There is nothing the ANC hasn't poisoned in South Africa. Not liberators - thieves from, and oppressors of, black South Africans. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Every second headline is ANC cadres' thieving. They are endemically corrupt. All of them. Water utility pays board member’s firm R390m for pipeline that should have cost R80m www.news24.com/investigatio...

Never mind the 100 BEE beneficiaries who made R1 trillion. The politically connected ANC cadre's extraction from the State over the the last 30 years dwarfs that amount. R3m tax bill: SARS guns for company linked to Mashatile kids in hospital tender scandal www.news24.com/investigatio...

Tempted to apply for the fun of it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I still find it completely incomprehensible that the ANC has worked so hard to keep Apartheid crimes unpunished. 58-year-old lie shattered as court rules Nobel Prize winner Luthuli was murdered www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Hoo-boy, the Trump car crash Presidency really is gathering speed impressively.

He'll be a popular dinner guest in Afriforum circles. Not so much for the rest of civilized South Africa.

Nobody is surprised that Trump has vandalized an iconic 200 year old historic building. Because why would he not?

The question Americans should be asking is who got the White House ball room contract, how was it awarded, and how much are you paying for it.

Says the person who represents the people who lie compulsively about just about everything.

I underestimated Durban tonight. More like this... Diwali full bore.

Durban tonight.

Looks like more DOGE style cost-cutting to me. Cut away what the country really needs, waste the "saving" on the king's court.

Yes, we are. And we didn't need this tech to achieve it. Just Fox News. Fox was delivering what is now the mindless self-reinforcing tech soup-slop the good old fashioned way long before AI. The machines are just accelerating the age of stupid. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Spatial apartheid, school sports coaches, and Durban are the reasons why.

Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.

No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.

"One million – the number of seconds that make up approximately 11.5 days. One billion seconds, however, is approximately 31.7 years." Some perspective on how big the R49bn the Zuma's and Gupta's stole from South Africa really is. #dailymaverick

#idiots R48k for a hat? RAF officials ‘proud’ of marketing work by billion-rand media contracts www.news24.com/business/eco...

On the R49bn he and the Guptas looted - it shouldn't really be an issue. (Plus there is a good chance Gadaffi's missing gold is in the Nkandla basement) ‘How is Mr Zuma going to live?’: Judge questions impact of pension benefit attachment www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Not much point telling Trump because then Putin will know. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Nonsense that Zuma can't afford to repay this after his family and cronies ripped off R49 billion. Thanks to his "10%" he's minted. Zuma’s lawyers say he could never repay his R28.9m state-funded legal bill – even with pension www.news24.com/southafrica/...

If ever there was reason not to select Oracle for your company's enterprise software supplier, its somewhere in here. Pick any one.

Why is Zuma so keen to prevent the Madlanga commission proceeding? And to keep Mchunu in place? Zuma, MKP ConCourt challenge to Madlanga Commission ‘scant’, ‘devoid of material evidence’ www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Ramaphosa had the opportunity to clean out the ANC house in 2018. He chose "unity" over ethics and over South Africa. His hesitation is going to prove to have been the fatal blow to the ANC. Mbalula admits ANC has been infiltrated by criminal cartels www.news24.com/politics/mba...

What we all know and is absolutely guaranteed is that this is just the tip of the ANC's institutionalized corruption across every sphere of government and public services. Pieter du Toit | The Tembisa pillaging will be how SA remembers the ANC, Ramaphosa www.news24.com/opinions/col...

He won't be axed off the main Water Board - he's obviously a connected and influential cadre to have these roles in the first place. And let's be honest, he's just doing cadre things. KZN water entity axes chairperson over undeclared business interests www.news24.com/investigatio...

Quite a piece from @charlotteclymer.bsky.social Bullseye commentary 🎯

Inevitable consequence of the Trump Presidency.

"the female master of ceremonies employed to inject some life into the crowd at the 1st tee was recorded using a megaphone to lead a chant of 'Fuck you Rory!' ” What has happened to this country and its people? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Ah, the ginormous exploding ego does it again! (Disclaimer - if I lived in Jo'burg I'd probably pinch my nose and vote for Zille as Mayor) ‘Damn it, I’m gonna do it’: Zille says she entered mayoral race after failing to find a candidate www.news24.com/politics/dam...

Transformers needed to restore power to townships. Citizens robbed blind. There is nothing the ANC and their cadres haven't corrupted. They don't care one fig. POWER CONNECTIONS | R64m paid for R32m project: Hawks target more alleged City Power graft www.news24.com/investigatio...

Transformers needed to restore power to townships. Citizens robbed blind. There is nothing the ANC and their cadres haven't corrupted. They don't care one fig. POWER CONNECTIONS | R64m paid for R32m project: Hawks target more alleged City Power graft www.news24.com/investigatio...

Only those who were alive in 1985 will understand the courage this took for a young female doctor to stand up against the monstrously oppressive Apartheid regime. Kudos to Dr Wendy Orr. www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Ramaphosa is absolutely correct on how history is going to view Israel, and the people of Israel, in the wake of the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Completely inevitable outcome. Musk and the whole DOGE fiasco will end up costing the USA far more than its imagined savings.

From Russia with love, no doubt. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

You can bet your bottom dollar big tech is quietly working to make sure this doesn't spread any further in the world. Like cigarette and alcohol companies, the younger they can hook kids, the better for them. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

When the Minister and a department's senior officials start doing bizarre maneuvers around one person, it can only be for dodgy reasons. Everyone in the department will know why - and we'll eventually find out the real reason is a corrupt relationship. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Suspect that at the end of this Commission we're going to find out that many contradictory good and bad things about the same cop can be true. Masemola silent on Mkhwanazi’s ‘cartel capture’ claims against IDAC, spy watchdog, MPs www.news24.com/southafrica/...

We all know political parties are subject to outside influence - especially from funders with vested interests. For the ANC, it was the Guptas, follwed by their army of tenderpreneur cadres. For the DA, now we know for sure who they are beholden to.

There's the notion of "political will" being neeeded for govt led initiatives to happen. Here's an example of a DA MPL making it happen - where the ANC couldn't or wouldn't. # Happy contractors. Corruption probe launched into KZN’s stalled mega-projects www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Seems the DA may (unfortunately) be learning some things from the ANC. Inside Steenhuisen’s alleged DA cabinet purge www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Delusional in the extreme. Only in cadre deployment, crime, and corruption do the ANC outperform anyone. ‘No way DA outperforms ANC municipalities’: ANCYL president slams ‘ignorant’ comparisons www.news24.com/politics/no-...

Cheer your Friday up - read @Poplak and get some perspective. Especially about the Kortbroek Hoofseun and his schoolyard gang. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

Kudos to her - but for sure being South African is going to put SA right back in the cross-hairs of Israel and their US lobby. Luck to Cyril and co.

Because they thought they would rule until Jesus comes. Now, if only we'd had an inclusive and therefore viable opposition party capable of winning 51% of the vote!! (Preferably not ruled by a matriarch overly sure of her own often right-wing conservative beliefs and over-inflated self-importance)