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This content critically analyzes recent political and governance issues in South Africa, focusing on President Ramaphosa's speech regarding the G20 summit and foreign relations, and highlighting pervasive corruption and the assassination of whistleblowers in local government.
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you. So let's start off with President
Sir Ramapa addressing the nation as he
does. I think he's bored. We should find
things for him to do on a Sunday night.
But seemingly he's got nothing better to
do than to give us speeches where he
kind of looks like he's about to either
fall asleep or burst out crying, one of
the two. But he delivered a very odd
speech. The speech can be broken up into
two halves if you were if you were sort
of sucker enough to have listened to it.
Uh the first half of the speech was where
where
President Ramapora gave South Africa a
collective pat on the back for
delivering a fantastic G20
where he read out a whole lot of uh
wishes from leaders that were here to
say what a great performance well done.
You know it's like getting good reviews.
Um, you got to read the good ones and
the bad ones. And generally people don't
give you the bad reviews. So you're left
with a whole lot of meaningless good
reviews. It's a bit like people asking
you how are you? Do they really care how
you are or has that just become part of
the greeting? But anyway, clearly some
of the uh people that came out here
enjoyed themselves and he wanted to
share the love our president say. He
said well done to all of us. Now, I
presume what we all did was that we all
didn't murder one of the visiting
dignitaries or we all didn't rob them or
we all didn't I don't know what else
could we have done because I don't know
about you or about me.
Uh we didn't even see them. We didn't
even know they were in town and I live
in Johannesburg.
They were also surrounded by the last
thousand honest policemen that we have
in South Africa and they were actually
doing their job for a change. What is it
that South Africa was meant to do?
Right, I live quite near the G20 routts,
you know, the the ones that uh Janisburg
City decided to clean up. I personally
never even saw so much as a cavalcade of
these visiting dignitaries. I didn't see
them in a shopping center. I don't think
they went to the Joberg Zoo.
So, thank you, Mr. President, for
thanking us. But uh we didn't do much
except cough up the 700 million rand in
tax money that you used to host this
shindig. Other than that, I can't see
what else he was congratulating South
Africans for. But hey, it's just nice to
get get some pat on the back from the president.
president.
Now this then there was a second half of
the speech.
The second half of the speech was all about
about
having a go at people that uh and
America and the people that go and visit
America. This is really a big message to
Afrey Forum and people that have gone to
see American dignitaries and politicians
and basically what he's doing is he's
blaming those countries for Donald Trump
saying that he's not going to invite
South Africa to the next G20. Now,
Sirill's got a in his calendar in very
big bold, you know, that same Sharpie
pen that Donald Trump always signs stuff
with, President Ramapor has got that
time blocked out where he's going to the
G20 summit and now he sees that visit in
jeopardy. It's like that long awaited
holiday where he gets to go there and
and be part of a panel that he shouldn't
be part of. So, he's now getting really
angry about the not getting invited
back. So, uh, really he couldn't, you
know, his his dislike just bubbled over
for the people that are that have been
speaking to American dignitaries. Now,
I've got to say that if you are a
president of a country, right? And your
defense of the allegation of white
genocide, as I've said many times, is
that we kill everybody.
That more people die in South Africa
than die in Gaza and they're a war zone.
That more people have died in South
Africa since the start of the Ukraine
war than Ukrainians.
It's not compelling eh not working for
me that uh you should say stop saying
that we have a genocide when we're
killing everybody that just doesn't work
for me when you the 45th biggest economy
in the world and you're part of the G20.
Yeah. A bit of imposttor syndrome
creeping in there. President Ramapa.
So it sort of got me to start thinking
about what is his problem with America.
Well, he's got the problem that he can't
actually dispute any of the claims that
organizations like Afrey Forum make
about the race laws, about the property
expropriation. These are all facts.
They're sitting there in black and white
on the law books, on the statute books.
You're discriminating against
minorities. It's on the statute books.
We can point to the laws that
discriminate against South Africans, but
you take 100% of their taxes. The people
that are discriminated against don't get
a tax break to say, "Okay, fine. You
know, you only need to pay 70% of their
tax of your taxes because we know that
you can't keep 100% of your business."
