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@XolsTYQ @TimPlewman You realise that successful businesses get to be so, ONLY because they give better value for money and treat their clients respectfully? In a free market, it is the CUSTOMERS who decide which businesses do this best. Black customers don't like black businesses for good reason.

@TimPlewman Do you realise that most successful businesses in SA are because of black clients. What will happen to white owned companies if we decide to only use black lawyers, black doctors, etc? Saying black people should start their own = black client only use black businesses. Backwards

I don’t mean to sound naive, but what is to stop black attorneys from starting their own businesses and practices?

@IanCameron23 @ParliamentofRSA @CrimeSecurity @CrimeWatch_RSA @SAPoliceService Right there in your list of "parliamentary interrogations", is the PERSISTENT blind spot that YOU and Parliament REFUSE to acknowledge ... Gangsterism is the DIRECT outcome of IGNORING the impact of allowing irresponsible teenage girls having babies 15-20 yrs earlier.

We received a preliminary briefing from SAPS today as the Portfolio Committee begins shaping the Terms of Reference for the Gang Violence Inquiry. The reality is this: Gang violence in South Africa, particularly in the Western Cape, is not new. It is entrenched, evolving, and in many areas, escalating. Independent analysis shows a sustained upward trend over several years, with gang structures becoming more fragmented, more volatile, and more deeply embedded in communities and even state systems. So the key question is not whether we need an inquiry. The question is whether this inquiry will confront the real failures in the system. ⸻ What came through in today’s briefing? SAPS continues to emphasise: • high-visibility policing • arrests and operations • reactive deployments Those interventions have a place. But they are not enough. Even SAPS’ own planning documents show a system still heavily focused on outputs like arrests, rather than outcomes like dismantling organised crime networks or securing convictions. And that is the core problem. ⸻ Gang violence is not just a policing problem. It is a system failure. The policy framework in South Africa is clear: • Crime must be addressed through intelligence-led policing • Investigations must be prosecution-driven • Prevention must be coordinated across government But implementation is falling short. Instead: • Intelligence remains unstable and underperforming • Detection rates for serious crimes remain low • Coordination across departments is weak • Communities remain exposed ⸻ The human cost is being ignored in the system design. Gang violence: • fuels murder and attempted murder • drives extortion economies • normalises illegal firearms • destroys community stability And critically, it erodes trust in the state. Without trust, policing collapses. ⸻ So what must this inquiry focus on? If this is to be credible, it cannot be superficial. It must interrogate: 1. Crime Intelligence failures Why is SAPS still unable to anticipate and disrupt gang activity? 2. Detection and prosecution gaps Why are so few gang-related murders successfully resulting in convictions? 3. Firearm proliferation How are illegal firearms continuing to circulate at scale? 4. Corruption and collusion To what extent are gangs enabled by failures within the system? 5. Inter-agency breakdown Why is the whole-of-government approach not working in practice? ⸻ This inquiry must not become another report that gathers dust. Parliament’s mandate is clear: We are required to investigate, scrutinise, and hold the executive accountable for implementation failures, not just policy intent. That is the standard this process must meet. ⸻ The bottom line Communities living with gang violence do not need another process. They need: • effective investigations • real prosecutions • removal of illegal firearms • and a state that is actually in control This inquiry will only matter if it leads to measurable change. Otherwise, it is just another exercise while people continue to die. IC

@geordinhl @Our_DA @DAGauteng @HelenZille4Jozi @helenzille @DA_NCape @WesternCapeDA @DA_KZN @DA_Mpumalanga @jsteenhuisen @IanCameron23 Yebo! On 4 Nov u gonna be the one getting a surprise! @Our_DA EXTORTION of Ratepayers to hand over 75% of their rates to CHARITY work is NOT sustainable. NO society can be built IGNORING wilful social/civic indiscipline, AND while thinking "endless charity" is THE cure-all.

On the 4th of November, YOU must choose between those who build 🔵 and others who break! ❌

@mornmuis @MarkBrijder @Jarrod_Delport And YOUR "morality" is where ... ?

