The SA Politics Thread Part 3

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ToxicBunny said:
I am honestly surprised by this in some ways, and totally not surprised in others.

Cyril continues to be fscking useless. FFS you useless twat, make a gawddamn decision for ONCE in your life Cyril you tit.
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The big problem is, if it isn't sorted out quickly it could lead to a constitutional crisis and could **** with 2024 elections...
 
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PrimeSteak said:
www.news24.com

De Ruyter warned WCape's Winde to be independent of Eskom soon, 'there's big trouble ahead' | Business

South Africa’s only opposition-led province plans to facilitate the construction of almost 6GW of power generation capacity to counter nationwide electricity shortages and bolster the regional economy.
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How many years have you been an opposition-led province Winde? How many years have we had an Eskom problem? Always reactionary and never proactive.
 
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PrimeSteak said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631161157867261953

Agree with Euseless here.

When it came to Zuma, people lose it.
When it comes to Rama (not as badly as a few years ago but still), we get tons of reasonable explanations like "What if RET? :unsure:".
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The whole chain of process for the appointment of the board was delayed, all the way from Parliament, there was a mess with Parliament on the vetting of the candidates and the are still issues with some of the names forwarded to the President, the process cannot be delayed in the other stages and all of a sudden the President must be compliant on the time frames.

Seeing that he has already been taken to court it's hardly him getting a free pass. The funny thing is that the court process on its own is going to add even more delays on the appointment of the board, so it doesn't look like the delay is a problem after all.
 
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TheChamp said:
The whole chain of process for the appointment of the board was delayed, all the way from Parliament, there was a mess with Parliament on the vetting of the candidates and tete are still issues with some of the names forwarded to the President, the process cannot be delayed in the other stages and all of a sudden the President must be compliant on the time frames.

Seeing that he has already been taken to court it's hardly him getting a free pass.
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How long has Cyril had the list of names on his desk?

Ignore all the other delays, focus purely on the one that matters in this instance.
 
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ToxicBunny said:
How long has Cyril had the list of names on his desk?

Ignore all the other delays, focus purely on the one that matters in this instance.
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Somewhere around January iirc.

Edit, looks like they were handed over in December but the CVs handed over in January, no idea if it's the same Parliament or who was responsible for the CVs.

www.timeslive.co.za

Delay in the appointment of SABC board unfortunate, says Presidency

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has conceded that the process of appointing the SABC board has hit a snag.
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ToxicBunny said:
Try the 6th of December: https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/n...ent-approves-the-12-names-for-new-sabc-board/

Ok, add a week for parliament being fscking useless as "process" of officially getting the names to him
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Yes, see the edited post.

Look I don't think it's a good thing, but it's also not a good thing to just appoint the board for the sake of it if there are issues around some of the names or processes. The President does not just rubber stamp Parliament's names, he still has to do due consideration, in the process of that there will be other issues that comes up that needs to be attended to as it seems to be the case now.

Taking the Presidency to court is not going to magically expedite the process, it is in fact going to delay it even more.
 
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TheChamp said:
Yes, see the edited post.

Look I don't think it's a good thing, but it's also not a good thing to just appoint the board for the sake of it if there are issues around some of the names or processes. The President does not just rubber stamp Parliament's names, he still has to do due consideration, in the process of that there will be other issues that comes up that needs to be attended to as it seems to be the case now.

Taking the Presidency to court is not going to magically expedite the process, it is in fact going to delay it even more.
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No its not going to magically expedite the process, but it will force these incompetent twats to do their damn job, and do it within reasonable time frames...

And ok, from that article, Cyril is only slightly less of an incompetent dithering fscking twat, and Parliament and its supporting services are slightly more of a bunch of dithering incompetent twats....

Given the delay of him getting the names, the least he could have done is communicate with the public at large about WHY there is a delay, not force entities to take him to court to get some basic answers.
 
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Maybe they are driving things deliberately towards a crisis, so that they can have an escape avenue open whilst the country burns?
 
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Why are we blabbering about flipping SABC? If he just focuses on resolving eskom crisis, sabc can go to timbuktu - that leech institution can be sorted out later.
 
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