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@amaBhungane Very difficult to convince someone that he's wrong when he believes he is right. Apart from the court case, Treasury needs to wake up as their myopic thinking causes more harm than good and I'm not even speaking about the corruption caused by BBBEE.

@amaBhungane Government believes in adversarial procurement, so the entire system is based on mistrust. Suppliers have long learnt how to manipulate the system to their advantage. On the ladder of procurement evolution, letting accountants manage the process is on ground level.

Just two weeks before the 2024 national elections, Parliament passed the Public Procurement Act, the law governing how public tenders are run. AmaB will be in the Constitutional Court next week, arguing that the process was rushed and unconstitutional because the public was denied a meaningful opportunity to influence the legislation.

@amaBhungane This is precisely why De Ruyter applied for a wholesale diesel permit. The permit would have allowed the procurement of diesel directly from the wholesaler/importer and not through some middlemen that add zero value. That's why they wanted him out.

BREAKING NEWS: Eskom announces disciplinaries against “several employees who breached our procurement processes”, following amaBhungane’s investigation into R21-billion in dodgy diesel contracts.  Eskom says it is not ruling out the possibility that criminal charges will follow: “Due to the suspicion of fraud and corruption, Eskom has reported this matter to the [Hawks],” Eskom said in a statement.  READ amaBhungane’s investigation here:  amabhungane.org/inside-eskoms-…

@HermaineM Eish! Another 30%. Read for comprehension! Or are you getting paid for spreading false information? Scared of Groenewald? More popular than the ANC gangsters?

Pieter Groenewald Is a scam!!! R726.57 for a litre of cooking oil that costs R29.06. 😳

@Lisathe_first Ai, much be hard to the that studip. He EXPOSED the scan!

Peter just broke the myth of Afrikaners and excellent governance. He is buying a litre of oil at 729 rands using government funds. There is no honour in the GNU. They are all thieves.

@athenkosi591 Hey 30%, he EXPOSED the scam. Please read for comprehension.

Their incoming President the racists Peter Groenewald buys fish oil for R 729. Manipulation of prices, Cyril Ramaphosa must fire this man 🤧🤧

@Darth_Martys As long as there are 3 qoutes or if it went out on tender and all the boxes are ticked, the auditors are happy. BBBEE is more important for the cadres than value for money for the state, which is just a milk cow to them to get rich quick withou doing any work.

ANC procurement scandal exposed: Dept of Correctional Services was paying R726.57 per litre for cooking oil... while the market price is R29. Gravy powder? R3,735 vs normal ~R920. For 150,000+ inmates. New Minister Pieter Groenewald just slashed it to R26-R29/litre and is reviewing thousands of dodgy contracts. How much was stolen over the years? Time for full accountability.

@Cardia_79 Baie lekker vleis! Lekkerder as hoender. Maar as jy vir hom 'n naam gegee het, moet liewers nie eet nie, dis hoe my ma vegetarier geword het.

I do understand rabbit meat is healthy etc... But isn't it like eating your pet?

@Cardia_79 Hulle is meer dogmaties as Asterix se hondjie.

Baie interessante gesprek met iemand gehad wat in Orania gebly het. Hulle het basies gevlug... Nothing is ever what it seems

@ASZulu @HermanMashaba Our own Mr. Trump.

The Democratic Alliance deployed you to be its mayor in the CoJ, Mr @HermanMashaba. You were not an independent candidate. You were expected to govern the city in line with party positions and not default to your own separate plan. When the party intervened and attempted to correct this, you became very angry because you are not accustomed to being told what to do. Your background in business partly explains this. You had a plan with Black Like Me, and you executed it independently without being directed or advised. But politics is a different environment, and a party does have the right - and arguably the responsibility - to intervene when a mayor deviates from agreed party positions. This is not racism or an attempt to “puppet-master” you. This is fundamentally a clash between executive business leadership and political party leadership.

@GranNegus @SkyeZedA They employ people but they see it as a side hustle. They are there for the pay, not for the work. Look at what is happening at the Malanga commission, and these are senior people! Government didn't start the industrial revolution!

@SkyeZedA You are wrong the biggest employer is the government how many industries are contracted to fulfil govt contracts and tenders

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but government does not create jobs. The private sector does. Government just needs to stop making it harder for businesses to function, grow and employ people. But they refuse.