@MarkBrijder @Jarrod_Delport right next to morality

Local government elections must be about local government. Fix our roads. Stabilise our water and electricity. Service delivery. Get municipalities working. South Africans don’t live in geopolitics we live in communities that need to function.

@alanwinde How about your thieving mayor @geordinhl , & leader of @Our_DA , hosting a "Thank You Party" for the RATEPAYERS of Cape Town ??? You know, the Temu Ratepayers being EXTORTED to work FOR you, so your fat-cat councillors & municipal parasites can buy votes for themselves?

When the call comes, they respond. Every time. 🚒 From Table Mountain to the Overberg, the Winelands to the West Coast - they protect, they serve, they never back down. On #InternationalFirefightersDay, we honour every firefighter in the Western Cape. Thank you. 💙

@alanwinde You need to post the stats from these meetings ... What were main topics? Departmental breakdown? How many were suggestions for improvement? How many were complaints of poor service delivery? What is success rate in fixing complaints? All successes signed-off by complainants??

The energy at First Thursday is unmatched.🤩 WC residents showing up to make their voices heard. Just TWO DAYS until you can too. Our Acting Premier and full Cabinet will be there for one-on-ones. 📅 Thursday, 7 May | ⏰ 17:00-20:30 | 📍 Legislature, 7 Wale St, CPT CBD

@Jonathan_Witt Not even close! Wait until you have a run-in with the @PressCouncil_SA ... the rot in journalism's self-importance, and self-admiration, runs really deep.

You don’t hate the media enough. You think you do but you don’t.

@Newzroom405 Ag Shame! @geordinhl is PERSONALLY sabotaging civic future of the bedrock DA-supporting ratepayer base in Cape Town, and treating them with arrogance & contempt. Only good thing about @Our_DA leadership & policies is Hill-Lewis has early on revealed to CT who he really is.

DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis claims DA ministers are being sabotaged by political opponents amid growing criticism of their performance. He says evidence of the alleged sabotage will soon be presented to the president. Watch: tinyurl.com/ywsz6vd5 #Newzroom405

@MulderCorn OK, Corne ... @geordinhl scored own goal in CT. You should be capitalising on ratepayer anger with @Our_DA and put IMMEDIATE energy into finding a local candidate from the Deep South in CT, that has the charisma to savage DA councillors @FelicityPurcha2 @SimonLiellCock at polls

#eNuusNuweDAPropogandaKanaal Op Sondagaand 3 Mei het eNuus besluit om as hoofnuus ‘n volle 10 minute DA propogandagesprek met Helen Zille aan te bied. Blykbaar is daar geen ander hoofnuus in die hele wêreld nie. Kaapstad is alles behalwe die suksesverhaal wat opgedis word. Gaan vra inwoners gerus self. @eNuus @maroelamedia @IOL @Netwerk24Berig

@Howardsackstein @CommonSense_ZA Are you incensed because they are persuasively on the money? Maybe you should just rebut their argument? Or, therein is the annoying little difficulty fueling your hissy fit?? So many questions ...

What just started as a fairly poor right wing on-line publication has now become a guns for hire PR outlet the Bell Pottinger of 2026 - whose interests are @CommonSense_ZA serving? Are you going to reveal your client or should I?

This deliciously splendid takedown of an overpaid politician, wholly incompetent in achieving the stated aims of her own policies, must resonate with electorates the world over! Substitute your own local windbag here ... In Cape Town that be @alanwinde for @Our_DA Safety Plan

@Nicole_Barlow1 Nope! This certainly part of the problem, but the REAL ISSUE in this modern age is HOW a girl who supposedly doesn't want to get pregnant, winds up getting pregnant when there are PLENTY of contraceptive interventions one can take to prevent this misfortune - even when raped ???

Helen, enough with this PC nonsense. These aren’t “child pregnancies,” like we’re delicately discussing the misadventures of a few naughty girls in Victorian England. It’s called statutory R A P E, and it’s a C R I M E. BTW, would you like to join my campaign to make the sex offenders register public?

@Jonathan_Witt Negligible difference between "businessmen" or "politicians" itr. Both are equally capable of opportunistically displaying a disingenuous lack of ethics to seize slimeball advantage for themselves at the expense of the clients they supposedly "serve". Birds of the same feather!

