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AfriForum holds @PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa and other ANC leaders in government directly responsible for South Africa’s removal from AGOA and the job losses that will result.
According to @afriforum, President Ramaphosa and his government’s foreign policy, as well as his announcement on 23 January 2025 that he had signed the Expropriation Act into law, directly prompted President Donald Trump’s announcement just ten days later, on 2 February, that the US would take action against South Africa. AGOA sets explicit requirements for the protection of private property rights and stipulates that beneficiary countries may not undermine US national security or foreign policy interests.
As early as April 2024, AfriForum sent a letter to President Ramaphosa warning him of the risks that the Expropriation Act, which allows for expropriation without compensation, posed to South Africa’s trade relations. Ramaphosa did not even respond to the letter, and the country is now reaping the bitter fruits of his and other ANC leaders’ reckless policies and actions.
Over the past year, AfriForum, @solidariteit and the Solidarity Movement have put forward comprehensive proposals during discussions with the South African Presidency in an effort to resolve the dispute with the US. Solidarity also held extensive discussions with the US in an attempt to save AGOA. Unfortunately, the Presidency disregarded these efforts, and ordinary South Africans are now paying the price.
Ramaphosa and his colleagues in the ANC leadership have placed their own ideology and party interests above the interests of ordinary South Africans.
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Another PIC/GEPF investment failure.
Concor has gone into business rescue after receiving R1.8 billion in investment funding from the GEPF.
It's starting to look like the state has been using these funds to artificially create black owned consortiums and keep companies (and jobs) that would otherwise be dead in the water alive.
Unfortunately, this strategy is collapsing. Most likely because of the insistence that these companies not be run by the most capable but by the most politically expedient skin colour.
Which begs the question - how much of the paper value of the PIC and GEPF translates into real value?
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This reprehensible parliamentarian, @Mngxitama2, should know that @afriforum’s legal team is coming for him in a big way. I have just instructed our legal team to determine the most appropriate legal course of action and proceed accordingly.
These hateful statements about an Afrikaner farmer who was brutally tortured are no political game. We are prepared to commit every resource necessary to ensure that he is brought to book.
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South Africa is likely to face punitive measures through a reduction in the number of products eligible for duty-free access under AGOA. I believe strongly in good governance and in the principle that public resources should be used for the purposes for which they were intended. However, that does not appear to be what the United States is currently demanding of South Africa - perhaps because the country is not, at this moment, viewed as a model of sound governance. This distinction is precisely why I took issue with your statement.
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“Potholes will be there because we live in the situation of a climate change there are rains water the the streets get washed out” ANC SG Fikile Mbalula
“We are not talking something that you know is falling from the sky we talking about what government is going to do to help” @MbalulaFikile
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JUST IN: Police have arrested former IDAC head, Adv Andrea Johnson, in Pretoria.
She is expected to appear in court later.
The charges apparently relate to defeating the ends of justice.
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Warned. Reinstated. Now SARS is at the door.
The City of Tshwane has confirmed SARS notified it of a search warrant for the office and home of its CFO, Gareth Mnisi.
This is the same CFO who chaired the bid committee that cancelled a 2024 security tender. Chats before the Madlanga Commission show the request to block it came from the camp of late taxi boss Jotham "Mswazi" Msibi. Mnisi denies any knowledge of that.
He was suspended in April. By July, council had downgraded the allegations and he was back at work on a final written warning. The DA is still challenging that in court.
Why it matters: Tshwane gave him a soft landing. If SARS is now knocking, the city has some explaining to do.
#MadlangaCommission
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They don't cry this way when they are stealing money from our people. Scumbags! 🇿🇦
DENIED BAIL | The Mokopane Magistrates’ Court has denied bail to Mogalakwena Local Municipality Municipal Manager Morris Maluleke (43).
Maluleke appeared in court on 16 October 2026 for his formal bail application. The application was opposed by Senior State Advocates Martin Molokwane and Netshianda, Advocates Muligi and Mutshaeni, and State Advocate Nzimande.
