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@niehaus_carl @ARETAWantLand Moleketsi Mbeki once said all these elected leaders from different organisations they know drugs comes from Mozambique and South Africa is a market place and they are getting a share out of those drugs that enter our country with the permission

@Zwelinzima1 Which fight have the unions ever won against employers look now how they have changed the situation at work without the unions input but u exist as leader of workers

Austerity, Not Workers’ Demands, Are Undermining Policing in South Africa SAFTU respectfully challenges the assertion by KwaZulu‑Natal Provincial Police Commissioner Lt‑Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that union demands for higher salaries are hampering efforts to fill policing vacancies. This perspective risks distorting public understanding of a far more serious issue: decades of neoliberal austerity and budget cuts that have hollowed out the police service—a crisis that deepens insecurity for all South Africans. 1. Budget Cuts, Not Wage Demands, Are the Real Crisis •According to National Treasury’s Adjusted Estimates of National Expenditure (AENE), the policing budget was slashed from R125 billion (2024) to R113.6 billion (2025)—a staggering 9% real-terms reduction in one year . •SAFTU’s analysis of the 2025 Budget further confirms that, despite a marginal 0.8% increase in non‑interest government spending overall, deep austerity has not been reversed, making the budget cuts structural and sustained. 2. South Africa’s Police Numbers Lag Behind •The South African Police Service (SAPS) currently operates at approximately 1 police officer per 423 people (as of 2023), falling significantly short of global benchmarks . •Other reporting reflects even worse: 1 officer for every 427 citizens noted in the 2024/25 Annual Performance Plan . •The United Nations standard widely cited—and consistently reaffirmed by credible fact-checkers—is 1 officer per 220 people . Our democracy cannot rest on an under‑resourced force whose size is only ~50% of what international standards deem minimally acceptable. 3. The Consequences: Private Security Explodes, Public Sector Collapses •With rising violent crime (averaging 75 killings and 400 aggravated robberies per day), private security has surged: more than 2.7 million registered private guards, now outnumbering police and military combined . This shift underscores a stark reality: only the wealthy can afford protection, while the majority—especially in working-class and informal settlements—are left dangerously exposed. ⸻ 4. SAFTU’s Position: Fully Fund, Staff, and Value the Police Service While SAFTU stands firm in defending workers’ rights to fair compensation, we align with Commissioner Mkhwanazi in his call for a better-trained and better-supported police force. Here’s what must be done: •Urgently restore policing budgets—reverse the 9% cut and scale up to match population growth and service demands. •Fill all funded but vacant posts. Austerity must not continue to hollow out capacity in the name of fiscal restraint. •Provide living wages that reflect the risks and responsibilities of policing as well as the rising cost of living. •Invest in training, tools, and accountability structures, so each officer is equipped, professional, and trusted by the communities they serve. ⸻ 5. Conclusion: Austerity is the Enemy, Not Workers Lt-Gen Mkhwanazi is a respected public servant with the courage of his convictions. SAFTU hopes he will direct his critique toward the real adversary: systemic under-funding and austerity that squeeze public services and leave policing—and democratic security—fragile. Aligned in mission if not in diagnosis, SAFTU and the police must unite to demand adequate funding, proper staffing, and dignified compensation so that all South Africans can live in safety, not fear

@GodPenuel Government must stop make the taxi pay for the routes they are using because they don't subsidised them like they do in buses trains and airplanes even if we had ships they were going to subsidise them, Ubers should be regulated like taxis and be taxed because it's foreign owned

A message to Taxi drivers and Taxi owners. Please help us. Ngicela nidlulise lomlayezo kubafwethu abasebenza emateksini. Ngiyabonga 🙏🏽

@SongezoW91558 @athenkosi591 He have evidence that's why they classified the bank statements. Some of the things they are discussed behind our backs hence Fraser was given a position to be board member somewhere in government

@SongezoW91558 @athenkosi591 Then let Arthur Fraser come forward with his evidence, why NPA doesn't want that to happen something is fishy there th3ynsre hiding from public

"Ramaphosa's time has come to an end shame,he will not serve ways waya. He has served his 2 terms, he has his own skeletons of Phala Phala, we are looking at those things, and we don't have a leadership crisis. " Mbalula has started campaigning to be next ANC President🤧🤧🤣🤧🤧

@News24 @MandaKhoza Iran is South Africa and South Africa is ran

The US government wants clarification on South Africa’s policy on Iran following widely publicised comments from SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya during a trip to Iran. | @MandaKhoza brnw.ch/21wV3eK

@Zwelinzima1 Is dada morero a really from this country we have many ppl in SA who have foreign values and are leading us to the miserable life we are in, taking them out is not tribalism, we know these ppl were install to serve for your interests all those who have interest in illegal aliens

We told you! Afrophobia/Xenophobia, tribalism and regionalism are cousins

@phakxx Numsa was in forefront to get rid of Jacob Zuma tell us the truth who is paying unions to have offshore investment, to take positions in the politics of the country because unions are not for the workers of South Africans but for the globalist and their pockets

@ZizinjaAbelungu @Julius_S_Malema Malema is a foreigner in South Africa

Julius Malema warned you all about these Xenophobic dudula arrangement, that they will one day become tribalistic attacks! They have now started through MK Party in the Eastern Cape with Xhosa people from the Transkei. Calling Xhosa people from Transkei foreigners.

