Alexandra Abrahams

National Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition. RSA 🇿🇦 Democratic Alliance.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

A ‘no vote’ is still a vote. A vote for Joburg to continue down this path of destruction.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[John Steenhuisen MP @jsteenhuisen]

Encouraging growth in the Agricultural sector. I want to thank and congratulate every farmer, farm worker and stakeholder in the sector for their hard work that continues to build our economy. We are building a sector that works for all. 🇿🇦

[SollyMalatsi @SollyMalatsi]

For the first time since the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies was established in its current form, the department will have a full complement of permanent DDGs.

This is a major step towards building a senior management team of fit for purpose professionals and will further strengthen our capacity to drive delivery, accountability and implementation across the communications and digital technologies sector.

https://t.co/g8nmdMJbJH

[eNCA @eNCA]

Thousands of South Africans have over a month left to prove their identities, or risk losing them. Millions of Identity Documents (ID) were blocked by the Department of Home Affairs after anomalies were found in them.

https://t.co/YjeClVBhm4

[In A Nutshell🥜 @Markosonke1]

🚨📍 WHY BBBEE MUST GO!

Here’s the funniest and saddest thing about how parts of BBBEE public procurement works in South Africa. 😭

Government needs to buy an X-ray machine worth around R800,000.

But because there may not be a Black-owned manufacturer or supplier with the product directly available, the system sometimes creates a middleman arrangement where a third-party BBBEE company buys the SAME machine from an existing supplier… then resells it back to government for R2 MILLION.

So taxpayers end up paying an extra R1.2 million not because the machine improved, not because technology changed, not because service got better… but simply because paperwork now says “empowerment.”

How is this sustainable in an economy already struggling with corruption, debt, collapsing hospitals and budget shortages?

Real empowerment should mean:
• building Black manufacturers
• creating engineers
• funding innovation
• developing skills and ownership

Not creating expensive middlemen who inflate prices while hospitals, schools and citizens pay the price.

South Africans we must ask itself a serious question: are we empowering people… or just recycling procurement money through politically acceptable channels? 🚨

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

The Democratic Alliance has introduced the Constitution 24th Amendment Bill seeking to permanently ban judges and heads of Chapter 9 institutions from serving in Parliament, provincial legislatures, and municipalities. The bill proposes amendments to three clauses of the Constitution to alter the eligibility criteria for public office if a candidate has been removed from office. DA MP  Advocate Glynnis Breytenbach elaborates.

Watch: https://t.co/mKlUAXEkSa

#Newzroom405

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Sinkhole blocking your driveway? The DA will zipline you out.🫡

But we’d rather fix the road infrastructure. Give us the majority in council and WE WILL. 

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Jack Bloom @JackBloomDA]

This is a must-watch - DA Clr Neuren Pietersen shows copper cables worth millions stolen by fake City Power workers in Aida Ave, Cyrildene. They were arrested, now we must get the masterminds behind this massive scam!

[Alexandra Abrahams @Alexandra_DA_MP]

The other question: are ALL political parties honestly declaring every donation over the threshold?? I think not.

[Inside Politics @insidepols]

