Things are getting worse by the day...

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Even worse than Zuma...corrupt criminal...I hope Trump destroys the ANC.

Imagine Trump taking over SA for just one full presidential term

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Criminal neglect!

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

South Africa's quiet killer

Dear Reader,

She’s three years old, but her body could be mistaken for an infant.

Skin stretched tightly over fragile bones, a belly swollen and taut. When she tries to cry, it’s stifled to a faint whimper, because hunger has stolen her strength.

She’s dying. 973 others are already dead.

This isn’t a malnourished child of war. This is South Africa in 2025.

Are you picturing it? It’s unbearable. And it is real.

Nearly 1,000 children have died from severe malnutrition in South African public hospitals over the past 18 months. And that number is considered an undercount. It excludes children who died at home or in private hospitals.

We’re not sensationalising this, because we don’t have to.

These are the facts:

• KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and the Eastern Cape have the highest death toll, and Nelson Mandela Bay (once considered better off than rural districts) has now joined them. In just one year, 25 children under five died in the metro, almost double the deaths from 2023;

• Of the 973 children who died from severe malnutrition in SA, 177 were in the Eastern Cape;

• Over a third of households in NMB (33.4%) reported inadequate or severely inadequate access to food;

• Over 700 children have been diagnosed with various degrees of malnutrition in the past 12 months;

• The Eastern Cape Department of Health's head, Dr. Rolene Wagner, confirmed the worsening situation, highlighting that children under six months old are now being found with severe malnutrition, a new and terrifying trend.

All accused of acting in concert to loot Transnet and, ultimately, you the taxpayer.

With their trial scheduled for October, they’re out on bail of just R50,000 each, having pleaded “poverty”, claiming they couldn’t afford the original R200,000 bail.

(Feel free to get up and kick a wall if you need to, we’ll wait…)

This case has been derailed (pun intended) multiple times due to shifting indictments, multiple charges and good old legal delaying tactics.

It gets even worse: It was entirely preventable.

While R9.057 million was budgeted for the distribution of food parcels this financial year, only R1.2 million has been spent to date.

When asked how many food parcels Nelson Mandela Bay distributed between January and March this year, the answer was nine. Nine parcels in three months.

The reason you know any of this is because of professional journalism.

Daily Maverick’s Estelle Ellis has been reporting on the hunger crisis for years.

• In 2022 she reported that a Nelson Mandela Bay mother had been keeping her starving five-month-old alive with cooldrink powder;

• In the same year she covered the Eastern Cape Department of Health’s forfeiture of R67-million meant for poverty relief. 14 babies and toddlers had died 15 months prior;

• In 2023, she covered the tragedy of a Butterworth mother who killed herself and her three children. The woman was deeply in debt and the family had been starving for weeks. The story prompted aid organisations to provide food relief programmes in the village where the family lived.

The outcome of Estelle’s continuous reporting: The South African Human Rights Commission launched a formal investigation to subpoena government departments to answer for their failures.

Estelle covered the hearing last week.

The SAHRC commissioner, Philile Ntuli made it clear: this is about clear accountability for what she called a “failure of the state”.

Because Estelle refused to stop writing, the SAHRC was forced to act.

Earlier this year, we launched a dedicated local bureau in Nelson Mandela Bay. We don’t have bureaus in KwaZulu-Natal or Limpopo, but imagine if we did.

Without journalists like Estelle’s relentless, on the ground work, this crisis disappears from view. Politicians shrug, budgets shift and children keep dying - quietly, invisibly.

This is the meaning of true solidarity in the face of preventable tragedy.

We will never force you to pay for our journalism.

But if you appreciate what Estelle is doing and would like to help, you can, from as little as R75/month. By joining the 32,000 strong army of Maverick Insiders, you will help ensure Estelle and others have the time, resources and protection to keep digging, keep asking and keep refusing to accept silence.

Because silence kills.

I very often help out the under privileged or previously disadvantaged communities or groups, but what I still cannot do is hand over money to "some" company, organisation or business.

I do everything myself, and I personally make sure it goes directly towards where it is supposed to go.

I am just far too cynical these days with what happens when you just hand over cash or make an EFT payment.

Sad to say, but if I can't do it that way, then I just don't get involved..... there is just far too much corruption going on, and besides that, nothing ever beats the true and genuine appreciation you see in people's eyes or faces when you are personally involved...... it's so worth it to help those around you and get down in the trenches.... I just wish this fucked up government could do the same....the black population in particuar in South Africa deserve so much better given what they have had to endure over the last 60 years.

Makes me sick how this government treats them ... and the rest of the population in general.

This latest Tembisa hospital corruption case is diabolical in it's scale.....and it's just one of so many around the country.

