Dianne Loom

Granny who says it like it is

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@ChaiLife613 Just another woke ouk

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@Gosleepriya 2

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

ANC cadres do not only dominate mining; they dominate every profitable sector in South Africa, as if they are the only black people BBBEE is meant to empower.

This chokehold extends across government tenders, procurement, construction, IT, municipal services, and infrastructure contracts, because BEE scorecards are mandatory.

State owned giants like Eskom, Transnet, PRASA, and SAA serve as the primary engines of this wealth extraction.

Under the guise of BEE, appointments and contracts are directly linked to deep seated corruption. Under the Mining Charter, ownership requirements do not help broad-based communities; they exclusively enrich a small, politically connected group of black shareholders.

This BEE model does not create new industries or new wealth; it simply transfers existing shareholdings to elite political insiders.

A tiny, recurring group of individuals appears across almost every major transaction.

They receive massive equity with zero personal capital investment. This is crony capitalism with a black face.

When they cannot buy their way in, they use fronting, installing black individuals or shell entities as nominal owners to tick BEE boxes, while real control and profit sit elsewhere. This is rampant in construction and service tendering.

BBBEE is working exactly as it is meant to.

Wherever race based economics and laws are applied, state capture, looting, and corruption flourish. The economy suffers, and ordinary people pay the price.

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

In South Africa we have watched a quiet but relentless slide into lawlessness. Jumping traffic lights has become commonplace. Driving under the influence is often treated lightly. Pedestrians cross roads with little regard for the danger. Informal settlements spring up overnight on any open piece of land. Illegal electricity connections are no longer treated as serious offences - they are simply accepted as part of daily life. Informal traders claim pavements and intersections as their own. Prisoners somehow manage to keep smartphones. Driving without a licence is widespread.

One could go on forever. The point is simple: there has been a clear breakdown in law and order.

On the surface, the relaxation of rules is understandable. For decades, harsh and often humiliating laws targeted black South Africans in particular. So society swung from one extreme to the other, from rigid control to an “anything goes” environment.

In many ways this chaos is presented as freedom, the freedom that was denied to the majority for so long. We even open our borders to illegal immigration with the argument: “They took us in when we were running from the apartheid police.” A noble memory, but a problematic policy.

I once listened to a Minister of Correctional Services speaking about prisoners. The minister spoke much like a principal talking about learners, our collective duty to help them reach their full potential. The fact that some of these individuals were rapists, hardened killers and career criminals seemed to fade behind the focus on rehabilitation. We appear to have confused ordinary criminals with the political prisoners of the past. In our emphasis on ubuntu there is often little room left for the discipline that law and order require. It is as if, as a nation, we struggle to hold both compassion and consequences together.

This confused state is not progressive. It is setting us backwards. I know of no country that has ever become successful on a foundation of chaos. We urgently need to strike the right balance, one that honours our painful history without using it as a permanent excuse to abandon the very rules that keep a society from falling apart. #ProudlySA

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

🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA IS NOT COLLAPSING BY ACCIDENT‼️
There comes a point where a nation must stop lying to itself. South Africans have been told for decades that the destruction unfolding around them is merely “incompetence.” That every failure is accidental. Every collapse unfortunate. Every scandal isolated.

But the pattern has become too large. Too coordinated. Too destructive. Too consistent.
Ports fail. Rail collapses. Power stations decay. Roads deteriorate. Water systems break. Crime explodes. Corruption spreads. Businesses flee. Communities become divided. And every year the instability deepens.

At what point does society stop calling this dysfunction — and start recognizing systematic decay?

Millions of South Africans no longer believe the country is simply being mismanaged. They believe it is being hollowed out. Not by one event. Not by one policy. But by a political culture that thrives on dependency, division, fear, and instability while criminal syndicates, corrupt networks, and political elites feed off the collapse.

The evidence of state capture, organized corruption, criminal infiltration, infrastructure sabotage, procurement fraud, extortion mafias, and collapsing law enforcement is overwhelming. These are not conspiracy theories anymore. These are documented realities exposed by commissions, investigative journalists, whistle blowers, businesses, and citizens across every sector of society.

And yet the destruction continues.
Why? That is the question more South Africans are now asking openly.

Because when instability becomes permanent… when corruption becomes systemic… when race is constantly weaponized… when criminality penetrates institutions… when economic sabotage becomes normalized… when shutdown politics and intimidation become routine… people begin to suspect that the chaos itself serves powerful interests.

A divided nation is easier to control. A dependent population is easier to manipulate. A weakened private sector is easier to dominate. A fearful society is easier to govern.

This is why so many South Africans no longer see isolated failures. They see a pattern. A pattern where the productive foundations of the country are slowly eroded while political power consolidates around networks of patronage, ideology, and control.

The greatest tragedy is that South Africa should be one of the strongest countries in the world.
This nation has extraordinary people. Engineers. Farmers. Entrepreneurs. Workers. Scientists. Communities with resilience, skill, and determination.
But instead of building the future, the country is trapped in endless cycles of corruption, racial division, collapse, and crisis management.

And ordinary citizens pay the price.
Not the elites. Not the politically connected. Not the syndicates feeding off the system.
The people. The workers. The taxpayers. The families. The communities trying to survive while the foundations of the nation crack beneath them.

South Africans are tired of being told not to believe their own eyes. They can see what is happening. And increasingly, they are no longer afraid to say it.

By: Nuwe Lander

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Africa has perfected a bizarre alchemy: there are public offices that effortlessly transform penniless trade unionists, activists, and grassroots agitators into overnight multimillionaires.

Yet these same offices are completely paralyzed when tasked with executing the basic public duties they were created to perform.

The primary output of the system is no longer public service; it is the manufacturing of a new oligarch class.

The mechanics of this corruption are not hidden, they are institutionalized.

The most economically destructive offices on the continent are the signatory and regulatory bodies. These entities act as tollgates on progress. They systematically prioritize bribes, extortion, and illicit payouts over regulatory compliance and industry innovation.

By strangling the builder and rewarding the bureaucrat, they ensure that real economic growth is strangled at birth.

Despite this systemic pillage, daily life carries on as if everything is normal.
This collective normalization of rot is the ultimate tragedy.

Until a generation arises that is willing to hit pause on normal life to forcefully confront this institutional decay, sustainable development will remain an impossibility. You cannot build a modern economy on a foundation of unchecked parasites.

The fundamental contract of public service has been completely inverted.

Public servants now live like feudal masters, indulging in opulent lifestyles funded entirely by the liquidation of national wealth. They thrive while the national balance sheet bleeds.

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@mybroadband @unique_saffa If anyone has plundered our country it lays squarely on the shoulders of the ANC!

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@ronsterd89 Delusional

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@Matt_Pinner Definitely!

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@ConCaracal Dear lord! They will blame anything just anything except their very own ineptitude. Sies ANC!

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@Amelia558rs If you can't take it with you when you die, paint it girl if it makes you happy!

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@TrumpsHurricane Fuck ugly

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@TrumpsHurricane Try Somalia

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@otokyo__ If you are neither boy nor girl, perhaps you wont need to pee at all !

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@oelma__ Never

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@TrumpsHurricane No sane woman would dress like that......

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@Finnthehuman80 It's fucking summer dude!

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@TrumpsHurricane Bye!

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@exclusivfarming @JacoKleynhans Good that they are tried and sentenced. Now find the bastards that attacked the old farmer. Let's see justice for him as well.

[Dianne Loom @DianneLoom]

@benonwine Is SA we would say "skorro skorro"