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[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Former Trump official Sarah Matthews confirms Trump is stealing $400 MILLION from the Secret Service to fund his White House renovations.

She reveals he is stripping money meant to train new agents because Congress refused to pay for his pet projects!

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

eNCA, South Africa’s first 24-hour television news channel, is part of eMedia Investments.

eMedia Investments is owned by eMedia Holdings alongside Venfin Media Beleggings, which is owned by Johann Rupert’s Remgro.

eMedia Holdings’ major shareholder is HCI, which is owned by SACTWU, a trade union.

So, you have a trade union that represents workers against Capital while holding a majority interest in a newsroom that covers labour disputes, including those involving its own.

When eNCA covers strikes, retrenchments or wage negotiations in the clothing and textile sector, SACTWU is both subject of the news and part-owner of the outlet covering it. This feels like a conflict of interest, but who knows🤷🏾‍♂️

eNCA claims “independence” from shareholders, as if ownership does not shape tone, coverage or omissions. But I believe them because they’re honest and ethical people.

[Mayibuye Melisizwe Mandela @Cde_MM_Mandela]

@vusumuzikhoza, this post says far more about you than it does about @Julius_S_Malema.

You deliberately chose to take a statement invoking the “necklacing” of Julius Malema, put it on your own platform, and then ask people, “Do you agree or disagree?” What exactly are you trying to achieve with that? Political debate? No. You are deliberately amplifying a disgusting statement simply to feed your bitterness and provoke people.

You once represented the @EFFSouthAfrica in Parliament. You know exactly how loaded and reckless that language is, yet you chose to amplify it anyway.

You didn't expose Julius Malema. You exposed the kind of person you have become.

If you have political courage, debate Malema's ideas, policies and leadership. Don't hide behind somebody else's outrageous statement and turn it into cheap engagement bait.

This is not political maturity. It is petty, reckless and disgraceful behaviour from a former comrade who seems to have nothing left to offer except bitterness.

[African @ali_naka]

Electoral Commission of Zambia has now suspended the counting and announcements of results across the whole country. They say they will now review the suspension after 24 hours. Meanwhile the opposition leader @Mundubilebrian has declared Presidential victory. Let’s drink water

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

IMPORTANT.

A CNN journalist witnessed Israeli settlers abduct and blindfold a Palestinian farmer for refusing to leave his land, as IDF soldiers stood guard.

He was later shot, while the IDF blocked the road to prevent anyone from coming to his aid, making sure he would die.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

This was 17 yrs ago….
No one listened then and no one is listening now.

“ISRAEL CREATES HAMAS”
-Pat Buchanan on MSNBC

[Lerato.EFF @Palesa_EFF01]

Wena o rata maaka Mashaba maan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You called yourself a Capitalist👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

The lies you are telling patriots is doing gymnastics 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧🇷🇺 Tucker dropped a comparison that should make every free person stop cold: Britain throws three times as many people in jail for social media posts as Russia does... and Britain’s population is less than half the size.

Russia’s actually at war. But Britain’s at war with mean tweets.

So who’s the real totalitarian state here?

“You can watch British television in Russia. You cannot watch Russian television in Britain.”

Writer: Val

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

I have served long enough in leadership to recognise a troubling pattern. Too many among South Africa’s elite - black and white - appear to believe the rules that govern the rest of us do not apply to them.

As chairman of an SOE, I am regularly approached by business leaders asking me to intervene in operational or procurement matters. When I explain that my role is governance and oversight, not management, they say they understand. Yet the requests continue. This reveals a belief that exceptions exist for the connected few.

It was therefore striking to see Business Leadership South Africa and BUSA, organisations that have been vocal against state capture and political interference in state-owned enterprises, actively advocate for political intervention to transfer transmission assets to the Transmission System Operator. These are the same bodies that insist on corporate governance and board independence. Where, then, is the role of the SOE board? What exactly do they believe in?

