Songezo Zibi
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National Leader - @RISE_Mzansi . Author of Manifesto - A New Vision for South Africa and Raising the Bar - Hope & Renewal in South Africa.
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When we call out the corruption among our own people we are called agents of racism. Personally I am inspired by my uncle, Vuyani Victor Zibi. He died young so my country could be better, not so I could turn a blind eye while it is being destroyed. He inspires my every moment.
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I’m sure Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi makes mistakes, drops the ball here and there but my goodness! The man is always on the ground, he’s quick to respond and makes no silly excuses. He just gets on with it. As a citizen I want effort and he gives it to me 10/10!
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So I’m 44yrs old this year, and my friend and I (he’s on Twitter but I won’t tag him) have sometimes discussed how our understanding of gender relations and SA male violence against women has evolved over the years. A thread.
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Trevor has properly made it.
Pres. Biden while introducing Trevor Noah: ‘Now you get to roast the President of the United States — and unlike in Moscow, you won’t go to jail’
#WHCD
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We aren’t struggling with tourists because no one knows we’re here. It’s because of poor governance. Crime, bad roads, loadshedding, collapsing public infrastructure. An expensive deal with an English club won’t solve those problems. Effective, clean gov will.
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President Ramaphosa took questions for two days at the Zondo Commission. The sky didn’t fall. People went about their business. Some of us criticised him. Others defended him. That’s how democracy is supposed to work. No drama. No crisis.
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I love Cyril’s humility. He has a really tough situation and can still laugh at himself and make us laugh. Thank you, sir.
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I’ve tried to ignore the pandemic “in the spirit of Christmas”, but I really can’t. Two days ago, my uncle and his wife succumbed to COVID, on the same day. A friend is in quarantine along with a few close to her. I’m scared for her and many others. I think we have to be candid.
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I finally took the plunge and installed solar power. Empowered Homes is 100% black and youth owned. Smart guys. They were very patient with my 6-months indecision and very quick with installation. Contact details on the black battery box on the floor.
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The conversation we should have is why you and other Gupta enablers remain free to tweet nonsense instead of being in prison. You're really lucky this country is run by the extortion racket that is your party.
The conversation we should be having as the ANC and the country. With Nxamalala sitting around the same table.
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Amazing how Mandela’s government trusted young black professionals with big jobs, but those folks are now old, still there and won’t see merit in doing the same for today’s younger generation.
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Sorry I’m 100% with Dis-Chem here.
Dear South Africans,
Please don't support dischem, take them out-of business.
Thank you inadvance.
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The Republic of SA, 46% unemployment and most unequal country in the world, is an international aid donor.
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Ace genuinely sees nothing wrong with corruption. He’s not pretending.
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I wonder if Zuma ever thinks about whether all that Gupta stuff was worth it. I mean, he’s sitting in prison. They’re not. He has legal bills. They don’t. But he’s still not blaming them. Blames everyone but them, not even for abandoning him in his hour of need.
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NDZ is complaining that corruption cases take too long to conclude. This is someone who has been a minister since 1994 and voted to destroy the Scorpions in 2008. She then watched from ringside as the NPA was gutted by her party. Now she’s acting fresh. We aren’t stupid.
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When I was Editor of Business Day we published a picture from parliament the previous day. Minutes after completing a meeting where Thuli Madonsela was denied more budget to do her work, Mathole Motshekga was menacingly wagging his a finger in her face. He was angry
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This business of people situating themselves in Africa when they hate Black people boggles the mind. It’s stupid. Why would you be here if you hate the people to whom the place belongs? Go elsewhere!
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Former President Mbeki has penned a 30-page pamphlet on expropriation of land without compensation in the context of historical ANC policy, the interpretation of the Freedom Charter and the Constitution. It is a vital contribution that is worth a read.
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When I was a kid there was an older guy (about 6yrs older) who somehow became my friend, which came in handy when bullies came around. We lost touch when I went to boarding school & he went to Jbg. The other day I was stopped by Jhb Metro cop car, sirens blazing. It was him!! 😂
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Translation: Taxpayers everywhere (who have their own debts to pay) must bail out Soweto’s non payers so the ANC doesn’t lose Gauteng in 2024.
BREAKING NEWS - The idea of scrapping R5 Billion owed by Soweto residents is spot on!
The idea of Premier
@Lesufi
to ask National Treasury to scrap the R5 Billion owed to Eskom by Soweto residents is spot on and correct. In the current economic climate, its important to restart!
