Ntau Letebele

Miner and Entrepreneur

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

@koko_matshela @Eskom_SA You know your field monna Matšhela. We salute you

[Engineer Matšhela Koko, MBL @koko_matshela]

Let me take this out of my chest

I find it disingenuous that some of those who supported Eskom’s unbundling when we objected now oppose the transfer of @Eskom_SA assets to the Transmission Company of South Africa.

They invoke emotive terms such as “privatisation" and so and so forth and stuff like that, but you cannot support unbundling and then refuse its logical conclusion: transferring the assets. That horse bolted when you supported Eskom’s unbundling three years ago when we objected to it.

Those who said "NO" to unbundling and called for the implementation of the renewables at the cost, pace and scale that South Africa can afford where considered captured.

The central question is this.

South Africa is not privatising the grid. Eskom is a state-owned company, and its transmission assets are state assets. After unbundling, they remain state assets—simply held through a separate state-owned transmission entity. The state is not losing its strongest regulated asset base; it is reorganising ownership within the state. The balance-sheet concern is form over substance, and National Treasury can resolve it quickly.

On lenders: bondholders care about what happens in a default—that is exactly what covenants and guarantees are for. National Treasury already guarantees Eskom’s debt. If Eskom defaults, Treasury steps in. Lenders are not relying on seizing transmission assets; they are relying on the sovereign backstop. The asset-liability mismatch argument therefore does not hold.

[Mark Barnes @mark_barnes56]

🇿🇦Municipalities are fast approaching states so broken we simply won’t be able to fix them anymore … stand up, break the chains of cadre deployment, appoint competent management now!🇿🇦

[Roman Cabanac @RomanCabanac]

The entire state edifice of South Africa is designed and constructed to enrich those that work within it to the detriment of the entire country.

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

@Enghumbhini Mali (money) 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

@D_Molatoli Soda and beer

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

@HopePerfect_Dla Real service delivery must be well meant not for show and cosmetic. Our people are crying for leadership accompanied by service delivery! It is that simple

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

FACT: The arrest of Fani Masemola is a clear attempt to demoralise those fighting against organised crime in the SAPS. It is meant to humiliate him & decrease the momentum against powerful politicians, & rogue generals.

I wish him strength.

By putting him in a raw with accused in multiple murder, attempted murder, they want to paint him as rogue in the eyes of the public. He is not!

They surely will also try to do the same to Mkhwanazi! Because in essence, they are saying to us all that South Africa must be ruled by drug lords, assassins, criminal gangs & their puppet politicians!

We need to take a side! That is the only way now!

[Constitution First 🇿🇦 @Constitution_94]

GWEDE MANTASHE

Nosiviwe Mapisa Nqakula is saying every other thing because her mind is suffering

She is angry at Fikile Mbalula & saying Mbalula was the SG who instructed them to vote down the s89 Report.

Mbalula was not even an SG in November 2022.

We understand Nosiviwe's outbursts. She is dealing with her own demons

We won't breathe life to her political carcass

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

It's been lonely for her in that courtroom as she faces her corruption charges. So she has to rebrand herself as a moral voice who is being persecuted for "speaking out" and not the money she received in a corrupt relationship.

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

@ClaysonMonyela @ThetoThakane @normanmasungwi1 You have hit the point correctly.

[Micky Jnr @MickyJnr__]

Luxolo September, CAF Head of TV & Media Communications on Dr. Patrice Motsepe:

“No one can buy Motsepe. He donated $10 million USD to CAF and hasn’t taken a cent from CAF or FIFA. People have this lazy stereotype about Africans being corrupt. When they say Dr. Patrice Motsepe is ‘bought,’ I ask: ‘By who? For how much?’ It’s laughable.

Here’s a man who spends his own family money on CAF. For 6 years, he’s not taken a single cent. CAF doesn’t pay for his travel, accommodation, or salary. He even gave $10 million USD when he arrived. Who can buy him? How can he be bought?

We should have confidence that some leaders are incorruptible. He’s probably the only football leader today who doesn’t take a cent from football. So why would anyone try to buy him, and for how much?”

