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Baba wakhe retweeted
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This is such a hilarious story about a local traditional leader who kicked the IEC out of a tribal court premises because an IEC official made the mistake of sitting on the said traditional leader’s chair.
WATCH: Voting got disrupted in Bilanyoni after an angry local traditional leader closed the tribal court in eDumbe in northern KZN. IEC Regional Manager for Zululand Phakamani Mabaso says the voting station was later reopened after talks with Inkosi Lungelo Dlamini. #sabcnews
Baba wakhe retweeted
WATCH: Voting got disrupted in Bilanyoni after an angry local traditional leader closed the tribal court in eDumbe in northern KZN. IEC Regional Manager for Zululand Phakamani Mabaso says the voting station was later reopened after talks with Inkosi Lungelo Dlamini. #sabcnews
Baba wakhe retweeted
I miss spy thrillers like Spy Game (2001). No world-ending threat, no superhero-level action. Just intelligence officers, political manipulation and people making impossible decisions. Tony Scott knew how to make all of that genuinely exciting.
Baba wakhe retweeted
You literally started this.
You wanted to find out.
AfriForum holds @PresidencyZA @CyrilRamaphosa and other ANC leaders in government directly responsible for South Africa’s removal from AGOA and the job losses that will result.
According to @afriforum, President Ramaphosa and his government’s foreign policy, as well as his announcement on 23 January 2025 that he had signed the Expropriation Act into law, directly prompted President Donald Trump’s announcement just ten days later, on 2 February, that the US would take action against South Africa. AGOA sets explicit requirements for the protection of private property rights and stipulates that beneficiary countries may not undermine US national security or foreign policy interests.
As early as April 2024, AfriForum sent a letter to President Ramaphosa warning him of the risks that the Expropriation Act, which allows for expropriation without compensation, posed to South Africa’s trade relations. Ramaphosa did not even respond to the letter, and the country is now reaping the bitter fruits of his and other ANC leaders’ reckless policies and actions.
Over the past year, AfriForum, @solidariteit and the Solidarity Movement have put forward comprehensive proposals during discussions with the South African Presidency in an effort to resolve the dispute with the US. Solidarity also held extensive discussions with the US in an attempt to save AGOA. Unfortunately, the Presidency disregarded these efforts, and ordinary South Africans are now paying the price.
Ramaphosa and his colleagues in the ANC leadership have placed their own ideology and party interests above the interests of ordinary South Africans.
news24.com/business/economy/…
Comments about AGOA from some compatriots remind us that we moonlight as South Africans, but remain deeply divided.
When a foreign state acts in bad faith towards our country and some citizens respond with glee, it shows how conditional our national unity really is.
Baba wakhe retweeted
QUICK EXPLAINER: What does SA's exclusion from AGOA mean? First, you need to understand what AGOA is. The African Growth and Opportunity Act is a trade deal that lets qualifying African countries export thousands of products to the United States tax-free (without paying import tariffs). Now that SA's membership has been terminated, this is how it will impact the local economy and industry:
1. Exports Become More Expensive: Without AGOA, local products entering the US will face standard import taxes. This makes South African goods higher-priced and less competitive against other countries.
2. Agriculture Hit Hardest: Produce like citrus fruit, grapes, wine, and macadamia nuts face higher tariffs.
3. Manufacturing & Automotive: Local car exporters and industrial suppliers lose tax-free benefits, driving up production and shipping costs.
4. Risk to Local Jobs: When exporting becomes more expensive, local businesses sell less. This places pressure on jobs in farming, manufacturing, and supply chains.
5. Slower Economic Growth: Losing duty-free access creates an added economic drag, slowing down South Africa's overall growth potential.
6. Diplomatic Friction: AGOA eligibility relies on criteria set by Washington. Exclusion adds to already-fragile diplomatic and trade relations between South Africa and the U.S.
So, what happens next? With the AGOA termination set to kick into effect on 1 January 2027, South Africa is focusing on expanding trade with alternative regional and global partners such as other African nations through the AfCFTA, BRICS+ countries, and European markets. Should these trade agreements be made, it could potentially help cushion the impact.
Image: Luke Mikael via Unsplash
#CarteBlanche #AGOA #Trump
I do not think Russell has the temperament to be a world champion, not unless Mercedes helps him like McLaren helped Norris, and they have shown that is not their strategy.
Baba wakhe retweeted
I am of the view and have a strong suspicion that the South African government has adopted and applied many of the dirty tricks of the Apartheid regime and in doing so, have embraced much of the paranoia of the time.
Things are not getting any better.
During Mandela's reign, you send an email to the Presidency, you get a response promptly.
Mbeki's reign you do the same, they respond and refer you.
During Zuma's term you send an email within seconds (literally) Lakela Kaunda responds. Your question needs a higher level of authority, Dr Ngqulunga responds promptly.
Hiyoh - then you send an email during Covid about something needing attention. No response. You resend it after a week - error message, your email address has been blocked by the server of the recipient.
