Ongama Mtimka, PhD

A friend of God

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

Thank you all! You know who to call for your strategy sessions, events, and everything in-between [email protected]

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

@VusiThembekwayo Ewe man!

[ReconcileWithGod @Mickzo]

Jesus Christ will return bodily, raise His people, judge the world and establish His Kingdom.

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

@elonmusk Who needs a bio?

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

@bhadelaLo_zola Great. Except that, if you start a process that triggers legal and constitutional processes, you must be prepared that it bears its INHERENT legal and constitutional dynamics.

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

Parliament can hold the president accountable through a motion of no confidence, a purely political process, or impeachment – a political process with constitutional limitations. This is something to keep in mind as we discuss today’s judicial-parliamentary issues. #PhalaPhala #Interdict #Impeachment

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

@TshikoZwin5480 Mine is to state that each path has its INHERENT issues.

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

@RediTlhabi That thing helps with predictability.

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

Let’s not rush much to attack. Headlines alone can be misleading,

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Jean Redpath | The Hawks can’t do the job: Why SA needs IDAC more than ever
https://t.co/kG6hPMqhUx

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

@TheRealClementM Besides, their questions flow logically from WHAT IS BEFORE THEM! It’s not curveballs from hell.

[Ayanda Allie @AyandaAllie]

It is well 🙏🏽

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

The greatest threat to their reputation lies in the media’s tendency to assume friendship, trust and loyalty from intelligence sources who might have previously assisted in breaking major stories. Spies thrive on information wars, counterintelligence ops, and nefarious agendas.

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

I am going to assume that there is a dangerous blurring of intelligence information (truths, lies, innuendo, and manipulations) and credible verified information worthy of journalistic reporting or even prosecution that is causing people in professional roles in the media and state institutions to STUMBLE.

[Pieter Du Toit @PieterDuToit]

REPORTING NOTES: FIRST DRAFT | News24 investigative journalist Kyle Cowan on Advocate Andrea Johnson’s appearance at the Madlanga Commission…and why IDAC stands by its decision to prosecute CI head Dumisani Khumalo.

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

@miss_andisa I know, right 🤣🤭

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

The CRUDEST ADMISSION of: ‘We were concerned as a clique that someone we do not control could not have such a position’. Commissioner Madlanga’s follow up question then exposes this: “we were trying to protect a lever of looting which we feared could not fall on someone else”. Nothing more, NOTHING LESS.

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Once a dream, now a reality. ⭐️

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

The populist stances from either extremes aren’t helping us. This is a responsible statement

[Thando Maeko @HelloThando]

DIRCO director general, Zane Dangor on irregular migration in South Africa:

“We need a genuine conversation about the push and pull factors in the region so that we have a shared responsibility in [the Southern African Development Community] and the AU about how we engage with migration, the benefits and the cost of migration, particularly irregular migration.” @BDliveSA

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

“A reign of reluctance”. Very appropriate. In the final analysis, it is not by our potential and knowledge that history judges us but by our deeds. So help us God. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

“Shamila's professional obituary is simply summed up as follows:

'She of great potential and public support that gradually and excruciatingly mutated into a living monument to incompetence...'”

[Khaya Sithole @CoruscaKhaya]

2 727 days ago Advocate Shamila Batohi began her tenure as the National Director of Public Prosecutions.

As the 'outsider' unburdened by the toxic legacy of many insiders who coveted the job, Batohi emerged as the antidote to the institutional paralysis that had left the institution rudderless and listless.

Her commencement - in that long-forgotten age of Thuma Mina and the pyrrhic sense of optimism that President Ramaphosa managed to sell to most citizens - was welcomed and just like Ramaphosa 12 months earlier, the sense of goodwill accompanying it was meant to give her some breathing room to figure out how to fix a broken institution.

But just as the momentum and goodwill of the Ramaphosa accession had been squandered gradually, Batohi simply never moved up from the basement of accession.

Rather, as public expectations multiplied and the law enforcement system remained fragile, the cleavage between hope and action widened. With every botched high profile case the embarrassment was amplified.

The habit of claiming that all was well in spite of the glaring evidence otherwise, became the sine qua non of a leader hamstrung by an institutional paralysis and her own inability to formulate a leadership strategy that would free her from the shackles of institutional entanglement.

As she slowly approached retirement age which meant that she also wouldn't serve a 10-year term just like all her predecessors, the impending exit was met with a sense of relief rather than consternation.

So dire and adrift was her leadership of the NPA itself, when the time to find a replacement for her finally arrived, the overwhelming consensus was that absolutely no one from within was fit for the job. (The performance of one of the candidates at the #Madlanga Commission is the answer to the question).

Her valedictory steps included initating a process of interrogating the fitness of Andrew Chauke to hold office.

Except of course, it turned out she might not have even initiated anything or even knew what exactly had been initiated.

As the Commission of Inquiry got underway, the disturbing development related to the question of whose competence was actually meant to be interrogated.

Her exit from the Commission was only commendable in the sense that it was at least decisive - unlike every other key decision in her tentative term.

Her retreat from confrontation at the time where she could have been setting clear standards of leadership expectations and standards from leaders within the NPA she was about to leave; was a fitting reminder of what her tenure had really been about.

And so here we are, 2 727 days later, the only other leader who mastered retreat from confrontation better than Batohi - President Cyril Ramaphosa - has appended his signature to a letter that is a fitting epitaph to a reign of reluctance.

For someone once so distinguished as the surgeon who dissected the Hansie Cronje saga will scientific precision and went off to a storied career in the Hague, it is a great tragedy that Shamila's professional obituary is simply summed up as follows:

'She of great potential and public support that gradually and excruciatingly mutated into a living monument to incompetence...'

A great pity.

[Ongama Mtimka, PhD @omtimka]

Poverty is a WAR ON the population of South Africa. Over 40 million people (TWO THIRDS of the population) live IN poverty. Unless we ALL recognised it as such, it will continue to have RAVAGING consequences for us.

[Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) @StatsSA]

#PovertyTrendsinSA || 37,9% of South Africans (23,2 million) fall below the Lower-Bound Poverty Line.

Tune in to @SAfmRadio at 15:50 as Acting Deputy Director-General, @raku_19, unpacks the latest insights on poverty and food insecurity using official data, with @AshrafGarda.

Read more here: https://t.co/eVR6ysh1No

#StatsSA #KnowYourStatsZA #GovZAUpdates