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2 years

🇿🇦If you want to fix SA, look no further than rugby - we mix it up, and we win - common purpose, national pride!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 No power, no water, no mayor, no premier … no President?🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Our entire political debate is about 6 individuals - instead of 60,6 million South Africans …🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦We need a RESET button for SA, now …🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 @LindiweSisuluSA How DARE you send R1 billion overseas to sponsor Tottenham HotSpurs when our children are dying of starvation?!🇿🇦

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1 year

I’ll contribute R100000 and a day’s manual labour if enough others join me to make this happen?!

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1 year

🇿🇦Come on Mr. President, let’s get rid of the scourge of pit latrines for everybody, everywhere, forever? Now! @CyrilRamaphosa 🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Will there be any life left in SA when we take it back from the ANC in 2024?!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Open the floodgates of alternative energy and private generation, now!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦Government’s source of revenue is tax. The source of tax is profit. The source of profit is the private sector. Got it? Don’t mess with it!🇿🇦

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Mark Barnes

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9 months

🇿🇦GAUTRAIN: 13 years old, 120 million passengers, 98,55% on time - immaculate condition, safe, predictable - we can do it - there is light at the end of the tunnel! 🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦It would take less than 100 top business leaders less than three years to fix our economy - fund them, authorise them, get out of their way …🇿🇦

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11 months

🇿🇦I’ve just read the papers - if the majority of South Africans understood the amount being stolen through government structures there’d be a revolution🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa - appoint our 100 best people to fix SA and let them get on with it - please, last chance … [start with 10]🇿🇦

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4 years

🇿🇦 We will not be the rainbow nation until we love our future more than we hate our past 🇿🇦

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7 months

🇿🇦Sandton is not the cure for Jo’burg. (we need to invade the inner city with answers, not isolate it and leave it to die)🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Are we seriously just going to sit around talking about SA’s imminent total collapse until it happens?🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦I want to fix SAPO. SOE’s are failing - not because they can’t be fixed, but because everyone wants to eat a piece of them on the way!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦a degree doesn’t make you a leader🇿🇦

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4 years

If you pay back money you stole, it doesn’t undo the theft! 🇿🇦

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4 years

🇿🇦 If just one person, any person, is allowed to defy a Constitutional Court order, then there is no law 🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Shit on the beaches, potholes in the roads, filth in the cities, crumbling infrastructure, violence everywhere … have we already surrendered ?🇿🇦

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20 days

🇿🇦I’m guessing it took maybe 10 complicit people to destroy SAPO - to steal it - from those who worked there, from all South Africans who would have benefited from its existence. You know who you are. Shame on you. You disgust me🇿🇦

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4 years

My contract as CEO of SAPO should’ve only ended today. If government had let management get on with our (board-approved, portfolio committee supported) strategy we would’ve completed the turnaround of SAPO by now. Imagine that ... 🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦I’m sure her apology will be posted to me?🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦What if taxpayers had the option of investing directly into (approved) infrastructure projects, instead of paying SARS?🇿🇦

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3 months

🇿🇦Why are we sending our soldiers to die in DRC?!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦To avoid looting, KZN flood relief funds need to be placed in one bank account, disbursed by an independent team of experts, led by a capable person of integrity - that’s it! 🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Now that the 7 have been chosen (well done) can we focus on the other 60 599 993?🇿🇦

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4 years

Pick 10 good people. Give them the R500 billion to fix SA as they see fit. Within a year inequality, poverty and unemployment will be replaced with the prospect of national economic dignity

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2 months

🇿🇦If you pay back stolen money, you’re still a thief - you just got caught!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦A tragic consequence of widespread corruption is that our vast unemployed population are looking for money, not jobs ☹️🇿🇦

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1 year

🇿🇦Another school, another 20 flushing toilets installed! ❤️ 🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦Look! A moving train!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦This is not OK.🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦I’m on a road trip through SA. It’s clear that too many of our people have nothing. This is neither sustainable, nor governable. We’ll only fix it together - exchanging our divided pasts for a common purpose future - to deliver unprecedented economic growth🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Who will lead us out of this mess?🇿🇦

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4 years

If the only punishment for stealing (when you get caught) is to repay what you stole, then stealing becomes an upside-only option ...

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2 years

🇿🇦The solution to SA is local - one street, one neighbourhood, one municipality, one metro at a time …🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦THIS IS THE RAINBOW NATION!Blitzboks and Springboks BOTH ranked No. 1 in the World!!🇿🇦

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4 years

🇿🇦What if our President appointed private sector business leaders to Chair inter-ministerial committees? Power, expertise and capital in the same room - now we’re talking ...🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa Priority list for ANC Top 7, 2023: 1. Do something 2. Do something 3. Do something 4. Do something 5. Do something 6. Do something 7. Do something!🇿🇦

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1 year

🇿🇦the levels of individual anxiety in South Africa are borderline explosive - we’re on edge and getting more grumpy, less tolerant, more depressed and angrier by the day …🇿🇦

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1 year

🇿🇦Hate speech is not ok, but hate song is fine … If you wanna tell someone to fuck off - don’t say it - sing it!🇿🇦

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2 years

Listening to news channels across the world, you have to conclude that politicians create more problems than they solve!!

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2 years

🇿🇦We’ll easily raise the capital for alternative, new energy installation internationally, as long as government doesn’t insist on controlling it🇿🇦

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4 years

You can’t borrow money to repay debt!

