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promoting SA conversations, electronic communications lawyer, fascinated by how we got here as SA and where we are going. PS There is no planet B 🌎
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My wonderful younger brother Lawrence White, who died two weeks ago just got nominated for a Grammy. So proud so sad
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Dear SA,
Watch carefully when products are no longer sold in rich countries but continue to be sold in yours
Johnson & Johnson will discontinue the sales of talc-based baby powder in U.S., Canada
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So two weeks ago I went to
#CliftonBeach
.
The private security presence was noticeable.
The clear message communicated that people like me were welcome. People unlike me? Not so much.
Cape Town of today feels a lot like the Cape Town of my childhood in the 1970s.
It’s not OK.
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I don’t know what makes me happier: that they are supporting the
#Boks
or that there is still a functional fire truck in Jozi 😂
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Can you imagine the meltdown we would see if Cabinet salaries weren’t paid on time even once?
Dlamini-Zuma asks grants recipients who have not received their money to be patient
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I am breaking my break from Twitter to chip in here.
#MarthaNgoye
is a former colleague of mine from
#ens
. No surprise to me that she has acted with strength and integrity. The nation owes her and all like her a huge debt of gratitude. 🙏🏻
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Just arriving back in SA.
Blood pressure already sky high.
At ORT, not a single travelator works, ditto for the escalators. Here are the queues at passport control.
Tourists looking bewildered, locals resigned and embarrassed.
We are just collapsing ne?
@Tourism_gov_za
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When De Ruiter said this, Gwede accused him of trying to incite an insurrection. So what’s this now?
Electricity minister’s stage 10 load-shedding warning via
@mybroadband
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On the N1 in the Free State - blue light gang aka
@MYANC
heavies are heading home in their X5, Jeeps, Range Rovers paid for by us. All breaking the speed limit by at least 30 kms/ph.
All not heeding
@MbalulaFikile
’s call to
@_ArriveAlive
.
Why do we have such awful leadership?
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She’s a national treasure.
I would LOVE to have her as a Minister of Justice.
You?
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Tweeps, so COVID has come to our household.
Please hold us in the Light.
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Our housekeeper’s cousin was the first of these crime wardens to be gunned down. It happened last year in Orange Farm.
He had a wife and young kids.
He was an honest and upright young man…. Trying to earn and honest living by keeping his community safe.
You sully, nay demean,
“What did Panyaza Lesufi do? He took your tax money to buy ill-fitting PEP Stores uniforms for untrained cadres and pretended that they were “crime wardens.” What kind of person pulls a drunkard out of a shebeen, gives him a uniform and a weapon, and then unleashes them onto a
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A woman is murdered every three days in the UK. Awful stat.
In South Africa, a woman is killed every three hours.
Let that sink in.
A Gauteng mother who was rushed to hospital after her car was set alight during an attack outside a Benoni crèche on 13 September, allegedly by a man believed to be her boyfriend, has died. |
@MaliDayimani
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@tito_mboweni
He’s not a young kid. He’s 34. The point is there was no reason to shackle him. This is a dignity issue for all accused persons.
His family’s exile history is irrelevant. Equality before the law.
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Jennifer Ferguson being raped in a hotel and leaving the country of her birth to try escape the trauma, finding her voice to speak about the rape only 20 years later.
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On Christmas Eve, at dinner, I sat next to one of SA’s most influential business men.
He told me he had been funding university students for over a decade.
The number of those graduates who had thanked him? 0. Zero. Not one.
Who gets a free education and doesn’t say thank you?
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The level of hateful invective spewed at
@karynmaughan
is not only misogynistic, it is a direct threat to freedom of speech and to freedom of the press and
@News24
should treat is as such.
Time to lay criminal charges and starting forcing abusers to face the consequences….
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@Afrikanwolf
@CoruscaKhaya
The English are water shy.
Very few English homes had proper plumbing until just a couple of generations ago and it’s cold.
So you bathed once a week. I think culturally that stuck.
My husband (ethnically Scots) says the safest place to hide a £5 note is under the soap!
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My solar panels are doing better than Kusile. Let that sink in.
Private sector has put in 4.4 GW in the past year at ZERO cost to the state.
State spent R234 billion on Medupi (also 4.4 GW) and it took them 13 YEARS to build.
If the private sector was unleashed we would fly high
Energy analyst Chris Yelland said not a single generation unit at Kusile Power Station is generating electricity despite an investment of R233 billion and 15 years of construction.
