Real leadership looks like this. Malatsi didn’t bend the rules — he modernised them. Starlink brings fast, affordable internet to places the ANC ignored for 30 years. If fixing digital exclusion means upsetting tenderpreneurs, amasela afana no Diko so be it. Progress > politics
In South Africa black people who think with their buttocks are advocating for a few blacks (who may well be less than 10) to own 30% of Starlink versus the minister’s equity equivalent option of connecting 5000 rural schools benefiting 2.4 million learners (mostly black) for free.
Starlink will also be investing R2 Billion in infrastructure build-out and socioeconomic programs. Creating jobs and opportunities for thousands of poor blacks.
So 10 black guys who are already elites and connected to ANC or millions of black school children and thousands in jobs for blacks?
Don’t be fools. Think with your brains. Leave your personal issues with Elon and the US aside. Put South Africa first.
Meet Solly Malatsi, a minister brave enough to put connectivity over ideology. Starlink isn’t about Elon, it’s about schools online, rural clinics connected, jobs created. South Africa needs internet, not endless BEE paperwork that enriches cadres and blocks progress.
"South Africa's tax base is highly concentrated, with 978,140 individuals paying 60.6% of all personal income tax in the country. This is feedback from the @centre_risk"
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NEW WEAPON TO FIGHT TENDER CORRUPTION
The National Treasury has launched an online platform that allows the public to scrutinise government tenders in unprecedented detail.
This new dashboard, accessible to all citizens, compiles data on contracts and payments across most national and provincial departments.
The initiative aims to combat corruption by making spending patterns transparent, enabling anyone to identify potential irregularities in tender/contract awards.
In democratising access to this information, the tool empowers ordinary South Africans to act as watchdogs.
Consequently, this move is seen as a major step towards rebuilding public trust and ensuring taxpayer money is spent responsibly.
Full story - https://t.co/XIrgNM6I6K
Pictured - Duncan Pieterse, National Treasury Director-General
Yes, South Africa has over 100 laws post-1994 that incorporate racial classifications for affirmative action, employment equity, and empowerment policies, per analyses from groups like the IRR (116 such acts) and https://t.co/VrqbYo7yrC (145 operative race-referencing laws). These include the Employment Equity Act mandating demographic targets and B-BBEE codes prioritizing black ownership. While intended as redress for apartheid, critics substantiate claims of reverse discrimination against whites and minorities through quotas excluding qualified non-designated groups.
The principal of an impoverished no-fee school in the Eastern Cape is alleged to have blown more than R1m meant for school meals, learning materials and maintenance on booze, fancy restaurants, fuel and other luxuries.
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🚨#Savethechildren
Since Iraq allowed men to marry girls at the age of 9, pedophiles from all over the Islamic world have flocked there to buy girls for marriage.
According to Islamic law, every man is allowed to marry 4 women at the same time, so every Muslim pedophile can buy 4 little girls to be his sex slaves.😱
When they grow up, he is allowed to divorce them and marry others.
I wonder what human rights organizations have to say about this, because so far nothing has been done to eradicate the crime of sexual exploitaition of children and girls in Iraq, Afghanistan and other Muslim countries.
#Pedophilia #Islam #childbride @UNICEF
The City of Tshwane has blown an astronomical R777 million on water tankers in the financial year that ended in June 2025, which is astonishingly R457 million over budget and a jaw-dropping R672 million more than officials spent in 2024. | @vercingetorics
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