@RamsByTheHorns It also helps to be a “thinking and responsible” reader on X because this sarcasm would have flew over my head 😂🤭 Sesi was definitely wrong 😄
@lasizwe Sometimes rebuilding looks very different from what we imagined, but it can still lead somewhere better than where we are.
Strength, clarity, and better days ahead... 🙏🏾
@Sentletse Hence he was pressing her to explain the intent of her actions cos she is not dumb or ignorant. Consequences of intentional act vs a mistake…
Madlanga cross-examines calmly. he’s more focused on commission’s integrity/fairness.
Khumalo: “Pls explain paragraph x. Is there a rule that says u can do that?”😂
Baloyi: “That’s not what u said earlier” boom reads ur ‘charge sheet’ 🚔then says “care to comment” 😂
This one would be quiet the entire day, then at exactly 15:30 he'd say:
"Good afternoon, Sergeant. Please go to File 3, Annexure B, page 57, paragraph 84."
From there, bese eyaqeda ngawe. 😂🤞🏼
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I felt a deep pain and sadness to hear Tumelo Nku saying that when he first interacted with Chief Mashaba and did some of the "favours" or "providing intel", and he said in Sesotho, when he was introduced to Former Minister of Defense, the late Kebby Maphatsoe, by Chief Mashaba, they had said "o tla mo thusa ka ntho tse tsa hao", meaning, "you'll help him with these skills of yours". He says at the time, he had been hoping for future benefits for his company, his business. I guess he wished and hoped for patronage along the way from having "government connections".
You know, I tell young people all the time, that be careful whose money you take. Do not take dirty money, no matter how desperate or ambitious you are, you will pay dearly one day. We know these things, we are not wealthy today, and we could have been if we wanted to, but we avoided those temptations, and we are able to sleep peacefully at night, knowing that I never sold my soul to anyone, nor will I be called to testify at any Commission, or hear my name being mentioned in some investigation.
I look at Tumelo, and though I can't guess exactly how old is he, he looks like he could be young enough to be my son. I have a daughter, she's a niece, but she's my daughter, she calls me Mama. She is in the same field as Tumelo, probably with the same "skills set" as he calls it, 😂 ICT Specialist, Systems, Software Developer etc. She works for government. I tell her always, I preach to her "please please, I beg you my child, no matter what, don't you ever. This whole notion of saying "in this Economy you got to do what you got to do", to justify falling into traps of corrupt tenders, taking wrong monies, some of which you will find out later that it's blood money or drugs money, avoid it by all means, ke a o kopa. I don't want to see you one day testifying at some Commission or being arrested."
I feel sorry for Tumelo's parents, his Mother. I imagine the sadness Commissioner Baloyi and Chair could be feeling as elders with children that age or slightly older, having to sit there and watch a young life, once innocent, introduced to greed and corruption by Comrades, and sacrificed and destroyed in the process. It is so sad. 😥💔
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@JoyChauke5@GaytonMcK It’s not surprising Mama J is spiralling, R750k is a lot. I can imagine the pressure from Husby cos that’s a serious loss of income. 🫣