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@elonmusk It is a key factor that most tend to ignore when addressing poverty. If the poor keeps on multiplying at increased rates by definition poverty will escalate accordingly and no amount of employment equity / job creation initiatives will be able to counter that in the long run

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@MbalulaFikile Strange how one tend to project others as the mirror of oneself

Here is the letter written in 1987 by the man that Trump has made his ambassador to SA. It would seem that he is an unrepentant racist and a pathological hater of Black liberation.

@BafanaSurprise Please try to do an honest comparison and not a bias political manouvre. Johannesburg rates are about 0.95% of property value and Cape Town is 0.72% which equates to +/- R950 pm on property of R1.5m for Jhb and R895 pm for Johannesburg. @Our_DA @MYANC @Action4SA

Guys we need to declare war against the DA! This is bad! Our enemies in this Country are the EFF, DA and ANC.

@HermanMashaba Your once sober reasoning collapsed into complete and utter crap and misleading political hypocrisy / to buy votes from the illiterate and uninformed. To argue the wall wish to promote unequal development is not promoting a good perception of your intellect. @Action4SA @Our_DA

An average South African is not having it easy in Cape Town. The agenda is to keep poor people out, hence even now budgeting to build wall to hide them instead of addressing the inequalities.

@geordinhl While the main content of the response is sober and accepted - it is a dissapointing shock to see that even you - from whom we least expected it - fell to the level of so many others - and start insulting one who differs from you. Unfortunately you ruined our respect for you

I see ‘Temu Terreblanche’ is at it again! 🙄 South Africa will never be truly prosperous unless each person has at least a modicum of dignified living, and the hope that life can get better. In Cape Town, we are trying to demonstrate just that. We still have lots of problems, but we’re working, growing and steadily succeeding. 🇿🇦💪

@HermanMashaba True

Let me add something fundamental here. Children of politicians and their families are not just employed or have businesses, they are employed in strategic sectors of government and big business because of their close relationships and proximity to big business. When they run businesses, they are involved as Tenderpreneurs, facilitating tenders in government and or involved in big businesses to manage government/business relationships. Have you heard of new positions created after 1994 - “Government Relations”. Check it out. Ordinary South Africans with no connections, they are on their own. The GNU was formed to protect these relationships and system.

@MbalulaFikile Indeed an example to be proud of. It could really get us on track if only we were able to properly implement it in it’s true spirit without manipulating it to the advantage of some. @MYANC @Our_DA @FreedomCharter4 @elonmusk

New York City's New Mayor made reference to our Leader, President Madiba and the Freedom Charter, in his Inauguration Speech as a basis to answer the question, who the City, he now leads, belongs to (all who live in it) What a moment in history and an affirmation of the collective wisdom of our people, whose blood, sweat and tears, was the ink which wrote the Freedom Charter

@SABCNews 3) High poverty levels exist in SA and we must note Blacks represent 82% of the Middle class and 58% of the rich - yet they still benefit from BEE instead of the poor. We need Radical Economic Transformation to benefit the poor - not the rich elite. @Our_DA @MYANC @elonmusk

WATCH | Reflecting on the spirit of reconciliation, Rev. Frank Chikane says the privileged must sacrifice to uplift the disadvantaged and tackle unemployment and poverty, stressing this is vital for South Africa to move forward.

@SABCNews 2) The privileged population of South Africa is a) 40-50% Blacks b) 30-40% White c) 10–15% Asian and 8–12% Coloured. The privileged black population however still benefit from BEE and high jack benefits intended for the poor. It must be stopped. #BEE #Poverty @MYANC @Our_DA

@SABCNews @MYANC @Our_DA @Action4SA The privileged black population grew from 4% to +/- 25–35% ie +/-15m; - 3x times the white population. These privileged cannot continued access to BEE privileges that high jack benefits from the truly needy.. They should equally be required to share their wealth. #poverty #BEE

@SABCNews Correct! - but remember those privileged are no longer only whites. We must empower the poor - black or white. The privileged black that already benefitted from BEE can’t continue to still benefit - instead of the truly needy. #reconciliation #BEE @MYANC @Our_DA @Action4SA

@sandileswana Try to explain your logic!

@coyewsa Apply your mind plz. Do not just shoot from the hip.

