Lardo Stander

@DeanMacpherson So it was EWCd directly, bypassing the State?

A clear picture of what has taken place at Knoflokskraal over time. From land earmarked for a forestry plantation that would have created jobs for the local community in 2020 to a densely populated, unlawful settlement in 2025. Government will act to restore order and the rule of law. #LetsBuildSA 💙🇿🇦

@Our_DA How tone deaf have you become? During Easter, perhaps the most significant day celebrated by Christians, you choose to say our strength lies in one another? Not in our faith? Not in our Saviour? Do you really believe that Christians would appreciate this message?

✝️🇿🇦 The DA wishes all Christian South Africans a blessed, peaceful and safe Easter. May this be a time of reflection, renewal, and hope spent with family, friends, and community. Our strength lies in one another. Happy Easter, South Africa!

@MmusiMaimane Where is the ex-Commissioner retiring to? Sandton, Fresnaye or somewhere a bit more exotic?

Investment into SARS has and will pay off. Last year’s budget was an opportunity to invest more into SARS. The team has delivered over R2Tr collection. Congrats to the commissioner, now we must double our efforts to fight illicit trade.

@DisabledEsq @MightyCaster Who was the advising doctor who messed up this life?

The autobiography of Caster Semenya @MightyCaster describes the compromise that allowed him to remain in women’s competitions after he was confirmed to be XY: taking medications to lower his testosterone to below 10 nmol/L for competitions. Predictably, the drugs made him extremely ill. He calls them “poison” throughout his autobiography, and he paints a very dire picture of his physical and mental health while medicated. “I started feeling sick as soon as the drug was introduced into my system. At first, it just felt like I’d eaten too much of something, I felt bloated. My muscles felt heavy, and I was always tired. I couldn’t recover from workouts in the same way I had before. My head would hurt. My brain felt cloudy. I was nauseous for no reason. The foods that I normally enjoyed, I no longer enjoyed in the same way. And I would suddenly get hot and just start sweating. Particularly at night, just sweating right through my clothes and my sheets. It made it so that I would wake up in the middle of the night and have to shower. Then I couldn’t fall asleep again so I’d lay on the bed wide awake, staring at the ceiling. The thirst was unbearable. I’d have a gallon of water next to me in the bed, and I would go through it desperately and then have to use the bathroom a million times. The hunger became its own challenge. Food is important for athletes; we eat more than most but this was insane. I felt like I was starving all the time. I’d eat and have to eat right away again and again. It was a constant gnawing need in my belly that lived alongside the desire to vomit. It was enough to drive anyone mad.” He was originally told that he should only take the medications for a maximum of four years: “if it brings the level down, and you get to run again, you retire at age twenty-one, Caster. Four years. That’s it. You get one Olympics. Anything beyond that and you could do irreparable harm to your system.” He ended up being on the medications from 2009 to 2015; he won silver in London during that time. But then he was allowed to stop taking them before the Rio Olympics in 2016, where he won gold. Similar medications are routinely prescribed to minors who assert “trans” identities, but with even more aggressive sex hormone suppression goals. Like other trans-identified people who are desperate to chase an impossible fantasy, Semenya should have been protected from himself. He should have been told that his recalcitrant refusal to acknowledge his health condition didn’t make it any less real, and that he would be permitted to run only against other males. No special treatment. He was clearly willing to destroy his health to chase gold; it was unethical to allow him to do so. Instead, he was allowed to hurt both himself and the women whose dreams he stole and whose efforts he mocked. He was emboldened to taunt and humiliate them. The erstwhile victim became the monster.

@AntonEberhard And you reckon Stratek Global, C5 Capital and the Nuclear Unit at NWU is stuck in the past and has dissipated to where?

It’s hard to believe this call for technical partners and qualified organizations to join the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (NECSA) in developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) will go anywhere. In a previous attempt, government and Eskom spent more than R11 billion and after a decade of development couldn’t even build a demonstration plant. Why would any serious partners want to join NECSA now? It does not have a serious budget for this and SA’s PMBR expertise has dissipated around the world. Others are now way ahead of South Africa.

@IvynSambo Where does the R20.56m spend, and the R12m saving come from? Like which figures did you use for the calculation?

Guys, just think about it. In Tshwane, under DA mayor Cilliers Brink, the city was spending R20.56 million per month on water tankers. Now, under ActionSA mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya, the city is buying its own water tankers and saving R12 million a month.

@RegMangena @feziledhlamini_ This must be the dumbest post I have read this year 🤣 5 Indians = 1 black. What does the rest of the equivalence scale look like?!

@feziledhlamini_ Problem is Indians are classified black by BEE and included in IDC: Indians are only partially previously disadvantaged. There should be a revision such that 5 Indians only equate to 1 African under BEE.

