TomofZAR

The president was right. What type of service delivery would he be speaking about had he avoided the stark reality of better service levels provided in the DA led municipalities - as much as this hurts. A renewed ANC revels in blatant honesty. Unlike the National Party and apartheid privilege parties the ANC has at its very core, the existence of incomparably noble values, morals and principles. Cyril knows this and he knows that these honest admissions have to be made in order for the party to be redeemed. It is refreshing to hear this from leaders of the ANC and this will be the parties saving grace. The Sowetan headline and article reflects the infantile fear of an immature adult about to face a reckoning. One who reacts primitively because like a reptilian, this child adult knows only the laws of the jungle. This is the ANC we want.

Why are politicians leading raids into compliance in the JHB CBD? What are officials (inspectors) who are employed, salaried with a job description and KPI's doing on a day to day basis?

@MbuyiseniNdlozi The exaggerated responses of the defence attorneys should tell you exactly what was going on. Everything was theatre, pure theatre nothing else. Extortionist Mafia Economics 1 - 0 SA Economy.

What an embarrassment to the criminal justice system! Or did the Prosecutor run for his life? Did I miss something 🤷🏾‍♂️

@karynmaughan Get well soon.

On 26 April, I was meant to fly home from Rome after a conference/holiday. Instead, I ended up being taken to hospital in an ambulance and later receiving surgery for a serious medical condition. By God’s grace, I am being discharged this morning. After two weeks in hospital. 1/3

He speaks on behalf of daddy who stutters when he has to make a logically cogent argument. OH' to be loved and admired by your son refusing to carve paths of his own, lest your disabled spear remains on the battlefield. Some say this is narcissistic parenting, 'clipping the wings of your offspring?

Sizwe, you can no longer seriously posture as an “independent political analyst” while functioning as a full-time political combatant for a clearly identifiable factional agenda. For years, critics observed that your commentary almost always bends in one ideological direction: anti-Ramaphosa, sympathetic to the so-called “Radical Economic Transformation” bloc, indulgent toward Zuma-aligned narratives, and relentlessly hostile to institutions whenever outcomes do not favour your preferred side. Many dismissed those concerns as unfair. But statements like “President Cyril Ramaphosa must resign” — absent a criminal conviction, absent an impeachment finding, absent any judicial conclusion of constitutional delinquency — expose the shift from analysis to activism. A serious analyst distinguishes between: • political dislike, • legal liability, • constitutional thresholds, and • evidentiary standards. You increasingly collapse all four into factional rhetoric. What makes this more revealing is the selective outrage. The same circles that now demand immediate resignation spent years rationalising: • State Capture, • attacks on the judiciary, • the hollowing out of SARS, SAPS and the NPA, • open contempt for commissions of inquiry, • and systematic institutional vandalism under Zuma. Now suddenly constitutional morality is discovered. The irony is profound: Ramaphosa presides over a constitutional order in which courts remain independent, commissions investigate freely, ministers are challenged publicly, and even the President himself is scrutinised daily without fear. That is not the profile of a captured state. Your recent commentary no longer reads like detached political analysis. It reads like partisan mobilisation masquerading as intellectual commentary. At some point, honesty requires dropping the “independent analyst” branding and openly acknowledging the ideological project you consistently advance.

Yes, you are correct when you say that South Africans have lost hope. There is however no party in South Africa that articulates the aspirations of the majority as the ANC does. The death of the ANC, if that occurs has the potential to be a disaster. You will either thank the ANC one day for surviving while remaining true to its democratic principles if you don't find yourself in an oblivious comfort zone or you will yearn for the days when the ANC was still around.

@TheProf14370192 @lunietoolz @PresidencyZA Majority SAns have lost hope in the ANC. It no longer represents the aspirations of the majority South Africans. So, its eminent death is something that brings hope of a better future.

