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Pieter Du Toit

@PieterDuToit

Assistant Editor: Investigations, News24 • Author of The ANC Billionaires (2022) and The Stellenbosch Mafia (2019) • Co-author of Enemy of the People (2017)

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calendar_today16-04-2009 19:13:59

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Congratulations on 50 years in journalism, ⁦Max du Preez⁩! From Soweto ‘76, the fall of apartheid and now the end of the ANC, what a ride! Baie geluk! vryeweekblad.com/bulletins/2023…

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Massive feelgood factor in SA rugger at the moment. Springbok Sevens through to the Cup final at the Dubai HSBC SVNS. And this despite Steve Jones’s massive tantrum about SA teams in Europe in the The Times and The Sunday Times today! Poor oke.

Massive feelgood factor in SA rugger at the moment. @Blitzboks through to the Cup final at the Dubai @SVNSSeries. And this despite Steve Jones’s massive tantrum about SA teams in Europe in the @thetimes today! Poor oke.
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We do have good stories to tell about South Africa, Mr President. Just not that one.

Ramaphosa wants us to stop badmouthing the ANC government. My column:

ewn.co.za/0001/01/01/man…

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This was really, really vivid, ⁦Dominic Sandbrook⁩ and ⁦Tom Holland⁩, so well told. And you don’t buy the conspiracy theories… podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the…

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Cash-strapped City of Joburg to splurge R2m on jackets, flowers, watches for glitzy staff shindig news24.com/news24/investi…

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“The oldest president in U.S. history also continues to face questions about his age, even here in Nantucket,” a Fox News correspondent reported while citing a question he himself asked.
poynter.org/commentary/202…

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My old constituency. Never mind that it has one of KZN’s biggest dams in this very municipality but I once uncovered through questions that the current premiers then husband was given a tender and his company dumped tons of pipes meant to be used to supply water to the…

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This is devastating. How many children have to die before government intervenes? Again, the heroes of Gift of the Givers steps in to do what our careless government refuse to do.

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I dunno about that, Mr President. Methinks the private sector’s construction of the Nelson Mandela Terminal could be part of the plot to collapse the government.

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Today, exactly 60 years ago, John Kennedy was killed. I picked up this newspaper in an antique store in Knysna some years ago. The front page shows a stumbling, shocked Jackie Kennedy being helped into the hearse carrying her husband’s body.

Today, exactly 60 years ago, John Kennedy was killed. I picked up this newspaper in an antique store in Knysna some years ago. The front page shows a stumbling, shocked Jackie Kennedy being helped into the hearse carrying her husband’s body.
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Then president Thabo Mbeki’s response in the National Assembly to a question about the 9/11 attacks, and subsequent US reprisals in Afghanistan.

Then president Thabo Mbeki’s response in the National Assembly to a question about the 9/11 attacks, and subsequent US reprisals in Afghanistan.
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'If the ANC lose at the polls, they will go,' says former IEC chair Johann Kriegler news24.com/news24/investi…

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The ANC hails China as a role model. The Communist Party of China is its best friend. But why is China so prosperous and successful while South Africa is stumbling? asks Max du Preez. mtr.cool/pslruhwusi

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“There is a dark mood in the country, a sense of disappointment, impatience…an election is a divisive event,” says Kriegler.

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It is foolhardy to think “that 300 years of colonialism and apartheid can be forgotten so quickly,” says Kriegler, who adds we seem to suffer from a post-liberation hangover.

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Zuma got away with state capture because parliament was unable to exact accountability, but it was the making of human failure. “The law cannot generate the necessary political will for ANC MPs to do their job,” says Kriegler.

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