The State argued that Maluleke faces serious charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering. It further submitted that he may interfere with witnesses and ongoing investigations, and that his release on bail would not be in the interests of justice at this stage.
The court upheld the State’s submissions and denied Maluleke bail. He failed to discharge, on a balance of probabilities, the onus to show that he should be admitted to bail.
Maluleke was arrested on 7 October 2026, together with his company, Bona Cord Vulstasie, in connection with allegations of fraud, corruption and money laundering arising from a municipal fleet management contract.
The State alleges that Maluleke initially approved a fleet contract valued at approximately R4 million and later authorised payments totalling R24 million, allegedly resulting in substantial financial loss to the municipality.
The State further alleges that, in December 2022, Maluleke irregularly awarded a R24 million fleet tender to Fleetmove (Pty) Ltd without following the prescribed supply chain management processes. Although payments allegedly began in January 2023, services were only rendered between April and May 2023, after the municipality’s Legal Division threatened to terminate the contract.
The investigation also uncovered allegations that payments totalling R230 000, which the State believes were kickbacks, were made into an account linked to Maluleke through a company of which he is the sole director.
The matter has been postponed to 3 November 2026 for further investigation. Maluleke remains in custody.
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The City of Tshwane @CityTshwane presently loses approximately 35% to 43.8% of its total water supply to physical leaks and infrastructure losses. It amounts to a monetary loss of between R1.7 billion and R2.2 billion per year. That’s between a third and almost half.
Key figures regarding water loss in Tshwane include:
Physical and Total Losses: As of late 2026, physical water losses stand at about 35.0%, while total water losses (including unbilled or non-revenue water) reach up to 43.8%.
Volume Lost: This translates to roughly 165.6 million kilolitres (billions of litres) of treated water lost every year.
Financial Cost: The annual monetary value of these water losses is estimated between R1.7 billion and R2.2 billion per year.
Infrastructure Age: Much of the city's pipe and water network is over 50 years old, driving high rates of pipe bursts and continuous leaks.
The cost of water lost to leaks in Tshwane is ultimately paid for by paying ratepayers and local consumers, though the burden is absorbed in different ways depending on where the leak occurs:
Paying Ratepayers (Via Tariffs): Because the City of Tshwane must buy bulk treated water from utilities like Rand Water, water that leaks out of public municipal mains still has to be paid for. To cover this multi-billion rand deficit, the municipality is forced to raise overall water tariffs. This means honest, paying residents indirectly subsidise the water that bleeds into the ground.
The Municipality (Via Reduced Budgets): The estimated R1.7 billion to R2.2 billion annual loss severely drains the city’s operational budget. As a result, money that should go toward improving roads, electricity, and parks is diverted to absorb the cost of wasted water, leading to a general decline in public service delivery.
The extreme strain on this infrastructure is heavily visible on the ground. In October 2026, severe system issues have led to consecutive crises, including a critical sewer line burst that contaminated water near the Finlay Reservoir, alongside massive chlorination supply failures that forced the complete shutdown of the Bronkhorstspruit Water Treatment Works.
Because the metro is losing nearly half of its water while asking residents to cut down on usage, the Department of Water and Sanitation recently mobilized a R500 million public-private investment drive (running from 2026 to 2031) specifically targeting the City of Tshwane to aggressively combat these non-revenue water losses.
For more: dws.gov.za/documents/2026-09…
Update on water restrictions affecting Garsfontein and Klapperkop systems.
These two reservoirs remain critically low as high water consumption continues to slow down recovery and resulting in limited supply to some areas.
We appeal to residents to use water sparingly to enable the full recovery of the reservoirs and ensure adequate supply to all areas. @CityTshwane
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Let’s be honest , when ANC holds 40% any combination of political parties will keep ANC in power through coalitions.
Smaller parties become kingmakers which means even with their tiny percentage they can get ANC over the line to rule at National, provincial & municipal level.
Interestingly, MK & EFF are just factions that broke off from ANC a few years ago.
