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Jonathan Jansen

@JJ_Stellies

10 months

May your Monday also be gentle and kind 😊

Nature is Amazing ☘️

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10 months

Beautiful video in the forest of Nara, Japan.

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Dear teacher: A child's lack of fluency in English tells you NOTHING about that child's level of intelligence. Are we clear?

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

Any president of a country who goes for medical treatment to other countries is a disgrace to the people he serves

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

If you use your degree to sneer at people without one, you have learnt nothing

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

With last night’s speech President Ramaphosa lost the trust and credibility of large swathes of thinking South Africans. When you have one rule for the taxi bosses but another rule separating families, the hypocrisy screams at you

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Nothing makes you lose faith in your government than the loss of simple services like failing to keep the lights on. Load shedding is not a natural disaster; it is mismanagement of the country on a grand scale

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

There is something special about the fact that in SA a young white Zulu-speaking man could become mayor of a place called uMngeni and choose a young black man as his deputy. Shut-up cynics, in a country of racial absolutes, this is progress

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Every child can do mathematics. Not mathematical literacy. Mathematics. The only reason most children do math lit is because we failed to teach them well in the foundation years

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

I will ask these 3 question everyday from now on until there is action: Mr President, what happened to the Zondo report? Why are those who ordered Babitha’s assassination not yet captured? Why are the high-level instigators of the July riots not behind bars? @CyrilRamaphosa

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

To those outraged by the police murder of George Floyd in America, I’m with you. But where was this rage when Collins Khosa was beaten to death by soldiers in Alex? What am I missing?

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

What Health Minister Dr Mhkize has done is to bring to the fore the best scientific minds in the country to lead the crisis response. No politics, no comrades. Imagine every politician did that for their portfolio. A new country run by competent and committed people

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

Dear government, Where exactly did the Covid money go? The people want to know

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

I have taught in some of the wealthiest schools in the world and some of the poorest schools in the world. This one thing I know for sure: all children can achieve at the highest levels given the same opportunities.

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

A worthy president would have sent his protesting followers home for the sake of their Covid health. A worthy president would have berated his followers for threatening to undermine the rule of law. But that would have been a worthy president.

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

Ja Mr President here we are again at Stage 6 but why would you and your cabinet care? You are covered. I promise you, we are voting you lot out of power (sic) once and for all. No damn it, nobody signed up for this crappy life under your mismanagement

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Imagine you worked through the night. Two children at home waiting. Your Covid relief monies just came through. You wait for a taxi to take you home. Epping. Just after 6am. Thugs rob you and kill you. It’s over. Please remember Lauren Braiden this morning. Her life matters.

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

This nonsense about sending a pregnant schoolgirl home must stop. Unless you send the boy as well. Then we can talk.

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

As the ruling party politicians fawn around the Arch in his death, do remember that in life he was not invited to Mandela’s funeral because of his criticism of their corruption

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Remember the Zim student with straight As without funds to study engineering at Wits? I asked you & others to support her & we raised more than needed. Triphin just sent me her results. 10 engineering subjects, 10 straight As. I am so happy for Triphin & your support! Thank u

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

A matriculant I know just got 40 and 47 and 31 (math) and qualified for a university pass! I hate what this government does to our children, miseducate them and then mislead them. No, South Africa, we are better than this.

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

R57 billion for free tertiary education. What a pity preschool children cannot be loud and disruptive so that government pays attention

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

The time has come to ask the ANC as a whole to step-aside

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

R1.2m to sit next to President Ramaphosa at ANC gala dinner. Archbishop Tutu asks for the cheapest coffin at his funeral. All you need to know about your country right there🥺

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

The fact that vaccination sites are closed over weekends tells you everything you need to know about how seriously your government regards your life

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

Any person who insists on being called doctor or professor is insecure

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Worcester man sjambokked for not wearing mask. Pretoria man arrested for buying baby’s milk during curfew. Mpumalanga premier walks around freely without a mask at, wait for it, an official funeral! I’m done....

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Please stop these qualifications wars. I’ve seen more wisdom among people without degrees than ones who boast with them

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Just a reminder that it is Human Rights Day not black or white day, not straight or gay day, not South African vs foreign national day, HUMAN rights day

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

The country that could not contain the July riots is offering to resolve the Russia-Ukraine-global crisis! You can’t make this up

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

No. Not loadshedding again. How much more can the people take? You steal the country blind. You mismanage electricity supply. But you fixate on cigarettes and alcohol? Basta!

