The end game for those who destroy essential public monopolies like water supply, is profit from privatisation. Private shareholder profit (the cost the public pays for privatisation) funds bribes for officials to mismanage & destroy public monopolies.

No revolt is gonna come from people who wait to be inconvenienced so they can say "we're not angry enough." More water shortages,blackouts,price hikes, disservice & austerity measures until that middle class bubble bursts.

Gedleyihlekisa asked a pertinent khweshin when his friends were accused of capturing the state.

As we migrate from DSTV set boxes to WiFi or churning out, real people are affected. A company that repairs them is retrenching. Here is a kicker: DSTV set boxes are manufactured in China. The company that repairs them is from Singapore. Good luck with structural reforms.🫣

I voted for Gedleyihlikisa🤗

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It seems this company makes those KFC boxes that your Streetwise Two comes in. This closure means those boxes will be imported because imported boxes are cheaper (not because we lack capacity). A few thoughts on low aggregate demand & being trapped in de-industrialisation. 1/6

1) Cheaper boxes means cheaper prices for KFC consumers in short-term, but ultimately reduced demand for KFC since there are fewer spenders (due to job losses). Fewer buyers of KFC means KFC will eventually have to increase its prices to meets its fixed costs of operation. 2/6

2) A downward spiral of fewer customers (lower aggregate demand) leading to need to reduce costs (more cheaper imports), leading to less people employed in SA (due to cost reducing imports), leading to fewer retail customers leading to less need for retail jobs, ensues. 3/6

We need to put her on minimum wage

In a call with a UK counterpart. Talked about water crisis in JhB. He tells me about part of UK where privatised water is not drinkable because of poor quality. I guess, SAns want to f%$k around and find out. 😕

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On 21 Feb 2026, MoF is going to table the same budget that was approved in 2016 prepared by Prof Sachs. Countercyclical fiscal policy was retired for fiscal consolidation. Since then, the econ grew by <=1%. Since 2018, the 2016 budget has been shameless abt privatization.

A loan is not a contribution.

The list is minimum requirement for privatization. The guy delivered.

Forex loans, if ostensibly used to “fund govt spending within South Africa”, results in the “printing” of rand (rand created by govt spending not offset with removal of rand from supply with taxes or rand denominated bond sales). The process is as follows. 1) Treasury takes a

Gnower (def not a knower) forgot it was the private white owned companies that were incompetent and who overran the costs. He also forget who the dead horse was that managed Eskom during that time.

It is that time to ditch ideology and return to math, physics, and engineering reality. Pursuing scarcity and high prices isn't fighting climate change—it's engineering national decline. We need abundant, affordable energy, not trillion-dollar virtue signals.

It is senseless to privatise a free good, nature! Common cases are Bolivia in Cochabamba, Agues Del Tunaris privatised water and it led to the Cochabamba Water war, prices hiked! Even in Tanzania, Mozambique!

I don't blame here. Her boss is "Mr Public-private partnerships". She is not dumb.