Kgothatso Madisa

RT @samkelemaseko: “You can’t vote against the budget and the next day you want to implement that budget. We have to draw the line”. Enoch…

“Five minutes before this hearing, I was the one running around saying to people we can’t lose the DA, we must convince the DA to remain. I’m standing here today to say abahambe (let them go).” - PA leader and MP Gayton Mackenzie, April 2 2025.

“We joined this GNU government to drive the growth and jobs agenda, not to enable the worst parts of the ANC. For that, it has to turn to ActionSA. If we’re forced to exit this government for driving a growth and jobs agenda, then so be it.” - DA MP Mark Burke, April 2 2025.

RT @SundayTimesZA: The ANC is now ready to forgo the contested 0.5 percentage point VAT hike after what insiders described as “constructive…

“In the end I think this may well be a point where it is the end of their participation [in the GNU] because they are defining themselves out of the GNU and it will clear tomorrow what decision they take.” https://t.co/Kta5GKFEAG # via @TimesLIVE

In that leaked audio CR says the DA wants to have their cake and it, in that they want to be in government and still remain an opposition. He says he won’t have any of that.

RT @SundayTimesZA: President Cyril Ramaphosa has drawn a line in the sand, telling the ANC caucus the DA had defined itself outside the gov…

We did say over the weekend @SundayTimesZA that GNU is headed for yet another battle over Ebrahim Rasool’s replacement over whether this process is in the purview of the GNU or simply President Cyril Ramaphosa’s prerogative.

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Sibongakonke Shoba @ushoba

I have filed the last story as politics editor of the Sunday Times. It’s an end of a journey that started 13 years ago. It was a privilege working for such a great institution. It was a dream that came true because several generous men and women believed it was possible.

All these people rushing to the U.S to seek ‘help’ on domestic issues lack foresight because once they open that door they won’t be able to close it even if they score a temporary win either through reversals of whatever law or the removal of the current govt.

About time. This show is straight up trash. It never made sense from the beginning. They know nothing about amapiano and are always talking nonsense, especially that old broer there.

m a s h è s h a 💨 @_mashesha

Context of why Reason was furious! 🔥🙆🏾‍♂️ If you don’t know why Reason or Sizwe Alakine is so angry at Thakgi and Sfiso, there was a comparison of him downgrading relationshipically from Lootlove to Gigi Lamayne… G came guns blazing at Thakgi🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/R1XCmqRfXh

What are you talking about man? Do you even know what tax is? Just to educate you, there’s personal income tax, corporate tax, VAT, fuel levy, and sin tax. Can’t be correct that only 7.5mil people pay all these.

Gareth Cliff @GarethCliff

7,5 million people in South Africa pay 95% of the tax. Are you one of them?

I don’t think it’s necessarily the energy policy but more carbon emission from the plants. The issue of climate change has started affecting us. We had heavy snow in September last year very unusual, the weather is now unpredictable, rain just pours heavily out of nowhere.

Nkululeko Mhlaba @MhlabaNkululeko

Why is the Global community so obsessed with South Africa’s energy policy? Why cant they fund housing, health, education, infrastructure or job creation that will benefit the majority? Puzzling 🤔

BREAKING | “To raise the revenue needed, the government proposes to increase the VAT rate by half-a-percentage point in 2025/26, and by another half-a-percentage point in the following year. This will bring the VAT rate to 16 per cent in 2026/27.” - Finance Minister.

“It is a matter of serious concern that some among us have decided ukudlala nge geja kuziliwe [to stoke fires].” Ramaphosa’s national security advisor Prof Mufamadi on Afriforum and Solidairty. https://t.co/JmRkXbtkX2

“We have an embassy and an ambassador in America. We don't need an additional pulpit in Washington to talk to him and the people of America,” says Ramaphosa’s National security advisor. —————————————— Doubt cast on plan to send envoys to Trump https://t.co/JmRkXbtkX2

Congratulations leadership @ushoba. Wishing you all the best in your new role. Very well deserved. Best boss I’ve ever worked under 🙏🏾.