So. We have confirmation that Starlink is a client of Resolve. This means that the former Leader of the DA, facilitated a meeting with a prospective “tender” applicant which resulted in the Minister beginning changing rules to fit the requirements of said “bidder.”
That, my dears is corruption.
MK Party MP Vusi Shongwe claims he was offered a R2.2 million-a-month security tender, R10 million in cash or three bulletproof BMWs to halt asking questions about suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Feroz Khan.
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this clip is a perfect example of how investing early can pay off big time
3 weeks ago this kid (Luchito) camped outside the team hotel to collect autographs & meet all 26 Bafana players
today he owns a piece of history 🇿🇦🇿🇦
They prepared 33K camera and drones to protect foreigners
But they can’t do the same to fight the gang violance in Cape Flats and crime in South Africa…
Umsunu we Government lo… 😭😭
Once upon a time, South Africa had some of the cheapest electricity on Earth.
In 2000, Eskom charged around 14 cents per kWh. Your R100 could buy you 700 kWh.
Not 29.
That cheap electricity was built on apartheid-era power stations producing more than the country needed. Cheap coal. Excess capacity. Low prices.
But nobody invested in new infrastructure.
By the mid-2000s, government was telling Eskom: stop building, you have enough.
Eskom warned them they were wrong. In 2007, President Mbeki publicly admitted the mistake.
That same year, load shedding started.
In a panic, government approved two massive coal plants: Medupi and Kusile. Budget: R163 billion combined.
Final cost: over R450 billion.
Why? State capture. Inflated contracts. Looting at every level. The former Eskom CEO revealed corruption was costing the utility R1 billion per month. Multiple executives arrested. A Swiss engineering firm admitted to paying bribes and repaid R2.5 billion.
Someone had to cover that R450 billion.
It was always going to be you.
Since 2000, Eskom tariffs have increased over 1,500%. Inflation over the same period? 180%. Then your municipality adds its own markup on top.
Your electricity did not get better. It got expensive because connected people stole.
R100. 29.2 kWh. The monthly invoice for state capture.
Buses carrying thousands of Malawians back home, but why aren't other African countries doing the same? What happened to @NigeriaGov, Zimbabwe, Pakistani, Bangladeshi?
how did SA Rugby bleed more than R200m in accumulated losses across the last decade?! 💰💰
answer: greedy, financially illiterate decisions
today's match has thousands of empty seats
unsold tickets are priced at 20% of South Africa's minimum monthly wage (in a poor province)
I have a question for SARS : Other than salaries and perks for parliamentarians, what do we, the tax paying citizens, get from government that is worthwhile. Paying SARS is like money being stolen.