminals in charge in Pretoria!
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Dont miss my column in
@News24
Today. I argue that
@GwedeMantashe1
directly acilitated state capture. He also benefited from it. Hold him accountable.
OPINION | Sipho Masondo: Mantashe facilitated and benefitted from state capture. Hold him accountable
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17 boys have been killed during initiation in the Eastern Cape. Several others have lost their penises. Initiation has to be stopped until mothers receive assurance that their sons will return alive from the mountains. Why are we silent about this annual tragedy!
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When the story of how the ANC collapsed is fully told one day, the names of Gwede Mantashe and Jacob Zuma will feature quite prominently.
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Fighters are really lusting for Pravin's blood. They are now demanding his academic record, classmates, student number, friends, girlfriends, tutors, pictures, textbooks, test scripts, exam question papers, graduation pics etc.
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So Ramaphoria met former Anglican Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu to apologise for how
@MYANC
treated him. The Arch should have demanded that the Dalai Lama be allowed into South African as a precondition for his forgiveness! 😂😂😂
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Of all the ANC's failures, this is one of the worst!
Our rail system is on the verge of complete collapse, according to a new report that also details astronomical figures that would be needed to place it on the right track. Read tomorrow in
@City_Press
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In the last quarter of the current financial yr the EFF didnt declare any donations to the IEC.
So, how did the EFF finance the launch of its manifesto @ the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban?
They did it through the following means:
1. Illicit money
2. Dark money &
3. Dirty money
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folk who were ministers during the Mbeki era always tell stories of how they had to thoroughly read their cabinet packs way ahead of cabinet meetings. TM expected them to fully engaged and make substantive contributions to debates.
Then JZ happened...
The president is speaking and MPs are on their phones. What happened to showing interest? Or are they taking notes?
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With all due respect Doc, tell this 2 the economically depressed slum that is Harare. Tell this 2 Zimbabweans with PhDs, like yoself, but r car guards & waiters in SA. Tell this 2 the ppl of Mbare, a pigsty so depressing that it wud make our informal settlements look like Zimbali
Mandela died at 95
Mugabe died at 95
Mandela left black South Africans landless.
Mugabe left black Zimbabweans with the land.
Mandela left South Africa with arrogant and unrepentant racists!
Mugabe left Zimbabwe with no racist that disrespects a black man in his own land.
✊🏿
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By all means, kick De Ruyter out if he is incompetent, but South Africans should understand that loadshedding will continue whoever the CE is. In the short term to medium term, loadshedding is going nowhere. Not even Jesus can stop loadshedding.
Media Statement: BBC Calls For The Resignation Of The Eskom CEO And The Board Over Prolonged Electricity Blackouts.
Cc
@Powerfm987
@KayaOnAir
@SABCNews
@Newzroom405
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No, South doesn't have 11 official languages. We have 12:
isiZulu
IsiXhosa
Siswati
isiNdebele
Xitsonga
TshiVenda
Sepedi
seSotho
SeTswana
English
Afrikaans
Violence
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Those objecting to the Fire Blade Private Terminal at OR Tambo are ill informed and silly. All major airports across the world have private terminals, for the comfort and convenience of the rich and famous.
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