SA Politics Thread Part 13 The Days of Madlanga

KulQkumba said:
:thumbsup: indeed everyone should be free to ride their hobby horse, especially when related to something like the fskup that is RICA and pre-registered prepaid SIM cards....very much in the public interest.

But don't you feel that it is a little too convenient that the "secure packaging" solution/regulation that she is banging on about is very niche to 2 of her former employer's clients and not actually a globally recognised standard or effective way to fight mobile fraud?
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Coming in from the left field. I don't know who the providers were, so can't speak to thats specifically, this is general.

Yes, RICA is fack up of note, a joke. There are many ways to subvert it, it is being done and to our detriment.

SIM swaps? Our finest abused it before it beame an international thing.

But then again, international standards does not necessarily translate to South Africa (or Africa). I've seen these so called solutions and standards in various things when it comes to criminality. Trying to implement it in the local environment is a cluster fack of note. Think FICA. Yet we have massive mule networks because people cannot be deprived of banking, yet they have no fixed address. Meanswhile the informal unbanked sector is said to be bigger than the formal sector. Dirty money in, comes out cleaner than an OMO bath.

Think POPIA, supposedly based upon the GDPR which is globally recognised. It's literally the very thing that has been weaponised to the detriment of the public interest, the biggest weaponisers in Africa. It's why bad actors go after Truecaller (not that I use it) using POPIA as a stick. It why our national coza registry is littered with fraud despite international standard are being followed and those managing it self-fellating on their success, not bothering to question why their biggest reseller is also the most dirty and in the EU. It meets the standards, but fit for purpose? Meanwhile at the CIPC you now have to register, share PI to look up businesses, only to find the business belongs to John Doe (yes, really). Yes, but the POPIA box was ticked?? Now "John" can use his business registration to open up a business bank acct - hell, it even done for him. How does that translate where John does business globally? There is an expectation that people globally will rush to the CIPC to register share the PI, potentially leaking it. This is exatcly how we end up on grey lists.

I always say the rest of the world is not ready for Africa when it comes to these things. I've watched these big international players punt their solutions meeting international standards, evene IBM, in seminars etc, while I know exactly how ineffective they are.

Sorry, I'm not a standards compliant fan. Ticking a box does not solve a problem, except the requirement that the box has to be ticked.

Btw, COVID time was an interesting one with RICA. I loved it!

So, sorry, I'm reading these posts, the manufactured outrage, munching popcorn.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/2077003376852648136

The insanity has gone on long enough.

Resolve Communications has done nothing illegal or unethical, and not a single journalist, commentator or X genius has provided a shred of evidence that it has.

There is no evidence that it has ever offered an inducement to any government official, whether to secure a meeting, a contract or a reform.

There is also no evidence it has ever threatened or intimidated any government official for any reason whatever.

The best the smear-merchants can manage is to suggest Tony Leon has “undue” influence over DA ministers because he is the former leader of the party and has served on an election review panel and the party’s negotiating team. Strange, then, that this undue influence has achieved so little: the only minister with whom Leon managed to set up a meeting was John Steenhuisen himself. Not Dion George, not Willie Aucamp, not Solly Malatsi.

He has however, by his own account, set up meetings for clients with at least six ANC ministers so perhaps he has an undue influence over the ANC? If only it were so.
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So what have we discovered about Resolve? First, it tries to set up meetings at which its clients can make their case to government. Second, it helps those clients make their case compellingly. Third, it assists those clients to make their case publically. Oh, and it once offered to draft some parliamentary questions for an MP, which never happened and which, had it happened, would be neither here nor there – government should be available to answer any questions MPs ask on behalf of any stakeholders.
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ShaunSA said:
Gareth must realise the public don't buy what journos are touting these days

He can huff and puff his own horn
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He's barking up the wrong tree anyway. The whole storm was brewed up in the DA's own cup by the same self DA. He should be ranting at their inept ability to find scandal near every election.
 
Sideshow Bob said:
I get your point and "everybody does it" is not a defense but where is exact evidence against Resolve communications ? I don't see it yet. It is just lot of throwing mud and hoping something will stick.
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If they fling hard enough they’re hoping it will eventually stay there. Imagine being vilified for doggedly pursuing an anti-corruption policy in parliament. Why is no one asking what the issue is she’s promoting and why is it an issue?
 
Inertia said:
If they fling hard enough they’re hoping it will eventually stay there. Imagine being vilified for doggedly pursuing an anti-corruption policy in parliament. Why is no one asking what the issue is she’s promoting and why is it an issue?
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I just wonder what the GLM is trying to hide.

First the bokkie thing was fanned into a scandal to distract the public, until that started backfiring.

Now we see the Leon outrage being fanned for all it's worth.

What's distraction is next: "True Blue DA" journalists like Max and academia writing an open letter ... oh wait, that one has been used before by the SSA.

:unsure:
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:
I just wonder what the GLM is trying to hide.

First the bokkie thing was fanned into a scandal to distract the public, until that started backfiring.

Now we see the Leon outrage being fanned for all it's worth.

What's distraction is next: "True Blue DA" journalists like Max and academia writing an open letter ... oh wait, that one has been used before by the SSA.

:unsure:
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Madlanga commission and all the peeps in hospital are connected I reckon. Someone senior was about to be name dropped with evidence.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Madlanga commission and all the peeps in hospital are connected I reckon. Someone senior was about to be name dropped with evidence.
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What I have normally seen with Thechamp and the other left wing terrorists is that when they are spouting a huge ammount of BS , normally a few days later a clanger of note is made public
 
Next Thing said:
What I have normally seen with Thechamp and the other left wing terrorists is that when they are spouting a huge ammount of BS , normally a few days later a clanger of note is made public
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@TheChamp - Elite right winger has made allegations that you are a left wing terrorist. I need your explanation by EOD about this. Or else..
 
ToxicBunny said:
Nah, Malema has been outed already,

Someone else, who we already know is tainted of course (they're part of the mafia or one of its offshoots). I wonder if its not Paulie.
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So maybe this one?

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Thread 'Explosive allegations about Eskom and President Cyril Ramaphosa'

Explosive allegations about Eskom and President Cyril Ramaphosa

Former Eskom chairman, Professor William Makgoba, shared explosive allegations about political interference during former Minister Pravin Gordhan's tenure.
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ToxicBunny said:
Nah, Malema has been outed already,

Someone else, who we already know is tainted of course (they're part of the mafia or one of its offshoots). I wonder if its not Paulie.
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Cele was "friends" with Matlala. Matlala had a "spacial relationship" with Khan...
 
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