Enrico Da Gama

[Disprin @DisprinXtra]

Taxi marshals in SA are hired by taxi associations to manage ranks. They are NOT traffic officers and have ZERO legal authority over private cars, public busses or e-hailing drivers. Any attempt to block roads, stop families, or intimidate motorists is completely unlawful.

[Mahlatse Motsamai @TracyTimes]

ANC is that student who waits for 23:59 to submit their assignment which is due at 00:00

The IEC better not accept their money because once they fail to persuade them they will offer money! We know them!

[@ BizGuru @BizGuru4]

Mzansi,

Say after me, the ANC must die.

The ANC must what..............???

[DA Western Cape @WesternCapeDA]

💙🚀It’s official! Geordin Hill-Lewis has flighted the election posters in Cape Town’s City Centre.

The mission is simple: Keep Cape Town working for all. Capetonians, let’s keep our city moving forward and keep it BLUE!

[Wayne Duvenage @wayneduv]

Well done to the IEC for standing their ground on this issue. How does the ANC expect the public to continue to trust them to manage the country, when they struggle to manage their own party’s affairs.

[Netta Hex💪📚📐 za @HelpF85398]

ANC Fumbles. Again.

The ANC issued a statement that the IEC had extended their deadline for the ANC candidate nominations.
Lies just roll out of their mouths.

The IEC completely denied that claim.

ANC elitists thought the IEC would bow and grovel and obey.

The ANC is used to using people.
Treating them like obedient slaves.
Making promises they don't intend keeping.

Thank you IEC.

The ANC just ran into a wall.

[Natasha Huckfield @dramadelinquent]

We went without electricity for a week in August and without water for 2 days. September has arrived and we start with no water again

I cannot wait for the 4th November to get rid of the useless people in @CityPowerJhb and @JHBWater @DadaMorero

[Phumlani M. Majozi @PhumlaniMMajozi]

Virtually everything I’ve read about the decline of South Africa’s key industries - like mining and manufacturing - points to government failure. In other words, politicians are actively crippling our economy and destroying jobs. We need a revolution!

[Van @SupaVanSA]

How do you sit there with a smug face lying about R 30B profit when you received R 80.2B in tax payer funded "relief"?

Fuck you @Kgosientsho_R , you lying sack of shit.

[𝖱𝖤𝖢𝖮𝖭𝟣-San ®✞🇿🇦 @Recon1_ZA]

Only in South Africa will the government add R6.45 in taxes on every single liter of fuel you buy and then add an additional 15% VAT on top of that and call it a "value add."

[Democratic Alliance @Our_DA]

🦺ANC Bree Street vs DA Bree Street

Do you see the difference?

The DA is ready to get your roads working, fix service delivery and run municipalities properly. 💙

🫵 Your town, your choice, and only your vote can bring the change you deserve on 4 November.

[Renaldo “Ngamla” Gouws 🇿🇦 @RenaldoGouws]

During Apartheid, many international companies withdrew from South Africa because of discrimination and race-based policies. Now, 32 years later, these companies are happy to remain in South Africa and adhere to the same racist laws.

Video Link: https://t.co/ggrExR9DJC

[Jaco Kleynhans @JacoKleynhans]

@amazon is simply being dishonest here. They claim that they are simply following South African law by completely excluding whites. While South Africa is the most racially regulated country in the world with over 100 racial laws, these laws do not even go that far. It is therefore time for @ajassy @JeffBezos and @robertkoen to admit their mistake. Otherwise, Solidarity will continue with an international campaign against this company.
https://t.co/gVwFWbTmTJ

[Sir Lebona Cabonena @LCabonena]

That was quick.

The ANC cadres looted R45 billion profit Gautrain made.

Legal action could see Gautrain placed under administration if R53.9m debt remains unpaid

Where is Panyaza Lesufi.

We knew it that it would not last.