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@SimplyDipontsho
You had a lucky escape.
His poor wife to be is saddled with a dog.
Chin up, sally forth...
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I will never understand why an
@MYANC
government refused to implement the
#TRC
’s final recommendations on reparations and going after
#Apartheid
killers, torturers.
It stopped that process in its tracks. It hasn’t been adequately explained...
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You get that she reigns not rules yes?
But when African leaders rule for decades they're called dictators💅
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Er no.
You donated nothing.
You used tax payers’ money to purchase police vehicles.
It is your actual job, after all.
What do you want? A clap?
This week, as
@GautengProvince
we started the process of donating 50 vehicles, drones and 4 mobile police stations to the SAPS as part of our total onslaught against crime, corruption, lawlessness and vandalism. We are ready to tackle criminals head on.
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Can anyone explain why our biggest hospital, Charlotte Maxeke, is still not operational when the province is buckling under the third wave?
What level of dangerous incompetence is this?
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Flying home tonight and misplaced travel docs for the child. Panic.
Called the
@DIRCO_ZA
consulate in Kigali only to learn we’d be back from Lake Kivu afterhours. Luckily Ms Tebogo Mathe met us gave us new docs. Just letting
@NalediPandor
know about her excellent employee 👏🏻🇿🇦 👏🏻
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It shows...
One spelling error, one grammatical error and one punctuation error in a single sentence of only 15 words is quite something.
I don’t read Sunday Times and City Press I only read Sunday Indipendent on Sunday’s.
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Just heard the Pretoria’s Chief Magistrate said his legal team “is investigating allegations that Bosasa installed the security system at his home”.
What on earth? At his own home?? You know who paid for security in your own home...
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My first BCCSA case was representing Barry Ronge, the ATKV alleged “hate speech” for an on air comment that they “should paint the Voortrekker Monument pink and turn it into a giant gay disco”.
He was delighted when we won.
RIP.
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I would love to know what the per meal price was for that tender and who was awarded it. This kind of slop is hardly going to assist recovery is it?
#DearMinisterOf
Health
@DrZweliMkhize
this is the situation in Cala Hospital in the Eastern Cape. That's the food prepared for patients.
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The N2 truck, stage 6, Life Esedimeni, Jagersfontein, the nightclub in PE….
The consequences of a government incapable of enforcing the law, of governing effectively, are deadly.
People literally die.
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Just bought a liter of milk at a Spar in Bulawayo.
Yesterday in Joburg I paid R9.99 for it. Here it is R45.52.
When an economy collapses, the poor are hardest hit.
This is not a drill.
This is not a drill.
This is not a drill.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says South Africa’s financial sector must be disrupted in order for it to transform and empower black people.
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The bottom line is that
@Our_DA
chose to prioritize the right-wing leanings of its old guard, Helen Zille, Tony Leon et al against the interests of its core, working class Coloured voters on the Cape Flats.
In doing so it went against its own supposed principles of International
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So heartening to see the ANC’s commitment to diversity and inclusion at work - representing us demographically: women, men, Coloured, Indian, White, and Black. Not.
If a private company did this there would be protests.
The ANC talks about diversity but doesn’t implement it.
[WATCH]:Our Crime Prevention Wardens are ready to fight crime in the streets of Gauteng!
#WarOnCrime
#BootsOnTheGround
@GP_CommSafety
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Have you read the judgment?
It’s a unanimous verdict of acquittal on the murder charges.
By three black judges on the bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal.
All three refer to the staggering incompetence of the police.
What is “the nonsense”?
We don’t mind to respect the law but when the law is meaningless it will be challenged. We can’t surrender our hard fought freedom to racists and
@Afriforum
. NPA please do the honorable thing and appeal this nonsense
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Dear
@AustralianOpen
I grew up in Apartheid South Africa, I can smell a racist statement at 100 yards.
You tweet stinks to high heaven.
What was going through your mind as you typed the characters?
You should delete this tweet.
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Stealing food parcels....can you go lower?
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Oh dear.
Are you confusing the party and the state again?
Last time I looked, the
@MYANC
was battling to pay staff salaries.
It is the ANC that has given our people free litres of water. It is the ANC that has given our people free electricity coupons. It is the ANC that guarantees the dignity of our people by building our people houses.
More than 4 million houses, and we’re still going strong.
