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@Zulzi_SA 🤷🏿‍♂️

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And why is the birth date consistent? 🤔

[Big Sis 🇿🇦 @Bokang_BigSis]

I don’t understand this Easter thing and changing dates, kanti when did Jesus die?

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Weather manipulation on steroids

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

Everyday Kante!

[Peché Africa 🇿🇦 @pmcafrica]

Legend 50 cost R730k and he pay R1k pm... that means it will take him 60 years to pay it offf 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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So Sibiya lied under oath? To protect Brown

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[WATCH] Brown Mogotsi says he met General Shadrack Sibiya in August 2024. He claims Sibiya couldn't disclose this when he said at the #AdHocCommittee that they met in December. He says Sibiya was protecting him. #MadlangaCommission

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[ChrisExcel @ChrisExcel102]

The future of Podcast & Chill looks bright 😭

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lorraine moropa: “Baby let’s go to Dubai next week 😊”

Tyler ICU:

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What would you do if it was you?

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[ChrisExcel @ChrisExcel102]

Me day 1 at Ad Hock committee…

Chairperson: “Are you the one funding Mkhwanazi “

Me:

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[Thandubuntu @Solphendukaa]

This is Ashley Sauls ? 🤣🤣🤣

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[Mbali Sigidi | Sports | TV | RADIO @Mbali_Sigidi]

We finally see Nkabinde. I must say, I didn’t think the Chief of Staff Nkabinde looked or sounded like this 🙈

#TheGeneral #Mkhwanazi #AdHocCommittee

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[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

Here is video and photographic evidence that Karyn Maughan did not ask for “evidence” during the Zondo commission.

She wrote articles and did interviews about various peoples testimony and called it “evidence”.

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[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

So why would any sane South African voter cast their ballot for the ANC in the 2026 Local Government elections when its own president openly endorsed the brilliance of DA-run councils? You could never make this up. It is a staggering own goal for the ANC leader to concede that the opposition governs better than his own party’s councillors, just months before voters head to the polls.

This is the height of political irony, and it lays bare the ANC’s bankruptcy of ideas, competence, and credibility. If the president himself acknowledges that the DA delivers where the ANC fails, then what possible justification remains for South Africans to keep rewarding failure?

Interesting times for South Africans; but also defining times, where voters will decide whether to continue embracing decay or to demand accountability and progress.

[Pieter Kriel @pieterkrielorg]

Foreign cash is buying Cape Town.
Communities are being pushed out, cultures sold. This is the invincible occupation.

[I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA @Lolita721611021]

🇿🇦 WHO MADE RAMAPHOSA RICH? THE CORPORATE TRAITORS BEHIND SOUTH AFRICA’S MANUFACTURED PRESIDENT🇿🇦
27 August 2025 By Paul Hattingh
Cyril Ramaphosa has been packaged as a “self-made billionaire.” It is a myth. He is not an entrepreneur. He is not a corporate genius. He is a manufactured president — a puppet carefully built by corporations who bought him influence, cloaked their betrayal in the language of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), and entrenched him as both billionaire and political savior. In truth, they gave South Africa a soft dictator whose wealth was engineered in boardrooms and baptized in blood... This is not just about Ramaphosa. It is about the companies that made him. Their names are known. Their scandals are recorded. Their betrayal is undeniable.

🔴 THE VEHICLE: SHANDUKA GROUP
Founded in 2001, Shanduka was Ramaphosa’s empowerment holding company. It was never about genuine transformation. It was a political ATM. Corporations lined up to give Shanduka shares, board seats, and deals. Ramaphosa, the so-called executive chairman, was there to provide one thing only: political cover... By 2014, Shanduka was worth more than R20 billion. Ramaphosa’s family trust was the majority shareholder. This fortune, which made him a billionaire, came not from innovation, but from corporate collusion.

🔴 MTN – BRIBES ABROAD, EXPLOITATION AT HOME
MTN, Africa’s telecoms giant, appointed Ramaphosa as chairman for over a decade. It gave him prestige, shares & credibility. But MTN’s own record is stained:
▫️ In 2015, MTN was fined $5.2 billion in Nigeria for failing to disconnect unregistered SIM cards, amid allegations of bribery.
▫️ In Iran, MTN was accused of bribing officials to secure licenses.
▫️ At home, MTN has been condemned for some of the highest mobile and data prices in the world, crippling millions of South Africans.
Ramaphosa was no innovator here. He was the political face of a company that thrived on corruption abroad and exploitation at home.

🔴 COCA-COLA & McDONALD’S – FAST FOOD, FASTER PROFITS
In 2011, McDonald’s South Africa was handed to Shanduka as its developmental licensee, giving Ramaphosa control of every franchise in the country. Coca-Cola too gifted Shanduka lucrative empowerment shares. These were not earned business achievements. They were global corporations buying political favor, desperate to secure transformation points and maintain access to the South African market. Communities they claimed to “empower” remained poor, but Ramaphosa became rich.

