According to Corruption Watch, South Africa went from being one of the least corrupt countries in the world in 1995, ranking alongside Belgium and Japan, to one of the most corrupt countries in the world, ranking alongside Cuba and Kazakhstan in 2026.
🇿🇦 Read and weep... its about time the truth starts coming out...‼️
"I am a contractor and I worked at the Medupi Power Station. I wish to add a few comments...
"The working staff get the last day of each month off as well as half the previous day for pay day.
"General workers arrive between eight and nine and start working on the new substations by ten.
"Lunch starts at about 11:30 and finishes about 14:00
They leave at about 15:30
"These are the general workers pulling in new cables, moving panels etc.
"So very little real work gets done because of the short working hours.
"I was working in a substation. The air conditioning system was not working because the controller is the wrong type. It has taken four months to find a replacement. It was 40 degrees in the substation
"The two main chimneys at Medupi have been built facing the wrong direction. They are 180 degrees the wrong way round. This means the pipework will all have to be changed. The efficiency of the blowers will be affected as the pipework is incorrect.
"The management of staff is a mess. The staff sit and look at you if you ask them to do anything. They know that if they don’t like what you are asking, they can on strike and they have done it. So nobody messes with them.
"The engineer who signed off the building of the chimneys the wrong way round has disappeared. There was insufficient management oversight. The wrong air conditioning unit in the substation was also due to lack of management.
LUNCH
"Apparently the “kitchen” or food contract is run by the local ANC mayor or leader.
The workers are guaranteed a hot lunch every day.
There is a central kitchen and mess.
"Thus a worker who is an hour away from the kitchen, is transported in a little bus. His lunch hour only starts when he picks up the plate to be served.
"So an hour lunch break lasts 2 or 3 hours in some sections.
"When the workforce was on strike the lunch providers were paid full value – not just the profit section even though they were not supplying any meals.
"The lunch contract has come up for review many times and every time the same person is awarded the contract despite better or other bids."
Now this is just lunch.... Imagine the rest ?
A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire, but with an American citizenship and an American portfolio.
His success is a mirror that reflects South Africa's absolute failure.
Elon Musk's historic milestone proves that wealth, progress, and monumental breakthroughs are created through merit, relentless innovation, and visionary execution.
They are not created through bureaucratic gatekeeping, red tape, and ideological obsession. South African politicians hate him because his mere existence exposes their profound failure to build anything of lasting value.
Elon Musk's story is the absolute opposite of the South African story.
Had the environment allowed it, he could have built SpaceX in South Africa. Decades ago, the country possessed a first world military space and missile infrastructure.
Instead of being nurtured into a global commercial aerospace hub, it was dismantled and collapsed under decades of ANC mismanagement, state capture, and political patronage.
We cannot even talk about Elon Musk freely investing his billions back into South Africa. Despite being born in Pretoria, race based economic policies and restrictive BEE ownership mandates have historically locked out global builders who refuse to bend to political dictation.
The South African story has become a tragic tale of what could have been, tainted by toxic governance, race politics, and destructive economics.
🔴BREAKING: International airlines freed from racial licensing in South Africa
This follows Sakeliga's victory in the Pretoria High Court on Friday.
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Every sign at this refinery in Ireland is in russian. The official website is a .RU domain.
There’s no reason to hide it because local politicians are openly doing it for them.
@BDliveSA I’d love to know on what basis iDexis believes they can simply manufacture a knock-off of a patented drug which has ample stock availability. It’s patent can’t even be copied as a generic medicine yet. 🙄
In the course of reviewing aspects of these Global Fund-supported programs in the DRC, I encountered accounting and reporting practices that systematically made it difficult to trace where substantial resources had actually gone. Adjustments that looked routine on paper had the practical effect of obscuring diversions on a scale that, based on timing and available documentation, coincided with certain national staff relocating and obtaining new citizenship in the United States and European countries.
These were the same programs whose purpose was to strengthen rural health systems against outbreaks. As Ebola now spreads with dangerous speed through Ituri and surrounding areas, the gap between reported financial compliance and the visible reality on the ground could not be more stark.
Past Office of the Inspector General reports have already flagged irregularities and weak oversight in multiple DRC grants. Internal processes have not resolved the underlying issues. The Dutch government and the United States, as key stakeholders in these funding mechanisms, should now move to independent forensic investigations with direct access to the primary records. Anything less leaves the same vulnerabilities in place.
@MauritiusMisfit@declanwalsh@ArletteBashizi Yip, and follow the Congolese president out the country while he (tries to) watch his soccer games (probably funded by the aid budgets). This is how African politicians roll. Fattening their pockets at the expense of their people.
“We don't have to all agree, we don't have to be friends we don't have to like each other but we all have a responsibility to serve the interest of South Africas so this country doesn't need heroes but it needs principled people” General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
“if South Africa is serious about the national reset then the reset must include all of us. it must start with politicians, they drive fancy cars these days they live like business people” General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
The DA has this cult-like belief that anyone who dares to criticise them is their opposition or enemy and is working for some other party.
The reality, however, is that almost all of us (myself included) who are not involved in party politics have zero loyalty to any political party whatsoever.
The overwhelming majority of people who criticise them over price hikes in Cape Town, the creation of perfect conditions for mass migration to the Western Cape, their extremely poor handling of the FMD crisis, and so on, actually voted for them in the previous election.
This belief is what causes @geordinhl to triple down after making a complete fool of himself by attacking Pieter Groenewald over the 28,000 parolees that went "missing" — most of whom went missing before 2004.
However, the most dangerous part is that this belief is far more far-reaching than just creating bad optics on social media. This belief is also what drives @jsteenhuisen to double down on his poor decisions in handling the FMD crisis.
The former DA leader cannot comprehend that there are people who simply know more about agricultural sciences and veterinary epidemiology than he does, and that every single farmer cares more about his animals dying than about the DA competing for a small minority of the vote share with the FF+.
Therefore, even after his massive failure as Minister of Agriculture, and even after losing in court with costs, he can't find any fault in his own work. This is because he believes everyone speaking out against him is "doing it for political reasons." The reality is that almost nobody does it for political reasons.
This is far more damaging to the party and the country as a whole than just making a fool of yourself on social media, and it will cost the party dearly. It is time for the DA to realise that being better at governance than the ANC does not mean you are any good at governance — just like being better than a donkey at mathematics doesn't make you an engineer.
They need to realise that they are not infallible. When people criticise them, it is because those people are really hurt by their incompetence or bad decisions. Those people are just trying to create a better South Africa, not because they are working for some other political party.
FM @RonaldLamola, you blame concerns about violence and failed governance on "MAGA politics." Ghana and Nigeria just airlifted their citizens out of your country. Thousands of South Africans are fleeing to America to escape your government’s��Left-wing policies. Unemployment still remains at 33% while you and corrupt government elites get rich while promoting race-based laws and chanting "Kill the Boer." If caring about your own citizens is MAGA, South Africa might want to give it a try.