Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦

Managing partner: bahlotse trading(pty)ltd|| father || foodie || cook || wine lover || happy soul

[Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦 @mr_mathumetse]

@ThabisoTema gone are the days where you would be afraid to do in front any old person. Now you go to the parent, they tell you to mind your own, you try talking to the kid, they tell you that you are not their parent. It's double edged sword #POWERPerspective

[BEN MADE IT Movie @Ben_made_It_1]

Please allow us to introduce @everasimeni as Mantwa on #BenMadeIt

#JFF2025 #TheGoldenThread #BenMadeIt #JoburgFilmFestival2025
#thejourneycontinues
#PantsufiedPictures #Auzweke

[Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦 @mr_mathumetse]

@ThabisoTema the past hour went too fast. I like this soundtrack #POWERPerspective

[Intellectual Pantsula @stingthabz]

Re Bina Noko!!!

#WeCanOnlyGetBetter #BlessUp🤍🙏🏾

[Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦 @mr_mathumetse]

@Thabisoo G-wagon, malapa ga lekane 🙆🏾‍♂️ #POWERDrive

[Lunathi Kilani 🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈 @LunathiKilani]

If we are being fair and honest; sticking to facts, setting aside personal feelings, political biases, and any dislike for the individual, we can all agree, without dispute, that President Zuma was either the only President or at least the best one to be in a position to claim that under his leadership and the collective leadership in government he was part of, the ANC-led government actually delivered on its promises. Under his presidency, promises made were promises kept. If we look at actual governance, not just rhetoric, we see clear examples of this.

First, the massive rollout of ARVs, which he announced on World AIDS Day in 2009, was a game-changer in the fight against HIV/AIDS, making treatment more accessible to millions of South Africans. Second, he prioritized accountability by establishing the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, which led to the creation of the National Development Plan (NDP) Vision 2030—one of the most structured long-term plans for the country's development till date. Third, social assistance was expanded significantly under his leadership, including social relief of distress grants, grants-in-aid, the child support grant, foster care grant, care dependency grant, war veterans grant, disability grant, and the grant for older persons; ensuring millions of vulnerable South Africans had financial support.

Fourth, he put the land question front and center, ensuring that land reform and ownership by the dispossessed majority became a priority. This led to the ANC adopting the policy of expropriation of land without compensation at the 54th National Conference in Nasrec. He also established the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) in 2009 as a stand-alone department, in line with the ANC’s Polokwane resolutions, to drive rural development and economic transformation.

Fifth, the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) was strengthened under his leadership, creating employment opportunities for thousands of South Africans. Sixth, in education, his administration saw the establishment of two new universities—Sol Plaatje University in the Northern Cape and the University of Mpumalanga—while also restructuring the education system by splitting the former Department of Education into two: Basic Education and Higher Education & Training. During his time, school learners benefited from textbook distribution, school transport programs, and food nutrition programs, ensuring that children from poor backgrounds had the necessary support to focus on learning.

Seventh, under his leadership, South Africa’s influence on the continent and globally was cemented. He oversaw the deployment of Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the first female Chairperson of the African Union Commission, where she launched Agenda 2063. During his presidency, South Africa also joined BRICS and played a role in establishing the BRICS Bank in Johannesburg, a major shift in global financial power.

These are just a few examples where JZ, and by extension the ANC, can stand firm and say: “Promises made, promises kept.” Of course, corruption and internal political battles that sought to undermine his leadership within the ANC, and his own political brutality in trying to be firm on ill discipline caused him more political enemies during his tenure, all this clouded these major achievements, but that does not take away from the fact that, when it comes to actual governance and delivery, his administration made serious strides that cannot be ignored. 🇿🇦

#SONA2025
#7thParliament

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

BEE was a deal between the ANC and the Oppenheimer family not to develop Black businesses like White governments had done with White industries for over a century.

There was an opportunity to create thousands of Black industrialists and millions of jobs, but the ANC agreed to just sit on its hands and hope for the best in exchange for some pieces of silver and political protection for a few of them.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Everyone knows about the CODESA series of meetings that took place at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park in 1999-92. What's not commonly spoken about are the other secret meetings.

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[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The Sun is electric and the Earth is magnetic, we are electromagnetic beings.

[Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦 @mr_mathumetse]

@GuptaLesiba Sa kosha ke lerole🕺🏾🕺🏾

[Lwazi N @LwaziNgc]

Friday Vibes📍

[Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦 @mr_mathumetse]

Kante what grade is a "private school"? @TshegoMoagi_ #POWERPerspective

[Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦 @mr_mathumetse]

@Thabisoo Sepedi sere "moipolayi ga llelwe" bo ausi Thandi don't listen. #POWERDrive

[Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦 @mr_mathumetse]

@DenzilTaylor Savage🤣😂

[Melusi Ncala @MNcala]

Here we go again… Pres. Ramaphosa, DP Mashatile, Pres. Zuma, and hothead Mbalula. But why are y’all sleeping on the Ruperts? It’s all on the 87th vid.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Once again, economics is just the ruling class putting complicated formulas and scientific-sounding theories to what’s basically a pseudoscience designed to make poverty and inequality seem normal and inevitable.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

In Afghanistan young boys are sold by their families to more affluent men. In a practice called "bacha bazi" meaning "boy play", they dance for the men & afterwards they are raped.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Same beliefs but the first is said to be barbaric.

[carlosmesquita @rehomingcarlos]

I have done everything in my power to keep my big mouth shut since this incident on the flight went viral.
I did so for 5 reasons
1. The video posted was an edit that was meant to show this woman in a bad light.

[Cris Mathumetse🇿🇦 @mr_mathumetse]

@blacklabelsa whilst we are in the festive spirit of giving and the first day of 2025, top up nyana?🤷🏾‍♂️