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1Feb 3, '25Some really terrible, horrible things happening in South Africa 🇿🇦 💓31.8×1.4M17k1.7k837
2Mar 6, '23After almost 30 years, Lindiwe Sisulu is out of Cabinet. She loses her role of Tourism Minister to Patricia de Lille.25.6×1.1M5.6k61938
3May 16, '23A truly excellent book by Andrè de Ruyter. On the power plant floors, in the cartels, at Cabinet. Fly on the wall insights into why we are at unrelenting Stage 6 power cuts.17.4×755k1.3k27127
4Jul 16, '24The end of Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu — they could’ve been contenders, now they’re just crooks12.3×535k1.2k28399
5Jan 11, '24Adila Hassim, SC is one of South Africa’s leading social justice advocates. She has made arguments of similar passion and commitment for South Africans suffering the indignities of8.8×381k5.5k1.1k131
6Mar 12, '25Note! Starlink enters Indian market with local partner Airtel - the same/similar localisation that would apply in SA. Airtel, Starlink announce India deal weeks after Musk met Modi8.0×348k2.7k987244
7Mar 22, '23Journalism’s not a crime. I stand with ⁦@karynmaughan⁩ 🇿🇦✊🏾🇿🇦✊🏾🇿🇦✊🏾7.7×333k1.2k1170
8Dec 14, '24Comment: I wonder why President Cupcake 🧁 hasn’t said a word (not one!) about what’s happening in Joburg. He lives here, walks here, shops here - in an area often with no water, n6.8×297k92829615
9Jan 27, '23Comment: so, Joburg is about to get a mayor from a 3-seat party (Al-Jama-ah) and has a Speaker from a single seat party (Cope). This is an anti-democratic outcome and a canary in t5.8×253k1.3k2827
10May 1, '19Comment. If @caster800m was Western. White. Blond. Big. Fast. Rather than African. Black. Braided. Big. Fast. Would she be celebrated, anointed, copied rather than tested, upbraide5.2×04.4k1.4k5
11Jan 22, '23AfriForum starts power company5.0×216k96221316
12Aug 26, '24Going to Boks vs AllBlacks on Sat? So here’s a happy Joburg story. You can catch @TheGautrain from anywhere - get off at Park Station; get in these cool new @PRASA_Group trains and4.5×195k1.1k28646
13Oct 4, '22Comment: So, we must pay tax, but 1. No electricity 2. No water 3. No roads 4. No maintenance 5. No jobs 6. No houses where needed 7. No safety and security 8. No universal basic i4.2×02.9k1.1k18
14Jul 24, '23Access denied — Daily Maverick barred from Russia-Africa Summit after journalist accreditation revoked4.1×180k87518913
15Nov 16, '23💔 (no words yet)4.1×179k1.5k2256
16Apr 1, '20South Africa 🇿🇦 has 67 new mobile testing units (specced in less than a week and which can produce results in 45 minutes) to boost testing to among highest per capita in world 🌍4.1×02.8k1.3k12
17Sep 17, '21Merc looter Mbuso Moloi had his C300 coupè seized by the Asset Forfeiture Unit today. He is facing theft and public violence charges by the @NPA_Prosecutes for his Woolies looting 3.9×01.6k63635
18Sep 13, '24Pravin Gordhan 1949-2024 — A servant of the people who connected the dots of State Capture3.8×164k1.1k21630
19May 25, '23Went to sleep without power and woke up without power. What an utter fuck-up our government is, hey? Shame for us.3.5×154k1.6k2116
20Dec 2, '18Patrice Motsepe brought Barack, Oprah and Beyoncé here this year and, with Precious Moloi-Motsepe, they’ve just pledged R3.5-bn to land reform and the social development goals. Oh,3.2×02.9k7505
21Feb 24, '23Comment: I’m getting horribly confused? Who is the President of the country? (The conflation of party and state is now complete)3.2×139k1.1k1805
22Aug 24, '21#RIP Babita Deokaran. ⁦@RSASIU⁩ confirms she was a witness in ⁦@GautengHealth⁩ PPE health scandal. Ms Deokaran was gunned down outside her home yesterday. Corruption is getting mor3.1×01.8k95617
