Phil Craig
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Leader of Referendum Party. Co-founder of CIAG. We must take responsibility for creating the future we want to leave behind for our children. Cape Independence.
W.Cape, South Africa
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My Twitter rules;
1. If I state a fact I must be prepared to reference it
2. If I state an opinion make it clear it is just that
3. If I am unsure of my opinion be honest & say so
4. Seek out considered dissenting views.
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My 62 yr old, very healthy mother-in-law is an ambulance en-route to a hospital, having had a stroke 4 days after her J&J vaccine
I'm not opposed to vaccines, I am vehemently opposed to bullying ppl into having them
Don't be that ars*hole
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I am fighting for Cape Independence because I love these people, not because I hate you
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The uncomfortable truth is that the primary reason why SA is in such a mess is because the majority of black voters are too racist to vote for a party based on merit
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A HUGE thank you to the Rupert Family
True to their word, just a few days after applying for relief I received a grant (gifted) deposited directly into my business account
Their only request was that it be paid forward when I can
A request I will most certainly honour
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British Lords heard muttering "What a dreadful fellow" as Ramaphosa plays victim whilst waving his begging bowl
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Any government that cannot provide clean drinking water and electricity to its people is a disgrace and should be removed immediately
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Eskom cannot be fixed, it must be replaced
(and the govt must be allowed nowhere near it)
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Eskom crisis exposes 2 absolute truths, neither of which the ANC can ever accept
1 - Race-based policy screws everybody
2 - Socialism screws everybody
For them, it is better to have as Eskom crisis than to admit that the true crisis is them
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I am in a heated debate about the scourge of black supremacy - I was adamant that SA belongs equally to all who live in it, my opponents were equally adamant that it belongs to black people only and that as a white I am simply a guest
Genuine non-racialism is a rare thing in SA
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SA can't marginalise Afrikaners, declare their language not-indigenous, appropriate their language monument, schools, & universities, destroy the institutions they built, vilify them at every given opportunity, and think that this will not foster hate
Respect is a 2-way street
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I'm currently in N.Cape. There are 2 worlds here
One is run by commercial farmers and is predominantly world class
The other is run by the ANC and is a shower of shit
This govt must be held to account for its gross incompetence. Nothing fuels on-going racism more
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My suggestion is CT airport must be renamed: DESMOND TUTU INTERNATIONAL - an internationally respected icon with links to Cape Town, rather than a divisive & flawed character not from CT
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An independent Western Cape will become an ideological homeland for people of all races who embrace a more western way of life, and who reject African nationalism and an economic outlook rooted in communism
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Met yet another businessman tonight who intentionally keeps his business small (and under BEE threshold)
The number of lost job opportunities is incalculable
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In 20 years time those disrupting University will be accusing those who have chosen rather to study of having an unfair advantage
Whatever the merits of their complaint, it isn't the fault of other students 🤬
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Cyril, we don't need you to intervene in the economy, we need you to STOP intervening in it
You are not the solution, you are the problem
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CT must fight fire with fire - rioters must be defeated by any legal means. It's time to break the stranglehold of these taxi companies who blackmail our society daily. I stand with JP Smith
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Is there another country in the world where a judge hears that a govt minister has been giving bags of stolen cash each month to the ex-president .......... and the story lasts about 2 news cycles before everyone moves along?
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Retrenchments are now coming thick & fast, most SME's out of cash reserves
IMHO government started well, but is now getting this badly wrong
As usual, looking down from their ivory towers, with the R1m+ salaries, they are utterly removed from realities faced by their people
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Highly qualified, hardworking, honest people can work an entire lifetime and not amass R16m for a lifetimes work. These ppl are obscene. Their faux moral indignation around poverty & inequality is a disgusting ruse to hide their thieving.
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@News24
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I'm now saying this as a white man, shoot me down if you wish, i don't care
Every white business owner I know has put their staff ahead of themselves, many paying their staff with last of their savings, whilst they get nothing themselves
I'm proud of white SAn's
Retrenchments are now coming thick & fast, most SME's out of cash reserves
IMHO government started well, but is now getting this badly wrong
As usual, looking down from their ivory towers, with the R1m+ salaries, they are utterly removed from realities faced by their people
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ANC govt has destroyed the most advanced country on the African continent in less than a generation
Instead of getting angry at WC secessionists for wanting to opt out, how about some shame for your role in the destruction that makes us want to?
