The next time somebody on social media gets upset about illegal foreigners being escorted to police vans today, show them this newspaper cover. Did these South African children receive the same media coverage and sympathy?
A North West farm owner has been issued with a R250,000 admission of guilt fine after police arrested 23 suspected undocumented foreigners during an intelligence-driven operation https://t.co/mg2CEaF8hM
@News24 In November 2018, in Mlungwana and Other v S and Other, the constitutional court declared sec 12 (1)(a) of the Gatherings Act unconstitutional.
Anyone who wishes to protest merely needs to inform the authorities of their intent to march, and not ask for permission!
@News24 It’s madness that when South African exercise their rights it’s denied but when a foreigner abuses our laws we are told they have the rights 🙄🙄
@RobynPorteous@CoconutKelz You the one's who live among white people, why are you not doing your part? This is why we say you guys aren't patriotic, you expect someone to leave the township to go deal with a white man in Cape Town, kanti what are you guys, ornaments? Piss off man
@Umkhitha Congratulations! Love witnessing a disruptor's epiphany - you're inherently designed to create systems. Please share how people can reach your firm to use your services.
Helen Zille went to Singapore to learn how that country became so successful. She came back and immediately tweeted that colonialism was not that bad and that South Africa (and Africa broadly) needed to follow Singapore’s example.
Zille didn’t mention that in Singapore, 80% of the population lives in houses built by the government, that the government builds housing so the people can live in them for cheap.
Helen Zille didn’t get much into how in Singapore, the government tells you which ethnicities are going to live next to each other and will mandate you to live next to a different ethnicity so that there’s no religious or ethnic tension.
This is not voluntary. A Chinese person may be forced to live alongside a Malay person and vice versa, regardless of whether he wants to. Quotas determine what proportion of each block must be Chinese, Malay, Indian, etc. It is a social engineering by government decree.
Not sure if Zille has the temerity to force a bunch of White people to go occupy some areas in Mitchell’s Plain.
Another thing that happens in Singapore, which I’m sure Zille cannot wait to implement is that you pay an additional tax for buying a second house, which can be up to 65% taxes if you want to buy more than one house. You can’t buy more than two houses, the government does not allow that. This is designed explicitly to suppress property speculation and concentration of ownership.
And then there’s a whole thing with the tax rate on a car being up to 300% in Singapore. If you applied that tax system in South Africa, a brand new, base spec Volkswagen Polo would cost over R2.57 Million! That’s not a typo or exaggeration.
I don’t know what Zille learned in Singapore, but she hasn’t been pushing for anything like this.
Oh, and there’s also the part where Singapore implemented one of the most comprehensive land expropriation programmes in modern history (https://t.co/dmEAHnb8H2)
Zille’s Democratic Alliance opposes land expropriation, racial quotas, state intervention in housing and property markets, and punitive taxation. Yet Singapore’s success she so greatly admires rests substantially on all of those things, implemented more aggressively than anything the ANC has ever actually done.
@Malatjie_ It is also the psychology of presiding officers / chairs of committes. The level of scrutiny & grace given is not the same. A study needs to be done on this actually.
Two people. Same savings pot.
Person A withdraws R110,000 from their two-pot this year.
Person B leaves it alone.
Person A thinks they won.
Here is what nobody told them.
The savings pot is not taxed like a retirement payout. There is no R550,000 tax-free threshold. No special lump sum rates. SARS treats it like a salary. They add R110k on top of every rand you already earned this year.
If you're earning around R650k annually, that extra R110k pushes you deep into the 39% marginal bracket.
The bill? Roughly R42,000 gone to SARS.
You asked for R110,000. You walk away with R68,000.
And it gets worse. If you owe SARS any outstanding debt, they collect that too, before a cent reaches your account. No negotiations.
You also only get one shot per tax year. Ask for more in August after a March withdrawal? Not happening. Wait for March.
Person B? Their pot is still compounding. At retirement, they get taxed under retirement lump sum rules. Far more favorable. The first R550,000 completely tax-free.
The two-pot system was designed to stop people from wiping out their retirement when they change jobs. That intent is noble.
But "accessible" does not mean "free."
R42k to SARS on a R110k withdrawal is not a rescue plan.
It is an expensive lesson in fine print.
@ZANewsFlash I said I was staying out of topic ,but wasn't it this when abo Jacinta and most parents complained and they were called liers who are fooling the masses ....now it's June sekunje.
@ISephara@Linghe_Xing And after everything they did with USA, there's no treason charge threats against them but black people have R600 million budget threat to exercise our constitutional right