23Feb 25, '23“What Mr. De Ruyter effectively said was that all of us in government are idiots and that stirred the backlash,” Gordhan said in an interview (via @News24) Comment: Sometimes the t3.1×133k1.4k2286
24Feb 20, '25Joburg People. This is happening on the M1 - lights being fixed, grass verges cut and cleaned for first time in years. The G20 is gonna deliver, baby!3.0×132k1.2k24622
25May 21, '25Comment: An elegant group of people, largely black, from a developing country being condescended to by a big white bully spewing lies. I’m hating this with every sinew. It is supre2.7×118k1.2k27142
26Sep 4, '19Comment: the police used water cannons on students protesting the rape and murder of #Uyinene in Cape Town but not on looters and arsonists who ran amok in Johannesburg.2.7×01.9k9001
27Aug 8, '23Comment: Instead of using her position to end a taxi strike which hurts workers, women workers and children the most, the Transport Minister Sindi Chikunga has lectured us, drearil2.7×116k1.5k2753
29Oct 23, '19BREAKING: The DA is broken. And Helen Zille broke the party she said she was coming back to fix. Wow.2.6×02k6291
30Feb 13, '18How recall meeting went. ANC: We are recalling you. President Zuma: When? ANC: With urgency. President Zuma: OK, I'll get back to you. ANC: OK, comrade. Love you. #ANCNEC2.5×01.7k8870
31Jun 15, '22Comment: ANC mayors are inward-focused in imbizos, meetings, securing for themselves and their circles. ⁦@GaytonMcK⁩ and ⁦@MayorPappas⁩ showing us what a different style of local g2.5×02.4k5427
32Nov 26, '23Comment: We have four ministers in charge of electricity - Pravin Gordhan, Gwede Mantashe, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and the de facto one, Fikile Mbalula - and NO electricity. Fok! Nee2.5×108k1.4k3429
33Mar 10, '21Comments: The kickbacks on the Transnet rail contracts was R8-billion to the Gupta networks. It could have paid the Wits student debt 💸 8 times over, wiping it out and giving stud2.5×01.9k6224
34Feb 12, '19Claim: At least Capture Inc. (Brian Molefe, Matshela Koko et al) kept the lights on. Fact: They burnt diesel (very expensive) and rode up debt to over R400-billion to make as if th2.4×01.5k7514
35Feb 8, '23Comment: Dear @SATourismOnline - in case you don’t know, you work for us, we pay your salaries. If you smoke 💨 out and target 🎯 the whistleblower of your hare-brained scheme expo2.3×101k1.7k9193
36May 31, '23Be still. A great spirit is passing. Like his namesake, a polemicist of excellence. A resonant mic 🎙️ is quieted. A pointed pen 🖊️ laid down. Rest softly, Eusebius McKaiser. 🇿🇦2.3×100k1.8k2153
37May 7, '19Comment: I've spent the past week looking at 20 ANC government era scandals. There has not been a shred of accountability in any, not one.. I don't think the ANC holds the key to e2.3×01.7k6714
38Jan 27, '20Comment: The Health Minister has appointed his niece as chief of staff. The same minister who will appont the 11 people who will run the NHI to be boss of all of us. You see what’s2.2×01.5k6587
39Jan 25, '22Comment: So reports suggest personal income tax and VAT will both increase. We get less and less but have to keep feeding the rapacious, wasteful state. At the weekend our local co2.2×01.3k56719
40Apr 7, '17Why is a landless black people's movement protecting an Indian people's swish suburban compound? Scratches kop.🤔🤔 Cat's out of Bel Pot bag.2.2×01.1k8910
41Aug 12, '17So the ANC is smoking out the MP's who voted against state capture but not the deputy minister who beat up two women. #Once were warriors.2.1×01.1k8920