A brief look at party donations. Donations are publicly declared to the IEC once a quarter. I have mapped all donations to date, from Q1 2021, to Q3 2025. Graph 1, below, tracks donations for the biggest three parties, in terms of donations: ANC, DA, ASA. There are two things worth noticing here. 1. The DA outperforms everyone, by double. 2. Both the ANC and ASA donations have gone through the floor since the 2021 LGE result. ASA’s donations collapse it worth looking at in particular, as it is profound. It raised R104.8m between the 2021 LGE and 2024 NPE (10 quarters), an average of R10.4m per quarter. That is a breathtaking amount of money for a party that got just 2.6% in six municipalities in 2021, but a tribute to what it managed to leverage out of that result. Since the 2024 NPE, however, its donations have collapsed, along with its vote share (1.2%). In the 6 quarters since the 2024 NPE, it has declared only R2.7m and now averages R485k a quarter. This, not its public claims of strategic focus, most likely underpin its reduction, from a national campaign in 2024, to just 60-odd municipalities in 2026. ASA has a serious financial problem. The ANC’s decline is serious, but not as serious as ASA, it’s average per quarter has halved, from R12m, to R6m. Regardless, for an organization of the ANC’s size, this too represents a crisis, but not a new one. Graph 2 incorporates all parties that declared donations of R10m or more, between the 2021 LGE and 2024 NPE. It is ordered in terms of “value for votes” – total donations divided by total votes, for a Rand total per vote. Some staggering numbers here. Change Starts Now is in 1st position. It blew R35m for zero return. Next, is Rise Mzansi. It raised a staggering R65.7m, in return for just 67k votes – an average of R967 per vote, the worst return per Rand by almost double the next party. It was an astounding failure, and outside CSN, possibly the most expensive political failure in South Africa's history. In third place is ASA, averaging R545 per vote, another extremely dire return for its donors. BOSA, which like RM, raised a mind-blowing amount of money for next to no return, cost its donors R426 per vote, and delivers just 65k votes. Outside these parties, all costs fall below R100 a vote. The ANC being the “best” value for money (only its vote share is in collapse), so you need to read that figure a bit differently. Going to be fascinating to see how donations will change as the end of this year, and the 2026 LGE approaches. Q4 of 2025 will be tabled soon. Q1 and Q2 of 2026 will tell you who can properly fund a campaign and who can’t. One thing you can be absolutely sure of - the funders of ASA, RM and BOSA, are not going to be fooled as easily as they were ahead of 2024, and each of those parties is likely to battle to compete with the DA.

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

We love the freedom loving people of Iran and hope they can one day live in a constitutional democracy with civil rights, like we do.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

“We are waiting for Helen.” 💙🇿🇦

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Alexandra Abrahams @Alexandra_DA_MP]

Congratulations to the @the_dtic team pulling off an incredibly successful 6th South African Investment Conference! South Africa is open for business! 🇿🇦
#SAIC2026
#InvestSA

[the dtic @the_dtic]

[IN PICS]: 6th South Africa Investment Conference: Invest. Partner. Prosper.

The South Africa Investment Conference is the country’s flagship platform to position South Africa as a credible, competitive and forward-looking investment destination.

#SAIC2026
#InvestSA

[Alexandra Abrahams @Alexandra_DA_MP]

Congratulations Minister @Leon_Schreib and team Home Affairs for taking Home Affairs to the next level in service of South Africa. 👏🏽👏🏽

[Leon Schreiber @Leon_Schreib]

Welcome to the future of Home Affairs! 🇿🇦

[Alexandra Abrahams @Alexandra_DA_MP]

RT @Leon_Schreib: Welcome to the future of Home Affairs! 🇿🇦

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[WATCH] DA Johannesburg's mayoral candidate, Helen Zille, slammed MMC for Transport Kenny Kunene for an alleged pothole ribbon cutting ceremony and referred to the Patriotic Alliance as the "the Pothole Alliance." #Newzroom405

[Alexandra Abrahams @Alexandra_DA_MP]

You really can’t make this up!
#BelieveInJoburg

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

After months of delay to fix a road reinstatement, Kenny Kunene and his ANC coalition partners planned a ribbon-cutting ceremony for this road.

Hours later the road collapsed again. Ceremony cancelled.

#BelieveInJoburg

[Alexandra Abrahams @Alexandra_DA_MP]

@Leon_Schreib It is amazing that this was overlooked for decades! Well Done Minister Schreiber 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Alexandra Abrahams @Alexandra_DA_MP]

@joy_zelda JHB wants to rebuild their city- Helen Zille!!!!

[National Department of Agriculture @DOAgov_ZA]

[Media Statement📄]
Minister John Steenhuisen, has expressed serious concerns about the escalating crisis facing the sugar industry following the liquidation of Tongaat Hulett, which has placed significant uncertainty over the operation of key sugar mills ahead of
the April crushing season.

🔗https://t.co/qsuUN7oKpH

#GovZAUpdates @GCISMedia @GovernmentZA

[Alexandra Abrahams @Alexandra_DA_MP]

The Department of Social Development’s draft Children’s Amendment Bill criminalises baby savers and safe relinquishment. The DA’s Private Members Bill does the opposite- it legalises baby savers, baby safe havens and safe relinquishment. Speak out against DSD’s bill. Submit your support and submission on the DA’s bill before 16 November 2025 at [email protected] and copy in [email protected] #babysaver #childprotection #TheSafeRelinquishmentBill #savebabies #DemocraticAlliance