Graham Charters
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Holding the rational centre. Former Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Official Opposition. UCT Law School alumnus (LLB; LLM)
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We met on
@Twitter
I slid into her DM’s
We fell in love
And I asked her to marry me.
This is a God dream ❤️
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It’s my wife’s birthday! Happy birthday s’thandwa sam. 28 never looked so good ❤️
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Marry your best friend. I can confirm it’s a good idea
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Marius Koen. His name is Marius Koen.
The DA mayor of Saldanha Bay is alleged to have misrepresented his qualifications. Opposition parties have reacted to the matter. |
@pule_jones
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Ask yourself why the racist and segregationist Cape Independence Party was both welcomed - and felt welcome at - the DA’s march yesterday. Flags flying high.
Is it astroturfing for the DA?
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The DA’s campaign managers for the upcoming 2021 election.
The most diverse party is SA
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John Steenhuisen cost approx. 500 DA councillors their jobs this election.
Will he survive the chop?
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And yet John still wouldn’t be accepted.
The Woke Fall of the University of Cape Town now starting to reflect in the Times World University Rankings. Tragic story of our times.
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@George_K_Mol
Lobola negotiated. Cows have been paid to uncles. Sheep has been slaughtered.
As for the land, let me know when you get some. Then you can share it with me - a landless South African.
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When will it eventually sink in to DA heads that they are currently unelectable in a national election?
Jeepers, it doesn’t take a matric to work that out.
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I have today tendered my resignation as Chief of Staff to the DA Leader with immediate effect. This has not been an easy decision to arrive at, but after much thought, prayer and discussion with friends and family, Siya and I are convinced it is the right decision. (1/3)
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South Africa: where almost 10 million unemployed, over 50% living in poverty, Zuma is walking around free & campaigning for ANC, but an SMS telling people about ANC/EFF public plan to take control of ALL land is the most outrageous
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Very keen to hold an “all animals matter” counterprotest at the next Save the Rhinos gig.
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One month today since two became one ❤️ What a journey it has been, and continues to be!
Let’s never relent on the calling to build a nation that is fair, reconciled and belongs to all.
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DA twitter is obsessed with ActionSA. It’s both bemusing and amusing to watch.
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My heart bleeds for the people of iBhayi tonight.
What the ANC couldn’t do in two decades, the DA did in two years.
All so that ANC fat cats can chow the people’s money. We fight on!
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South African journalists who are currently running a pro-Ramaphosa agenda are no better than journalists who ran a pro-Zuma agenda in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Disgraceful
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John Steenhuisen is whining about the State of Disaster being extended, but is silent about the state of disaster in his own party following yesterday's hammering at the polls.
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Dear editors/journalists/columnists/media houses:
@AtholT
didn't "survive" a Motion of No Confidence. The ANC & EFF failed to remove him as they don't have the numbers to do so. Please report accurately and properly. Cheers
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What are you afraid of
@CyrilRamaphosa
?
We will not be cajoled - ANC denies Ramaphosa will debate against Maimane
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Who writes this factually incorrect reactionary right-wing claptrap?
The only thing the lockdown achieved was the devastation of our economy and the loss of millions of jobs. And that is what President Ramaphosa and his government must take responsibility for. -
@jsteenhuisen
#cyrilramaphosa
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Two years ago to the day, Mmusi Maimane resigned as DA leader, with these parting words.
Was he right?
#nandos
#GarethCliff
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The DA’s deliberate rebrand to become a conservative party is so terribly bad for our democracy and body politic.
We’ll note this decision in years to come and SA will be worse off for it.
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BREAKING: the ANC will clearly not be contesting the 2019 election
The ANC is set to block those leaders who are corrupt, convicted of crimes or facing serious allegations of wrongdoing from being the party’s public representatives in provincial and national governments.
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You cannot advocate for banning of the “Kill the Boer” struggle song while asserting that the brandishing of the old Apartheid flag is "freedom of speech."
Can't have it both ways I'm afraid.
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We will now take some much needed time to plan our next move, always guided by how we can play our part in building a multiracial South Africa that is fair, reconciled and truly belongs to all. (3/3)
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Zuma is recalled for refusing to resign, and then being asked to resign because he has been recalled? It's a funny democracy
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The misinformed and agenda-driven attack on Mrs Maimane is despicable, cowardly, and should be condemned with the contempt it deserves
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I hope those who enjoy bean counting the number of black Proteas when we lose are now bean counting the number of black Proteas as we clean India out 3-0 in the ODI series.
