Chalice

mother of three gorgeous little ones. Fitness. Yoga. Organisor. Home proud and family orientated. Music. Love my pups. Alexander Forbes. IG: chalicekoen

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

Weltevreden Park clinic-PART 1
On the ground, visiting facilities: listening, learning the challenges communities face.
Weltevreden park clinic.
#Welridgeresidentsassociation #panoramaresidentsassociation #riverwelresidentsassociation
Vote DA on both ballots, 4 November 2026🗳️

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

The JRA doesn’t want you to fix your own roads because that would take money out of their cadres’ pockets!

Joburg’s dysfunction is their income. That’s why they’ll find any excuse to stop you.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[DA Western Cape @WesternCapeDA]

Two Bree Streets. Two very different stories. 👀

In Joburg: chaos, decay and dysfunction.

In Cape Town: clean, safe and thriving.

You decide which party you’d rather walk with. 💙

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Who is talking 💩 now?

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

The worst nightmare?

When people arrive on voting day only to find out that they’re not registered.

Don’t be THAT person. Register to vote and check your voting station NOW by clicking the link in my bio. Before it’s too late! 🗳️🇿🇦

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

City Power committed to fixing this substation within a year, after it caught fire in 2023. Residents served by this substation have sent us countless messages and emails about recurring outages.

Our message remains the same: give the DA a majority in council so that we can invest in infrastructure, improve maintenance and keep your lights ON!💡

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[DA Gauteng @DAGauteng]

🚩🚽 The DA conducted an oversight visit of the 30 toilet structures that the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements and the Emfuleni Local Municipality controversially erected in 2024. Each toilet came at a cost of R815 000, with a total expenditure of over R24 million. The toilets are in a state of disrepair, despite the exorbitant amount spent on them.

We will be reporting this seemingly corrupt construction project to law enforcement agencies to ensure that those responsible are held to account.

Read more here: https://t.co/pfAhny0McF

[DA Joburg Caucus @DA_JHB]

🚨Don't miss the 'Ask Helen' segment tomorrow on @KofifiFM_972 at 9:00am.

#Zille4Mayor
#BelieveInJoburg

[Democratic Alliance @Our_DA]

🗳️The DA Student Organisation at Nelson Mandela University has won back-to-back student elections.

Showing that young people are backing leadership that actually delivers. 🧢💪

🔌Learn more by going to: https://t.co/3sSTpspEoU

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

My sincere thanks to all the delegates of the Democratic Alliance for placing your trust in me.

I accept this responsibility with humility, with gratitude, and with a deep sense of duty.

Today we begin the work of building the DA into a party that can lead South Africa. Our mission will be to govern well for all, connect with every citizen, deliver strength in government and restore belief in our beautiful South Africa! 💙

We are building a STRONGER DA for a STRONGER SA 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

#Getjhbworking! @helenzille your bravery, vision, determination and truth is amazing!

[DA Gauteng @DAGauteng]

📌 Politics affect your daily living and everything around you. The collapse of infrastructure is the direct consequence of the political choices people make.

That’s what it is, nothing else.

🗳 You have a chance to change things around in the next elections. Register to #VoteDA. Visit https://t.co/LCNAVqM23S.

[DA Gauteng @DAGauteng]

🚰 Dams are full. So why are taps still dry?

South Africa’s water crisis is ANC-made, caused by years of infrastructure negligence and mismanagement of funds. Communities are left without reliable water while systems collapse.

Water is a basic human right, and every South African deserves safe, reliable water 24/7. We demand accountability from failing municipalities and the protection of funds meant to fix and maintain water infrastructure. 

🗳️ Join the fight to #FixDryTaps. Vote DA for accountable leadership that delivers water to your community.

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

You have to vote the DA 💙

[Democratic Alliance @Our_DA]

South Africa’s water crisis isn’t caused by nature, it’s the result of the ANC’s poor planning, neglected maintenance and mismanaged funds.

Cilliers Brink and Dr Zahid Badroodien unpack the real causes on the latest #DApodcast.

🎧 🎙️Watch or listen:
https://t.co/YljU28Jvhu

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

My mission as DA leader will be to build a stronger South Africa, therefore we must have a stronger Democratic Alliance. 🇿🇦💙

We must do 4 things to strengthen the DA:

🛠️ Govern well for everyone.
💙 Connect deeply with every South African.
🏛️ Show strength in government.
🇿🇦 Restore belief in our country.