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I’ll say this again, we must never yield to people who threaten anarchy if they’re held accountable by our courts. If we do, then we don’t have a republic. We have a jungle. So looting or not, if the courts say Zuma must go to jail, then he must.
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Only a racist will argue that calling black people kaffirs is or should be protected by free speech. No, don’t deflect by asking about Julius Malema. Lay a criminal charge if you think he’s committing a crime.
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The unfit deciding on the fitness of judges. The mess we’re in.
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The thing that worries rogue/corrupt cadres about Andile’s imprisonment is the precedent. It chips away at the impunity they’ve enjoyed for so long. Distressed, they wonder: who’s next? An intolerable situation for people unfamiliar with accountability.
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Personal income taxes were projected to amount to R506bn in the 2018/19 financial year. Government salaries alone are R587.1bn. We either raise government revenue (taxes) or cut the salary bill because this equation isn’t sustainable.
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Right next to Cyril as ANC chairman is Gwede Mantashe who was unashamed about bashing the judiciary. Calling luminaries of our struggle such as Pius Langa and Dikgang Moseneke “counter revolutionary enemies of the people”. Today he’s acting brand new like we don’t remember
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It must be nice to steal public money on an industrial scale and still win elections.
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These are my grandparents. They raised me from 3 weeks. My grandpa was calm, patient and deliberative. My grandma was a juggernaut. In a different time she would have been a CEO. They both shaped me. Channelling both of their spirits into what I do can be so hard. I miss them.
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We have been silent as a great many evil things were done to people and to this country in our name as black people. We cannot and should not be silent anymore. My contribution
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It is okay to be optimistic about Cyril. But it would be naive to believe the same wolves who have driven this country to the brink of institutional and political collapse are to be hailed as saviors now that they’re singing new slogans.
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The number of people who damaged what could have been brilliant careers to do Zuma’s bidding is growing. They deserve no pity.
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It’s genius. The public removal of Mugabe s the master stroke that allows ZANU-PF to magically present themselves as reformers of their own mess. Everything that went wrong is now neatly packaged into the Robert-Grace box and disappeared.
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We have a President who lost undeclared $580k forex stuffed in a couch on his property. We have a deputy president who is apparently able to give his lover R500k per month from “wealth” whose source remains to be understood. I mean if you can give R6m to one person in one year,…
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We must demand more and better. The people who looted Limpopo to the ground are still roaming the streets with money that belongs to the poor. Some are even heroes. This forgetfulness, this carelessness is a big threat to our future.
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I am going to thread about why the murder of Mthokozisi Ntumba by the South African government was no surprise. It all began with the ANC re-militarizing the police in 2009 when Zuma became president. I will bring all the receipts. We must not lose sight on who’s responsible.
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And they call this radical economic transformation. Destroying this man’s livelihood and that of his employees.
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I'm observing some people mocking Bushiri's followers as if they won't do the same when their political faves are carted off to court soon. They will be just as angry and irrational - and hold night vigils and prayer meetings.
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The ANC caucus sang for Cyril with the same energy with which they used to shield Zuma from answering for wrongdoing. They go with the wind.
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People saying Cyril should reshuffle as if the ANC NEC is full of options don’t appreciate the depth of the leadership crisis in the ANC.
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This is Dr Masimba Dahwa, former Chief Procurement Officer at SAA. On Friday he told Judge Zondo his house is to be auctioned by the bank because he’s unemployed since Dudu Myeni and Yakhe Kwinana ordered he must be dismissed from SAA. A thread...
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I must also say Dali Mpofu SC is a tireless advocate. He never gets tired of trying. He never gets tired of losing.
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John Steenhuisen smirking in agreement in the middle of an election in which he’s asking black people to vote for him.
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Did someone check Agrizzi’s pulse this morning? We need him breathing so he can tell us more, and which journalists he paid off - and what they did for him.
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This one fellow I know is in ICU. COVID-19. He refused to be vaccinated. He said he trusted his natural immunity. Even his boss begged him to get vaccinated but he refused. Now we’re here. I honestly don’t know what more must be done.
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After being at the centre of the ANC's power circles for so long, Lindiwe Sisulu blames the constitution for the problems they have created. 2024 can't come soon enough so we can put these ghouls in our past. They have nothing to offer.
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We won’t be held hostage. He must sit in prison and apply for parole when it’s his turn.
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The idea that South African weapons (to whatever country) could leave the country via a big ship that was in news pages, and the government is not able to say for sure whether this happened or not is just wild.