#SAvIND
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A note on race relations in South Africa.
*DISCLAIMER* I don’t proclaim to know even but the tip of the iceberg, this is just my personal experience. Use it, don’t use it.
Thread 1/8
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Ramaphosa is really having a shocker in today’s oral questions session in Parliament. The pressure of trying to keep the house of cards standing is clearly showing!
#RamaphosaQandA
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It doesn’t take much intelligence to realize that the Public Protector’s finding against
@helenzille
is a politically motivated election ploy. The fact that it’s so weak in law shows the PP fully expected it to be appealed and therefore dragged out. Shameful
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Guess what?! Just because the ANC has abused affirmative action and redress policies for personal gain does not render affirmative action and redress policies illegitimate.
We must be nuanced enough in our thinking to divorce policy/concept from implementation.
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The renaming of CPT airport is such an elitist issue.
I’m sure the almost 10 million unemployed South Africans care more about finding work and feeding their families than the name of an airport.
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@NickolausBauer
@Our_DA
The hypocrisy is unparalleled.
“Get over apartheid already!”
Also
“Leave those shrines glorifying apartheid alone!”
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The leader. The future. The next president of SA. Happy birthday
@MmusiMaimane
- it's an honour to serve you and your vision for the nation.
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You’re more disturbed by a billboard than the truth behind it? Shem.
I find this disturbing. Using people’s death for political capital. This is in poor taste. Maybe it's just me.
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If you took but a second to verify before running to Twitter you’d find that the call is for it to be declared a commemorative day. Not a public holiday. But who cares about the facts, right?
Maimane suggests a Marikana public holiday. More populist sh*t. If we had a holiday for every ANC cock-up, no one would ever work
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Zuma's son Duduzane, and FS Premier Ace Magashules sons Thato & Tshepiso on a Gupta-sponsored Dubai sojourn just days after Nene fired as FM
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While the ANC were defending Zuma, the DA saw the youngest ever MP being sworn in.
DASO NMMU would like to congratulate
@HlomelaBucwa
who today was inaugurated as a member of Parliament of the country for the DA.
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The last 6 years as a DA staff member has been an incredible adventure, making history along the way, but sadly this chapter has come to an end. (2/2)
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The EFF's confirmation that they did in fact receive a R200 000 donation from Mazzotti is further proof that the content of Jacques Pauw's book is true.
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33% of our fuel price is made up of tax in the form of levies. That’s R5.30 per litre. Or R265 per 50litre tank. Unsustainable.
The DA’s populism makes me mad. Reduce the fuel levy by R1 and then what,
@MmusiMaimane
? Increase other taxes?
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Maimane calls for army to be deployed to assist police in Cape Towns gang hotspots.
This ANC guy, Deputy Police Minister Bongi Mkongi responds by speaking about Maimane’s white wife.
Your ANC, 2018.
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Hundreds of thousands in her province live in crime & drug war zones, inhumane poverty and sheer hopelessness.
But, let’s dedicate all time and effort to fighting on the wrong side of an elitist, academic cultural war on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
What bravery.
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Remember that time the Gupta's took Ace Magashule's sons Thato & Tshepiso on a Dubai holiday just days after Nene fired as Finance Minister? He was rewarded and is now ANC SG.
In the ANC, corruption is a 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for promotion.
#StateCapture
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This guy has taught me so much about life, about faith and about living out your convictions.
A friend and a leader for all seasons.
@MmusiMaimane
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"Our '94 moment will come in 2019" -
@MmusiMaimane
#FreedomMovementRally
#FreedomDay
@FreedomMVMT_SA
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“The difference between a suburb & a township isn’t just income, it’s an entire racialised system that needs redressing. I’m grateful for the many white South Africans who recognize injustice & continue to fight for inclusion. Thats how we build One South Africa” -
@MmusiMaimane
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If
@MmusiMaimane
had decided not to resign as DA Leader and was at the helm for yesterday's by-elections, the knifes would be out already. It would be all *his* fault (I saw this movie many times).
Do you think the same is happening to John and Helen right now?
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Qedani Mahlangu and Brian Hlongwa elected as members of the ANC Gauteng PEC.
Your ANC, 2018.
