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How might we remember the days of plunder? dailyfriend.co.za/2020/09/13… via @DailyFriendSA
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🚨No DNA, just RSA 🇿🇦
🛩️Rowan Tooth from Kimberley just received one of the UAE’s highest honours for what he did last month.
He was off-duty on flydubai flight FZ1073 (Dubai to Tel Aviv) when the co-pilot attacked the captain with an axe and sent the plane into a steep dive. The injured captain unlocked the door, passengers and crew restrained the attacker, then Rowan and a New Zealand pilot took control, pulled it out of the dive and landed safely in Saudi Arabia.
🙏All 182 on board survived💯
🛩️🫡Well done, Captain. South Africa is proud of you 🇿🇦
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Great to finally get a name and a face to fit to the local hero.
The South African pilot's name was Rowan Tooth. Originally from Kimberley. novanews.co.za/watch-norther…
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Helen bought that transformer. We paid over a million
Have you no shame ?
[IN PICTURES]: Transformer Replacement in Snake Park, Soweto. Today we brought electricity back. We need to defeat izinyokanyoka
#OperationKhanyisa
#GrowingGautengTogether
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The post attributes the Snake Park transformer replacement to the Gauteng government, but images show DA flags beside the blue transformer and accounts credit Helen Zille with funding its purchase.
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Why isn't this much bigger news in South Africa?! South African, from the "Groot Gat" (Kimberley), is among the pilots who saved a planeload of passengers from premature death at the hands of a jihadi terrorist on @flydubai flight from Dubai to #Israel! Rowan Tooth Rocks!
What an achievement!! Well done Rowan Tooth from Kimberley South Africa, one of the pilots that saved the crippled @flydubai 737
WATCH | Northern Cape pilot among those receiving UAE medals for foiling mid-air terror attack | NovaNews share.google/vDE84TFIHtMGANp…
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Government is like a wet blanket, weighing down the dynamism of small and medium enterprises with its race-rigged red tape.
Neither government nor business can achieve the transformation of our economy acting alone.
We need each other.
We need a capable and developmental state.
We need a dynamic, competitive and socially responsible private sector.
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Akilesh Gupta... In the dock for murder... No valid drivers license, contravened immigration laws... Who the ppl that housed, fed and gave car keys to this illegal MF that ended in him killing a police officer in a rage simply because she gestured to him to slow down at a pedestrian crossing... They also fully complicit and need the book thrown at them as well...
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Ah...the ongoing obsession around Cape Town and spatial apartheid. When Alexandra is 5km from Sandton. How's things going there? Can they drink their tap water? Do they even have water?
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Joburg mayor says it is not a crisis – Robertsham has not had water in a week
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Folks must chill. They waiting for the whole city to first have no water before taking action.
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The reason why people are NOT voting for the ANC is because of our experience OF the ANC in govt... the gross incompetence and criminality of ANC govt
The ANC Veterans League says South Africans should vote for the ANC not because of its liberation history but because of the party’s experience in governance.
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After weeks without water, frustrated residents from Melville, Auckland Park, Westdene, Emmarentia and Greenside blocked Main Road in Melville to demand answers
#ourcitynews #waterprotest #Joburgwater
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WATCH | ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile on a door-to-door in Marlboro Flats, Jhb North. He met Mama Ester Mdumata, 73, who has lived in the area since 2003 and has been waiting for her RDP house. She has all the papers that show she has been allocated one for Phase 1 in Alexandra but there hasn’t been any movement since. Video: Kgothatso Madisa
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While load shedding has become less acute as a major national issue, Johannesburg has continued to struggle to keep the lights on.
60% of Johannesburg's power outages were caused by deteriorating and outdated networks.
City Power estimates that its infrastructure backlog stands at R44.25 billion.
📄 Read "Powering Joburg's Turnaround", the fourth report in CDE's "Johannesburg Matters: Fixing South Africa's growth engine" series: cde.org.za/johannesburg-matt…
#JoburgMatters #Joburg #Johannesburg #SouthAfrica #Electricity #Governance
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It seems that the former JPC CEO terrible legacy at the entity continues through her loyalists @DA_JHB have long asked for all contracts signed off by Helen Botes for the last 15years to be investigated, I am reliably informed her loyalists are bent on defying new Senior Management. Who is actually running JPC is it the new CEO OR Helen Botes through her loyalists still at the entity. JPC always had political interference, how many politicians are involved there? @DAGauteng
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UPDATED: Last night's murder of Thulani Mbana, a Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) caucus leader and ward candidate in the Metsimaholo Local Municipality in the Free State, brings to at least nine the number of political figures murdered so far this month as South Africa gears up for local government elections on 4 November. Police say the motive for his murder has "not yet been established".
So far this month, as South Africa gears up for local government elections on 4 November, there have been at least five attacks on political figures with 8 people murdered and 5 wounded. There has been only one arrest. In addition, the @GI_TOC assassinations database recorded 43 politically-related killings in South Africa between January and the end of September 2026. globalinitiative.net/analysi…
