Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว
Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸
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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸
@AustinMatamela
Political activist. BA Honours in Politics graduate. Philanthropist. Socialist. Generation of Economic Freedom Fighters. Current Masters student at UNISA.
South Africa, Pretoria เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2014
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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว
Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว

All four sons of Imam Khamenei are safe:
The sons of the martyred Leader of Iran's Revolution, Ayatollah Mostafa Khamenei, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Sayyed Masoud Khamenei, and Sayyed Meysam Khamenei are safe from American-Israeli attacks and are continuing to manage the affairs of the families of martyrs and national matters.


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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว
Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว

@MarindaVannoy1 @BredsguardDalen Gal, You need Jesus in your life😎
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@BredsguardDalen I just found out I need glasses because I don’t see shit
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She has stinky attitude, she must be fired right away. She has no respect for the panel
Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧@Sentletse
Batohi has been dragged back into the Inquiry. She refuses to continue testifying. This Inquiry is a consequence of her complaint to the President. Ramaphosa must suspend this woman with immediate effect and institute impeachment proceedings.
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@KingMntungwa BIG NO, that is public drinking and it is an offence under B crime
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@nicknthala @Moyagagabo_HB @EFFSouthAfrica This is why I started by saying I stay away from X by-election banter — because if I do, I’m forced to engage with you, whereas ordinarily, outside X, we are unlikely to meet by any measure. But ke! We are here.
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𝐈𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 (@EFFSouthAfrica) 𝐛𝐢-𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚!
I am not one to engage in this X (Twitter) bi-election banter because of deep insight and the privilege to observe the overall dashboard, not elections resulted posted on twitter by analysts. Am not a denialist either about the ups and downs of numbers. I am data driven on this one.
Fighters, we are studying this animal called elections with serious experts in engineering, data analytics and people trained in intelligence, and I can tell you, relax and focus on your branch.
People get worked up over tweets and screenshots of so-called analysts, without understanding what’s behind those numbers, who pays them, where do they get the time to do what they want and what interest do they serve. Some of the people who comment about elections have not seen how @IECSouthAfrica results dashboard looks like.
You’re told @HermanMashaba and Dudula “winning” because of xenophobia while the EFF is “dying,” but no one bothers to explain how long it took @Action4SA to win even a single ward. The party was launched in August 2020 and only now, 5 years later, did they win their first ward, not in Tshwane, Johannesburg or Ekurhuleni, but a rural ward in the North West aided.
And even that first win was not some organic surge. It was the result of local political trading — Forum for Service Delivery joined ActionSA and tipped the balance. That’s not growth from scratch; that’s acquiring local structures, which am not saying it’s wrong. The EFF, on the other hand, builds its own through its own activists, and community personalities who join, do so voluntarily.
Since 2016, there have been around 900 by-elections in South Africa. That’s nearly a thousand local electoral battles fought outside of the general election cycles. The EFF has contested in almost all of them, unlike parties that choose their fights selectively.
While some parties target specific communities they know they can control, the EFF goes everywhere — urban townships, rural villages, coloured communities, mining towns, traditional areas, and metros. It is a different kind of political work — harder, slower, but more meaningful in the long run.
I have seen and experienced it. It cost money, time, emotions and energy. It's not that nice office I had while I was at the @Treasury_RSA. Here you bump into a fighter who works the whole day, and tell you 7pm that, “by the way Dokotela, I need help, my neighbour came to me last night asking for food, and they will come again today, can you assist them with just meals for 3 days so that I take a break”.
Between 2016 and 2021, the EFF won more than 10 wards across the country through by-elections. Between 2021 and now, the movement has already won again more than 10 wards.
There is no decline, and it comes during a period where the total number of by-elections has actually dropped from 916 to 656. Obviously this is not the growth the organisation want, but don’t behave like the house is burning because of @News24 article. Check what they are writing about General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and tell me type of journalism is that.
So while there are fewer electoral contests overall, the EFF has managed to maintain its level of ward victories, which is what growth and resilience actually look like when you analyse properly and do electoral politics. Herman Mashaba learned very fast that it is not pop corn this thing.
The EFF’s average vote share in by-elections has grown from around 8.8% in the earlier period to about 12% now. That’s not a fluke — that’s a sustained, measurable rise in electoral support over two cycles.
If you look at total votes, between 2016 and 2021 the EFF received about 260 000 votes in by-elections. From 2021 to now, that number is already around 170 000 votes, even with fewer elections and lower voter turnout. That’s an important indicator that support levels are holding firm.
One of the biggest shifts since 2016 has been turnout collapse. Average winning votes in by-elections went down from about 15 900 votes to 9 100 votes. That’s a drop of more than 40%. This affects all parties. It means fewer people are voting in by-elections, not that the EFF is losing voters.
Meanwhile, other parties are playing a narrow game. The Patriotic Alliance (@OnsBaizaNie), for example, won in Swellendam with just over 800 votes in a ward (6) that’s 76% Coloured and 91% Afrikaans-speaking. Theirs is to divide and slander Africans for the sake of electoral victory. They forget that, their children and grand children will inherit this toxic political space.
The EFF fights in difficult territory. Media, white capitalist establishment, established parties, poverty, unemployment, inequality, crime, GBV, etc.
That’s the difference. The EFF doesn’t wait for “friendly” demographics. It contests everywhere — even where it’s unpopular — because the project is long term, not tactical. It’s about building branches, not just winning easy headlines on xenophobia and hatred.
But read this part very carefully.
If the 6 by-elections held yesterday ,for example were the national elections, the results would have been almost identical to 2021. There were just over 34 000 registered voters in those wards. Less than half voted. The EFF received around 1 500 votes, which is about 10% of the vote, mind you, contesting only 4 out of 6. We didn’t avoid Swellendam Ward 6 because it is made up of coloured people, there was a detailed report that showed progress and focus on rebuilding branches, and resources were directed towards that, instead of contesting abuse of state resources.
So when people shout “EFF is dying,” what they’re really doing is repeating Twitter noise without reading the data properly. The numbers show consistency, growth in average support, and a movement that fights in every single ward.
ActionSA has spent five years trying to win one ward. DA and PA focuses on narrow ethnic enclaves. The EFF has contested in hundreds of wards, fought real battles, built real presence, and maintained its ground — that’s the real picture. Taking the ANC toe to toe, with very little media presence.
So fighters must stay calm. The real work is not on timelines. It’s in the branches, in communities, on the ground. Social media is not a battlefield — it’s a distraction.
The real political temperature is felt where people organise, not where influencers farm engagement for payday.
We just thought it’s best we make this modest contribution to the hysteria, although the waters appear to be deeply muddied.
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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว
Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว

