James Robert Lorimer

Is a member of the South African Parliament and the DA Spokesperson on Mineral and Petroleum Resources. If we grow mining, we feed our people.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Register to vote now or I will find you. 🫵

Visit https://t.co/Am7AYyokoI or click the link in my bio!

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[James Robert Lorimer @JamesRLorimer]

This site today 82 years ago saw some of the fiercest fighting on D-Day. Pointe du Hoc was also where President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech underlining the US commitment to a free Europe. https://t.co/fEdRhvXtyF…

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Yesterday I spoke to business owners dealing with persistent electricity outages that have cost employees their jobs.

My message is simple: This isn’t a technical problem. It’s a political one. Joburg’s electricity crisis is a direct result of the political choices voters made.

The power to fix the problem is the same power that created it: Your Vote.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Daily Friend @DailyFriendSA]

Helen Zille: "This budget is unfunded, unlawful and flies in the face of Treasury’s scathing letter to the City dated 23 April." #Johannesburg #budget #ANC

Read here: https://t.co/xxmUP1F8ne

[Kanthan Pillay 🇿🇦 @KanthanPillay]

This is what the ANC fears most about Starlink — a rural populace with access to knowledge will no longer be voting fodder.

[James Robert Lorimer @JamesRLorimer]

We need less of the left.

https://t.co/aOWJ7lZr3z

[Bureau of African Affairs @AsstSecStateAF]

FM @RonaldLamola, you blame concerns about violence and failed governance on "MAGA politics." Ghana and Nigeria just airlifted their citizens out of your country. Thousands of South Africans are fleeing to America to escape your government’s Left-wing policies. Unemployment still remains at 33% while you and corrupt government elites get rich while promoting race-based laws and chanting "Kill the Boer." If caring about your own citizens is MAGA, South Africa might want to give it a try.

[Richard Wilkinson @wilkinsoncape]

The SA government’s climbdown on Starlink when it comes (and it will come, even if it takes 5 or 10 years) will be the ultimate repudiation of ideology.

South Africans will rightly ask: what else have we been deprived because of hostile laws?

Goods? Services? Investment? Jobs?

[Gareth van Onselen @GvanOnselen]

Today's fun sport: Watching "the DA is a white party" commentators having to painfully re-assess their assumptions in light of the Emfuleni by-election result, or scrape together some desperate justification; alternatively to say congratulations or just keep quiet. Hilarious.

[Wayne Sussman @waynesussman]

DA make history with Gauteng township by-election win
Ward 28 (Evaton West) Emfuleni, Sedibeng
DA 32% (16%)
ANC 32% (53%)
EFF 12% (18%)
PA 8%
PAC 6% (1%)
SACP 3%
AEF 3%
DITAU 3%
ACP 1%
TRUTH <1%
Poll: 36% (41%)
DA beat ANC by 8 votes.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Today the ANC asked for your forgiveness. Then proceeded to table an unfunded budget, in a city that their own finance minister declared bankrupt.

You be the judge.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Dada Morero used his final State of the City Address to double down on demolishing the Metro Centre. No consultation and no alternatives.

Just “non-negotiable.”

Here is my response to that.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

At his State of the City Address this week, Mayor Dada Morero was not optimistic. He was dishonest.

Watch the full video to hear the truth about Joburg’s financial state and what the DA will do to balance the books!

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[Handre @Handre]

South Africa's corporate graveyard tells the story of what happens when governments choose racial engineering over economic freedom. Only two companies among the nation's most valuable enterprises launched after apartheid ended in 1994, and zero since Black Economic Empowerment became law in 2004.

BEE legislation created a maze of racial quotas, ownership mandates, and bureaucratic compliance costs that strangled new business formation. When you force companies to hire based on skin color rather than competence, and mandate ownership transfers based on race rather than merit, you destroy the price system that allocates resources efficiently.

Any free market economist could have predicted this outcome decades ago. Price controls distort markets whether you apply them to bread, labor, or corporate ownership. BEE represents the ultimate price control: government bureaucrats deciding who can own what percentage of which businesses based on racial categories invented by apartheid planners. The same racial classifications that oppressed black South Africans under apartheid now supposedly liberate them under democracy.

The timing reveals everything. South African entrepreneurship didn't die gradually or randomly. It died precisely when the state began micromanaging racial outcomes in boardrooms and hiring decisions. Established companies could absorb compliance costs and navigate the regulatory labyrinth. New ventures couldn't. Every startup now faces a choice: spend capital on lawyers and BEE consultants, or spend it on products and customers.

Politicians promised BEE would create a black capitalist class. Instead, they created a class of political rent-seekers who extract wealth from existing enterprises rather than building new ones.

[James Robert Lorimer @JamesRLorimer]

The ANC has been punting the District Development Model as the saviour of dysfunctional municipalities. The DA asks Paul Mashatile if he can name one municipality where the model has fixed things. He can’t.

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

I attended the State of the City Address today. Most of you have probably never heard of it. But don’t worry, you didn’t miss a thing.

No vision, no plan, no accountability. While this failing coalition government was cheering for itself, I was taking notes. Tomorrow I will release a series of videos on the real state of Joburg.

#BelieveInJoburg #Zille4Mayor

[James Robert Lorimer @JamesRLorimer]

Gwede Mantashe tells Parliament the government’s reduction in the fuel levy ends next month.

[James Robert Lorimer @JamesRLorimer]

Cyril denies BEE is an impediment to economic growth. Points to mining as a great BEE success. But there are 300 thousand fewer mining jobs now than in 1994. The pro- BEE case is built on sand.

[James Robert Lorimer @JamesRLorimer]

MK and EFF ( and minnows) want to debate Cyril’s impeachment. Speaker says no - must rather continue with scheduled program of questions to President. The rabble walk out of the House.