Fast forward to 2023 you send from an alternative email address. Response is swift. You write back.
2026 you need to refer the earlier received response and miraculously, it's as though it had never arrived. The two people you copied, can't retrieve their copies either.
Maybe they were hacked and data deleted permanently.
It's those little things that scare me.
Who knows perhaps the file name says, 'persona non grata' or 'not worthy of any recognition'.
And, don't jump down my throat because there's a further reason for this fear.
Sisenjeni shame.
Baba wakhe retweeted
David Hasselhoff sweated in the desert for 90 episodes of Knight Rider. The man who voiced KITT finished each episode in 50 minutes and never once stood next to him.
In the video below, the voice of KITT explains how it really worked.
KITT was voiced by William Daniels, a Broadway and TV actor who later played Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World. He read a few pages for a pitch and realized he was playing a car.
On set, Hasselhoff acted next to a woman reading KITT’s lines. Daniels came into a studio at Universal, recorded the episode, and went home.
When they finally met at a Christmas party, Hasselhoff asked how long it took him. Daniels told him about 50 minutes.
KITT became the most famous car on TV. Hasselhoff’s own KITT later sold at auction for $152,600. Daniels’ name never appeared in the opening or closing credits.
In 2020, Hasselhoff finally visited him at home. Daniels was 93. Hasselhoff said it was like talking to the car, except he was a person.
William Daniels is 99 now.
Did you grow up thinking KITT was real, or did you always know there was a guy in a studio behind it?
Baba wakhe retweeted
They were hijacked at Zola 3 and this are the guys who did it , don’t let it happen to you please share this dashcam camera video and the pictures if you have any information
Baba wakhe retweeted
Random: Reminder that Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie disinvited actual writers from South Africa's Havana Book Festival delegation, using taxpayers’ money to fund, per Daily Maverick, “four self-help writers and three evangelical pastors” with no literary contributions
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According to former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and prominent legal scholar Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, the Constitution of South Africa and its existing legal frameworks have never been the barrier to land reform; instead, the failure lies entirely with the government's lack of political will, corruption, and administrative incompetence.
Both legal minds have argued extensively that Section 25 of the Constitution (the property clause) provides all the necessary power to achieve radical land redistribution, but those powers were simply never utilized effectively by the state.
Key Arguments by Dikgang Moseneke and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
1. The Constitution is an Enabler, Not a Barrier
Expropriation without compensation was always possible: Both scholars have pointed out that Section 25 never strictly demanded "market-value" compensation.
The Constitution requires compensation to be "just and equitable," which allows for zero compensation in specific, justifiable circumstances.
The legal tools existed: The state always had the constitutional mandate to expropriate land for public interest and land reform, but it chose a slow, market-dependent "willing buyer, willing seller" policy instead.
2. Government Dereliction of Duty
Failure to pass enabling legislation: For over two decades, the ANC-led government failed to pass a clear Expropriation Act that defined exactly how and when land could be taken for redistribution.
Budgetary starvation: Land reform was never given top financial priority. The budget allocated to land reform and restitution has historically been less than 1% of the national budget.
3. Corruption and Elite Capture
Farms given to the politically connected: Instead of redistributing land to the poor, farm workers, or labor tenants, many state-acquired farms were allocated to wealthy politicians, state officials, and politically connected elites.
The "bureaucratic mess": The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has been plagued by corruption, missing records, and syndicates that inflated land prices to enrich government officials and corrupt sellers.
4. The Failure of Land Restitution
Unresolved claims: Decades after the 1998 deadline for lodging land claims, hundreds of thousands of claims remain unresolved due to state inefficiency.
Collapsing projects: In cases where land was restored to communities, the state failed to provide post-settlement agricultural support, capital, or training, causing many commercial farms to collapse financially.
Summary of the Debate
When the government initiated debates to amend the Constitution to allow for "expropriation without compensation," Moseneke, Ngcukaitobi, and other legal analysts argued that amending the text was a political scapegoat.
They maintained that changing the wording of the Constitution would not magically fix a broken, corrupt, and incompetent state bureaucracy.
youtu.be/C_bYmbQazuo?si=XNBC…
My vote is about delivery, not party loyalty: competent, accountable people; working roads, lights and water; enforced bylaws; clean, safe spaces; and consequences for misconduct. Transformation, BEE, the genocide in Palestine and firm action on illegal immigration matter too.
Baba wakhe retweeted
NEWS: A car that was stolen in Witbank, 447 bottles of cough syrup, illegal cigarettes, and dagga are amongst the goods the SANDF have intercepted along the SA-Zimbabwe border in Musina in the recent days.
📸 SANDF
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This morning, a man was arrested at the Beitbridge Border Post while trying to smuggle more than 1,000 bottles of cough syrup from South Africa into Zimbabwe. The bottles are sold on the streets of Harare and other urban areas in Zimbabwe for between US$5 and US$8 each.
DOCUMENT HIM