WHY PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA MAY CHOOSE TO FALL ON HIS SWORD! There comes a point in politics where the question is no longer only about whether an individual is legally guilty or innocent, but whether the continued presence of that individual in office serves or harms the institution they occupy. That is where South Africa now finds itself regarding President @CyrilRamaphosa and the renewed political storm surrounding the Phala Phala matter. The institution of the Presidency is bigger than the person sitting in it. It carries the weight of national confidence, constitutional authority and more fundamentally the image of the state itself. Once the office becomes trapped in an endless cycle of political contestation, parliamentary battles and public spectacle, governance inevitably suffers. Whether fairly or unfairly, the Presidency becomes consumed by survival rather than leadership. At this stage, it almost no longer matters whether President Ramaphosa believes he has done nothing wrong. Politics operates differently from the courts. In law, guilt must be proven. In politics, perception often becomes reality. Post today's Concourt judgement which will certainly give the impeachment process more momentum, inevitably the issue ceases to be purely legal and becomes entirely political. Every parliamentary sitting, every media briefing and every campaign rally will revolve around the President’s future instead of the country’s future. That is the real danger here. South Africa is entering a heated election period. Opposition parties will naturally use every available platform to weaken both the President and the ANC. The impeachment process, if it unfolds fully, will dominate the national conversation for months. It will overshadow government programmes, paralyse policy discussions and distract the President himself, government work, the Presidency and subsequently the ANC from its election campaign. Instead of speaking about unemployment, service delivery, energy reform or economic recovery, the country will once again be trapped in a political soap opera centred on one man. No President can effectively govern while simultaneously fighting for political survival every day. More importantly, these processes have a habit of taking on a life of their own. Once parliamentary inquiries, investigations and public hearings intensify, embarrassing details whether politically exaggerated or not shall begin to emerge in the public domain. The office of the Presidency risks being dragged through prolonged reputational damage. In the end, even if the President survives politically or legally, the institution itself may emerge weakened. That is why resignation, in certain moments, becomes less about surrender and more about preservation. It becomes an attempt to protect the dignity of the office, stabilise the political environment, protect the country from further polarization and prevent further erosion of public trust. President Ramaphosa has long cultivated the image of a constitutionalist; a public persona of a leader who respects institutions and somewhat places the country above personal ambition. Knowing his political style, it is difficult to imagine him embracing a brutal impeachment battle that would consume both his legacy and his family life. He may very well conclude that leaving office voluntarily allows him to frame his departure on his own terms rather than having events dictate them for him. South Africans have seen this before. When former President Thabo Mbeki resigned, he made it clear that regardless of his personal feelings, he believed stepping aside was necessary for the stability of the country and the unity of his political party. History may yet demand a similar calculation again. In the end, politics is often not about what one can survive, but what is worth the cost of survival, and I personally doubt President Ramaphosa has the political appetite to fight on at all costs.

@tumisole Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma she of the Sarafina Scandal, often referred to as the beginning of the ANC government corruption and protection of comrades?

#CountryDuty #PhalaPhala The Con Court decision today for me goes beyond the numbers in Parliament & the majority games in my view. Should an impeachment hearing going ahead, it’ll open up skeletons that Bathabile referred to: 1. SAPS/IPID: - IPID report found that Rhode( person CR reported to) has a case to answer. - fact that the accused currently facing criminal prosecution were assaulted etc. - who at SAPS or IPID will be called to testify and answer on functions and duties, ref- Madlanga issues 2. The Namibia Trip: - Who authorised it? - Did CR know? - On what Act if any, where they acting? - Was the trip paid for by Taxpayers? 3. Public Protector Report: - Given the overwhelming evidence on this, what did she look at? - Is her decision rational? - Possibility of her coming to testify in Parly 4. Reserve Bank: - Their report and on what basis they didn’t find no breach of exchange controls. - Will the Governor be called to testify? 5. Nkosana Dlamini-Zuma: For effect lol - Why she voted as she did - Respect for the rule of law etc Kuningi & we haven’t started!

