Thread by @purplecowmobi

We're at the Rand Club this morning, an institution that would not have allowed most of us through the door when it was founded. We like that symbolism. #purplecowlaunch

"Every one of us is a victim of crime. And here is the crime. For every R100 rand that we contribute, our government spends R34 rand paying themselves." - @KanthanPillay

"We pay 400 people in Parliament more than a million rand per year per person, and they are largely unemployable.

These are people who do not know how to change a tyre, but want to spend our money on an airline that most of us will never fly."

@KanthanPillay not holding back.

"I suspect many of us would have no problem paying 34 rand out of every 100:
•if we had hospitals that worked without killing babies through infection,
•if we had police who can defend us instead of needing to pay ADT to protect themselves

•if we had preservation of our water supply instead of sewage flowing into the Vaal Dam,
•if we had public transport systems to allow us to get to and from work safely so that we may spend time with our families instead of 4 hours a day or more commuting"

"It is time to put an end to the tyranny of incompetence.

We need to fix this. And the only way to fix this is for those of us who actually know how to make things work stand up and say, “get out of the way, we’ve got this.” - @KanthanPillay at #purplecowlaunch

"Who are the people who know how to make things work?

There is a collective noun for us.

We are capitalists." @KanthanPillay

"South Africa is a capitalist country. The street vendor is a capitalist. The spaza shop owner is a capitalist. The minibus taxi driver owner is a capitalist. The factory owner is a capitalist."@KanthanPillay

"The farm owner is a capitalist. The mining boss is a capitalist. The woman who sets up a creche in a traffic island in Alexandra is a capitalist. And all of us capitalists come together to create jobs and prosperity for all of us."

"Capitalism has unleashed the biggest wave of prosperity in the history of the human race." @KanthanPillay at #PurpleCowLaunch

"Here in our beautiful South Africa, politicians have turned capitalism into a swear word. They make us feel guilty for working hard to improve our lives. And this guilt allows us to let them steal money from hardworking families and use the money for corruption." @KanthanPillay

We are here to announce that we are the Capitalist Party of South Africa, the ZACP. Look out for our purple cow on your ballot form on May 8. #purplecowlaunch #ZACP

Our founders are @KanthanPillay @Neo_Ydidi and @RomanCabanac. We have 10 candidates, 10 principles and 10 good ideas to fix some of South Africa's biggest problems. You can watch our videos here: capitalist.org.za/plan

Our other seven candidates are @GideonJewbear @Unathi_Kwaza @mcleodd @SVabaza @LouisNel @katlegoMabusela and @DumoDenga

"We believe that we are the only party that refuses to be held prisoner by the past and knows how to shape the future." @KanthanPillay

And one more thing

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