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Eusebius’s death is hard to accept but I guess there’s no other way. He was a gift to our land. He made me think of new questions to old problems, and new approaches to the same. He made me feel uncomfortable and challenged, and I loved it. There was not a single conversation…
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There is nothing “Black” about corruption. These people who destroyed our governance system and then want to abuse our blackness to make us blindly defend them are no friends of “blackness”. They confirm every racist stereotype, that blacks lie, cheat and steal when they govern.
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Lindiwe Sisulu often led the Zuma Defence Force in parliamentary debates. Now she wonders why he's so rogue. She must not insult us.
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SA is interesting. City Press reports Krejcir allegedly has a tape of himself, JZ & Duduzane discussing a R2.5m bribe. Another article says Zuma was present when D Jordaan approached the Guptas for FIFA bribe money. Also, JZ will campaign for the ANC, which is fighting corruption
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Your full potential is generally bigger than your current or next job. We have been taught to reduce the horizons of our growth to what our professions have to offer, but that’s irrational. No one is their job. Your job is but a part of what you do, never what you can be.
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Everything is elusive. Diamonds, decuplets, vaccines, jobs…😢
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Question:
Can you recall who the President of South Africa was between 2009 and 2014?
Witness: No I don’t. I can’t comment?
Question: Was it not you?
Witness’ Counsel: Chair, we object to this line of questioning. Our client said he doesn’t remember who was President!
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I told you the testimony seen at the Zondo Commission last year was just a warm up. When Agrizzi is done, there will be more. Get ready to defend your faves.
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Fiks, forget the mandate. Just keep the lights on so the people can see their ballot papers.
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So what will happen when a symptomatic COVID-19 infected person boards two taxis on the way to a home with no running or heated water, no separate room to self-quarantine and no medical aid to see a private doctor? It won’t look so easy after that. No dancing.
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If this was Zimbabwe kids born today and tomorrow would have names like:
1. Resignation
2. Recall
3. Noconfidence
4. Motion
5. Andiyindawo
6. Meandos
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If we choose to forget we will deserve every misfortune that befalls is in future. Lesson: in politics institutions are as important as leadership. As an institution the ANC hasn’t even begun to atone for the destruction caused by its choice, the Zuma era.
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By the way the R4m - R6m in bribes that Agrizzi says Bosasa paid in bribes per month is chicken feed. A mere R70m per annum, max. Peanuts. You’re still going to hear amounts that are going to make your eyes water. There’s been a party going on for years.
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I get the feeling that by the time this Zondo Commission is over the myth of “good people in the ANC” will have been blown to pieces. Also, Thuli Madonsela totally outfoxed Jacob Zuma and his protection ring in the form of ANC MPs.
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The painful collective experience of Black people will be used by the corrupt as cover to escape accountability. They will claim to be championing our cause despite having stolen monies meant for the upliftment of the very people they claim to love. We must reject such liars.
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You’re very generous with your sympathies. He must answer for the old charges and his subsequent rampant corruption, and selling our country for a dime. And he must go to jail, on a stretcher if he can’t walk himself to his cell.
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On Twitter you can be anything you like, anytime. Today we were Bank regulation experts. What a time to be alive. 😁.
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We must not get comfortable with violence as part of our political culture. It always seems harmless until we are on the receiving end of it, and it is too late to get out of that hole. A democratic system is meant to provide rules of engagement even in times of extreme tension.
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Friends, please join us this Saturday in honouring our friend and brother Luzuko Koti by joining the fight against leukaemia. To register please click HERE
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This tweet is for my fellow former Transkeians. Can we please stop this habit from this year onwards? People in taxis and fancy cars stop and litter, or just throw it out the window. Can we please tell culprits we know to stop it? We cannot do this. Happy New Year.
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It’s interesting to watch South Africans trying to reckon with electricity blackouts. The humor as a coping mechanism. The anger without any impact. Most of all the unwillingness or inability to accept its deeper meaning; that it’s one more symptom of systematic national failure
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THREAD: It is really NB for the names of all journalists who took cash bribes from the SSA to be revealed, and for them to explain themselves in an open forum. Practiced properly, journalism is a sacred trust that is a critical pillar of any democracy.
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The core problem is not corruption, but the arrogance of assured incumbency. It breeds entitlement and impunity, enablers of unashamed corruption.
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I knew Judge Mogoeng's propensity to make public statements would catch up with him. It was only a matter of time. Other judges say less, not because they have no opinions or beliefs but they understand the importance of the posts they hold, and apprehension of bias.