The majority of the populace are getting the service they voted for...the unfortunate few who are paying for it gets close to no service for bankrolling this kleptocracy...this will end poorly for Cyril and his goons...soon...

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Got some crime stats yesterda for the 2 main freeways in Cape Town...insane increase in carjackings...insane...the country is on the brink of anarchy.

"You have to give the ANC credit. It takes a special kind of evil to loot billions of Rands from public hospitals, blame the poor conditions on "Apartheid" & then propose NHI so they can loot private hospitals too."

Filth...and between ANC, EFF and MK, they still have 65% of the vote...dumb AF.

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Draad you don't have to be a supporter of the ANC, and your free to condemn 99.99% of their policies but you should be proud of South Africa on this occasion...leading the world in taking a stand against genocide.

Iran probably paid them to do it...and there are other ways to do things...you will know the tree by it's fruit...all rotten..this goes for the ANC...but also for BB and his government...

"South Africa’s daily murder toll is nearly double the number of daily civilian deaths in Ukraine.

This grim statistic forms part of a sobering crime assessment by prominent academic Professor Eugene Cloete, chief executive of the Cape Higher Education Consortium.

In the fourth quarter of the 2024/25 fiscal year, South Africa registered an average 64 murders a day (according to SAPS figures), a significantly higher toll than the daily average 38 civilian deaths recorded during the same period in the Ukraine.

“This means that on any given day, more people are murdered in South Africa than are killed in the Ukrainian conflict,” Cloete says in his article. "This is a reality that demands a deeper understanding of the forces tearing at the fabric of South African society,” Cloete says.

“While the world’s attention is often fixed on conventional wars, the daily reality for many South Africans is a silent, undeclared war—a war the nation seems to be waging against itself.

Cloete stressed that the Ukraine deaths he refers to are limited to civilian deaths, and do not include military casualties in the current armed conflict with Russia.

“It basically means, to be a civilian in the Ukraine, a country at war with Russia, the death toll is half of that in South Africa where we are not at war with any other country,” Cloete told Cape Chamber.

Taken as a percentage of population, the civilian violent death rate in the two countries during that period is nearly identical, based on an estimated Ukraine population of 35 million a South African population of 63 million.

Cloete said South Africa’s daily toll of 64 was a decrease – it had been as high as 72.

“It is a statistic that has led many, including the civil rights organisation Action Society, to declare that South Africa’s murder rate surpasses that of some war zones. This is not a new phenomenon. For years, analysts and commentators have pointed to the country’s staggering crime rates as evidence of a society in a state of perpetual conflict.”

The geographic of South Africa’s murder ‘hotspots’ points to underlying social and economic inequalities as the key drivers of violent crime, Cloete says, adding that the inequalities have not been adequately addressed. “In fact, in many ways, they have become even more entrenched.”

Cloete goes on to warn against inflammatory political rhetoric in a deeply fractured society already awash with conflict. Xenophobia is one such obvious example of how rhetoric can be weaponised, he says.

Another notable example is Julius Malema’s now infamous ‘Kill the Farmer, Kill the Boer’ chant that recently received international attention. “The weaponization of political rhetoric is not just a matter of political debate; it is a matter of life and death.

In a country that is already grappling with the world's highest murder rate, inflammatory rhetoric is a clear and present danger that threatens to further destabilize the country and to plunge it into a deeper cycle of violence,” Cloete says.

Cloete believes South Africa’s grim crime statistics, even when compared with active war zones, illustrate the obvious need to address not only law enforcement but the broader society’s underlying fault lines.

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Media statements | Safety Media statements

ByAfriForum 01/10/2025

Soundbite: Jacques Broodryk (English)

Soundbite: Jacques Broodryk (Afrikaans)

AfriForum welcomes the ruling made today in the East London Magistrate’s Court, in which Julius Malema, leader of the EFF, was found guilty on five charges, among others the discharging of a firearm in a built-up or public area without sufficient reason, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition. This conviction follows the criminal charges that AfriForum laid against Malema in August 2018 after he fired several shots with a firearm during the EFF’s fifth birthday celebration held on 28 July 2018 outside East London at the Sisa Dukashe Stadium in Mdantsane.

According to Jacques Broodryk, AfriForum’s Chief Spokesperson for Community Safety, justice has finally been served – despite years of delays and irregularities in this case. “The evidence overwhelmingly proved that Malema committed several serious offences under the Firearms Control Act, and the verdict confirms that those who think they are untouchable will eventually be held accountable, no matter how long it takes,” explains Broodryk.

The civil rights organisation played a crucial role in bringing this case to trial. Without the organisation’s involvement, the case may never have seen the inside of a courtroom.