If ANC + MK+ EFF go into coalition we are back to square one like 1994
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Retired DCJ Mbuyiseli Madlanga has asked the state’s National Intelligence Coordinating Committee to grant his commission permission to publicly air classified documents that address the criminal infiltration of the criminal justice system.
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As the risk grows of South Africa being kicked out of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in November, social media is filled with "experts" telling you who's to blame. Many are unfortunately just parroting ANC propaganda verbatim without bothering to actually read what the Act says.
Here are some of the key eligibility requirements for a country to remain in AGOA:
The country must have, or is making progress toward establishing:
1. A market-based economy that protects private property rights and minimises government interference in the economy.
2. The rule of law, political pluralism, and the right to due process, a fair trial, and equal protection under the law.
3. A system to combat corruption and bribery.
4. Does not engage in gross violations of internationally recognised human rights or provide support for acts of international terrorism and cooperates in international efforts to eliminate human rights violations and terrorist activities.
Has the ANC-led South African government been meeting these criteria?
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Former South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter said that the country’s leaders lie about serving the people and instead serve themselves.
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It's economic illiteracy to believe South Africa can replace the USA with Russia.
Most Africans don't understand how small Russia's economy actually is.
Take the state of Texas, just one single state in America: its nominal GDP sits at a record $2.93 trillion. Meanwhile, the entire Russian Federation, with over 140 million people and all its massive landmass, has a nominal GDP of around $2.86 trillion.
Let that sink in. A single American state produces more economic output than the entire nation of Russia.
Under AGOA, South Africa doesn't just export raw dirt; it exports high-value manufactured goods. South Africa sends fully assembled luxury cars from Pretoria and the Eastern Cape, complex machinery, and massive volumes of high-grade citrus to Western markets completely duty-free.
Russia is a resource economy, just like South Africa. It doesn't want or need South African manufactured cars or industrial machinery; it has its own metals and energy. Even if it wanted to buy South African goods, its economy is heavily sanctioned, cut off from global banking networks like SWIFT, and lacks the consumer purchasing power to absorb what South Africa produces.
It is very easy for populist politicians to stand on stages, play anti-Western ego games, and talk about "BRICS alliances." But those politicians aren't the ones working on the vehicle assembly lines in Port Elizabeth or picking fruit in Limpopo.
If South Africa loses AGOA, over 500,000 jobs are at immediate risk. You cannot replace a multi-billion dollar premium consumer market with a wartime, sanctioned economy smaller than Texas.
Stop letting politicians substitute cold, hard economic data with revolutionary slogans. Playing tough-guy politics with your largest trading partners isn't anti-colonialism; it's economic suicide.
Imagine looking at a multi-billion dollar trade agreement that keeps South Africa's automotive, manufacturing, and agricultural sectors alive, and casually saying, "We'll just replace it with BRICS."
People love to swallow political propaganda. The absolute economic delusion is breathtaking.
The US trade deal allows South Africa to export high-value, manufactured goods, like fully assembled luxury cars, machinery, and processed citrus, completely duty-free.
This isn't just "trade"; it is the literal lifeblood of hundreds of thousands of high-paying industrial jobs.
You think China and Russia want to buy South Africa manufactured BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes? Absolutely not.
China doesn't buy finished goods from Africa; they buy raw materials. They want our raw chrome, manganese, and coal, which they process themselves and then sell back to us as finished products.
Replacing the US market with China means turning South Africa from an industrial hub back into a basic mining colony.
South Africa already runs a massive trade deficit with China. Shifting entirely to them doesn't "save" the economy; it completely surrenders it.
Furthermore, Russia's economy is heavily sanctioned and smaller than the state of Texas, they cannot consume our exports even if they wanted to.
It is easy for armchair politicians to play anti-Western ego games on social media, but ordinary workers in vehicle assembly plants and citrus farms cannot eat "BRICS solidarity."
Losing AGOA for political grandstanding isn't a strategic pivot, it's an economic suicide mission.
