Richard Spoor

@Richard_Spoor74k followers

Is a public Interest lawyer with a special interest in land reform, mines and communities and compensation for occupational diseases. Militant non-racialist.

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1	Mar 27, '23	My only nephew and his small family on their way. It is South Africa’s loss and New Zealand’s gain. Makes me very sad. ☹️	247×	3M	3.2k	244	87
2	Jan 12, '24	Well, that was a very impressive and dignified response by Israel. The confidence we had coming out of yesterday’s hearing has pretty much evaporated. It does appear that SA’s case	55.6×	685k	2.3k	379	315
3	Aug 5, '20	A terribly sad story. Two young and idealistic lawyers, get wrapped up in the BLM protest movement. In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov cocktail into an abandoned police ca	46.2×	0	11k	2.9k	433
4	Jul 25, '23	The Presidency has confirmed that at the time of the alleged assault, the Deputy President’s vehicles doors were shut and the engine and air conditioning were running, so he could	42.4×	523k	976	350	36
5	Jan 26, '24	This is not an order that Israel can refuse to comply with. Beautifully finessed, a diplomatic masterpiece. The level of consensus among the judges of the court is extraordinary. A	36.1×	445k	1.6k	373	53
6	Jan 26, '23	Oh dear, did we annoy the US by cosying up to Putin and endorsing his imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine? Did government imagine that their would be no consequences?	32.5×	400k	1.9k	491	36
7	Apr 6, '23	How is this even possible?	30×	370k	918	283	22
8	Mar 26, '23	A nation of thieves.	28.8×	355k	1.2k	255	23
9	Sep 2, '25	Zama Zamas mining for gold at Pilgrims Rest. 👍	28.7×	353k	2.4k	633	235
10	Jan 2, '25	Stilfontein update. We know there are about 700 people trapped at 1700m below ground at 11 Shaft. The police have prevented community volunteers from lowering food and water to the	26.8×	330k	1.4k	216	142
11	Apr 13, '25	This is the National Organiser of the EFF. Tells you all you need to know about that party; pig ignorant bigots, thugs, wannabe tyrants and despots. They have no place in South Afr	26.2×	323k	2k	906	163
12	Mar 20, '23	The EFF came out in their numbers in Mbombela today. ✊🏽	24.3×	299k	1.8k	285	5
13	Aug 18, '23	It is best not to fix the railways because that would be bad for the trucking industry, says Transnet CEO. Like decent public transport is bad for the taxi industry, and piped wate	22.1×	272k	2k	706	33
14	Nov 1, '24	Not only is the Mpumalanga High Court, completed in 2019 at a cost of R1.1 billion (twice over budget) the worst designed high court building in the country, it has also just been	20.4×	252k	1.7k	686	203
15	Feb 26, '23	Nothing going on at Kusile, it is broken.	15.4×	189k	1k	303	9
16	Dec 27, '24	News from South Africans who are farming in Mozambique, large scale looting is taking place, many have had to abandon their farms and flee.	14.3×	176k	1.5k	493	83
17	Feb 19, '23	We ought to be clear on a few things: 1. Foreigners did not cause the failure of Eskom and other SOE’s. 2. Foreigners are not responsible for the state of our roads, rail and harbo	13.6×	167k	1.4k	278	16
18	Jun 16, '23	The Minister of Defence, Ms Thandi Modise, has assured the Polish authorities that there is “fokol” in these SAA cargo containers headed to St Petersburg. ✊🏽	13.2×	162k	985	181	6
19	Apr 15, '23	I don’t understand it. The saboteur De Ruyter has gone, the new Minister of Electricity has spent a month touring every power station in the country, to motivate the workers and to	11.7×	144k	1.6k	358	2
20	Jan 11, '24	Evidence that the SA complaint before the ICJ is effective.	11.4×	140k	1.3k	318	43
21	Mar 23, '23	Fellow knows nothing about the business of Eskom, even less about electricity generation. Starts his term of office with a walkabout tour of the power stations, chats to the worker	9.9×	122k	1.3k	249	5
22	Apr 10, '23	Level 5 load shedding used to annoy me, but now that I understand, as the Minister of Electricity has explained, that it is caused by Eskom’s failure to generate enough electricity	9.2×	114k	1.1k	115	4
23	May 11, '23	You get stupid, you get very stupid, very very stupid, and then you get the decision of the SA government to supply arms to Russia. ✊🏽	9.1×	113k	1.4k	241	7
24	Aug 7, '23	The way to offset the legacy of apartheid spatial planning is to provide cheap and efficient public transport. Unfortunately the taxi bosses are having none of that, they burn buss	7.4×	91k	1k	269	7
25	Aug 8, '23	Here is a plan. Stop issuing new taxi licenses. Reduce the number by half over the next 5 years to give a municipal bus and train service a chance.	7.1×	87k	1.2k	173	4
