SACR now has a 7-member Legal Advisory Panel! 👏🏾
As we take forward the work of constitutional reform, meaningful public participation and accountable governance, the Panel will provide legal expertise, strategic insight and guidance to help strengthen our work.
SIYABONGA to these legal practitioners for stepping forward and putting their knowledge and experience towards building a stronger constitutional democracy.
The movement is growing. The work is getting stronger. And we’re just getting started. 🇿🇦
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🇿🇦THE BEE 100: PROF GUMEDE’S R1 TRILLION LOOTERS LIST‼️
Key Finding: “Over R1 trillion has been transferred to fewer than 100 politically connected individuals under the banner of black economic empowerment”
🔴TOP BEE BILLIONAIRES & MAJOR BENEFICIARIES
1. CYRIL RAMAPHOSA
• Net Worth: R14 billion ($800 million)
• Major BEE Deals: Standard Bank consortium,
Shanduka Group, multiple mining deals
• Position: President of South Africa
• Quote: “They feel good when they see me rich”
2. PATRICE MOTSEPE
• Net Worth: R33.5 billion ($1.8bn)
• Major Deal: BEE: Sanlam transaction – R8 billion
profit from R200 million investment
• Other Deals: Mining and telecom BEE transactions,
African Rainbow Capital
• Family: Brother of Bridget Radebe
3. TOKYO SEXWALE
• Net Worth: R1.5 billion ($100 million)
• Major Deal: R13 billion tender involvement, R1.3
billion BEE acquisitions
• Position: Former Minister of Human Settlements
• Background: Diamond magnate, multiple
government positions
4. SAKI MACOZOMA
• Net Worth: R865 million
• Major Deal: R1.6 billion Standard Bank and Liberty
BEE deal (2004)
• Company: Safika Holdings (Founded 1995)
• Background: Struggle veteran and political prisoner
turned billionaire
5. PHUTUMA NHLENGETHWA
• Major Deals: MTN’s R1.1 billion BEE deal (2002), BEE
deals in telecoms (2003-2005)
• Company: Pembani Group
• Background: “Deal maker of note” – multiple major
BEE deals
6. BRIDGET RADEBE (Bridgette Motsepe-Radebe)
• Net Worth: R1.5 billion ($105 million)
• Position: Sister of Patrice Motsepe, married to
Minister of Energy
• Achievements: “South Africa’s first black female
mining entrepreneur”
• Background: Vast mining BEE deals
7. SIPHO NKOSI
• Company: Former Exxaro CEO; Eyesizwe Mining
• Major Deals: Kumba Iron Ore’s “biggest BEE deal”
(2006), Exxaro 2005 BEE structure
• Other: R20 billion credit from Great Basin Gold BEE
deal
• Background: Multiple mining BEE transactions
8. VINCENT MTHAMBO
• Net Worth: R1.1 billion
• Education: Yale University
• Company: ASG Consulting Solutions (Chairman)
• Position: Former director
• Profile: Called “South Africa’s humble, multi-
millionaire man”
9. LEHLOGONONO SOWAJI (Nthikole Leonard Sowaji)
• Net Worth: R1.5 billion
• Company: Tiso Group (co-founded 2003), Tiso
Blackstar Group
• Position: Kagiso Tiso Holdings Chairman
• Background: Executive Chairman 2003-2010
10. MIKE TKE
• Net Worth: R825 million
• Positions Held: Seriti Resources Holdings Group
CEO; Mhlobiso Holdings Group
• Major Deals: Anglo American coal mines acquisition
(R2.3 billion, 2017)
• Position: Former Chamber of Mines president
11. DALIHLAYAYA ZHLANGI
• Net Worth: R825 million
• Company: Merafe Resources (Founder and CEO)
• Background: Former AngloAlpha executive, Barlowrand, former Alexander State (Standard CEB)
• Deals: Multiple mining and telecom BEE deals
🔴 BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICES:
• Standard Bank BEE consortium members
• Liberty BEE deal beneficiaries
• Sanlam BEE transaction partners
• Various black elite shareholding entities
🔴 TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
• MTN BEE deal beneficiaries
• Vodacom BEE partners
• Cell C BEE shareholders
🔴 GOVERNMENT TENDER BENEFICIARIES:
• Various state capture beneficiaries
• SOE BEE deal recipients
• Government contract BEE partners