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When the informal economy starts clocking in R900 billion, it’s no longer a sector that should be pushed to the side.
It is telling us that micro businesses should sit at the centre of South Africa’s future and not be treated as a welfare programme or a market for big corporates to raid.
About 40 years ago, a South African businessman who was involved in an import/export business in Durban flew to Japan to see a large company that manufactured steak knives (and was exporting 32 million knives to the US at the time).
The South African wanted to meet management & inspect the production facilities.
He went to a beautiful headoffice in the CBD of Tokyo but whenever he asked to see the factory that produced the knives, management avoided the subject; distracting him with trips to tourist attractions around the city.
Eventually, the South African put his foot down and said he would not sign the contract until he saw the factory.
The managing director drove the South African to the outskirts of Tokyo where he stopped at an area with lots of shacks.
The MD walked his guest to a shack and opened the door, inside was an old man with a 1950s machine in superb working condition used to press out stainless steel blanks.
The South African was completely shocked and asked if this was the factory?
No, was the response.
There were 1000s of these shacks around Tokyo each pressing out steel blanks.
The MD then went onto to describe the rest of the production process:
There were similar number of shacks shaping the blanks into a blade, another set of shacks sharpening the blades, another lot making copper pins to fasten the blades to the handle and the final lot of shacks assembling the knives.
All these operations were independent micro businesses contracted to do highly specific tasks.
The South African asked how the components were transported between shacks.
The Japanese MD showed him a fleet of motorbikes with boxes on the back.
They were the link between all the shacks & the value chain…
The only operation that the company itself owned was a warehouse where the knives were packed in the presentation boxes and loaded into shipping containers.
Quality control was exercised at this final stage.
The point of the story is that the South African expected a company producing millions of knives would be in a modern factory with an assembly line.
He thought every stage of the manufacturing process would be owned and controlled by the company.
The Japanese MD said the networking approach was developed by Japan after the Second World War to break into the global market.
Given that Japan ,at the time, had not built up a reputation in quality, the only way could gain market share was by undercutting the prices of competitors.
This in turn meant ultra specialisation at the micro business level with minimal overheads and with the ownership of capital assets diffused amongst many small enterprises.
It’s called “shitauke” which means subcontracting.
Japan later passed laws to stop big companies crushing those suppliers with late payment and predatory prices.
The small workshops are treated as industrial infrastructure not a peripheral economy. Those little shacks have since grown into industrial nodes.
In South Africa we already have fragments of the model: bakeries supplying thousands of loaves a day to spazas and hawkers; welders, panel beaters, seamstresses, furniture makers, metalworkers.
If we forge a proper strategy for them, the spin off will be extra jobs in the townships & increased disposable income will start a multiplier effect in those communities
Japan did not grow by seizing the means of production.
It grew by letting thousands of small owners hold the machines & independently control the value chain until the final warehouse. South Africa already has the micro enterprises but treats them as a social problem instead of an opportunity for a more inclusive, industrialised economy.
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Independent economist Duma Gqubule questions why South Africa alone is failing to grow its economy and create jobs while other developing countries average an annual GDP growth of over 4%. He says the National Treasury and the SA Reserve Bank don't care about job creation.
Watch: tinyurl.com/32jnas2e
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Italy's @GiorgiaMeloni
“If, during a march or demonstration, you join a group of five or more people and start throwing stones, firecrackers, sticks... you risk up to five years in prison and a fine of up to €20,000.
You break it, you pay for it. And if the person who breaks it is a minor, their parents pay.”
👏👏👍
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Makone Maja: " BEE has corruption embedded into it as a feature rather than a bug, and corruption is the ultimate fate of any policy and institution that forfeits meritocracy."
Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/19…
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Shocking behaviour by @sarstax. @GovernmentZA this is unacceptable. 👇
SARS bragging because 94 of their managers earned R270 million in the last financial year!
One employee received R11. 82 million!
People are working like slaves, so that comrades, cadres and the connected can eat! 🚮🚮🚮
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