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[Inside Politics @insidepols]

Fact Check:

In an interview with @BizNewsCOM on Monday, Herman Mashaba says the following: “Just to give you an example, Alec [Hogg] are you aware that I have more votes in Soweto than the ANC? 38%! They are sitting at 25%, so Soweto is mine.”
Later Mashaba says, "I am a bigger political party than the ANC [in Soweto]"
These statements are all factually untrue, and invert the actual outcome, as per the slide below.
Soweto comprises 278 VDs in 2026, and is defined as Region D in Johannesburg. On both the PR and Ward ballot, the ANC won the most votes in Soweto, and the biggest percentage, as per the summary below. ASA did have a strong election in Soweto, however it finished second on 25.5% on the PR ballot and 21.9% on the ward ballot. The ANC finished in first place on both ballots with 29.7% and 30.5% respectively.
The ANC also has more votes than the ASA in Soweto: 12,263 more on the PR ballot and 25,087 more on the Ward ballot.
Finally, ASA did not get 38%, it finished 12.5pts lower than that, with 25.5%, and the ANC finished with 29.7%, not 25%, 4.7pts higher.

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[RT1200 @Crauseap]

And less people voted for your party this time round.
You are a DOOS Mr Sec Gen

[Times LIVE @TimesLIVE]

WATCH | EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini says left parties must come together, including the ANC, to save the country. He says this is no time for “petty politics” because “as things stand now, we’ve basically lost this country”.

Dlamini was speaking at the press briefing of the Council of the Left.

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

The ANCbis history.

[Phakel'Umphakhathi RSA🇿🇦 @FonyokaPondoka]

A political survey

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

The emperor is naked

[Brett Ben Raphael @Brettbenraphael]

He speaks of economic inequality in a country where over 8.5 million are unemployed yet just yesterday he awarded fat pay increases to his ministers, their deputies and civil servants...

[Newsday @NewsdayZA]

Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, spent R113 million on two glamour events while South African national athletes must pay their own way.
https://t.co/6f3EqqU7oR

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

After 32 yrs the ANC has denied many dignity. Look around

[Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa]

The struggle against apartheid was not only a struggle for political freedom.

It was a struggle to fundamentally change the meaning and purpose of the law.

It was a struggle to replace a system that denied human dignity with one that placed human dignity at the centre of our national life. https://t.co/BaZ1XO713F

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

In CT the foreigners gladly pay the higher rates.
However the pensioner that has been living in CT all their lives are now being pushed into selling their homes because they cannot afford the higher rates.
And where does all this money go…socialist agendas. Looking after the massive influx of people into CT.
The bubble will eventually burst….

[Zenzeni Sangweni @Zenzeni_sangwen]

Helen Zille says property rates in Johannesburg must be extreme higher like in Cape Town and people of Soweto must also pay eletricity and R18 billion rand that they owe to Eskom so that the city can see growth.

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

History always seems to repeat itself.
I think there will be a North vs the South sooner than later.

[Olivia @Excellentsalvic]

What do you call this presidential team

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

The same Iran that hangs people from cranes.
The same Iran that killed 40 000 of its own citizens recently because they dare speak up.
The United Nations is a lunatic organisation and it should be closed down all together.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

🚨🇺🇳🇮🇷 ÚLTIMA HORA: Irán fue nominada para presidir el Comité de la ONU para la protección de los derechos de las mujeres, los derechos humanos y la prevención del terrorismo.

SÍ, IRÁN. Y fue apoyado por Reino Unido, España y Francia.

Esto no es una broma. Es real.

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

Well, I know of many black successful people in JHB doing what everyone else does.
We need to move past certain issues. Look at history.
Singapore, Germany and many other countries did not harp on the past after WW’s.
They refocused and built up their countries and society.
And just a last point. Many ‘black’ successful people in Jhb and Dbn employ ‘black’ domestics to raise their kids and do most things domestics do.
Let focus on building SA. Then all these issues of the past remain in the past and the future all of a sudden becomes brighter.

[Matshikiza School of Arts @PumezaArts2027]

.... labour, competence and humanity while simultaneously manufacturing an ideology to deny all four. 18/ The END

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

This will continue to happen to people if we hide it or forget it.

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

And a bigger % don’t want Action SA. And a big % don’t want ANC.
The two main parties should run the major metros. That is ANC and DA.
Anything less will result in big business curbing their spending in these metros.

[B N S L @_BNSL]

65% of Joburg voters don't want DA. They must stop with this propaganda 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Carol Anne @CarolAn19620418]

@RediTlhabi Hi Redi,
I'm on a farm, wifi download speed is 1meg, (every night) due to throttling, and we can't get Starlink.
Cameras are sending alerts, but can't check cause of low downloaded speed.
We don't own guns
2 neighbours have had home invasions in the past month.
Any suggestions?

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

This comes from the man that recently praised the well run DA municipalities

[Mzwanele Manyi MP @MzwaneleManyi]

Finally he sees the light.
The DA must be avoided in Cabinet aswell.

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

‘Whites’ as u put it. Not all whites have this privilege.
We are all SA’s. Some better off than others. Some super rich Black elites floating around SA of which I know some have relocated to US and UK.

