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[Rolivhuwa 🫶🏾 @ReezaySA]

🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS | MISSING PERSON

Hey guys, we kindly need your assistance, bandla. 💔😭

Our sister has been missing since Saturday morning. She was last seen when she told the family she was going to a meeting, but she never returned.

At the time she went missing, she was wearing a white top and jeans and had natural hair.

🙏🏾 Please help us find her. If you have seen her or have any information about her whereabouts, please contact the family or the relevant police station.

Your repost could reach someone who knows where she is. Please share widely. 💔

📸 Photo: Supplied by family

#MissingPerson #MissingWoman #MissingPersonAlert #HelpFindHer #SouthAfrica #Gauteng #BreakingNews

[yknipg @Yknip1]

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South Africa please help find Amanda Khambule, she sent a voice note in distress to one of her family members that she’s being followed.

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Please reshare, women of South Africa are under siege unfortunately we don’t have a government. This can’t be normal! It’s business as usual to the GNU yet they released 600 million of our taxes to protect illegal foreigners but with our children, sisters, mothers & citizens of this country they’re doing nothing!

[💜🖤 @bigthebla]

This whole tax conversation is another reason why we should not glorify privatisation as government policy.

It’s not okay to normalise privately paying for services that we’re already being taxed for. The state must do its job, and it must do it competently!

[Khangisa (Prof. ) @Siyakhangisa]

48%.

That is the effective tax burden on someone earning R30,000 a month in South Africa. Same rate as someone earning R432,000 a month in a top European country.

The numbers sound wrong. They are not.

​​Where the 48% comes from.​​

PAYE is what people see on the payslip. It is not the whole picture.

VAT - 15% on almost everything. Every swipe. Every fill-up. Most people do not think of VAT as a tax. It is the largest single source of government revenue after income tax.

Fuel levy - built into every litre. Petrol at R26.92 inland includes roughly R3.80 in fuel levy and Road Accident Fund levy. That is a tax on getting to work.

Then there are the charges that look like fees but function like taxes. E-tolls. Municipal surcharges. Electricity tariffs with embedded levies.

Add the visible and the invisible - you get 48%.

​​The key difference with Europe.​​

In the Netherlands. In Denmark. In Germany. High taxes come with a social contract.

Free tertiary education. Universal healthcare that does not require medical aid. Childcare subsidies. Paid parental leave that covers an actual year. Robust unemployment support.

You pay 45%. And you get services back.

In South Africa you pay 48%. And then you pay again - privately.

Medical aid because public healthcare is collapsed. Security because policing is broken. Private schools because public education cannot be trusted. Solar panels or a generator because Eskom cannot guarantee power. Water tanks because the municipality cannot guarantee supply.

The middle-class earner pays twice. Once in tax. Once in escape.

​​Who actually pays.​​

There are about 8.3 million personal income taxpayers in South Africa. A relatively small slice of the population. The top earners supply most of the revenue.

Corporations optimise. The wealthy structure. Offshore trusts. Semigration. Emigration. The R30,000 earner cannot escape - it comes out before they see the money.

The base is narrow. The burden is concentrated. The services are not.

​​Why it accumulated this way.​​

No one designed this system. It grew.

Income tax funds the general budget. VAT funds the general budget. Fuel levy funds roads and the general budget. Each mechanism made sense when it was introduced. Each one expanded quietly.

Raising income tax visibly upsets people. Raising VAT is less visible - it is embedded in the price. Raising fuel levy is buried in the pump price. Municipal charges are non-negotiable.

The objective was not fairness to the middle class. It was revenue extraction with minimum political friction.

​​The uncomfortable part.​​

This is not a policy failure. It is a policy success. The system extracts efficiently. It offends quietly. And the people who carry it do not have the means to opt out.

The question is not whether 48% is too high.

It is how long the R30,000 earner can pay twice - once in tax and once in escape - before something breaks.