26	Mar 18, '25	South Africa has gone from one of the best mining jurisdictions in the world to among the worst in less than three decades. As a result, South Africa now has 6,152 abandoned mines	6.4×	79k	1k	438	53
27	Feb 24, '23	I would really like to see a documentary that gives us a glimpse into Cyril’s day to day life. Leisurely breakfasts, mid morning tea and scones, luncheon prepared by a top chef, a	6.3×	78k	931	135	1
28	May 5, '23	Pravin has been Minister of Public Enterprises for the last five years. It has been a catastrophically bad time for public enterprises. The fact is that the man is a completely use	6.3×	78k	1k	251	2
29	Jul 30, '25	SARS couldn’t work this out themselves and no bank reported it. FICA doesn’t work when it comes to top ANC cronies.	6.1×	75k	1.5k	394	16
30	May 30, '24	The best election news up until now is the EFF’s dismal performance. I can’t help myself from laughing. 😆	5.5×	68k	1.4k	138	18
31	May 12, '23	I must be honest, on these cold dark winter evenings, when the power is out, it is really hard to maintain one’s good spirits. Then, when the darkness and despair sweeps over me, I	5.2×	64k	934	114	2
32	Mar 8, '24	All our SOE’s lie in ruin, my work here is done.✊🏽	4.5×	56k	1.3k	352	7
33	Jul 25, '25	I trust that there will be consequences for the criminals and police who facilitated the fake charges against Sarah.	4.1×	51k	2.2k	565	39
34	Feb 26, '24	The world’s most mediocre man. ✊🏽	3.9×	48k	1.1k	194	9
35	Feb 23, '23	The casual matter of fact acceptance, at the very highest levels of government, that ANC ministers and their cronies will take a cut from any moneys allocated to address the energy	3.7×	45k	947	206	6
36	Nov 8, '22	The pool that the eThekwini Municipality built for R15 million.	3.6×	0	2.2k	1.1k	17
37	Jul 24, '20	I am pleased to confirm that it’s true that Minister Mantashe is/was being treated in a public hospital. He is setting a great example.✊🏽 The Hon. Gwede did get a bit of a fright	3.4×	0	3.4k	522	10
38	Oct 19, '21	Client, a young woman, is hijacked, driven about in her car for hours, viciously beaten and forced to draw money from an ATM. Locked in a room overnight she manages to escape in th	3.3×	0	1.3k	1.2k	47
39	Aug 6, '20	Yo, people are harsh. So many supporters of hangings, amputations and lengthy prison sentences. Me, I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. I have d	3.2×	0	867	66	8
40	Jan 23, '23	@NOELreports On behalf of all South Africans I apologise for the fact that our government invited the war criminal Lavrov to this country. It has brought great shame on us. We are	3.2×	39k	877	136	3
41	Feb 18, '25	First time that I see the ANC government referred to as an “ ethnonationalist gangster regime ”. It does have a ring to it. 😐	3.1×	39k	944	205	21
42	May 8, '23	Our very good dog Laika passed today. Never a kinder or more lovely soul.	3.1×	38k	1.1k	20	2
43	Aug 7, '20	A former CEO of PRASA who was fired after bumping up his own salary from R1.3 million to R5.9 million per annum is going to head up the embattled RAF. This bodes well.	3.1×	0	1.4k	1.1k	12
44	Jan 29, '25	There is nothing a deployed ANC cadre can’t fuck up. ✊🏽	2.9×	36k	1k	278	12
45	Aug 19, '25	The ANC really cannot help itself anymore. The rot permeates everything. Corrupt from the top to the bottom. There is no rescuing it.	2.9×	35k	1.1k	415	25
46	Aug 6, '20	Most people, even good ones, do something stupid sometime. When that results in the ruining of their otherwise good and productive lives, it’s tragic. I have seen it many times. In	2.8×	0	930	90	11
47	Sep 7, '20	Clicks will get their interdict this morning, if the haven’t got it already. It won’t stop the riot but it will ensure that the CIC and his party pay a heavy, heavy price. If thing	2.7×	0	2k	413	4
48	Jul 7, '22	Bheki Cele’s father was “a senior Induna at the South African Railways”, his mother died when he was only 9 months old. Why did the minister feel the need to lie about his parents?	2.7×	0	2.1k	597	16
49	Sep 17, '25	“Mkhwanazi says the motives for political killings are usually tenders. Officials were targeted for not granting tenders. Families of municipal managers or officials were attacked	2.7×	33k	1.4k	376	17
50	Jan 27, '20	Zweli Mkhize has appointed his neice as Chief of Staff in the Department of Health. This after she was implicated in steering loans ofR6 billion to her lover and taking large kickb	2.6×	0	1.4k	878	4
