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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

10 months

South Africa is a country in enormous pain. Hard to explain to those abroad what this is all about. It doesn’t actually change anything fundamental but it gives people a sense that success is possible. It’s not just about rugby. Never is.

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5 years

I don’t know how to explain this to my English friends. England would have loved to win this but SA will go mental. A country that lives off scraps of hope and optimism. Hard to explain how much this will mean.

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2 years

If I were the president of South Africa I’d be too embarrassed to go to Davos and have to meet people who would smile at me as I spoke to them while thinking “but you can’t even keep the lights on, mate.”

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2 years

You know the ANC can’t fix Eskom, right?

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 months

The DA has just won more support from black South Africans than Rise, Bosa and ActionSA combined. There are three points to make about this: (1) it doesn’t mean the DA is perfect, but it does suggest some humility from the supporters of those other parties might be a good idea…

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@RyanCoetzee

5 years

In this age of “staying in your lane” Johnny Clegg was a white man born in Britain who often wrote and sang in Zulu about black South Africans. Contrast with the tedious and destructive essentialism that is the flavour of the day. He embodied what SA could be, but isn’t.

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Ryan Coetzee

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2 months

Very little of what I see about GNU negotiations on X is true. Understandable given the lack of information but you can’t run successful negotiations in public. Everyone would do well to take a deep breath and let the process unfold. Ongoing…

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

10 months

I’m not sure people abroad have any idea how revealing this allegation re Bongi is about what rugby has done to South Africans. Rejected outright by black and white. Something with the potential to cause a real rift and we are having none of it. Fascinating.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

1 year

Who in SA will ensure a prosecution here? It’s open and shut. If the authorities won’t do it then a private prosecution can be pursued. Also keen for media to follow this through to end. Not just a one day story.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 years

Just catching up with South African news. In summary: the police have managed to arrest 230 000 people since lockdown but SASSA has only managed to give 10 people the social relief of distress grant? Does that sum it up?

SABC News Radio

@SABCNews_Radio

4 years

SASSA says it has so far paid 10 people in a test run of the 350-rand special COVID19 Social Relief of Distress Grant. #sabcnews

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4 years

Truth is @jsteenhuisen and the @Our_DA have been outstanding through this crisis. It’s what you want in an opposition: supportive of the national effort but critical of government failings, while offering constructive and realistic solutions. It’s ok to acknowledge it too 😉

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@RyanCoetzee

2 months

I think this past week (VBS/Hlope) and weekend (lekgotla) puts to bed the idea the DA should have left the government to the mercies of the EFF/MK. South Africa will be much better for having the DA in government.

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@RyanCoetzee

4 years

Whatever else you think, giving people money to make ends meet and keep hunger at bay is both morally right and good economics and should be supported.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 months

Apparently lots of IEC polling station chiefs refused to implement IEC directive to go manual when VDMs failed. Parties had to push IEC hard to sort it out. IEC used to be excellent. What has happened?

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Ryan Coetzee

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4 years

This is a very useful tweet. What it shows is that everyone’s favourite ANC minister is an authoritarian with a tenuous grasp of the constitution and hence the nature of an opposition politician’s “lane.” Even at its best the ANC is the pits.

Tito Mboweni

@tito_mboweni

4 years

The Leader of the DA, Hon Steenhuisen, must stay in his lane. You have no right to instruct our President to open the economy. That is disrespectful and unwarranted. Please delete your tweet!! Hayibo! Thixo!

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Ryan Coetzee

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6 years

South Africa will not begin to thrive unless and until the ANC loses power. To think otherwise is palpably delusional. And this statement holds true whatever you think of the DA.

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3 months

This is incredible. Either there is a legitimate matter of state that justifies prime time presidential address (what might it be?) or this is a spectacular abuse of power 3 days before an election.

