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Actually, this case is about far deeper issues that most people are not noticing. The government has systematically dismantled education and refused to properly educate and train the black majority. This is not due to incompetence, it is designed to keep the majority uneducated to retain control of the country. This is the latest step in retaining a control. By enforcing repressive race laws, where law firms are forced to not only hire but hand over ownership to people on the basis of race, to members of race groups the government is deliberately keeping uneducated, the government aims to dismantle the legal profession and with it end challenges to its power. This is a watershed moment. The challenges will likely fail and this will mark a point in South African history when we could have changed course to one of real educational empowerment but failed to do so.

A real time case study on systemic racism & how those who benefit from it are opposed to transformative laws. This case is not about the legal fraternity in the broader scheme of thinking, it puts a direct spotlight on BEE measures nationally, on all professions & on employment in general. It subtly highlights how black professionals & in particular black female professionals are starved off opportunities. We have always said that the legal fraternity operates on subtle racism. It comes as no surprise that the big five don’t want to be forced into implementing transformative measures. There is a reason why they hire graduates from so-called “Ivy league” universities. It is a loophole that they have exploited to shrink the pool of candidates to at least suit the kind that they desire the most without it looking like the systemic racism that it is.

It’s sad that it has become acceptable to erase the history and culture of a group of people to “benefit” another. Instead of taking a wrecking ball to the cultural diversity and complexity of South Africa, we could be building new edifices and naming them after historical figures that are culturally important to black people. This fixation on attempting to erase historical figures is sad.

Deputy Chairperson of the South African Geographical Names Council says the SA government only renaming 1500 places so far is "too slow" and promises new laws to accelerate the cultural erasure agenda. How about you build 1500 new places? How about 10? businesstech.co.za/news/governmen…

These tests don’t prove anything. Taking a test to determine whether someone is in cognitive decline associated with dementia doesn’t make sense in this situation. He is not in cognitive decline, this is just who he is. Some people don’t like him. Some even hate him. But it has nothing to do with dementia.

I challenge Donald Trump to take a cognitive test with an independent doctor in front of the entire country. He keeps bragging about these tests so do it in front of everyone. We’ll be waiting!

@RiseAgainstEvil The current government needs to pay reparations to the people it has deliberately failed.

Now that Afrikaners are leaving, it's suddenly the British who owes reparations?! I can't with this failure of a president. 😂😅

@ThatoDM Unfortunately policies like BEE have slowed down the rate at which black people are integrated into the economy.

They say it takes 10 to 11 years for one to make partner. Considering that they have always known this, 50% black ownership should have not been an issue. South African universities produce more black graduates and the firms themselves typically recruit more black junior staff.

The opposite is true. This policy would fundamentally strip away the education and empowerment of the black majority. It has already started and this is simply the latest challenge that will ultimately fail but will represent one of the moments in history where we can identify an opportunity to prevent the ultimate demise of the South African state.

This is not cab rank rule, BEE isn't just a case, its a political program aimed at redressing colonial and apartheid disposession. Nqcukaitobi's opposition to BEE is not just "defending a client", he's weaponizing black expertise against black redress

I didn’t say AA would win or lose. I didn’t comment on whether it is empowered by the Constitution. I actually think that this is doomed to fail and that the Court will rule against the law firms opposing it. That doesn’t mean I think the Courts are correct on the issue. The Courts provide the last safeguard to the people and the economy against oppressive policies. I offered my opinion on the policy as a whole. In my view, it has been a disastrous failure. The government does not mind that failure because they use it as an excuse to double down on the failed policy and the excuse is that it simply isn’t enough time or hasn’t been implemented aggressively enough. The policy is designed to place people of a certain group into positions for which they were not provided adequate or even close to adequate education. I am not talking about people who were living during Apartheid who were kept from education on purpose. I am speaking of people born thereafter who the current government has simply failed to provide proper education. Instead of solving the problem and educating their people, they choose to do the opposite. The policy places them in positions of power and money for which they are simply not equipped. They arrive at a job for which it takes years of education and even more years of experience, getting paid far more money than they would normally and all that happens, speaking from firsthand knowledge of how this goes, is that they are left in their office, idle, and not utilised because they simply cannot do the job. They act as a window dresser without even realising it. This is work for which “on the job” training is simply not possible without the educational foundation. If this is done in the legal profession, the State will achieve a further goal of the anti-education campaign: weaken the legal profession and the system as a whole. To stay in power, a weak government must prevent education and it must prevent effective legal checks and balances. The best way to do that is to feign incompetence, implement policies that provide band-aids for major inequality problems, like BEE, and use them as an excuse to disable the legal system by filling it with people who have neither the education nor the will to challenge the government that put them there. The gradual dismantling and weakening of education and merit is actually what is making inequality worse. The black majority are less educated and less able to coherently combat the government. They are more reliant on the government to get them jobs because the government has stripped them of educational opportunities and now they feel beholden to the government for getting them employment. It is a master class in oppression, but it is awful for the people who will suffer the consequences.