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

Imagine you reach the high point in your professional career, an opportunity to serve as your country’s Chief Justice—-only to have your reputation besmirched and your character assaulted in front of millions by half-penny political operators accused of much worse

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Have you ever known a leader who did not know where R430m in his department ended up? Sorry, I’m not buying the ignorance argument

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

The slowest vaccine rollout in the face of a 3rd wave while the Minister of Health has his hands full fighting off corruption charges. We deserve so much better, Mzansi

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

I warned you Herman Mashaba. By fanning the flames of anti-immigrant hatred, you helped create the environment that led to the burning to ashes of the Zimbabwean Elvis Nyathi. Four terrified children without a father. Don’t you dare condemn the attack

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

I will no longer fill up my car at Shell stations. That is my protest action. Join me until they stop the seismic tests on the wild coast

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

Watching the chaotic ANC nominations process into the early hours, I for the first time understood how we reached Stage 6. In fact, I was surprised we had not reached Stage 26.

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Dear Minister Angie, where are the 489800 learners who also started grade 1 and should have been in this matric class? Does their absence not make the real pass percentage 40%? (Source N Spaull) Where are the other children????

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Irony is dead. CEO of Ubuntu Wealth Management arrested for looting.

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Overheard on the London tube. Passenger X: Is this the end of May? Passenger Y: You all right mate? Its the middle of November!

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Thank you Gift of the Givers for your massive response to the UCT community in this time of devastation! What would our country do without you? Inspiration 🏆

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

An African leader dies in a Singapore hospital. Tells you everything you need to know. Robert Gabriel Mugabe.

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

I have absolutely no respect for politicians and activists who stir racial angst and division among our people to advance their political interests

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

No, that sheep was not killed to exorcise racism from Clifton beach. It’s throat was slit in public because of our thirst for political spectacle. To be crude, to kill, to be outrageous in performing our outrage,...

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

Mr. President, can you guarantee that every cent of those billions will go only to the people in need and not to the crooks in and around government already licking their lips in anticipation of a windfall?

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

Stage 6? Where the hell is the President??! Say something, dammit

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

The political attack on Professor Glenda Gray is completely unacceptable. Disagree as scientists and politicians, yes. But no political authority, including the DG Health, has the right to slander a scholar & report her to her bosses. This is NOT apartheid. Stop the bullying now.

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

As much as I support the powerful, symbolic action of taking the knee against racism at major sports events, you simply cannot instruct players to do so. That is a matter of conscience. CSA needs to learn that authoritarian rule has no place in a democracy.

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

If Thuli decided to run for President, I would be honored to lead the education portfolio under her

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

A Grade 9 exit certificate in a dysfunctional school system? Exit into what? With what skills? This is scandalous

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

Remember the days when you received your matric results before Christmas—-of the same year in which you wrote?

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

The Board of the Medical Research Council has decided, in record time, not to pursue investigations against Professor Glenda Gray. I have no doubt that the public and professional reaction was a deterrent. This is a victory for science, democracy and the public good.

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

NOT NICE TO SEE YOUR COUNTRY ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES FOR COVID CORRUPTION

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Th question facing the ConCourt is quite simple: is there one set of rules for a convicted president, and a different set of rules for ordinary citizens? The people are watching you. For the future of our young democracy depends on the answer.

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

To the half-million teachers who taught our children in 2018, thank you. Know this, the rewards that come with school teaching far, far exceeds any of the costs involved. The nation owes you a debt of gratitude.

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

If President Ramaphosa steps down, expect state capture on steroids

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

The tourism minister becomes acting health minister? In a pandemic? Tell me this is a joke

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

I prefer a politician with an education rather than one with a degree

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

I am not DA but I recognise a political scam when I see one. The ousting of competent leadership after years of theft and corruption in the NMB metro will once again hurt the black poor. Shame on you feckless politicians.

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

The attempted assassination of the Fort Hare University Vice-Chancellor must be condemned at the highest level; his security detail did not survive. This is what happens when you take a stand against corruption. The struggle is real 😤

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

The Zondo Commission report in one line: ‘we were robbed blind by people still in power’

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

Just heard from a person in the know that the problem is not Eskom per se but the feeding vultures in the supply chain. Those who intercept coal trucks and replace the bulk with cheap coal, those who steal equipment in order to sell them back to Eskom etc. True?

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

When you see our infrastructure crumbling all over the place, you can’t help thinking: how did we end up with such an incompetent government?

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

When the party in power needs a conference to debate whether it’s members should be held accountable (step aside) then it should no longer be in power

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Every time I watch Carte Blanche I realise how utterly incompetent and corrupt our government is! From potholes to Denel, we are being fleeced, people. Vote them out!

