TON PALI SO

Love politics, debate & life in general

[Sihle Lonzi @SihleLonzi]

Weeks ago Cyril Ramaphosa was acting all powerful, telling the Media that Cabinet Reshuffles are the sole prerogative of the President.

Today, he is cowardly folding to the demands of the new leader of the DA.

This comes after the DA Deputy Sneaker of Parliament entertained a EFF Vote of No Confidence motion against the ANC Speaker.

This is no coincidence! The reality is that Ramaphosa’s fear of impeachment has made him a prisoner of the DA.

He is now forced to agree with everything the DA says, even if unconstitutional, because he fears how they will vote in Parliament.

Phala Phala has rendered the ANC naked, and powerless!

[Village Guluva @VillageGuluva]

A Tsonga family in Germiston was harassed at their home by the mob who demanded to see their ID documents before looting the house and taking all of their belongings. One woman was bathing when they dragged her out of the bathroom naked.

[Msunu ka Johann Rupert @ZizinjaAbelungu]

How can a senior reporter of eNCA ask if this gentlemen from Malamulele, Limpopo, whether he is in the country legally? He clearly stated that he is from Limpopo.

What is this? This is unacceptable from Aviwe @eNCA

[LeighMathys @LeighMathys]

@Simacoder @MapulaMokgosang @SiyasangaS33620 You should first explain what powers Malema has to refuse someone to appear

[Pan_Africanist @Mutwanamba_SA]

@newslivesa Julius is powerful moes, he influenced the majority!

[ThabzAfrika wa EFF @WorldofThabiso]

Maybe when white people tell the truth about @Action4SA @HermanMashaba @AtholT and @ME_Beaumont some of you will listen

I maintain that Herman was apartheid askari, he call black people, THOSE PEOPLE, in company of whites

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

✊🏿 Vini Jr: “I will continue doing everything in my power to FIGHT against racism, so that the next generation will NOT have to suffer from it”.

“I will keep fighting for ALL black people who don’t have the platform I have”.

[MnqunduWeAfriforum @Real_RIvolution]

Duduzile Zuma is in court because Ms Trent and Paul O'Sullivan filed a criminal complaint with the @SAPoliceService.

Why can't the same be done with people like Jacinta, Phakel' umsuzo and Ngizwe?

[Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧 @Sentletse]

He threatened Nigerians with violence until he encountered them in person and was reduced to a tame poodle.

Cowards these fools.

[Julius Sello Malema @Julius_S_Malema]

Match on Match of unity, peace and love.❤️✌️

[Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧 @Sentletse]

Yet you support violent tribalists who call you a foreigner.

[Andile Gogoda @AfricaisBlack]

What an absolute disgrace. The MK Party entered parliament on grand promises of being an "official opposition" that would challenge the status quo, dismantle economic inequality, and deliver structural transformation. Instead, they have completely outsourced their political mandate to the gutter. They choose to punch down on vulnerable migrant workers rather than holding the state accountable for collapsing service delivery and systemic poverty.

Jacob Zuma, travelled to Burkina Faso to give grand, theatrical sermons about dismantling colonial borders and how "all Africans are one." Then, the second they hit the ground in South Africa, they deploy branded vehicles to enforce those exact colonial divisions through division and intimidation. They have no answers for our country's economic and structural governance failures, so they choose to scapegoat the most vulnerable. Real progressives must reject these charlatans completely. 🚮🇿🇦

[LeighMathys @LeighMathys]

No legit EFf Member or Supporter would participate in such‼️ SA

[Economic Freedom Fighters @EFFSouthAfrica]

♦️ICYMI♦️

EFF Member of Parliament, Hon. @SihleLonzi, called out the NYDA for purging whistleblowers and intimidating journalists, stating that the EFF takes serious exception to such conduct.

The Chairperson of the NYDA allegedly spent R1 million on a trip to New York, the institution took the journalist who reported on the matter to court and is now running an investigation in attempt to purge the whistleblower who leaked the information.

#EFFInParliament

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

Azishe!

[Jackie Phamotse @JackiePhamotse]

Open Letter to CIC , @Julius_S_Malema ✊🏾🙏

Commander Malema,

Leadership is a heavy coat. The closer you stand to the fire of a people’s hopes, the more you feel the burn. Your sentence, whatever its shape, is part of that weight. Wear it, but do not let it bend your spine. The spirit that brought you here cannot be jailed, adjourned, or silenced. If it dies, it will not be because of a courtroom or a critic. It will be because you let it. Millions of people carry your spirit, they believe in you and their actions have proven to love you. 

Remember Thomas Sankara. He was 33 when he took Burkina Faso and renamed not just a country, but its purpose. He told his people to stand upright, to refuse debt that enslaved them, to plant trees and dignity in the same soil. He was murdered at 37. But the idea of Sankara outlived the bullets. Why? Because he understood that a leader’s job is not to be safe. It is to be useful, even when it costs.

Remember Kwame Nkrumah, who faced exile and died far from the Ghana he birthed. Remember Patrice Lumumba, who was given 60 days as prime minister before the world decided he was too dangerous to live. Remember Steve Biko, who wrote that the most potent weapon is the mind of the oppressed, and paid for that sentence with his life at 30. None of them were permitted to finish. Yet all of them are still speaking through us! 

Your sentence, then, is not the end of the book. It is a paragraph. The question is whether the next chapter is written by you, or about you.

The weight of a leader will be great. It must be. If it feels light, you are not carrying enough of your people’s burdens. But weight is not the same as defeat. Sankara rode a bicycle to cabinet meetings because he believed leaders should not eat while the people starve. Nyerere retired to a village and taught by example. They carried the weight without letting it crush the spirit. That is the test.

So take stock, not pity. Discipline the anger. Sharpen the vision. Africa does not need another martyr right now. It needs builders who can take a blow, stand, and keep laying brick. Speak for the landless, yes. But also show them the plan for when the land is theirs. Chant in parliament, yes. But also govern in the mind, with numbers, with ethics, with detail. The people will forgive a leader who stumbles. They will not follow a leader who has no road.

This is not flattery. You will be attacked, betrayed, misquoted, and tempted. I can say this because I know! I have sat in a court room and I know the coldness the soul fights. But we do not fight the system with our words alone, we fight with our spirit! Some days the sentence will feel like a noose. On those days, remember: Sankara had four years. Lumumba had two months. Biko never got to govern at all. You are still here. Use the breath.

The spirit must live on! 

🙏✊🏾

[Unathi Afrika @UnathiAfrika]

Bought agent provocateurs. Hate Africans with a passion but love Europeans to death. And these are the people some of yall think will free you?

[MnqunduWeAfriforum @Real_RIvolution]

In the 2021 July unrest, Lt General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's police watched people burning trucks, looting shops and murdering others.

When I raised my concern about this, I was attacked.

Fast forward, the same KZN police are watching while foreigners are being assaulted.

[TON PALI SO @TONPALISO]

Big time

[MnqunduWeAfriforum @Real_RIvolution]

I must give it to these xenophobes and afrophobes.

They have successfully managed to defocus us from serious and main issues. We have now spent a lot of time talking about their nonsensical marches and hate against Africans.

[Sophie Mokoena @Sophie_Mokoena]

The US Ambassador to South Africa.