anna cox

Freelance journalist, writer, PR and communications. 30 years experience. Reader. Best of all, an avid foodie. Email me for more info.

[anna cox @annacox]

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[Megan S. @SimplyMegszcpt]

AmaBhungane recently reported that Eskom awarded three diesel-supply contracts, each worth roughly R4-billion, to:
-a group that is under investigation for allegedly bribing Transnet officials;
-an obscure company which also received a large water tanker contract from Johannesburg Water; and
–a company led by a 24-year-old psychology graduate and online wig seller.
Analysis: Treasury’s procurement monster https://t.co/0YUvhAgoBj

[@ BizGuru @BizGuru4]

Meet Tshepo Malema,

🔺️He is Julius Malema's cousin
🔺️He is 42years of age
🔺️He owns a company named Arandi Trading Enterprice which was appointed a R44million pharmaceutical tender with the Dept. Of Health Limpopo without having completed a tender document which got him in hot water & arrested for this corrupt deal and subsequently released on R10 000 bail
🔺️He is the owner of Mekete Lodge on paper which actually belongs to Julius Malema in physicality
🔺️He is the owner of 2 Total Garage filling stations which is only on paper but physically belongs to Julius Malema
🔺️He has been repeatedly awarded tenders with both Dept. Of Health and Social Development Limpopo with contracts value being over R167million for supply of medical equipments & medical utensils
🔺️In 2011, whilst Julius Malema was still President of ANCYL Limpopo, he scored 2 tenders with the same Dept. Of Health Limpopo for R59million ( One was for R29million & the other R30million )
🔺️He is also allegedly a full-time beneficiary of Feeding Scheme Projects under Dept. Of Education Limpopo

Tell me that this is just a coincodent NOT corruption that he is so fortunate these tenders chooses to always come his way 🤔🤔, and this are just a drop in an ocean.

@RSASIU @NPA_Prosecutes @RSA_IPID An investigation is a necessity into this man's business dealings.

[anna cox @annacox]

@realshawnmchugh @libsoftiktok It will happen to you.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Years ago the ANC-captured Johannesburg Property Company spent millions on upgrading a council chamber. When questioned about this careless expenditure, they claimed the glass was “bulletproof.”

All it took was a brick to shatter that lie.

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

🚨Under the ANC led coalition in Tshwane, the MMC responsible for the City’s finances benefited from an undeclared Municipal contract. Instead of removing him, the coalition gave him a slap on the wrist and allowed him to stay in office🚨

That tells you everything you need to know about the state of accountability in Tshwane❌

#backbrink #takebackyourcity

[Mark Barnes @mark_barnes56]

🇿🇦Seriously, does anyone in Jo’burg city council understand arithmetic, finance, fair market value, or money?!🇿🇦@TimesLIVE

[Sunday Times @SundayTimesZA]

A brazen takeover by a cybercrime syndicate saw Ekurhuleni’s IT billing system effectively seized, fuelling a shadowy operation investigators say enabled a staggering R2bn fraud.

https://t.co/vgSvbSQuI7

[Pookie's Polls & Opinions @pookiepolls]

Nice one, Eishkom.

[Mail & Guardian @mailandguardian]

1,100 jobs. Gone. R1.1 billion in public money. Gone. The R749m shareholder contribution used to secure funding? Forensic investigators can't find proof it ever existed. This is the story of SA Steel Mills and the questions that still need answers from the IDC. Full story OUT NOW!!!  https://t.co/mVVEonHhZb

[Sir Lebona Cabonena @LCabonena]

Did You Know???

In Qwaqwa alone the ANC comrades looted R270 million meant for water supply to poor people.

They same people looted R70 million meant for a new taxi rank.

They same people looted R90 million meant for power station.

[anna cox @annacox]

@RealCandaceO @LauraLoomer You are sick, you need serious help.

[Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo @GugsM]

Sunday Times reports that R800million is spent annually paying public servants on suspension. In one case a department of women DG was suspended in 2018, & found guilty of financial misconduct, has received more than R5million even though his position has been filled.

[Chris Yelland @chrisyelland]

This is how the incompetent @CityofJoburgZA, @MyJRA, @CityPowerJhb and @JoburgWater leave a job half done for months and months in a highly dangerous state to this very day, at The Woods, cnr Jan Smuts Ave and Rothsay Ave, Craighall Park. @helenzille

[RaiZel @landbourainier]

🚨SHOCKING: THE CONCENTRATION OF BENEFITS IN SOUTH AFRICA’S BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT POLICY‼️

Since 1994, over R1 trillion has been transferred through BEE mechanisms to fewer than 100 politically connected individuals and families‼️This is a small recurring group linked to ANC structures, trade unions, and government positions benefiting, rather than delivering broad-based economic transformation. R1 trillion has been moved between under 100 people. The same people have been empowered and re-empowered over and over‼️

Cyril Ramaphosa (via Shanduka Group):
Shanduka participated in multiple BEE-linked investments in mining, banking (including Standard Bank) and other sectors. The group reached a valuation exceeding R20 billion at its peak, Ramaphosa’s stake sale in the 2015 Shanduka-Pembani merger was estimated in the range of $200–300 million (approx. R2–4 billion at the time).

Patrice Motsepe (via Ubuntu-Botho consortium):
Contributed R200 million in the 2004 Sanlam BEE transaction, which generated an estimated R8 billion+ in value/profit for his participation upon maturity (one of the largest returns in early BEE financial services deals).

