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[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

Will the Nkabinde Inquiry report be made public. Why is the media not asking to see it?

What is the conclusion reached by the Nkabinde inquiry on the issues raised and behaviour of Adv Shamila Batohi who walked out unceremoniously and without any approval by the commissioners.

[Vuyani @iVuyani_C]

@Sophie_Mokoena Dear Jacob Zuma, a lot happening that makes us realise you were just attacked for either interest reasons or politics. You were right!

[Odwa Dukiso @dukiso_odwa]

@Sophie_Mokoena I still remember how Zuma's administration was rediculed for wanting to proceed with the nuclear build programme. At that time it was estimated that the project would cost R1 Billion and that it was expensive. Let’s wait and see

[Mzilikazi wa Afrika @IamMzilikazi]

❝Colonialism took our memory of who we are, so we remember ourselves and our history through the eyes of the people who despise us.❞ ~ Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC
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[The Counterhegemon @GillianSchutte1]

You ask where I get the idea that the Black majority remains dispossessed. I ask where you get the extraordinary idea that it holds “absolute power”.

Absolute power over what?

The land?

The banks?

The mines?

The media?

The commanding heights of the economy?

Employment?

Food production?

Capital?

The ability to determine whether their children will eat, work, study or live in safety?

You have confused the right to place a cross on a ballot with ownership of a country. You have confused Black faces in high office with power in the hands of the Black majority. Yours is a civics lesson stripped of economic reality... not material analysis.

As for the rest of your diatribe, you have written a confident rebuttal to an argument I have never made.

You accuse me of radical jargon while delivering the most predictable liberal script available: minimise structural power, exaggerate the sovereignty of the Black majority, isolate sporadic attacks from the conditions in which they occur, pathologise those who question the approved framework, and call the result Marxism.

It is not Marxism. It is bondage and discipline.

I will continue to reject the lie that South Africa’s dispossessed majority is the primary author of violence in this country. I will not buy into the idea that sporadic attacks on foreign nationals, which I oppose, be weaponised into a permanent indictment of millions of Black South Africans whose own suffering is ignored, minimised or treated as an inconvenience.

In July 2021, around thirty-three Black South Africans were killed in Phoenix, Durban. The country witnessed it live, yet no comparable national industry arose to pathologise Indian South Africans collectively or subject them to endless moral correction.

Ponder the asymmetry before delivering another lecture about whose suffering may be named and whose must remain politically inconvenient.

If by “doing better” you mean joining the other side, softening my politics, repeating NGO formulations and accepting the liberal media’s account of South Africa, then no thanks.

I'll leave that to you and your ilk.

[MAVOVO @Khizzy_Khabzoh]

@_AfricanSoil @Nomveli34 Don’t forget Judge Dhaya Pillay.

[Jackie Phamotse @JackiePhamotse]

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF SOUTH AFRICA

Beloved,

I wrote The Big Five Cartel because silence was no longer an option. You can see where we are today. I have spent too much time away from you, studying them , men and women. I watched, I questioned and I wrote.

What did they think would happen? How do you silence a writer? We can never fight what’s already written. There are book we all fear to write and yet there is this ONE!
Also because my therapist said “journaling helps” and I took it a bit too literally.

For years I’ve been called “controversial,” “too loud,” “too much.”
Translation: I speak in a room full of whispers and apparently that’s a crime. We all have slept with the enemy, we have eaten with cowards and we lost ourselves in love. That all ends when I step into the writing room, everyone is enemy.

I’ve been dragged through courts, spent two years under house arrest, and lost friendships, brand deals, and a few good nights of sleep. We all pay a price for what we have been chosen to become.

People told me: “Jackie, stop writing. Stop talking. Stop naming what everyone sees but no one says out loud at the braai.” Well, the truth dies when we all cower.

But I kept taking notes. With receipts.

Being a vocal minority is exhausting, however someone has to carry the weight.
It’s tweeting the truth at 2am and waking up to 3000 comments, 2 lawsuits, and 1 aunty asking “but why must you always?” It’s the months of research, not reading things online, literally finding the information that’s in this book!
It’s being told “you’re causing division” for pointing at the division that was already there.
It’s doors closing, publishers hesitating, and people suddenly forgetting your number — until they want to know if they are in the book.

The sacrifice was real. Goodness I have fought so hard, you saw it!
There were threats. Headlines that tried to turn me from an author into a scandal. Nights I asked myself: “Is documenting our own stories worth it?”

