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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 7d

"The leadership that Tambo painstakingly built — grounded in political education, ideological clarity, and humility — has been replaced by a class of opportunists who see politics as a ladder to personal enrichment. The ANC has lost its soul."

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OR Tambo Betrayed: How the ANC Killed the Legacy of a Giant

October is OR Tambo Month, a time to reflect on the moral compass of the ANC' s past. Yet, as we honour Tambo, we must confront the painful truth: the current ANC leadership has strayed far from his v...

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 7d

Deeply troubling results in polls:

Support for military rule in South Africa has surged dramatically, rising from 28% in 2022 to 49% in 2025.

The number of those who support democracy now sits at 49%.

That is a 49:49 situation, and dangerously equal.

www.news24.com/politics/pro...

Pro-junta sentiment grows in SA as frustration with democracy deepens – survey | News24

More South Africans favour military rule than oppose it, reflecting deep frustration with the country’s democratic system.

www.news24.com

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

South Africans entering or exiting the Schengen Area for a short stay (up to 90 days within any 180-day period) will be electronically registered, including:

A live facial image
Fingerprints
Biometric data
Entry and exit dates and locations

www.thesouthafrican.com/travel/europ...

New entry system kicks in for South Africans travelling to Europe

South Africans heading to countries in Europe will need to be aware of a new digital border system, which took effect on 12 October.

www.thesouthafrican.com

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

Justice served. – In the event that Zuma fails to pay the debt within 60 days of the date of the court’s order, the State Attorney is directed to have a writ of execution issued for the attachment and sale of his immovable and/or movable properties to satisfy the judgment.

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Zuma is ordered by the Gauteng High Court to reimburse R28. 9 million for legal fees

Former President Jacob Zuma has been ordered by the Gauteng High Court to pay back more than R28. 9 million in legal fees, including interest.

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

"By September 29, Sunshine Hospital had issued 6,285 summonses against the #RAF and obtained 647 judgments totalling R180.4m. Legal costs and interest arising from delayed payments were estimated at R23.8m."

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

Sunshine Hospital Director Ford’s affidavit detailed a 20-year relationship with the Road Accident Fund that was fraught with erratic payments, litigation and “total disregard for the rule of law”. The hospital had to close due to sustained nonpayment.

www.businessday.co.za/news/2025-10...

RAF faces Scopa heat over R300m in unpaid claims to hospital

Sunshine Hospital’s closure reveals financial strain over unpaid claims

www.businessday.co.za

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

Mchunu in March 2025 in parliament regarding Mogotsi: "I do not know that man."

Mchunu in October 2025 in parliament regarding Mogotsi: "I do know Brown Mogotsi and have met him on several occasions."

Nothing to see here, just the (suspended) Minister of Police of South Africa.

Senzo Mchunu dismisses claims of any ties with Vusi 'Cat' Matlala despite the latter's association with Brown Mogotsi. " I do know Brown Mogotsi and have met him on several occasions... I wasn't aware of any person he links up with in his own time." #Newzroom405

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

The friendly #Pangolins, that look back on more than 80 million years of existence on this planet, are the world’s most trafficked mammals. Their death goes in the hundred of thousands. A research team now found that trafficked, they too pose a health problem: ticks.

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Hidden hitchhikers: Ticks on trafficked pangolins pose health threats

Scientists warn that ticks carried by trafficked pangolins may spread pathogens across continents, affecting people and animals

mg.co.za

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

"Witness A also told the Madlanga commission that Molefe received information leaks from police officers while in custody and later travelled to the UK using a fake passport while on bail ... [which] indicated Molefe’s influence within law enforcement."

mg.co.za/politics/202...

Hawks helicopter attempted to stop Molefe arrest, Witness A tells Madlanga commission

The anonymous witness said frequent interference in the investigation of murder suspect Katiso Molefe showed how far his influence reached in the police service

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

Mchunu’s testimony on Tuesday directly contradicted evidence previously given by deputy national commissioner for crime detection Shadrack Sibiya, who told the committee he removed the dockets because he “could not disobey an order from the minister”.

mg.co.za/politics/202...

Senzo Mchunu throws Shadrack Sibiya under the bus, denies directive to remove 121 dockets

He contradicted the deputy national commissioner, who said he took the dockets from the task team because he ‘could not disobey an order from the minister

mg.co.za

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

"Nearly 1,000 children have died from severe malnutrition in SA over just 18 months, a stark and heartbreaking reality. Even one child lost to hunger is too many. But nearly a thousand lives cut short in just a year and a half is unconscionable."

www.sowetan.co.za/opinion/2025...

OPINION | Fight against hunger urgent and complex, but can be done

The logistics and packaging industries have a vital role to play in addressing food insecurity

www.sowetan.co.za

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

The youngest gang member is 13 years old. Two teenagers dead, a 16 year old fighting in hospital. Calmly, the gang youngsters went into the yard and shot 20 bullets into them.

The police were only three streets away, conducting anti-gang raids.