43Jun 15, '22Comment: @GaytonMcK has opened bread 🍞-making businesses and delivered dignity (🚽🧻) in under 100 days. @MayorPappas: fixed roads, built unity, found purpose for uMngeni, returne2.0×01.9k4907
44Nov 8, '21Comment: Isn’t it time for a ring-fenced declaration of national disaster on Eskom? It feels like the grid could fail and plunge us into a national breakdown. It needs to be treate2.0×01.8k4305
45Jul 11, '21Question? If two national highways have been closed in KZN and the major entrance into Johannesburg now closed; if lives are endangered and the police are unable to cope, is it tim2.0×01.3k2392
46Jan 11, '24John Dugard: Professor of International Law at University of Pretoria, Cambridge and Leiden Universities. Since 1997, has served as a member of the International Law Commission of 1.9×82k1.8k39334
47May 22, '20Comment: 230 000 people arrested for violating lockdown regs 0 lynchpins arrested for 10 years state capture & related corruption (they zooming around) 0 arrests in Steinhoff s1.9×01.5k5734
48Feb 6, '21Nightmare on Skelm Street ☺️1.8×01.9k3355
49Apr 28, '20Comment: I don’t understand how Covid-19 business relief (any relief) can be granted on racial grounds. BEE is a vital policy plank but adding a racial preference in an emergency i1.8×01.5k3982
50Aug 23, '24The beautiful Johannesburg City Library shut for 3 years by an inept city administration. At least R30-million spent on a mystery fix and another R30-million to go. An empty librar1.8×80k1.2k58223
51May 8, '18How to kill a party before its biggest national election? Allow your rightwing to maul your black leader on an innocuous statement about “white privilege’. The next day let same ri1.8×01.2k6110
52Nov 16, '18Eskom gave the Gupta's an R650-million prepayment for Tegeta coal with NO agreement in place. Think about that next time you look at your sky-high electricity bill. For that, thank1.8×01.1k6732
53Apr 14, '20Breaking: Business for South Africa has procured 900 000 sterile gloves; 20 000 face shields; 1.12 million N95 masks; 6 million surgical masks for healthcare workers; 8.5 million s1.8×01.6k4604
54Sep 30, '19Pat de Lille’s sister employed in her office Mmusi Maimane driving a car sponsored by Markus Jooste. EFF leaders cooking Tshwane fuel tenders to fund their Gucci habits. Plus state1.8×01.2k3294
56Feb 16, '18“I wanna be there when the people start to turn it around When they triumph over poverty I wanna be there when the people win the battle against AIDS I wanna lend a hand I wanna be1.7×01.4k4890
57Jun 2, '24Comment: You appalling trolls and captured journalists and politicians attacking her - Janet Love is one of the architects of the freedom we all enjoy and many of us love ❤️ her. Y1.7×73k9581538
58Sep 20, '19Comment: It's amazing. The EFF preaches an ascetic, socialist and simple life for all of us but its opus is of the high life of Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Land Rovers. And tractors. 1.7×01k2774
59Nov 19, '24Pretoria Girls High SGB sues Gauteng education department over handling of racism allegations1.6×72k1.2k19527
60Dec 8, '19Comment: A whole December weekend of load-shedding and not a single elected person (or someone we pay to serve) has bothered to say ‘sorry’ and ‘here’s what’s happening’ and ‘this 1.6×01.3k3753
61Feb 8, '22Comment: You tell fellow advocates to ‘shut up’, drag a Minister through the mud, speak down to judges whom you appear before, shout at fellow counsel, cast aspersions on judges wh1.6×01.5k2716
