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Skhind' Se Mfene🐵 retweeted
Molo Fikile, this is the right speech. It is 15 years too late.
The decline did not start with the MK Party or the GNU. It started at the ANC's peak.
These are the moments when this speech should have been given:
2007–2008, Polokwane and the recall of Mbeki. Factionalism became the main business of the movement, and COPE was the first split. That is the "internal divisions" you mention today.
2008, the start of load shedding. It was the first big sign that the state was failing at basic infrastructure.
2009–2011, the rise of service delivery protests. Communities were saying then exactly what you're saying now: no water, no refuse removal, no roads, councillors who don't show up. This was the moment for this speech.
2012–2015: Marikana, the Gupta landing at Waterkloof, the Nkandla findings, and Nenegate. Each one was a chance to choose accountability over loyalty. Each time the ANC defended the individual instead of the people.
2016, the loss of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay. That was the last clear warning before things became irreversible.
2018, VBS. Limpopo municipalities lost money that should have gone to water and roads. We still feel it here.
If this speech had been given in 2011 and acted on, with consequences for failing councillors, cadres deployed on merit, and corruption prosecuted instead of protected, the ANC would not be at 31% today and many of our towns would not be in the state they're in.
And to be honest, the words are not new. "Renewal" and "self-correction" have been in ANC conference documents for over a decade. The problem has never been diagnosis. It has been implementation and consequences.
So the humility is welcome. But people will judge you on one thing: which councillors, mayors and officials face consequences in the next 12 months. Show us that, and the trust might follow.
[WATCH] THE ANC IS SELF INTROSPECTING
The people of South Africa have spoken. As the ANC we have heard that my people. We recognise that many South Africans who once placed their confidence in the ANC have chosen to support other parties. Others have withdrawn from electoral participation altogether. We recognise their concerns, we will not question their judgement or explain away their decisions.
We will confront the reasons why people who
once regarded the ANC as their natural
political home have become disillusioned with our movement. We must acknowledge that in too many communities local government has fallen short of the expectations of our people.
Where communities have experienced unreliable water supplies, failing infrastructure, uncollected refuse, deteriorating roads, corruption and poor municipal administration, they have every right to demand better.
Where public representatives have become distant from the people they were elected to
serve, the people have every right to hold them accountable. And where our own internal divisions have distracted us from the needs of communities, we must accept responsibility.
We cannot ask the people to trust us merely because of our history. Our history gives us a responsibility to serve. It does not give us an entitlement to govern. The ANC must earn the confidence of the people through what it does today and what it delivers tomorrow. That is the lesson of these elections. And it is a lesson we accept with humility.
Skhind' Se Mfene🐵 retweeted
Five hung metros. One majority. Zero comfort.
The IEC numbers tell you who can sit at the table. The politics tells you who gets to stay there.
JOHANNESBURG - 270 seats. Majority: 136.
DA 98. ANC 53. ActionSA 44.
DA + ActionSA = 142. Four-seat cushion.
That is not a coalition. That is a hostage situation with a whips' office.
One floor-crossing, one resignation, one sick day - and the council flips. The ANC waits in the wings. Not because it has the numbers. Because instability is the only strategy left that still works.
TSHWANE 214 seats. Majority: 108.
DA 74. ActionSA 47. ANC 43.
ActionSA is not kingmaker here. It is the only king.
The ANC cannot govern without them. The DA cannot govern without them. Every portfolio, every deputy mayor, every committee chair goes through ActionSA's hands first.
The question is not whether ActionSA gets leverage. It is whether it can spend the leverage without collapsing the thing it just won.
EKURHULENI 224 seats. Majority: 113.
DA 71. ANC 48. ActionSA 42.
DA + ActionSA = 113.
Exactly on the line. No cushion. No margin. No forgiveness.
This is the most fragile coalition in the country. If it forms, it does so on borrowed time. If it fails, the ANC defaults through smaller parties not because the ANC has the votes, but because everyone else runs out of options first.
ETHEKWINI 223 seats. Majority: 112.
MK 90. DA 54. ANC 38.
MK needs 22. The ANC has 38. The math is obvious. The politics is ugly.