The Presidency 🇿🇦

@PresidencyZA

3 months

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA TO ADDRESS THE NATION President @CyrilRamaphosa will this evening 26 May 2024, address the nation. The President will address the nation as follows: Time: 18h00 Date: Sunday, 26 May 2024 ISSUED BY THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

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Ryan Coetzee

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3 months

Vote DA, today. The only party that has shown it can govern competently. Every child who needs a school, grandma who needs a nurse, business person who needs infrastructure, household that needs running water, unemployed person who needs a job - all of them need you to vote DA.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 months

Shoutout to @DavidMaynier who has quietly been running the DA’s Western Cape election campaign while building schools at the same time. Impossible to meet anyone harder working or more competent. He and @alanwinde will deliver another DA win tonight.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 years

“We are going to give you two weeks.” This is a straight up threat - and a crime. Thugs. Do the police do anything at all anymore?

Obakeng Ramabodu

@RamaboduObakeng

3 years

Our EFF Tshwane Visit to restaurants in line with the satisfactory employment ratio of South Africans . At Menyln Ocean Basket out of 34 employees only 8 are South Africans .

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

@richardquest Stage two is a mere flesh wound. A light scratch! We no longer find it worth mentioning but we understand you’re new to the battle.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 months

Incontestably South Africa’s best premier - by a country mile. @alanwinde

Mr. Rossouw

@WietsR

3 months

The only guy who will take this province forward ⏩ The WC has the lowest unemployment by far. Highest bachelor passes. Lowest school dropout rate. The best roads. The cleanest towns. The most tourists. The cleanest audits. A man with a plan @alanwinde @Our_DA #ElectionSA2024 💙

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 months

The bedrock of every successful relationship, whether personal or professional, is being true to your word.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 months

The President gave up as much as he could, while bringing his fractured party along with him. The DA got as much as it needed to show the DA difference in government. Deal done. Forward we go now.

Michael Atkins

@atkinsmike1

2 months

To expand on this, look at the COMPARISON of the DA share to the ANC share: The percentages are the DA figure expressed as a percentage of the ANC number.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 years

In my experience there is a correlation between competence and being on time. #Ramaphosa

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@RyanCoetzee

3 months

Cheers to South Africa, 30 years into democracy.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 months

He is not obliged to consult other departments. If they wish to spend their money on houses and offices they are free to do so. He’s saying he’s not spending his department’s money on them when there are much more important priorities that impact citizens directly.

Clement Manyathela

@TheRealClementM

2 months

Looks like Min Macpherson made this announcement without consulting other departments.His deputy Sihle Zikalala told me on #FaceTheNation tonight that there was supposed to be consultation with other departments.When I asked if Macpherson consulted,he said “I am not his Spokes”

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

11 months

Not your trophy to lift. Go away.

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦

@CyrilRamaphosa

11 months

Spoke to coach @jacnienaber ahead of tonight’s quarter-final.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

Feel I should mention how brilliant it’s been at OR Tambo. Sailed through. Staff delightful. Puts Heathrow to shame.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 months

By the way, the ANC’s majority is gone. We know enough already to know that. Quite a big deal!

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

1 year

Just to be clear about giving/selling arms to Russia: it’s diplomatically and economically stupid to cross a US red line on Ukraine, but it’s morally unforgivable to help Putin’s military kill Ukrainians.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

Call me sentimental but I continue to be astonished and delighted that rugby, of all things, has become the institution that exemplifies everything South Africa could be.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

After a great deal of reflection I have come to the considered conclusion that the problem in South Africa is…the DA! I have consequently decided to become VERY angry about the DA all the time and to devote myself to telling people on Twitter all about it.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

This is the kind of self-indulgent inanity that will do for SA. If you want the party of your dreams then create it and see how you get on. If you won’t/can’t, you might consider acting like a grown up and voting for one that has displayed some basic competence in government.

Stuart Johnson

@StuSJohnson

2 years

Whenever I feel anger about the state of South Africa, and know the only solution is to get the ANC out of power, I keep circling back to the fact that the DA leadership has failed to present a palatable alternative despite having the resources and opportunity to do so. So bad.

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1 year

Either @CyrilRamaphosa does know that SA has given arms/ammo to Russia, in which case he’s complicit, or he doesn’t know, in which case he’s not really the president.

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Ryan Coetzee

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2 months

What Premier Lesufi will announce today is not the end of negotiations but the beginning of perma-negotiations. He’s going to have to negotiate every order paper to get anything through the GT legislature - unless he wishes to give Gauteng to the EFF.

