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@MotsohiThabang
Feb 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Our fiscal crisis exists because we created it.
Our democratic transition compelled us to run an efficient state beaurocracy to achieve equity in provision of public services.
1st priority was to have top class revenue collection and Treasury.
Discounting some hiccups in these areas, we have done well.
Now SARS urgently needs more resources. We must grant them. Whatever it takes.
We now also need to adopt a technocratic approach to eliminate inefficiencies and incompetence in our state system.
The GNU provides the operational mindset to achieve that.
We must treat incompetence, inefficiencies and corruption as crises.
This will develop sure pathway to balancing our national budget.
Do not focus on the inconvenience created by Trump.
If we can demonstrate credible commitment and active plans to achieve all of above, our problems will be how to manage an influx of investment. Not its opposite.
I honestly believe only a coalition government can achieve that at this moment.

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Feb 25
The appointment of old and retired cadres as convenors in GP and KZN sends a clear message that the ANC has run out of steam and ideas.
This decline was easily predictable from 2007.
It's painful to see a once glorious movement degenerate so miserably.
The indisputable fact is that organizational renewal requires clear strategy and rigorous and dispassionate execution.
There is currently no leader with indisputable courage to do that!!
So, the ignominious end is unavoidable.
What you see now is just hubris.
I know what I'm talking about fro dealing with the subject for over thirty years.
I have also written books about it.
It's an uncomfortable subject for the ANC leadership.
But ignoring advice will not slow down the degeneration.
Read 4 tweets
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Feb 7
I find it difficult to find fault with this clearly honest SONA speech evaluation.
The focus is on primary challenges the most impor4ant of which is dysfunctional municipalities.
This is where job creating factories are created.
outa.co.za/blog/newsroom-…
Government states that the District Model shall fix the wrongs in munics.
Strategically this has to be premised on a clear articulation of primary problems and structural weaknesses.
And an explanation of why some munics work while most don't.
This is missing
Further, a clear articulation of constraints to effective execution of this new approach is missing.
Without these grounding factors, the intention in SONA on munics is a blissful wish list.
I'm open to views in the contrary.
@OUTASA
@PresidencyZA
Read 6 tweets
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Feb 2
If you seriously reflect on how the ANC Tripartite Alliance govmnt has destroyed the capability of the state system, and municipalities under its control, through leadership incompetence, this country should be the leader in rolling anti-government protests.
Regardless of this serious indictment, party leaders and their zealots, continue to claim that they are the 'Leader' of society.
This term applies to pre-democratic liberation struggle phase to mobilize people around one mission to defeat apartheid.
It's a meaningless concept to the last three generations.
The challenges now in our diverse country are about economic growth and social upliftment.
The ANC have demonstrated with abundant evidence in the past 2 decades that they cannot be trusted to deliver
Read 4 tweets
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Jan 28
The universal truth and reality is that aggregate national growth is driven by metropolitan cities Not national governments.
In South Africa therefore, the GNU is less important.
A party that controls a well run Metro shall win national support.
The ANC did not lose majority power because of bad national policies. Yes, their misaligned policies and "Party-State" mindset derailed focus from the national interests.
The electorate punished them for dysfunctional municipalities under their control.
Lessons:
1. Win the Metros outright or agree a solid coalition to grow national support.
2. Ensure that worldclass leadership and competencies are employed
3. Completely eliminate political interference through well drafted municipal legislation
Read 5 tweets
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Jan 27
The pervasive and racialized structural inequality in SA is a deliberate outcome of racial exclusion under colonial and apartheid systems.
The Broad Black Econonic Empowerment laws and regulations under democratic government have failed to reverse it.
But they have succeeded partially because the beneficiaries were in practice limited to political elites and their surrogates and cronies. Again the black majority continue to be excluded and relegated to the bottom of the colonial supremacist class hierarchy
This is because the ANC ANC Tripartite Alliance succumbed to the allure of apartheid power positions and benefits to the exclusion of their mandate as defined in the Freedom Charter.
They ignored to create a capable state to achieve social justice.
Read 7 tweets
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Dec 29, 2024
Post-apartheid political mandate granted to the ANC was about assuring equitable justice in all areas and creating conditions for a better life for all.
Many policies and programmes that must, or could have been done, were not done or were poorly attempted.
The following five rank amongst the most important that should have been achieved in three decades.
They were criminally neglected and yet a good basis was inherited in 1994. They needed a capable state and focus on the national interests at all costs.
1. An aggressive expansion of quality infrastructure for Basic Education; Secondary Schools; Technology Colleges and some universities; Primary Health; Hospital Network.
2. Deployment of top competences at all municipal functionary levels from Mayor.
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