I think the president should face the impeachment process head on for reasons that are different. I believe Arthur Fraser abused his position of power and possibly also corrupted the evidence and processes in order to get to a political adversary. He served the interests of the then ex-president Zuma by entrapping the incumbent president to whom (position) he should have been loyal. Many hardworking and competent South Africans have been and are subjected to harsh victimisation through similar tactics used by Fraser. South Africa has been subjected to the brutality of Com-Tsotsis who have occupied senior positions in government and its public service. This president, more than any other, has pulled South Africa from the brink of corruption, malfeasance and impunity and for Madlanga to be consequential we are going to need brave men and women to stand up to the Com-Tsotsis and the shenanigans they have been up to in their various positions of power. Who better than this president to expose the folly of Arthur Fraser's ways in support and encouragement to all the South Africans that have faced persecution and are still to be persecuted in order for us to clean up post Madlanga? The president has to be selfless by using his ANC position to drive the anti corruption and rule of law messages home on its podiums; and invite all South Africans to take up the fight together with the renewal seeking ANC to push back against the Com-Tsotsis. He may even take leave as state president while exposing this rot. Many disgruntled ANC members will return to support an ANC that has the grunt to go with the message of renewal.

If President Ramaphosa goes through the impeachment process, The Governor, SARS Commissioner, Home Affairs, maybe PP, Bejani Chauke, Rhoode, whistleblowers & others will be called. Phala Phala site visits, CCTV footage demand, questions to the Namibian govt etc. Really messy.

@Xerxes_XC @lunietoolz @PresidencyZA ok

Your politics are decontextualised and lack discernment. Do you hope to get another chance to apologise like you did with the way you misjudged Jacob Zuma: Firstly, the President is told by a convicted criminal who is out on appeal to resign - your fellow we will kill for...... Comrade. The President must face the impeachment head on: He can take leave as the President of the country when the hearings begin but not as that of the ANC. From this podium, the ANC president can rally the country to support the rule of law and encourage all law abiding citizens who have information on corruption in the various reaches of government to come forth and expose it. For too long, honest hardworking South Africans were left to the corrupt political vultures put into positions of power by the flawed processes of the ANC. The circumstances today are very different than at the time of the Independent Panel, mostly because different agencies, with much more information than the Independent Panel, have found nothing wrong in the conduct of the president but most substantively because of what is coming out of the Madlanga Commission today. The President's situation aligns with all those who are victims of corrupt and powerful political henchmen who abuse their access to power to drive them out of their jobs; order hits on them and deny them justice in any form whatsoever. For Madlanga to be a success and useful for this country the country is going to need very many brave people to come forth and expose the political henchmen and government officials for the abuse of the positions that they hold. Just as: "All of South Africa being a crime scene"; "All of South Africa needs to be an Inquiry which snuffs out these political henchmen parading in the different organs of our government and its departments." There will therefore be many, many men and women who will face the perils of victimisation for us to cleanse this country and who better than this president to be the symbolic torch bearer of these men and women. A powerful campaign message and appeal to all disgruntled South Africans that indeed the ANC is intent on becoming a force for good. He has to be there to show them the courage needed to face the trickery and set up by the political henchman that Arthur Fraser is and is a symbol of. If this president goes, then the anti corruption fight loses momentum from the top and the vacuum is most likely to be filled by those who have been exposed as having much to answer from the days of Raymond Zondo who will embolden the miscreants still within the system during this Madlanga era to stay put and subvert anything that seems like justice. We will return to the days of accounting to the Com-Tsotis who wear brand name suits and have the Director or Executive pre-fix before their titles. It will be a betrayal of a most definitive moment in South Africa's trajectory and we risk accelerating towards the typical failed African state. The ANC can never allow itself to attract, harbour and breed criminals ever again if it hopes to turn its fortunes around. No amount of shallow bias portrayed as political analysis should go unchallenged.