@Miz_Ruraltarain @Ndi_Muvenda_ Eff members will tell u about land issue as if we didn't have organisation advocating for such even Malema once embarrassed PAC for wanting land for the ppl of South Africa I guess some of them were not born when Malema was still anc member, these politicians are working some

Those are not EFF policies.... something apartheid did before ANC collapsed everything. Growing up in Nlystroom, I used to see prisoners doing gardening when we passed by the nlystroom prison. Even bread was sold my areas from prison. They won't even escape that prison. Nlystroom prison was the last number for criminals, they feared it.

This guys is busy getting praises for coping EFF policies, indeed EFF is government in waiting.

@Lebona_cabonena @ChrisExcel102 U will also be supporting Magesi against Sundownsfc

“Goooal!!!! ⚽️ 78’ Titus” Stellenbosch FC 3 - 1 Orlando Pirates ” 😭

@athenkosi591 This one is involved with the corrupt looting happening at Raf with those lawyers the RAF CEO implicated them but they think we are dumb as citizens

We can't let this pass. Who voted for this nonsense? The puppet 🤧🤧😭🤧🤧

@ChrisExcel102 Impucuko niyiwela phezulu ngenyawo ezinodaka

A woman would struggle her whole life… But after getting a torho nyana with minum and wage where she afford to buy that car and that key holder She will start feeling like she’s in a class of Bonang Matheba and absolutely no broke man has right to even look at her 😭😭

@phakxx How much will Numsa be getting out of the negotiation money of helping good year escape their responsibility for their workers they are leaving without notification

@ntsikimazwai She deserve this humiliation, when she was suppose to do the right thing for the country she gave citizens the middle finger all of them these politicians it will end like this look now Senzo Mchunu and that illegal alien Malusi Gigaba anc want to take action against them

Women’s month in South Africa

@IOL Malema was speaking for votes he didn't mean what he said there illegally immigrants are roaming our streets as we speak why they don't take government to court with all the lawyer and money in their disposal these politicians are playing us

Malema urges prioritisation of South Africans in local jobs. #SouthAfricaFirst #LocalJobs #JuliusMalema #EconomicEmpowerment #CommunityEmployment Read on tinyurl.com/s4d7k8vz

@Rolandschoeman @Tshepho88696900 But u went to USA and lied about black ppl taking land from whites u acknowledge there is a process to claim back the stolen land I hope Americans read this from u

You steal pensions, crash the economy, and then lecture about ‘patriotism’? The only thing your party is patriotic about is looting. Spare us the moral theatre, Sinawo, everyone knows you’re just the PR wing for theft.

@ConCaracal @GodPenuel @kalliekriel @dricusduplessis @ufc What is special about white farmers and Afrikaners blacks coloureds die every second in this country do they get special attention no by the way more black farmers and workers get killed than white farmers in South Africa

@GodPenuel @kalliekriel @dricusduplessis @ufc All Dricus did was say that farm murders are a serious issue in South Africa that he thinks deserves more attention on an international stage. Where is the lie, Penuel? You need to pause and reflect on why you demonstrate such an eagerness to excuse and defend anti-white racism.

The fact that anti-Afrikaner racists are celebrating @dricusduplessis’s loss of his @ufc championship confirms that Afrikaners, whites and other minorities are indeed being targeted by some in South Africa. We no longer have to convince anyone in the world of this fact. The anti-Afrikaner racists have now convinced the world of it themselves.

@MbalulaFikile Lindiwe Zulu said the same sentiments why they don't include him because I listen to her in some other podcasts

THE ANC HAS NOTED WITH SERIOUS CONCERN AND DISAPPROVAL THE RECENT CONDUCT AND PUBLIC STATEMENTS MADE BY CDE MALUSI GIGABA AND CDE SENZO MCHUNU

@ntsikimazwai Others get killed by rhinos and injured by elephants we are being protected as South Africans citizens not only by our ancestors but our animals too

This is how SA ancestors deal with the betrayal 😭

@Zwelinzima1 The taxis have every right to fight for what they are paying for our buses trains airplanes even if we had ships government was going to subsidize them like he is doing to other mode of transport what taxis are fighting for is exactly what operations dudula is fighting for us

This is how it started