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐃𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐒𝐄𝐏𝐄! ✨

#AfricanFootball

[Mark Barnes @mark_barnes56]

🇿🇦My offer for R5,2bn (debt free net asset value then) was ignored, and now (after writing off R7,4bn of debt, injecting R2,4bn and R250m+ on BRP’s) you’ll need to pay someone R5,2bn to resuscitate it - instead, you’ll sell it to scavengers for it’s remains … disgraceful!😡😢🇿🇦@News24

[The Counterhegemon @GillianSchutte1]

Andiswa Mengo was useful while a guilty verdict could advance careers. Now that currency is gone. She will be cast aside and left to carry the fallout alone. That is how instrumentalisation works. The harder question sits with her legal team. If sworn falsehoods were visible, perjury does not stop with the witness. Advancing evidence you know, or ought to know, is false carries consequences. Otherwise the system scapegoats the complainant and protects the professionals who drove the case.

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

Mantashe did not misspoke. He has no idea about the real state of unemployment and the length unemployed people go to looking for jobs. He’s oblivious to the thousands graduates who sleep outside offices for 100 advertised jobs. He lives in the 80s with Teba offices in homelands.

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

@koko_matshela So profound sebata. Piercing truth - nnete ya go baba!

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

@MDNnewss Ke tša go nyaka banna tša aowa mokgekolo yo mogolo so 🤣🤣🤣

[Zintoh Mhlanga @MediaZaban865]

That public corrective moment was not flattering for a senior advocate of Adv Ngcukaitobi’s stature

Adv Ngcukaitobi's performance at the #MadlangaCommission is testament to how even the most decorated legal minds can stumble, not because their intellect has dimmed, but because poor judgment, ethically questionable alliances and a willingness to play in the mud for problematic clients can erode their standing in the public eye.

What happened there looked like a lack of preparation and a sneaky underhanded tactic.

Mchunu, in his testimony, confidently pushed the false claim that Mrs Sarah Burger was arrested by the PKTT and detained for days on charges of corruption that were later withdrawn. Mchunu alleged that he based this on a piece on News24 but when commissioners combed the article line by line, it became clear that the arrest was by the Hawks.

I'm saying this could mean that Adv Ngcukaitobi failed to prepare enough by verifying Mchunu's version of things, including reading that same article that fell apart at the Commission.

□ Also, Mchunu and his legal team did not notice a devastating contradiction in the Minister’s justification for disbanding PKTT, relying on Burger's affidavit signed nine months AFTER the disbandment.

□ Adv Ngcukaitobi attempted to re-examine the Minister on evidence that has NOT yet been led, even though the Commission had clearly agreed that this portion of testimony would only be dealt with in January 2026.

Adv Mahlape Sello, SC, ever the guardian of due process, caught Adv Ngcukaitobi's maneuver instantly and put her foot down, halting the ambush-style attempt, and pulled the brakes on what was quickly becoming a reckless and procedurally improper exercise.

And that public corrective moment was not pretty. It left us, spectators, asking uncomfortable but necessary questions about the Adv's professional values, strategic intentions and ethical compass.

And this is not new: legal giants have fallen before due to questionable intentions.

Take Michael Cohen, once a formidable attorney in the U.S. and the trusted fixer for Donald Trump. He was sharp, connected, feared — until his choice of cases and his proximity to power poisoned his reputation. Eventually, he was criminally convicted, disgraced and stripped of the prestige he once enjoyed.
His downfall wasn’t due to lack of legal skill; it was the moral corrosion that comes from defending the indefensible.

Sometimes it’s not legal brilliance that fails, it’s character, judgment and the willingness to tether oneself to a cause that cannot withstand the light.

In the end, even the brightest legal stars fade when they abandon the principles that made them shine.

#SenzoMchunu #Mkhwanazi #witnesses #AdHocCommittee #mchunu

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF SOUTH AFRICA'S SUCCESSFUL HOSTING OF THE G20 SUMMIT? I voted MAJOR SA DIPLOMATIC WIN on . What's your vote? https://t.co/QSD0fmuV2k Kudos to Team South Africa for putting our country on a global map. Now is time to improved the lived reality of the majority

[Ntau Letebele @NtauLetebele]

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