Everyone in RSA must vote for any party or candidate they support for any reason. Voting is about taste or preference, not necessarily rationality or superior performance. Taste!!. Now, do not insist that your preferred party or candidate is objectively the best choice. Just say you like them. That is okay. Do not fake superior performance plz, superior performance is measured by StatsSA, Auditor General even by SIU sometimes not by you.

@RediTlhabi Debatable - but there might be a glimmer of hope it’s a genuine proposal and attempt to reach out to understand the other side. If so- well done. If one look at the appointment of the National Dialogue Steering Com it is however clear there is no real desire for Reconciliation

Fellow South Africans, I'd like to start a debate. But I am nervous. I feel very strongly about my argument yet I can spot the MANY holes in it. If I were in my high school debating team and someone argued what I'm about to argue, I'd easily dismantle their stance in 3 minutes. So I'm aware of the shortcomings of my proposition: Here it is: I think @CyrilRamaphosa must visit a few Afrikaans communities; go and worship at an NG Kerk, attend a kunstefees, go for a walk in Ventersdorp, buy some produce at a farmer's market, attend a prize giving at a hoer skool; and talk to people - parents, children, workers. I think he should create a moment of tenderness, connection, and talking. It's not an election campaign. Just a moment to say "We must rise above..." Why? 1) By cutting and pasting from the MAGA script, Afriforum & Solidarity HAVE become the fringe! They have also miscalculated and not fully considered the transient and volatile nature of US power dynamics. Today's political moment is not durable. 2) Afrikaners who don't support this moment may be feeling unmoored as the backlash unfolds. Credit to South Africans as the backlash has been against Afriforum, Solidarity, racists and "Amerikaners." That must continue. These racists must NEVER have our hate and undo all the work that has been done. But it is very possible that the current moment may leave some communities feeling like there will be no place for them once the storm has passed. Or feeling like collateral damage of something they didn't support. Cyril can just be visible to those communities because even if they never vote for him and his party, he is their president and they are South Africans. He must go and sing My Sarie Marais is so ver van my Hart..."buy some koeksusters, have some pootjie kos and be with them. It isn't pandering to white fragility. It is marking a specific geopolitical moment that is being exploited and causing a painful chasm domestically. It is signalling that the binaries are unequivocally: "lie vs truth," ..."racism vs anti- racism." It is a loud but tender affirmation that we ALL belong and can navigate political differences without hate. It is telling the lunatic fringe that they don't get to tell South Africa's story. PS - Solidarity and Afriforum don't get to request private meetings with the government so they can "explain" and cleanse their image whilst publicly continuing their BS. They don't get to play South Africans like that. The government must go talk to other Afrikaners.

@GaytonMcK What is the most fundamental building block for a Hierarchy of Reconciliation for South Africa - raise you voice and vote!

Inclusion is not something to fear, Die Stem was included in The National Anthem, I am basically asking for us to worship & celebrate together, the name is Reconciliation after all. We can’t fake reconciliation, we do it correctly or we should admit that we are unwilling to make it work.

@GaytonMcK @MYANC @Our_DA Whatever building blocks are agreed upon for a Hierarchy of Reconciliation - note, one cannot contravene a lower foundational level value later on to enable another higher level value /principle. That would break the foundation of the structure #reconciliationday @MYANC @Our_DA

@GaytonMcK We must create a hierarchy of key values for Reconciliation that all agree too. Pres. Ramaphosa regards Restitution and Equality as the foundational building blocks? Will it work - or is Non-racialism and non-discrimination the key principles? @MYANC @Our_DA #Reconciliationday

@GaytonMcK @MYANC @Our_DA The ANC Freedom Charter is a valuable basis for an agreement on a Hierarchy of values for Reconciliation - but its debate whether the ANC and Government actually still adhere to those fundamental principles?

@sandileswana @TaraBull Please again - try to be objective however hard, and don’t only confirm your own bias perception. Arabs, Europeans and Blacks themselves were heavily involved in slave trade for Centuries. Slavery existed in Africa long before foreign involvement. @anc @Our_DA #slavery #racism

@GaytonMcK Don’t think anyone object to celebrating reconciliation together - but no black will agree to stop celebrating the liberation - neither will any true Afrikaner stop honouring a vow to God for victory in a war. @MYANC @Our_DA #reconciliation