Policy vs operation.
Police minister vs SAPS commissioner.
One of the main themes emerging at the #MadlangaCommission.
But this unwarranted confusion - it’s in black and white, after all - isn’t new.
The SAPS has had social workers, school teachers and politicians at the helm - making operational decisions.
Not even as politically-appointed ministers - but to actually lead seasoned officers as national commissioners.
Parachuted generals who had never even earned the rank of constable.
Individuals who didn’t work for their epaulettes - then got to employ whoever they wanted in key positions.
So, let’s be clear - the SAPS problem is bigger than all the names that will be revealed at the commission.
This is just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
And we, the citizens, will continue to pay the price of the bad decisions made by our leaders for the foreseeable future.

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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว

The true follow up story to the Tembisa Hospital looting is how all of us think healthcare workers, who are often under paid, and under appreciated, are responsible for the deplorable state of our public healthcare.
Meanwhile, all along, they too are in majority robbed of much needed resources to deliver quality healthcare by the heartless criminals and the com-tsotsi caste we keep labelling as leadership.
We operate under the false information that our health system is in crisis, overwhelmed and brown. Yet, this crisis is deliberately by vampires, just so they can suck blood out of the sick and the poor for self enrichment!
SOCIETY MUST DEFEND ITSELF!




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@EmmanuelGonquo5 Happy belated birthday CIC Emmanuel and long live✊🏾
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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว

BREAKING NEWS | Acting police minister Firoz Cachalia has accused the SAPS National Commissioner of jumping the gun in relation to the Political Killings Task Team.
He says he is “concerned” in light of General Fannie Masemola’s comments to the media yesterday about the release of the dockets.
Cachalia feels this matter must not be dealt with outside the upcoming Madlanga Commission.
He is now demanding a report on the task team from Masemola.
@eNCA #DStv403

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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว

[BREAKING NEWS] Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia slams Commissioner Fannie Masemola's decision to move 121 dockets on political killings before SAPS inquiry begins.
Tune into #Newzroom405 for more on this story.


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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว
Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว

Proud of these brothers… #MakingEducationFashionable
Well done bafowethu Dr. @mgigaba & Dr. @MmusiMaimane 🎓 🔥


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Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว
Tshilidzi Matamela| South Africa🇿🇦🇵🇸 รีทวีตแล้ว

Let’s go to Cape Town fellow fighters. They believed they buried us alive, but we have risen, stronger and more united than ever before. #KUBO✊🏿

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