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Yes to education, renewables, democracy, free speech, econ devpt. & fin lit. NO to corruption, nuclear, racism, demagoguery & human-inflicted climate change

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@Peterman43
Peter Mansfield
3 years
If only South Africans could understand that our situation is NOT NORMAL. Loadshedding, mass corruption, mass unemployment, a shrinking economy is NOT NORMAL.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Bheki Cele always follows crime, never prevents crime
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Petrol attendants should teach Home Affairs staff about customer service.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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!
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
ANC has turned SA into a lab experiment testing how much shit people can take before they explode.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
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!
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
South Africans who have never travelled outside Southern Africa do not have a clue how much shit we are in. #ThanksANC
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2 years
No rescue helicopters due to no maintenance. A metaphor for the state of SA under ANC government.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
Never forget, Ramaphosa is more popular than ANC. If Ramaphosa goes now ANC will definitely go in 2024
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
ESKOM has 15000 surplus employees the government does not allow it to let go. Why not retrain them as cable police and cable theft investigators.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Why does ESKOM have blackouts in the early hours of the morning when everybody is sleeping and electricity usage is minimal? Serious question.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
SA is so abused by ANC that most South Africans do not realise how much shit we are in.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Donate to Gift of Givers. Avoid thieving govt funding agencies like the plague.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Just imagine 50 of Ramaphosa's ministers resigning. Too wonderful to contemplate. .
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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?
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
Why has SARS not attached Luthuli House to cover the missing R80 million PAYE non-payments?
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
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".🙏🙏🙏
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
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!
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
Ramaphosa said de Ruyter resigned because “it’s a tough job”. Lies. He resigned because of lack of govt support and attacks by mad Mantashe.
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@Peterman43
Peter Mansfield
10 months
I am 82. Is it ok for me to commit crimes? Will Ramaphosa pardon me too?
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Bottom line Herman Mashaba and his ActionSA just installed an ANC mayor in Johannesburg. Let the corruption frenzy commence.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
In almost (1926) 100 years ago the Kruger National Park was created. What parks have ANC created?
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
The 46% unemployment rate (75 % amongst youth) is not some bad luck or Covid-related, it it a direct result of ANC policies.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Weirdly, Ramaphosa compares SA to the sinking of the Titanic. But the Titanic sank with its lights on!
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
If ANC was serious about fighting corruption it would EXPEL all who oppose the 'step aside' rule.
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
I am so sick of all this race stuff. Guys, either we work together and win, or we go down in flames together and our country dies.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
The ANC is like a swarm of locusts destroying everything.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
It seems as if many in the ANC would rather have ESKOM collapse than have it handed to the private sector and run effectively.
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
Cuban engineers R1. 5 miillion each. Meanwhile local black and white engineers remain unemployed.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Those who want to survive on grants should vote ANC in 2024. Those who want jobs should vote for ANY OTHER party.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
The ANC tide is going out. The anger is growing. One morning in 2024 the election results will be announced. A real New Dawn will have arrived.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Always remember that Mantashe, Ramaphosa and Gordhan, not De Ruyter, are in charge of new power generation.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
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?
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
Ramaphosa ACTUALLY BOASTS that 18 million South Africans are receiving grants. In fact this fact proves the failure of ANC economic policies.
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Peter Mansfield
4 years
"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
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Loadshedding can easily be fixed - within 2 years - if govt just gets out of the way. Mantashe ideology won't fix it in a 100 years.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
Durban is a mess!
@NatashaJouber17
Natasha Joubert
1 year
Well done ANC!!! What a beautiful country you made us into! 🤬🤬🤬
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
The DA has 25% of the vote. If ActionSA can match this ANC is history.
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
I clearly recall Cyril saying "we know who the instigators are" re the July riots. Why have they not been arrested and charged?
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Bheki Cele screaming at Ian Cameron makes SA cabinet ministers look very juvenile in the eyes of the wider world.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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".
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Durban, once the best run port in Africa is now the worst run in the world. "Durban came 351st out of 351 with Ngqura at 349, Port Elizabeth at 348 and Cape Town at 347" #ThannksANC l https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/maputo-is-eating-transnets-lunch
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
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
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Cyril is like a captain of a Titanic staring unblinkingly at the iceberg in front of him. For God's sake, do something, man. Turn the ship around!!!
