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Otto Saayman retweeted
Dear political parties. Perhaps now is the time to think pragmatically as to how we are going to make South Africa work. Time to put civility, citizenship, city and country before politics please.
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Province completed:
Western Cape:
DA 53.95% ANC: 14.69% PA 7.42%
16 hung councils
Eastern Cape:
ANC: 46.06% DA: 18.31% SACP: 6.29%
12 hung councils
Northern Cape:
ANC: 41.55% DA: 21.73% EFF: 9.17%
18 hung councils
Limpopo:
ANC: 54.44% EFF: 11.21% DA: 8.17%
10 hung councils
Mpumalanga:
ANC: 43.65% DA 14.55% EFF: 10.44%
14 hung councils
Free State:
ANC: 37.14% DA: 27.56% EFF: 8.23%
15 hung councils
In total 133 hung councils as of now
@SABCNews #LGE2026
Otto Saayman retweeted
South Africa’s Department of Agriculture has spent R341 million to build a vaccine production facility at Onderstepoort Biological Products, which is yet to be completed 13 years after being announced.
dailyinvestor.com/south-afri…
Otto Saayman retweeted
Thank you for the long essay you googled, copied and pasted.
Now go read up on Municipalities and their economic model.
I will give you a head start… you pay for services like refuse removal & sewage directly to the municipality to get those services. The rich / middle class households subsidise the indigent households.
You can’t tax households in municipalities & not give those properties services. They need to be prioritised because if they aren’t… ratepayers can take municipal managers to court to be prosecuted
Do you go to Checkers, pay them & walk out empty handed?
Why does the middle class believe they are the only ones funding government services? Poor South Africans are taxpayers too! Every time they purchase VAT-taxable goods and services, they contribute to government revenue. They may not pay personal income tax or property rates, but that does not mean they contribute nothing to the economy. Let’s also remember that many poor people are unemployed not because they are lazy, but because our economy has failed to create enough opportunities. Poverty does not take away anyone’s right to basic services.
The middle class contributes more through certain taxes, but that does not give them exclusive ownership of public resources. Government revenue belongs to the public, not to one economic class. And let’s be clear,VAT is a national tax, while municipalities rely heavily on rates, service charges and other revenue sources. Both levels of government have responsibilities towards citizens. The real question should be why we are fighting among ourselves over who deserves service delivery instead of demanding accountability from those managing public money. The poor are not the enemy of the middle class. Corruption, unemployment, inequality and poor governance are the challenges we should be fighting together. We did not fight for democracy so that basic services could become a privilege reserved for those who earn more. South Africa belongs to all of us!!
Otto Saayman retweeted
ANC members are looking disappointed, somber and dejected, and some are in shock and don't know how to drop the arrogance. This must be an extremely hard day filled with regrets and eating humble pie. We saw this happening with the NP. It seems as if the spirit of Bishop Tutu is smiling upon this nation as his warnings that went unheeded seems to be playing out before our very eyes. 🇿🇦
Otto Saayman retweeted
The ANC across ALL MAJORITY BLACK VDs in the metros:
CPT: 52% (-20)
NMB: 51% (-23)
BUF: 50% (-24)
MAN: 47% (-25)
TSH: 33% (-26)
EKU: 32% (-26)
JHB: 30% (-20)
eTH: 22% (-41)
20%+ Swing in every metro with black voters. (!!)
Otto Saayman retweeted
The DA is currently double the size of the ANC in the City of Johannesburg. That’s a remarkable result in itself.
Otto Saayman retweeted
“Anyone who wants reparations based on history will have to gerrymander history very carefully. Otherwise, practically everybody would owe reparations to practically everybody else.”
— Thomas Sowell
How anyone defends the deterioration of our relationship with the biggest economy in the world is beyond me.
We need all the help we can get.
Good luck selling our wine to Iran.
##VoetsekANC
Good. Admitting that there's a problem is the first step.
Remember the 10111 crisis we have been pushing on?
Today AGSA is briefing the Portfolio Committee on Police, and the emergency call system remains one of the issues that concerns me most.
AGSA previously found a national abandoned-call rate of 26.44%, with some 10111 centres recording average response times of between 8 and 35 minutes. It classified the failure as likely causing substantial harm to the public.
There has been intervention. SAPS developed a 10111 recovery plan, established steering and technical committees, and allocated 535 additional recruits to the call centres. By the time of AGSA’s report, 497 had commenced duty.
But AGSA told the Committee today that SAPS has fallen behind with the corrective programme.
That is the problem.
A person calling 10111 is not interested in how many committees have been established or how many plans have been approved. They may be reporting a shooting, domestic violence, a child in danger or an attack happening in front of them.
They need someone to answer.
So the questions now are very simple:
What is the abandoned-call rate today?
How quickly are calls being answered and dispatched?
Have the hundreds of additional members actually improved the service?
Are the systems functioning properly across every call centre?
And when will AGSA be able to independently verify that the intervention is working?
There has been movement, but movement is not the same as recovery.
Until we can show that a person in danger can dial 10111, get an answer and have police dispatched quickly, this problem is not solved. IC
Otto Saayman retweeted
The way to push back and definitively refute claims of ethnic cleansing is to prioritize farm murders, take action against those that incite racial violence when they sing chants like “kill the boer”, and rescind racially discriminatory legislation.
The way to add fuel to the fire is to claim the concerns are all misinformation, dismiss anyone who raises them as being racist, and do nothing.
There is a high road that costs us nothing, and a low road that could cost us everything, and yet the ANC and its captured media establishment consistently chooses the low road.
Say what you will about Carlson’s persistence, but it’s clear a dangerous lie is being told in the name of white South Africans, and it’s time for them to push back, writes Tom Eaton. ebx.sh/9a0jKT
Net so! "Bou net vinniger." My nuwe slagspreuk!
Kritiek uit ANC-geledere is niks nuut nie. Naledi Pandor se aanval op Akademia se bestaansreg het wel die tonge los.
Dit het ook hierdie voorblad van @die_papier tot gevolg gehad.
Flip Buys, voorsitter van die Solidariteit Beweging het 'n eenvoudige antwoord op die aanval: Nee, ons steur ons nie veel aan haar uitlatings nie. Ons bou eenvoudig voort. Ek sien die uitlatings eerder as ’n weerligafleier vir die ANC se eie mislukkings. Sulke uitsprake skrik ons nie af nie. Inteendeel, dit motiveer ons net verder om Akademia vinniger en sterker uit te bou.
Otto Saayman retweeted
"You will not see a better explanation of why the ANC lost the country than South Africa’s former education minister, Naledi Pandor, calling for the state to tear down a university."
thecommonsense.co.za/editori…