@SkyeZedA The ANC will continue along this path as long as they're committed to the National Democratic Revolution which has made South Africa poorer in all aspects. Disappointing that the other GNU partners haven't managed to discard the NDR.

@Cardia_79 Elke jaar kom daar 12 by.

@NiemandAlfonso They perfected the art of doing nothing, accepting zero responsibility and then feeling very proud about it.

I work with govt officials daily, on all levels. Notably at municipalities, they seldom answer phone calls and never reply to emails. Why? If they do, they will have to take action, and they have no idea what to do. So, rather not answer anything. This is the face of BEE.

@Cardia_79 @DStv @DStvCare And then the SMART TV wasn't so smart after all! Have you tried to do a software update? It is on the menu.

So my Sinotec TV is not compatible with @DStv @DStvCare streaming anymore? What's then the use of paying for streaming?

@fastaireZA @ginnydmm The one you dislike the least.

Who you going to vote for? There’s no great choice in South Africa, there’s only terrible, worse than and better than terrible. The DA is doing similar stuff in other places, in Hermanus they over charge the poor and old to subsidise the wealthy in Hermanus Heights, but at least the town functions and there’s a coastal walk path.

*** " I certainly will not be voting for the DA again." By TARA ROOS Parliamentary Writer In Cape Town’s wealthiest suburbs, long considered part of the DA’s most secure electoral base, signs of political disillusionment are beginning to emerge. In areas such as Constantia, spanning wards 62 and 71, a growing number of affluent residents — all of them long-time DA voters — now express frustration not only with rising municipal costs but also with what they perceive as a shift away from their needs and concerns. These wards form part of the DA’s traditional stronghold in Cape Town, where the party has historically secured dominant support and built its reputation for efficient urban governance. It is precisely this history that makes the emerging dissatisfaction politically significant. The DA has retained a clear majority in the City of Cape Town council in recent elections, underscoring its entrenched urban support base. At the centre of the discontent is the city’s evolving rates model, particularly the interaction between sharply increased property valuations and a system of fixed charges tied to those valuations, aspects of which the high court has now declared unlawful and invalid. While the city has reduced the rate-in-the-rand, residents argue that valuation increases — often above inflation — have driven higher overall bills. For many, the issue is not only financial but relational: a growing sense that they are no longer being heard. “The DA unfortunately has chosen the path of least resistance in all aspects of governance,” said one ward 62 resident. “I certainly will not be voting for the DA again." Read more here 👇 businessday.co.za/news/2026-05-1…

@jsteenhuisen How is the production of FMD vaccine going at Onderstepoort ARC?

Good Morning, South Africa 🇿🇦. I am pleased to announce the arrival of another batch of 2 million Dollvet vaccines this morning. As part of my FMD outreach in Mpumalanga yesterday it is encouraging to see our neighbouring countries joining hands with us to protect the livestock sector. We also celebrate International Plant 🌱 Health Day today and I welcome the International delegations from across the world to our country.

Feels like I've missed so much.... What's been happening since Saturday? I missed mother's day as well 😞 I see Cape is going through the mostest.... ❤️🙏

@Markosonke1 Constitution says: Value for money Open and effective competition Ethics and fair dealing Accountability and reporting So where is the value for money and for who? Supplier or state?

🚨📍 WHY BBBEE MUST GO! Here’s the funniest and saddest thing about how parts of BBBEE public procurement works in South Africa. 😭 Government needs to buy an X-ray machine worth around R800,000. But because there may not be a Black-owned manufacturer or supplier with the product directly available, the system sometimes creates a middleman arrangement where a third-party BBBEE company buys the SAME machine from an existing supplier… then resells it back to government for R2 MILLION. So taxpayers end up paying an extra R1.2 million not because the machine improved, not because technology changed, not because service got better… but simply because paperwork now says “empowerment.” How is this sustainable in an economy already struggling with corruption, debt, collapsing hospitals and budget shortages? Real empowerment should mean: • building Black manufacturers • creating engineers • funding innovation • developing skills and ownership Not creating expensive middlemen who inflate prices while hospitals, schools and citizens pay the price. South Africans we must ask itself a serious question: are we empowering people… or just recycling procurement money through politically acceptable channels? 🚨

@Markosonke1 @antman1971 And municipalities.

@antman1971 Now imagine how much state funds are being wasted if this is happening in government departments and in SOEs😭