#Capeindependence
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Say what you like about Afrikaners, but they are utterly irrepressible
Other South African's should emulate rather than envy them
Bravo
@afriforum
@kalliekriel
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The most powerful words i heard over Brackenfell were from Fadiel Adam's (Cape Coloured Congress)
Racism isn't the biggest problem in this country, poverty is. When you solve that, we will all be integrated, like it or not
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Not sure this video comes from but this is sinister, dangerous & unpresidential - scapegoating of highest order
Yes we have a problem with racism but reducing it to this level is dishonest, divisive & most ironically of all deeply racist
Shame on you
@CyrilRamaphosa
This must be one of the most outrages/racist things the pres of ever said. Minority white S.African are basically blamed for the murder of
#GoergeFloyd
and domestic violence to name a few. I don’t think people realize in what danger minorities in SA are.
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I am getting intensely irritated with gaslighting by SA's black intelligencia
Singing 'Kill the boer, kill the farmer' in 2023 SA is not OK, period.
We are not interested in your attempts to subtly infer that it is. Shame on you.
For our overseas friends, the caption on this poster reads:
“I will shoot dead (using the term for “dead animal”) the first k*ffir (derogatory slur against black people; akin to n*gger) that enters my school. Keep our schools white.”
The bullet casings are self-explanatory.
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The time has come to vigorously pursue a non-racial, inclusive, Cape Independence.
I'm not going down with ship SA, i'm looking for a lifeboat, but want to remain in the Cape
I resolve to do all I can in 2020 to make this a reality
How many others feel this way?
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@tito_mboweni
How to get a ratings UPGRADE:
1. Suspend corrupt politicians
2. End Cadre deployment
3. Privatise SoEs (or parts thereof)
4. End AA & BEE
5. Curb union powers
6. Remove minimum wage
7. Start fixing education
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The insanity intensifies
Honestly Adriaan, is Eben supposed to abandon pinnacle moment of his career based on allegations, which he denies, advanced by an organisation so deeply flawed as SAHRC?
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@News24
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I really enjoy watching the Afrikaner people asserting themselves
This is their country just as much as anyone else's and walking on egg shells is a fool's errand
Boers gathered in Groblersdal today to support the bail application of two Boers who were arrested for acting in self defense.
The police shut down the town to stop their entry, but were unsuccessful. Beautiful.
-
@willempet
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So basically, current ANC a BEE billionaire, ex-president up on 700+ counts of fraud et al, current SG on 74+ charges, deputy president under investigation by FBI, & ex-SG / current minister now also accused
Talk about den of thieves!
If you vote ANC you are officially a moron
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HKGK - SA has overplayed its hand here. It takes a special type of entitlement to believe you can take aid with one hand, whilst stabbing the aid giver in the back with the other
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RSA as we know it is doomed
Sadly +/- 65% of population either don't know or won't accept economic realities
Doesn't matter how hard 35% tries to explain it to them, they are not interested in listening, & are convinced they know better
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A friend who applied for UIF for his employees got paid today for his non white employees only, but received nothing for his white employees. All went in on same application form
Has anyone else experienced this same problem?
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This infuriates me beyond measure...... lockdown applied to all races, assistance given to only some races
This is exactly why we need
#Capeindependence
- non racialism
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Solution to BEE/AA is for all minority groups to always identify as black
In SA you determine your own race and only a court is allowed to dispute it. You can't take 10m ppl to court.
Time to bring this system to an end
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It's staggering that Soweto owes R17bn for electricity & debt is growing at R0.6bn per yr. Where is the political will to sort this disgrace? Cut non paying customers off! Why must the rest of us pay their bill?
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As Margaret Thatcher once famously said:
"The trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money"
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Leaving race aside - please provide an example of anything the government has successfully 'rebuilt'
@CyrilRamaphosa
@PresidencyZA
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By 'Opposition parties' they mean ANC and EFF - since when did the people of the WC give a flying f*ck what the ANC and the EFF think?
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I live in WC
I didn't vote ANC
I vehemently disagree with their policies & their moral conduct
I want WC be governed by those we elected not those we rejected
Retweet if you agree - its time to make a change
#CapeReferendum
#WeThePeople
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I just showed my wife
@barrybateman
clip & explained he had need suspended
"Suspended? He should have got a medal" was her reply
She's not wrong
@ewnreporter
(& neither was Barry)
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SAPS fires two cops who lied that white colleague used k-word on them
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Why the hell should Malema get to debate a speech he refused to listen too?
EFF should be banned from SONA debate. They walked out, they must stay out
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They are not denied access to medical care because they don't have medical aid
They are denied it because you have destroyed health system
Medical aid is private sectors response to your incompetence
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@NalaThokozane
I'm the 'UK foreigner' to whom Zuma is referring
He seems blissfully unaware that he has done more for the Cape Independence movement than I ever could
In truth, if he hadn't been such an appalling & corrupt president, WC might not need its independence
@VoteReferendum
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Oh
@Julius_S_Malema
please, really?