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1 year

Alan Winde is the best Premier South Africa’s ever had. Not as brilliant as some of Twitter’s resident geniuses of course, but that’s an impossible standard to meet.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 months

Unemployment in South Africa has gone up over 50% since 1994. It now sits at 32-40% depending on the definition you choose. This single fact is an abject moral disgrace. It represents the *complete* failure of the ANC. The GNU’s #1 priority must be to bring unemployment down.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

5 years

Indeed. And you’ve just endorsed the party that has run its education system for the past 25 years. Well done.

The Economist

@TheEconomist

5 years

Nearly 80% of South Africa’s 9- or 10-year-olds cannot read and understand sentences in any language

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2 months

Nothing will decrease inequality more than an increase in employment. An economy that generates new jobs is the only way to achieve social justice. We should work backwards from that unarguable premise.

Prof Thuli Madonsela #KindnessBuilds

@ThuliMadonsela3

2 months

Will GNU policies disrupt the pyramid economy and free all those still tied up in the shackles of poverty and inequality that are primarily a legacy of past racist and gendered laws and policies? Will new policies exacerbate inequality? Let us have your views on my article in

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

Nic White is a disgrace to rugby. Embarrassing. Go play soccer man.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

1 month

Strength to @CilliersB today. He and his team are turning Tshwane around and are resisted every step of the way.

Cilliers Brink

@CilliersB

1 month

[WATCH] Motion of no confidence is aimed at taking us back to the days of looting , mismanagement and no accountability.

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Ryan Coetzee

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10 days

How many other tenders were “quietly issued”, I wonder? This is why the DA wanted a review of all recent tenders, as set out in the letter so many got upset about during negotiations.

Sunday Times

@SundayTimesZA

10 days

The R10bn tender was quietly issued by the department when it had no minister as the ANC and other parties were engaged in negotiating the formation of a government of national unity.

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Ryan Coetzee

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2 years

I don’t know if it speaks well or ill of me but until yesterday I had never heard of Andrew Tate.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 months

Country first. Courage not cowardice. #RescueSA means rescue SA.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 months

Fortunately not the beginning of the end for SA; rather the end of the beginning for a new government. 🥂

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 months

For the pros: a brilliantly run campaign, playing defense against the PA and offense against the ANC and smaller parties. Complex ground war. Beautifully executed. Respect.

David Maynier

@DavidMaynier

3 months

We are confident we have won an outright majority but we are waiting for the final result here in the Western Cape.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 months

Every South African is already constitutionally entitled to healthcare. Coverage is legally “universal”. The problem is your failure to deliver it. Deeply mendacious to pretend this is about “universal coverage”.

The Presidency 🇿🇦

@PresidencyZA

4 months

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA TO PUBLICLY SIGN NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL INTO LAW President @CyrilRamaphosa will on Wednesday, 15 May 2024, publicly sign into law the National Health Insurance Bill which directs the transformation of the South Africa’s health care system to achieve

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Ryan Coetzee

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4 months

Cruising in a G-Wagon, throwing t-shirts at desperately poor people. No shame. Worse than that. Contempt.

Raisibe

@Patricia_Bantom

4 months

What have we done to the ANC to be treated like dogs? Did they become so comfortable to mistreat us with our votes? South Africans on the 29th #VoteMK2024 .

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Ryan Coetzee

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2 months

Making a decision that will affect 65 millions people is a little tougher than composing a hot take on X. Hard to be definitive about hypothetical futures. Sometimes it’s about making the right decision. Sometimes it’s about making the decision right.

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Ryan Coetzee

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3 years

Fascinated by the emergence of basic competence as an essential moral good in South Africa. You can be socialist or nationalist or liberal or conservative, but you also need to be able to maintain the fire prevention sprinkler system in buildings to do any real good.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 years

I have given credit to CR where I thought it was due but I am afraid it is a bit like giving credit to a stopped clock for telling the right time once a day.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 years

WC’s communication is excellent. One of @alanwinde ’s great strengths is his temperament. Never gets overexcited, in either direction. Doesn’t take criticism personally. Doesn’t hold grudges. Doesn’t try to be flashy. Just gets on with it. A leader for a crisis.

