The 99%

South Africa is our only home. We have nowhere else to go.
We stay. We build. We serve. We hold each other accountable.
Email: [email protected]

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

South Africa is not broken. It is being broken. Deliberately. By people who are supposed to protect it. Every day, qualified South Africans wake up, go to work, come home — and say and do nothing. While the country they love slides into a failed state. This is the 99% Initiative.

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

But this cannot be the leadership we deserve.

Silence in the face of accountability is its own answer.

We need a new pipeline — independent, qualified graduates who run for municipal office not for party advancement, but for service. People with the skills to actually manage billion-rand entities like the JDA and JOSHCO with competence and integrity.

Party deployees have given us this. It’s time citizens demand better — and stand for office themselves.

#99PercentSA #PeopleFirst #AccountableGovernance

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

This frustration is shared by millions of South Africans right now — and it’s completely legitimate.

But before you spoil that ballot, consider this: a spoiled vote is a message nobody has to act on. A mandated, organised citizen movement is one they can’t ignore.

The 99% Movement is here and it doesn’t tell you who to vote for. That’s not our job and never will be.

Our job is to make sure that whoever gets your vote — or wants it — has to answer to an organised, funded, citizen-led accountability structure before, during, and after November 2026.

We’re building that structure right now.

Join us. Your vote is yours. Your voice is ours — together.
🇿🇦 #The99Percent #ThisIsOurHome #HoldThemAccountable

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

You’ve got it exactly right. 🙏

The 99% Movement is a registered South African NPO with the aim to be funded by ordinary South Africans — R100 per person, per month. No corporate donors. No political party. No single funder large enough to own us.

We exist because South Africa doesn’t have a talent problem or a resource problem. It has a governance problem. And the solution isn’t waiting for the right politician — it’s ordinary citizens taking responsibility, holding power accountable, and building from the ground up.

Your R100 = your membership + your direct vote/say on what we do next.

We stay. We build. We serve. We hold each other accountable. 🇿🇦

Welcome home.
#The99Percent #ThisIsOurHome

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

Half a million rand. From ordinary South Africans. Because when people trust where their money goes — they give.

This is exactly what the 99% Movement is built on.
R100 at a time. No corporate donors. No political masters. Just citizens who have decided that accountability is worth funding.

Congratulations to SACR on this milestone. The more of us doing this work — from different angles, with different tools — the harder it becomes to ignore us.

If you believe in citizen-led accountability, there’s another home for your R100.
🇿🇦 The 99% People’s Initiative — link in bio.
#The99Percent #HoldThemAccountable #AccountabilityMatters #ThisIsOurHome

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

Personal accountability is not comfortable. But it is the foundation everything else is built on.
You cannot demand from government what you are not prepared to demand from yourself.
That’s where it starts. Right where you are.
🇿🇦 #The99Percent #HoldThemAccountable #ThisIsOurHome

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

We talk a lot about holding government accountable. Good. They deserve it.
But there’s a harder conversation we need to have.

Thread 🧵

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

The 99% Movement is not just about holding politicians accountable.
It’s about each of us deciding — in our corner, in our workplace, in our community — that we are no longer available to look away.

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

The core point is right: unenforced laws are an invitation to chaos.
But let’s be honest about who’s responsible for that enforcement failure — it’s not the ordinary South African.

It’s the government that looks the other way. The employers who exploit undocumented workers because it’s cheaper. The officials who take bribes at the border.

Hold those people accountable first.

#HoldThemAccountable #The99Percent

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

When there's enough — people are generous. When there's nothing — people look for someone to blame.
Politicians know this. They created the nothing. Then they handed you a scapegoat.
Trevor Noah just explained the oldest trick in the book.
The 99% isn't fooled. We know who's actually responsible.
#HoldThemAccountable #The99Percent

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

@LeratoPillayZA Trevor Noah is right. The anger is never really about the immigrant. It's about the failure of governance that leaves people feeling like there isn't enough.
Fix the governance. The scarcity disappears.
That's what the 99% is building toward.
#The99Percent #ThisIsOurHome

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

The 99% Movement exists precisely for moments like this.
Not to celebrate the commission. To make sure the pressure doesn’t end when the hearings do. The honest officers who were destroyed deserve more than testimony. They deserve a system that protects them.
We stay. We watch. We hold.
#MadlangaCommission #HoldThemAccountable #The99Percent #ThisIsOurHome

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

The Madlanga Commission is proving what honest South Africans have always known: corruption doesn’t just steal money. It destroys people.

Thread 🧵

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

We’re watching dedicated officers, people who joined the police to serve — being victimised, sidelined, and broken by criminals who outrank them.

That’s not a policing problem. That’s a governance failure at the highest level.

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

The Madlanga Commission is showing us something we already knew but couldn't prove:
The people destroying South Africa aren't strangers. They're wearing uniforms. They have ranks. They have generals' stars on their shoulders.

And the ones who just want to do their jobs? They get victimised for it.

This is what happens when the 1% capture the institutions meant to protect the 99%.
We see you. We're building the accountability infrastructure to hold them responsible.
#MadlangaCommission #HoldThemAccountable #The99Percent

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

South Africans are the most politically passionate and politically unaware voters on earth.
Most of us cannot name the ward councillor.

Most don't know that 04 November 2026 is a LOCAL election — not national. Not the President. The person responsible for your water, your roads, your safety.

Democracy cannot work if citizens don't know how it works.

We built an app to fix that. Free. Plain language. Every ward in SA.

https://t.co/RILeIZLn4w

Because an informed citizen is the one thing this government never planned for. Let us know what you think.
#The99Percent #2026Elections #KnowYourWard #CivicEducation

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

@newslivesa We have our hands up 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏼🙋🏿‍♂️we are ready to make that change!

[The 99% @The99Percent_SA]

The time is now. Let us make a difference.

#The99percent #ThisIsOurHome