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Oh. We no longer hold Ministers accountable for tender irregularities, it’s DGs now? Damn all those Ministers through the years owed apologies for “heads must roll,” “fire him/her,” “x must fall”, court cases, marches, speeches etc. What a time to be alive.

A publishing company that stands to make more than R285 million producing textbooks and learning and teaching support materials for the Department of Basic Education was registered three days after the contract specifications were issued. news24.com/southafrica/ed…

@Siviwe_G @RSASIU

I HAVE REQUESTED THE MINISTER OF FINANCE TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE IRREGULARITIES IN THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS OF TEXTBOOKS FOR FOUNDATION PHASE

@Judaeda3 @ChristoThurston “You will find out tomorrow morning.”

Municipality officials caught by a councillor stealing water to make their own profit. 🤔

I understand that our political system is fundamentally different. But every South African politician seeking to serve their constituency should follow @ZohranKMamdani mayoral journey closely. There is a lot to glean here.

@Tessa_Dooms Pity that in South Africa, political illiteracy eats ideology for lunch.

Mamdani here explaining 2 local government laws and how he has made decisions. He campaigned with his ideology upfront (including on Palestine) here you can hear how he is using his ideology to govern NYC. A reminder why ideology matters even on local government issues.

@SSFootball VAR cannot come here fast enough!

Oswin Appollis puts the ball in the back of the net 👀 But the goal is ruled out for offside 🚩 📺 Stream #BetwayPrem on DStv: tinyurl.com/4wrtdwtb #SSDiski | #ChooseASide

#CountryDuty Please help SAPS at arrest these criminals! Frame 2 and 3 are clear images from the dash-cam. Repost 🙏🏿

@BusinessTechSA No such class exists in South Africa.

More middle-class South Africans are turning away from the Western Cape for property. businesstech.co.za/news/property/…

Rugby became successful with democracy! Transforming oppressive systems unlocks talent. Diversity must be policy driven to succeed,including ensuring that schools that only took white students got forced to open space for black kids. Don't gaslight us on the eve of Freedom Day.

@BONGINKOSI14465 Yeses!!!

Pray before you leave home. Its not safe out there 💔🙆

Open Letter to @GCISMedia & @GovernmentZA We are quick to criticise our ministerial social media accounts, but often with good reason, and I include myself in that number. But we frequently forget the human beings managing the keyboards on the other side. These are civil servants operating under pressure, without adequate tools, and without the institutional frameworks that professional communications demands. Empathy, however, must never become an excuse for mediocrity. When I examine our national digital channels through the lens of STEM and digital transformation, what I see is not a talent problem. It is a systems failure. Fundamental errors are slipping through channels that represent this country to the world. Not occasionally. Routinely. This tells me that we're entrusting internet-facing, globally visible communications to teams that have never been given rigorous verification or validation frameworks to work with. We have deployed people without deploying the systems that make people effective. Please take into account what is at stake here. Every post published under a government handle is a permanent digital footprint. It is indexed, archived, screenshotted (like one in this post), and circulated. It is South Africa's voice not only to our citizens, but also to investors, diplomats, and global institutions whose perceptions of us shape capital flows, trade negotiations, and our seat at international tables. We cannot afford to treat that voice as an afterthought. Gulf states do not manage their sovereign oil infrastructure with improvised processes. They build institutions, protocols, and governance frameworks around their most strategic assets. Our national digital presence is no less strategic. However, it would seem to me that it is being managed like a side project. As a citizen and digital transformation scholar, I'm certainly not calling for heads to roll. I am calling for leadership to treat our public sector digital communications strategy with the rigour, resourcing, and architectural thinking it demands. Build the editorial governance frameworks. Establish verification protocols. Invest in people and systems together, because one without the other will keep producing the same results. Our online presence must reflect the true capability and dignity of this nation. We are better than what our digital channels currently show. @dstigovza | @HigherEduGovZA | @DOJCD_ZA | @SAPoliceService | @CommsZA | @sitasocltd | @CSIR | @tiaorgza | @PresidencyZA | @CrimeWatch_RSA | @the_dtic

Does education expansion reduce corruption? Check out our new working paper answering this important question in Vietnam:

@eNCA Vote for representation!

Coloured South Africans were 'not white enough for apartheid, not black enough for democracy'. Ismail Joosub from the FW de Klerk Foundation believes the community has been systematically neglected. Are Coloured people SA’s forgotten community? Tune in to #WeTheNation with @BraDanTMoyane this Sunday at 8pm for more on this discussion. #eNCA #DStv403

@sciencegirl @KhandaniM Too loud. Otherwise, I would have bought three.

The Jetson ONE personal air vehicle. Priced at $128,000

dysfunction in SA. But their illegal entry continues to be aided and supported by South Africans working at key state institutions. So let us not misdirect our anger, instead let us root out all the rot from both sides facilitating illegal migration and its associated crime!

want South Africa to work! That said, we cannot as a country allow regional instability and poor governance to continue unchallenged through diplomacy. Immigrants would never have left if their countries worked for them. They are not the first to flee dysfunction for “better”

One of the few people making sense around this #xenophobia debate. As our former president Thabo Mbeki put it, South Africans have been failed by their own government as far as immigration is concerned, and the few foreign nationals involved in crime with