Gareth van Onselen
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Liberal. Humanist. Author. Editor: @insidepols @quotesanc and @EFFRevolution
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined January 2011
What we really need are the kinds of mass murdering regime leaders the ANC loves, someone from Iran perhaps, or Omar al-Bashir? Pity Gadaffi is dead, could have got him. Putin still available though. North Korea? Remember that time you had them round for a kissing conference?.
Who’s next? Thanks for not attending we honestly don’t need your racist views.
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Nedbank, I’d appreciate it if you got on this train. Thanks.
More massive news: I am proud to announce that Standard Bank has just become the third bank to sign up to our new digital partnership model to provide Smart ID and Passport services in hundreds more bank branches and on digital apps! 🇿🇦. South Africans are so tired of races to.
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Dear Diary, I am so disappointed in the Eminent Persons, who are supposed to be the “champions” of the dialogue - no tweets, op-eds etc explaining what a great use of time and money it is. It’s almost like they scared to defend it publicly. Why? #nationaldialoguediaries.
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Interesting. Did they do a report on EC initiates? Vigilante justice? Road deaths? Assassinations in KZN? “Witch” killings? “Muti” murders? Murder of women and children? Or just the one group? Presume those other reports coming soon?.
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RT @RyanCoetzee: Libertarians and the hard left have absolutely no grasp of politics - they struggle to imagine/accept how people respond t….
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Dear Diary, today I discovered a whole range of “organisations” have been chosen (we don’t know why, how or by who) to speak on my behalf at the national dialogue convention. Is this a secret, exclusive dialogue now? So confused. #nationaldialoguediaries.
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Q: As the national dialogue unfolds (unravels?), and ANC leaders demonstrate how best to hate each other, which two ANC presidents have the best ongoing feud?.
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Unless they say immigrants are bringing Ebola into the country, then we should elect them leaders.
As a country, we must learn to believe people when they show us who they are the first time.
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Great political decisions No. 345.
Congratulations to Cllr. @LiamJacobsZA , officially sworn in this morning. We look forward to your service and dedication to advancing the Patriotic Alliance’s vision for our communities. 💚💛 #OnsBaizaNie
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Breaking: Man drinks so much Cool Aid that he actually starts to speak in flavoured fruit drink.
Very few Presidents & countries command this level of respect, influence & global stature. In the past 72 hours, #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦's head of state HE @CyrilRamaphosa central to conversations with fellow global leaders (#Trump, #Putin & #Zelensky) on strategic geopolitical
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Dear Diary, today Thabo Mbeki un-dialogued the National Dialogue, but he says he is open to re-dialoguing, which was encouraging. He is currently in a dialogue holding pattern. I call it non-dialoguing. If he re-dialogues, things can get moving again. #nationaldialoguediaries.
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… of the will of the people is the delusional thinking of an egomaniac. Mbeki is no more or less in touch the people than he was on HIV/Aids, and his organisation basically a front for the ANC of old. He needs to reconcile himself with his broken legacy, it can’t be fixed. 2/2.
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Worth saying something about the absolute, pure and total unadulterated arrogance of Mbeki and his foundation. His gripe is the national dialogue is becoming government led. Fine, whatever. But this assumption that his foundation is the best facilitator… 1/2.
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Prediction: It is a matter of time before some of the eminent people (many of whom are in this for their own reputation rather than any real interest in a national dialogue) pull out of this thing. Writing on the wall. Watch this space.
news24.com
A week before the first event of the National Dialogue, the legacy foundations, touted to play a key role in the initiative, announced that they would not participate on 15 August and that they...
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I honestly haven’t laughed this hard in a while. National Dialogue organisers have argument. It’s just such a joke. The ultimate joke.
news24.com
A week before the first event of the National Dialogue, the legacy foundations, touted to play a key role in the initiative, announced that they would not participate on 15 August and that they...
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- forward planning ❌.- ambassador ❌.- in-person visit ❌.- special envoy ❌.- last minute behind scenes negotiations ❌.- begging on phone…. How SA’s US economic relations have unfolded.
PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA SPEAKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP. President @CyrilRamaphosa held a telephone discussion during the morning of 6 August 2025, with US President Donald Trump on bilateral trade matters. The two leaders undertook to continue with further engagements recognising the
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Take everything McKenzie says here, about racism towards coloured people, and apply it to McKenzie’s language on “foreigners” or “immigrants”. Then ask yourself, how does McKenzie’s language hold up to his own standards?.
“Many people have said don't destroy those kids, I have no intention of destroying them but if we do nothing we will destroy them and will destroy other kids, it has become too easy to insult coloured people in this country” Patriotic Alliance President Gayton McKenzie. “We will
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Q: The Freedom Charter: “All laws which discriminate on grounds of race, colour or belief shall be repealed” and “The colour bar in cultural life, in sport and in education shall be abolished.” Has Mbalula read the Freedom Charter?.
[WATCH] .ANC SG Fikile Mbalula says abandoning Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment is a "direct affront to the principles of the Freedom Charter" and the ANC will not stop defending the economic freedom of the people of South Africa.
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Translation: Here “transformation” means the ability to steal from all funds all the time.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has lashed out at the DA, accusing it of being anti-transformation amid talks of a reset in the government of national unity. The ANC’s NEC meeting held over the weekend resolved to have discussions with other political parties with a view of
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Dear Diary, while reading the Freedom Charter, I also found the following, below, I think this also worth a discussion. #nationaldialgouediaries
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