Premier Alan Winde

@alanwinde

4 years

Media Release: Update on the coronavirus As of 1pm on 13 May, the Western Cape has 4367 active cases of Covid-19, with a total of 6767 confirmed cases and 2283 recoveries. Statement:

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Ryan Coetzee

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3 months

All very well telling people to stay in the queue but people shouldn’t have to wait 3-6 hours to vote. Not everyone will. Compromises the quality of democracy. The IEC needs to get its act together.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

7 months

It’s almost as if he wakes up in the morning and actually governs. Novel. Perhaps it will catch on in the rest of South Africa.

Premier Alan Winde

@alanwinde

7 months

GOOD NEWS! 💡 Eskom is in the process of restoring power to the Karoo. Thank you to our @WesternCapeGov team who has worked so hard to help Eskom get power restored. 🙌🙏

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

As I head towards 50 I keep thinking about those Salusa 45 ads from the 80s and how incredibly ancient I thought 45 year olds must be. “For people who are old enough to want to feel younger.” 😂

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

South African politics is awash is small people acting big. Tedious and contemptible.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

3 months

Dear journalists of South Africa: there is a story here. Have local IEC officials implemented the national directive to go manual? Are VMD machines being used? Are they even online? What is the effect of this incompetence?

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

Inconvenient of the people of Ukraine, the Baltics and other East European states to reject their historically determined role as a buffer between Russia and the West. Don’t they know they are compromising an entire theory of international relations?

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Ryan Coetzee

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4 years

South Africans rightly impressed with the approach the president set out a few nights ago but it would be wishful thinking to imagine that the ANC and government have miraculously transformed into something they were not last week. Same people. Same values. Same competence.

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Ryan Coetzee

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3 months

Either the EFF and/or MK are going to be part of South Africa’s government, or the DA is. Risky and fraught for both the ANC and the DA, but I do hope they find a way to make it work. It’s the right thing for the people of South Africa.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

5 years

1. Well, I have a few thoughts on the DA which are almost certain to annoy every faction of it. But perhaps some may find them useful. So here they are...

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 months

Just imagine how happy @goolammv is going to be tonight. Hope he/she doesn’t explode.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 years

Are you aware that South Africa is a democracy and that the DA is the official opposition? Its policies are its own prerogative. This is very basic. You get it, right?

Khalid Sayed MPL

@MKhalidSayed

3 years

The DA fails to realize that the Western Cape is not an independent state from the rest of the South Africa with its own foreign policy

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

6 months

This is extraordinary. A member of parliament in South Africa actually threatening “bloodshed” against Jews. He might have parliamentary privilege but I suspect there are internal processes that apply here. What is the Speaker doing about it?

Jewish Tim 𝕏

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6 months

"The City of Cape Town will be a bloodbath.... We will not allow you to make this a Jewish state" Not sure what makes him think Cape Town is being made a "Jewish state" But this is the delusion we see from antisemites... he starts talking Zionists... but then there's that little

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 years

This crisis has done a good job of exposing to those who refused to see it the ANC’s enthusiastic attachment to control and deep- seated authoritarianism.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

2 months

Fascinated by how optimistic everyone is. Assumes the ANC is (a) in good faith about sharing power and (b) willing to make the necessary reforms and drive the delivery required. So far all it’s done is sign a document (at the last possible moment.)

News24 🇿🇦

@News24

2 months

The US banking giant has upgraded SA from underweight to overweight on bets that the GNU is the best post-election outcome for the country.

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Ryan Coetzee

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3 months

@Derek_Hanekom Derek, someone might as well tell you this: you have spent your life - and continue to spend your time - supporting an organization that has destroyed, stunted and compromised the life chances of the most vulnerable South Africans. It’s disgraceful.

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Ryan Coetzee

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1 month

A vast amount of DA policy being announced here tonight. Implementation key.

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Ryan Coetzee

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8 days

At the risk of murdering the obvious, may I suggest the good people of Tshwane give the DA an actual majority in 2026? The DA may or may not be the party of your dreams, but it is at least serious about governing well - and we really can’t afford to let the chaos continue.

eNCA

@eNCA

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The quest to remove Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink is intensifying. ActionSA is in discussion with party structures and the ANC about removing the DA-led government from the capital. #DStv403 #eNCA

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1 year

Just because it’s bigger doesn’t mean the DA should throw its weight around but do people get that in coalitions the bigger party almost always leads - everywhere in the world - and not because it’s better/right but because that’s what the voters decided? Perspective needed.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

8 months

Literally the same government that let Bashir go.