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT JUDGMENT ON PHALA-PHALA VINDICATES SAFTU’S 2022 CALL FOR RAMAPHOSA TO RESIGN    The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) notes today’s landmark judgment of the Constitutional Court of South Africa concerning the Phala-Phalascandal and the unlawful manner in which Parliament shielded President Cyril Ramaphosa from constitutional accountability. This judgment vindicates SAFTU's position in December 2022, when we called on President Ramaphosa to resign following the explosive revelations about the concealed foreign-currency theft at his Phala-Phalafarm. At the time, SAFTU warned that the scandal represented not merely an isolated controversy, but a profound constitutional, political, and moral crisis exposing: • the abuse of parliamentary majorities to shield executive power, • the selective application of accountability, • the erosion of institutional credibility, • and the dangerous normalisation of elite impunity. Today’s Constitutional Court judgment confirms that Parliament acted unlawfully and inconsistently with the Constitution when it blocked the Section 89 impeachment process despite the independent panel finding prima facie evidence that the President may have committed serious violations. This is a devastating indictment not only of Parliament’s conduct, but of the broader political culture that has emerged within sections of the ANC leadership and the state apparatus. SAFTU warned in 2022 that the Phala-Phala scandal would become a defining symbol of institutional decay if constitutional processes were manipulated to protect political power. That is precisely what has now been confirmed.   The central issue has never been merely whether money was stolen at a farm.   The real issue has always been: • why enormous quantities of foreign currency were allegedly concealed at a private residence; • why ordinary disclosure, banking, and accountability standards appeared not to apply; • why parallel security operations allegedly occurred outside normal legal processes; • and why powerful institutions moved with extraordinary speed to politically neutralise scrutiny rather than uphold public accountability. Ordinary South Africans were expected to accept as normal the existence of hundreds of thousands of US dollars hidden in furniture at the private property of a sitting President. Workers, unemployed youth, grant recipients, township residents, and poor communities know very well that had an ordinary citizen been found under similar circumstances, the full might of the state would have descended immediately upon them. Instead, what followed was a coordinated political defence operation involving sections of Parliament and institutions that appeared more concerned with protecting the Presidency than defending constitutional accountability. Today’s judgment, therefore, raises serious questions about the extent to which institutions of democracy and oversight have become compromised in defence of political power. SAFTU reiterates its grave concern regarding the role played by: • the South African Reserve Bank, • the Office of the Public Protector, • and other institutions that ultimately found little or nothing fundamentally wrong in circumstances that shocked millions of ordinary South Africans. Today’s Constitutional Court judgment has now shattered whatever credibility remained in those findings. The Public Protector and the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank cannot simply continue as though nothing has happened. Their handling of the Phala-Phala matter has profoundly damaged public trust in the impartiality, independence, and integrity of institutions that are supposed to defend constitutional governance without fear or favour

The President is told by a convicted criminal who is out on appeal to resign. The President must face the impeachment head on: He can take leave as the President of the country when the hearings begin but not as that of the ANC. The circumstances are very different than at the time of the Independent Panel, mostly because different agencies, with much more information than the Independent Panel, have found nothing wrong in the conduct of the president but most substantively because of what is coming out of the Madlanga Commission. The President's situation aligns with all those who are victims of corrupt and powerful political henchmen who abuse their access to power to drive them out of their jobs; order hits on them and deny them justice in any form whatsoever. For Madlanga to be a success the country is going to need very many brave people to come forth and expose the political henchmen for the abuse of the positions that they hold. Just as we say that all of South Africa is a crime scene; all of South Africa needs to be an Inquiry which snuffs out these political henchmen parading in the different organs of our government and its departments. There will therefore be many, many men and women who will face the perils of victimisation for us to cleanse this country and the president is symbolic of these men and women; and he has to be there to show them the courage needed to face a set up by the political henchman that Arthur Fraser is.

Forward ever, backwards never, the center holds!

The President is told by a convicted criminal who is out on appeal to resign. The President must face the impeachment head on: He can take leave as the President of the country when the hearings begin but not as that of the ANC. The circumstances are very different than at the time of the Independent Panel, mostly because different agencies, with much more information than the Independent Panel, have found nothing wrong in the conduct of the president but most substantively because of what is coming out of the Madlanga Commission. The President's situation aligns with all those who are victims of corrupt and powerful political henchmen who abuse their access to power to drive them out of their jobs; order hits on them and deny them justice in any form whatsoever. For Madlanga to be a success the country is going to need very many brave people to come forth and expose the political henchmen for the abuse of the positions that they hold. Just as we say that all of South Africa is a crime scene; all of South Africa needs to be an Inquiry which snuffs out these political henchmen parading in the different organs of our government and its departments. There will therefore be many, many men and women who will face the perils of victimisation for us to cleanse this country and the president is symbolic of these men and women; and he has to be there to show them the courage needed to face a set up by the political henchman that Arthur Fraser is.