Equally concerning are recent allegations involving former Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. Senior figures within his own party, including John Steenhuisen and Dion George, have raised issues that appear to involve conflicts of interest and undue influence. This from a voice that has long lectured on ethical standards and clean governance. Do these rules apply to everyone, or only when politically convenient? Selective morality is not morality at all.

When those who position themselves as guardians of good governance apply different standards to themselves, public trust erodes. But South Africans are watching. We see the inconsistencies. We now know where people stand.

The path forward requires courage. We must expose wrongdoing wherever it occurs without fear or favour. We must demand that those who preach accountability live it consistently. We must insist that rules bind the powerful as they bind ordinary citizens. And we must model the ethical society we want to build.

South Africa does not lack good people. What we need is the collective will to insist that principle applies to all. Let us find that courage. Let us call out double standards and build a nation where no one is above the law. That is the South Africa worth fighting for. #ProudlySA

[Russia X 🇷🇺 @Rusia_HD]

🚨The Israeli ambassador to Denmark is protesting the spread of this video. Let's make this go viral all around the world..

[Irlandarra @irlandarra2019]

Netanyahu said “We’re descendants from the original Hebrews of the Holy Land”

97.5% of Israeli jews have absolutely no ancient Hebrew DNA, they're not Semites.

Whereas 80% of Palestinians carry ancient Hebrew DNA.

[Sihle Lonzi @SihleLonzi]

Buti Manamela is incompetent, incoherent, incorrigible, and cannot be saved. He must just go!

After claiming to approve the appointment of 4 Advisors to the NSFAS Administrator, he now says he does not know how much they are being paid, and whether or not he approved the amounts.

If just 2 Advisors invoiced NSFAS nearly HALF A MILLION for July alone. Without even counting the cost of the Administrator, his Advisors alone are likely to cost the entity over R 24 MILLION over the period.

All of this without any approval from the Minister of Finance as is required by the Act.

In the video he is just aimlessly mumbling! You can barely make out what he is saying.

South Africa's students deserve better than this. Buti Manamela is not the solution and cannot be trusted by the youth of this country, students in particular!

[Sihle Lonzi @SihleLonzi]

In anticipation of tomorrow’s meeting with NSFAS, we have written to demand an explanation for the legal basis for the remuneration of Advisors to the NSFAS Administrator.

Instead of being paid directly, private companies invoiced NSFAS for July (attached).

We were told that the NSFAS Administrator, Hlengani Mathebula, was brought in to restore good governance and ensure that public resources meant to support students are properly spent.

Instead of removing the wasteful middleman schemes at NSFAS, we are now seeing the introduction of even more third-party/middleman arrangements!

When we say there is enough money to fund ALL students in South Africa, we are not hallucinating. The day we put an end to the STEALING at NSFAS, will be the day students in South Africa experience true liberation.

Let’s meet tomorrow!

[Sihle Lonzi @SihleLonzi]

Alongside addressing the NSFAS Top Up, which will leave many students with DEBT, the student accommodation middleman schemes, today, we will ask Buti Manamela’s Administrator, Hlengani Mathebula, why he paid his Advisors through private companies rather than normal payroll.

Moreover, the NSFAS Act is clear that remuneration of both the Administrator and his Advisors must be approved by the Finance Minister.

We now know that such approval does not exist!

The looting at NSFAS will need a Madlanga Commission of its own. Buti Manamela must be stopped!

[ISHMAEL 🏴‍☠️☠️🇿🇦🇨🇩🇵🇸 @mr_shimmy]

A rare footage from 1990 South Africa, Afrikaners demanding that black South Africans be “put off” the streets at 21:00… mind you this was just only 36 years ago 🥹 Cape Town has always and still is the same. We are really forgiving people.

Video by: 60 minutes Australia

[IOL News @IOL]

Madlanga rebukes Fadiel Adams: "I don't believe you. You are not taking this commission seriously." Adams blamed laptop issues for late statement—Commission says if true, he "cannot function as a parliamentarian."
#MadlangaCommission
https://t.co/w488w6B8Fh

[Princy Mthombeni @Princymthombeni]

South Africa imported R304.9 BILLION worth of crude oil and refined petroleum products in 2024.

