BornintheRSA1972

Born in RSA. Leaving soon for Europe. Vote or shut up!

[Zwelinzima Vavi @Zwelinzima1]

South Africa must be one of the few countries in the world where a multibillionaire President is found with hundreds of thousands of dollars hidden inside his furniture; where a Deputy President owns mansions worth tens of millions of rand; where a police officer can afford a R39 million house; and where a municipal manager spends millions on a London shopping trip using a chartered flight costing R3 million.

Then we are lectured about “fiscal discipline”, “tightening our belts” and “living within our means.” A country where obscene wealth coexists with mass unemployment, hunger and collapsing public services is not suffering from a shortage of resources—it is suffering from a crisis of priorities, accountability and inequality.

[🆆🅸🅻🅻 🆂🅲🅾🆃🆃 ♿ 🇮🇱 @guillum]

@HermanMashaba It's one thing to employ 8000 South Africans. It's another thing entirely to retain those people.

@Sixty60_Tweets started an Academy to try and train up locals to fill these jobs, and 80% dropped out.

Let's see if things go better this time around.

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@MbalulaFikile He’s one of your cadres brother!

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@HermanMashaba Uuuurg, 🥱 boring, champion of nothing.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

When 46 individuals capture over half of all BEE mining deals, the grand illusion of economic transformation is completely shattered.

This is not empowerment. It is institutionalised kleptocracy disguised as social justice.

The BEE has functioned as a closed loop syndicate for a tiny, politically connected elite.

In South Africa, you do not achieve success through operational excellence, mineral innovation, or capital efficiency. You achieve it through proximity to the ruling party's deployment committee.

Forty-six ANC cadres get unimaginably wealthy by simply signing their names on ownership certificates, while the actual miners and surrounding communities continue to live in absolute squalor.

Global capital and serious mining houses look at South Africa and see an uninvestable landscape. They are forced to hand over massive equity chunks to non-productive political cronies just for the permission to build.

Instead of investing profits back into advanced machinery, geological exploration, and stable logistics, billions are siphoned off into luxury estates and foreign bank accounts.

When a regime treats its national resources as a private treasury for a selected few, it has surrendered all moral legitimacy to govern.

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@MbalulaFikile Um…speaking of hopeless leaders…🤔🤔🤔

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@PSLBANTER African logic.

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@debbiepieterse You get what you vote for.

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@stefanjacobs We could have been the next Singapore. After independence they stamped out corruption and used their strengths, SA has more in mineral resources but the ANC chose to loot and destroy.

[Stefan Jacobs @stefanjacobs]

South Africa could have been a great country, but the ANC chose looting over building, envy over pride, incompetence over merit, lies over truth, revenge over reconciliation. I will never forgive the ANC for what they’ve done to South Africa. Treason of the highest order.

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@Dplanet @Bumfluffski How much of that has been done by @CyrilRamaphosa in his personal capacity as a BEE billionaire?

[Mufasa007 @Mufasa0062]

There it is, the last Nissan Navara coming off the production line in Rosslyn. Thanks to the government that messes everything up with BBBEEE.

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@Lisathe_first Education yourself with the facts please. Then apologize.

[ANC - African National Congress @MYANC]

The ANC notes with serious concern the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa, which shows the expanded unemployment rate rising to 43.7%, with 301 000 more South Africans unemployed in the first quarter of 2026.

[Gina @ginnydmm]

Probably the BEST speech by Ramaposer to date!!

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

🇿🇦“Only Two of Our Fighter Jets Are Working Because We Fight on the Ground” — Motshekga‼️

Pretoria — Defence minister Angie Motshekga has reassured South Africans that there is absolutely no reason to panic over the country’s collapsing air force capability, explaining that South Africa has “evolved beyond unnecessary flying.”

Speaking during what was supposed to be a serious parliamentary briefing, Motshekga reportedly defended the fact that only two fighter jets are operational by reminding MPs that “wars in Africa mostly happen on the ground anyway.”

“We are an African nation,” she allegedly explained confidently. “Why must we spend billions making planes fly when our soldiers already know how to walk?”

The minister reportedly added that the remaining grounded Gripen fighter jets are not “broken,” but are instead participating in what she called a “long-term parking strategy.”

Military insiders say the South African Air Force now spends more time washing aircraft than flying them, with one pilot allegedly

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@gndzongana Huh?

[Ed Smith @EdSmith56886768]

Interesting how the 7 richest men in SA did it. The white dudes built industry. Started a bank. Built retail empires. The black dude: shares from black economic empowerment. Didn’t build much 🤷🏻

[BornintheRSA1972 @BRsa1972]

@athenkosi591 @Julius_S_Malema Isn’t BEE what you want!

[South Africa First @Kvnza_SA]

Nothing to see here, just black people being oppressed by the legacy of Apartheid and colonisation in South Africa.