Interesting, Adriaan. In 2019
@News24
published a false story that the PP was sitting on a Bongo probe. The story was pulled after Steenhuisen admitted that his complaint was filed with Parly, not PP. But
@News24
refused to apologize to PP, saying an apology wasn’t “necessary”!🤔
@AdvBMkhwebane
Thanks a lot, PP, for the kind words, the well wishes and the for the vote of confidence in one’s abilities. It was a pleasure to serve under you! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Last night I spent 8 minutes on the phone reporting a massive pipe burst near Wonderpark Shopping Centre to the City of Tshwane. I was surprised this morning to find that the gush had not been plugged. Thousands of litres of this scarce resource were left to flood the streets.
Hi Prof. As Casac’s advisory council member, I always wonder if your blogs represent your professional opinion or you are just trumpeting Casac views on the PP. Do you declare this glaring conflict to tv/radio stations or on the blogs when you provide “independent” analysis?
@ThetoThakane
If you want to see the contrast, go to the Pretoria station, where the Gautrain and Metrorail platforms stand side by side. There you will see the “haves” and the “have nots” like you’ve never seen them before!
Inaccurate. The subpoena is not abandoned but stayed by mutual agreement between the parties pending an expedited date of the hearing of Part B of the application. Parties must engage DJP on the date of hearing.
Mind you, we had twice — prior to publication — informed the journalist who penned the story that we had no Steenhuisen complaint against Bongo. In our complaint to
@News24
we attached several readers’ comments on the story to demonstrate the harm suffered. All in vain.
@CoruscaKhaya
@Bakangonline
@eNCA
You should have said “the Public Protector has received complaints from members of the public to investigate ...” But then there is a narrative to be peddled that she fishes for these complaints and is pursuing a vendetta!
@CoruscaKhaya
@Bakangonline
@eNCA
Prioritize? How did you arrive at this conclusion? The
@PublicProtector
is not a one (wo)man show. We have 167 investigators. Cases are allocated to each as they come. They are investigated simultaneously. Each invesitgator works on 20 to 40 cases at a time.
Folks, this is not an investigation report but a letter to the complainant to ascertain issues for investigation. The matter is ongoing and nowhere near the point of making findings.
@PublicProtector
CIC
@Julius_S_Malema
your must have a branch in West Africa, some pal from Senegal is your staunchest supporter in Abidjan. They want you to deliver your speech in French as well 🤣🤣🤣
Zingisa is unfair. He approached me with a copy of a letter from PP to the Minister, bearing Home Affairs’ “received” stamp. He wanted confirmation that there’s an investigation. Now he says the case’s been “resurrected”. Njani? It’s been ongoing since 2017 nje!🤷🏾♂️
@SundayTimesZA
That investigation resulted from an Executive Members’ Ethics Act complaint. EMEA is applicable only to the executive (Presidents, Deputies, Ministers etc.) Dlamini-Zuma was not a Minister at the time of her campaign for governing party presidency and so fell out of jurisdiction.
@mailandguardian
"She said when Bosasa’s Gavin Watson was interviewed, he revealed that he had also donated to the election campaign of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (NDZ)... But when it was suggested that the investigation be broadened to include the NDZ campaign, Mkhwebane refused."
Residents of The Orchards, Ext 55, North of Pretoria stage a late night protest over a power blackout. Lights went off early Monday evening. The area remains without electricity. Longmore Road is barricaded with burning tyres. Restore power, say irate residents
@CityofTshwane
@CoruscaKhaya
@Bakangonline
@eNCA
No one said anything about invention of terms. Your whole tweet insinuates that there is something wrong that she has done. In fact, you imply that she wakes up and tries to find something on SARS. By the way, I’m one of the communication people at
@PublicProtector
.
@CoruscaKhaya
There is another. Maybe not a mystery. The Lilly Mine tragedy. Is there absolutely nothing that mining scientists and technologists all over the world can do to help bring the bodies of the three workers to the surface?
There are a few communicators I've dealt with who are absolute professionals.
@MolotoMothapo
@Segalwe
at
@PublicProtector
office, ex- Vodacom communicator, sadly forgot his name
@AyandaAllieP
- what a professionals even when you are looking for information against their companies
This week, I hung out with
@sewela_langeni
, owner of
@book_capital
, an African literature bookshop in Melville, Johannesburg. Sewela is doing a round of interviews for e tv’s book show. Be on the lookout for it.
#LucasMangopeALife
is out in stores. Get your copy now!
That text came as the respondent’s lawyers were seemingly trying to frustrate the investigation through the use of the media. At some point, they shared an entire record their correspondence with investigators with the press. “Chess” therefore meant countering their move.
@ReasonHD
🔥The ability to rap doesn’t always equal the ability to make great music. A lot of freestyle gurus and battles cats fail at making hits. And those that can’t drop bars off the dome tend to make better music.
