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Last line is brutal 😭😭
YOU started in the gutter by saying "most useless journalist" to a young man doing his job. I asked you why you are insulting him and you repeated the insults. YOU stayed in the gutter. So I met you there and spoke in the language of your preference. I'm versatile like that.
I don't mind being called a bitch. In fact your own leader has repeatedly liked and retweeted posts that called me a bitch. I don't mind and am not looking for protection. I do appreciate your offer though.
Yes, let's keep things professional. It starts with you exercising your right to not like the journalist's question. But it doesn't extend to you dictating what he should and shouldn't ask, where and when. And the calling him "most useless journalist." You introduced words like "stupid " and "foolish." That was not necessary.
I AM sorry I said get your head out of your leader's backside. That was unnecessary. It undermines your right to put your head where you want to put it.
Julius sent them 🤣🤣
These were your views in 2024 phixiphixi ndini 😂 you’re a loser for encouraging people to not vote. An even bigger loser for not voting and bragging about it after having benefitted for over a decade from the labour of the VOTE! People stood in queues for you to be “Ndlozi”! They made a mark on ballots for you to have views that matter. You’re loser shame… you benefited from the blood and sweat of those before you so you can draft laws and stand at the highest echelons of power. Your influence is borne of the aspiration of the VOTE! Your wounds and bruised ego must never cost us young people deciding who governs. That you believe it should is proof that your departure was the best thing to happen to us.
Guess what, coward, we are still here!!! Alive! Existing! Pursuing economic justice whilst you wallow on the sidewalks having given up our collective quest because your “petite” ego couldn’t stand the heat. Because you felt if not you then nobody. Heal!
Soze
Unpopular opinion: Johannesburg’s best chance is a DA–ANC coalition, with power shared proportionally and @helenzille as mayor. It offers the strongest prospect of stability, a smooth transition and a workable relationship with provincial and national government. @MYANC
Lol
Let me say this yet again, if South Africans don’t apologize for what happened in their country to our people. @RealBlackCoffee is not welcomed here. Nigerians we are too complacent. How do we feel it’s okay to do that and we just move on without proper explanation or consequences. If you go for that show, MAY GOD PUNISH YOU
RT @motsohi_thabang: Well stated. They hate to listen to wise council from outside the ANC tent that is gull of choking hubris.
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Therapy retweeted
Molo Fikile, this is the right speech. It is 15 years too late.
The decline did not start with the MK Party or the GNU. It started at the ANC's peak.
These are the moments when this speech should have been given:
2007–2008, Polokwane and the recall of Mbeki. Factionalism became the main business of the movement, and COPE was the first split. That is the "internal divisions" you mention today.
2008, the start of load shedding. It was the first big sign that the state was failing at basic infrastructure.
2009–2011, the rise of service delivery protests. Communities were saying then exactly what you're saying now: no water, no refuse removal, no roads, councillors who don't show up. This was the moment for this speech.
2012–2015: Marikana, the Gupta landing at Waterkloof, the Nkandla findings, and Nenegate. Each one was a chance to choose accountability over loyalty. Each time the ANC defended the individual instead of the people.
2016, the loss of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay. That was the last clear warning before things became irreversible.
2018, VBS. Limpopo municipalities lost money that should have gone to water and roads. We still feel it here.
If this speech had been given in 2011 and acted on, with consequences for failing councillors, cadres deployed on merit, and corruption prosecuted instead of protected, the ANC would not be at 31% today and many of our towns would not be in the state they're in.
And to be honest, the words are not new. "Renewal" and "self-correction" have been in ANC conference documents for over a decade. The problem has never been diagnosis. It has been implementation and consequences.
So the humility is welcome. But people will judge you on one thing: which councillors, mayors and officials face consequences in the next 12 months. Show us that, and the trust might follow.
[WATCH] THE ANC IS SELF INTROSPECTING
The people of South Africa have spoken. As the ANC we have heard that my people. We recognise that many South Africans who once placed their confidence in the ANC have chosen to support other parties. Others have withdrawn from electoral participation altogether. We recognise their concerns, we will not question their judgement or explain away their decisions.
We will confront the reasons why people who
once regarded the ANC as their natural
political home have become disillusioned with our movement. We must acknowledge that in too many communities local government has fallen short of the expectations of our people.
Where communities have experienced unreliable water supplies, failing infrastructure, uncollected refuse, deteriorating roads, corruption and poor municipal administration, they have every right to demand better.
Where public representatives have become distant from the people they were elected to
serve, the people have every right to hold them accountable. And where our own internal divisions have distracted us from the needs of communities, we must accept responsibility.
We cannot ask the people to trust us merely because of our history. Our history gives us a responsibility to serve. It does not give us an entitlement to govern. The ANC must earn the confidence of the people through what it does today and what it delivers tomorrow. That is the lesson of these elections. And it is a lesson we accept with humility.