62Sep 17, '18Standard Bank took top team to meet ANC at Luthuli House where a big Oakbay delegation (that's Gupta HQ) was present. ANC was acting on behalf of the Gupta family. This is capture 1.6×08966050
63Jun 5, '19Comment: Sometimes I am not sure who is running South Africa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa or Ace Magashule. The bigger problem is that Ramaphosa doesn’t seem to know either. 🧐🧐🧐🤔🤔🤔1.5×01.2k3295
64Oct 7, '19Comment: Whenever @PaulivW reveals the high life of EFF leaders, the trolls jump: 'must a black child live in poverty?' Of course not. But don't preach an ascetic and simple social1.5×01.2k2940
65Sep 10, '19Comment: Wear as much Gucci as you like. Hire a bling tent at the July. Party up a storm ☔️ at fancy lodges. Your business. Do it at cost of poor pensioners and taxpayers who baile1.5×01.2k3571
66Mar 16, '19Comment: At Stage 4 load-shedding (long power cuts on a weekend when demand is low) you have an emergency. When will the Eskom CEO, the Public Enterprises minister or even the Pres1.5×01.1k4372
67Jan 30, '19Facts: Former President Zuma’s nine years in office: Edge of a downgrade Low to no growth Highest joblessness R100-billion and counting on capture State capture given shape and for1.5×09394174
68Apr 30, '19Comment: You have to wonder if the ANC will take Cyril Ramaphosa out of the ANC before he can take the corruption out of the ANC. It is so deep and so embedded that exorcising it m1.5×01.1k3811
69Jul 16, '21Comment: That was a good speech, hey? Safety, security, relief, justice. The President touched all the bases, he was firm and called it what it was: an attack on the constitutional1.4×01.4k2053
70Apr 1, '20These amazing mobile testing units are set to undertake mass testing in SA’s most vulnerable places. They were specced and converted in less than a week. How cool is that?1.4×01.3k3363
71Aug 20, '18Interesting that the family, the Guptas, who built an empire on blackness, who repeatedly claimed BEE status and made a campaign alleging white monopoly capital are represented by 1.4×09504382
72Jul 4, '21Comment: The Nkandla gathering is doing untold damage to @CyrilRamaphosa’s presidential authority as he & the state prove powerless to enforce the Covid-19 disaster law. Some C1.4×01.1k2941
73Jul 26, '20Comment: I’d love 💕 an explainer. Why was the purchase of life-saving PPE, equipment, drugs and oxygen run as a middle-man tender race instead of government buying straight from s1.4×01.2k2823
74May 22, '19Dear Sir 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 From Jan to June, those of us who work, (given income and stealth taxes), do so for our country. I would now like my government to stop stealing from us a1.4×01.3k3283
75Dec 7, '23Comment: if a national health scheme (NHI) were run by our public health experts and Gift of the Givers, absolutely 💯! But by the people who had Babita murdered, who brought us Li1.4×59k9072746
76Nov 8, '19The beloved country caught a break this week. 🇿🇦💕🇿🇦💕🇿🇦💕🇿🇦💕 #RWC2019Champions 🏈🇿🇦 @ShoMadjozi meets #JohnCena and shines as usual #KFCProposal brings out the best hea1.4×01.3k2820
77Oct 28, '23Captain! Our Captain!1.4×59k3k2863
78Jun 10, '22The other night, I drove past Rahima Moosa through Western, Corrie to a funeral in Bosmont. Not a single light worked, roads ruined, rutted, running water rare. Doctors there work 1.3×01.3k3032
79Mar 7, '22Help me make a list? Basic things that should work for citizens but don’t. Drivers licence centres Eskom Home Affairs Hospitals 🏥 (is this a fair inclusion?) Police Roads (municip1.3×092419012
80Dec 1, '18Judy Dlamini to be installed as Wits Chancellor today. 🎓 Precious Moloi-Motsepe of @MotsepeFoundtn brings most blockbuster concert ever💃🏾 Peggy-Sue Khumalo is Standard Bank's ne1.3×01.3k2630
