#PutSouthAfricansFirst

BLACK PEOPLE NEED BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS NOT POLITICS ❗❗❗

[IG:Joy-Zelda @joy_zelda]

She is still missing. Please Retweet until she is found.

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[sanelisiwe 🤍 @okayzinhle]

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[vuyi qotoyi @justvuyi_]

Another thing is that I need you guys to actually get into politics. We need qualified councillors, MMCs, mayors and support staff. We need ministers and leaders who care about this country. We actually need ordinary people to be invested in politics.

[Jos 🇿🇦👨🏿‍💻 🚗 @JosiahThobejane]

I built a search tool for the 2026 local elections over the weekend.

Ask any keyword question and it shows you what each party's manifesto actually says about that topic with their own words.

Coverage for more parties coming soon 🇿🇦.

https://t.co/i03wkfFzpa #LGE2026

[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

[Henriette Frohlich @henriettefroh]

This is not AI😭😭😭 #KnowYourDA

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[yknipg @Yknip1]

A South African lady visited Tanzania 🇹🇿 one Tanzanian decided to act fresh by asking her why South Africa doesn’t “accept foreigners”😂

She calmly schooled him, “We don’t have a problem with foreigners, we have a problem with people who have no proper documentation. Look at me, I’m in Tanzania legally with the proper documents. That’s exactly what South Africans are asking for”

… class dismissed 😂

Imagine travelling to another country legally & then being asked why you want the same standard applied in your own country. 😭🤷🏾‍♀️

[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!

[Msunu ka Johann Rupert @ZizinjaAbelungu]

Jeremy Riekert assaulted a woman in the Eastern Cape, East London. He is a high school teacher at Gonubie High School.

This woman suffered a head injury as the result of the assault 💔💔💔

[SABC News @SABCNews]

WATCH | Stellenbosch University computer science student Joel Cedras has allegedly uncovered a major security flaw in Gauteng’s e-Panic Button app, exposing an unsecured database containing crime reports, users’ names, GPS locations and details of accused individuals.

[Mnyamani 👑 @Zikamnyamane]

Child kidnapping was stopped, a life was saved. Observe, Record and Call police. The enemy doesn't have power if we all participate, South Africa unite!

[LPC @landpalestine]

Johnathan Newell, one of the Cornell 7 gang rapists is the one that sent the Snapchat message to the “Chi Phi Actives,” where the other 6 learned about the “free p*ssy.”

Never let this story die down and never stop calling it out.

He wants to be a Dr. No med school should accept him

[#PutSouthAfricansFirst @_Babadi]

South Africans are brilliant bunch of winners. Politics are seriously holding us back.

[SABC News @SABCNews]

South Africa has made history at the WorldSkills Competition 2026 in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, after securing a silver medal in Aircraft Maintenance. The country was represented by 29 students competing across 27 skills, joining approximately 1 400 competitors from more than 90 countries. Picture credit: Nonjabulo Mntungwa- Makamu and Nomhle Ngubane

[El Sobhuza🇿🇦🇿🇦🇮🇷🇮🇷🇷🇺🇷🇺 @Buyile311214]

Real Genocide vs fake Genocide

[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.

[Mudzunga @Dzungie007]

Fetch them one by one don’t let the breathe

[Max @MaxNomaNini]

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[#PutSouthAfricansFirst @_Babadi]

@msimang6mch @SizweDhlomo It's election season and he is suspiciously quiet. He knows what's coming.

[#PutSouthAfricansFirst @_Babadi]

@Thepinkwiglady @twinkletweetu You see dead people?

[Billie Nelson @Mamabenergy2]

If you are ok with 3,000 White Crosses Event for White South African Farmers/ Afrikaners on our National Mall,
But would be mad also 73,919 markers for Palestinians to be remembered and mourned, you need to check your privilege.

#fyp #whitecrosses #Afrikaners #HindRajab #freepalestine