Not so long ago, Felix Hlophe was almost expelled from Gagasi FM after women took to social media, accusing him of abusing his wife. Yet today, a woman has allegedly been stabbed more than 46 times by a man from the DRC, and South African women on social media appear to be largely silent on the matter. Are they only vocal when the alleged perpetrator is South African, or what?” asks an angry man.
Ghana and Nigeria are embarrassing this is proof that these Governments are failing its people instead of turning their countries into greener pastures for their people they are fighting for a foreign country to give greener pastures to their people
General Khumalo and General Mkhwanazi, it's your turn to arrest the IDAC Head, Andrea Johnson and her Team members. Please get ready with those J50. Don't summon them to the police station, fetch them from their houses. Please Generals.
#MadlangaCommission
Madlanga: You solicited the affidavit from Mr. Adam’s… Do you now agree?
Johnson: I agree
Sello: is that appropriate of IDAC to be soliciting complaints from members of the public on the basis of which it initiated investigations.
Johnson: No it is not.
After decades of telling poor countries to privatise everything, Britain is expropriating and nationalising private property. In 2026.
59 years ago, Britain nationalised all its steel companies because it considered steel to be a strategic national industry and believed state planning would modernise production.
A decade later, in the late 1970s, the state-owned British Steel Company suffered huge losses due to a global steel oversupply, foreign competition, its ageing factories and low productivity.
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister with a policy of mass privatisation and smaller state ownership. Under Thatcher’s regime, strategic industries were expected to become profitable. Sort of like how all parents expect their children to be profitable.
To institute “efficiency”, between 1980–1987 the British government closed down many of the publicly-owned steel plants. Tens of thousands of jobs were lost as production was concentrated in the more efficient sites, which reduced costs dramatically. This was done to prepare the state company for sale.
On 3 December 1987, the British government formally announced its intention to privatise British Steel and the reason was that the plant closures and massive job cuts had returned the company to profit and the government insisted private ownership would improve competitiveness.
In 1988, the British Steel Act passed to create a legal framework for privatisation, which culminated in British Steel plc being listed on London Stock Exchange. Privatisation was completed and the government no longer owned the company.
In 1999, the privately-owned British Steel merged with Dutch company Koninklijke Hoogovens, to form Corus Group. This was meant to consolidate the company into Europe and to compete globally.
In 2007, Corus was sold to Tata Steel and Britain celebrated this “new foreign investment”.
However, in 2016 to 2019, the fully private British steel industry experienced another crisis due to high UK electricity prices, which incidentally were a result of privatisation themselves, alongside cheap imports, Brexit and weak demand.
In 2019 British Steel enters insolvency after it could not finance operations. The capitalist British government was now faced with a dilemma. Would it allow the invisible hand of the free market to take its course and kill the non-performing British Steel? Nope!
The British government was concerned that if they left the steel company all alone to face the forces of market competition, Britain would become the only G7 nation without virgin steelmaking capability.
So, in 2020, the British decided to resolve privatisation problems with more foreign private capital. This time from China. British Steel was sold to the Jingye Group. The idea was to prevent liquidation, preserve blast furnaces and save thousands of jobs.
Jingye invested approximately £1.2 billion, modernised equipment, paid suppliers and taxes and kept operations running. But it’s really hard to make a profit from steel.
From the very start, in 2020–2026, the company faced continuing financial difficulties, losing about £700 000 per day because of the exorbitant UK energy costs, which are among the highest in the world, making the blast furnaces inside the increasingly uncompetitive.
Now, the British government has come out expressing concern over “loss of strategic steel capability”. Weapons supply chains, infrastructure and “national resilience”.
So, in 2026, the British government has decided to once again nationalise the steel industry.
The reasons they give are that they want to prevent the closure of their remaining blast furnaces, protect jobs, preserve national security, secure domestic steel production, and facilitate transition to “Electric Arc Furnace” technology.
The question is why not allow the private sector to efficiently do this? Is that not the mainstream economic doctrine anymore?
Oh, and, by the way, the British government is “buying out ” the Chinese steel company for £100 million; while the seller demands £1.2 billion.
The British have gone full Marxist-Leninist and are effectively expropriating the property with little to no compensation.
Something tells me they’re only taking over the industry to resuscitate and fatten it with public money before handing it back to private capital again.