So it feels like this is a really
prickly point to the president, not
because it's lies, but because it's the truth.
truth.
And I wonder when you listen to the to
the speech that President Ramapa made yesterday.
yesterday.
Who was he actually speaking to?
Was it to the international world to
make them feel better about South Africa
that they've learned about Ubuntu? that
you don't kill visitors when you're in
the when they're in your country. Was he
speaking to Afrey Forum to try and get
them to say, "Oh, silly us. We'll stop now."
now."
Or was he speaking to himself
to try and convince himself that South
Africa is this rainbow nation where all
citizens are equal?
I think that's what he was doing. I
think he was sitting there trying to
convince himself that this is a country
that doesn't discriminate against
minorities, that doesn't have an outofc
control murder rate. So really, I would
have thought that it would have made
more sense that instead of interrupting
the broadcasting
on uh SABC or wherever it went out on, right?
right?
Please rather just record it and go to
yourself and and watch it yourself
unless you can point to specific lies
that any South African organization has
gone to America and actually propagated
because you may not like their message
but I don't think you can get them on
the facts.
I really don't. You know I went to a be
seminar. Yes, I was possibly the wrong
person to be at that seminar. And this
was all about how to keep the be train rolling.
rolling.
There were about 300 people at the seminar.
seminar.
Not one of them was a poor person.
Most of them were linked to government.
Most of them were very prosperous. You
could see there was a scale there that
would have said there were 600 people there.
there.
The point is that what he's trying to
protect is the grift for the politically
connected. He doesn't give a damn about
poor people and he knows it. So if you
put yourself in Sur Ramap's shoes, you
know that your life is a big farce.
Everything you say, you know, is a lie.
This is like, you know, somebody trying
to uh say that they're just overweight
because they've got because of their
thyroid. Well, maybe it was the two
pizzas and the hamburger you ate
yesterday. You know, let's be honest
with ourselves. This was just another
puff piece by the president.
This idea that we all did well in the
G20 summit is a lie. There were a
handful of people that were involved.
So suddenly Joberg City did what they
are paid to do every day. They cut a bit
of grass and they kept a few lights on.
We pay them that. We pay money for them
to do that anyway.
We don't need thanks.
When somebody comes and does their job
that you pay them for, you maybe
acknowledge them, but you don't say,
"What a great effort. You did what I
paid you for." Right? I don't think you
go to McDonald's saying, "What a great
hamburger that I paid for. I paid for
the great hamburger."
So, please stop with this, Mr.
President. Please. And please stop
saying that people out there are
spreading lies when they speak to
Americans cuz they're just quoting the
facts as they are on your statute book.
If you don't like those facts, take them
away. I haven't seen the the government
removing expropriation without compensation.
compensation.
The fact that you haven't taken a farm
speaks more to the fact that you're just
your government is just not good enough
to go and do it. Doesn't mean that the
expropriation act has gone anywhere.
It's still there.
So maybe some introspection is necessary.
necessary.
Maybe you should listen to this speech
instead of your own speech
and understand that those people go
overseas. What did you do in return? You
sent people like Ibrahim Rasul to America.
America.
You wouldn't pass the baton of the
leadership of the G20 over to their
chosen diplomat. You said that was
beneath you.
Maybe it wasn't beneath you. Maybe that
diplomat is above you. Maybe that
diplomat hasn't stuffed money in his
couch. Maybe that diplomat isn't working
in an office full of people that were
that were mentioned in the Zondo
Commission. Maybe that's your problem
with America.
Just my thoughts on that, right? A very
strange speech by an increasingly
strange man. What is it with ANC
presidents that as they near the their
own leadership
meeting that they start becoming a
little bit crazy? But I think Sir
Ramapora has been in the g in that
position too long. He's trying to
convince himself he's doing a good job
where the country teeters on the brink
of being a failed state. It won't be a
failed state because of the people, not
because of the politicians.
But you keep telling yourself that this
is the rainbow nation. You keep telling
yourself that we are still the country
for everybody who lives in it. Your laws
say a different thing. So maybe you
should start thinking about yourself,
your role in this.
Let's move on to more interesting
matters. The problems in the city of
Aureleni just will not end.