[Nadia Polony @NadiaFerreira85]

Contractors are paid upfront, they buy cars and mansions; pay the govt officials their cut and then quietly disappear

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

AfriForum has demanded an independent audit of the fuel price and associated levies from the Minister of Finance.

AfriForum has also reiterated its call for a permanent reduction in the fuel levy, functioning as much needed tax relief for the overburdened taxpayers of South Africa. At the very least a reinstatement of the previous levy cut is necessary while oil prices and geopolitical risk remain high.

https://t.co/0nirJAy5u5

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

The ANC is following our campaign closely. When they’re not trying to stop our projects in communities, they’re using your ratepayer money to compete with the DA to hold onto power. But we’re always two steps ahead!

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Dirk Hermann @SolidariDirk]

Open Letter to Amazon:

Remove Race from Your Support Programme

Dear Amazon,

The U.S. government rightly regards South Africa’s race-based policies as a barrier to trade.

One of the five key asks of the Trump administration is that race-based requirements imposed on American companies be removed.

Solidarity supports this position.

Yet Amazon, an American corporate giant, is going even further than South African law itself requires.

Only companies that are 100% black-owned qualify for one of Amazon’s support programmes in South Africa.

Any white shareholding disqualifies a company from participating in the programme.

Amazon calls this racially exclusive programme “diversity”.

There is a glaring contradiction here: while the U.S. government is fighting against trade barriers created by race-based policies, Amazon is imposing draconian racial restrictions on companies seeking to do business with it in South Africa.

Exclusion based on race is not diversity.

We therefore call on Amazon to remove race from its support programme. Racial exclusion is morally indefensible.

Dr Dirk Hermann
Chief Executive: Solidarity

[Solidariteit @solidariteit]

MEDIA STATEMENT: 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟬𝟬% 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻

Solidarity will thoroughly investigate reports that Amazon, the US technology giant, is excluding businesses from a business development programme in South Africa based on the race of their owners.

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP) explicitly requires participating businesses to be 100% black-owned. This means that a business is excluded from the programme if even one of its shareholders is white.

AWS describes the programme as part of its efforts to promote “diversity and inclusion”. Solidarity, however, believes there is nothing diverse or inclusive about a programme where an owner’s race determines whether their business has access to economic opportunities.

https://t.co/XGSz8VofJE

[Pookie's Polls & Opinions @pookiepolls]

Amazon Web Services runs a South Africa programme that bars any firm with a white shareholder.

That is not a rumour. It is written into the eligibility rules.

The AWS Equity Equivalent Investment Programme, launched in 2019 as part of a R365 million commitment, is an 18-to-24-month accelerator for small software and cloud businesses.

Applicants must be 100% Black-owned under the ICT B-BBEE codes, hold a Level 1 certificate, and keep founder equity free of debt for the contract term. “Black people,” in this legal sense, means African, Coloured and Indian South African citizens.

A single white owner disqualifies the company. Amazon presents the scheme as diversity and inclusion. The rules do the opposite of what those words usually mean: they sort entrepreneurs by race and shut one group out.

The programme sits inside South Africa’s B-BBEE framework. Multinationals that will not sell local equity can instead fund approved “equity equivalent” projects and still score transformation points.

The policy has a history: it was designed after apartheid to widen ownership that the old order had closed. That history does not convert a racial gate into a non-racial one.

A rule that says “no whites” is still a racial rule, whether the target is a majority or a minority, whether the motive is redress or preference.

If racial discrimination is wrong when it keeps Black South Africans out of a market, it is wrong when it keeps White South Africans out of a market. The colour of the person excluded does not change the nature of the act. A company can train, fund and mentor anyone without first checking the race of every shareholder. Choosing not to do that is a choice, not a law of nature.

Diversity that requires racial purity of ownership is exclusion with better branding. Inclusion that stops at the colour line is not inclusion. The principle is simple and it does not bend with the politics of the moment: people should not be locked out of opportunity because of their race.

That holds when the excluded group is Black. It holds when the excluded group is White.

It holds when a global firm writes the rule and calls it progress.