Helen Zille and the Institute of Race Relations must take full responsibility for the collapse of the stable coalition government I was running because they accused me for concentrating too much efforts in areas where people don’t pay taxes and don’t vote for the DA. When I resigned upon the return of Helen in the leadership of the DA, because I didn’t want to be associated with South Africans like her, Council had already approved and awarded 154 buildings to the private sector on long leases. These properties were going to yield:
1. R32 billion construction investments into the city
2. Create 22 thousand permanent jobs during the construction phase
3. Create a historic 14 thousand housing units
One of Helen’s problems was must demand that 30% of the units to be affordable accommodation for our poor residents and students.
When Geoff Makhubo took over, with support from some DA councillors mobilised by Helen, dropped the Inner City Rejuvenation Plan.
@MbalulaFikile SASSA provides the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant of R350 per month for unemployed individuals….which is great but imagine the same people now buying electricity ⚡️ for a month ? Does that add up ?
@MbalulaFikile The government of South Africa is currently providing Eskom with a significant financial rescue package of approximately R230 billion in interest-bearing loans, a modification of the initial R254 billion commitment announced in the 2023 Budget Review. How true is this ?
@MbalulaFikile Eskom reported a significant turnaround, achieving a R24.3 billion profit after tax for the first half of its 2026 financial year (ending Sept 2025), a 37% jump from the prior year, following its first full-year profit in eight years (R16bn in FY2025). While we suffer as people
@MbalulaFikile •April 1, 2025: Eskom direct customers faced a 12.74% average tariff increase.
•July 1, 2025: Municipalities implemented increases, around 12.72%.
•Future Hikes: Expect further increases of 5.36% (2026) and 6.19% (2027). Please 🙏���� ANC think of our people
@MbalulaFikile Eskom implementing an average 12.74% hike for direct customers from April 1, 2025, following NERSA approval, impacting households with higher costs and changes to tariff structures like simplified flat rates for some. Municipalities also saw increases, around 12.72% from July 25
@MbalulaFikile That’s great news indeed, what is missing is a failure for the government to understand most people can’t afford such expensive electricity ⚡️, plus its added monthly service fee of around R200 to R300 . Failure to understand higher unemployment that makes it impossible to pay it
Jomo Sono “I was watching a match between Kaizer chiefs and TS Galaxy and Solomon’s was fouled very bad inside the box the referee waved play on ,again Kaizer chiefs scored a clear the fourth official raised his flag as an offside then I changed the channel to English football”
@MightiJamie Do we still have proper journalist who goes a mile to investigate before writing ✍️, they just sell a newspaper not informative anymore unfortunately. It’s sad to see
South African is a joke, how do you allow a lawyer of a suspect talk in commission, what is he defending?
Well done SC Sello, you're a tiger. Get rid of the rot
I'm so proud of SC for standing her ground