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From tomorrow, clean and transparent governance will be restored to the Mother City as Mr Dan Plato is officially sworn in as Mayor of Cape Town.
Always, always do what’s right. Not what’s expedient or “popular”
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“Because Jacob Zuma is one of us, and he is one of our leaders, for him, we are prepared to lay our lives [down] and to shoot and kill.”
Zwelinzima Vavi, 21 June 2008
The team that nearly collapsed SA: Head of state JZ, Finance: van Royen, Police: Nhleko, Intelligence: Mahlobo, Eskom: Molefe, SARS: Moyane, Hawks: Ntlemeza, SAPS: Phiyerha, Intelligence: Mdluli, State Security: Fraser, Propaganda: ANN7, NewAge, Hlaudi, mngxithama & BellPottinger
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If you want a political party that serves "white interests", you should look elsewhere.
@Our_DA
is not for you, then. We serve South Africa's interests, not some race-based classification belonging in centuries past.
Interesting. I’ve been receiving coordinated right wing & bot tweets saying they won’t vote DA because it doesn’t serve “white interests (as
@Gary22k
points out). But the DA has never said ours is to rep white interests, the “for all” part of our values has always been clear.
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More racism from EFF. This time trying to police the the accent of a black Member of Parliament. Intention is clear. And ya'll go glorify this as humour.
Dr. Ndlozi "Chair is it parliamentary to imitate Minister Naledi Pandor".
Teasing the accent of DA MP Hlomela Bucwa.
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But I served as Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission from 2009 to 2014 under President Jacob Zuma.
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@helenzille
signing the affidavit to appeal against the SABC banning of DA tv and radio adverts.
#ayisafani
http://t.co/YdxNEnnySu
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Caught in a scandal called grace.
Unearned. Unearnable.
Thank you Jesus
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Under John Steenhuisen, the DA has now lost control of (amongst many things) governance in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
There you go.
So it seems
@HermanMashaba
and
@ME_Beaumont
's
@Action4SA
has given another metro back to the ANC...
Sjoe. Tough days ahead for the capital City.
Remember who to thank people of Tshwane.
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*votes to put ANC back in power in Nelson Mandela Bay*
Can ANC govt help the villages of Amahlubi in Qumbu . They ask for good roads, RDP Houses, Water, Jobs, clinics r empty and far. Crime -Not happy at all with dagga decision ,fearing that their kids who r not working will abuse this substance . Concerns will be escalated to govt.
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packed public meeting in Bohlokong, Free State waiting to hear from DA Leader
@MmusiMaimane
@FreeStateDA
http://t.co/5EEypDrZkS
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So the DA encourages cancel and defund culture. Interesting.
#KhampepeReport
The DA has called on the Het Jan Marais Fonds, the biggest donor to the Matie campus, to consider defunding Stellenbosch University. KB
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Congratulations to
@jsteenhuisen
on your election as Leader of the Official Opposition. Lots of work to do, but no one better suited to do so!
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Happy 38th birthday to the boss
@MmusiMaimane
- honoured to work under your leadership. The best is yet to come!
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The DA has swiftly moved from meritocracy to mediocrity. And it shows.
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You can simply choose to not shop at Woolworths. Exercising some autonomy and personal agency isn’t that bad, you know.
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Did the ANC consult the families of Marikana and Esidimeni victims before they killed them?
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Cape Town airport should just be renamed “K-Way Jacket International Airport”
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This is true. But more importantly, families are abrogating their responsibility to unteach racism in their homes. This is across the racial spectrum.
Avoiding the question/not addressing/not challenging the issue it in a highly racialised society is not acceptable.
No newborn baby was ever born into our nation or the world racist. None. Racism is a totally learned behaviour, a conditioned behaviour. We all need to ask ourselves what we have done to teach & raise our children. How did we get here? 🇿🇦
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Zondo Commission into State Capture has released its final report detailing all recommendations.
The most radical of all is for the law to be changed to allow for South Africans to directly vote for the President and Members of Parliament, instead of having to vote for parties
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My vote is no secret.
Adrian Collins on the Ward Ballot - an independent candidate in Cape Town City Bowl where I live.
And One Movement for Cape Town on the PR ballot - a community movement of independents.
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DA Leader Mmusi Maimane today announces Solly Msimanga as the DA’s candidate for Premier of Gauteng in next years elections
#MsimangaForPremier
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