81Jan 5, '22Shell’s Seismic Vessel Leaving South Africa After Court Loss1.3×01.3k2384
82Apr 16, '18It feels like the DA is spending more time strategising on how to get rid of @PatriciaDeLille than it is on planning next year’s elections.1.3×09813610
83Jul 15, '21Cleaning up Vaccinating again Doubling down on solidarity Not yielding to race hate Rethinking Rooting out Understanding the roots There we go🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦1.3×01.3k2692
84Feb 13, '20Comment: That’s 60 minutes! Whatever happens now, Julius Malema and the EFF have won. They are the story, not the #SONA2020 address. Brilliant politics. But not for the country.1.3×09742451
85Feb 6, '18Dear ANC This is our beautiful country 🇿🇦🌈 and you helped liberate it 🙏🏽✊🏿 It bursts with potential, great people and an economy waiting to boom. Please stop treating it like1.2×01.1k3690
86Jan 17, '18Mdluli McKinsey Trillian Maybe Zwane Plus plus To be honest, I never thought justice against corruption was possible given the dark years we have come through. Viva. Amandla. And t1.2×01k3110
87May 26, '21Comment: If our government is going to name our hospitals 🏥 after sheroes like Charlotte Maxeke, Helen Joseph and Rahima Moosa, then run them honourably and efficiently in their m1.2×01.3k2021
88May 14, '24Comment: hello, organised NHI influence ops tweeters. Why you chasing me? I have nothing against a public-hearted national health insurance system; would welcome it. But not run by1.2×51k89620417
89Jun 9, '21Comment: Faced with near grid collapse, a rising and mean-arse Winter 🥶 third wave, a Health Minister on, ahem, ‘special leave’, and a limping vaccine 💉’drive’, South Africa 🇿🇦1.2×01.1k2333
90Apr 13, '22Comment: to prevent the PPE scandals of last year where hyenas chowed the disaster funds, @GiftoftheGivers should be the disbursement agency for the people affected by #KZNFloods, 1.1×01.1k1840
91Jan 24, '18For every Koko there's a Vanara For every Singh, a Gordhan For every Zuma, a Zondo For every McKinsey, a Suzanne Daniels Our countervailing forces are strong and resilient and brav1.1×09703050
92Apr 9, '19“Where they burn books, they will in the end burn humans too.” - Heinrich Heine1.1×08733161
93Jun 22, '22Comment: an honourable and kind man who has served his country with distinction. After reading thousands of pages, this much is clear. He is going to be savaged by those implicated1.1×01.1k1960
94Apr 4, '22🌻🌻🌻look at this 💐💐💐 1. @RediTlhabi now anchors BBC News Day, leading global morning news 2. @RealBlackCoffee’s Grammy at show anchored by @Trevornoah 3. Fuel price deregulati1.1×01k19112
95Feb 16, '18Eish, I wanna lend a hand, hey. Feeling very inspired. #SONA20181.1×01.1k2100
96Aug 13, '20Comment: You kidding, right? Stage 2 loadshedding at Level 3 lockdown when the economy is at its rockest bottom and demand is low? Couldn’t run a bath 🛀 never mind a country.1.1×09802231
97Jul 11, '21Comment: you are a Cabinet Minister. Do something.1.0×01k1560
98Oct 12, '24Oh, Sir! A light dimmed over Mzansi tonight. We are so sad. 🪔🙏🏾🤲🏾1.0×43k949714
99Feb 6, '25Comment: Says the guy whose government is trying to expropriate Gaza, Greenland and the Panama Canal.0.9×39k1.1k21111
100Nov 23, '21Comment: unless @CyrilRamaphosa doesn’t shorten his vaunted Long Game, his Presidency could go down as the most squandered opportunity in recent history. There are renewed phases o0.9×09001850
101Jul 7, '21This is a tweet to keep.0.5×03274528

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