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Bless this man
The coolest thing I’ve seen today. 👏🏾🔥🤙🏾
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I remember when the world stood aghast at the blowing up of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
What is the difference between that and what
@realDonaldTrump
is threatening to do to
#IranianCulturalSites
?
@UNESCO
@UN
@NATO
@USNATO
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How?
I have so many questions.
How can a tax dodger be head of the Hawks?
How can you owe SARS R3 million?
The SA Revenue Service (SARS) has dragged Hawks head Godfrey Lebeya to the Johannesburg High Court, demanding that he pays the revenue collector R3 million he owes it. |
@City_Press
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This.
You really can’t argue with superior expertise...
Bravo to the German Embassy staff in South Africa for this one.
Humiliating for Russia 🇷🇺 and, sadly, for South Africa 🇿🇦 too
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I sat staring at the percentage of Free State institutions that achieved an unqualified audit:
0%, zero percent.
Not one. Not a single one.
Let that sink in.
Remember who is the leading figure in that province? That bastion of state capture?
One name stands out:
#AceMagashule
It’s that time of the year when I lose it, because as an accountant I cannot comprehend how 74% of government & provincial departments cannot adhere to accepted standards of accountability & good governance. In Auditor General’s 2018/19 report only 26% of audits were unqualified.
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So we have been in the Free State and in the Western Cape these holidays. Secondary roads in the Free State are a pain to drive on even in a 4x4 - potholes, broken edges of road, no road markings etc. Here’s a secondary road in the Swartland area of the Western Cape….
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I agree with Minister Naledi Pandor that the West’s hypocrisy in its differential responses to the Israeli vs Russian occupations is galling.
But South Africa’s hypocrisy in its differential responses to the Israeli vs Russian occupations is equally galling.
We’re not stupid.
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Haunting me too.
We need to have a national conversation about how it is that we are angry, justifiably, about
#ParktownBoysHigh
yet this daily humiliation and obvious danger to little children is entirely unremarkable.
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I donated to the Covid relief fund.
Millions were looted - stolen by members of the elite.
When the son of the actual Health Minister benefitted, Parliament found no ethical breaches.
And Zandile Gumede’s re-election shows corruption is ingrained in KZN.
So sorry but count me out
The Provincial Government of KwaZulu-Natal has set up an account for donations towards disaster relief:
KZN Floods Disaster Account.
ABSA
Account number: 41 0383 1029
Branch Code: 632005
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This is ridiculous.
Most people go solar because of the load shedding.
You cannot be whining about not being paid for a service you cannot provide.
Remember folks, you cannot rig an economy.
Also… reality wins.
The surge in solar installations in South Africa is eating into the revenue that municipalities receive from the sale of electricity. |
@brederode00
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Our country’s people are so much better than its leaders...
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Am I misremembering? Didn’t
@helenzille
get flayed for using almost the same terminology?
Double standards much?
"We know that the majority of people who come to Gauteng these days are students and educational migrants."— Bandile Masuku, Convenor of the sub-committee for Education and Health - Gauteng ANC
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Rot.
Seriously unhinged.
You think Prof John Dugard is leading a top team of human rights lawyers as a proxy for Iran?
Delete your tweet.
In response to
In targeting Israel at the International Criminal Court with grotesquely false allegations of genocide, the South African government acts as Iran’s ally and proxy in the Islamic state's plans to destroy the Jewish state through its
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Of ALL days for SA not to do this….
I just can’t.
So human rights are important for some but not for others?
After spending the last two days at the ICJ 🤷🏻♀️
Do y’all see how this is playing internationally?
South Africa has demoted the captain of its cricket team because he's Jewish
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@Wits_SRC
This response is so intellectually barren it’s embarrassing.
You fail to mention the obvious - vaccines save lives. Yours and others’.
And they’re free.
Stop posturing and get behind the vaccination drive.
It’s the most revolutionary thing you can do right now.
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This is unbecoming a Minister.
@Our_DA
is, still, the official opposition and so does the lion’s share of holding the government to account.
The vaccine issue is of vital public importance.
It would be best if you provided cogent responses instead of insults and dangerous threats
I told these DA chaps that they must first inform themselves before opening their loud mouths about things they know nothing about.They are just tjatjarag! I will ask
@Julius_S_Malema
to deal with them.We are on track with the vaccine consortium.I don't the need the DA nonsense!