Tokyo Sexwale: Involved in major BEE deals including R13 billion tender-related and Absa Batho Bonke consortium (part of R2.3 billion Absa stake).
Mvelaphanda Holdings secured significant mining and finance BEE equity.

Saki Macozoma (Safika Holdings):
Key player in R5.4 billion Standard Bank and Liberty BEE deal (2004), one of SA’s largest at the time.
Safika also in Tutuwa Consortium for R4.3 billion Standard Bank stake.

Bridgette Radebe (Motsepe family):
Pioneer in mining BEE; vast deals through Mmakau Mining and family-linked consortia (tied to multiple Anglo and other mining empowerment structures).

Phuthuma Nhleko (Pembani Group):
Major telecom and mining BEE deals, including MTN structures and later Shanduka merger (portfolio value over R9–11 billion range in deals).

🔥MTN, Vodacom, Cell C, Standard Bank, Liberty and Sanlam BEE consortia repeatedly featured the same small circle.

🔥Dozens of politically connected individuals in Anglo American, Exxaro, Kumba, Seriti Resources deals worth hundreds of millions to billions each.
Many entered with minimal initial capital but gained massive equity via political access and preferential terms.

🔥This isn’t broad-based empowerment, it’s elite capture benefiting a tiny connected group while the majority of South Africans struggles‼️‼️

[amaBhungane @amaBhungane]

We sent questions to celebrity designer Hangwani Nengovhela about her SIU deal to ‘pay back the money’ received from the National Skills Fund. Her husband Tshamano responded claiming she had no involvement in Rubicon's operations despite being its sole member. The record shows otherwise. https://t.co/qErELg9RCt

[Wayne Duvenage @wayneduv]

Come on man. Such obvious opulence and yet, no questions asked or lifestyle audits undertaken earlier by ⁦@ActionSATshwane. What is your excuse? ⁩ CFO’s suspension allegedly linked to tender rigging — spotlight on opulent lifestyle https://t.co/TVpNgDUlzt

[Chief Bavelelwe @Chief_Bavelelwe]

The cars that Mr Gareth Mnisi used are owned by Omar's Moto Den in Witbank. A corrupt dealership that allows criminals to buy the luxury cars but remain under their names. Zunaid Moti is doing the same with his Auto Moti situated in Polokwane.
#MadlangaCommission

[anna cox @annacox]

@Blind___Gamer Fake rubbish

[I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA @Lolita721611021]

🇿🇦‼️ SCOOP: Over R1 Trillion Looted Through BEE — South Africa's Greatest Political Scam‼️
A bombshell revelation has shaken South Africa’s fragile economic credibility to the core. Professor William Gumede, one of the country’s most respected governance scholars, has exposed what many feared: over R1 TRILLION has been transferred under the banner of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and almost all of it has landed in the pockets of fewer than 100 politically connected individuals.

Yes — R1,000,000,000,000. Not to uplift a nation, but to enrich a recycled elite.

“BEE only benefits a very small group — politically connected, linked to the ANC, linked to the trade unions… and the same people are re-empowered again and again,” said Gumede in an explosive public interview.

This is not transformation. This is state-sanctioned looting under the guise of empowerment.

⚡️ Empowering the Powerful - The BEE Deception Unmasked
While millions of ordinary South Africans hoped BEE would correct historical injustice, the ANC and its cronies were building a closed economic aristocracy, handing out stakes in state tenders and companies to a loyal inner circle. These so-called “empowered” figures didn’t rise through merit — they were installed, protected, and recycled from boardroom to boardroom like pawns in a rigged game.

BEE was never about black empowerment. It was about ANC empowerment, and more accurately, the enrichment of select thieves cloaked in revolutionary slogans.

This damning revelation confirms what economists, business leaders, and disenfranchised citizens have whispered for years: South Africa’s empowerment model empowers no one but the ANC-connected class.

⚡️ A Devastated Nation: No Justice, No Jobs, No Growth
South Africa today suffers from soaring unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, rampant crime, and hopeless youth. Meanwhile, the BEE billionaires — nearly all of them ANC-aligned — enjoy elite status, luxury homes, and immunity from accountability.

This isn’t an accident. It’s the result of a political design — a system built not to heal but to exploit, not to empower but to enslave, not to share but to steal.
The same group is “empowered” repeatedly, while millions rot in poverty. How can that possibly be justified in a democracy?

⚡️ The Moral Bankruptcy of the ANC
The ANC once claimed to stand for justice. Today, it stands accused by its own intellectual allies of overseeing one of the most cynical wealth-grabs in modern African history.

If “empowerment” means billion-rand transfers to under 100 people — most of whom are repeat beneficiaries — then South Africa is no longer a democracy. It is a captured state under economic apartheid, run by political bandits.

This is not empowerment. It is daylight robbery, orchestrated from within government halls, funded by the suffering of the masses, and protected by a network of spin, censorship, and silence.

[In A Nutshell🥜 @Markosonke1]

🚨😳 SHOCKING NEWS: His take-home salary R124,000… but lifestyle worth millions..

Suspended City of Tshwane CFO Gareth Mnisi is facing intense scrutiny after revelations that his reported monthly take-home salary was around R124,000, yet he allegedly maintained a lavish lifestyle featuring Porsches, Range Rovers, a Maserati, and properties said to be worth R36 million.

South Africans are now asking one simple question: how does a public servant’s salary stretch this far? 🤔

What began as a suspension story is fast turning into a wider debate about wealth, transparency and accountability in public office and amount of money government pays top civil servants