Joseph Cotterill

@jsphctrl

8 months

South Africa has launched ICJ proceedings against Israel, arguing jurisdiction under the Genocide Convention. It’s seeking provisional measures from the court, including calling for a halt to Israeli military action in Gaza. Full application here:

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Ryan Coetzee

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2 months

It seems we can look forward to sensible decisions and clear communication from our new Home Affairs minister, @Leon_Schreib

Leon Schreiber

@Leon_Schreib

2 months

In my first act as Minister, I have immediately extended the concession to safeguard skilled workers, tourists and other people affected by visa processing delays at Home Affairs. I have done so after the previous concession expired on 30 June, which left applicants vulnerable to

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Ryan Coetzee

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4 years

Is there an inventory of what SA has ready for the CV19 surge? As in: X # hospital beds, ventilators, PPE pieces, tests, etc? Plus process stuff around test analysis and contact tracing etc? What degree of readiness has been achieved during lockdown? Is there a dashboard? Where?

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Ryan Coetzee

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1 year

If ever there was a time for serious opposition leaders in SA to put the country first, think big, act maturely, be sensible and show their smarts, the next 18 months is it. Not easy. Very complex. But without doubt the most important period since 1994. Your country needs you.

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Ryan Coetzee

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3 years

How has a pretty averagely talented cricket team operating in a chaotic administrative, financial and political context gone and beaten the best side in the world? You have to believe it’s got something to do with Elgar and Bavuma - and Smith and Boucher. With leadership. No?

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Ryan Coetzee

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5 years

Here is a list of things one can be all at the same time: liberal, in favour of redress, opposed to race-based policy, passionate about vanquishing poverty, pro competitive markets, understanding of the emotional impact of SA’s past. The DA should be all of those things.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 years

It’s time Bill Gates won the Nobel Peace Prize. That’s what I say.

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Ryan Coetzee

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2 months

This is extraordinary. @geordinhl

Roné McFarlane

@Rownsterr

2 months

Really impressed that a @CityofCT library card gives you free online access to a huge range of newspapers& magazines, including the Sunday Times, M&G, Sowetan, Isolezwe, Herald. Daily Dispatch, Business Day, FT, New York Times, Guardian, Economist etc. Very nice public service!

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Ryan Coetzee

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5 years

So much political analysis in SA focuses on CR’s battle against the ethno-nationalist looters who flourished under Zuma but far too little on the need to break the hold of unions over public sector, SOEs and education. Economic policy not just a captive of the state capturers!

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Ryan Coetzee

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7 months

Right content. Right tone. Excellent performance. The DA looking very focused going into this election year. Clearly a good outing in the SONA debate to kick things off, after a stunning victory at the ConCourt. @jsteenhuisen

John Steenhuisen MP

@jsteenhuisen

7 months

Within the first 100 days in office as the anchor tenant for a new multi-party government, the DA will introduce the most comprehensive legislative reform agenda seen in a generation. We will rescue South Africa through concrete reforms and legislation. #SONADebate2024

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Ryan Coetzee

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2 years

How much did this farce cost, I wonder? And who will take responsibility?

Craig Ray

@craigray11

2 years

Graeme Smith cleared of all charges of racism in an independent arbitration ruling. The charges arose from testimony in last year's SJN. #Cricket .

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Ryan Coetzee

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29 days

This is one of the conclusions the ANC has come to during its week off from the small matter of governing.

News24 🇿🇦

@News24

29 days

News24 | 'DA is making us look bad': ANC top brass says GNU partners' successes are showing them up

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2 months

The PAC may have signed the Statement of Intent, but it clearly did not read it first. This will not happen. Period.

Expropriation: New land reform minister vows to push for Constitution change

PAC leader Mzwanele Nyhontso – the newly appointed Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development in Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet – plans to revisit attempts in Parliament to scrap section 25 of the...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

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@RyanCoetzee

2 months

Absolutely extraordinary. And disappointing.