So the IDC just ran a paid News24 piece telling South Africa how great they are. Allow me to do something the IDC apparently cannot: basic maths. They say they approved R26.6 billion in “transformation funding” last year and “created or preserved” 15,000 jobs. That is R1,773,333 per job. One million, seven hundred and seventy-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three rand. Per job. You could pay someone the average South African salary for nearly seven years with that money. Or you could give it to the IDC and they will “create or preserve” one job. Maybe. If the company does not end up in their R30 billion distress portfolio. Oh, did I not mention that? The IDC’s distress portfolio, that is the money they invested that is now in trouble, is R30 billion. That is bigger than the R26.6 billion they approved this year. They are underwater. They are losing money faster than they are deploying it. And of that R30 billion in distress? R9 billion is in black-empowered entities. So roughly a third of the “transformation” money they are bragging about in paid newspaper articles is currently circling the drain. But wait, there is more. Since 2017, the IDC has given R8.5 billion to 128 black industrialists. Sounds impressive until you learn that a single manganese company got R6.1 billion. One company. That is 72% of the total. Three companies consumed virtually the entire allocation. The average per industrialist? R66.4 million. Here is my favourite part: the IDC says 88% of its funding goes to black-owned businesses. Beautiful number. Very clean. Very round. Very paid-media-friendly. But when NAFCOC went to Parliament and said the IDC is undermining black industrialists through “aggressive recovery actions, premature legal enforcement, and liquidation processes,” the Portfolio Committee Chair responded: “It appears that the IDC has not effectively embedded issues of transformation in its business processes.” That is Parliament. Not me. Parliament. So here is what R26.6 billion in “transformation funding” actually looks like: 1. R1.77 million per job (if you believe the job numbers). 2. R30 billion in distress (which they do not mention in the paid article). 3. R9 billion in black business distress (which they definitely do not mention). 72% of black industrialist funding going to three companies (which they will never mention). But sure. Run the paid article. The maths will still be here in the morning.

@mark_boikanyo @JordiGriff I don't have membership to any party. You have just made yet another claim, colloquially referred to as speaking bullshit, without having provided or even having the intention to provide evidence. You have no credibility anymore, Mark. Cheers.

@LardoStander @JordiGriff Lardo I will say this again, leave politics to politicians. Again, as I told you before if there's one person who will never make claims without evidence is me. I'm not a propaganda pusher like members of your party & right now u are acting like them which now raises questions

The ActionSA MMC who was responsible for group property leases was sharing them with Sgt Nkosi, why was she doing that?

@mark_boikanyo @JordiGriff Now you are just taking the piss 🫣

@LardoStander @JordiGriff I believe you are the one confused here, hence you saw a need to meddle in a discussion between 2 political appointees in different spheres of government.

@mark_boikanyo @JordiGriff Okay. Just make your claims. Because others know. And you know. And as someone who has collected and tested data and researched and published based on evidence for the last decade and a half, what do I know?

@LardoStander @JordiGriff I don't owe you the evidence but those I worked with as a Cllr know what I'm talking about. Your problem here is that you are involving yourself in matters that are beyond you

@mark_boikanyo @JordiGriff One of us is indeed confused about what constitutes evidence and what they are supposed to or were employed by the City to do. It's not me. Have a good one, Mark.

@LardoStander @JordiGriff The best thing you can do is stick to what the City has appointed you to do, allow some of us appointed in political offices to do just that unless if you believe you are now qualified to play in this field.

@mark_boikanyo @JordiGriff So an official. Could have just said so. But you are right, I am not a political appointee or a politician.

@LardoStander @JordiGriff You are forgetting, I'm a political appointee and you are not. I think I should remind you of that. If you want to be political just say so.

@mark_boikanyo @JordiGriff And you made the claim, hence it is up to you to provide evidence. Or do you just say anything you want, claim anything you want, and view that as the truth? In my non-political opinion, that is not very credible.

@LardoStander @JordiGriff I believe you better stick to that, and leave politics to politicians. As for evidence, ask your friends in the blue party why they saw the need to celebrate when they heard I have resigned. Don't worry, all the leases that were granted in the last 10 yrs are going to be reviewed

@mark_boikanyo @JordiGriff Not worried, Mark. But you make a claim of corruption/improper conduct - whether now or from your time as councillor - and I'm merely asking you to give details. As for TEDA, or me at TEDA, the economy seems to deliver better results right? Still more to do, but it's coming right

@LardoStander @JordiGriff Don't worry Lardo, as a Colleague of mine I think you need to avoid engaging on this one as I speak of my time as a Cllr. But if you want to play that game, then I'm up to it. Maybe if you concentrate on TEDA matters then we should better results of the economic strategy

@daryl_johnston1 Well at least it's not Gerry Cousin Cans.

@LardoStander Two words, (first one may not be politically correct these days....) Jerry cans 😜

Travelling. Is there fuel in Colesberg?

@mark_boikanyo @JordiGriff Mark, are there examples of this? Do you have the property details and the names of those supposed friends who were given properties?

@JordiGriff You deflect all you want, the fact remains the DA allowed for lawlessness and gave City properties to their friends for leases way below the standards which is a criminal act in itself as you were stealing rates and tax payers money

@theafroaussie A South African crime intelligence Brigadier?

About a week ago, Thailand uncovered the largest drug trafficking network in the country’s history. Take a guess at who presided over it.

@henriettefroh @JordiGriff @CityTshwane This shows that the bid was still being advertised when Brink was voted out, and only closed once he was gone. How does that prove your point, Councillor?

@JordiGriff @CityTshwane You failed to listen to the #MadlangaCommission properly. No wonder Brink needed to be ousted-he was breeding corruption!😭😭😭

‼️🚨 Contrary to Brink‘s failed narrative, the looting in the @CityTshwane did not start in October 2024. #MadlangaCommission