51	Jan 5, '22	Fired as DDG for stealing 3 tons of abalone and rehired to a top position as head of a department five days later. The ANC cannot be redeemed, it is rotten to the core and it has n	2.6×	0	1.7k	764	9
52	Sep 18, '22	The collapse of Eskom is no different to the collapse of the policing, health and education systems, except that it feels more real and immediate, the lights go off and the factori	2.6×	0	2.1k	643	12
53	Oct 1, '20	60% of all tax revenues go to pay the salaries and perks of 1.2-million public servants, they comprise a mere 2.2% of the population. Whose interests does the state serve?	2.5×	0	1.7k	679	15
54	Apr 30, '20	We stand to lose between 3 and 7 million jobs yet NDZ’s priority is to stop us smoking, Bheki Cele’s is to stop us drinking, Ebrahim Patel’s is to stop e-commerce, Kubayi-Ngubane’s	2.2×	0	1.4k	645	13
55	Jun 29, '20	Today I advised a client, whose elderly parent died of Covid 19 to draw down her modest savings before the bank learns that she has died. I told him it wasn’t strictly lawful but t	2.2×	0	1.8k	408	59
56	Dec 30, '20	Funny how good the SAPS are at enforcing lockdown regulations but how bad they are at dealing with real crimes and corruption.	2.1×	0	2k	373	1
57	May 22, '20	A person can’t help wondering what goes on in the mind of a person who imagines that she and her colleagues are entitled, based on their personal whims, to decide for 30 million ad	2.0×	0	1.6k	486	1
58	Oct 2, '20	In this difficult and challenging time, my thoughts are with the virus	2.0×	0	1.6k	367	5
59	Oct 13, '20	I learned this evening that my youngest son Matthew got the job! He is going to Antarctica as resident engineer on the SANAE base. I am so pleased and so proud. ✊🏽	1.9×	0	2.4k	71	1
60	Jun 11, '25	Gwede, your work here is done. You have successfully cratered the SA mining industry.✊🏽	1.9×	23k	998	285	13
61	Jan 18, '21	Between them SAB and Consol have scrapped R7.5bn in investments because of the liquor ban. How detached, aloof, smug and self righteous do you have to be, to be indifferent to the	1.9×	0	1.4k	466	6
62	Mar 24, '20	Try spending three weeks at home if you are living like this.	1.9×	0	1.1k	553	6
63	May 13, '21	Grateful for the opportunity to have been able to spend some time in conversation with former President Zuma.	1.8×	0	1.5k	224	9
64	May 1, '21	Dali Mpofu finally won a case on behalf of a client who starved her workers and her farm animals to death.✊🏽	1.8×	0	1.5k	335	3
65	Apr 24, '21	My neighbour is a water engineer. He has just come back from a three year stint in the Cook Islands helping improve water infrastructure. He went because he can’t get work here; he	1.8×	0	1.2k	381	4
66	Apr 5, '20	Bheki Cele’s statements about alcohol and crime and his statements that he wishes alcohol could be prohibited even after lockdown suggest that he is using the lockdown to achieve o	1.7×	0	1.4k	369	5
67	Jul 3, '21	The Constitutional Court’s handling of the Zuma matter has been a comedy of errors. First, after Zuma ignored a summons to appear before Zondo, it permitted the Commission to appro	1.7×	0	1k	482	44
68	Nov 14, '22	A warning to pit bull owners and the owners of large and dangerous dogs in general. If your dog attacks and maims or kills anyone, you are strictly liable for the harm caused. You	1.7×	0	977	586	23
69	Jun 28, '21	”It is truly an incapable state. It can’t fly an airline, deliver a letter, fill a pothole, pick up litter or mow the lawn. It can’t provide water, oxygen, personal protective equi	1.6×	0	1.3k	386	13
70	Dec 12, '21	Spent the last four days travelling the back roads of North West and Northern Cape, now in the Western Cape. The difference is striking. Small towns in the NW and NC are dirty and	1.6×	0	1.4k	339	3
71	Jul 3, '21	Someone should tell Bheki Cele that the fact that the ConCourt has agreed to hear Zuma’s application for rescission, does not suspend the order of imprisonment and that he must sti	1.6×	0	1.3k	346	4
72	Sep 8, '22	@Africa_Archives The diamond belonged to the owner of the mine, where it was dug up. It was purchased by the SA government and donated to Edward VII. Elizabeth II inherited it. It	1.6×	0	1.5k	109	31
73	Nov 9, '21	Covid deaths are stable at around 20 per day, murders are at 60. Where is the emergency?	1.5×	0	1.3k	359	4
74	May 11, '20	About 301,000 people fell ill with TB in South Africa in 2018 resulting in 63,000 deaths. TB spreads the same way Covid-19 does and the disease disproportionately targets the poor.	1.5×	0	947	490	12
75	Apr 14, '22	Now the bricks under the M2 are being stolen. We are an enterprising nation if nothing else. ✊🏽	1.5×	0	892	407	8