South Africa 2025.

www.news24.com/southafrica/...

‘They were so calm’: Cops search for teen suspects after Westbury shooting leaves two dead | News24

While seven teenagers were being pumped full of bullets in Croesus Street, Westbury police were just three streets away conducting raids in the gang-riddled area west of the Johannesburg city centre.

www.news24.com

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 14d

“He said Ze is a close friend of Julius Malema, who is a politician, who then tends to be close to General Sibiya. So, he was connecting the person that we arrested to Ze, and then Ze to Julius Malema.”

currentaffairsza.com/2025/10/21/m...

Madlanga commission witness claims Julius Malema is close to Shadrack Sibiya

A witness at the Madlanga commission has claimed EFF leader Julius Malema is close to suspended SAPS boss Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya.

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 15d

Fairy Tales are the very fabric of South African politics. The fantastical mixes with reality, and at the end no one can distinguish the one from the other. Professionals call this Realpolitik and spin happily away.

Read.

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Screen dump of page with the story of the President who had no nephew

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 15d

Fairy Tales are the very fabric of South African politics. The fantastical mixes with reality, and at the end no one can distinguish the one from the other. Professionals call this Realpolitik and spin happily away.

Read.

commentandopinion.co.za/2025/10/21/t...

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 15d

In March, responding to questions in the Police Portfolio Committee, Mchunu insisted: “I don't know this person,” referring to Mogotsi.

Four months later he admitted, to know him, but only as a "comrade".

Today at the Ad Hoc Committee in parliament he says he has known Mogotsi since 2017.

2017!

Screendump showing suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu answering questions in the Ad Hoc Committee in parliament on October 21, 2025

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 15d

The ANC and Ezulweni Investments, the company owed millions for services provided during the party’s 2024 election campaign, have reached an agreement to resolve their dispute.

The ANC, facing bankruptcy, got off the hook in the last minute. – How, they won't say.

www.news24.com/politics/anc...

ANC reaches settlement with Ezulweni amid frozen accounts crisis | News24

The ANC and Ezulweni Investments, the company owed millions for services provided during the party’s 2024 election campaign, have reached an agreement to resolve their dispute.

www.news24.com

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 15d

“At the moment, BEE policies, legislation and regulations as they stand apply without any dilution whatsoever, and we will continue to insist that the BEE process of transforming our economy is the correct approach,” Ramaphosa told journalists on Monday evening.

currentaffairsza.com/2025/10/20/c...

Cyril Ramaphosa fires back at DA, says BEE applies 'without dilution whatsoever'

President Cyril Ramaphosa stresses that BEE is the correct approach to transforming South Africa's economy following DA's new bill.

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 15d

"One committee member quipped that “no other state entity pays its executives to live like rappers on tour.” But behind the humour was outrage: millions squandered while victims have waited years for settlements that, in some cases, have still not been paid."

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The R500bn RAF accounting question nobody wants to answer

Parliament’s inquiry into the Road Accident Fund has exposed not just administrative collapse, but a disagreement about whether road accident victims deserve compensation or charity. The legal profess...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 15d

"Like the UDF before us, we believe that change will come when South Africans of all backgrounds take ownership of their country’s future. The time for spectatorship is over. The time for collective action has arrived."

www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

Unite for Change looks to the UDF for inspiration

Just as the UDF mobilised all of society to bring political freedom, we are building a movement to bring ethical, effective governance and economic renewal to every corner of our country.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 16d

Here's to hope.

Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 16d

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has pledged R7m to bring electricity to Grogro — an informal settlement on privately owned land in Gqeberha, where residents have waited for more than 40 years for basic services.

Gqeberha informal settlement is promised R7m electricity lifeline

www.dailymaverick.co.za

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 17d

In an affidavit, President Ramaphosa has asked that the court either change the wording of the article 19 of the controversial Expropriation Act or declare it unconstitutional.

Hello? Who signed it again?!

And parliament must do it, court can't. No legal advisers?

www.news24.com/citypress/po...

Ramaphosa admits under oath that Expropriation Act’s article 19 is unworkable | News24

President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged in court papers that article 19 of the controversial Expropriation Act creates a ‘circular process’ that makes the law unworkable, asking judges to either re...

www.news24.com

Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 20d

The insinuation by Judge Anthony Miller that Zuma would be poor and could not live after repaying the stolen money, borders on absurdity. The man has raked in so many millions of rand that he can easily pay R28.9m and still be fat and rich.

Different to millions of poor in RSA, he never cared for.

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 20d

I just leave this here:

Voting at News24 results on whether Jacob Zuma's pension should be attached to repay his R28.9m legal bill:

No say 4% - 140 votes
Yes say 96% - 3314 votes

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Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social · 20d

Here are ideas, how poor Mr. Zuma could live after giving back the money that was stolen from taxpayers who had to fund his defence costs in his corruption (sic) trial:

□ Sell Nkandla, that you build with stolen money
□ Pay back the bribes you got from the Guptas
□ live like millions of poor in SA

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