What have you achieved with regard to nationbuilding?
You're a professional hypocrite, living high life, claiming to be voice of poor, criticising corrupt, your fingers caught in how many pies?
Advocating policies which will destroy economy
@PLMyburgh
I think these whites must for a second keep quiet because we are dealing with a mess created by them. They are the ones who created this situation by telling us that we are poor & unemployed because ”foreigners” took our jobs. We are fighting for cramps
#OneAfricaIsPossible
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Cross party support in the US to hold SA to account for its actions
The trouble with the ANC govt is that it mistakenly thinks the rest of the world is as gullible as SA voters - it isn't
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Isn't life sometimes SO poetic? The only ward in whole WC where EFF seem to have gotten most votes was Robben Island🤣🤣
(I speak under correction)
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Cigarettes - how can any sane person, let alone a govt & its advisors, not foresee exactly what would happen if you banned sales when y ou have +/- 10m (??) addicts?
Has any other country been this stupid?
(For record there are no smokers in my family)
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I'm for keeping the alcohol & losing the government
Anyone else agree?
@MbalulaFikile
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula says the government needs to review laws relating to access to alcohol.
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Want to know what f*cked up racist policy looks like?
Homeowner on left privileged & therefore purposefully economically excluded, homeowner of house on right (
@CyrilRamaphosa
) is disadvantaged, so included
Why? Skin colour of course - what else could we possible use? (sarcasm)
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And there goes our 6th successive police chief for dishonesty (in a row)
Don't worry Khehla - getting fired for dishonesty wont stop you returning as police minister. Ask Bheki Cele and
@CyrilRamaphosa
who appointed him 🤡🤡🤡
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'Ramaphosa said that BBBEE is here to stay'
"If anything, it needs to be enhanced"
As usual if an inherently bad policy fails ANC concludes we just need more of it - they are truly pathetic
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We simply cannot allow political parties to celebrate farm murders without reprisals. This is consequence
@PresidencyZA
will you actually do anything about EFF singing kill the farmer (whilst Cele & Malema sit together) or will you wait until people take law into own hands?
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I live in a DA run, relatively functional WC municipality
2 years ago I had uninterrupted electricity and clean drinking water
Now I have 4 hrs power cuts a day and brown water
It is happening so gradually we don't notice, but unless we take radical action, the future is bleak
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Wouldn't it be quite something to live in a country where the chief of police is fired for corruption, then gets appointed Minster of Police, then gets fired again for more corruption?
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What is the point in continuing with Zuma's corruption trial?
We are only going to let him out if we find him guilty anyway.
SA govt doesn't give a flying f*ck about us the people
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People who have illegally settled on railway tracks must be returned to from whence they came
Under no circumstances must they be allowed to jump the housing queue just because they broke the law
We are way too soft on illegal land invaders
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BEE/AA:
I have 5 white children in SA (4,6,14,26,30)
NOTHING you can say will convince me to watch as you discriminate against them for something their grandparents may have done
Build a better future for ALL then I'm all in, exclude them and I'll fight you with my last breath
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My DA to do list:
1. Reappoint
@GwenNgwenya
As policy head
2. Define clearly for RSA how it will create inclusive 'One SA for All'
3. Make firm commitment to non racialism rejecting all racial classification
4. Appoint leaders on merit who are truly committed to those values
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BREAKING: Coalition between
@Our_DA
@Action4SA
@VFPlus
@A_C_D_P
@UDmRevolution
@COPE_SA
to govern Tshwane. DA mayor.
Discussions on JHB continuing - possible minority government between same partners.
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South Africa has a choice
Flog goose to death & extract last ounce of gold from it's carcass, share it's wealth equally, & then we all starve together
OR
Protect goose, allow it to flourish & attract more geese like it, share golden eggs a little less equally, & we all thrive
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This sort of nonsense is why Cape Independence can and will happen
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To all those ANC/EFF supporters to whom Maimane is now a poster child ...
If you'd voted for him we wouldn't be having this conversation
Since you didn't, please allow DA members/voters to choose who who they want to lead them
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@wandile24796727
@VoteReferendum
Group of uncouth black youths shaming themselves to determent of others
Not surprised you liked it, you're the EFF
For us civilized people, this isn't how we want to live & we won't be bullied into silence by loudmouth fools
Referendum now so all WC ppl can have their say
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Not sure how much more of the
#ZondoCommission
I can bear, we don't have a govt, we have a crime syndicate ......