It is the Constitution that mandates policies like BEE and Affirmative Action. Section 9(2) of the Equality Clause requires govt to take legislative and other measures to redress apartheid and ensure substantive equality. The last time a case like this came to court, AA won.

@EarlBrown6969 @VetFather_Bill And abusive fathers get the kids, the house, the cars and everything else. If that’s how you desire to live, the west is not for you. Perhaps Afghanistan is more your speed?

@VanoSequestered @VetFather_Bill They would lose access to the leverage they use for a windfall of money every month. Without the 'slam dunk' that gets them the house, a car, and an allowance to 'maintain their lifestyle', the desire to go to court goes away.

If you honestly wanted to drop the divorce rate, give father‘s full custody. Full stop.

State sponsored, yes. It has little to do with Malema’s favourite buzzword, “capital.” It is not limited to tribalism or black on black hate. It is also not limited to the current government. Malema’s own party sows a similar amount of division between races and is not only more overt, but entirely unapologetic and unashamed about it. Malema often makes good points, but expects it to be applied only to others. A government controlled by his party would implement even more regressive and economically stifling policy.

I agree fully with Julius Malema on this. Do you ⁉️

@Xola_Nqola Sorry Xola. This one is simply not correct. This threatens to undermine the profession and its independence. The ANC needs to spend more time educating the majority to empower them rather than dressing up the numbers with falsely inflated statistics.

We will not backdown in defending transformation of the Legal Sector . The Legal Sector Code is a transformation instrument …⚖️🇿🇦

Evidently they are not opposed to transformation, only policies that seek to inflate numbers artificially to give the illusion of transformation. If they were truly anti-transformation, they wouldn’t have hired black counsel. True transformation cannot be done through forced hiring practices that just make the numbers look better on paper. Transformation is a long term commitment to educational empowerment.

Law firms hostile to transformation using a black senior counsel to argue their case is just insane.

I am sure most of them are quite satisfied with the position of the law firms which is to focus on merit and upliftment through education and achievement rather than a continued drive toward lowering professional standards within the legal fraternity which is eroding the effectiveness of our already strained legal system. Upliftment needs to take place at the fundamental level of education not by creating inflated numbers by placing unqualified people in roles for which they are not equipped. That is a surefire way of perpetuating inequality and keeping the underrepresented from ever achieving equality of opportunity.

So the big Sandton law firms are fighting the transformation agenda in the legal fraternity. What are the black lawyers who work in these law firms saying about this!?

@KhuselaS The picture likely displaying one house and omitting the 1000 empty spaces where the rest were supposed to go before the money was siphoned and stored in the president’s couch.

The #ANCNWC is today visiting Nelson Mandela Bay to assess progress in n key service delivery projects in the Metro. These projects demonstrate delivery against the Loval Government Action Plan launched in October 2025 #YearOfDecisiveAction #FixingLocalGovernment #TransformingTheEconomy

@SAgovnews Ask Russia and China for reparations.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has renewed calls for reparations to address the enduring impact of colonialism and slavery on the African continent, arguing that meaningful redress must support development and economic justice. tinyurl.com/mv287kmt #GovZAUpdates

@Rectificateurs @HellaciousBroad @KristanHawkins Absence of intellect on full display.

@VanoSequestered @HellaciousBroad @KristanHawkins

Abortion doesn’t make you “unpregnant," it makes you the mother of a dead baby.

@KhuselaS Stripped within a month of the elections

Booysens Park Substation is a new state-of-the-art substation being built by the ANC-led Nelson Mandela Bay to service new settlements. When completed and commissioned next year, the substation will serve 6 areas being Joe Slovo, new KwaDwesi, Chetty, Khayamnandi, Bayland, KwaDwesi ensuring security of electricity supply and alleviating pressure off existing stations. The substation is fitted with highly technical intelligent infrastructure, sophisticated security systems and back up systems. Majority of the components were locally manufactured and commissioned #YearOfDecisiveAction #FixingLocalGovernment #ANCNWCVisit

@MbalulaFikile Way to use skewed stats openly. Compare the access of black people now to black people then for a true reflection of increases in access. Don’t include the privileged minority that already had access.

Today I will be visiting the Mabandla and Booysen Substations in Nelson Mandela Bay to assess the progress being made with regards to electricity provision for our people. More needs to be done but progress has been made in this key service delivery priority for our people. #NWCvisitsGqeberha #ANCatWORK

@ConCaracal @NWoodeSmith Give us, give us, give us. Also we hate you and everything you stand for, but give us more so that we can use it to hate you more.

Between 2000 and 2023, Africa received approximately $1.3 trillion in total foreign aid from Western countries. That's trillion with a "T", Mr. multi-billionaire president 💰

@Rectificateurs @HellaciousBroad @KristanHawkins 😂

@HellaciousBroad @VanoSequestered @KristanHawkins The little murderer blocke me because he knows a fetus isn't just a clump of cells. Because according to his lame logic, everyone can then be murdered, since we are all clump of cells.