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Bongani (Sunday Times Editor) is in a difficult position. He has to account for things that happened when he wasn’t there. To his credit he doesn’t play the blame game regardless. He’s taking accountability and I think we ought to give him a chance. I do.
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Edward is carrying a stick outside by the gate. Duduzane yena usendlini.
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This thread is about my experience of the “SARS rogue unit” story when I was editor of Business Day between 2014 and 2016. Let me also say that the Sunday Times and Business Day newsrooms were opposite one another on the same floor. I walked in there often.
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Power blackouts are here to stay. We’re now one of those countries we used to read about and wonder what it must be like.
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The way the thieves and their enablers used to say “report it to law enforcement” knowing very well they disabled the enforcement. You’ll hear a different tune now.
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This must be the most stupid tweet this side of Christmas. Someone taking a picture of a newspaper article to claim the media isn’t covering the issue.
This won't trend because the media has a responsibility to serve exclusively the propaganda purposes of the New Dawn.
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If Mosebenzi and Bathabile’s insolence so far this year teaches Cyril anything, it is that talking tough on CNN and BBC doesn’t equate to actually doing something. The madness is continuing in real life.
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After the “revolution”, Zimbabwe is back to square 1. Repression. Economic collapse. Police brutality. Goes to show the folly of believing a different faction of the same degenerate political party will govern in ways unlike its DNA.
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Jacob Zuma must be delighted that in May he will finally get a chance to tell his side of the story, and expose that evil conspiracy against him. I'm happy for him.
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Having read this Zuma judgment, my assessment of the chronology of events once he was incarcerated is that there was a coordinated effort to secure the medical parole, beginning the very same day he arrived in prison. And “they all” knew. All the way to Pretoria. We’re not kids.
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Anyways that VBS matter is back in the news. To date neither Pauli van Wyk nor Daily Maverick have been sued or taken to the ombudsman.
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I’m fascinated by the apparent surprise at what Angelo Agrizzi is telling the commission. Journalists have been covering corruption for years but many South Africans chose to not take it as seriously as they should have. So let me share some pointers on how looting is set up
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I actually can't believe this is how I end my year. I quit my job to pursue what my heart desires but also because the corporate ladder can be so very deceiving. A narrow universe that can seem so large but in the bigger scheme of things is narrow and ultimately forgettable.
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So did someone really think a delegation led by Ace would solve anything in Zim? The one and only Ace?
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Babes we shock!
President Cyril Ramaphosa is shocked by the state of Gauteng’s townships.
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So a municipality is funding a recording album by a politician. This country is a lot.
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So we’re supposed to be gripped by another NEC meeting that will produce zero solutions for problems that get worse everyday? Remind me again: why would we trust the same collective that’s brought SA to its knees to come up with any solution at all?
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The one thing that grinds me the most in this Faith Mazibuko tape is the utter disrespect and bullying of colleagues. Workplace terrorism. I can never understand people who speak like that to their colleagues, no matter how junior.
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I don’t know a country where leaders loot public money instead of governing properly that has a strong, job creating economy. The two don’t go together. Our unemployment is an outcome of a thieving, corrupt, dysfunctional political system.
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The rogue spy unit emerging under oath at the Zondo Commission is being met with silence from those who’ve made it their business to denounce rogue units.
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Dr Khoza may be disciplined while the guy who's brought the ANC into disrepute through habitual theft & constitutional violations remains?
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The thing about Zuma’s incoherent rambling is that it lowered the bar for the opposition too. Intellectually pedestrian fare often sounded smart because it was responding to worse. If the opposition rises to occasion overall political debate will be richer.
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A whole CIA worrying about a chancer from Kroonstad, out of all the many things it has to cover in the world? Ace?
Suspended Magashule claims the US CIA is colluding with NPA against him
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Towns and cities are falling apart. Roads and bridges are disintegrating. The signs of decay and collapse are everywhere. We cannot get the little things done, let alone the big ones. 2023 must be the year we draw the line, I wrote in the Sunday Times.
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Do you get a sense that your TL is always fighting about something? Triggered by someone? Have you wondered why that annoying, sexist, misogynistic or racist tweep seems to end up on your TL even if you don’t follow them? It’s not an accident. Issa thread...
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After almost a decade avoiding corruption cases neither the Hawks nor the NPA know how to prosecute graft anymore. No surprise they botched the Gupta case, again. I don’t expect things to improve either. Impunity continues.
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