Author name: Brett Herron

RAMAPHOSA IN WASHINGTON: TIME FOR DIPLOMACY OVER DISINFORMATION

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On Wednesday, President Ramaphosa will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C. This visit presents an important opportunity to reset the strategic relationship between South Africa and the United States. At a time of heightened geopolitical and economic turbulence, it is vital that official relations be underpinned by mutual respect, open dialogue, and the facts.

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BUDGET 3.0: FIX THE PROCESS, NOT JUST THE NUMBERS

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As Minister Enoch Godongwana prepares to table the third version of the Budget, in as many months, it is time to acknowledge that the problem is no longer just about what’s in or out of the budget. The deeper issue is how the budget is built in the first place. The process has been chaotic and exclusionary, exposing how ill-suited the current budget-making framework is for a Government of National Unity (GNU). We urgently need new, inclusive protocols and decision-making structures fit for a coalition era. A GNU requires coordination, consultation, and compromise – not ambushes and ultimatums.

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CAPE TOWN BUDGET DECEIT: RESIDENTS MUST PRESSURE THEIR COUNCILLORS TO BOYCOTT VOTE SITTING

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Indigent Capetonians will be asked to cough up nearly 10% extra on their monthly bills from the City of Cape Town, detailed assessment of the budget by the GOOD Party has revealed. The deadline for public comments on the budget has passed without residents being fully informed of the tariff increases that await them.

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STATE BICKERING OVER LEGAL COSTS FURTHER DELAYS APARTHEID CASES

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 The President must instruct his Ministers of Police and Justice to cover the reasonable legal costs of former State agents appearing as accused or key witnesses in long-delayed apartheid-era cases. Reasonable costs include the costs of defending accused persons in criminal trials and facilitating the co-operation of witnesses critical to the prosecution’s success. Reasonable costs do not include the execution of legal strategies to delay cases or abuse court processes. Such costs must be covered by the accused persons, themselves.

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CITY OF CAPE TOWN’S “PLAN” TO MANAGE METRORAIL STUCK AT THE STATION

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A presentation by Prasa to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament Standing Committee on Mobility today exposed the City of Cape Town’s alleged “plan” to take over management of the Metrorail system as theatrical bluster. The grandiose-sounding “Service Level Plan” between the City and Prasa that the Mayor of Cape Town announced with great fanfare six months ago, but never allowed anyone to see, was revealed at today’s presentation to contain no grand plan at all.

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COMMEMORATING NAKBA DAY: THE ESSENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S SHARED HISTORY WITH PALESTINE

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Nakba Day, today, commemorates the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from what was previously known as British Palestine – “the catastrophe” – to create the State of Israel on 14 May 1948. A few weeks later, thousands of kilometers away, the National Party, with its policy of apartheid, was voted into power by the White South African electorate, on 4 June 1948. Both Israel and South Africa enacted policies that stripped indigenous people of their land rights and dignity, conferring second class status on those allowed to remain and herding the rest into ethnic enclaves.

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CAPE FLATS RESIDENTS MEET ALL CRITERIA FOR U.S. REFUGEE STATUS BESIDES SKIN COLOUR

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On the basis of their home language, historic expropriation of land without compensation, and exposure to the most extreme levels of violence in South Africa, many residents of the gang-ravaged Cape Flats should qualify for consideration by the US as potential refugees. The only reason they do not is colour.

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UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES TO 32.9%, A BASIC INCOME GRANT IS A MORAL IMPERATIVE

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 The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey for Q1 2025 confirms what South Africans already feel in their homes and communities – unemployment is getting worse, not better. The official unemployment rate has climbed to a shocking 32.9%, up from 31.9% in Q4 2024. This translates to 8.2 million South Africans officially unemployed, with a further 3.5 million discouraged work seekers who have given up trying to find work, and 16.7 million people not economically active. In total, nearly 25 million South Africans of working age have no income to support themselves or their families.

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FAKE REFUGEES: IMPOSE SPECIAL WEALTH TAX ON THE SALES OF THEIR FIXED PROPERTY

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The first group of “Afrikaner refugees” are expected to land in the United States next week, the New York Times reported today. They are being granted refugee status on the basis of a web of right-wing lies that South Africa is grabbing land owned by Whites and conducting a genocide against Afrikaners. These lies have had a profoundly detrimental effect on South Africa’s relationship with the US.

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