Imtiaz Sooliman – ANC slams Gift of the Givers, toxic sludge wrecks Jagersfontein & hijacked RDP houses VN 35
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The UK election campaign is facing political bias and uncertainty due to the campaigning ahead of the election causing disrupted campaigning and uncertainty for the political world. The speaker discusses the need for accountability and policy direction in addressing poverty and the need for policy direction and incentive for creating jobs and homes for ordinary people. There is a need for policy direction and policy direction that incentivizes creating jobs and jobs for those who want to build.
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Molo San bonani, hello. How's it? Good morning. Good morning. Good
morning. On this the Wednesday edition of the show. For a second
there, I wasn't sure of my date. My name is gobese, aka Big Daddy
liberty. This is voganazo, your morning news analysis show. Now
you'll notice, of course, that I'm not coming to you from my usual
studio location. Well, mostly because I cannot come from you
from the at least because of Eskom, or at least the city of
Durban, one of the two who have rendered us rendered us without
power for the last 24 hours. But be that as it may, we'll keep the
show going. Good morning. Welcome to it. Remember, if you want to
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as I said, I'm not in my studio location. Things will be a bit
noisy, but I'm sure you can hear me just fine. And with that being
said, enough for the jibba jabba. Let's get straight into the news,
right? We begin here this morning, on the north coast of KwaZulu
Natal, indeed, in the umktuze municipality. That's, of course,
Richards Bay, which, as you'll know, is heavily contested right
now between the IFP and the ANC Ward 12, of course, will be a by
election today being held. In fact, voting is likely at the time
of speaking, at the time of this video will be well underway. As I
said, the campaigning ahead of this particular Ward by election
has been insanely fierce, with both the ANC and the IFP vying for
this particular seat. Now, the interesting thing, of course,
comes out of the ANC s revelations, or the ANC
accusations against a one gift of the givers. Yes, that
organization, which does fantastic NGO work around the country the
ANC is begi ndolo. That's the
regional leadership of the NC here, accusing the organization of
political bias this after the NGO was handing out food parcels in
the area, presumably at the same time as an IFP event. Now, in
response to this, the head of this particular organization a doctor,
NTIA Suleiman, who you all know, of course, very popular figure in
this country, had this to say. Suleiman didn't mince his words,
saying that his organization was a political gift of the givers. He's
quoted as saying, has an apolitical stance assisting
communities in various parts of the country, irrespective of the
political party the mayor or councilors as to where they belong
to. He goes on to say, we've assisted multiple areas where the
predominant party was the ANC itself. End of quote. Of course,
he's absolutely correct. This is the same gift of the givers that
has been drilling boreholes, for example, in the Midlands
municipality where the DA is in governance, the same municipality
that's been doing work assisting
ANC run municipalities in ebeka, for example, in drilling for water
and other municipalities across the country, it sort of rings
hollow for the ANC to complain about this particular incident.
But of course they will, because for them, the desperation to cling
onto power, the desperation to claw back municipalities that they
lost in the last local government elections is becoming palpably
clear. Again, as I conclude this particular section, I'll say this
The unka tools at municipality in particular is one where, and
that's Richard's bay of the city, is one where the IFP itself has
come out to say the amount of graft and corruption that it has
had to begin to clean up from the previous administration, which was
an ANC one will leave your mind boggling now again, as to whether
gift of the givers was giving up these two parcels around the same
time as the IFP was campaigning is neither here nor there. The issue
in this country is the poverty, the very fact that organizations
like gift of the givers exist in the first place should see the ANC
Shut the f up when it comes to any criticism against them. And why?
Because, well, the ramp in poverty a gift of the givers is responding
to is directly correlated to the failed policies of the government
in this country, the very policies that create the poverty that
organizations that give to the givers are responding to. So the
ANC in this particular regard, whether it wants to win back
mkatuza or not, is relevant. It needs to shut the effort when it
comes to issues of poverty, because if it's going to point any
finger at gift of the givers, it needs to know that four are
pointing right back at them.
Alright, from KZN, I take you now to the Free State and leave the
small town of Yag from 10 which, as you'll know, has literally
almost like a in a biblic.