Dick Riding is your thing 😭
Dear Redi, there is a better way to ask a question to achieve what you want. Time and space and angle. That was amertuerish and he was pushing a narrative......he is embedded or trying to be famous as if he is brave. That was foolish and stupid. He could have done better from an objective angle with appreciation of sense of occassion. He will forever remain to be known for such stupidity.
Molo Fikile, this is the right speech. It is 15 years too late.
The decline did not start with the MK Party or the GNU. It started at the ANC's peak.
These are the moments when this speech should have been given:
2007–2008, Polokwane and the recall of Mbeki. Factionalism became the main business of the movement, and COPE was the first split. That is the "internal divisions" you mention today.
2008, the start of load shedding. It was the first big sign that the state was failing at basic infrastructure.
2009–2011, the rise of service delivery protests. Communities were saying then exactly what you're saying now: no water, no refuse removal, no roads, councillors who don't show up. This was the moment for this speech.
2012–2015: Marikana, the Gupta landing at Waterkloof, the Nkandla findings, and Nenegate. Each one was a chance to choose accountability over loyalty. Each time the ANC defended the individual instead of the people.
2016, the loss of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay. That was the last clear warning before things became irreversible.
2018, VBS. Limpopo municipalities lost money that should have gone to water and roads. We still feel it here.
If this speech had been given in 2011 and acted on, with consequences for failing councillors, cadres deployed on merit, and corruption prosecuted instead of protected, the ANC would not be at 31% today and many of our towns would not be in the state they're in.
And to be honest, the words are not new. "Renewal" and "self-correction" have been in ANC conference documents for over a decade. The problem has never been diagnosis. It has been implementation and consequences.
So the humility is welcome. But people will judge you on one thing: which councillors, mayors and officials face consequences in the next 12 months. Show us that, and the trust might follow.
[WATCH] THE ANC IS SELF INTROSPECTING
The people of South Africa have spoken. As the ANC we have heard that my people. We recognise that many South Africans who once placed their confidence in the ANC have chosen to support other parties. Others have withdrawn from electoral participation altogether. We recognise their concerns, we will not question their judgement or explain away their decisions.
We will confront the reasons why people who
once regarded the ANC as their natural
political home have become disillusioned with our movement. We must acknowledge that in too many communities local government has fallen short of the expectations of our people.
Where communities have experienced unreliable water supplies, failing infrastructure, uncollected refuse, deteriorating roads, corruption and poor municipal administration, they have every right to demand better.
Where public representatives have become distant from the people they were elected to
serve, the people have every right to hold them accountable. And where our own internal divisions have distracted us from the needs of communities, we must accept responsibility.
We cannot ask the people to trust us merely because of our history. Our history gives us a responsibility to serve. It does not give us an entitlement to govern. The ANC must earn the confidence of the people through what it does today and what it delivers tomorrow. That is the lesson of these elections. And it is a lesson we accept with humility.
Therapy retweeted
Swart Gevaar
I wasn't going to respond to this given its racist undertones, but I'll respond nonetheless.
You say denying Helen the mayorship is "legally permissible but would violate the substantive intent of our democracy." What intent, Prof? Our Constitution says councils elect mayors. Every councillor is there because voters put them there. If parties representing the majority of voters come together and elect a mayor, that IS democracy working exactly as designed.
A party on 35% has been rejected by 65% of voters. Nowhere does our democracy say the biggest party is entitled to the chain.
And where was this "substantive intent" in 2024? MK won 45% in KZN, the biggest party by far, and was locked out by a coalition that included the DA. You said nothing. No sermons about democracy then.
Instead, you call MK and the EFF, parties millions of black South Africans voted for, a path to "corruption," "state malfunction" and "societal collapse." So when black voters choose, it's collapse. When the DA falls short, excluding it is undemocratic.
That's not a democratic principle. That's preference dressed up as one. Principles must be consistent, or they aren't principles at all.
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Helen Zille is considering running for Joburg mayor in 2026 apparently. Let me tell you now, if she does, she will win. And not by accident. Like it or not, she has a proven record of turning a city around. Just look at Cape Town. You can debate her politics all you want, but she gets things done. Joburg, as it stands, is crying out for that kind of leadership. (And Cape Town has the lowest unemployment rate of all major cities).
If this happens, the ANC will lose Johannesburg for good. And when Joburg goes, so does Gauteng. People are tired. They want working traffic lights, clean streets, functioning municipalities, not endless excuses. Right now, everyone is complaining about what the ANC has done to the city. Zille offers a real, visible alternative.
This might be uncomfortable for some to hear, but mark this tweet and save it. If I am wrong, I will say so. But I doubt I will be.