“An unfavourable finding of unethical or corrupt conduct coupled with remedial action, will probably be strongly resisted in an attempt to repair or soften the inescapable reputational damage.” - Mogoeng Mogoeng CJ, EFF v Speaker of the National Assembly, 31 March 2016
This refers to jurisdiction over any politician as opposed to political office-bearers such as Presidents, Deputies, Ministers, Deputies, Premiers, MECs, Mayors.
@colli_rise
@IIKHUNE_32_16
@KaizerChiefs
This is the real silhouette of Itu Khune in action. Not the caricature peddled by the Pirates-Sundowns alliance. Worse, they disrespect Michael Jordan and Nike by placing the spoof alongside the legendary Jumpman. The nerve! 😅
#Amakhosi4Life
✌🏾
WATCH| I chat to
@sewela_langeni
about
#LucasMangopeALife
📚 on
@etv
Morning Show tomorrow (Thursday, September 12, 2024). The TMSBookclub feature on the show usually airs at 06:20. The book is available at all major bookstores, including
@book_capital
Young
@IIKHUNE_32_16
easily taking care of a Gilbert Mushangazikhe attempt in a 2008/9
#SowetoDerby
at Mmabatho Stadium, Mahikeng. Chiefs had the likes of Schalkwyk, Torrealba, Zwane, Nengomasha on its starting 11. Pirates had Meyiwa, Modise, Mabalane, Mhlongo etc.
This “targeting” narrative is weird in the extreme. PP doesn’t go around fishing for these complaints. What must be done then when the public lodges complaints? Ignore them out of fear of being accused of “targeting” certain people?
@mpozi1
@PublicProtector
@AdvBMkhwebane
Good day. A report on the matter was issued last week. A copy was shared with the complainant, Ms Beverley Schafer. Here is the link for an electronic copy
1. We use such stories to educate the public about our services so that where the issue resonates the affected person knows where to go. 2. We got consent to name her. The investigation reports itself, which is public, IDs her. 🙏🏾
Lucas Mangope: A Life by
@Segalwe
“examines the public and private life of this traditional-leader-cum-elected politician, whose rise and fall coincided with the collapse of apartheid and that of the ill-advised homelands project”
@NBPublishers
@pierredevos
@PrinceKBDube
Anyhow, the question was when you offer “independent” analysis on radio/tv or your blogs regarding the PP, do you declare that you advise Casac to call for her sacking? I imagine some of the interviews are occasioned by Casac action against her 🤷🏾♂️
When I left high school many years ago, the plan was to take up a media-related course so I could be on radio. Although I did a bit of campus radio, that plan did not quite materialize at a professional level.
#WorldRadioDay
@KaizerChiefs
I was shouting instructions as though the guys could hear me. Edge of the seat kind of stuff. Well done
#Amakhosi4Life
. It was always going to be a steep hill. They even got supporters in the stadium. That 4-goal investment paid off real good!✌🏾✌🏾
Thanks a lot, ntate
@RamsByTheHorns
for reaching out and hosting me on your weekly podcast, Taking the Rams by the Horns in association with
@SowetanLIVE
to discuss
#LucasMangopeALife
. I had a great time unpacking the story. The book is out in stores.
@NBPublishers
@PrinceKBDube
@pierredevos
The views can be wrong or right but if there is a conflict there is a problem. That is why, for lack of a better example, that judge in the Omotoso trial had to recuse himself.
Hundreds of
#Gautrain
commuters stranded at Marlboro station. A voice from the intercom advices that we make alternative travel arrangements as all Pretoria-bound trains have ground to a halt due to power outages! 😫
@SamSoleZA
How so, Sam? Casac is calling for removal from office. The Prof is a member of its advisory council. He regularly tweets & writes content that is consistent with Casac’s views on PP. Similarly, the Press Ombud chairs Casac. We’ve a complaint that she is considering 🤷🏾♂️
@ThetoThakane
@Sentletse
In hindsight, I’m glad mother’s plan to enrol me at Zeerust Hoër Skool fell through. I went to Tlhaole High instead and met rogues like
@pulealbert
. I would not have survived an Afrikaans medium academy and all that seems to come with it.
@AkanyangM
Agreed. What matters is we get what he is saying. As a diverse society, we speak broken Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana or Isizulu all the time trying to reach across the language divide. English is not a measure of intelligence! 🤷🏾♂️
She was however, a member of Parliament.
And didn't the PP previously argue her office must and can extend the scope of an investigation if needs must?
@NtwanaYaModimo
@KickOffMagazine
Pitso is getting a taste of his own medicine. He used to be hostile towards foreign coaches here at home. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
@TumiMolekane
My wish is for some in the game to stop thinking Nas, Black Thought even Drake type delivery & flow are the only ways to do ‘it’ & earn the stripes. I wish we become more authentic & realize we aren’t in the US. We must appreciate people who spit in vernac, sample home brew more.
@TumiMolekane
This is why you shouldn't be referee & player at the same time. The bias is on some 💪. Competing in same market yet you wanna be judge too?