MK was born as a split from the ANC. Governing with the parent party in its own backyard is not alliance. It is surrender dressed as pragmatism.
The alternative MK + DA at 144 is mathematically dominant and politically absurd. Unless the numbers force it. And the numbers always force things eventually.
NELSON MANDELA BAY 120 seats. Majority: 61.
DA 53.
Eight seats. That is all that stands between majority rule and another round of scrambling.
EFF. ACDP. Whoever has the seats. This one gets resolved first because it is the easiest math in the country.
MANGAUNG 101 seats. Majority: 51.
ANC 36. DA 33.
Fifteen seats either way. Thirty-two seats floating in the hands of smaller parties.
This is where the ANC's national dominance means nothing. The local machine either holds or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, Mangaung goes into administration. Not coalition. Not agreement. Provincial intervention.
The quiet part.
The ANC and DA have never formed a municipal coalition together. Not in 2024's 142 councils. Not in the 33 that followed.
The GNU exists at national level. The municipal level stays silent.
That silence is the whole story.
Because the numbers tell you who can sit at the table. The politics tells you who gets to stay there. And if history is any guide, none of them do.
Skhind' Se Mfene🐵 retweeted
Your parents won't see you grow old. Your partner never knew you as a child, and your children won't remember you young. You are the only person who witnesses every version of yourself. Take care of yourself, value yourself and love yourself. You are your lifelong companion.
Skhind' Se Mfene🐵 retweeted
Being a tax-paying, business-owning, property-owning, car-driving South African is quite an expensive exercise.
Let’s unpack just how many taxes, levies and charges one person can be responsible for.
1. As a business owner:
Corporate income tax
VAT
Employer UIF contributions
Skills Development Levy
COIDA
Municipal rates and service charges
Dividends tax (where applicable)
2. As a homeowner in a complex:
Municipal rates and taxes
Monthly complex/HOA levies
Special levies when raised
Electricity
Water
Sewerage
Refuse collection
3. As a car owner:
Annual vehicle licence
General fuel levy
Road Accident Fund levy
Carbon fuel levy
VAT on vehicle purchases and maintenance
Toll fees where applicable
4. As an individual:
Personal income tax (PAYE)
UIF
VAT on taxable goods and services
Excise duties on certain products
Customs duties on applicable imports
And this is before we discuss medical aid, private security, private schooling, insurance and backup electricity that many South Africans pay for because they cannot rely entirely on public services.
You earn money, you’re taxed. Your business makes a profit, it’s taxed. You spend your after-tax income, you pay VAT. You own property, you pay rates. You drive, you pay levies. And this is all as a resident owning and operating a business in Joburg.
I promise you I want to form part of the 11% of residents that should contribute to making this possible but I have a few questions:
@LukhonaMnguni , please unpack the proposed 11% ownership allocation to Johannesburg residents.
As a resident who already contributes through municipal rates, service charges and various taxes, would I be required to invest additional money to participate in this 11%, or is there a mechanism through which residents receive an ownership stake?
And how would the returns from this investment benefit ordinary Johannesburg residents, particularly those who cannot afford to invest?
RISE Mzansi has a clear Plan that no other party has for mobilizing investment into the City's Public Infrastructure.
We have an over R220-billion infrastructure backlog.
Yes to investment.
No to privatisation of Service Delivery.
#VoteRISEMzansi
#VoteAmaselaOut
Skhind' Se Mfene🐵 retweeted
Majongo, ningalenzi iphutha lokuganwa abantu abafunde kwaze kweqa.
Umfazi uma ekwazi ukukhipha u cash send nje kuphelile.
Skhind' Se Mfene🐵 retweeted
So when the online application opens please can ALL South Africans who don’t have IDs be ready with their asylum names and if you know someone who doesn’t have one APPLY for them as an Asylum seeker and they can even use that permit to get jobs, run a business and get grants 🤞🏻🇿🇦
Skhind' Se Mfene🐵 retweeted
These words will forever echo in my ears.. General Mkhwanazi, you are indeed the last man standing and every day you get vindicated.
Skhind' Se Mfene🐵 retweeted
Doctors be so hyped that your child has a father. “THIS MUST BE DAAAD?!” 😁🤣🤣