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You did...Investing public funds - amounting to millions of Rands in the New Age and ANN7. You also placed lunatic deployee, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, in the highest echelons of our public broadcaster
#SABC
, the catastrophic results of which are still being felt today. Biased? Please.
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D y’all still think De Ruiter was smoking his socks?
Liquidator Cloete Murray and his son Thomas Murray who worked with him as a legal advisor have died following what appears to have been an assassination.
The Murray’s were exposing corruption that related to powerful working politicians in the Bosasa liquidation inquiry.
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OK, serious question...
As a country we are battling to provide lockdown food parcels and water to millions of poor people.
This guy has been in politics his whole life.
What MPs and Deputy Ministers earn is a matter of public record.
When are we doing a lifestyle audit?
When?
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The humiliation of this being reported in the international press…
South Africa has received a consignment of 450 gasoline generators donated by China to alleviate the country's severe power cuts.
📸: Getty Images
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Funny, I don’t remember you and others of your ilk speaking out about protecting private property when forced remivals and the Group Areas Act was happening.....
Hypocrisy much?
This week I learned that if you want to have private property respected, then you are comparable to Adolf Hitler. 🤷♂️
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Can’t help thinking eradicating pit toilets from schools would do more to restore the dignity of people of the eastern Cape but that probably just me 🤷🏻♀️
In an unprecedented move, Eastern Cape legislators have resolved that all colonial- and apartheid-era statues in the province be removed. The decision validates a motion tabled by the EFF in July, in which they argued for “restoring the dignity of ...
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Taken aback at people bridling at criticism of SA’s Poland disaster.
Both husband and I back from foreign work trips yesterday.
I was told “So from the outside, SA looks like a clown car”.
He was asked: “Is South Africa collapsing as fast as it seems to be?”
How does one respond?
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My butcher made it for me as a lockdown treat....
The MARROWDONNA
It’s a beast, ribeye roast surrounded by marrow bones.
Sealed in a smoking pan then....
Slow Roasted.
I am so excited.
I am a carnivore - the husband would prefer lentils.
Poor guy.
He married the wrong girl 😂
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I reported her, so should you.
This is not OK people.
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Apartheid was a crime against humanity.
De Klerk was in the belly of the beast for most of his life.
His finest attribute was to be able to read the writing on the wall when his back was firmly against it.
His finest hour was unbanning the ANC, releasing our leaders.
For me, his
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Here’s what the Code of Conduct requires of legal practitioners.
Looks to me like Dali violated three of the rules of Professional Etiquette when he told Adv. Le Roux SC to shut up.
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Remember when we had a textile industry?
Rwanda's textile industry is growing fast after banning importation of second hand clothes.
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Guys it’s less than R50k. Why aren’t we doing this?
These homes are printed for $4,000 in less than 24 hours.
@laughsee
explains the incredible benefits of cost-effective 3D printed housing solutions
#2030NOW
#SocialGoodSummit
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Remind me again why de Ruiter was fired?
Btw, there is indeed a national state of disaster…. It’s called the government.
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@mikesharman
Mike.
Do the right thing here.
Listen to all the good reasons why this may have happened.
Call the guy in for an interview and ask him yourself. 🙏
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Shout out to the immigration official in booth 3 at OR Tambo today. After 22 hours travel time, her friendly “welcome home” touched the hearts of my daughter and me.
@GovernmentZA
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On the N1. Massive crash.
Watching ambulance drivers helplessly trying to get through but the emergency lane is jammed.
Where are metro cops?
Anyone in the emergency lane should be arrested and released on the payment of a R10k spot fine.
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I see a law-firm has been appointed to investigate the drowning of a pupil at Laerskool Queenswood.
Good.
But I wish someone was investigating the more than 30 deaths at initiation schools over December.
What’s the difference?
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Snotklap for
@PublicProtector
in the
@ConCourtSA
this morning. These findings are so damning of her conduct and competence. If she had a shred of respect for the office she occupies, she would resign.
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Yengeni says “lead by example”?
Yengeni?
👀
ANC's Tony Yengeni has called on the president to lead by example and resign |
@QaanitahHunter
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Christmas lunch at my dad...
Roast Blesbok and roast chicken, stuffing, brown onion gravy.
Every single vegetable picked this morning in his garden: potatoes, butternut, gem squash, green beans, kale.
He’s 80 next year and he cooked everything, for nine of us.
Such a treat...
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My Mom, 82, gave me my family tree for Christmas. It goes back 17 generations to 1518!
