Brett Herron 🇿🇦

Fabulous packed #Unite4ChangeZA event in Soweto!
The movement is growing. The momentum is tangible. The conversation was inspiring.

Brett Herron (@brettherron) FROM CRADOCK 4 TO MKHWANAZI ALLEGATIONS: SOUTH AFRICA PAYS THE PRICE FOR FAILURES TO BUILD ACCOUNTABLE SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT   The reopened inquest into the murder of the so-called Cradock Four 40 ...

FROM CRADOCK 4 TO MKHWANAZI ALLEGATIONS: SOUTH AFRICA PAYS THE PRICE FOR FAILURES TO BUILD ACCOUNTABLE SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT

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Party to Mbeki, Motlanthe and Zuma: Explain yourselves! | Daily Sun GOOD secretary-general Brett Herron questioned if the former president is guilty of dereliction of duty.

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Six killed in Choba tavern shooting: Calls for action against illegal operations Following a tragic shooting at a tavern in Choba, which left six dead, community leaders are raising alarms about safety and the implications of illegal tavern operations amidst rising gang violence.

We have a duty to confront our failure to address the spatial legacy conditions that create socio-economic conditions conducive to crime and gangsterism.

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The Big Beautiful Brawl!
#Trump #Musk #Brawl
🎨: Perplexity AI

BRETT HERRON: Did the DA and EFF inadvertently sponsor a fuel levy? All the social support mechanisms attached to the original VAT proposal, such as an expanded list of zero-rated goods and initial relief from bracket creep, were discarded

Did we throw the baby out with the bath water?

Did the DA & EFF inadvertently sponsor a fuel levy?

All the social support mechanisms attached to the original VAT proposal were discarded.
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Workers' Day is a day to honour the sacrifices and achievements of workers and trade unions in the fight for fair labour practices

“All protocol observed”!
The best Saturday afternoon is when Atticus’s Godmother #PatriciaDeLille comes to visit…and is well known for bringing lots of attention and bags of treats!
#dogs #bouvier #Saturdays #PoliticalLeaders #DogTreats

GOOD Party against proposal to introduce more seats in WC Legislature This followed an announcement by the Provincial Standing Committee on Premier and Constitutional Matters that it's considering such a move before the 2029 national and provincial elections.

Today’s the #BudgetSpeech. It seems we’re all going to be in for some pain to keep essential services running & to invest in growth-driving projects.

After cutting 2000 teacher posts @Our_DA want to find funding to add more politicians!

We say no!

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Beach walk treat…for Atticus & Pluto…after taking their shots at the vet without a fuss 🐾🐾🐾
#dogs #beach

The ANC’s failures to meaningfully transform the country’s economy and land holdings while in government for 30 years fuelled the belief that White South Africans had to all intents and purposes “got away” with apartheid.

#Ukraine
#Zelenskyy had a strategic meeting with #Trump. It was a disaster. But I don’t think it was a disaster for Zelenskyy. He exposed Trump & his administration as being unreliable, irrational, Putin-captured toddlers. The whole world knows & can recalibrate.
The United States is weaker now.

BUDGET 2025: THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD TO PAY MUST FUND REVENUE SHORTFALL Treasury must resist the temptation to throw out progressive provisions in the budget-that-wasn’t with the 2% VAT increase bathwater.

Treasury must resist the temptation to throw out progressive provisions in the budget-that-wasn’t with the 2% VAT increase bathwater.

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Three developments in January place unequal democracy back on the road to justice – The Mail & Guardian The Expropriation Bill was signed into law; the families of victims of apartheid-era human rights violations want to know why the TRC recommendations haven’t be

Anyone predicting 30 years ago that the new democratic government would fail to reform land ownership, would not prosecute apartheid criminals & would block millions of poorest citizens from obtaining social grants would have been branded counter-revolutionary.

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Whistleblowers from within the ANC provided information on several KwaZulu-Natal-focused WhatsApp groups; Ethekwini Shutdown, Ink Shutdown in July 2021, and Free Zuma Information as well as a Gauteng-based group, Joburg Activists Home.

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THE DA-led Western Cape government’s new proposal for the redevelopment of the Tafelberg site for “a range of social services” is a tactic intended to frustrate the opportunity to use the site for affordable housing.

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Given the  audit outcomes and findings of the AG, the GOOD Party is  reassured of our 2024 decision to support a leadership change in the City of Tshwane.   

Read more➡️https://forgood.org.za/city-of-tshwane-ag-report-confirms-administration-failures-by-da-and-cilliers-brink/

#goodparty #Tshwane

🚨 Accountability Over Avoidance 🚨

The GOOD Party rejects the Speaker’s reason for changing the first City Council meeting of 2025 to a virtual platform. We believe this is the DA-led City’s attempt to protect JP Smith and Xanthea Limberg from public scrutiny.

#goodparty #accountability

Sustainable peace requires the equal dignity and human rights of Israelis and Palestinians to be upheld, Gaza to be re-built, and a viable independent Palestinian state to be created.

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Irrespective of accounting blemishes, political shenanigans & blame games, creating 477 new teacher posts is good.

But not being able to account for “facts” presented in its budget last March, & scrapping 2400 posts, is undoubtedly bad for the Western Cape’s children.

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Cautiously optimistic and tentatively relieved that a #ceasefire agreement has been reached.

I hope that the ceasefire agreement will bring lasting peace & will include a roadmap to Palestinian sovereignty.
#FreePalestine

“They suggested walking buses. We ask how can a walking bus be possible on a national road plus in temperatures of 38 to 39 degrees, in winter we have very heavy rainfall. The closest school is overcrowded and parents cannot afford private transport.”

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Best way to start a day & perfect way to catch up and discuss the year ahead. A beach walk with the dogs!

Stilfontein illegal mining: Good Party adds to calls urging Mantashe to intervene Civil organisations and some commentators have again raised their concerns about Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe’s absence and refusal to come to the table.

Stilfontein illegal mining: Good Party adds to calls urging Mantashe to intervene

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We’re taking long summer days seriously this year!
Evening walk on Noordhoek Beach!
Beautiful evening.
#NoordhoekBeach #CapeTown #Dogs #Bouvier #Basset #SummerEvening

And Just Like That!

Back to the grindstone eve 🙃!

#BackToWork #FestiveSeason
#JustLikeThat

You’re not sitting in traffic. We are the traffic!

Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:

Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000

Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:

Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000

The oligarchy is here.

‘We can’t believe you would just trust us’: why social assistance shouldn’t come with strings attached Recent experiments make the case for a paradigm shift in the provision of social assistance.

The conclusion from this new wave of research is hard to escape: we don’t need punitive and exclusive forms of conditional welfare provision. In fact, this approach may well be counterproductive.

There is an alternative, and it is unconditional.

#UBI #BIG

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