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Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
Please do not allow any politician or political party to gaslight you into believing that the way the public voted has somehow forced them into an impossible situation where they now have too little time to negotiate and form governments.
The Local Government: Municipal Structures Amendment Bill, commonly referred to as the Coalitions Bill, has been in development since 2024 and was only formally introduced in Parliament in August 2026.
Among other things, the Bill was meant to provide a proper legislative framework for coalitions, including extending the current 14-day period for convening newly elected councils to 30 days, giving parties more time to negotiate.
Every single political party knew this. We have been dealing with coalition governments since 2016. We went through this again in 2021. Nobody can pretend that the possibility of hung councils in 2026 came as a surprise.
I personally called at least one senior person in each of the big six political parties, in some cases more than one, to raise these very issues. So I know they knew.
Yet I have already heard two politicians suggesting that voters have put them in this difficult position.
No. The voters did their jobs. They voted.
Political parties had years to prepare for these outcomes and to ensure that the necessary legislative reforms were in place. That this was not done cannot now become the responsibility of the electorate.
The public is not responsible for political parties failing to plan for an electoral outcome they knew was entirely possible.
And please, let us not start treating voters exercising their democratic rights as an inconvenience to politicians who now have to negotiate with one another.
Democracy does not exist to produce results that are administratively convenient for political parties.
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
Hey so, DA hacks and aligned โcivil society,โ furiously penning vitriolic ActionSA coalition tweets and thinkpieces, Iโm curious.
Is today your first day on Earth as human beings? Is it your first time interacting with other human beings?
Because how do you figure you can d-swing, belittle, bully and insult ActionSA into a coalition with your party?
Hello?!
You are doing so much damage. You are pushing ActionSA further away. You are doing more to convince ActionSA that the DA cannot be trusted. You are making Geordinโs and teamโs work so much harder.
Shut it and get off your entitlement horse.
You can also stop with the literal โmuscular liberal,โ schpiel, no one but your circlejerk is impressed by it.
Sit down and let the leaders lead.
And, grow up.
Tiresome.
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
But.
ActionSA loses nothing by not being nice to the DA, a party it has said it doesn't want to be in a coalition with in the first place. You cannot lose something you don't want.
The DA, on the other hand, loses A LOT by being vitriolic towards ActionSA. It loses a coalition partner it wants. It loses a coalition partner its donors and supporters want. ActionSA has said: "We don't trust you." What the DA ought be doing is the adult and strategic thing, which is: conducting itself as willing to humble and trustworthy to the ActionSA. "But they said mean things about the DA." Who cares? You do not have to attend every fight you are invited to. There is nothing to be gained from the useless "who has the biggest d" dick- contest against ActionSA we are seeing on Twitter and opinion pages, particularly when it's doing so against the very people who will decide whether a coalition goes ahead or not.
This is not complex. It's basic EQ and human interaction stuff. You attract more bees with honey than vinegar. And the DA is always its own worst enemy. It is a champion at shooting itself at the foot. It is a veteran of clutching defeat from the jaws of victory. Geordin and co. should be allowed space to lead discussions, and not their EQ-less hacks starting useless fights.
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
With the declaration of 2026 Local Government Elections, my term as the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane has ended.
Thank you, residents of Tshwane.
You were patient as we began the process of turning around a broken city. We have laid a solid foundation for rebuilding the Capital City ๐ฟ๐ฆ.
Thank you for trusting us with your households and for never chasing us away from your communities.
My love and commitment to the people Tshwane is unwavering.
ActionSAโs Tshwane caucus is ready to camp in all communities to ensure that services are delivered.
Re a leboga
Siyabonga
Baie dankie
Ndiyabulela
Thank you ๐ฟ๐ฆ
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
The irony is through the roof!
Instead of uniting black voters under an established revolutionary movement, Jacob Zuma went and registered party number 620, and now sits in front of cameras complaining that black people are too divided. You can't create party #620 to divide the vote and then lecture the country on unity!