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Today’s load shedding helped me decide how to vote

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

Has anyone ever asked a black politician ‘which South Africans do you speak for?’ Just wondering

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

Now I’ve heard everything: University of Limpopo students refuse to write test because it is difficult

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

A party that allows the criminally charged to run for office does not deserve your vote; finish en klaar

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

Thank God that for every Zandile Gumede there is a Busisiwe Mavuso

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

My heart goes out to the family of community doctor Roelof Botha hacked to death with a panga on his Tulbagh farm

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

If there is one thing that must be decolonized it is this parade of feathers called the State of the Nation. Quite pathetic the display of wealth against a background of poverty and inequality

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

I met Mmusi Maimane a few times. He really is a wonderful, decent human being whom I admire. Which is precisely why he would not survive in the cesspool of politics. For that job you need at least some attributes of a gangster

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

Stage 6! I thought it was going to get better after they pushed out the white man 🤔

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

Wow! The efficiency with which government removed Deruyter! Is this the new dawn? Oh wait, he’s competent 😤

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Three things that are hard to find in South Africa: decuplets; a stolen blue couch; and a deputy president

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

It is the same Glenda Gray, reminds a colleague, who was viciously attacked for warning the politicians their views on HIV/AIDS, virodene and mother to child transmission. 300000 SA’s died needlessly

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

The government illusion that a R22m flag ‘brings us together’ is probably the most stupid thing I’ve heard this year

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

There can be nothing worse than government officials and party operatives thieving off money destined for the poor in the middle of a raging pandemic. It just does not stop!

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

Your President is in Davos hobnobbing with the rich and famous while you battle 10 hours with no electricity while Eskom is cleared for a massive tariff hike on electricity!

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

Minister Fikile Mbalula just landed in Ukraine. Best response on Twitter: have the people of Ukraine not suffered enough?👏🏽

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Dear matric paper thieves, I hope you take just 5 minutes to think about how many hearts you have broken and how many spirits you have crushed now that everyone has to rewrite math and science 2. Think.

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

Watching international news, South Africa cited as positive example of country that acted early and correctly by locking down; let’s hope this works then

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

If a trio of honours students had written the Phala Phala report I would have failed all three and barred them from further access to higher education

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

What are South African politicians doing in Ukraine? To see for yourself? I can give you a local tour of devastation and destruction

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

What on earth do you say on your 110th birthday? You’ve razed the country to the ground without any felt accountability. I would cancel the birthday just out of a sense of decency if not shame

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

At 37,000 feet this morning a person wearing a hijab came out of the cockpit. The man next to me spilt his coffee. Thank you, my pilot Fatima Jakoet, for a smooth and pleasant flight.

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Until the president and his party make routine the firing of corrupt politicians at the highest level, we will be forever mired in this swamp of corruption

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Jonathan Jansen

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1 year

What exactly does Bheki Cele do? Apart from visiting crime scenes after the fact?

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

We will never win in the fight against corruption until the most prominent among our leaders end up in prison; until then, impunity reigns

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

You know you’re fired when they make you minister of tourism in a lockdown

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

My daughter asked whether her boyfriend was an essential service🙄 Well, that was a short discussion

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

My humble suggestion: cut the salaries of all Eskom employees by half until they solve this problem. Then you’d see some action

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Jonathan Jansen

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6 years

To this sending me private invitations to join a "Coloured" party, let me be clear. I am not Coloured. My commitment is to the human race. And there is no time or space in my politics for tribalism of any kind.

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Jonathan Jansen

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7 years

Dear Cyril, What you do or not do in the next 48 hours will determine your legacy for the rest of your life; this is it

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Jonathan Jansen

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2 years

When the Swiss take a stand against (Russian) tyranny, and your own government does not, then you know you’re screwed

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Dear Pravin, do not be distracted by the racist ‘Indian’ taunts; this is what desperate people do

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Jonathan Jansen

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5 years

Shout out please for Groote Schuur nurse Sister Colleen Grehan who never took a day’s leave serving the people for 35 years! My South Africa

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

A beautiful story—-that one of the most gracious givers this Christmas season is a man called Imtiaz Sooliman

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Jonathan Jansen

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4 years

This is your moment in history, Mr President. You will either be remembered as the leader who stared down corrupt elements in your party, or the one who caved in to political expediency. My advice? Show some backbone. Choose the country over party.

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Why is the deputy president getting medical treatment in Russia? And who is paying for it?

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Jonathan Jansen

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3 years

Dear Minister Cele, uphold the Constitution and do your job. Arrest Zuma.

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