Diamond Chieftain

Do it Big..... I do it BIGGER -----------
my tweets do not represent how i am professionally lol

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@_Mdooh @Lazarus27577228 Were they better under apartheid or the ANC?

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@tex2205 @FumaniShilubana @Zoe_SZi @WNghondweni Interesting discussion considering for ward Cllr you dont need a 50% majority. Just the most votes than all other candidates

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@luyanda_dmn @khayadlanga Any excuse lol.

[I AM SOUTH AFRICAN @lEsethuHasane]

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

Sixty days later, still no charge sheet: Transport whistleblower Esethu Hasane barred from his office

This morning I reported for duty at the National Department of Transport. My 60-day precautionary suspension had lapsed. I was turned away and blocked from returning to my post.

The Department signed a notice of precautionary suspension on 8 September 2026 and served it on me on 9 September. My departmental email was disabled the same day.

What the suspension is really about

The notice gives four grounds. Each one is in the Department's own words:

1That I "raised allegations of procurement irregularities in Communication Chief Directorate in May 2026."

2That I "also filed a criminal complaint" with the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks).

3That I "allegedly leaked the department confidential information" to Sunday World.

4That I was "seen on television allegedly giving live interview on eNCA."

It concludes: "By your conduct, you have brought the department into disrepute."

South Africans should read those grounds slowly. Two of the four are simply descriptions of reporting wrongdoing. The other two describe answering the Department in public. None of them is a charge.

•I raised the allegations in May 2025, not May 2026. The notice gets the year wrong. That one digit hides a full year in which I reported internally to the very people who signed my suspension.

•I did not lay a criminal complaint. I made a protected disclosure to the Department of Public Service and Administration. The DPSA referred the matter to the Hawks because it took the view that my employer should have reported it under section 34 of PRECCA and had not. I co-operated with the investigators and told the Department every time they came. The law and section 195 of the Constitution require exactly that of a public servant.

•I have denied the leak on oath. The notice offers no document, no date and no communication to support it.

•The eNCA interview was a reply. On 6 September, at 08:15, on the written instruction of the Acting Director-General, the Department published a statement that named me and called my claims of victimisation "devoid of the truth." I gave the interview four hours later. I was then ordered to stop speaking. The Department's own statement was never taken

Still no charges

Sixty days have passed and I have received no charge sheet. Nobody has put a single allegation to me in a disciplinary process. Meanwhile, the Auditor-General has made an R6.8-million finding on the communications contracts I refused to approve.

The Department itself has appointed forensic investigators. Yet no disciplinary step has been taken against anyone involved in those contracts. The only person who has been suspended is me.

"Expect the department to be on the other side"
None of this surprises me. On 21 May 2025 I told the Acting Director-General that I was going to the Public Protector and the Public Service Commission. He replied in writing:

"I authorise investigations in the department, no one else… But once you decide to escalate beyond me, expect the department to be on the other side, and my role to that of the protector of its integrity."

On 3 September 2026, minutes after my request for records was refused, he wrote to a list that included the Minister's office and the forensic investigators:

"There will be consequences."

Six days later I was suspended. He has been as good as his word.

I call on the Minister of Transport to lift this unlawful bar on my return to work.

Since the Department insists on paying me to stay home, I will make good use of the time. I'm going back to preparing for my PhD defence, eating well, sleeping well, and being paid, for the eleventh time this year, to do absolutely nothing. Taxpayers, you're welcome. I would honestly rather be working.

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@iseepinkelefnts @_saylessbr0 So what must she do in your opinion. Choose to not hire this people and watch them beg on the side of the road? Give a practical solution for her.

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@lepara_10 @edzaniraaloe @gurumaster281 @Bigheartedbadg @Shimza01 Its cans bro. Have you attended events. You wont find bottles there

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@ThembaMncwabe4 @SizweDhlomo But thats ultimately still ANC nothing different here. They split for a reason. Some split cause they loot, others because they too radical, the other wanted to stay centre left.

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@KeVillainY @hey_janeww Lol only backward countries still use magstrip

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@Mohlaodi7 @WNghondweni @Chris_Ram1 @Ntsak_Khoza @mpho_kie @ramalokot By your analysis Everyone was rejected.

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@Mhlabawe2 @nokwandamhlong0 Leukop is crazy....just next to luxury estates

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@ezezimali @umhlaliwasekapa @SneKhumaloSA But thats the point s coerced or threatened person is unlikely to go to the police out of fear. So rather not even give evil people the chance

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@Qola86507797 @umhlaliwasekapa @SneKhumaloSA But in that booth no one knows what you did. Problem includes people being threatened with death. Whatever freedoms you sacrificing by not taking a picture is not worth the alternative

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@Zoemkoena @GunThabiso And hence why the EFF will never win

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@Bossmichael001 But you also made a mid greeting? You expect a special response to a generic question

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@SabeloGebenga @Lynette_SA You do understand party agents are at the count and can verify results? You can't be just throwing out vote rigging allegations all willy nilly. ActionSA was ti ny before. They have grown. You cant expect them to get over 50% in less than two years of mayorship

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@SiyaMasekoana @AnfieldNigga @destiny_ndlovu Trust me bro or you got proof? Surely not that Trump puppet who ran away

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@Ketso28 Yall got nice jobs wow.

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@Not_Strong01 @ashseraka Then you will vote again???? Why are you guys acting like MAGA.

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@frankwhiteocean Nsfas is law, if DA or whoever was to touch that they will be voted out. Why do you guys act like once we vote once its permanent. South Africans are finally using democracy the way its meant to be. No loyalty to any party

[Diamond Chieftain @diamondowner22]

@LeviKriel @RKumalo @helenzille Who liberated us? Soweto residents?