The SA Politics Thread Part 8 - The Truly GNU Dawn, or is it?

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Yeah, and its a rainbow nation when it suits Lesufi and co. Otherwise, minorities must be shunted aside and demonized constantly.

Don't forget about "wit gevaar"...
In my view Lesufi has the same sort of morality as Malema in using racism as a distraction and smokescreen for self promotion, incompetence and/or corruption. Pretty much ANC policy.
 
In my view Lesufi has the same sort of morality as Malema in using racism as a distraction and smokescreen for self promotion, incompetence and/or corruption. Pretty much ANC policy.
But he's trying to get all the kiddos to play and learn together, that's all...

He totally doesn't have a grudge against Afrikaners and the wider Afrikaans community.
 
Do you have proof that she is really white ? What a traitor if she is.
This is someone's bored housewife who's OF wasn't getting enough likes so she had to try her luck and talk k@k on X :ROFL:
 
But he's trying to get all the kiddos to play and learn together, that's all...

He totally doesn't have a grudge against Afrikaners and the wider Afrikaans community.
Lesufi being a populist, starting to lean more heavily into slaan-whitey-terug as an additional pillar of his support. We'll see how it plays out, it does seem to resonate well. BELA line has been drawn in the sand, the result will be a litmus test. I don't think the ANC is enjoying the blowback on BELA, and not being able to have things their own way anymore.
 
John saying the matter will go to the constitutional court implies that the prospect of finding a settlement in the 3 month Cyril provided is not looking good.

Besides the march I haven't heard anything from those negotiations.
 
John saying the matter will go to the constitutional court implies that the prospect of finding a settlement in the 3 month Cyril provided is not looking good.
At the same time, he said he believes they can find a consensus. Otherwise, they'll go to court...
Besides the march I haven't heard anything from those negotiations.
No one has really. Except that one ST article saying bureaucrats in DBE refuse to budge in negotiations.
 
Aberdeen resident and DA councillor Eldridge Ruiters had to appear in the town’s magistrates’ court on Tuesday, 5 November 2024, after he received a notice that he was painting lines on the town’s roads “without permission”.


Ruiters has admitted that he was repainting the lines in the town as the faded road lines and parking spot indicators have not been painted in many years, and are faded and barely visible.


While several other municipalities in the country have bylaws that prohibit the painting of road markings without the municipality’s permission, it is not evident that the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality has such a bylaw. The municipality did not respond to a request for comment.


Eastern Cape spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority Luxolo Tyali said it wasn’t a trivial matter.


“That is a very serious offence. If people change road markings, others might follow those and get into serious accidents. Road signs and markings have to comply with the law. Making your own markings or changing markings is changing legal directives to suit you,” said Tyali.


“If we leave him, others may follow suit, and that may lead to anarchy,” he said.


Ruiters, however, was adamant that he was not doing anything wrong. “I measure and do it strictly according to the bylaws,” he said.


“I won’t lie, we want the votes, that is why we have started this campaign. The DA bought the paint,” he said.


“But I am not doing anything wrong. Where the lines are faded, I paint exactly over the same lines and, where you can’t see the lines, I look up what the measurements must be, and we measure and paint exactly according to these.”


Ruiters is a PR councillor in the municipality’s council. The two ward councillors in Aberdeen, however, are from the ANC.



To his surprise, Ruiters was first tipped off by a resident while he was on his way to Graaff-Reinet that trouble was coming. The next thing he knew, at 9am on Friday he received a notice to either pay a R350 fine or appear in court.


He chose court.


“I was preparing for court the whole weekend. I was looking for that bylaw, but I couldn’t find it. Also, they gave me a traffic notice. He said the ‘onder-magistraat’ [the colloquial word for the prosecutor] told him she could also not find the bylaw and even phoned the municipality for clarity but could not find anything. So, she refused to put the case on the court roll.


“I must go to court tomorrow to go fetch my proof that the case was removed,” he said.


