Imtiaz Sooliman – ANC slams Gift of the Givers, toxic sludge wrecks Jagersfontein & hijacked RDP houses VN 35

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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