CGF

Empowering business, growing people through good governance. Knowing matters!

[CGF @CGFResearch]

A question for every board member and C-suite executive in an organisation:

Do you genuinely KNOW whether governance is working?

What evidence can you independently test, or are you relying on assurances that everything is under control?

#Governance #Leadership

[IOL News @IOL]

There is something profoundly wrong with a country where 8.6 million people cannot find work, yet those elected to lead them are rewarded with salary increases, writes Lee Rondganger.
Read on https://t.co/tT1DrlAn0q
#SalaryOutrage #JoblessMillions #PayControversy #UnemploymentCrisis

[I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA @Lolita721611021]

The bill, introduced by Rep. Ronny Jackson

A full strategic review of U.S.–South Africa relations
Presidential certification of whether the ANC government has undermined U.S. interests

A classified list of ANC-linked individuals eligible for U.S. sanctions (visa bans, asset freezes, public naming)

A clear distinction between support for the South African people and accountability for ANC leadership

At 0:18 in the Congressional hearing, the bill is introduced as a measured, targeted response to years of betrayal by the ANC.

“Let me be clear,” says the speaker, “this bill is not anti–South Africa — it is pro-accountability.” (0:22)

[CGF @CGFResearch]

Ironic!

[Roland Schoeman @Rolandschoeman]

“Truth-unbiased” in your bio, yet you’re promising to replace a four-time Olympic medallist like she’s a broken pool filter. You haven’t produced a better swimmer, you’ve produced another excuse for why she left. The low iq bandits are out in force

[CGF @CGFResearch]

Embarrassing!

When legal counsel gets it wrong, imagine the confidence levels...

[Mlamli Baliso @BalisoMlamli]

Oh my goodness this is so embarrassing🙆🏽‍♂️, if anyone is looking for me I’m currently hiding under my bed on her behalf 🙈😩😩

[CGF @CGFResearch]

@RenaldoGouws @CyrilRamaphosa @OfficialTeamRSA

@TRSchoenmaker is another casualty of failed #governance.

When public resources are spent, priorities obscure, accountability absent and elite athletes left to fend themselves, it's not a sporting failure alone.

It's also leadership failure!

[CGF @CGFResearch]

@JacoKleynhans @GaytonMcK

When a digitised governance framework is implemented in an organisation -- public or private -- the board and other key stakeholders get to see the real-time #governance maturity, and activities undertaken by the board, executive management & HoDs.

Knowing matters!

[Moms 💖 investing @mommy_moneyza]

This isn’t a reflection only on our Sports Ministry but our whole government!

How many other people that are top in the fields in business, medicine , engineering, science, mining etc have left South Africa ?

A complete brain drain

Many don’t have dual citizenship but have the skills other countries desperately need and are welcomed with open arms

South Africa is that much poorer for losing these people & it shows in our GDP

[Born Again @Born_Again_Man]

While South Africans struggle, “leaders” have rewarded themselves with the following salary increases as announced today, 10th November 2026 by Cyril Ramaphosa. Are you happy with this development?

[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

Somebody should be fired for governing the sport so poorly that this happened.

[CGF @CGFResearch]

Next level arrogance!

Why do so many public officials believe they are untouchable, and will not be held accountable?

This is not public leadership, neither public service.

#governance

[Gayton McKenzie @GaytonMcK]

Thank you, we stepped in when Hockey needed money, we stepped in when Chess SA needed assistance, all Federations get a grant from government, you might dislike me but don’t apportion blame based on your feelings, read up and understand before you come for me.

[CGF @CGFResearch]

Increasingly, SA citizens witnessing how poor governance has destroyed our country.

More questions at this stage than answers...

When citizens begin to demand governance visibility across state organisations and municipalities, that's when real accountability begins!
@PSC_ZA

[Margie Gandur @margieMYDNA]

Helen Zille is not being blocked from becoming the mayor of Johannesburg because she is “white” and “a racist”.

That’s just the ruse.
The political play.

She is being blocked because she will uncover all the corruption and that will mean prison for some folks.

They will fight tooth and nail to keep her away from the books.

[Margie Gandur @margieMYDNA]

One of the things I would like to see my tax money go towards is athletes.

Rather than paying for fat-cat sports administrators business class tickets.

[Mark 🇿🇦 @markmywords]

Salary increases for what?

[CGF @CGFResearch]

@Lolita721611021 SA deserves a clear official answer on alleged reports of an ANC regional figure linked to the R25 CIT heist.

Opaque responses to serious allegations only deepen distrust and instability.

Transparency builds #governance, silence fuels havoc.

@CyrilRamaphosa @MbalulaFikile

[CGF @CGFResearch]

@Joffersmyboy No digitized governance frameworks at the top...

No proper board oversight...

No leadership accountability...

No full governance reviews...

No independently audited reports covering financial & non financial matters...