🔴 KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BEE 100:
• Political Connections:
o ANC leadership positions
o Trade union background
o Government ministerial positions
o Family connections to ministers
• Recycled Beneficiaries:
o Same individuals in multiple deals
o “Transformed and empowered over and over again”
o Cross-sector participation
• Deal Patterns:
o Minimal initial investment
o Massive returns through political access
o Preferential tender awards
o Monopolistic market positions
🔴PROF GUMEDE’S DAMNING CONCLUSIONS:
“BEE only benefits a very small group of politically connected, & tied to the ANC, linked to the trade unions, and the same people are recycled again and again”
“…is a covert transfer, stimulus, this is state-enabled looting under the guise of empowerment…”
“Black Economic Empowerment has led to increased poverty, unemployment and inequality in South Africa”
“South Africa’s BEE model has created a model of corruption because people set up companies just to get a contract”
🔴 THE R1 TRILLION BREAKDOWN:
• Individual Fortunes: Top 12 beneficiaries worth over R80 billion combined
• Major Deals: Individual transactions worth hundreds of millions to billions
• Sector Concentration: Mining, banking, telecommunications, government contracts
• Time Period: 30 years since 1994
• Beneficiaries: Fewer than 100 politically connected individuals and families
🔴 MINING SECTOR BENEFICIARIES:
• Mxolisi Mgojo – Exxaro Board CEO, SESITI
shareholder
• Duduhe Moleone – Eyesizwe Mining shareholder
• Daphne Mokwena – Eyesizwe Mining shareholder
• Masello Radebe – Eyesizwe Mining shareholder
• Tim Tlelolilo – Scinta Resources
• Vunene Kumbe – Iron Ore BEE partners
• Multiple Anglo American BEE consortium members
• Seriti Resources and shareholders
Source: Prof William Gumede, Wits School of Governance
Hi South Africans 🇿🇦
I just thought you guys would want to know that your IDs are being produced in NIGERIA and being sent all around the world so they can gain access in other countries and then call you Xenophobic ‼️‼️ And then your @GovernmentZA will pretend not to know or see all of this, the same way they don’t see Sizokthola🤒
South Africa keeps arguing about which degrees are "useless" and which ones guarantee a job, and Sim Tshabalala just quietly ended that entire debate, saying a university degree was never about preparing you for a specific role, it was about teaching you to think, to be systematic, and to be disciplined.
That is a different way of measuring value than the one most families use when a matric student picks a degree purely because an uncle said it "pays well," and it explains why so many graduates with the "right" degree still struggle while others with unconventional ones somehow find their footing.
It also lands differently coming from the head of a R3 trillion bank, a man who studied philosophy and law before ever touching finance, proving that the discipline and reasoning built in a lecture hall travel far beyond whatever subject that lecture hall was named after.
Stop asking which degree gets you a job, start asking which one teaches you how to think, because that is the qualification the market can never take away from you.
More than 370 Bangladeshi nationals were reportedly found camping in a flat and arrested. This comes amid reports of thousands of foreign-owned spaza shops being forced to close for allegedly failing to comply with South Africa’s immigration and business regulations.
These operations form part of ongoing efforts to enforce migration laws and the reported R5 million investment requirement for foreign nationals operating businesses in South Africa.
General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi schools Parliament on the challenges facing SAPS, emanating from the establishment of law enforcement agencies like IDAC, IPID, Hawks.