AfriForum also views this ruling as a major victory in the organisation’s fight to ensure that no one is above the law.

“AfriForum will continue to ensure that politically connected individuals face justice like any other citizen,” Broodryk concludes.

Sentencing is set for 23 January 2026.

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Malema's guilty verdict will only mean anything if he receives a just sentence for the crime.

I've been driving around in Gauteng for the last couple of days...the decay is everywhere...this place has gone backwards significantly in the last few yeats...haven't been to Joburg, but some areas of Pretoria are shockingly neglected...looks like a war zone...there's nothing much left to lose...sad.

Kolmanskop incoming.

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Cape Exit is a must.

The West is in mortal danger thanks to the open Border Globalist rulers who want to destroy Western Civization. They hate Democracy, rule of law, free speech and individual liberty. Change the politics by changing the demographics. Also helpful to the cause is abortion, LGBT and puttiing pressure on families via economic hardship, house ownership etc etc.

They want a World without borders, the destruction of the sovereign nation state and a world government tyranny. This government will featufe digital ID, social credit scores, mass surveillance, one narrative and the elimination of 7 billion people.

While Trump and people like him govern the US humanity will not succumb to these plans. Indeed there is a massive awakening going on and the Globalist grip on power is weakening for now.

Today the Globalists have formed an alliance with the Msrxist/Socialists and of course Islam.

But again thankfully people are waking up to the dangers of this alliance.

If you don't understand the Globalist agenda you will not understand what is going on in tbe world.

Cape Exit is an impossible pipe dream...it will never be allowed to happen...the DA is a globalist stooge...sad to say but barring a Biblical miracle intervention from God, South Africa is already lost...dying a slow painful death...

I have a story to tell you of looting of myself by the SA Government. Will have wait and see whether what was promised will materialize.

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Thanks Bob:

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Physically South Africa is perhaps the most fabulous country in the world. Only France packs as much punch per square mile…the only thing the country doesn’t have is oil. But as discussed elsewhere a great profile for solar. Australia is nothing except for the not so great coasts….the US is too big, more of a continent.

Climate, oceans, mountains, deserts, wine, gold, animals…..and unfortunately people

https://www.youtube.com/live/IaUUsh6W4bo?si=FwdKP_3kAoenexOE

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Little too late

Cellphone data suggests that there are as many as 30M foreigners from 3rd world countries in South Africa...ANC let this happen... deliberately.

Oh come on 30 million...you can't seriously believe that?

AI Overview

The claim that cellphone data indicates there are 27 million to 30 million foreign nationals in South Africa is

false and a fabrication.

This assertion is based on a viral, inaccurate interpretation of RICA (Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act) registration data and is not supported by credible data, including census results or immigration statistics.

Here is the factual breakdown based on current information:

1. Fabricated Data vs. Reality: The claim often includes a specific, unverified breakdown of foreign nationals (e.g., 8.7M Zimbabweans, 6.2M Nigerians, etc.), which contradicts South African population data.
2. Actual Foreign-Born Population: According to the 2022 Census, there were approximately 2.4 million to 3.96 million international migrants in South Africa. This is a fraction of the 27-30 million claimed.
3. Why the Cellphone Claim is Wrong: RICA registration data does not serve as an immigration database. The misinterpretation likely stems from high mobile phone penetration, where there are more SIM cards than people, or from the use of recycled, "pre-RICA'd" cards.
4. Total Population Constraint: South Africa's total population is estimated at approximately 63.9 million (as of 2025). The claim would imply that nearly half the country is composed of undocumented foreign nationals, which is demographically impossible.

The narrative is used to fuel xenophobia and is classified as disinformation.

Claim that SIM card data shows 27m foreigners in SA

News24

"Oh come on 30 million...you can't seriously believe that?"

It seems excessive to me, but that's the cellphone service providers' data...our cities are stuffed with foreigners...half of Zim are here...Congo, Somalia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan...all wel represented...people are streaming in from everywhere...our hospitals can't cope.

The claim was actually 27M...there is no proper data, but it's much more than the government estimates

It's way more than this: "According to the 2022 national census, South Africa had approximately 2.4 million international migrants, meaning people born outside the country. This figure accounts for about 3.9% of the total population, down from 4.2% in 2011.

Of these 2.4 million immigrants:

1.8 million were non-South African citizens.

530,000 held South African citizenship, indicating a decline in the number of immigrants who are citizens since 2001.

While some estimates, including those by the United Nations, have suggested higher numbers (e.g., 4.2 million in 2019), these are considered inflated and not aligned with official census data. The 2022 census is the most reliable and recent source, indicating that the actual number of foreign-born residents is significantly lower than some widely cited figures. "

The sensus was a joke ...