...and so the 19th Feb has come and gone.

The 2025 Budget speech postponed.

It seems mama and papa in the GNU , the 7th administration ain't gonna settle on the 6th administration's further raping and looting of the citizens of SA.

Market reactions say it all and SA blames Trump for not wanting to further enrich the elitist thieves in government....

Lordy.

Rather to look to each other and ask ourselves how did SA get here.

Let's pat each other on the back for being the stellar citizens we are!

Amandla corruption! Amandla!


RB.

One to watch.

I LIKE HER.

MEC Vuyiswa Ramakgopa - Gauteng Department of agriculture and rural development.


RB.

Paul Mashatile speaking over the weekend of what needs to be fixed.
Fix roads.
Fix transport.
Fix electricity
FIX
FiX FIX...#$%&!!!!

Why fix????
Where was the maintenance? Where is ALL THAT MONEY...the yearly budgets allocated to portfolios to ensure infrastructure is maintained and grown???

GIVE BACK THE MONEY !!!

...and admitting to state capture and its devastating ripple effects.

Was he not part of the same group of treasonous government officials responsible for state capture?....and part of a failed democracy .


....

Gayton McKenzie

Action SA

Cyril Ramaphosa


All on Malemas list of those responsible for stealing from the people .

No mention of DA.

Is this a preempting new alliance in the not too distant future.

I wonder.


Being in CT and seeing how things work is telling why there is a slight shift in the GNU and focus on certain issues.

But "slight" might not be enough and darker days could be facing SA.

RB.

@RB: Not sure i quite follow what you say above. Are you suggesting EFF & DA might form an alliance of sorts?

Hello Vrik.

Stranger things have happened.

Definitely not what the DA supporters would ever condone but, talks behind closed doors are much more different than one could imagine.

A sort of "bartering", I am sure takes place.
This for that. That for this.

What each party stands for and claims in public spaces in no way sidelined, just taking another route to get there with an "alliance" that is more appealing and open to negotiations than existing alliances.

Politics is a dirty game trying to be as effective as possible.

To me, although part of the GNU, the DA is still the "official opposition" but has lost its hold and how to regain it will be intersting to see.

And malema has wisened up to the political way of things which makes him NOW a dangerous player.

And anyone whoever thought malema stupid...should actually look in the mirror and see the "stupid" looking back at them.


RB.

I agree that very few politicians have deep core values they will not compromise...
And yes the DA and EFF has worked together previously and might temporarily do it again. After all, your enemy's enemy is your friend.
But nothing good lasting over a long period can come from them in coalition.

Quoted:-

VAT increase withdrawn, expenditure adjustments on the cards

- By Neesa Moodley


"....In a media statement issued on its website in the middle of the night, the National Treasury announced the reversal of the controversial VAT increase, which was meant to take effect in a week's time -- next Thursday, 1 May. A senior finance ministry source told Daily Maverick: "Without a VAT increase, spending cuts are the only game in town realistically ..."


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...and as the clock struck 12, midnight, so the golden carriage turned to a pumpkin and the horses that drew it turned into mice...

At last the GNU takes on a meaning.

A GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY.

Now for it to filter down to the man on the street.

RB.