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[Princy Mthombeni @Princymthombeni]

Someone who recently took @HomeAffairsSA to court over immigration policy has no place serving on the Immigration Advisory Board. The conflict of interest is impossible to ignore.

You asked us to ACT. We’ve responded.

@sacr_official1 is petitioning @ParliamentofRSA to amend the Immigration Act and prevent conflicts of interest in appointments to the Immigration Advisory Board.

Make your voice heard. Sign the petition: https://t.co/W5DK3YSmfK

#CitizensDuty

[Lulu @bongyluaziey]

Next imma gonna need Madlanga Commission to look into Eskom and these prepaid rates. Ain’t no way I’m getting 180 units from R1k

[Bocasho Braaf @bocasho_braaf]

What do you mean one unit (KWh) was 14.98 cents in 2002 and now it's R2.40

[Jackson @jackson_rem]

South Africans are paying ridiculous amounts for electricity in a country that literally produces electricity and exports some of it to our neighbours.
Tariffs keep climbing. Municipalities add their markups. Paying households keep absorbing increase after increase, yet electricity somehow becomes more expensive every year.
At some point we have to ask what exactly our electricity bills are funding.
Are we paying for the electricity we actually consume… or are paying customers being forced to carry the cost of municipal debt, illegal connections, electricity theft, failing infrastructure and decades of mismanagement?
Because electricity should never feel like a luxury in a country that produces it.

[LandOrDeath @lizobuya_izwe]

Man, cyril and the gang stripping public assets like it’s a fire sale.

[Brandon Davis @BrandonDavisBD]

#SaveWonderMan

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was thrown into an insane asylum for trying to sabotage AI data centers.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

This is the kind of stuff Americans think happens in Russia, China and Iran

[Vuyo Zungula MP 🇿🇦 @ZungulaVuyo]

We must fight for meaningful black participation in the economy.

[The Counterhegemon @GillianSchutte1]

It is absurd to watch sections of South Africa’s white commercial farming elite and parts of the merchant class lament the collapse of a system built on the endless availability of cheap migrant slave labour. What is presented as nostalgia for “efficiency” is, in truth, mourning for a labour regime that suppressed wages, weakened bargaining power and sustained profit through structural inequality rather than productivity.

But this is not confined to agriculture or the informal economy. The same logic of labour displacement persists in the corporate sector, where foreign nationals are still routinely placed in positions that could and should be occupied by South Africans.

Consider firms such as Werksmans and other law firms, insurance agencies and related businesses, where foreign nationals are employed as conveyancing secretaries, receptionists and in other positions, while thousands of qualified Black South African graduates remain locked out of meaningful employment. This is not about isolated hiring decisions. It reflects a deeper pattern of elite capture in a country already defined by mass graduate unemployment and economic exclusion.

If there is any seriousness about economic sovereignty, then the question of March and March cannot be reduced to selective outrage or a narrow sectoral focus. It should be joined by the middle classes and by those lost graduates who aspire to enter the middle class. The demand for a majority work economy must extend across the entire system. Universities, corporate boardrooms, legal firms and professional industries must all come under scrutiny.

The silence of South Africa’s trade unions is not just disappointing—it is a form of complicity. Their failure to defend South African workers and graduates has left a vacuum that others are now forced to fill. In this context, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma’s intervention exposes not only inertia, but the absence of the kind of militant leadership that should have been central to the labour movement all along.

#MarchandMarch @JacintaNgobese

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

USING DRINKING WATER TO COOL DOWN THESE DATA CENTERS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL 🤔

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Btw, people have survived centuries without data centers but have never survived without clean water.

[Buddy Wells @BuddyWells1]

Lols. The ones calling to limit SA govt spending received US govt funding.

[AmaMpondomise @AmaMpondomise1]

Patrice Motsepe once told us in 2009 that electricity was too cheap. Today, some folks see a President in Cyril Ramaphosa's brother in law.

[Dr Nasiphi Moya @nasiphim]

No one is above the law in Tshwane.
One by one!

[Kay @_KayTheLame_]

Understanding the name "Tswana":

Many people believe Tswana means "people who look the same" but that's actually incorrect. Here's why it is incorrect:

Batswana's origin lies in the vicinity of the Kalahari/NW/Botswana area, this area was known for the Makgadikgadi salt pans. We know that salt has indigenous names, the most popular are Tswayi and Tyuwa. The common stem for these words is Tswa (Xhosa removed the s) which comes from the "khoisan" term for salt pans, "dzuawe" (dzuwa) this would make the stem Tswa in Tswana. Other terms are Tshwa/shua (dialectical differences). The Khwe group "Shuakhwe's" name literally means "people of the saltpans" in Bots.

To go even further, Batswana were called |u:sa (cusa) from |:u (cu) saltiness, so salt pan people by the "San". They were also called !gona (Gqona) a click variant of (gona) salt, and we know from history Batswana say they got birthed from holes in the ground just like the salt in salt pans.

So Tswa-na is literally salt pan people and the -na suffix is likely to indicate people, which also exists in the khwe group !Korana (Kora-na). The Ba- in Sotho-Tswana languages really means "people of" or "people who belong to":

Ba-Tswa-na people(na) who belong to (Ba) the salt pans (Tswa)

Batswana are not the only one with names from "Khoisan" languages; Amaxhosa, Amandebele, Emaswati, Amangqosini, Amagqunukwebe, Amaxesibe and many others have names linking to "Khoisan languages"

[Vuyo Zungula MP 🇿🇦 @ZungulaVuyo]

Context matters :

14 million South Africans go to bed hungry every day.

28 million people are dependent on social grants and highest grant is R2400.

40.8 million people live below R2900 a month.

So there can be no job or business activity that should be undermined or dismissed as “crumbs” when people barely survive.

[Koshiek Karan @iamkoshiek]

2 in 3 South Africans live in poverty 💔💔

66.7% of the country survives on LESS than R3,000 every month

[Princy Mthombeni @Princymthombeni]

That is why @sacr_official1 has proposed a constitutional amendment to Section 25, requiring Parliament to regulate the acquisition & ownership of immovable property (incl. residential) by non-citizens, prioritising South African citizens & protecting our national interest.

[Null @Vhoyde]

Every politician who sells private partnerships is admitting they don't know how to do their job