The Phala Phala judgment is a landmark moment for presidential accountability; a severe and fatal blow to Cyril Ramaphosa; and a resounding win for the EFF and ATM. Accountability is alive and well in the Republic! 🇿🇦

The President is told by a convicted criminal who is out on appeal to resign. The President must face the impeachment head on: He can take leave as the President of the country when the hearings begin but not as that of the ANC. The circumstances are very different than at the time of the Independent Panel, mostly because different agencies, with much more information than the Independent Panel, have found nothing wrong in the conduct of the president but most substantively because of what is coming out of the Madlanga Commission. The President's situation aligns with all those who are victims of corrupt and powerful political henchmen who abuse their access to power to drive them out of their jobs; order hits on them and deny them justice in any form whatsoever. For Madlanga to be a success the country is going to need very many brave people to come forth and expose the political henchmen for the abuse of the positions that they hold. Just as we say that all of South Africa is a crime scene; all of South Africa needs to be an Inquiry which snuffs out these political henchmen parading in the different organs of our government and its departments. There will therefore be many, many men and women who will face the perils of victimisation for us to cleanse this country and the president is symbolic of these men and women; and he has to be there to show them the courage needed to face a set up by the political henchman that Arthur Fraser is.

Justices Kollapen, Mathopo and Tshiqi say Chief Justice Maya and her fellow justices wrote their expression of anger. They are angry that the National Assembly didnt impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa Kollapen says there is nothing wrong with the rules of parliament and decision taken by ANC members Maya was annoyed by that decision. Hence they penned the judgment they did with Rogers, Madlanga & them #PhalaPhala

The President is told by a convicted criminal who is out on appeal to resign. The President must face the impeachment head on: He can take leave as the President of the country when the hearings begin but not as that of the ANC. The circumstances are very different than at the time of the Independent Panel, mostly because different agencies, with much more information than the Independent Panel, have found nothing wrong in the conduct of the president but most substantively because of what is coming out of the Madlanga Commission. The President's situation aligns with all those who are victims of corrupt and powerful political henchmen who abuse their access to power to drive them out of their jobs; order hits on them and deny them justice in any form whatsoever. For Madlanga to be a success the country is going to need very many brave people to come forth and expose the political henchmen for the abuse of the positions that they hold. Just as we say that all of South Africa is a crime scene; all of South Africa needs to be an Inquiry which snuffs out these political henchmen parading in the different organs of our government and its departments. There will therefore be many, many men and women who will face the perils of victimisation for us to cleanse this country and the president is symbolic of these men and women; and he has to be there to show them the courage needed to face a set up by the political henchman that Arthur Fraser is.

The reality is that Cyril Ramaphosa will not survive an impeachment process, even if ANC MPs hope to vote against it at the end. An impeachment inquiry will open the door to public scrutiny, cross-examination, internal records, witness testimonies and evidence being placed before the nation, for all to see. This is precisely what the ANC tried to block through its unconstitutional 2022 vote against proceeding with the Section 89 impeachment process. The independent panel chaired by former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo did not make final findings against Cyril Ramaphosa. It merely found that there was sufficient prima facie evidence for Parliament to conduct a full inquiry. But the ANC understood that the danger was never only the final vote! The danger was the public scrutiny itself! The hearings, the evidence, the witnesses, the cross-examination, and the exposure of internal conduct before the people of South Africa. That is why institutions like SARB, SARS and IPID were pressured to suppress, classify or withhold information connected to the matter. The objective was always political containment! To prevent the full story from ever being publicly ventilated. The inquiry will be a public crucifixion of both the President, and the ANC. #ConCourt #ThankYouEFF

