Jonathan Moakes
@Jonathan_Moakes
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Director at SABI Strategy Group. Passionate campaigner. Love Rugby. Views are my own.
London, England
Joined April 2011
RT @paulyberk: I have a new post up on The South Africa Brief, looking at the PA's election successes in the Western Cape. I fear being thr….
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The MK inroads made in this by-election are significant in the context of next year’s municipal poll. A really big battle going on between the EFF and MK across the country - although MK took votes off the ANC here - and more signs that MK potential certainly not limited to the.
The ANC holds Ward 57 (Motherwell) Nelson Mandela Bay .ANC 62% (75%) .EFF 16% (15%) .MK 16% .BOSA 3% .AZAPO <1%.Poll: 26% (42%).ANC still well ahead of the chasing pack, but MK make inroads. MK only got 1% on the provincial ballot in 2024. EFF pip MK for 2nd place.
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RT @paulyberk: I have a new post out on The South Africa Brief, looking at the draft budgets of the big metro municipalities. It's still a….
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“When you have to draw attention to the fact that you won’t cut off poor households and present it as an achievement, you know you are scraping the barrel of service delivery” @paulyberk on @CityofJoburgZA draft budget.
My post on @TSouthAfricaB today looks at Johannesburg's draft budget and the poor state of the city. The budget was presented to council on Wednesday, but it's hard to believe any of the promises made by the ANC-led coalition.
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RT @paulyberk: New post up by @Jonathan_Moakes about the SA delegation to Washington and the aftermath. Still a lot of work to be done by T….
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RT @bonifacemwangi: Words can’t express my gratitude to all of you for raising your voices to get me released. I say “me” because we are ye….
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RT @Eastleighvoice: Activist Boniface Mwangi: I've gone through four dark days, I have been tortured very badly, I can barely walk but I am….
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RT @husskhalid: After hearing first hand from @bonifacemwangi of the harrowing experience that he and @AAgather went through at the hands o….
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RT @MarthaKarua: We've written to @_AfricanUnion, @achpr_cadhp @jumuiya @SADC_News with a copy to international partners demanding immediat….
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A solid review of yesterday’s ‘Budget 3.0’ from South Africa’s Finance Minister by @paulyberk . Lots of indicators pointing to an actual austerity budget. #BudgetSpeech #BudgSpeech2025.
My review of the budget is up. The minister may claim it's not an austerity budget but I feel differently, Link is #Budget2025 #BudgetSpeech2025
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RT @HEBobiwine: We express strong condemnation for the detention and deportation from Tanzania, of several respected Kenyan leaders includi….
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The actions of the @SuluhuSamia’s Government (Regime) must be called out. Hot on the heels of the deportation of @MarthaKarua yesterday, Kenyan activist @bonifacemwangi has been detained today. It’s time for the world to stop turning a blind eye.
Our comrade @bonifacemwangi is still being held by the Tanzanian authorities. Not they claim he violated the immigration act. Boniface got into the country legally yesterday morning as a citizen of @jumuiya. How could he have violated the immigrations act while he was sleeping in
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RT @shawncunning: This is an excellent analysis of the latest employment data. Thank you @paulyberk.
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The number of unemployed and discouraged work-seekers was just under 5.5 million people in 2008. It has since doubled to 11.7 million people. Great piece from @paulyberk dissecting yesterday's job numbers.
Yesterday's job numbers were shocking. Here is my post on the overall unemployment numbers, the outsize effects by gender, race, and age, and what unemployment looks like in our metros. The link to the post is here:
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The findings in respect of name recognition and net favourabilities for politicians, political parties and the GNU are set out here:
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In respect of political parties and coalitions tested, again no organisation scores a positive favourability. A sobering finding on name recognition is that the Government of National Unity (GNU) is not a term familiar to 31.5% of the voting population.
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Findings from a recent Brenthurst Foundation survey in SA make for uncomfortable reading for South Africa’s politicians in terms of net favourablity ratings. No South African politician is recorded as having a positive net favourability.
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