76	Mar 2, '22	It was a toy gun says Julius. Seriously dude! Take responsibility for what you did. It’s one thing to put the State to the proof of their case, it’s another thing to flat out lie.	1.5×	0	1.2k	248	1
77	Oct 19, '21	The hijacker visits her at the police station to threaten her further and to demand her bank card pin. Police try to extort money from her, telling her to give them money if she wa	1.4×	0	965	425	2
78	Apr 29, '20	The 5 km and 6-9 am jogging rule is based on the latest scientific research. Scientists warn that if people run further or exercise in the afternoons millions will die.	1.4×	0	1.2k	256	6
79	May 12, '20	Anyone notice how the President and his ministers never subject themselves to questioning by the media over lockdown or anything else. It’s only ever briefings and set speeches. We	1.4×	0	1.2k	275	2
80	May 19, '20	Some times I just lie on my bed and wonder how 60 million South Africans allowed themselves to be subjected to a night curfew, so that its a crime for them to leave their homes at	1.4×	0	1.1k	278	3
81	Apr 8, '22	Xenophobia suits the ANC government very well. A narrative that foreigners are to blame for poverty, unemployment, urban decay, corruption, drugs, crime, a declining health service	1.4×	0	1.1k	371	4
82	Apr 26, '20	Anyone who believes that a curfew, enforced by police and army, is an appropriate response to a health emergency has little respect for themselves and non for their fellow citizens	1.4×	0	1.1k	295	1
83	Jun 1, '20	Police in the US (population 328million) kill about 1000 people per year. Police in South Africa (population 59 million) kill about 500 per year. This means that pro rata our polic	1.3×	0	949	365	3
84	Oct 24, '22	Every time I am pushed off the road by a howling convoy of traffic police, black BMW’s and Merc’s I am reminded how arrogant, entitled and obscenely privileged the ruling political	1.3×	0	1.2k	223	0
85	Jul 15, '21	It’s pretty amazing how the taxi mafia are able to mobilise a more effective response to the looting and unrest than the SAPS.	1.3×	0	1.3k	197	1
86	May 26, '21	The case against Zizi Kodwa is a lot stronger than the case against Jacob Zuma.	1.3×	0	908	359	7
87	Jul 12, '20	If you want to see your parents or relatives during lock down please arrange to meet them at the movies, a restaurant or at church. It’s a crime to visit them at their homes.	1.3×	0	1.1k	275	2
88	Sep 9, '21	Another interesting case, a single man dies, his rather messy and complex estate is worth R40 million. 12 years later the executors, lawyers, curators, trustees and sundry legal pa	1.3×	0	916	298	48
89	Apr 18, '20	When there is no law that prohibits you selling prepared food or cigarettes, but you face arrest and the confiscation of your property if you do. Then you must know that our democr	1.3×	0	1k	321	3
90	May 5, '20	Good news smokers, cigarettes are pouring across the Mozambique and Swaziland borders as fast as you can bribe a customs officer. Soon at a dealer near you. The drought is broken.	1.2×	0	970	263	0
91	Jan 27, '21	In breaking news, the President condemns successful countries who plan properly.	1.2×	0	971	271	1
92	Dec 29, '20	The curfew is the most arbitrary, draconian and likely unconstitutional aspect of the new lockdown. Freedom of movement is a fundamental right. If I choose to walk my dog after 9 o	1.2×	0	1k	184	7
93	Apr 7, '20	This is Neo Mokoena. He is 14 years old and he is hitchhiking home to Phalaborwa from Mbombela. I gave him a lift, a small part of the way, a loaf of white bread, a bar of chocolat	1.2×	0	1.1k	98	1
94	Jul 10, '21	We must have the most useless police force in the world.	1.2×	0	943	214	1
95	Nov 30, '20	Married 35 years the day.	1.1×	0	1.4k	13	3
96	Feb 9, '22	When we advertised for two candidate attorney positions, we had more than 370 law graduates applying. We also received over 170 applications for two para-legal positions. Makes me	1.1×	0	947	254	6
97	May 1, '21	We must be the only country in the world where the Speaker of Parliament starved her pigs to death. Inspirational leadership. ✊🏽	1.1×	0	969	222	2
98	Nov 30, '21	Married 35 years today.	1.1×	0	1.2k	44	4
99	Sep 19, '22	In Puerto Rico people are without electricity, food and water because they were hit by a hurricane, here it’s the same, except we were hit by the ANC. ✊🏽	0.9×	0	935	177	0
100	Feb 15, '21	Speaking for myself, I would rather see Jacob in prison than testifying before the Zondo Commission.	0.8×	0	955	69	0
101	May 31, '22	Some life advice from Walt Whitman: “Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income	0.5×	0	378	77	30

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