Martin Williams

Martin Williams is Councillor for Ward 90, Johannesburg. For Ward 90 updates, please visit the Ward 90 Facebook page

[Martin Williams @Marttwit]

@SharksRugby Well done, Sharks!

[The Sharks @SharksRugby]

85’ | 33 - 31 | Siya Masuku seals the win 🔥

#CarlingCurrieCup #CurrieCup #SHAvBOL

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Power restored

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Hyde Park @CityPowerJhb AREA outage.

Including

59 Hyde Close

Hyde Park

Nearest Intersection : 6th Rd

Ref: Cpweb4760334
Since: 2.00

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@wojtek1425 @MirrorUSSports Spin, spin, spin.

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@HermanMashaba @MbahareKekana_ Nuts.

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@ME_Beaumont Win those hears

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@Chrispin_JPhiri FFS. That’s rich, coming from a BEE billionaire.

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@wernerbeest @HermanMashaba JRA MD resigned because Mashaba wouldn’t act against EFF & IFP corruption.

At a 2018 Caucus meeting, Mashaba shrugged of my request that GFIS investigate JRA MD’s allegations.

I persisted, personally repeatedly asking GFIS to investigate.

HM selectively against corruption.

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@SpokespersonRSA With help from Iran .& others

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@HermanMashaba @nasiphim @Our_DA So now Herman will "personally pay all due as soon as I receive details, including banking details".

Is that a condonation of wrongdoing?
A reward for not paying back the money?

[Werner Smit @wernerbeest]

@HermanMashaba (Thats not her job. Let het learn from your mistakes). Pity you never got the JRA (Johannesburg Roads Agency's) management structure, supply chain management and operational output on track while you were the mayor, and then this happened on your watch:
https://t.co/8SJEERlhYk

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

This act has to be praised. Buying Curron for R7.2 billion and converting it from a listed private school business into a non-profit public benefit organisation is the single largest and most generous philanthropic act in South Africa’s history. At 79, having stepped back from business in 2018 after being diagnosed with dementia, and after founding Capitec and PSG, has chosen to spend his final active years of making South Africa richer rather make himself richer.

I know some people say things like, "Well, he's supposed to." Nobody is supposed to do anything, because we see people doing what they want to do everyday.

Now, instead of giving money to shareholders, Curro will reinvest all surpluses into building more schools and training more quality teachers. And the part that is closets to my heart, offering thousands of under privileged children bursaries, and expanding into rural areas where quality education is in shortest supply. (It's both a blessing a pity that an individual has to step in where the government fails.)

Of course, it goes without saying that critics will do what they do best, criticise. Humans are, after all, specialists at decorating even the most generous acts with suspicion. But the truth remains, thousands of children from underprivileged backgrounds who might never even know Jannie Mouton’s name, will have an opportunity that will change the course of their lives. That, to me, is breathtaking.

There is an old saying that I am about to butcher: great people plant trees even though they will never enjoy the shade themselves. Jannie Mouton has not just planted one tree, he has planted an entire forest for generations to come.

[Gareth van Onselen @GvanOnselen]

ANC electoral support is, and has been, collapsing, and it is now in a fairly dramatic stage of collapse, as opposed to the first decade, which was slow and gradual. What is striking is how calm and lethargic the party is about it. Objectively, it constitutes a profound crisis.

[MoAfrika Borwa🇿🇦🇿🇦 @ashney_m]

@News24 @MandaKhoza 🤣🤣🤣🤣 ohhh really? I'm shocked that he isn't shocked

[Martin Williams @Marttwit]

@News24 @MandaKhoza Surely he should be “shocked”?

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@CilliersB HM is losing what's left of his mind over this "pay back the money" scandal.

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Of the 78 officials in Tshwane who got undue salary payouts in 2019, 62 paid back the money, and 4 made payment arrangements. Nasiphi Moya, who later became an ASA politician, had to be forced to do what most of her city colleagues did years ago. This has made ASA hopping mad.

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@ewnupdates What a great diplomat is minister Lamola.

How does he imagine his insult will resonate in Washington?