I'll not say out loud what I think we should do to them
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Most of them arrived in Kayamandi when they ran away from the ANC
To then vote for them again in their new province to recreate the disaster they ran away from would be the height of stupidity
The people of Kayamandi in the Western Cape are clear they are voting for their beloved movement the ANC
#VoteANC2024
#LetsDoMoreTogether
🖤💚💛
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@GaytonMcK
@OnsBaizaNie
Stop grandstanding Gayton, isn't this you in the photo with the leaders of two secessionist parties?
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So Malema is too scared to debate Zille
No surprises there then
He might only have got 4% in his matric maths exam, but even he can work out who would win that debate
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Love this - I have an enormous amount of time for Afrikaners. I really like them.
This is how the Voortrekker Monument amphitheater looks after ±32,000 Afrikaners celebrated Geloftedag together. Not a single piece of rubbish, bottles or scraps. No one made a call to tidy up. It's just what they do. A testament to the Afrikaner pride and self-respect.
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There is something fundamentally wrong with SAns, how can 60% of voters still support a govt that is utterly discredited & disgraced?
Stokholm syndrome?
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Thought provoking Economic Data around Cape Independence;
1.WC houses 11.6% of SA's popn
2. WC collects 16.6% of SA's tax revenue
3. WC receives 10.2% of provincial budget
Anyone still think an Independent Cape non-viable economically?
(Source: Treasury & Stats SA)
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Why
@pierredevos
is wrong about Cape independence - the reply they (literally) tried to stop you reading
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For those who have taken an interest in my 2020 mission to contribute to making Cape Independence a reality
I have made really exciting behind the scenes progress & am moving towards a point where i can make a material difference
Watch this space
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At face value this is seriously damning for Malema
We have known for years he is a thief, liar & hypocrite
Nice to see proof emerging
Suspect it is going to be hard for Malema to deny this theft of R5.3m VBS money
Well done
@PaulivW
& team
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How utterly hypocritical
@helenzille
must shut up, but you want a summit to 'find each other'?
Half our race problems come because too many black ppl think a debate on race should mean blacks should talk & whites should listen
Start by listening to your own (ex)voters
President Ramaphosa should convene a summit on race and reconciliation so we can find each other and start working together as one nation with one shared future.
#SAInauguration19
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Take time to read and process. If correct this isn't just another scandal, this should bring down the government
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Every day we seem to read about SA going backwards in one or other way
We have become desensitized to govt incompetence and apathy
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I was infuriated by
@alanwinde
at yesterday's march. He told the WC crowd
"The solution to Eskom is to vote the ANC out"
The province he leads has never once given the ANC a majority!! We didn't vote them in, and we CAN'T vote them out
It is why we need self-determination
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@Graham7Charters
1/ I was carrying one of those flags (btw they are not CIP but are Cape Independence)
I am avowedly non-racial, and traditionally a DA voter. Non-racialism is a foundational principle of CI movement
The bigotry and intolerance here seems to be coming from you
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Will you be voting for a first-world future, or to live in an African failed state?
All sober minded voters in the WC face a choice in 2024
Which future will you be voting for?
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I'm loving these personal cost orders against our overpaid & undercompetent civil servants. Parliament has been unwilling to hold them to account, thankfully courts have stepped up. Long may it continue
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As a 'Foreign Investor' The day 70% of SA'n MPs voted for 'Land Expropriation without Compensation' was the day I voted to invest somewhere else. I won't be alone
@MYANC
@ourDA
@EFFSouthAfrica
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Western Cape independence and why it is viable under international law regardless of what South Africa's opinion is
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WC & SA are already separate countries
We simply have to make it official before SA ruins the only decent (largely functional) part that remains
SA minister of transport: "JP Smith is not God"
'No, but you're certainly devils'
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So basically you been blissfully happy with their sevice for a decade, but now you have discovered the service was administered by whites you have an issue?
This attitude is what is busy sinking RSA
I,m very loyal to Capitec Bank I've been using it since its inception I never knew it is led by white people only while they have millions of black clients no wonder these people call us Kaffirs we enrich them let us found our own banks and run them well.🤔🙆
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Can we just have this fight with the Unions & put them in their place once & for all
There is no avoiding it & issue same with most SoE
Grossly overstaffed, grossly overpaid, grossly under productive
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Excellent news. DA in WC paying price for opposing Cape Independence whilst ANC at 17%
Secessionist parties gaining steam
Increasingly likely outcome: DA-led WC coalition govt which will then call a referendum on Cape Independence
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Let this sink in - 7 out of 10 people in WC now support a referendum on Cape Independence
Will our Premier listen?
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