Gareth van Onselen

@GvanOnselen

2 months

Bosa, ASA and RM all voted in favour of Hlophe? Have they gone quite mad?

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 years

Watching the US, UK and others respond to the economic damage wrought by the CV. Enraged by SA’s fiscal impotence, a result of its utter, complete, spectacular decades-long stupidity, venality and uselessness on the economy. Poverty also kills. And more will die now. Disgrace.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

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South Africa is of little interest to the UK government or political class. And in my UK Twitter timeline it is barely ever noticed or mentioned. Until today. Ramaphosa’s performance in Ukraine has cut through, and not (obviously) in a good way.

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@RyanCoetzee

1 year

There are few things more contemptible than the ANC blaming apartheid for things that are manifestly its own fault. Refuge of scoundrels of a special type!

Newzroom Afrika

@Newzroom405

1 year

[WATCH] "There is a lack of capacity. At the local government level, we don't have well qualified CFOs and engineers. Apartheid robbed us of a plethora of town planners."- ANC President, Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa while engaging with the media. #Newzroom405

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@RyanCoetzee

2 months

The ANC’s approach in negotiations and government is to rush, bully and swamp the DA. I think it will find the DA isn’t available for co-option.

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@RyanCoetzee

3 years

Yes, parliament. But when it comes to infrastructure, also and more importantly: electricity, water, roads, rail, schools, hospitals, old age homes. So: 30 months to get rid of the ANC, before the fading promise of SA’s democracy goes up in flames too.

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@RyanCoetzee

24 days

Simbine: what a champ. 4th by nothing in the greatest ever 100m Olympic final.

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@RyanCoetzee

2 months

The negotiations to form a GNU are not over. They have only just begun. Friday’s was an agreement on some principles plus: (1) decision-making, (2) broad composition of government and parliamentary posts and (3) “in consultation” (means veto) approach to choice of DA ministers…

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@RyanCoetzee

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The DA has some problems, and I fear some might be quite serious, but there isn’t another party is SA remotely worth voting for. WC employment stats proof enough of that. Eskom crisis proof enough of that. Kinda obvious really.

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@RyanCoetzee

2 months

This is the sort of behavior that destroys trust and imperils the GNU at birth. The President has an opportunity to grip the situation over the next few days and show that the GNU isn’t an attempt to perpetuate ANC hegemony. I hope he takes it.

Clement Manyathela

@TheRealClementM

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JUST IN : Helen Zille tells me on #FaceTheNation on SABC News that the ANC didn’t consult the GNU about the PA joining. Zille says she has written to Fikile Mbalula to raise this concern. She says the GNU document requires that the ANC consult parties in GNU before others join.

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@RyanCoetzee

5 years

This is a serious mistake by the Economist and the decision will not age well. It also won’t make any difference at all to the outcome, however, so the downside is all the Economist’s and the upside all the DA’s.

The Economist

@TheEconomist

5 years

Cyril Ramaphosa is the rainbow nation’s best bet, despite his rotten party. South Africans should back him. Our cover this week

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@RyanCoetzee

3 months

The DA has actually *increased* its support among black voters. Kinda hoped the perils of data-free analysis would be clear after the past few days, but silly me.

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Ryan Coetzee

@RyanCoetzee

4 years

The big divide in the SA economy isn’t between white and black owners, it’s between owners and non-owners, or put differently, between people who create jobs and people who don’t. Do everything you can to make it easier to start and grow businesses. That’s the policy!

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@RyanCoetzee

2 years

Franschhoek is excruciatingly beautiful in every way.

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@RyanCoetzee

3 years

This sort of thing all over SA now. I hate to break it to you Mpho, but South Africans are breaking South Africa. No one else. Doing an outstanding job all by ourselves. And you’re very much on the team.

Mpho Modise

@SSoshanguve

3 years

#PutSouthAfricanFirst and #OperationDudula are both for everyone who loves this country, for everyone whose heart is breaking for the Destruction of our cities and communities by African foreigners who destroyed their countries now do the same thing to South Africa

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@RyanCoetzee

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Astonishment on Twitter that the ANC has taken a race-based approach to Covid relief. Which in turn leaves me astonished. Why wouldn’t it?! Scorpions will scorpion, as the old fable has it.

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