Astonishingly it includes a number of
Quaker ancestors, one born in 1650 (George Fox only founded the movement in the 1640s).
A labour of love she has worked on for over a decade.
Blessed
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This cannot possibly be the case. Eskom has 30 000 more employees than it did 20 years ago. How can it lack technical skills???
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Blue light gangs are so useless.
They can beat up defenseless motorists but are impotent against actual security threats.
Remind me why we pay them?
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So I hit a pothole on Beyers this am.
Bam two burst tyres and damaged rims.
As I’m sitting in my broken down car - bam another tyre gone on a panel van.
@CityofJoburgZA
that’s three tyres in 10 minutes. Economically damaging if you add up the costs of potholes….
Fix this!
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So we have been sent info about a private fire service.
Yup.
For a small fee you are guaranteed a functional fire truck and firefighters in case of fire.
We’re considering it.
That’s how poor emergency services are in Joburg.
Where are our taxes going? Seriously?
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I associate
#Tutu
with the Uitenhage massacre funeral, stopping a necklace, crying with his head on the table at the TRC hearings, and for calling the ANC Government a “bunch of Lickspittles” over their cowardly debasement of values in preventing the Dali Lama’s visit.
Hero
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Y’all paying attention?
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This is just factually incorrect. Zuma didn’t implement AND DIDN’T TAKE THE PP’S REMEDIAL ACTION ON REVIEW.
Sorry to shout but this is such nonsense. It’s dangerous misinformation.
Finished and klaar.
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Hilarious.
Exactly the same time frames De Ruiter gave but which his Ministers said were unacceptable and designed to foment an uprising.
Guys seriously?
We are led by donkeys….
Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana says it will take 18 months to two years to fix load shedding, but there is no "shortcut", and South Africans need to play a role in terms of reducing demand. |
@News24_Business
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We have a population 5x that of Cuba.
That we can’t train enough doctors to meet the needs of our own population is not a cause for celebration.
And the whole razzmatazz-drum-majorettes feel of this photo op is downright weird during a global pandemic.
What’s really going on?
Cuban doctors leaving their country enroute to
#SouthAfrica
to assist us in the fight against
#covid19
. The
@GovernmentZA
will welcome these selfless internationalist tonight to our shores. These doctors will be subjected to
#covid19
health precautionary measures. 📸
@SABCNews
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Remember you can think all of these at the same time:
1) I support a science-based lockdown
2) I want a conservative approach to deaths
3) I will obey laws unless they are successfully challenged in court
4) I hate corruption of food relief
5) I want my government to do better.
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Just discovered a new fabulous eatery: Mamaganoush in Linden. It’s black woman-owned, v reasonably priced, Halal and delicious! Do try it…
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Husband is DESPERATE to run. He has created a running track INSIDE our house. He is pounding up and down our stairs doing a five km run!
Is there a doctor in the house? Yes! But sadly it’s him 🥴
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This is so 1992... you think this isn’t orchestrated? Please
Protesters from various hostels in eastern Johannesburg have begun marching along Jules Street. Carrying weapons, including knobkerries, the men sang, "foreigners must go back to where they came from".
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Imagine how unskilled you have to be if your only hope of employment is to be an MP?
Flamboyant ANC MP Boy Mamabolo says the governing party’s decision to remove him from its national candidate list is detrimental to his financial well-being as the position is his only means of income.
What's you take on this?
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This is a pretty horrifying thread.
We pay tax at a higher rate than many countries with excellent social services.
Where is it all going?
South Africa has the 10th highest tax to GDP ratio in the world!
SA has a higher tax burden than the UK, Canada & Israel.
SA pays a fifth more taxes than Germany, Argentina, Brazil & Spain.
SA taxes collected are a third higher than Switzerland, USA & Korea as % of GDP. 1/3
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I’m the chair of a small complex’s Body Corporate.
Not getting fire equipment serviced on time is the stuff that keeps me up at night.
How can you be in charge of a national Key Point and not service the sprinkler system for five years?
Speaker of
@ParliamentofRSA
should be fired
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So my vaxx-hesitant father (80) is now double jabbed as of today.
Thank God.
The RELIEF!
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Made me physically ill watching this. Cars are not assets, they are liabilities.
Zero understanding, but zero, on what builds inter-generational wealth (hint: not cars). But the setting: leaking water mains, poorly paved roads, crumbling poorly constructed houses. Ugh
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