@pinkykhoabane I'll deny, deflect, justify, but if I'm cornered, I'll throw someone under the bus, then resign.
"I can take it no further than that" (i.e, ya'll can go to hell).
@eliotchauke1@FsTebza There's a spectrum of mental conditions. Hassim didn't disclose which one.
But we know that his type, is the kind that would make him unreliable or unfit to testify. That's on Carrim and Premhid.
@misumuzi_4 Ask AI this ...
If a person refuses to testify in a commission of enquiry on medical grounds yet they are physically healthy, what could be the range of possible medical conditions ...
Answer: Mental illness.
@MightiJamie We've seem that in the NGHC as well. Same judge, court, merits, arguments -- Public Potector vs President.
The only difference were personalities -- Madonsela vs Zuma and Mkhwebane vs Ramaphosa.
Don't take Cyril to court -- you'll lose.
@pinkykhoabane Some roles need psychometric evaluation before appointment. No emotion ... just cold. No psychopath should be allowed to have so much power.
@EricanSA@RichmanSekatane Indeed.
People tend to forget that every comms (text, voice, video, email, etc.) goes through datacenters with servers, switches, routers, cache devices, etc, and all have DATABASES.
Even deleted websites can be restored years later.
@penuelist_@SongezoZibi@mailandguardian In that 1987-94 transition, both Africans and Boers were sold.
Africans paid the prize, Boers lost power, but the beneficiaries were capital, thru the sellouts.
The struggle was simply fought to take power from Boers to capital and foreign interests.
@Sizwe_Dlamini1@Chriseldalewis Read that provision again. It's got exclusions. What you can't be prosecuted for is witnessing crime and not reporting it.
Actual criminalty is excluded. Hence witnesses can decline to answer questions that may incriminate (crime they committed) them.
@Sentletse She must spend next weekend, in jail ... perjury (under oath), defeating the ends of justice, malicious. vindictive prosecution, abuse of power, ... there's enough for her to spend a weekend, just one weekend.