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[just a girl @just_Sssssh]

@Dick_Muller @PicknPay @CheckersSA @Clicks_SA @Dischem @WOOLWORTHS_SA Rewards car is free. No monthly fee

[Unathi Afrika @UnathiAfrika]

While we are at each other's throats, White colonial settlers are regrouping and consolidating their international alliances. For as long as I live, I won't stop warning about the dangers of another genocidal terrorist colonial settler state being established in SA!

[Ivyn Sambo @IvynSambo]

It took a ruling by the Constitutional Court to determine that the DA in Cape Town has failed to deliver well-located, affordable housing post-apartheid to those who need it most, thereby ensuring access to the Cape Town economy. That is why the people of Cape Town must vote for Dereleen James from ActionSA.

[Jolie Cowslington @yomgqashiyo]

The highest court in South Africa has unanimously scolded the DA-run City of Cape Town for continuing apartheid spatial planning

[Jolie Cowslington @yomgqashiyo]

Yes, I was watching the Concourt saying you illegally uphold apartheid in Cape Town and its vision to put apartheid beneficiaries first

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

#KnowYourDA

The Constitutional Court ruled today that the City of Cape Town & Western Cape Government entrenched apartheid spatial housing patterns by failing to provide affordable housing in areas such as Sea Point & Cape Town CBD.

#CountryDuty

[Dagan Naeser @D_Naeser]

Bad couple weeks for DA:

CPT lost clean audit.
John blew lid on DA State Capture 2.0.
Concourt found Western Cape and CoCT failed in their obligations to undo Apartheid Spatial planning.

[Christopher. @Chris_JNdonga]

Today we observe a landmark ruling for property in Cape Town.

The Tafelberg land had been sold to a private school for R135 million.

Citizens took to Court to reverse the sale because the property hadn’t been put forward for affordable housing by the City.

Sale is now void

[just a girl @just_Sssssh]

@keithedwards I need the movie about their love!!

[Sine🌻🗞️ @Sinesipho_LR]

The Constitutional Court has found the Western Cape government has failed to comply with its obligation to provide affordable housing in areas such as Cape Town CBD and Sea Point.
The failure perpetuates apartheid spatial housing patterns.
@BDliveSA

[Brett Herron 🇿🇦🍉 @brettherron]

#Tafelberg #ConCourt #SpatialJustice
@ConCourtSA:

Unanimous judgment:
@CityofCT & @WesternCapeGov

City of Cape Town remains divided. The matter is about full access to the City about “Right to the City”.

Location is not a peripheral to housing access.
State bears a burden to align with Constitutional transformation.

City had failed to provide any housing in well located areas.
No justification for City’s policies lacking geographical location considerations.

No justification for failing to provide housing in Sea Point.

City cannot use land value as a basis for denying access to housing.

(Helen Zille told me “using high value land for affordable housing was over subsidizing the poor”)

City and Province has failed in their constitutional duties to provide well located affordable housing and to address spatial apartheid.

VICTORY!

Disposal of Tafelberg School site by WC Government was unlawful.

@ReclaimCT @NdifunaUkwazi 👏👏👏

[just a girl @just_Sssssh]

@Polymarket I hope they negotiated double their salary and incentives!!

[Verashni Pillay @verashni]

Tony Leon's response ignores the allegations that he DID use his power inappropriately when his clients were denied access, as in Herman Mashaba's account.
Mashaba, then the DA's mayor in Joburg, reportedly declined giving Resolve's unnamed client a R300m municipal contract, despite a VERY pushy mail from former DA MP turned Resolve CEO Gavin Davis.

Mashaba says he insisted he couldn't sidestep procurement rules, and he raised the issue with DA leadership as an example of Leon's conflicted rule. He says this is when the DA leadership, influenced by Leon I assume, turned on him, which ultimately contributed to his resignation from the party shortly afterwards.

It goes without saying that Tony Leon has outsized influence in the DA and isn't just a "former leader" - he even helped negotiate the very recent GNU arrangements. His response below says his company respected leaders' decisions but that's not what the leaders themselves have said.

We also saw DA comms minister Solly Malatsi completely kowtowing to Starlink which at the time seemed odd but now knowing Resolve lobbied him aggressively and as per Steenhuisen's account, complained he was moving too slowly, this makes sense.

It's an ASTONISHING abuse of power. DA ministers and mayors have seen if they don't listen to Tony and give his clients what they want they could lose their position...

[Verashni Pillay @verashni]

Agreed, we need a full Audit of tenders/deals given to companies headed by former DA leaders, including Victory Research helmed by former DA comms head Gareth Van Onselen.

[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

[#RegisterToVoteGOOD @AxolileNotywala]

Some of us saw this a long time ago.

He has sold and continues to sell Cape Town to the highest bidders. Now he is graduation towards selling South Africa.

He also has been and continues being propped up by mainstream media in his come up.

[Koshiek Karan @iamkoshiek]

oil prices are back to pre-war levels & fuel prices are being cut ⛽️📊

now pay close attention to companies that hiked prices “because of the war”

… but will never bring prices back down

[Michael Beaumont @ME_Beaumont]

The plot thickens as former DA Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister, Dion George, confirms he was repeatedly pressured by Tony Leon and Resolve Communications and believes his refusal led to the campaign to remove him.

https://t.co/w7BLc40CWr

[Oliver Dickson @Oliver_Speaking]

So it was state capture when it was the Guptas, but it’s lobbying when it’s Tony Leon?

Got it.

[Michael Beaumont @ME_Beaumont]

ActionSA calls for urgent investigations into Gupta-esque State Capture allegations made against Resolve Communications so that the country can see how influence is being peddled within the GNU by the same Tony Leon who negotiated its formation.

https://t.co/pVFDqH3un1