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@sandileswana ANC is obsessed with Communist Central Command and Control instead of just letting the market free. You cannot legislate an economic boom but you can just step out of the way.

We need to unite around policies that create full employment, 30 to 40% Gross Fixed Capital Formation, aggressive industrialization, and innovation driven grass roots economic development. Our outlook as a nation must be one of rapid economic development and modernization.

Why did I flee South Africa and seek asylum in America? Because when they attacked my cousin Deon and his wife and two daughters, I knew I had a target on my back and I was next because of my skin color. Shot through the head, urinated on and burnt with fire…Miraculously he is alive! God is Good Thank You @POTUS and @elonmusk

@sandileswana Why then with all this unused land, you want to take white people's land?

In Africa and in South Africa relative to our avaliable land we are relatively under populated. We also have the largest amount of underutilized arable land relative to known abd mist suitable potential. We have the largest number of underdeveloped rivers and freshwater sources. The best labd is not allocated to the best purposes. We also have not taken advantage of proven technologies to improve the carrying capaciry if South Africa and Africa. You've highlighted a significant paradox that defines much of the current economic discourse regarding both South Africa and the broader continent. The gap between potential resources and actual productivity is a central challenge for development. The Continental Perspective (Africa) Your observation about underutilized land is backed by significant data. Africa is home to approximately 60% to 65% of the world’s uncultivated arable land. Despite this: African Development Bank Group Net Importer status: The continent imports billions of dollars worth of food annually (estimated at $50 billion or more) that could theoretically be produced locally. Water Wealth: Africa has abundant untapped freshwater resources and underdeveloped river systems, yet only a small fraction of its potential for irrigation is currently utilized. Yield Gap: Cereal yields in sub-Saharan Africa average around 1.2 tonnes per hectare, significantly lower than the developing world average of 3 tonnes per hectare, largely due to low fertilizer use and limited access to modern technology. African Union The South African Context The situation in South Africa is slightly different due to specific climatic and geographic constraints: Limited Arability: Only about 13% of South Africa’s land is arable, and unlike much of the rest of Africa, almost all of this is already in use. Water Scarcity: While the continent has "underdeveloped rivers," South Africa is a water-scarce country where water availability is a major limiting factor. Only about 10% of its arable land is currently under irrigation. Land Use Misalignment: As you noted, the "best land is not allocated to the best purposes." There is increasing competition for high-quality land between agriculture, mining, and urban development. In some areas, productive agricultural land is being converted into built-up zones due to ineffective land-use management. Barriers to Improving Carrying Capacity To bridge the gap between "potential" and "carrying capacity," several systemic bottlenecks must be addressed: Technology Adoption: There is limited access to modern tools, precision farming, and climate-smart irrigation that could increase yields. Infrastructure: Inadequate roads and storage facilities lead to significant post-harvest losses. Financing: Financial institutions are often hesitant to invest in small-scale or developing farmers due to perceived risks.

My vision for Britain is basically the economic and demographic model practiced in Orania - an Afrikaner only self-sufficient settlement. It allows trade and tourism with the world but no permanent settlement or even short term work permits for outsiders. H/T @AkkadSecretary

@gndzongana Nobody is coming to save you.

Johannesburg deserves a visionary, young, energetic, witty, jovial, distinctly African, and progressive leader who will channel his or her energy into turning the city into a dynamic global powerhouse, a safe, vibrant 24/7 metropolis with zero unemployment, reduced crime, and a thriving local workforce that owns its future. A truly eco-friendly and people-friendly city that respects the human rights of all.

@Our_DA Charging rate payers differently for the same service is not honest at all. If you want to start a charity do it on your own dime.

📌 Our plan is shaped by honest governance, restoring reliable basic services, ensuring safer communities, and delivering growth and more jobs for all. The DA has a proven track record of delivery to get Tshwane working. 🔴 Watch live: youtube.com/live/E2hRvQ9wd…

@kimheller3 Looter continuer.

#WorkersDay A L U T A CONTINUA

@SATechExplored Keep them hoping in vane. Give them bread and circuses.

And this is my point !! This is municipal elections ... so it's a little different .. but still ... what is the fucking point of it all.... I can vote for 5 different parties ... none of them can run a local government ... no matter who I vote for ... it'll be a shitshow ... what is the point ! ?

On the 4th of November 2026 we are expected to vote yet again ... What are we expected to vote for exactly? For the next fever dream in our municipalities so it can just be the same shitshow over and over again !? What's the point of all this ? Why do we keep doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome? Is this not the definition of insanity ?

@daddyhope Your own country is a cesspit, go and spend your energies there instead of chimping out in SA.

You are mocking and celebrating the demise of the EFF, which stands for black economic emancipation after centuries of imperial rule, yet you remain silent about white parties and organisations like AfriForum that perpetuate politics aimed at keeping you poor under colonial conditions. It says a great deal about you. A black man celebrating the demise of a black voice fighting for black emancipation in 2026? Yoh!!!

@Our_DA You are starting to alienate your voters, are you betting on who is going to blink first?

