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CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
#POWEROUTAGE
132kV power lines tripped affecting Bronkhorstspruit substation.
Areas affected are:
1. Erasmus Town
2. Riamarpark
3. Masada
4. Cultura Park
5. Bester Park
6. Vester Park
7. Zithobeni
Technicians are busy investigating the cause of the trip.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
I heard him talking about bootsrapping his entire campaign on radio.
This man is no one's puppet as some would like to believe.
He accepts funding where it is offered because frankly every party needs it, but the difference is that he never compromises on his goals for his party. That has apparently led to situations where funding had to be withdrawn in many instances.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
Let the DA elect their mayor. It is their democratic right.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
ActionSA Joburg Councillor-elects are ready to hit the ground running. Most of them have already started addressing service delivery issues in their wards.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
Hey so, DA hacks and aligned “civil society,” furiously penning vitriolic ActionSA coalition tweets and thinkpieces, I’m curious.
Is today your first day on Earth as human beings? Is it your first time interacting with other human beings?
Because how do you figure you can d-swing, belittle, bully and insult ActionSA into a coalition with your party?
Hello?!
You are doing so much damage. You are pushing ActionSA further away. You are doing more to convince ActionSA that the DA cannot be trusted. You are making Geordin’s and team’s work so much harder.
Shut it and get off your entitlement horse.
You can also stop with the literal “muscular liberal,” schpiel, no one but your circlejerk is impressed by it.
Sit down and let the leaders lead.
And, grow up.
Tiresome.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
With the declaration of 2026 Local Government Elections, my term as the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane has ended.
Thank you, residents of Tshwane.
You were patient as we began the process of turning around a broken city. We have laid a solid foundation for rebuilding the Capital City 🇿🇦.
Thank you for trusting us with your households and for never chasing us away from your communities.
My love and commitment to the people Tshwane is unwavering.
ActionSA’s Tshwane caucus is ready to camp in all communities to ensure that services are delivered.
Re a leboga
Siyabonga
Baie dankie
Ndiyabulela
Thank you 🇿🇦
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
The arrogance is staggering. Adam Habib, Ivor Blumenthal and Gareth van Onselen seem convinced they know what’s best for Black people better than Black people themselves.
Black voters have agency, opinions and the right to choose their own political alliances.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
Your point is? Please keep giving us your projections of the DA like you did before elections. They were really entertaining, and we can do with some of that now
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
I was the Councillor candidate for ActionSA in Tshwane Ward 46. I put up a good fight, got called names, called a sell out. My posters were being ripped off, and homeless people admitted to being paid to rip my posters, and VF+ posters, off. This was only the beginning.
The DA councillor candidate then parked her branded car inside the VD where the queue was passing. I addressed it and she got angry.
Whats worse is, I then caught her talking to voters in the queue. She even followed some to the ballot boxes. The IEC said they saw nothing.
After addressing these matters, I had people screaming at me and threatening me, telling me to watch my back, in the streets.
When counting started, there was a man called Jordan who was running the whole thing. Pretty much telling the IEC how to do their job as he is 'experienced.'
Now I saw that his profile Pic is with the IEC PO who was running the voting station where we were counting.
Found out after that he works for Sarupen and his sole job, almost for the last 2 years, was to badmouth ActionSA. Constant smear campaigns.
Why do they always get away with everything? They are corrupt, and think the law doesn't apply to them. Even the IEC is in on it. People are voting for them. What's worse is, black middle class is voting for them. How? Disgusting.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
How about this 🤔
Border control and immigration policy are National Government responsibilities.
A municipality and/or Ward Councillor does not have any power to control our borders nor order deportations.
The people of South Africa will soon discover that political parties which campaigned on those promises in the Local Government Elections promised powers that municipalities do not possess.
All these dishonest parties simply played with the emotions and vulnerabilities of our people.
Voting is done now. The question you must ask the party you voted for is; will they close the border? The answer is NO!
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
ActionSA has concluded a productive and mutually respectful first engagement with the ANC in which we discussed principles around how stable and effective coalition governments could be formed.
We remain committed to engaging all parties in such a manner.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
ANC boss reemerges as party scrambles to woo ActionSA in Johannesburg. ebx.sh/I9HcqQ
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
Let me be clear, ActionSA's choices in coalitions:
✅️ Will be based on the best interests of residents of municipalities and the wishes of our constituents.
❌️ Won't be based on the patronising and arrogant insults of people and organisations that hate ActionSA.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
What is happening in that ward. Initially it was given to ANC and then yesterday we heard a recount was done and then it was given to ActionSA. Then now are you saying another recount was done and then now given back to ANC? Wow.
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
Dear @HermanMashaba and @Action4SA , investing in patriotic and dedicated party agents is of paramount importance in elections, the @IECSouthAfrica voting system has many loop loopholes, in 2021 my younger brother was a party agent for ActionSA, their voting station was a School, and the IEC used 3 classrooms for voting, ActionSA had 3 party agents, the 2 left by 6PM , and could not wait for counting which normally happens very late into early mornings, this meant he could only be available for counting at the voting classroom he was a party agent at, when counting was done on all the 3 classrooms in that voting station, it was time to capture the final vote of that voting station, only for him to find out that ActionSA had 0-zero votes on the other classrooms which ActionSA had no party agents, he disputed this and call for a recount, the DA,EFF,IFP and ANC party agents said it was late, and yes the all counted and ActionSA had no votes in the other classrooms, he had to convince the IEC lady who was incharge of the voting station, and she agreed for a recount as per IEC regulations, only to find out that ActionSA did secure votes in the classrooms where the ActionSA party agents left before counting and was the 3rd biggest party in that voting station after the ANC and EFF, so yes political parties can agree to deprive another party of its votes and sign off the slips for a final capturing by the IEC official, these are some of the loopholes with this voting system!
CogniSavant 🇿🇦 retweeted
I have some thoughts.
I cannot stand this narrative. It grinds my tits. Herman Mashaba, the angry black refusing to submit.
All he has said is that he does not trust the DA given how many times the party has stabbed him and ActionSA in the back. That is a perfectly rational reaction on both a personal and political level. From his perspective, as I understand it, he sees it as foolhardy, and irresponsible, to trust the DA when it has proven untrustworthy to him and his party. Why would he enter a coalition with a partner he does not trust to keep it stable, when instability is part of why Joburg in particular collapsed? The unfairness. The racial troping. The gaslighting. I f’ing hate it.
Personally? I think the DA has matured as a coalition partner. The GNU experience as a junior partner taught some humility. Will it still treat its coalition partners horribly? I don’t know. I’d err on cautious hope. Will it still backstab? I don’t know. I’d err on cautious hope. Would I trust it? Well, trust is a very personal thing isn’t it? It is a tally of events and experiences. Different parties have had different experiences with it. Different people have had different experiences with it. Tough to call. We are all human. So. I don’t know.
And I think you forget politicians are humans and bleed and feel the same way you do. It would be irrational not to expect human emotion.
You also put too much hope in selflessness in politics, a vocation that is, by nature, driven by self-interest. Adjust your expectations and spare yourself disappintment. This. Is. Politics.
Dr Ivor Blumenthal warns that Herman Mashaba’s hostility towards the DA threatens ActionSA’s future and the prospects of stable coalition government in Gauteng’s metros.
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