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2 years

🇿🇦When incompetence is given authority systemic failure is assured🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦Mr. President! Find the 10 BEST we have in 1. Finance and Investment [resources,technology,infrastructure,SME’s] 2. Healthcare 3. Education 4. Energy 5. Social development …give them three years to fix and transform SA! @CyrilRamaphosa 🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦When will our politicians stop describing the problem and start implementing the solution?!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦Vaccination or Lockdown - the choice is obvious!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦So, we can buy 51% of SOE’s now, can we?🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Who is on the Energy Crisis Committee? The same people who got us into this mess won’t get us out of it!🇿🇦

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3 months

🇿🇦The sun has risen in SA - it may even be a new dawn - is that a rainbow?🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦SAPO workers … I am humbled🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa just appoint the top 10 people in our country to deal with the top 10 crises in SA, then support them!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦I support paying tax, but clearly we need to be more discerning in who we elect to spend it🇿🇦

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1 month

🇿🇦 @BreadlineAfrica just replaced 7 pit toilet death-traps for 700 children at Defa Primary in KZN with 24 new low-flush facilities. Help us tackle this indignity !🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦No business can survive if it doesn’t get paid!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa If you want new ideas on an energy solution, invite new brains onto the Energy Crisis Committee🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦Putting your hazard lights on doesn’t create a parking bay!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦Ministers held hostage, Beitbridge border blocked, steel industry on strike - the descent into ruin steepens … how can we help? @CyrilRamaphosa 🇿🇦

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10 months

🇿🇦Since when is the settlement of an outstanding debt a matter for the Constitutional Court?🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦the private sector bubbles we’ve built to live in won’t survive the wreckage - we need to repair the core, for everyone … 🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦It would take less than ten people from each of government and private sector to plot a course of prosperity for SA … Why won’t they do it?!🇿🇦

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3 months

🇿🇦We, the people, the shareholders of SA, have appointment you, the government, as our board of directors - your task is to appoint competent executives to manage our country … just do that, and we’ll grow and win🇿🇦

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4 years

SAB’s cancelled capital expenditure is HUGE - beyond money - it will influence all SA investment thinking, locally and internationally. HUGE. HUGE. HUGE. 😢🇿🇦

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2 months

🇿🇦🥈SA 4X100 SILVER!!!!🥈🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦How about increasing SUPPLY by 18,65% instead of COST? (same impact on ESKOM revenue)🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Once upon a time there was a railway …🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa A bold cabinet reshuffle (now) would restore confidence and common purpose - its absence will entrench doubt and division🇿🇦

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1 year

🇿🇦Government is selling assets to pay current costs - a desperate strategy that never ends well!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Would the ANC rather destroy SA alone or fix it with partners?!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦We don’t all hate each other. We hate what’s happening, and we’re looking for someone to blame!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦I’d still like to help, I still want to make a difference🇿🇦

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1 year

🇿🇦1. PostBank illegally lends public savings to insolvent SAPO 2. Treasury repays PostBank from taxpayers’ money (as part of SAPO rescue) 3. PostBank then gets licensed by SARB as State Bank Are we out of our minds?!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦When will we stop saying “We need a strategy” and start doing something?!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦As public sector standards crash, private sector standards start falling too - we’re settling for less and less and less as we sink into the quicksand of failure … 🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Let’s follow the SMALLCROSS bridge-builders example - on a grand scale - and rebuild SA ourselves! (forget committees, policies, tenders, … just get things done)🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa Summon a team of experts to Room 159, Union Buildings - close the doors - find solutions. Do Something!🇿🇦

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2 months

🇿🇦I just filled my car - the petrol attendant said that was three weeks salary for him … keep perspective🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa Kliptown railway station … surely we could fix it?🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Shame on you - go to jail!🇿🇦

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3 years

🇿🇦Systemic self destruction of SOE’s continues unabated - talent, experience, energy and capital are left wasting on the sidelines, as decay takes centre stage 😢🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦False accusers should suffer the same punishment those they wrongly accuse would have if found guilty?🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦I do. I should’ve stayed and fought for what was right. SAPO is bankrupt now, it’s employees robbed of their medical aid, … and their future. A criminal disgrace!🇿🇦

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Former Post Office CEO regrets resigning

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2 years

🇿🇦no amount of pressure can force an incompetent cabinet to fix SA - they simply can’t do it🇿🇦

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4 years

Why don’t we employ local expertise? We’re just as smart as these fancy international consultants, and we have vested interest? 🇿🇦

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1 year

🇿🇦Read Portfolio Committee minutes, Minister - the answer is audited, public record. We don’t know how SAPO’s assets went from positive net assets of R5,2bn to negative R4,5bn+ (a R9,7bn+ loss) after I left ? (and pensions, medical aid, PostBank loans to insolvent SAPO …)🇿🇦

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11 months

🇿🇦Who would have thought that rugby would unite what politicians divided?🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦it’s getting personal - for so many people, across the spectrum, early warning signals of what would be an unbearable everyday life are already starting to show … 🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦If everybody fails, nobody fails. If everyone is guilty, nobody is guilty. Is this who we’ve become? Are these our levers of power, the currencies of our democracy? I say No!🇿🇦

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2 years

🇿🇦Leaders who have no idea how to succeed explain failure instead … we’re in desperate trouble🇿🇦

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