Nearly 1 in 3 South Africans who want to work cannot find a job. That is the reality under ANC governance. The DA-run Western Cape has an unemployment rate of 18.1%. The national rate is 31.4%. Good governance produces real results for working people. Where the DA governs, more jobs are created for all.

@SATechExplored As of early to mid-2026, South Africa has approximately 508 to 540 registered political parties with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)

@SATechExplored It is one huge cluster fuck. "

@EzradeWitt @geordinhl @CityofCT Bus lane in the far right is completely mental.

@geordinhl @CityofCT I recently went to Singapore and Japan, both have arguably some of the best public transport systems in the world. Their bus lanes are on the left side of the highway/street lanes. Why is Cape Town’s N2 bus/taxi lane on the right? Surely that’s an easy fix.

It remains my firm belief that Cape Town only works when it works for everyone. Our goal will always be to invest in the infrastructure that makes our city functional, and delivers more dignity to more people. Cross-subsidising – where the better off among us help to fund services for the less fortunate – is the most equitable and sustainable way to ensure a working city of hope for all. The ruling does not change the current 2025/26 tariff structure and budget which remain lawful and applicable until 30 June 2026.

@Zwelinzima1 You are one of the architects of the situation we are all in. You made this bed now sleep in it.

Twist our words. Misrepresent our position. Call us whatever names you want. Accuse us of things we have never said. It changes nothing. We will never under any circumstances stand with a xenophobic agenda that turns the poor against the poor while the real architects of poverty, unemployment, inequality and criminality walk free. We know what it means when mobs take the law into their own hands. We have seen it before - the humiliation, the terror, the burning of homes, the destruction of lives in broad daylight while the rule of law collapses. That is not justice. That is a descent into barbarism. We refuse to celebrate that. We refuse to be silent about it. We refuse to normalise it. Our country was not built on hatred. It was built on struggle, on solidarity, on the belief that an injury to one is an injury to all. When we allow violence against the most vulnerable, we are tearing apart the very fabric of our democracy. We will not be part of turning South Africa into a skunk of the world again, a place feared by the world and unsafe for its own people. We will stand, firmly and unapologetically, for humanity, for justice, and for the rule of law, no matter how loudly we are insulted for it. These videos do not represent us - we are ashamed!

@geordinhl @CityofCT This is communism. You are sounding too much like the ANC/EFF crowd. No thanks.

@eNCA Making more laws will not improve things. Minimum wage being one. Actions have consequences.

This International Workers' Day, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, is calling for swift action against employers who hire undocumented migrants. The ANC Limpopo chairperson said employing undocumented migrants is a criminal offence and a breach of the country’s labour laws. Tune in to #eNCA, channel #DStv403

@Julius_S_Malema All thanks to you numb nuts.

Gone are the days when Zimbabweans came to SA to find jobs. Now they come to have kids so to benefit from social grants

@MYANC All ANC does is talk platitudes, endless embezo's and talk shops. Your uneducated voters lap it up praying that you are their saviours. ANC voter nobody is coming to save you, you are on your own.

It’s official, today the President announced 04 November 2026 as Election Day. The ANC calls on all South Africans to unite behind a movement committed to the realisation of a better life for all as we head to the polls. #VoteANC2026 #YearOfDecisiveAction

Thirty-two years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa is a warning the West refuses to hear. In this video, @FreyaThinks breaks down how a country that had every opportunity to become a beacon of racial reconciliation descended into corruption, crime, and decline, and why the same ideas driving that collapse are spreading through Western institutions right now.

@MbalulaFikile Where did the ANC suddenly get funds from then? If you do not declare this, any claims to the contrary remain true until otherwise.

[WATCH] ANC INTERVENTIONS IN DEALING WITH CORRUPTION and MISCHARACTERISATION OF THE ANC AS A CORRUPT PARTY. There are people who accuse the ANC of receiving monies from Iran and they have never produced any evidence. They even wrote to the US with regards to this without any evidence. No shed of evidence was produced to South Africans about this allegation. Botha Sigcau burned down and the organisation was accused, again with no shed of evidence. Because the end goal is to mischaracterise the ANC as corrupt. The ANC government has created laws in this country to deal with corruption including not allowing civil servants and politicians to do business with the state, the ANC has created the Special Investigating Unit. The SIU is a creation of the ANC. The SIU has uncovered billions which have been taken from the public purse. Some people who have been accused of corruption we removed them who were involved in Asbestos scandals. When the SIU arrests them it’s the SIU and not the ANC, even though it’s a creation of the ANC. Many people with respectable positions in the public service have been arrested because the ANC strengthened state institutions. We have seen ANC Ministers and MECs being accused of corruption when the corruption was done by the civil servants and now when the DA Minister Siviwe is in the same position the media remembers that ministers are far from procurement. The media praises her, something we have never seen. There are ANC ministers who have acted on corruption and they have never gotten a headline because the ANC must go down with the image that it’s corrupt over though it has acted. #ANCatWORK