The President is told by a convicted criminal who is out on appeal to resign. The President must face the impeachment head on: He can take leave as the President of the country when the hearings begin but not as that of the ANC. The circumstances are very different than at the time of the Independent Panel, mostly because different agencies, with much more information than the Independent Panel, have found nothing wrong in the conduct of the president but most substantively because of what is coming out of the Madlanga Commission. The President's situation aligns with all those who are victims of corrupt and powerful political henchmen who abuse their access to power to drive them out of their jobs; order hits on them and deny them justice in any form whatsoever. For Madlanga to be a success the country is going to need very many brave people to come forth and expose the political henchmen for the abuse of the positions that they hold. Just as we say that all of South Africa is a crime scene; all of South Africa needs to be an Inquiry which snuffs out these political henchmen parading in the different organs of our government and its departments. There will therefore be many, many men and women who will face the perils of victimisation for us to cleanse this country and the president is symbolic of these men and women; and he has to be there to show them the courage needed to face a set up by the political henchman that Arthur Fraser is.

@SmilekeeperSA @Zwelinzima1 The worst unfairness is the rise of elites who don't add any value to the production process but scheme the cream off the top.

@TheProf14370192 @Zwelinzima1 advanced. That said remove human nature, and the corporatisation of life and the union and employer associations will not need to exist. So long as these persist, the corporate and or political negotiation will be a group project.

Don't tell any honest South African that this pillaging is only happening in Tshwane and Ekurhuleni. The President must make the Madlanga Commission a permanent anti-corruption body, as recommended by the Zondo Commission, which visits every municipality, department, including SETAs, and union investment companies.

He understands very well but comes from the generation which gives their own meaning to anything. The result of over-accommodating parenting and schooling. He can't understand that long before he was born there was the concept of conflict of interest and he can't give the concept his own meaning. He indicates an unease and hence he did some huff and puff. He can't name the unease by name and act on it because he doesn't have conclusive proof. When he gets locked up before the end of the commission he truly won't understand why. I guess the panel that interviewed him for the CFO positions were mesmerized by how he turned their questions into those he was comfortable with and then aced the answers. Poor incompetents.

I don't know whether Mnisi is young, immature, unprofessional, or just simply corrupt. He does not understand the meaning of Conflict of Interest, in the case of being friends with Sergeant Nkosi, and his brother's company bidding for a tender which he, as Chair of the Bid Adjudication Committee, would be adjudicating on. He didn't see a need to declare that friendship. The Chair and Commissioners are gobsmacked. His explanation is that he had assisted Ngaphesheya with a Tender document for another municipality which he can't remember, when he said to them "we need Grade A guards". It's that "we" again. 🤦🏽‍♀️ #MadlangaCommission

The world is generally not fair. This is just another ruse sold to gullible people. What value does the union leader add to the production (wealth creation) process in a company. So a union gets formed to represent a consenting adult in the workplace. The employer, joins an Employer Association, which represents him / her in negotiations with the union. This Association also doesn't add any value to the production process but now you have just created two elite groups who are ostensibly negotiating on behalf of those who actually create value. What do you think these elites extract in comparison to those who add value through the production process (Boss and Employees). I suspect they extract and take the cream off the top. So can we agree, based on this scenario that life is not fair.

@TheProf14370192 @Zwelinzima1 Not to be a difficult, but I find it very hard to swallow your statements. I agree with half of them only because the world is a real place and no utopia free of the flawed human. “No boss will dismiss you if you add value”, tell it to the private sector whistleblowers whose

What you call safeguards are abuses of the system by persons who benefit as spokespersons. It is an incompatible system because it has bastardised common sense. This is the common sense: We are employed because we have value to add. So is the delivery vehicle and any other material resource. Unlike material resources and finances in a company, human resources are dynamic. Finances and material resources are only as valuable or useful in as far as the dynamic human resource is able to deploy these for the benefit of the business. Squandering, misusing, stealing and incorrectly deploying material resources can only be at the behest of the dynamic resource. No boss will dismiss you if you add value. So the issue of unfair dismissal shouldn't arise. It's a well constructed but farcical argument and therein lies the failure of leftist economics.

@TheProf14370192 @Zwelinzima1 And what would your practical safeguards for unfair dismissals be?