🔴 STANDARD BANK & ALEXANDER FORBES – BANKING ON POLITICS
South Africa’s largest bank, Standard Bank, brought Ramaphosa into its web. Alexander Forbes, the financial services firm, did the same. Through BEE, both companies handed him stakes and seats, not for skill, but for access to ANC leadership. In return, they secured political protection and cemented their dominance. Meanwhile, ordinary South Africans were bled dry by rising bank charges and endless fees.

🔴 BIDVEST – THE TENDER GIANT
Bidvest, South Africa’s mega-conglomerate, installed Ramaphosa as chairman. This was the same Bidvest that gorged itself on government tenders, thriving in an environment where ANC-linked companies flourished. Ramaphosa’s presence gave Bidvest cover: they could point to transformation while securing more tenders. He gave them legitimacy; they gave him millions.

🔴 LIBERTY, MPACT, MACSTEEL - CORPORATE COMFORT
Liberty Life, Mpact (packaging), and Macsteel (steel trading) all brought Ramaphosa in. He did not invent their business models. He did not transform their industries. He sat in boardrooms, a political ornament. His mere presence gave them credibility with the ruling elite, and in return, he cashed out.

🔴 SEACOM & HELIOS TOWERS – INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FEW
Shanduka invested heavily in telecoms infrastructure through Seacom and Helios Towers. These were gateways to Africa’s digital economy. Yet the irony is stark: millions of South Africans remain unable to afford reliable internet. Ramaphosa grew richer from monopolistic structures while his people stayed disconnected.

🔴 RENTWORKS, GIGAJOULE, FEVER TREE, TBWA – THE IMAGE ECONOMY
From RentWorks (asset rentals) to Gigajoule (energy), from Fever Tree Consulting to TBWA (advertising), Shanduka’s tentacles reached everywhere.
▫️ RentWorks gave him access to state-aligned asset leasing.
▫️ Gigajoule put him into energy markets where political contacts meant everything.
▫️ Fever Tree and TBWA helped craft the narrative of “Ramaphosa the businessman.”
These were not random opportunities. They were carefully chosen placements to build both wealth and brand.

🔴 THE MINES – BLOOD MONEY AND MURDERED WORKERS
Mining made Ramaphosa’s fortune darker than any other sector. Through Shanduka Coal, Kangra, Scaw Metals, Mondi Shanduka, and Pan African Resources, he became deeply tied to an industry of exploitation.
But nothing compares to Lonmin.
As a Lonmin board member and shareholder, Ramaphosa directly intervened in the 2012 Marikana strike. His emails called for “concomitant action” against striking workers. Shortly after, police opened fire. Thirty-four miners were slaughtered.
Their deaths remain the bloodstain on his billions. This was not business leadership. This was betrayal of workers and complicity in massacre.

🔴 PHALA PHALA – THE ROT CONTINUES
Even after “disinvesting” from Shanduka in 2014 Ramaphosa’s scandals continued. In 2020, $580,000 in cash was found inside a couch at his Phala Phala farm... He called it a “business transaction.” Parliament blocked investigations. Acting public protector Kholeka Gcaleka cleared him. The same old formula: political power and corporate protection walking hand in hand.

🔴 CORPORATE STATE CAPTURE
What emerges is clear: South Africa was not only captured by the ANC. It was captured by corporations.
▫️ MTN bought him.
▫️ Coca-Cola and McDonald’s bought him.
▫️ Standard Bank bought him.
▫️ Bidvest bought him.
Lonmin bought him — and workers died.
These companies did not just play politics. They manufactured a president.

🔴 THE REAL TRAITORS
The betrayal is not only in Luthuli House. It is in the boardrooms of Sandton, London, and New York. These corporations — MTN, Standard Bank, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Bidvest, Liberty, Lonmin, and the rest — are not neutral brands. They are traitors. They chose profit over principle. They chose corruption over conscience. They chose betrayal over South Africa.

🔴 THE QUESTION SOUTH AFRICANS MUST FACE
Who made Ramaphosa rich? Corporations.
Why did they do it? To buy political cover.
What did South Africa get? A billionaire president, a captured state, and a betrayed nation.
Cyril Ramaphosa’s billions were not earned. They were engineered. His presidency is not a triumph of democracy. It is the victory of corporate collusion.
And until South Africans call these companies what they are - traitors - the cycle of betrayal will continue

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This is pathetic trying to start a party based on a reaction from another party leader, I hope @Julius_S_Malema sees this for what it is and continue to blue tick this nonsense 🙄

[Constitution First 🇿🇦 @Constitution_94]

FLOYD SHIVAMBU 🌎 ✋🏾

Malema and his goons in the EFF are looting money from municipalities the EFF is involved in. This is largely to fund Malema's lifestyle

They use their MMC positions to siphon money from the municipal coffers. It's shameful

He demands poor councillors to steal & extort service providers millions of rand on the pretext of funding the revolution. He is the revolution that needs these millions

SA voters have long seen that Malema's party is a party of thieves, hence they reject EFF.

MKP is worse. They will not leave beyond 2030.

We will be here to see the funeral of MKP

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore dissolves electoral commission, calls it a waste of money and a tool of foreign influence.

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[WATCH] African Transformation Movement's Vuyo Zungula says Police Minister Senzo Mchunu lied to parliament, and that on its own warrants President Cyril Ramaphosa to take decisive action against him.

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