Yet we still have people arguing that SA should not extract its own oil or invest in domestic refining capacity.

So let me ask: Why should we keep sending billions offshore to buy the energy we need, instead of developing our own resources and keeping more of that economic value here?

If the resources are commercially viable and can be developed responsibly: WHY SHOULDN’T SOUTH AFRICA BENEFIT FROM SOUTH AFRICAN RESOURCES?

Source: @SAReserveBank

[Parliament of RSA @ParliamentofRSA]

MP ADAMS' COMMISSION TESTIMONY ON ICT SUPPORT PROVIDED BY PARLIAMENT

Parliament, Tuesday, 11 August 2026 - Parliament has noted statements made by National Coloured Congress Member of Parliament Mr Fadiel Adams during his appearance before the Madlanga Commission this morning, in which he attributed delays in accessing correspondence from the Commission to persistent problems with his Parliament-issued laptop.

Mr Adams indicated, among other things, that his laptop had been problematic for approximately 18 months, was frequently either frozen or in for repairs, and that this had affected his ability to access information.

Ordinarily, Parliament would not comment on explanations offered by a Member in proceedings before a commission of inquiry. However, insofar as these claims create the impression that Parliament failed over an extended period to provide a Member with functional tools of trade necessary for the performance of his constitutional responsibilities, the institutional record requires clarification.

Following Mr Adams' remarks, Parliament reviewed the ICT Service Desk records relating to technical support logged for him during the relevant period.

The records do not reflect any reported incident of persistent laptop malfunction, hardware failure, repeated freezing of the device, or the laptop being repeatedly submitted to ICT for repairs.

The ICT incidents recorded during this period relate primarily to routine user-access and account-support matters. These include a Windows password reset in January 2025, an ERP/Marang password reset in June 2025, assistance with logging into a device in July 2025, a Wi-Fi update in January 2026, and an ERP/Marang eDisclosure-related request in June 2026. These matters were recorded through Parliament's ICT Service Desk and were closed.

Password resets, authentication or login difficulties and connectivity configuration are routine ICT support matters and are materially different from a device being technically dysfunctional or unavailable for an extended period.

Parliament therefore has no ICT Service Desk record supporting the assertion that Mr Adams' parliamentary laptop was persistently dysfunctional for approximately 18 months in the manner described before the Commission.

It is also important to clarify that Parliament's provision of tools of trade to Members is not limited to a single laptop. Members are provided with multiple ICT devices, including a laptop, tablet and smart phone, precisely to support continuity of access and enable Members to perform their parliamentary responsibilities.

Where a Member experiences a technical problem with an allocated device, established ICT support channels are available for the incident to be logged, diagnosed and resolved. Alternative Parliament-issued devices also provide continuity of access while a particular device is being attended to.

Parliament's clarification is confined to its own ICT and administrative records and should not be construed as commenting on the substance of Mr Adams' evidence before the Commission, which remains a matter for the Commission.

ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇮🇷 ICYMI: The leader of the free world had to sneak out of a NATO summit hidden in an airport catering truck. You cannot make this up.

This wasn't a war zone or hostile territory. It was Ankara, at a gathering of the most powerful military alliance on the planet, surrounded by the exact people whose entire job is keeping him safe.

And still the big plan was to fold Trump into a food cart, wheel him past the cameras like a low-budget spy movie, and quietly slip him onto a different plane.

Meanwhile the reporters were parked on a decoy Air Force One with the shades pulled down, thinking they were flying with the president. They had no idea he'd snuck out after boarding.

All of this because Iran made a threat credible enough that the most protected man on earth looked at his options and went, you know what, the catering truck it is.

Trump spends half his time talking tough on Iran, big words, big threats, and when it came to actually leaving Turkey, the move was to hide in the sandwiches.

Source: Washington Post / Writer: Julie