EXPECT WIDESPREAD DYSFUNCTION!

#governance

[CGF @CGFResearch]

@ewnupdates Political horse trading isn't what voters expect, nor want.

Voters require leaders to fulfill their mandate, underpinned by their party's manifestos, and to do so, to the best of their abilities.

Leaders must be accountable - failure to perform these duties, requires removal.

[CGF @CGFResearch]

@_AfricanSoil Years ago, Warren Buffet more or less said it takes 20 years to build the brand, credibility and reputation of an organisation, BUT 5-minutes to destroy it!

With this in mind, he suggested that perhaps people would think & behave differently.

Today it's nanosecond destruction!

[CGF @CGFResearch]

There'll be backlash and denial from exactly those people who failed @TRSchoenmaker

Bet on it!

Many SA sports people at national level report great challenges as a result of poor support from the agencies with the government.

Opaque #governance at the top causes havoc below!

[Marawa Sports Worldwide @MarawaSportShow]

South Africa’s most decorated Olympian, Tatjana Smith, has officially switched sporting allegiance to the Netherlands after World Aquatics approved her change of nationality.

🥇🥇 Olympic gold medals
🥈🥈 Olympic silver medals
🇿🇦 A South African legend

While she will now compete in Dutch colours and target LA 2028, Smith will remain based in South Africa, continue training with her long-time coaches, and support local athletes through the Lighthouse Sport Foundation.

👉 A new flag, but an enduring legacy in South African sport. 💚💛

@robertmarawa

#TatjanaSmith #Olympics #Swimming #SouthAfrica #Netherlands 🏊‍♀️✨

[CGF @CGFResearch]

@lEsethuHasane For South Africa to beat inept leadership, deep rooted corruption & protectionism - the country requires visible, real-time governance capabilities AND people, just like this person, to report irregular behavior.

More of this exposure is critical - cut off the rot!
#governance

[I AM SOUTH AFRICAN @lEsethuHasane]

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

Sixty days later, still no charge sheet: Transport whistleblower Esethu Hasane barred from his office

This morning I reported for duty at the National Department of Transport. My 60-day precautionary suspension had lapsed. I was turned away and blocked from returning to my post.

The Department signed a notice of precautionary suspension on 8 September 2026 and served it on me on 9 September. My departmental email was disabled the same day.

What the suspension is really about

The notice gives four grounds. Each one is in the Department's own words:

1That I "raised allegations of procurement irregularities in Communication Chief Directorate in May 2026."

2That I "also filed a criminal complaint" with the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks).

3That I "allegedly leaked the department confidential information" to Sunday World.

4That I was "seen on television allegedly giving live interview on eNCA."

It concludes: "By your conduct, you have brought the department into disrepute."

South Africans should read those grounds slowly. Two of the four are simply descriptions of reporting wrongdoing. The other two describe answering the Department in public. None of them is a charge.

•I raised the allegations in May 2025, not May 2026. The notice gets the year wrong. That one digit hides a full year in which I reported internally to the very people who signed my suspension.

•I did not lay a criminal complaint. I made a protected disclosure to the Department of Public Service and Administration. The DPSA referred the matter to the Hawks because it took the view that my employer should have reported it under section 34 of PRECCA and had not. I co-operated with the investigators and told the Department every time they came. The law and section 195 of the Constitution require exactly that of a public servant.

•I have denied the leak on oath. The notice offers no document, no date and no communication to support it.

•The eNCA interview was a reply. On 6 September, at 08:15, on the written instruction of the Acting Director-General, the Department published a statement that named me and called my claims of victimisation "devoid of the truth." I gave the interview four hours later. I was then ordered to stop speaking. The Department's own statement was never taken

Still no charges

Sixty days have passed and I have received no charge sheet. Nobody has put a single allegation to me in a disciplinary process. Meanwhile, the Auditor-General has made an R6.8-million finding on the communications contracts I refused to approve.

The Department itself has appointed forensic investigators. Yet no disciplinary step has been taken against anyone involved in those contracts. The only person who has been suspended is me.

"Expect the department to be on the other side"
None of this surprises me. On 21 May 2025 I told the Acting Director-General that I was going to the Public Protector and the Public Service Commission. He replied in writing:

"I authorise investigations in the department, no one else… But once you decide to escalate beyond me, expect the department to be on the other side, and my role to that of the protector of its integrity."

On 3 September 2026, minutes after my request for records was refused, he wrote to a list that included the Minister's office and the forensic investigators:

"There will be consequences."

Six days later I was suspended. He has been as good as his word.

I call on the Minister of Transport to lift this unlawful bar on my return to work.

Since the Department insists on paying me to stay home, I will make good use of the time. I'm going back to preparing for my PhD defence, eating well, sleeping well, and being paid, for the eleventh time this year, to do absolutely nothing. Taxpayers, you're welcome. I would honestly rather be working.