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
One of the consequences of the ANC's failures is that it paints all Black people in a bad light.
Here me well... ALL BLACK PEOPLE.
No matter how uppity, educated, well-travelled, accomplished & rich you are... anytime a random White person sees you, they see the ANC.
They see corruption, incompetence, arrogance, entitlement, laziness, lack of accountability.
You are an ANC loser in their eyes until proven otherwise. Even if you're in the same neighbourhoods, they assume you got there through BEE & stealing money.
This isn't even about White people - coz their opinion of us shouldn't matter...
It's also about how hardworking, talented, sacrificing, innovative Black people are pained seeing their race in that same light... and they then endeavour to move far away from their people, including their own family members.
The ANC has really ruined the image of Black South Africans. And by ANC, I include the EFF & MKP.
Julius Malema was a leader in that same ANC. Jacob Zuma was a leader in that same ANC. They are complicit in the image of Black South Africans to the world.
Some of us need to work harder to shift the image... and elevate the right Black people. And we have many.
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
I thought he would call a press conference to announce a turn around strategy.
All I hear is bashing people and political parties
#EFF
#LocalGovernmentElections2026
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
Comrades, we can all be Africans but not at the expense of South Africans in South Africa. Thank you
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
๐จ ๐ข๐ฉ๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฆโผ๏ธ
EFF had won over 930 seats in 2021
Councillors were then forced to get their finances in order and buy bakkies in the following years
In 2026, they are got around 525 councillors.
Over 400 councillors are out of jobs and dealing with huge debts of EFF bakkies.
The owner of the Party is obsessed with President Ramaphosa. Diverting dismal performance of his own cult
#LGE2026 #LGE2026Results
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
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To lose their parliamentary seats because baphakeme too much:
1. Khuselo Diko
2. Kubayi whatever her name is
3. All ANC and EFF members except Dr Aaron Motsoaledi & Dr Ramogkopa.
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
Iโll never forget when Zumaโs buddies at Eskom gave Guptas R659m to โbuyโsubstandard coal Eskom couldnโt use. The Guptas then used that money to plug R600m shortfall in their purchase of Optimum Coal Mine (where Duduzane held a 19% stake) after banks had refused to finance them๐ญ
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
The beautiful thing about ANC's loss of power is that it can never say South Africans never gave it a chance to govern: they did that for 30 years since 1994, and even when it got 40% in 2024 it was still trusted with power to govern, but they abused it to the last string.
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
There's nothing bad with the EFF losing. It's a liability for South Africa.
Their policies are trash on immigration, economics, social security, development, and everything.
Open borders with no plan. Nationalize everything with no competence. Promise free everything with no money to pay for it. That is not revolution. That is destruction dressed up as liberation.
South Africa doesn't need a party that shouts the loudest while offering the worst ideas. We don't need slogans, we need jobs. We don't need land grabs, we need farms that produce. We don't need freebies, we need an economy that works.
Losing is not enough for the EFF. At one point it should be dissolved.
Because as long as it exists, it keeps poisoning young minds with victimhood, with hate, with fantasy economics, with the idea that you can destroy your way to prosperity.
South Africa can't afford that anymore.
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
A lot of ANC leaders live in DA Wards but steal in ANC Wards. The irony couldn't be more striking!
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
If loyalty means watching an organisation undermine its own legacy, alienate its constituency, disappoint its supporters and compromise its credibility, yet expecting its members to remain publicly silent, then we have fundamentally misunderstood political responsibility.
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
Please stop saying black people must UNITE as if they are a homogeneous group:
- some are leftists - some are centrists - some are right wing - some favour narrow nationalism - support Donal Trump and his right-wing politics.
Black are diverse...
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
People: โYou selling out by giving white people power โฆ โ
Meanwhile Black people in power: ๐
Lethabo Thebe ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
The people didn't betray the ANC. The ANC betrayed the people through corruption, looting and failed service delivery. Voters gave them chance after chance. The warning signs were there for years. The ANC is the architect of its own downfall. It must break before it can rebuild.
