Tumi Moema

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Redi, your piece is powerful, and you're right: leaving the ANC is not treachery. Black voters owe the party nothing. It owes them everything, and it has defaulted. Those who sneered "coconuts" and "clever blacks" should be ashamed.

But the cause matters more than whoever leads the party. The ANC is more than a party. It carries the Freedom Charter, Luthuli's moral vision and the principle of non-racialism you set out so well. Those values don't belong to the NEC. They belong to all of us who were shaped by them.

Leaving is legitimate, but reclaiming is better. In the 1940s Mandela, Tambo and Sisulu didn't abandon a timid ANC. They organised and took it back. If we simply walk away, we surrender the movement and its name to those who debased it.

Exit and voice can work together. The lost votes are the loudest message the ANC has ever received. Let's use that moment to press from inside and outside for renewal.

Leaving isn't betrayal, but reclaiming the movement is the greater loyalty, to the cause rather than to the incumbents.

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The DA's whole pitch is that it's the clean, accountable alternative, and it's now in government. If its leaders can't give a straight answer about their own Gupta money, why should voters trust them to clean up anyone else's? Credibility isn't relative. You either hold everyone to the same standard or you don't have one.
FYI this post is about Zille’s personal credibility. It’s no comparative analysis of a lapse in ethical behavior. Limit yourself to the points raised so we avoid a varicose vein argument.

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In 2013 Helen Zille wouldn't name the donor, citing confidentiality. Then The New Age published her letter of 25 May 2009, on DA letterhead and signed by her: "Dear Mr Gupta… Thank you so much for your generous donation."
Her explanation was that the letter went to Atul Gupta by mistake, and the money was really the personal gift of a Sahara executive, Stefan Nel.
Nel contradicted her. He said all three payments came from Sahara by EFT, and that "from the beginning there was no confusion" he represented the Gupta group.
Even on Zille's own account, R100,000 came straight from Islandsite Investments, a Gupta company. There's no "personal capacity" explanation for that payment.
In 2013 she said the DA would not return the money. In 2017 Mmusi Maimane said it had been paid back. Which was it?
The point isn't the R400,000. The point is that the woman who lectures South Africa on accountability couldn't give one consistent account of her own party's Gupta money.

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@martinberry17 @mrgordonburns @ManUtd Maybe you should turn to the rugby page 😜

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@HawkEmDownChris No way!

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Blame it on Pahad. Mbeki denies personal links to them. Ajay Gupta sat on the International Marketing Council, now Brand SA. The Mbeki Foundation says he joined the board on the recommendation of then Minister in the Presidency, Essop Pahad, and that the board reported to Pahad, not to Mbeki.

Zuma backs that version up as he claims the same Pahad introduced him to the Guptas. Coming from a sworn enemy of Mbeki, it carries considerable weight.

Pahad went on to be a business partner of the Guptas and edited their magazine, The Thinker.

Pity he lost his right of reply when he died

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@martinberry17 @mrgordonburns @ManUtd You’re clearly a city fan. Get out of here!

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Ten Hag, Amorim, and now Carrick, sacked six months after getting a new contract and a season after finishing 3rd. Next up is Pochettino, the fourth manager under Ratcliffe, bought out of the USA job for £7m. A club cycling through managers this fast isn't a coaching problem; it's an ownership problem. Ratcliffe owns ~29%, the Glazers still own the rest, and fans own nothing. Until supporters get a real stake, the carousel keeps spinning.

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She long sold her soul to the devil!
Not so long ago she vowed to never work with the ANC and established her moonshot coalition with fellow travelers.
I guess the scent of power was too irresistible.
The anc must simple walk away from this poisoned chalice, purge the criminal elements within whilst rebuilding. Whilst at it, they should remind the top 7 to step down and the premiers along with the rest of the NEC. Open the doors to patriots who have the capacity to prosecute the revolutionary agenda without resorting to race politics. Non racialism was an anc construct from the beginning.

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He’s clearly tone deaf. The optics couldn’t have been worse. But to be fair to him the increases are annual and are linked to inflation. He acts on recommendations from the commission. I just wonder why he couldn’t freeze the increase like he did during COVID? He’s clearly checked out of his job.

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@Duece2029 @Think_idea24 No doubt he’d the biggest heart! But a small man can’t generate the same punching power of a bigger man. Canelo learnt this when he took on Bivol

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For once the ANC speaks rationally.
Whose interests does the GNU serve?

The DA acts as an opposition within the cabinet contrary to the convention of collective cabinet responsibility- Westminster system and S92 of our constitution.

This convention which simply put, binds the whole cabinet to decisions voted on. Ministers who disagree with the decisions are expected to either publicly support the decision or resign.

The DA seems to have not read that memo as can be seen from below:

2025 Budget and VAT increase: this is the clearest case. DA MPs voted against the fiscal framework, and the ANC chief whip, Mdumiseni Ntuli, objected that "You can't have Cabinet ministers [in the DA] voting against a major national decision agreed by Cabinet". The DA then launched an urgent application in the Western Cape High Court to interdict the VAT increase from being implemented on May 1 and to set aside the adoption of the Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals. The increase was later withdrawn, and the DA claimed victory, saying its legal challenge put pressure on National Treasury to find alternatives.

Employment Equity targets: the DA approached the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to challenge a new gazette by the Minister of Employment and Labour meant to speed up transformation in some industries.

Expropriation Act: the case reached the Western Cape High Court in August 2026, with the DA, the second-largest party in the governing coalition, asking judges to strike down a law its own cabinet had backed.

I could go on but suffices to say the DA is a consort that acts in bad faith.

The principled stand would be for the DA to exit the GNU and start building its party till somehow it reaches a majority or revive its moonshot alliance in time foe 2029. Maybe there as a senior member, it will bully its partners to fall into line.

That said, the GNU has many traps for the DA-
-The DA risks alienating voters who supported it because they wanted an alternative. Those voters may increasingly turn to smaller parties offering a clearer political identity and fewer compromises, such as ActionSA and the FF+

-It hurts the DA at election time. Analysts note that local elections intensify zero-sum dynamics. Shared credit becomes harder to sell to voters, while policy compromise carries greater political cost.

-It is hard to leave. A departure on weak grounds would be punished by voters, because the alternative is an ANC government with the MK Party or the EFF.

My view is the ANC should govern as a minority government with no marriage of convenience.

Legislation can be passed on an ad hoc basis with whoever they can persuade to vote along.
Of course horse trading will be the order of the day.

Let it live or die on its choices and execution of its agenda.

Better to break up before the long knives destroy both parties.

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@Sha_7610 Great job by the U.S. for turning Iraq into a dysfunctional and failed state. Saddam kept the country functioning. He was no saint but can’t the same be said of Trump?

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You’d think her sterling work killed the Nationalist Party. That party lives inside the anc unfortunately.
Zille can’t kill the anc even if she tried. The anc is committing suicide.
If a man ties a rope around his neck and is found hanging from the rafters, can anyone claim responsibility for his death 🤣🤣🤣

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@lover_of_pak First order of business is to abandon social media. Buy books make friends eat well be kind and guard your heart.

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