David Jeffery-Schwikkard

Building more houses will reduce prices in Cape Town, but not nearly by enough. iol.co.za/news/politics/…

Look, I know this is poor form but can someone please pat me on the back for this.

👋 @geordinhl I've been trying to work out how you calculated that 75% of your infrastructure budget 'directly benefits lower income households' I have the extracts you sent to @AfricaCheck + your full budget, but I just can't see how you worked it out. Can you please share?

On the side of a busy street in Khayelitsha, Simon runs an unexpectedly criminal enterprise: a black-market barbershop. My article in @GroundUp_News on the policing of informal businesses in South Africa. groundup.org.za/article/how-in…

@CPHAirports @fleuralsx Hi @CPHAirports, is this still true?

@fleuralsx Hi @flearalsx 😊🌍✈️ You can find a printer in Terminal 3 at the Service Information desk. Best regards Andrea/CPH

@CPHAirports hi! are there printers at the airport? :))

South Africa Twitter - Does anyone have statistics on how many parents have been convincted of corporal punishment? I can only find the case in Centurion from last year.

Original article in @PandRJournal #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Here is a puzzle. People in sub-Saharan Africa tend to be *twice* as religious as the rest of the world, yet countries in the region provide *half* as much state support for religion. Why? Hint: It isn't about state capacity.

I've moved over to the other social media site (uh, the one with a colour in its name). I've made a 'starter pack' there of accounts that cover SA politics. Come join and be part of the list!

@WhatsApp - can't reach you online. Is your website down?

@Lynette_SA Also: Island of Ireland and British Isles.

The difference between The United Kingdom, England and Great Britain still confuses me 🤯

😂 @sthembete we have been given a mandate

My key worry about constituency systems is still (a) that their main argument is local accountability, but (b) unless you increase the number of MPs, you have 150,000 - 300,000 people per MP, which defeats the point. And increasing the number of MPs is🤢.

My ignorance @Tessa_Dooms @Themb_Mazi! I hadn't realised that in MMP, list MPs could be used to *entirely* counter-balance the distortion of FTFP - my apologies. My original🧵was meant as an exploration of MK's support, but I spoke too confidently about MMP.

@davidjefferySA That is true. The alternative of expanding the size of the National Assembly would of course be immensely unpopular with everyone except the prospective MPs.

@adrianfrith Super interesting! Thanks for sharing. My worry with a mixed system is that it means constituencies need to be huge, which then dilutes the value of a constituency system. For 200 constituency seats, that's 300,000 people per constituency MP.

I've updated my imagined demarcation of South Africa into 200 single-member constituencies for 2024. Interactive map with more data at constmap.frith.dev Blog post with explanation at adrian.frith.dev/single-member-…

@uKhanyiMlambo Shows what I know

@davidjefferySA Nope, it’s a Nike Windbreaker with buttons.

I like this. Minister of Sport - not just a focus on semi/professional teams, but also general health and wellness. Although a marathon with a month of training... we might have a new min soon. [...also I have no time for @GaytonMcK's ill-informed, inhumane xenophobia, etc.]