Has anyone ever worked for a large company which is actually ethical? Over years friends, family, and colleagues have had the most underhanded, dishonest, and treacherous experiences at such organizations. It appears to me that there is no such thing as an honest and sincere business beyond a certain level of size/income because of greed and megalomania. Furthermore the most despicable behaviour, especially at a senior management level, is usually rewarded. Am I too jaded?

@Our_DA What absolute cheek of DA to BS ... "we fight to put money in ur pocket" Thanks ENTIRELY due to @geordinhl sly accounting shenanigans DISGUISING impact of HEFTY rates increase by splitting total rates into a list of smaller amounts in the invoice, I'm now paying EXTRA R400 VAT !

"Fighting to put more money in your pocket." See the DA’s George Michalakis and Dennis Ryder share how the DA fought against VAT and fuel increases to protect public funds and restore failing municipalities. Go to check.da.org.za and register to vote and get South Africa working.

@talkcentss @geordinhl @EarthOddysey The only life skills this lot needs are to be better parents, and not have babies they themselves cannot provide employment for. NOT the state responsibility to pick up the slack for parental ineptitude. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the DA is actively encouraging in CT.

Since you’ve acknowledged that gun violence is out of control and are rising in the ranks of leadership. It’s time to consider military enrollment for the unemployed youth. Teach them life skills and then deploy the army and sort out crime ridden areas and enforcing immigration policies.

No one is above the law! Bringing law and order to South Africa must be our top priority. Gun violence is out of control in SA, so any illegal firearms crime should be taken extremely seriously. I welcome the sentencing of Julius Malema. This is how we must restore faith in our criminal justice system ✅

@NWoodeSmith Perhaps, as chief @Our_DA fanboy, YOU can explain WHY the WC Safety Plan is a COMPLETE FAILURE in achieving its stated goals? This "plan" cost BILLIONS ... wasted YEARS of effort ... would have been better spent on fixing Root Cause driving poverty. DAplan is FRAUDULENT policy!

SAPS is responsible for policing. SAPS is owned by national government. ANC has actively stopped the City of Cape Town from doing what it needs to do to investigate and put a stop to gangsterism.

@CommonSense_ZA This is a shallow nothingburger article! So ... How do we actually fix "poverty" instead? A further nothinburger article - with "full analysis" on that ???

While inequality levels remain high across much of the world, long run data shows that economic growth has coincided with a sharp reduction in extreme poverty. The implication is that focusing on inequality alone may obscure the real drivers of human welfare and economic progress. Read the full analysis in The Common Sense. #TheCommonSense #Economics #Growth #Inequality #Poverty  f.mtr.cool/vvdwltytwg

@chrisw_co_za @uMarhobane Temu voters don't like @Our_DA and @geordinhl STEALING our ratepayer money and giving it away to a GROWING bunch of parasites in order to BUY their votes, & then jacking our rates up again to REPEAT this theft even more again. (yep, that's what taking without permission means)

@uMarhobane We don’t mind you criticising. We do mind when you blatantly lie, create stories and then write them as fact, all that without allowing an opposite perspective. Maybe take this as a lesson for you’re future work

Why not just organise a hit squad and take out all us critics of the party? Save you guys a lot of hassle.

@Paratus2014 The person who should really be explaining himself is @alanwinde ... BILLIONS on ... and YEARS into ... the WC Safety Plan - SPECIFICALLY meant to reign in this prob. This "plan" has been an ABJECT FAILURE! IMHO - nothing less than a deliberate fraud presented as DA "policy".

If the SANDF is making a difference to gang killings in the Cape Flats, it seems rather difficult to see.

@Newzroom405 Burke is getting too far ahead of himself ... He should instead be FIRST paying serious attention to the rates damage his party leader @geordinhl is doing to the traditional DA party supporters in CT. I am NOT voting for a party stealing 3/4 of my taxes to gift to freeloaders.

Newly elected DA federal finance chairperson, Mark Burke says he wants to expand the party’s funding donor base to attract wealthy organisations and individuals. He says this will insulate the party from donors who could stop supporting the DA because they now hold a different view. Watch: tinyurl.com/3hxsy34t