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The asbestos project was conceived, with the blessings of the ANC, as a social justice project intended to remove toxic roofing over the houses of the poor. Over the yrs many have died from lung infections in places like Bethlehem; Harrismith; eastern FS etc
and many other towns. The affected people were given false hopes. This was around 2010. Ten yrs later nothing has happened because the funds were looted and the ANC was one of the beneficiaries. The Top 6 knew the source of the funds. Yet they accepted them.
People have died as a result of this grotesque looting. Surely the ANC is complicit in the painful deaths that have occurred. Who can deny that. Their surrogates went about spending ostentatiously even among the victims. Rubbing salt into the poor wounds.
Plse do not believe the gratuitous and nonsensical explanation by @DrZweliMkhize about the funds he received from Sodi. He accepted proceeds of death as TG of the ANC yet this was supposed to be a social justice project. This is unconscionable in the extreme.

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Jan 27, 2023
@MYANC
For almost a decade:
1. Transnet has throttled mineral and perishable fruit exports
2. Eskom has throttled industries, factories and smaller businesses
3. ANC-led munics have collapsed. They owe Eskom over R50 billion
4. Sewerage and water treatment
plants have collapsed resulting in poor health.
5. The public health system has collapsed. The best evidence is the collapse of the once admired JG Hospital in Jnb. Look at its pic 30 yrs ago and you want to cry.
5. Basic education has collapsed.
6. ANC-Led govmnt have failed to produce and execute responsive policy to trigger inclusive growth and jobs. Creating jobs is the best strategy to fight poverty.
7. Unemployment levels have reached historical highs globally.

ALL OF THIS UNDER ANC GOVMNT. 🙆‍♂️
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Human beings have always existed in a dynamic and changing environment. Uncertainty is part of our lives.
Organisations that we create also experience this uncertainty.
Many factors within and external to these spaces influence change and its direction.
By our own actions or inaction, we influence direction and pace of change.
Naturally we embrace change that will improve our living conditions and prospects and reject its obverse.
What determines our success is the ability understand key factors...
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When you have learned sufficiently...
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Oct 19, 2022
I was bemused listening to Somizi on his show stating that dogs that are owned by black people in the suburbs have assumed estranged behaviours. They don't understand the meaning of 'voetsek'.!!
They now behave like their white owned neighbours.
We reside in a suburb dominated by Afrikaans speaking white people. Their dogs habitually bark at us as we take a walk. Even their little rabbit like poodles with their shrieking noises bark at us. But they don't bark to any white person on the same route.!!
The only explanation is that they learnt this toxic and disrespectful behaviour from their owners. They don't even understand 'voetsek' 🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️ Legacy of racial colonial hate. I've now decided to take along my knobkirrie and a protective spray with me.
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Oct 16, 2022
The problems of Transnet, and even Eskom, stem from lack of clarity about Purpose; Ownership and Corp Structure, and Business Strategy. Current policy ambivalence spelled disaster.

mg.co.za/business/2022-…
I raised questions on these issues reg SAA in2017. They have never been answered. SAA is now gone.
Read:
google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…
Accountability on operational decisions resides in Exc management only. Governance in the Board.
NO interference from govmnt.
Change requires fundamental policy change. SOEs cannot be viewed and treated as labour absorbing agencies for cadre. They MUST form the architecture of a capable state and resourced accordingly. Their CEOs must be highly qualified professionals.
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Oct 14, 2022
Brilliant. Just brilliant. But the target of this advice sees self more than virtue of the task.

OPINIONISTA: It’s a myth that the trouble at UCT is due to contestations over race and gender — nothing is further from the truth dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…
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Sipho Pityana decided in the previous Council not to pursue the
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They are essentially departments in the public service structure. The erstwhile Gordhan plays his role very well as required..
The Boards are just Advisory in function.
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