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
"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/
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Ramaphosa is a con artist
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
Extraordinary that Ramaphosa insists on keeping full taxis (breaks all his three Cs) and keeps beaches and parks closed (meet all his three Cs). Nuts.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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?
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
After the awfulness of apartheid I so wanted to be part of a successful country But ANC blew it
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
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. 🤔
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
Anybody know why Tito Mboweni won't answer this question: "Why did the billions go to SAA and not to vaccines?" Ashamed of the truth?
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
In the land of eternal loadshedding, it is amazing that solar-powered traffic lights are not installed at key intersections.
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
Cyril's cabinet must be one of the biggest bunch of incoherent, incompetent, political misfits ever gathered together in one place.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
I am not sure SA can survive another 2 years under the present Ramaphosa/ANC government. Thing are going downhill very fast.
@TheCitizen_News
The Citizen News
2 years
Eskom officials, police involved in syndicate stealing millions worth of fuel from Kriel Power Station – report
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Orania has NO crime. Thoughts?
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
What about Gift of Givers for Nobel Peace Prize? Nope, Ramaphosa cabinet prefers Cuban doctors 😭. Ideology rules everything?
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Peter Mansfield
11 months
“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
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
SAD FACT: unless ANC goes, most kids born nowadays will never have a job in their lives.
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
Any unemployed person who ever votes for the ANC again does not deserve to be employed.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
Any chance that the AKA shooting will persuade Ramaphosa that we need a real Minister of Police?
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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?
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Let us be clear: ANC has been a disaster for SA not because it is black led, but because it is led by corrupt incompetent scoundrels and villains.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
The ANC is so busy infighting and trying to reform itself that is has NO TIME to spare to notice that everything is collapsing around them.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
The trouble with John Steenhuisen is that he pitches to his existing supporters not to the millions worried about their grants.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
SAPS should be crawling all over ESKOM sabotage and corruption yet Cele gang does nothing! Why? Being paid off?
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Peter Mansfield
6 years
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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Peter Mansfield
3 years
Strange how EC voters vote for ANC and then race to the WC to benefit from DA better jobs, education and healthcare. .
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Ridiculous that sports fans cannot watch sport in open air stadia but can crowd together in indoor sports bars. Our cabinet is simple-minded.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
He is not sorry. He is sorry he was caught.
@jvnaidoo1
jv
2 years
Sihle Zikalala, KZN Premier. Apologises for dishonesty.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Hats off to Tshwane for going after those big fish including govt who don't pay their bills 👏👏👏
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian CHILDREN and this pompous fool feels nothing. Sies!
@Newzroom405
Newzroom Afrika
1 year
"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
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Why does ANC Govt want to take away guns from honest citizens BEFORE it takes away guns from gangs and criminals?
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
If the ANC were to be defeated in 2024 hundreds of thousands of new jobs could be created in the mining industry.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
"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.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Totally agree
@JacaNews
Jacaranda News
2 years
DA wants ministers to pay back money spent on generators
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
In 1994 the whole world was cheering for SA to succeed and offering assistance. Only ANC could stuff up such an opportunity.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
5 years
BURNING :Trucks, trains, schools, clinics, libraries and more. South Africans must be the most self-destructive people on the planet. Many builders. Many destroyers.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
AfriForum starts power company
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
Gordhan is a smug, self-centered, lying, senile idiot.
@TshweuMoleme
Mr. Tshweu
1 year
Sunday Times: Pravin Gordhan says he gave Andre De Ruyter his full support and was 'very nice to him' 😂
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
As ESKOM's richer paying customers go solar, leaving poorer and non-paying consumers behind, ESKOM's financial crisis will become ever more acute.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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.
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
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?
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Peter Mansfield
10 months
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.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Deployed cadres have no idea how to fix the things they break 💔
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Peter Mansfield
3 years
What is the point of fighting for freedom and then destroying the country you have been fighting for?
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Peter Mansfield
1 year
What kind of fool buys a R4 million watch? Lifestyle audit please!
@JacquesMaree73
Jacques Maree
1 year
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?
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Peter Mansfield
4 years
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
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
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
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Unemployment (resulting from ANC policies) is the biggest cause of inequality in SA.
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Peter Mansfield
2 years
Can you think of a single current ANC politician to whom you could honestly say: "Well done. Great job. Great integrity"?
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Peter Mansfield
5 years
If the unemployed millions continue to vote for the ANC, they are voting for their own unemployment.
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