Sense, had a flood ransack the town and destroy as many as 60 to
100 homes in that part of the world. And what makes it worse is
this flood, of course, comes from a particular dam that was operated
by a mine in the area. The dam itself not holding necessarily
fresh water, but a rather toxic slurry, of sorts, of the
after effects of mining activity. Now the minister gwede Mantashe,
the latest, of course, is the Minister of minerals in this
country. Mantashe set to make an appearance in the town of Jared
spontane, with the piece in the EWN explaining his visit. Proposed
visit as follows, the minister, of course, is expected to meet the
victims of Sunday's ordeal, and here, first hand, the traumatic
experience they've been going through since losing their homes
on Sunday, on Monday, the kopano local municipality, that's the
municipality that runs yas Fontaine, told Eyewitness News
that it estimated that between, as I said, 60 and 100 homes were
flooded when a mine dam cracked, opening and flooding the area. End
of quote. Now, of course, the appearance of the mining minister
in this town is neither here nor there. It does really nothing to
aid the people of this particular town who are devastated, of
course, by the effects of the dam wall breaking and a toxic slurry
rushing through their town. Indeed, even the President's
promise of there being quote, unquote government assistance on
the way should be taken with a pinch of salt, taken from us here
in KZN after the floods for reference in that regard. But
here's the real issue for me, in this particular issue story, we
have a situation where the very state of the country, insofar as
our inability to maintain infrastructure, is coming back to
haunt us. It's coming back to bite us in the bum. There will be a
blame game that is played on this particular issue of the minister
pointing fingers at the fingers, pardon me, at the company that ran
the mind, the company that ran the mind, probably pointing fingers
back at government and so forth. But all of this is irrelevant
insofar as there are residents right now of that small town who
are reeling, who are suffering and need urgent help. And for me,
there's two things at play here that need to sort of happen. One,
we need to see as many as possible NGOs step in, into the part of the
world, and this is where, if you'll excuse me, from for biting
on my previous story, organizations that give to the
givers play an instrumental role in assisting but in the second
there needs to be accountability. And in this regard, criminal
charges need to be brought forward, not just to, by the way,
the former mining company that ran and was meant to maintain that
particular dam, but also government officials. Where was
the accountability? Where was the forewarning? How is it possible
that a damn war like this one breaks and there is no forewarning
whatsoever? Because for me, this is the takeaway. If it happens in
jansfontaine, it is likely to happen elsewhere, and who then
will step in to assist those folks? Something has to begin to
happen insofar as ensuring a culture of accountability in this
country and maybe prison time for certain government officials is
warranted at this stage
right, I take you to Cape Town now, where an interesting piece of
information, some data, has come out the Minister of human
settlements. That's one minister, gubai, of course, responding to a
parliamentary question effectively on the issue of how many homes
were illegally occupied in the Western Cape basically pointed out
that if you combine the City of Cape Town and the maxikama region.
Of course, about 214 homes were illegally occupied. She goes on to
say that of those, about 50 of those homes had had her
departments initiate some form of eviction in that regard. Now I
raised this particular story, but as a reminder to you of something
we've covered in the week, which is how politicians and the
political elites do not really care around issues of property
rights and crimes against those who are property owners. Why?
Because their leftist ideology simply doesn't allow them to do
that. Let me be precise and specific here you have in that
very same piece where this data came out, one such lefty
organization, indeed a politically elite one, in so far as the work
it does and which loses, with an organization called de funa, who
was its attorney, a one Johnny, John T podmikoga is cited in the
piece in response to this data as saying The following, just listen
to this folk tongue response. Attorney John T Koga said that
land occupation was not right, but the government was equal, equally
wrong to criminalize just desperate people who wanted
housing. He said the increase in land occupation was a consequence
of the government's failure.
To deliver housing at scale and redress the quote, toxic legacy of
apartheid spatial planning. End quote. Now I come back on this
particular point because it's testament to the point I was
making earlier on the fourth tongue nature of it. How, on the
one hand, there is the fame, the fame, the pretense, the shaming
of, you know, calling out or criticizing the violation of
property rights, and then in the very same breath, basically
justifying it and saying, Well, you know, it's happening because
the state is not providing housing. First of all, it is not
for the state to provide housing. What we should be encouraging in
this country, and this is the real policy direction I would encourage
we take is actually a society where ordinary people are able to
build their own homes, how and why? Well, through effectively, a
market economy that creates jobs, people who have jobs, earning an
income from that income, building savings from those savings,
buying, of course, whatever they need, from housing to household
goods and the like. You can go down the line. However, leftist
ideology simply doesn't see that reality. In the leftist mind, in
people such as or people such as those in organizations like the
funugu hazI politicians and the political elites, they don't see
that reality, what they would rather see is the fugezi the the
pipe dream of the state shall. Remember what I said in a previous
episode, any politician, any political elitist, who comes to
you and says the state should or the state shall, is simply selling
you a pipe dream. It is snake oil that they're peddling. The state
can never provide homes for all the poor people in this country
who need them. What we need instead is a policy direction that
incentivizes creating job, people who have jobs and people who are
business owners in this country, so that they can afford to create,
indeed, their own or build, rather, their own homes, if not
build buy their own homes. That's the shift in ideology, shift in
mentality, that I often speak about, and if anything, these are
the sort of organizations that I often warn you against,
right? That's it from me this morning. Apologies once again for
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