The Aquarian

🇿🇦Why pay taxes to thieves⁉️ .....The government admits we lose R300-billion a year to corruption, but our finance minister wants to increase taxes on an already overtaxed middle class to raise R60-billion over the next two years. We have 28 million citizens receiving social grants, costing us R293-billion per year. We have 32% unemployment, our pass rate is 30%, there are close to 70 murders EVERY day in our country and our growth rate is 1.1%. How dare this government demand more from us? Around 3.3 million South Africans are paying 99% of all income tax and receiving very little in return... It is time for a middle class revolution.

Minimum was increased two months ago, People were started to feel like they are experiencing a breakthrough, turns out a big storm was headed our way. South Africa sold its oil reserves in 2014/2015 that could have gave a relief to South Africans, from paying an arm and a leg for Petrol, Diesel and Food.

This is Eskom's Wilge Residential Village. Nine apartment blocks, 336 units, built with public money. Close to a biillion rand for a place that was never lived in... #CarteBlanche @LourensaEckard

Prof Somadoda Fikeni on #TheCMShow tells me that South Africa is dealing with a Political economy of inefficiency. “And that inefficiency is by design. It’s a multi billion industry. It’s deliberate”-Prof Fikeni.

ENERGY & WATER SETA BLEW R58m OF PUBLIC FUNDS ON A BUILDING THAT WAS NEVER USED SINCE 2014 (ANC again ) More than R58-million in public funds has been lost on an unused building bought by the Energy and Water Sector Education and Training Authority in 2014. Despite years of spending, investigations and criminal cases, no one has been held accountable. (Daily Maverick)

The reason millennials are so nostalgic is that they got a brief taste of a world that wasn’t entirely controlled by the stupidest people who’ve ever lived.

The problem with Julius Malema and many other politicians is that they hate rage they cannot control. They want to have a monopoly on mobilising poor people and getting them to fill up stadiums and the like. They want to tame, control, and then unleash the rage of poor people at their convenience. As soon as poor people organise themselves without their permission and express their rage, they become xenophobic thugs and all manner of unsavoury things.

The ANC doesn’t want South Africans to be rich, unless they’re cronies or paymasters. It prefers a deindustrialised, squalor-filled failed state because a destitute population is easier to control than an educated, prosperous middle class.

Did you know? During COVID19 preparation, ANC ministers and their close friends stole R500 million in less than 3 months.

At the beginning of April, my car cost ~R1800/tank After the April increase, it went up to about R2600-2700/tank On Wednesday once fuel goes up, it will cost me over R3000/tank. I use at minimum 2 tanks a months (after I pay my dad's weekly fuel to fetch the boys from school every day). I have to make adjustments to my budget to afford this. I cannot imagine the folks that don't have the budget for this.

The ZAR has lost 75% of its purchasing power in the last 25-26 years. R25.50 in the year 2000 has the same purchasing power as R100,00 today. You’d actually need around R392 in today’s money to match R100 back then.

Mr Herman Mashaba, with all due respect sir… you are the last last person who should be giving lectures about Johannesburg’s crumbling infrastructure 😩 You had THREE years in power, THREE and we were promised decent housing, potholes fixed, hijacked buildings reclaimed… basically Joburg 2.0. So quick question: what exactly happened? Because the potholes are still here, the buildings are still hijacked, and the only thing that seems to have been upgraded is the speeches 😏 Now suddenly it’s “our roads are embarrassing”… oh, now we’ve noticed? During your term were they on vacation or what? It might help to reduce the talking just a little, especially when elections are around the corner because the memory of residents is not as short as politicians hope 👀

KNOW WHY ELON MUSK REFUSED TO MAKE CYRIL RAMAPHOSA MORE BILLIONAIRE. Forbes estimated Ramaphosa's net worth at roughly $450 million (R6.4 billion) as of 2015, making him one of the wealthiest democratically elected leaders globally . He built this primarily through Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) deals rather than founding operational businesses. His investment vehicle, the Shanduka Group (founded 2001), held stakes in mining, McDonald's South Africa, MTN, Coca-Cola bottling, and other assets before he divested upon returning to politics Economist Dawie Roodt has argued Ramaphosa "did not start any businesses" but became rich through "all kinds of black economic empowerment deals"

Blaming white people for sponsoring xenophobia is no surprise, coming from people who also blame them for politicians looting national resources. This is an old, tired African script, no one comes close to this level of deflection. Accountability doesn't exist in Africa.

As South Africans we must never allow politicians to divide us.

1. If we think getting rid of ANC will solve everything, we wrong. It's going to take decades to fix what they destroyed. Yes all the physical infrastructure, roads, water, electricity needs massive amounts of resources & money and effort.

The big change (like a switch in the economy) was in 2007, when the NPA dropped the charges against Zuma for political expediency. From that point, politicians (in the ANC connected inner circle) have been given impunity. Corruption shifted from skimming in the shadows to wholesale plunder in the open. What followed was the destruction of the police (especially investigative capacity), destruction of the NPA, breakdown of the judicial system (especially the magistrate courts) and oversight in general. The effect on the economy by the 2007 NPA decision was hidden by the 2008 global financial crisis but the SA economic underperformance from that time has been catastrophic. Especially in unemployment and poverty levels.

🚨 SOUTH AFRICA ON THE BRINK OF CHAOS – THE ANC IS LOOTING EVERYTHING BEFORE THEY FALL‼️ South Africa, our hearts are burning with fear and righteous anger as we face this time of terrifying uncertainty‼️ We watch in utter horror as this ANC government, after 33 devastating years of corruption, chaos and betrayal, is frantically looting everything in sight before 4 November 2026. They are stripping our nation bare, stealing the future from our children, destroying our economy and leaving families broken and desperate while we stand here powerless and furious🔥 After all the suffering they have caused, those responsible must finally be held accountable. Prosecutions must begin immediately, the death penalty must be reinstated and many of the guilty must be hanged for the crimes they have committed against every single one of us‼️ But the question that haunts every worried citizen is this: Will our military, with its 400+ generals clinging to their lucrative salaries and comfortable positions, stand with the new constitution and the democratic will of the people or will they betray us all and attempt to overthrow the government, just as we have seen happen so many times across Africa⁉️ And what about the corrupt police minister and his officers in Gauteng and across our country⁉️ Will they finally do their duty and protect the people or will they continue shielding the very criminals who have ruined our nation⁉️ This is the make-or-break year for South Africa. It will either make our country 🇿🇦 GREAT AGAIN, restoring hope, justice, safety and prosperity for every family or it will completely destroy our democracy, our economy and every dream we still hold for our children‼️ The ANC government has pushed our beloved country to the edge of the abyss🔥 and we cannot allow them to steal our future and destroy our any longer. We need to stand together and demand the change our people desperately need 🌱🛩️

Our ministers ride fancy cars, supercars, their bank accounts are loaded, their children and family members hold party after party, they fly in first class, they sleep in fancy 5-star hotels. But what worries me is that the departments they hold are dying, and the finances are collapsing. If they can handle their personal finances so well, why are they failing in their portfolios????