Bernard Sebothoma🇿🇦

SERVANT...Without the trained and experienced technical and production personnel, no performing arts show can achieve its full potential

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@HigherEduGovZA @DM_DHET_DubeN Please find space in your hectic schedule to visit and tour SARA House @SARoadies1 live events technical and production skills development, and the redress of the past injustices in education, training and employment opportunities.
https://t.co/s4uXuzq6cY

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@SAHRCommission Sections 10, 16, 22 and 29 of Chapter 2 of the Constitution disregarded to deprive the youth access to Technical skills to be creative innovators & technologists within the Live Events & the wider creative industries. @SportArtsCultur @Cathsseta1 @HigherEduGovZA @PublicProtector

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@HigherEduGovZA @DrMimmyGondwe The doors of learning for the youth to be equipped with Technical skills necessary to be creative innovators and technologists in the Live Events and the wider arts and creative industries are deliberately closed @Cathsseta1 and the DHET. @PublicProtector @ParliamentofRSA

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@HigherEduGovZA The youth also deserve to be equipped with Technical skills to be creative innovators & technologists within the Live Events & the wider arts & creative industries in South Africa & beyond. Redress of the past injustices in education, training & employment opportunities

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@AndrewsEddie @SundayTimesZA SETA's @Cathsseta1 and a department @HigherEduGovZA hostile towards equipping the youth with Technical skills necessary to be creative innovators & technologists. Blocking the redress of the past injustices in education, training & employment opportunities. @PublicProtector

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@the_dtic abuse of public power, gross dishonesty, and disregard for the lotteries act, regulations, and section 195 of the constitution @SA_NLC at the expense of empowerment and development. @ScholtzJodi @RSASIU @ParliamentofRSA @IOL @News24 @SundayTimesZA @SundayWorldZA

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@the_dtic the #nationallotteriescommision blatantly lied/gross dishonesty about PART III of the Regulations, Regulations 2, to sabotage youth empowerment and @GovernmentZA priorities. @ScholtzJodi @Sizekhaya_RF @RSASIU @ParliamentofRSA

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@dailysunsa The very same #nationallotteriescommission which disregard the lotteries act, regulations, and the core principles of section 195 of the constitution. With a R9.59 billion investment mystery... at the expense of empowerment and development @the_dtic @RSASIU @ParliamentofRSA

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@GovernmentZA Please open the doors/support for the youth to be equipped with Technical skills necessary to be creative innovators and technologists within the Live Events and the wider arts and creative industries. @NoncebaMhlauli @PresidencyZA @Khu_Ntshavheni @PMashatile @CyrilRamaphosa

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@HigherEduGovZA @ButiManamela Depriving the black youth access to Technical skills to be creative innovators & technologists within the wider arts & creative industries. Blocking the redress of the past injustices in education, training & employment opportunities. @Cathsseta1 @DM_DHET_DubeN @PublicProtector

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@Action4SA Please help expose and stop the rampant corruption and fraud @SportArtsCultur with over R200 million material irregularities/fraud at the expense of youth empowerment, arts & culture promotion and development.
https://t.co/QPp2GKuClx

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@NPA_Prosecutes Can #IDAC investigate this corruption and fraud @SportArtsCultur with over R200 million of material irregularities under the watch of the DG, accounting officer. @AuditorGen_SA @ParliamentofRSA @PublicProtector @SAPoliceService
https://t.co/QPp2GKuClx

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

A rogue Minister #GaytonMcKenzie has been allowed to turn @SportArtsCultur into his personal fiefdom at the expense of empowerment, development, and transformation @PublicProtector @AuditorGen_SA @ParliamentofRSA @GovernmentZA @PresidencyZA @SAHRCommission
https://t.co/vHEu7OzBdw

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@mafusonwa @SportArtsCultur @ParliamentofRSA @McGluwajj @PublicProtector @AuditorGen_SA @SAPoliceService @NPA_Prosecutes @SAHRCommission It is their feeding trough, that is why they're mum at the expense of youth empowerment and arts development.

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@SportArtsCultur "Under the leadership of Dr. Cynthia Khumalo, the DSAC has become a graveyard for the dreams of South African children." @ParliamentofRSA @McGluwajj @PublicProtector @AuditorGen_SA @SAPoliceService @NPA_Prosecutes @SAHRCommission
https://t.co/GhsdvHaXNM

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@NPA_Prosecutes can IDAC investigate the accounting officer @SportArtsCultur for disregarding the PFMA and over R200 million material irregularities/fraud? @AuditorGen_SA @PublicProtector @SAPoliceService
https://t.co/QPp2GKuClx

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@PublicProtector is complicit in blocking the redress of past unfair discrimination in education, training and employment opportunities for the youth. @ParliamentofRSA @GovernmentZA @PresidencyZA @DOJCD_ZA @AuditorGen_SA @SAHRCommission @SAPoliceService @NPA_Prosecutes

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@eNCA There is no support for the youth to be equipped with much-needed Technical skills necessary to be creative innovators and technologists within the Live Events and the wider arts and creative industries in South Africa @QCTOLive @HigherEduGovZA @Cathsseta1
https://t.co/s4uXuzq6cY

[Freddie Nyathela @nyathelaf]

@PublicProtector is protecting gross dishonesty @SportArtsCultur deliberately twisting and misrepresenting @AuditorGen_SA audit finding at the expense of the public, youth empowerment and arts development. @ParliamentofRSA @DOJCD_ZA @SAPoliceService @NPA_Prosecutes
@ConCourtSA

[Zwelinzima Vavi @Zwelinzima1]

This country owes a profound, immeasurable debt to General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. It is not an exaggeration to say that without his courage, without his refusal to bow, to be silenced, to look away, we would still be trapped in darkness, blind to the rot eating away at the very foundations of our democracy.

And let us be clear: we are not saying he is an angel, angels belong in heaven. He is human, like all of us, with flaws and limitations. But it is precisely because he is human, and still chose courage over fear, truth over silence, that his actions matter so deeply.

Without him, we were bound to repeat the mistakes of the past. To continue down a familiar and dangerous road where corruption is normalised, where institutions are hollowed out, where those who know choose silence, and where the truth is buried beneath fear and convenience. History has shown us this pattern before. This time, someone disrupted it.

It takes a rare kind of bravery to stand up when the system itself is compromised. To speak when silence is safer. To act when inaction is rewarded. General Mkhwanazi chose the lonely, dangerous path of truth and because of that, the country now knows what was meant to remain hidden.

But what has been revealed is only a glimpse. A crack in a much deeper, more terrifying reality.

How I wish deeply, urgently that the Madlanga Commission can be permanent and move from province to province, from department to department, from municipality to municipality, tearing the veil wherever it goes. Let it go to every corner of this country. Let it listen. Let it expose. Let it name what so many already know but fear to say.

Because what we are seeing in Ekurhuleni, in Tshwane, and within the police is not the whole story it is only the tip of a massive, dangerous iceberg. Beneath the surface lies a system riddled with corruption, decay, and betrayal of the people.

This is not about isolated failures. It is about a crisis of the state itself.

And yet, in the midst of this darkness, individuals like General Mkhwanazi remind us that courage still exists. That integrity has not been completely extinguished. That truth, no matter how suppressed, will always find a voice.

The question is no longer whether the truth is there it is whether we, as a nation, will have the courage to follow where it leads.