📍Trade and Industrial Policy /@ORTamboSchool /Author: ‘New Settler or Old Tenant?/Tweets are my personal views.
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‘Stay with me, when the sun rises from a western sky with silver spears lashing at earth and our youth ….
We live in times where we are against time and impulse rules over us …’ -
Sandile Dikeni
(Image courtesy of @Chimurenga_SA)
Bang'uMhlaba retweeted
💬 A sub-forum called “Free and Fair Trade and Industrial Competitiveness Cooperation” will bring together video messages from Professor Shen Yi of Fudan University, SAIC Motor Chairman Wang Xiaoqiu, and Ayabonga Cawe, chief commissioner of South Africa's International Trade Administration Commission.
The three will share insights on global trade, automotive industry transformation and international cooperation, exploring new opportunities for industrial development! 🤝
🍀 Join the ninth CIIE and HongQiao Forum in Shanghai this November!
#CIIE #CIIE2026 #HongQiaoForum #HQF
Bang'uMhlaba retweeted
Sade’s “Kiss of Life” might be the most beautiful sample ever used. DOOM took it, slowed it, and built “Doomsday” around it.
With a delegation of the Australian Trade Remedies Commission @wto yesterday.
I was busy running my mouth in the meeting about cricket, and I swallowed those words when Bavuma lost his wicket last night before the close of play 🫢 Hoping for some bragging rights after tomorrow
All the best in the new assignment nkokheli yabantu @kunenephindz and we must also wish @Chrispin_JPhiri all the best in his new assignment abroad.
We are not short of talent, so assuring.
International Relations and Co-operation Minister Ronald Lamola has appointed Phindile Kunene as his new spokesperson, following the assignment of Chrispin Phiri to a special project abroad.
Read on tinyurl.com/yc845x7p
#news #DIRCOShakeup #SpokespersonAppointment #RonaldLamola #PhiriReplaced
Ahmad Jamal. Hank Mobley. Horace Silver. Dudu Pukwana. Chris McGregor Abdullah Ibrahim.
But I came across this gem a few weeks ago. The Ngcukana dynasty 🔥
eNyobeni incident and a chat on radio that stuck with me, led to a decision to give it up. Started as a ‘break’ ….
Bang'uMhlaba retweeted
This is not an ANC defence post. It's a data post.
For weeks, 30 years of measurable state building has been waved away with anecdotes, potholes and headlines.
So here are the national numbers. Not just Jo'burg. The whole country. 👇🏾
Our population grew from about 40m to 63.5m. Services had to outrun that growth. They did:
• Electricity for lighting: 58% → 95% of households
• Piped water inside the home: 32% → 60%
• Improved sanitation: 62% → 84%
• Adults with no schooling: 19% → 7%
• Degree holders: 649,000 → nearly 3 million
• Black graduates: 188,000 → 1.7 million
• About 5 million housing opportunities delivered
• 26.5 million grant beneficiaries, including nearly 13 million children
• Life expectancy: from about 52 at the height of AIDS to nearly 67, via the world's largest ARV programme
• 8 in 10 South Africans online, nearly 2 mobile connections per person
• A real economy about 85% bigger than in 1994
• 12GW+ of renewables contracted via REIPPPP, a state-designed programme that brought in private capital
None of this was luck. It was built by an ANC-led state, with business at the table, out of a sanctions-era wreckage.
The fatigue is real. Unemployment is real. Failing municipalities are real, and we should say so. But tiredness must not make us blind. Thirty years ago millions had no lights, no water in the yard, no access to basic healthcare. Today they do. Whoever tells you nothing changed wants you to hate your own progress.
A pothole trends for three days. 5 million housing opportunities never trend at all. Both are facts. Only one gets counted.
To business: this market was built here. Talking it down is not analysis. It's a short position on your own balance sheet.
Lies have short legs. I'm ready for the debate. Which of these numbers do you dispute? Reply with your source.
Data, not vibes.
Sources: Stats SA (Census 1996 & 2022, General Household Survey 2025, Mid-Year Estimates 2026), IRR using Stats SA data (graduates), Human Settlements via Africa Check (housing), Budget 2026 (grants), DataReportal 2026, IPP Office (REIPPPP).
#LGE2026 #DataAnalytics @MYANC
Don Mattera in his book ‘Memory is the Weapon’ highlights widespread protection rackets among the gangs that existed in Western township, Newclare and Sophiatown from the 1930s to the 1950s
People of Southa please remind me (including you @LudidiVelani )
Did this phenomenon begin with the so called constitution mafia in KZN? Or has it always existed.
“Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. As a matter of fact, it's safe to say that they would rather switch than fight." -
Thomas Todd, in a quotation sampled in Public Enemy’s ‘Fight The Power’
Bang'uMhlaba retweeted
"imperialism is not dead"
A significant interview with Julius Nyerere, worth watching for its historical and political insights.
Did the Mayor say he was ‘just putting local content’ when he was told he should not speak after uMongameli has spoken?
Hai bandla, we abuse this term.
National treasure mfowethu 🔥
A Revisit… inspired by @aycawe and @LungaMkila . Heritage music 🪔
Viva Mozambique 🇲🇿
Viva Samora
Aluta continua contra tribalismo, contra imperialismo.
Aluta Continua
Two major events last week, one sector. Paris Motor Show and the SA Auto Week. In all, discussions on the future of policy were top of the agenda.
In eThekwini last week, we re-affirmed the role of the sector as a driver of foreign exchange, industrial complexity and linkages.
The Federation of Elijah Barayi, Connie September and Chris Dlamini.
Umfela’ndawonye wabasebenzi.
“The ANC is our shield, the @SACP1921 is our vanguard. Our shield cannot collapse because we have always known that no harm will come to the workers when we have our shield there, which is the @MYANC. This shield has collapsed, workers are exposed, workers are attacked,” Mike Shingange Mike Shingange
Everyone in favour of redress is pro-ANC? By this logic, the political settlement of 1994 is only supported by the ANC and everyone else is held captive to it, against their will?
Ever heard of a ‘fallacy of composition’ sage of West Campus?
Or? … eish nvm
"Isisu somhambi asingakanani, singaphambili; ngemva ngumhlonzo"
Be vigilant comrades,
WATCH: The CEO of the SA First Forum, Xolani Zuma, says they have been telling the South African government that these people who are claiming to be refugees, some of them are terrorists and criminals.
He was responding after the chaos that was witnessed at the Durban CBD earlier today where a South African man was shot dead allegedly by foreign shop owners - KZN Tonight Podcast
Be vigilant comrades,
"Isisu somhambi asingakanani, singaphambili; ngemva ngumhlonzo"
On #METROFMTALK, we also spoke to Mametlwe Sebei, Legal Expert and Lecturer at UNISA who also works with Lawyers for Human Rights, to get a legal perspective on South Africa’s new asylum rules.
We unpacked what the Constitutional Court ruling means for asylum seekers, why access to the application process matters and the challenge of balancing legal protections with concerns about the capacity of the asylum system.
How does South Africa protect the right to seek asylum while ensuring the system is properly managed?
Catch the podcast on metrofm.co.za