How about this for a nice one? It's sort
of come to light that the mayor of
Ukurilleni of course heaza
he was at the funeral saying a few words
for the slain
auditor Impul Mafer earlier in the year
and he told mourners at that funeral
that Mafo may have been murdered because
he was investigating irregular rates
clearances and a controversial
refurbishment of a a building in Ger Gerston.
Gerston.
But the mayor knew he was lying.
Why? Because that case had already been
finalized long before Mafle got to the municipality.
municipality.
Right? This had already been put
together by a third party audit report
was sitting on the mayor's desk before
Mafle even took his position.
Mayor Kakata who rules Aureleni in a
coalition with the EFF. Just to show you
what that government would look like
knew that Paul Mafer's killing came
after he filed a damning report about a
chemical toilet contract worth 1.8
billion rand.
Why do we have a chemical toilet
contract? Because the city won't make
permanent toilets
because then you can't have a chemical
toilets contract.
So it's worth noting that the
assassination of Maf mirrored the
assassination of Babita dearan almost
perfectly right and the assassination of
Babita Deia Karan can be traced back to
Tbisa hospital and the looting of that
place two billion rand
and that that assassination we know was
was done by employees of Kat Matlala and
we know the looting of Tbisa Hospital
was done by the untouchable Anguani
Morgan Malmela remember the person who
Sorill doesn't know betetti knows
doesn't know where much about him but
yet he's been in his house right so you
know this thing about the ANC they just
will not understand that the people have
had enough of corruption theft and
assassination of whistleblowers but
Aureleni my word. It's going to be
interesting to see what the local
government election throws up there, but
how the ANC or the EFF is even near
power in Kurillini. Heaven alone knows.
And while we're on the topic of cat
matlala, let's remember that last week
he implicated the head of the cohawks in
Quazulu Nutell, Major General Lesa Sona,
who he called his big brother
and part and Sona seems to be part of
the trophy cabinet of Kat Matlala which
includes politicians,
policemen that are all under the control
of Matlala.
That trophy cabinet is now getting
pretty full. We know it's got former
police minister in there allegedly.
Becky Tle,
head of the Kurilleni Metro Police
Julius Quinazi, head of the Hawks,
Shadrach Sabia,
and maybe even former national head of
the Hawks, Godfrey Leia, who seemed to
be very keen to do his bidding as well.
Right, this has got the hallmarks. If
you've got a criminal who's got
politicians under his control, police
under his control, this is exactly what
Klankam Kunazi revealed in his explosive
press conference in 6th of July. And
that's why these these commissions are
so vitally important for this country.
So, let's keep an eye out over there. It
ain't going away. These assassinations
are not one-off events. They are linked.
Anybody who gets in the way of the
operations of the criminal syndicates
gets taken out. What do the police do?
Well, obviously they do nothing because
they're in on it.
And through it all, the ANC still don't
get it. They still don't get it. There
are hearings at the moment, a short list
of people to replace Shamila Batoy as uh
head of uh the the National Prosecuting
NPA, right? And there's a whole lot of
people that were put forward through and
now we've got a short list. And who is
on the short list? None other than
disgraced former head of the NPA, Mensy
Simlani. Remember him? He was the guy
who killed off the Scorpions. He was the
guy who lied to the Freeny Januala
Commission that looked into the the
firing of Wussy Picoli as head of the
NPA. But this was a guy whose career
seemed to be over.
The constitutional court deemed him
unfit in 2012 after the finding of the G
jinala commission
and now
they find him to be worthy of being
considered to be head of the NPA. Have
we gone completely mad?
I think we have. Look, on the plus side,
there's very little chance of him
getting the job, but you never know.
This is South Africa. But the fact that
he even makes a short list is concerning
in on of itself.
Thank you very much to Mighty Jamie. So
that's all we have today. A lot on our
plate. We're going to go back to the
commissions this week and uh we'll be
listening to very intently on what they
have to say. But don't worry, we've got
it. South Africa's fine. The people are
good. It's the politicians we just have
to get rid of. But thank you for
listening to us today. I hope you have
subscribed to the Political Insider.
Thank you so much for joining me and
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