Yes. Because someone has to say it first so that others can say it louder later.

I wrote this book because South Africa deserves the truth, even when it’s ugly. Especially when it’s ugly.
The Big Five Cartel is about the systems, the networks, and the “no honour amongst thieves” culture that keeps ordinary people trapped while a few eat in the dark. It’s about power without accountability. About not letting them win, brokers, cartels; and the cost paid by women, men, and kids who never asked to be part of it.

This book will make people uncomfortable. Good. Comfort has kept us stuck.
It will be called defamatory, sensational, dangerous. But what’s truly dangerous is pretending.

I am not a hero. I’m just a daughter of this country who decided to document instead of disappear. And maybe crack a joke or two while doing it, because if we don’t laugh we’ll cry.

“The Commission is only the start.” There’s more to tell. So, we shall stand up and say what they can’t. There is more to unmask. More to fight for.

To those who pushed back: thank you. You proved why the book needed to be written.
To those who stood with me: thank you. You reminded me why I kept going.
To you, the reader: read it with an open mind and an open heart. Argue with it. Feel it. Share it as far as possible. But don’t ignore it. We can’t just talk, someone has to document it.

South Africa, we cannot be silenced. Not by courts, not by fear, not by power.
And definitely not by group chats or should we say Cartel’s?

With courage, love, and a little bit of mischief,
J.P

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

PAC founding member, Josias Madzunya, at his home in Sibasa during his banishment, 1973. Credit: Drum Archives

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

@Sophie_Mokoena Confirmed by Resolve.

[Zintoh Mhlanga @MediaZaban865]

Under Sections 3 and 12 of PRECCA, Andrea Johnson and her husband Junaid should be charged for CORRUPTION.

■Because: the husband (and family) is benefitting #financially from an irregular process that saw Junaid's wife (Andrea) sit in the panel that hired him.

Grossly irregular conduct by a senior prosecutor who heads IDAC.

We wrote to the Hawks early this year, they reponded.

We shall be keeping tabs to see how far they have gone "looking into it"
⚖️

[GlobalSouthNews @GlobalSouthNew]

Judge Madlanga is a genius.
The moment Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesman announced that they will not be extending the Madlanga Commission, i knew immediately that Madlanga would do something strategic. Because I knew that he's a thinker and that he'd out-think Ramaphosa.

I just didn't know what he would do but I knew he would do something. And now I can see what Madlanga is doing.

Here is what I think the strategy was against Madlanga. That witnesses will play time wasting tactics. Play sick, call lawyers and tell long stories, basically waste time until Ramaphosa cuts the funding for Madlanga. I think this was the strategy.

And what is Madlanga doing to counter?
He no longer cares if you say you are sick. They now release your evidence to the public and analyse it at the commission without your involvement. Now they are flying in a speed that wasn't anticipated. By the time the funding is cut, damage will already be irreversible.

[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

We haven’t forgotten.

[Matena Group @Matena42]

@The_NECT https://t.co/Zpw0f2P2zO its a scam

[National Education Collaboration Trust @The_NECT]

The website falsely lists certain NECT Trustees and staff members, together with the President and three Ministers, as trustees of the organisation.
Please note that this organisation is non-existent, bogus and fraudulent.

[National Education Collaboration Trust @The_NECT]

Do not engage with or direct any resources to NEMT or its website: https://t.co/m7obrM1X3O. 

NECT is working with government and other relevant authorities to identify the individuals involved and to have the website removed.

[AMM @Aya_Muzi]

South Africans are not stupid, that woman is wicked together with her syndicate Brian Padayachee who is a senior investigator at IDAC, then there’s Imtiaz FAZEL, General Khan, Jacobs, Ebrahim Kadwar, Carin Suleiman, the husband of Andrea even Shamila Batohi was part of this group.

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

It is not in the interest of national security to continue having Adv. Andrea Johnson as head of IDAC

She is aiding national instability, surrendering our country to mafia establishments for total chaos!

In the name of JUSTICE & the integrity of the South African state, she must be removed with immediate effect!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years.

I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.

[Julius Sello Malema @Julius_S_Malema]

RIP Mkhuluwa.💔

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

Haybo 😢😭. May he rest in peace. I was wondering why ndingasamboni Hon. Ntshingila 🥹