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

To know I may be a part of this change in the upcoming election, I could not be more excited, more aligned and determined to #getjobirgworking

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[WATCH] DA Johannesburg's mayoral candidate, Helen Zille, presented five pledges for her first five-year term in the city and said the party would ensure  that 95% of traffic lights work at all times. #Newzroom405

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

#GetJoburgWorking!! The one person and party who will get this right is @helenzille and the @Our_DA !!

[In A Nutshell🥜 @Markosonke1]

Get Johannesburg Working ⚒️💃

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

Get joburg working! Attending the manifesto with @helenzille today, was exhilarating, providing a sense of absolutely renewed faith in joburg!
@Our_DA

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

🇿🇦This is a very well written piece by an African about why our country is in the state it is....

‼️ The Politics of Self-Destruction ‼️
There comes a time in a nation’s life when even the educated must admit defeat — not because they have failed, but because the system rewards failure.
That dejected look on General Mkhwanazi’s face captured that exact moment — when competence meets political deployment, and logic meets the stupidity of power.

Here is a man with a BTech in Policing, an MBA, an LLB, a National Diploma in Police Administration, and is an admitted attorney of the High Court — forced to answer questions from a Parliament that confuses noise for intellect.

What we saw in that room was not governance. It was a performance — a theater of mediocrity sponsored by the taxpayer.

This is the crisis of Africa — not lack of education, not lack of talent — but the deliberate exclusion of capable minds from positions of influence.

Political deployment has become the new apartheid — it separates the loyal from the qualified. It replaces thinkers with followers and silences those who still believe in merit.

In such a country, education no longer inspires. It humiliates.
Because the child in the township sees the truth:
that the man who read all the books sits jobless,
while the one who shouts the loudest slogan drives a government car.
When young people see that power is gained through party loyalty, not through knowledge, they lose faith in school.
They drop out, not because they are lazy, but because the system has made ignorance profitable.
How do you convince a young girl in Limpopo to finish matric when she sees her councillor can’t spell “governance” yet controls millions in municipal funds?
How do you tell a boy in Mahikeng to study electrical engineering when the tender for electricity is awarded to a DJ?

That is the economic collapse we refuse to measure — the destruction of faith in education.
It’s not just corruption of money — it’s corruption of purpose.
The economy doesn’t collapse because of lack of minerals or investors.
It collapses because of mental poverty — the kind that makes a leader think a slogan can build a road, or that a struggle song can replace sound fiscal management.
Africa’s tragedy is not that we are poor.
It’s that we are mismanaged.
We export gold and import poverty.
We have diamonds under our feet and debt over our heads.
We send our best engineers abroad, while we appoint cousins to build bridges that collapse before the ribbon is cut.
Political deployment has turned public service into personal service.
Institutions are no longer centers of excellence — they are shelters for the connected.
That is why our schools fail, our hospitals die, and our police are demoralized.
Because every appointment is political, not professional.
And every professional who dares to challenge the system is pushed out — humiliated, or silenced.
General Mkhwanazi’s look of defeat was not personal.
It was national.
He carried on his face the disappointment of every competent South African trapped in an incompetent system.
And until we replace party loyalty with national loyalty,
until we restore meritocracy over mediocrity,
we will keep watching our brightest minds fade away in despair.

The revolution Africa needs today is not just political — it is intellectual.
It is time to decolonize our thinking, not just our slogans.
It is time to value results over rhetoric, books over boots, and skill over slogans.
Because when mediocrity governs excellence,
poverty becomes permanent.

So, let the message be clear:
We will no longer clap for stupidity.
We will no longer elect the loudest voice — we will elect the most capable mind.
We will no longer let our children believe that education is useless.
Because the future of Africa depends on the restoration of merit, discipline, and dignity.

By Seako Masibi (Inspired by Wiseman Mbali

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

@Abramjee @Eusebius

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

What ever happened about or to the Job Summit program that kicked off in 2018 @jobsummitSA @PresidencyZA.Sad to say that with all going on in our country currently,doesn’t look like the rise of employment from 11 million to 24 million will happen by 2030, rather more jobs lost

[Chalice @ckkoukla]

What ever happened about or to the Job Summit program that kicked off in 2018 @jobsummitSA @PresidencyZA.Sad to say that with all going on in our country currently,doesn’t look like the rise of employment from 11 million to 24 million will happen by 2030, rather more jobs lost