He said there were a lot of private initiatives to clean up and restore Aberdeen.


“I really feel like this was a malicious prosecution,” he said. “What a chance to take with me … they don’t even have a bylaw like that.” DM
It's not even like he's making his own markings, he's just repainting the faded ones...
 

But he's working with the foreigners, at least, that's what Twitter analysts tell me...
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs met on 5 November to discuss progress made within the department.


On the agenda was the Government Printing Works (GPW), the proposal of a one-stop border post bill and issues relating to a court ruling on the Immigration Act.


Minister Leon Schreiber was present to take on the portfolio committee’s recommendations, while also reiterating his belief in the department’s greater importance in the everyday lives of South Africans.

Home Affairs to uphold rule of law​


Schreiber took a tough stance on illegal immigration, saying that South Africa should not be seen as a “free-for-all” that did not take the rule of law seriously.


He repeated his invitation to legal visitors, saying South Africa must welcome economically active immigrants and tourists alike.


Upholding immigration laws through a strong Border Management Authority (BMA) and effecting deportations went hand in hand, Schreiber explained.


“I don’t think it should be viewed as a false dichotomy, saying you can either have secure borders or you can have deportations.


“The truth is we need to have both if we want to face the deficiencies that we face in terms of the rule of law,” said Schreiber.


He concluded by saying that everything the department was working on was steps toward achieving the central aims of efficiency, modernisation and zero-tolerance towards lawlessness.


Items on agenda​


Outstanding recommendations on the GPW were addressed, as was the development of the Refugees Amendment Bill, which is being consulted on internally.


In line with Schreiber’s push for efficiency, Home Affairs is proposing a draft bill for one-stop border posts that would negate the need to have two checkpoints at border crossings.


“By definition, it will require us to have cooperation between land border neighbours,” Schreiber said, again stressing the need for a tough stance on criminality.

Another key concern was the judgement of Rayment and Others vs Minister of Home Affairs in the Western Cape High Court.


The judgement dealt with the legality of extending visas to parents of South African-born minors when marriages end.


The committee had reservations about provisions from the judgement being read into statutes and recommended the Minister address this “defect”.
 

According to the Municipal Structures Act, councillors and municipal workers are not allowed to owe the municipality for rates and services for more than three months.

Mamabolo told the legislature that:

Information provided by Emfuleni, which, of course, we will also engage the municipality on, is that indeed the executive mayor owes the municipality about R5 000, the speaker of council about R4 000, the chief whip of council about R1 490 and members of the mayoral committee, collectively, and this is a breakdown, about R125 670. Cumulatively, in total, R136 976.
The DA in the Gauteng legislature has, however, rejected the figures, stating the numbers were misleading. DA member of the provincial legislature and Emfuleni North constituency head Kingsol Chabalala disputed Emfuleni's figures.

"I might not have the current figures, but I think Emfuleni's responses are very misleading," Chabalala said. He said Emfuleni's member of the mayoral committee (MMC) for finance recently revealed that of the R1.7 million owed, R376 000 was attributed to opposition councillors.

"It's also sad that the mayor, the chief whip, the speaker of the council and the MMCs, who should lead by example, are the ones who are not paying the rates and taxes. I think the figure is higher than this, but we'll get to the bottom of this and come and give you the real thing," Chabalala said.

READ | DA demands action from Lesufi on electricity promises amid frustration in Emfuleni

Chabalala added that he was aware that his own party, the DA, also had councillors in Emfuleni who owed the municipality for rates and services.

"I think the MEC is lying; if you take into consideration the financial challenges of that municipality, it cannot be that the mayor of that municipality owes rates and taxes [amounting to that much]; it cannot be that the mayor, the chief whip and speaker and MMCs owe the municipality more than R100 000, it doesn't make sense," Chabalala said.

Attempts to reach Radebe were unsuccessful, his comments will be added once received.
 
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