#PortfolioCommitteeOnPolice#MadlangaCommission
Tomorrow we are in court to support the Mayor that has supported us… he is being taken to court by Pakistanis and Somalis who are forcing him to allow them to trade in the City!!! Please join us tomorrow patriots 🙏🏻🇿🇦❤️
They first said I’ll March alone…
Then they said it will be over in 2 weeks…
Then They said we are a political party…
Then they got me fired from work trying to finish the movement and silence us…
Then they said we are a KZN movement…
Then they said we will be running for local government elections in 2026…
Then they said I would be a Mayoral candidate…
They sent the media and NGOs to spread propaganda about us being funded by Israel
Then they said by June 30 I would be arrested…
Then they paid to make June 30 not happen
Then they said after June 30 we would be over…
Now imagine if I had stopped from the Day they said I’ll March alone, would we be here???
March and March remains the first movement to hold government accountable and that citizens have a voice in a long time and we have organised ourselves in a way that allows us to meet and work with people that will strengthen that pursuit! We don’t make promises but we always promise to do our best…
While some of you believe that our lives are not in danger or this entire process is easy, it certainly is not and so much has been done even in our personal lives to destroy us but we kept going not because we want your votes but because we know that anyone who dares challenge the system will always find themselves in the face of destruction.
We said Until we win and we will‼️✊🏻🇿🇦
Vusimuzi Cat Matlala places on record that he was brought in Ekurhuleni through the @Our_DA Democratic Alliance Mayor, Tania Campbell.
Let’s see your reactions.
Yesterday the DA tried to make this out to be a private company matter. Today it comes to light that they’re key beneficiaries, if not the architects of what looks like a well coordinated money laundering scheme. This calls for investigation into @Our_DA party finances.
When the media reports on fraud and corruption by whites, they make it seem like an inconvenient mistake or mere lapse of judgement on perpetrators' part.
There is never in-depth scrutiny that black people get subjected to.
Take these cases for example:
- A R4 billion fraud by Kastello, whose chairman is the DA's Finance Head, Mark Burke. The media make it seem like is just a mere exchange control violation, when it is a massive fraud where unauthorised offshore transfers were disguised as clients' foreign investment allowances.
- Another R4 billion fraud at Tongaat-Hullet was reported as "an accounting irregularity". Former executives have been charged with fraud, yet we still don't know what properties they own and cars they drive, as it would have been the case if they were black.
- The R365 billion fraud perpetrated by Markus Jooste at Steinhoff was also reported as "accounting irregularity". The DA which was linked to Markus Jooste and Steinhof has never been made the face of this fraud, in spite of evidence of direct links; yet the EFF was made the face of VBS when there is no link that fraud.
- The CEO of Private preschool group KleuterZone, CEO Anthonie Bougas, vanished with R500 million belonging to investors and we don't even know how he looks like and which political party he is linked to.
- Lawyer Ronald Bobroff stole close to a R1 billion from RAF claimants and fled to Australia in 2016. He was a regular commentator on Radio 702. The media has never hounded people linked to these scumbags and make them the face of crimes they committed. That is reserved for only black people.
The media excuses criminal actions of white people, including their gross incompetence (e.g. Andre de Ruyter")
🔴 ICYMI
Vusimuzi Cat Matlala testifies :
"My company provided security to the D.A former Ekurhuleni Mayor, Miss Tania Campbell"
I challenge all of you t connect the dots and make this trend as you usually do, we cannot put this under the carpet, DA has a corrupt relationship with Cat Matlala 🤧🤧
There was no way Mkhwanazi and his team were gonna win this war, he had no choice, but to do a press on that day, 6th July 2025. 💔😭🙆🏽♂️😱… Msibi was the real president of South Africa 🇿🇦 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
#MadlangaCommission
This is not a feel good story. It’s the government that’s supposed to be providing social services. She should be using her allowance to buy books. Citizens can’t keep doing the government’s job at a personal cost while we pay taxes