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🚀 HISTORY MADE IN GQEBERHA! 🇿🇦 18-year-old Jessica Thompson broke records at the 2026 SA National Youth Championships. Competing at Newton Park, she set new South African and African records in the women’s 50m backstroke. Jessica finished the final in 27.67 seconds, now holding the African record for both Long Course and Short Course in this event. She has also entered the global top 10 seasonal rankings. 🌟 #TeamSA #ForMyCountry

Dirty cop, dirty tenders? Nkosi, EFF and ActionSA linked to Tshwane tender-rigging news24.com/southafrica/cr…

Cape Town Tourism is calling our valued members to support the next generation of tourism professionals We are currently seeking host employers for 4 unemployed, differently-abled learners who are completing in-service training as part of an accredited learnership programme.

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📰🚀 @News24 On The Record: Cape Town has created 470 000 jobs during my term. Creating jobs requires a government that works. Where roads are fixed, sewers upgraded, water pipes are functioning and electricity access is expanded ✅ Grateful to have joined News24’s On The Record conference to share Cape Town’s progress as South Africa’s leading city! 🇿🇦 @AdriaanBasson

Last week the DA government in Cape Town won an important victory for the autonomy of local governments across South Africa. We have stood up against the endless attempts by the national government to centralise powers and remove autonomy from local municipalities, and we’ve prevailed. This is important for South Africa, because we believe that instead of centralising power, we should actually be decentralising it as much as possible. Some background to this win: The Constitution says that local governments (municipalities and cities) are not mere local branch offices of the national state. They have their own powers, their own elections, their own mandates, and are free to pursue different policies or programmes. And this local policy experimentation is very healthy for South Africa. With this local experimentation, we can find what works and replicate elsewhere, and discard what doesn’t work. But a few years ago, the national government came up with a plan called the District Development Model. This innocuous sounding new “model” was actually an underhanded attempt to centralise power again, giving the national government the power to veto municipal plans and projects. Cape Town lodged a formal dispute on this DDM model, called an “intergovernmental dispute”. We made clear that we felt this was unconstitutional, and that if they did not overhaul it completely, then we would seek to strike it down in the courts. To his credit, Minister Velenkosi Hlabisa, who is the Minister for Co-operative Governance in the GNU, really listened. An overhaul has happened. The new model published respects and protects the constitutional powers of local government, and removes all of the veto powers of the national government. Minister Hlabisa is a former Mayor himself, and cares about the success of local government. He is also from the IFP. I have no doubt that if it were still an ANC Minister in this portfolio, like the former Minister Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma who came up with the plan in the first place, we would never have had this success. We would have won in the end, because the scheme was clearly unconstitutional, but it would have taken a long and difficult fight through the courts. This is a story of how working with like-minded reformers in the GNU, we can change bad ANC policy into much better policy for South Africa’s future. And it is an example of how the DA will always stand up for decentralising power closer to the people whose lives are affected by these services, and will always resist the ANC’s centralising tendencies. businessday.co.za/news/2026-03-1…

🇿🇦How did SAPO go from being debt free with R10,65bn in cash and financial assets in 2019 to writing off R7,4bn of debt in 2024, despite a further R2,3bn capital injection in 2023?!🇿🇦 news24.com/business/econo…

🇿🇦 In SA the political division is between builders and breakers: ✅ Builders make systems work, keep water flowing, electricity on, make it easier to start a business, embrace enterprise. In this environment, economies grow and people get into work. ❌ Breakers leave us with collapsing services, broken systems, corruption everywhere, they focus on grievance, symbolism, while people get poorer 📲 Full article: businessday.co.za/opinion/2026-0…

@GeesusReturns @SupaVanSA @geniusboywonder @CityofCT Why don't you ask the National Dept of Water & Sanitation? It's their mandate and their budget, not the responsibility of local Municipalities. Do you know much it costs to build a major dam and do you expect property rates & tariffs to fund it?

@SupaVanSA @geniusboywonder @CityofCT Where are the new dams @CityofCT

No new dams. Millions more people. You do the math @CityofCT.

@CRangataJ @sizwebanzi @waynesussman @OnsBaizaNie Sure.

@sizwebanzi @waynesussman @OnsBaizaNie 💚💚💚 We know it my leader. We don’t feature in their polls, but their polls don’t contact our people, so they’ll never see us coming until it’s the night of the election.

PA wins ward off ANC in the Eastern Cape W7 (Asherville Aberdeen) Dr. Beyers Naude, Sarah Baartman PA 40% DA 34% (41%) ANC 20% (46%) VF+ 6% (11%) Poll: 61% (52%) PA won 57% of the vote in Asherville, with a 69% turnout there. PA on a big Sarah Baartman roll

VF+ hands ward to PA.

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@AprilSnowGoose @ashtonshudson Yes yes, all that goes wrong is ANC there and blacks...all that goes right is DA and whites...

the only insane thing about this is that 8 years ago cape town got a massive warning for the shortfall in water storage. in the 8 years since, we have built literally 0 new dams. it’s not a rainfall problem, this is a planning problem

Floats lighting up the sky. Firefighters doing push-ups. Harley-Davidsons vrooming. YoungstaCPT on the decks until midnight. Thousands of Capetonians cheering at something spectacular passing by. And not a single ticket is required to be part of it! goodthingsguy.com/lifestyle/cape…

@BogusNguni @ashtonshudson National Dept of Water & Sanitation project to increase the capacity of Clanwilliam Dam. So yes, National Govt can be blamed for delays in the project.

@BogusNguni @ashtonshudson Please educate yourself on the legal mandates of the different spheres of government. The building of dams IS the responsibility of the National Dept of Water and Sanitation, not local municipalities. Do you know how much it costs to build a major dam?

@ashtonshudson @londani_t These projects are now in the procurement phase.

@londani_t it might be necessary to have desalination in cape town because of it’s urban density and distance from major rivers. but major work is necessary — and also major public communication if they are doing work.

@bd_himes @ashtonshudson Municipalities don't have mandate or funding for building dams which is the responsibility of National Govt (Dept of Water and Sanitation).

@ashtonshudson >implying GHL would spend any money on something like that instead of giving it directly to land invaders.

Why the silence on Iran’s brutality, asks economist Iraj Abedian of SA #Echobox=1773749817" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…

Insightful piece by @DumaGqubule And @NeilColemanSA dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

Exciting new content loading 🎥 We’re at 📍Belthorn Primary, where 200 learners receive a meal every single day. Across the province, the Western Cape Education Department provides meals to over half a million learners - daily. #GettingItDone #ForYou