Mr State Capture

Unaffiliated. Unverified. Watching.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

12/12

The “at least he’s not Zuma” defence is exactly what his campaigners want you to say.

It sets the floor so low that survival looks like success.

Cyril Ramaphosa is not a lesser evil. He is the continuity candidate of a captured state - better dressed, better spoken, and no less destructive.

The data says so. The record says so.

Worst. President. Full stop.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

Cyril Ramaphosa is, without question, the worst president in the history of post-apartheid South Africa.

Not debatable.

Here’s the data.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

11/12

THE BOTTOM LINE

Mandela built the structure.
Mbeki built the economy - badly, but he built.
Zuma looted.

Ramaphosa watched.

He watched the economy contract. He watched state capture continue. He watched unemployment break records. He watched the ANC lose its mandate.

And he called it leadership.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

@nkewuernest5068 The political strategy is to secure 1-2 seats and then become a kingmaker / puppet mayor for the ANC / EFF / Action SA coalition.

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Lukhona Mnguni is running against Helen Zille. Not the ANC. Ask yourself why.

(1/8)

Let’s be honest about Lukhona Mnguni.

Of every name on the 2026 Joburg mayoral ballot, he is the single most unqualified. No municipal experience. No executive experience. No budget ever managed. No department ever run. No coalition ever held together. The CV is: COPE youth member, PhD intern, TV pundit, think tank policy head.

That is not a mayor. That is a guest panellist with ambition.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

Best pals.

[Executive Mayor: @CityofJoburgZA @DadaMorero]

Herman Mashaba o ka hara Council kajeno 😂

Motho yo a dulago a sepela a re “Dada o boletše se” le “Dada o dirile sela” ka badirišani ba gagwe, lehono re mo bona moo mmušo wa nnete o dirwago gona.

Le ge go na le maaka, dipolotiki tša menyenyetsi le modumo wa go nyaka tlhokomelo, rena re sa dutše re myemyela, re dumedišana ebile re tšwela pele ka mošomo wa go direla batho ba Johannesburg. 🤝

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

@NtsuntsuMolete @rakgoshi Engage the substance abeg - I’m very unemotional about my analysis. Receipts are in the thread. Challenge them.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

@Thabiso_Kgabung Even the next time you’re admitted to hospital?

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@b_mpakanyane @JustXavierB Engage the substance bra’yaka.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

@sefusekgala … did they?

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

(8/8)

The pitch is “incorruptible.” The translation is “untested.” You cannot be incorruptible at a job you have never done.

Joburg doesn’t need another candidate learning the role on the job. It is in crisis and needs experience. Mnguni simply does not, and his whole campaign is yelling about Zille to make you forget that.

He’ll squabbling with UDM for 1-2 seats.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

(6/8)

There is a receipt. In 2012, Mnguni ran to the Human Rights Commission because Zille called Eastern Cape pupils “refugees” for crossing into the Western Cape for better schools.

He was outraged at the suggestion that Eastern Cape people were outsiders in a province they had moved to.

Fourteen years later, he is the Eastern Cape man telling a Joburg resident she is an outsider in a city she moved to. The principle was never the principle. The principle was Zille.

[Mr State Capture @mrstatecapture]

(7/8)

This is what Mnguni actually trying to be: a fong-kong Zoran Mamdani.

Same script. Young-ish, articulate, media-trained, ideologically vague, donor-friendly, running on vibes and “clean up the city,” with zero administrative record and a coalition behind him that lost its last election. Mamdani at least won a primary in the largest city on earth.

Mnguni is being handed a candidacy by a party that has two MPs and one MPL.

It is the discount version of a movement that doesn’t exist here.