Stuart Johnson

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

Eben Etzebeth's eye-gouging hearing today.

In mitigation, his excellent and exemplary disciplinary record over 141 tests.

In aggravation, he's a Springbok and therefore obviously a violently brutish rugby player prone to regular acts of extreme unprovoked foul play.

#etzebeth

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

@Our_DA not covering itself in glory.

Special interest groups rule.

First the Gaza prevarication, now this.

Beholden to right-wing Zionist interests and the canned hunting industry.

Gross. Grim. Corrupt.

@jsteenhuisen

https://t.co/xvxGU9cxz7

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

If you're part of the petrochemical or plastics industries, don't panic - @jsteenhuisen is going to remove the @Our_DA Minister who is actually wanting to do something about this.

https://t.co/S49FYe6NsQ
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[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

@Richard_Spoor There's useful corruption where something of value is created or gets left behind despite the corruptors becoming obscenely wealthy; then there's useless corruption which is what you are describing.
Consumption of public resources with no tangible benefit.
(Neither is optimal)

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

Dear @jsteenhuisen - feels like another Roman moment doesn't it? An ill-judged decision as leader based on pleasuring a special interest group? Bit of a tangle again.

DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 https://t.co/iQt4wZyIAM

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

Well said @AdriaanBasson - these self-interested bigots have contributed nothing to the South Africa most of us aspire to live in.

You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.

Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump https://t.co/4z8zzBxcfL

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

A necessary read if you are a conservationist at heart.

https://t.co/9Dp7BD269R
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[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

Been wondering what was behind @jsteenhuisen decision.

Thought it might be George going after single use plastics and manufacturers like Coke.

Or Steenhuisen courting the hunting farmers as (conflicted) Minister of Agriculture.

Maybe it's all three.

https://t.co/9Dp7BD269R

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

A must read for every sensible South African - well said @QaanitahHunter

Qaanitah Hunter | Don’t legalise corruption – Fix the system that was deliberately broken https://t.co/DaGJHoL064

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

Interesting implications for SAPS.
Not least in the context of the July riots where the police stood back as chaos unfolded in KZN.

Court finds Minister of Police liable for farm attack losses – Moonstone Information Refinery https://t.co/ksws5bgZ1k

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

The happiest people I know don't have perfect lives. But they do have one thing in common: They've mastered the art of moving on. They don't keep score, they don't cling to what if, they don't dwell. There’s a hell of a lot of progress hiding in not staying stuck in the past.

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

@ShareenSingh8 @HealthZA @GovernmentZA Not a campaign and not trying to.

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

Health care in South Africa isn't under-funded.

It is broken because the ANC's cadres have robbed it blind and run it into the ground through sheer incompetence.

Yet Minister Motsoaledi and @HealthZA want to impose a tax on everyone else for an unnecessary NHI.

@GovernmentZA

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

@ShareenSingh8 @HealthZA @GovernmentZA We have an "NHI" already. They just can't make it work.
Throwing more taxpayer money at incompetent and chronically corrupt institutions won't fix that.
The NHI is effectively the hijacking/expropriation of the private health sector.
It's political noise from the incompetent ANC

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

@ShareenSingh8 @HealthZA @GovernmentZA Many doctors also contract to the State as well as working in private practice.
It's part of the reason why there are still (small) pockets of excellence in government healthcare where committed medical personnel make all the difference in the face of the State's rank ineptness.

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

@ShareenSingh8 @HealthZA @GovernmentZA How so?
If there was a fully functional State funded alternative the market for private medical schemes would be smaller, competition real, and costs driven down.
Doctors and providers can only charge what they like because of the absence of a functional State funded alternative.

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

"One million – the number of seconds that make up approximately 11.5 days.
One billion seconds, however, is approximately 31.7 years."

Some perspective on how big the R49bn the Zuma's and Gupta's stole from South Africa really is.

@dailymaverick

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

#idiots

R48k for a hat? RAF officials ‘proud’ of marketing work by billion-rand media contracts https://t.co/s3mUKaDSTo

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

On the R49bn he and the Guptas looted it shouldn't really be an issue.

(Plus there is a good chance Gadaffi's missing gold is in the Nkandla basement)

‘How is Mr Zuma going to live?’: Judge questions impact of pension benefit attachment https://t.co/T6xOXruXmL

[Stuart Johnson @StuSJohnson]

@ShareenSingh8 @HealthZA @GovernmentZA Not sure that it is right to solely blame the medical schemes for driving costs up.
The service providers are doctors and hospitals - and their billing can be pretty extreme.
The alternative available to citizens should be a functional government health system.
It's not.