[patty. @jesuispattieb]

The breakdown.

Again, South African's ask - how is our taxes fundamentally benefitting us?

[Mpho @RamaphiriMpho]

Please share 🙏

[Mpho @RamaphiriMpho]

2029 is too far to still have this man as the President of South Africa.

[Makhosi Sthembi Speaks @MakhosiSthembi]

There have been numerous times in Cyril Ramaphosa's political career as an ANC member where he promised us jobs. Let me just give you a list of the recent ones:

1. January 2019: Promised to create roughly 257,000 jobs per year as part of the ANC's economic strategy.

2. October 2020: Announced a COVID-19 economic recovery plan targeting 800,000 to 875,000 jobs and work opportunities in the 2020/21 financial year.

3. February 2022: Promised in the SONA to finalize a social compact within 100 days to grow the economy and create jobs.

4. February 2024: Promised to create or support 2.5 million "job opportunities" over a five-year period during the launch of the ANC's 2024 election manifesto.

5. Recurring SONAs: Labour and political analysts note that specific job targets and commitments have been reiterated in nearly every annual State of the Nation Address since he took office in 2018.

All those promises were not met. Cyril is a liar. He gives false hope for votes.


[Neli M 🇸🇿🇿🇦 @NellyM_0]

Fellow South Africans, when you see a roadblock please don’t update Waze, especially if it’s a Stop n search 🙏🏾

[Amanda Mamzangwa 😍❤️ @Amanda_Umxhosa]

Guys??? There’s a new scam from amaphara now. They come dressed in what appears to be SAPS uniform. Their intentions are to rob you and clear your home. I’ve heard this is already happening in Gqeberha. Please be careful ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[#PutSouthAfricansfirst @Patriot_S_A]

Missing person alert

[Powerhouse @SEO30JJ]

🚨 URGENT: HELP LOCATE THIS CHILD’S FAMILY 🚨

An 8-year-old girl, Precious Lufwempa, was found alone along Katima Mulilo Road at around 22:00.

She has since been taken to Chaisa Police Station, where she is safe and in the care of the police while efforts are being made to locate her parents, guardians or family.

⚠️ Please take this appeal seriously. A child this young should not be alone on the streets late at night.

If you know Precious Lufwempa, know her family, or have any information that could help reunite her with her loved ones, please contact Chaisa Police Station urgently.

📢 Please SHARE widely. One share could help reunite this child with her family.

[T.S🌻✨ @ThatoSM_]

Is our money safe at least??

[Nedbank @Nedbank]

We’re aware of a technical issue affecting some Nedbank digital banking services, including the Money App and Online Banking. Our teams are working urgently to restore service. Clients can continue banking via branches, Self-Service Kiosks and our Contact Centre.

[Mpho @RamaphiriMpho]

I dare you @RAF_SA to say I am lying about this . You prioritised my friend from Lesotho over me and till this day when I ask, you say I am on a waiting list. Since 2010 mind you.

[Norma Kay @realnorma_kay]

So are we all just going to stay silent and watch Inno traffic young girls online in full view of everyone?

@SAPoliceService

[LadyM1306!🇳🇬 @LadyM1306]

A young man lost his life after being accused for the recent killings that happened in Kempton Park…

Please help the family and cops find the killers. In one video a woman is heard asking him why he murdered the ladies.

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

Repost this till it gets to the other side!

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[Sunflower @Sunflowerreal]

We need to talk about those clubs in Sandton and Rivonia Road those ladies on Instagram who arrange “hookups” with old man .

We have allowed people to do illegal things for too long ,our kids get drugs from those clubs .

Inno Morolong has been advertising “hookups” for so long no police officer has ever investigated her ,she has more than 5 charges of serious offences and she has never been in a cell .

We need police officers who will act and fix this country .

[Nalie ❄️ @nalie_zm]

Uyawazi amakhekhe omncwabo?
I can’t even sleep right now yoh