Criminal of Gayton McKenzie to spend R31 million taking his cronies to the World Cup after he cut funding from arts festivals, impacting hundreds of thousands of citizens.
➡️ National Arts Festival (Makhanda): funding withdrawn (R5.5 million lost)
➡️ Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK): national funding withdrawn
➡️ Cape Town International Jazz Festival: funding withdrawn
➡️ Aardklop National Arts Festival: funding withdrawn
➡️ Suidoosterfees: funding withdrawn
➡️ Woordfees (Stellenbosch): funding withdrawn
➡️ Innibos: funding withdrawn
➡️ Vrystaat Kunstefees: funding withdrawn
➡️ Open Book Festival: funding withdrawn
➡️ Cape Town Carnival: funding withdrawn
We found the evidence. 👇
Thank you to the anonymous taxpayer from Melkbosstrand Cape Town for coming forward.
An ITR12 income tax return for sole proprietor requested "Evidence of ALL expenses claimed and proof of ALL payments "
It is an unethical request with 1,000's of business expenses claimed. This is also unethical because if a taxpayer for whatever reason does not comply they get flagged for further verification (maybe deliberately so?)
Please come forward with proof of SARS abuse and make it PUBLIC! @Simon_Sithole20
Enough!
Wait a minute!
They said they dont have R80 million for the continuation of the Madlanga Commission, but suddenly, they have R600 million to deploy soldiers and police on 30 June.
This government has been a government of criminals and mafias all along 💔
Disgusting!
Written by someone else but very well said...
South Africans keep asking how much worse things can get.
That is the wrong question.
The question is what happens when decline becomes permanent.
For more than thirty years we have adapted to failure.
When electricity failed, we adapted.
When policing failed, we adapted.
When municipalities failed, we adapted.
When water systems failed, we adapted.
When roads deteriorated, we adapted.
When corruption was exposed, we adapted.
Every crisis became another inconvenience to work around.
Every failure became another expense.
Every expense became another sacrifice.
What we call resilience today would have been considered unacceptable twenty years ago.
The danger is not the collapse of institutions.
The danger is the collapse of expectations.
South Africans no longer expect functioning municipalities.
South Africans no longer expect reliable electricity.
South Africans no longer expect effective policing.
South Africans no longer expect government accountability.
We expect failure and then congratulate ourselves for surviving it.
That is not resilience.
That is surrender disguised as resilience.
The average South African is now paying to replace functions that government was created to provide.
Private security.
Solar systems.
Generators.
Water tanks.
Boreholes.
Medical aid.
Private education.
Armed response.
Tracking systems.
Insurance products designed around government failure.
Every year more responsibility moves to the citizen.
Every year more authority remains with the state.
That is the imbalance nobody is discussing.
A citizen who spends most of his income defending himself from decline is not building a future.
He is preserving the present.
His children inherit the same burden.
Then their children inherit it again.
Eventually an entire generation grows up believing this is simply how a country operates.
That is the true danger.
Not that South Africa collapses tomorrow.
Not that there is some dramatic event on the horizon.
But that decline becomes institutionalised.
Permanent.
Accepted.
Normal.
History shows that societies rarely lose their freedoms all at once.
They lose them gradually as independence becomes more expensive and dependence becomes more necessary.
The question South Africans should be asking is not whether the country is getting worse.
The evidence already answers that.
The question is this:
At what point does survival stop being resilience and start becoming acceptance?
Because once a nation accepts deterioration as normal, the battle is no longer against corruption, crime, failing infrastructure or incompetent governance.
The battle is against the belief that nothing better is possible.
And that is the moment decline stops being temporary and becomes a way of life.
Written by Shaun Schutte
14 June 2026”
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