If only South Africans could understand that our situation is NOT NORMAL. Loadshedding, mass corruption, mass unemployment, a shrinking economy is NOT NORMAL.
Durban was built over 160 years from 1835. It was handed to ANC in 1995 as one of the only debt free cities on the planet. In less than 30 years ANC has almost destroyed it!
De Ruyter acted “too much like a policeman” in his attempts to end corruption at ESKOM - Mantashe . In other words Gwede's friends were feeling the heat!
Before ANC one could catch an overnight train from Joburg to Durban, eat and drink good food and wine in the dining car and sleep in a comfortable bed.
Anybody got a single reason why our crooked government does not crack down on scrap metal dealers who are buying our stolen rail and copper cable and exporting it to the east? One reason?
I lost my wallet the other day. A man returned it. Ioffered him a reward. 'No", he said. "That would seem as if I gave it back for the reward. I gave it back because it is yours".🙏🙏🙏
The ANC has created the impression that black people are unable to govern. I believe this is wrong. The trouble is that capable blacks are not to be found in the higher echelons of ANC.
When you eat out, remember your friendly waiter/waitress is not being paid a cent, they depend on your tips for rent, food, transport, everything. Tip generously!
ANC is in the final stages of decolonizing the electricity grid. Eskom ran for 50 years without a blackout (loadshed) before ANC deployed its cadres to Eskom.
Why does the ANC government not crack down on the taxi mafia, construction mafia, crime, corruption, hijackers, CIT attacks, etc? Does the party benefit from all of them?
"Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?"
THOMAS SOWELL
In the 1970's and 1980's the ANC called on its cadres to make South African ungovernable. In the 1990's it forgot to tell them to stop. Therein lies the root of the mess SA is in.
I asked my domestic worker whether the DA had made things better or worse in Mpophomeni (a suburb of uMngeni Municipality where she lives) since the DA took over from the ANC a year ago. He response:
"Better, MUCH better".
Brilliantly put!
"The ANC is no longer a .... political party but rather a venal patronage machine that exists mainly to convert tax revenues into Range Rovers."
William Saunderson-Meyer
"We rightly celebrated the end of apartheid, but, in hindsight, handing the country to the ANC has been a bit like throwing pearls before swine. Never in our wildest dreams could we have foreseen the destruction it was about to wreak". Barney Mthombothi in the Sunday Times/
Why does the ANC so hate the idea of a functional South Africa - a place of job opportunities, sufficient electricity. well maintained road and rail systems, minimal corruption etc?
The strange ban on walking on (now largely) deserted beaches and in parks tells me our leaders don't understand the Covid virus. They prefer us to flock together in indoor malls rather than spread out into the great and much safer outdoors. 🤔
“It is simply laughable that an international multibillion-dollar company must hand over at least 30% of its equity to the ANC government to operate within South Africa,” - Dianne Kohler Barnard
Time to set minimum educational standards for politicians? I suggest a degree or diploma for all MPs. MPLs and Councillors. Plus a simple critical thinking test?
ANC spokesman to SAFM interviewer: "Come to us, the ANC. for information. Don't publish fake news."
Interviewer: "Is Ramaphosa meeting with Zuma today?
ANC spokesman: "I cannot comment on that."
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"We have made it clear that Russia is a friend...And while we are friends with many all over the world, we cannot become sudden enemies at the demand of others," International Relations and Co-operation minister Naledi Pandor says.
#Newzroom405
"The minister (Gordhan) said that a lack of engineering and technical skills and experience in Eskom remains a significant challenge". All of which Eskom previously got rid of for colour-coding reasons.
Matashe handing out R200 notes. Either they are taxpayers money or ANC money owing to employees. Neither is legal. Nor is bribery. He must be prosecuted.
Why is Gwede Mantashe so hell-bent on limiting solar power and maximizing a R200 billion Karpowership fossil fuel deal?
Follow the money, folks. Follow the money . Somewhere there is a pot of gold awaiting someone.
It is bad enough that ANC destroyed the economy (see unemployment). But that it has allowed organised crime to take over the country is the biggest treason of all.
BURNING :Trucks, trains, schools, clinics, libraries and more. South Africans must be the most self-destructive people on the planet. Many builders. Many destroyers.
Pravin Gordhan says no crisis at Eskom until blackouts reach level 8 ! No wonder the economy and employment are shrinking. No power > no growth > no jobs. We will have blackouts until ANC is defeated.
Slowly but surely, branch by branch, region by region, province by province, the ANC is eating itself from within. The quicker this is all over, the better.
Ramaphosa has been president since 2018. Still the same bloated cabinet he promised to slash. Same tired, useless faces. No economic reforms. Just endless promises. I really wonder why he took the job. For the pomp and bodyguards?
Turns out that Ramaphosa, far from being a rich 'Honest Joe', is just another crude, cruel, crooked. lying, scheming. self-justifying, self-satisfied, smug ANC politician.
I don't know what he earned as a Gauteng MEC, or during his stint in the Presidency, but that watch is three times his annual salary as Tshwane Mayor, and almost twice his annual salary now as minister.
@sarstax
, does any of this interest you?
If Ramaphosa was wise and serious about getting rid of corruption, he would take the SAA money and pump it into NPA, Hawks and SIU. They are all under-resourced
This is a barefaced lie, Mbalula. The ANC inherited a fully functional rail network and smashed it with corruption and theft.
We inherited a 'broken Prasa' but we will fix it, Mbalula vows amid SIU probe of 44 officials