[Sibs Gwiliza @S_Gwiliza]

We don't have another passport or citizenship to fall back on. South Africa is all we have, we don't have a Plan B. Whites on the other hand, have the privilege of alternative citizenship and the option of relocating. That is a significant difference in the realities we face.

[INFIL // EXFIL 🇿🇦 @InfilExfil]

🚨TSHWANE WATER MAFIA SCANDAL:

The SAHRC inquiry has found that another R362 million has been spent on water tankers under the ANC-ActionSA coalition in Tshwane in 2025/26.

Let's be clear, this comes after the R600M figure reconciled by Moya (previously R777M) in 2024/25

And R140M in 2022/23

That's over R1B in water tanker money flows in 2 years.

The logical question is that if Cilliers was responsible for these flows in 2024/25 and was removed, who's still signing off on the numbers that will probably pass half a billion this year alone?

[RT1200 @Crauseap]

If the DA is ditched the GNU must then be reconsidered.
Better for the DA to be on the outside preparing for the 2029 elections.
32 yrs of ANC has decimated SA.its economy. It’s people. It’s way of life.

[Jordan Griffiths @JordiGriff]

The ANC has agreed on principles.

The biggest party leads the coalition and form government.

Only form coalitions with parties committed to the constitution.

3 - options
1. Work with ASA
2. Work with DA completely.
3. Work with DA in confidence and supply. Where DA has majority they lead executive and ANC stays out but supports government.

Where ANC has majority they lead and DA stays out and supports government.

[sportified @sportified25]

A strike team of undercover operatives broke into a nondescript commercial warehouse in an industrial district of southern Tehran with high-heat blowtorches, slicing through thirty-two massive steel safes in complete darkness, loading half a ton of top-secret blueprints, test videos, and nuclear warhead schematics onto ordinary delivery trucks and smuggling them out of the country before the morning guards arrived.

The reason might surprise you.

Following the signing of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), Iranian authorities faced a critical dilemma:

To satisfy international inspectors from the IAEA while preserving the core engineering knowledge of their covert nuclear weapons initiative, Project Amad, officials had to hide their historical development files.

Led by military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, officials systematically gathered the state’s complete, classified nuclear archive, tens of thousands of pages of warhead assembly designs, implosion testing documentation, fissile material enrichment plans, and computer simulations.

Believing computer networks were too susceptible to cyber intrusions like Stuxnet, Tehran chose paper and physical digital discs.

To keep the stash hidden from foreign spy satellites, they avoided high-security military bases and bunker complexes, storing the material inside an anonymous, unmarked commercial warehouse in the gritty Shorabad industrial zone of southern Tehran.

The warehouse had no perimeter guards stationed around the clock, only two night watchmen who completed their rounds and clocked out around 10:00 PM, returning at 7:00 AM the next morning.

Mossad tracked the relocation from the moment the first crate moved:

Operatives deployed inside Iran spent nearly two years surveilling the facility, cataloging alarm circuits, security cameras, guard shift rotations, and neighborhood movement.

Mossad director Yossi Cohen presented the operational blueprint to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The operational window was set for the night of January 31, 2018, a night that coincided with a total lunar eclipse, providing unseasonable darkness across the plateau.

The breach team had an unbending deadline:

exactly six hours and twenty-nine minutes to bypass alarms, crack thirty-two industrial safes, load the cargo, and vanish before the morning shift returned at 7:00 AM.

At 10:31 PM, the strike team moved in:

Cyber and technical specialists neutralized the facility's alarm sensors and disabled local security cameras without tripping an alert at regional headquarters.

A team of roughly two dozen field operatives forced open the warehouse doors.

Conventional safe-cracking tools or plasma cutters were discarded because of noise and time limits;

instead, operatives used specialized thermal torches burning at nearly 3,600°F (2,000°C) to cleanly burn out the locking pins of thirty-two giant steel safes.

Working with surgical precision, agents bypassed peripheral administrative papers and targeted the primary core technical binders, folders, and over one hundred digital CDs containing roughly 55,000 document pages, test videos, and nuclear warhead assembly schematics.

By 5:00 AM, well ahead of the 7:00 AM deadline, the team had packed half a ton (over 1,000 pounds) of physical documents into two commercial delivery vans and slipped into early morning Tehran traffic.

When guards arrived at 7:00 AM and found the doors pried open and the safes gutted, Iranian intelligence launched a nationwide dragnet:

Checkpoints choked highways leaving Tehran, and border patrols went on high alert.

To throw off pursuit, operatives dispersed in multiple directions across Iran using decoy vehicles, while the primary cache was smuggled overland across the border into Azerbaijan and flown out of the country.

On April 30, 2018, the world learned of the breach:

In a prime-time international presentation from Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood beside a wall stacked with original black ring-binders and cases of CDs, presenting what Mossad had extracted:

indisputable physical proof that Iran had designed miniature nuclear warheads for Shahab-3 ballistic missiles under Project Amad. Days later, the United States formally withdrew from the JCPOA nuclear accord.