Stuart Johnson
@stujohnson.bsky.social
Think southern Africa might just be far enough away.
It needs pointing out to the MK Party (and the EFF) that 37/40 seats is not a majority.
The point is everyone else, i.e. the majority of voters, don't want you in power, and want their party to work with all the others to keep you out of power.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
The point is everyone else, i.e. the majority of voters, don't want you in power, and want their party to work with all the others to keep you out of power.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Chaos in legislature as MK loses bid to control KZN | Daily Maverick
MK MPLs banged their fists on tables, stomped their feet, jabbed their fingers in the faces of police officers and sang Umshini Wami. The legislature was disrupted for more than an hour until Speaker ...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
It needs pointing out to the MK Party (and the EFF) that 37/40 seats is not a majority.
The point is everyone else, i.e. the majority of voters, don't want you in power, and want their party to work with all the others to keep you out of power.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
The point is everyone else, i.e. the majority of voters, don't want you in power, and want their party to work with all the others to keep you out of power.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Delusional if he really believes this.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Motsoaledi insists NHI will not be ‘captured’ amid corruption fears | Daily Maverick
The corruption and capture exposed by the Special Investigating Unit at Tembisa Hospital should not be used as a justification to deny South Africans universal health coverage, the health minister ins...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Delusional if he really believes this.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Just a horrendous blight on the country.
Depressingly necessary read.
Depressingly necessary read.
Voucher systems created by giant listed companies like Pepkor and Blu Label Telecoms are making gambling a massive part of their service, targeting lower-income clients.
Read our big expose:
Read our big expose:
SA’s gambling crisis: facilitators, criminals and money launderers
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December 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Just a horrendous blight on the country.
Depressingly necessary read.
Depressingly necessary read.
As someone who feels co-responsible for the bad decision a TV character is about to make, I find the ANC's "it's not us, it's the (ANC led) government" attitude completely nauseating.
LIVE | Mokonyane calls criticism ANC faces over Madlanga, ad hoc hearings ‘unfair’ www.news24.com/politics/liv...
LIVE | Mokonyane calls criticism ANC faces over Madlanga, ad hoc hearings ‘unfair’ www.news24.com/politics/liv...
LIVE | Mokonyane calls criticism ANC faces over Madlanga, ad hoc hearings ‘unfair’ | News24
The ANC’s 5th National General Council (NGC) kicks off in Johannesburg on Monday and will focus on challenges to renewal, including effective leadership succession management.
www.news24.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
As someone who feels co-responsible for the bad decision a TV character is about to make, I find the ANC's "it's not us, it's the (ANC led) government" attitude completely nauseating.
LIVE | Mokonyane calls criticism ANC faces over Madlanga, ad hoc hearings ‘unfair’ www.news24.com/politics/liv...
LIVE | Mokonyane calls criticism ANC faces over Madlanga, ad hoc hearings ‘unfair’ www.news24.com/politics/liv...
Our talented Minister of Agriculture doing a sterling job cosying up to the hunting lobby; less so on the agricultural front.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
KZN dairy farmers face massive losses amid the ravages of foot and mouth disease | Daily Maverick
The foot and mouth disease outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal is wreaking havoc on the dairy sector, which is responsible for 30% of South Africa’s milk production.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Our talented Minister of Agriculture doing a sterling job cosying up to the hunting lobby; less so on the agricultural front.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
I swear people take slow and stupid pills as they enter the mall.
Especially at Christmas time.
Especially at Christmas time.
December 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I swear people take slow and stupid pills as they enter the mall.
Especially at Christmas time.
Especially at Christmas time.
Ahhh, there are rhetorical questions, and then are just idioctic rhetorical questions.
We have been a full blown mafia state for at least 18 years.
We have been a full blown mafia state for at least 18 years.
Is SA becoming a mafia state? Multibillion-rand projects brought to their knees. Democracy under fire – literally. A nation held hostage by violence, intimidation and silence. That's a special episode of #CarteBlanche tonight at 7pm on M-Net channel 101, and DStv Stream.
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ahhh, there are rhetorical questions, and then are just idioctic rhetorical questions.
We have been a full blown mafia state for at least 18 years.
We have been a full blown mafia state for at least 18 years.
The zero was overly generous.
Getting the grade you earned is religious persecution now?
University Of Oklahoma Places Professor On Leave After Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' For Bad Grade On Essay
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December 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The zero was overly generous.
Very interesting comment on Putin and his future prospects.
For those that lived it, the downfall of Apartheid was a crashing economy.
It's also how Putin is going to see himself off.
For those that lived it, the downfall of Apartheid was a crashing economy.
It's also how Putin is going to see himself off.
Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall
Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall
The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Very interesting comment on Putin and his future prospects.
For those that lived it, the downfall of Apartheid was a crashing economy.
It's also how Putin is going to see himself off.
For those that lived it, the downfall of Apartheid was a crashing economy.
It's also how Putin is going to see himself off.
For once South Africa climbing over the fence and standing on the morally right side in the Ukraine war.
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling on Russia to return all Ukrainian children unlawfully taken during the war. The vote was 91 in favor, 12 against, and 57 abstentions. Countries voting against include Russia, Belarus, Iran, Cuba. Among abstainers were China, India and Brazil.
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
For once South Africa climbing over the fence and standing on the morally right side in the Ukraine war.
The faux Ministerial outrage is galling.
It is on his (and his ANC predecessors') watch that the public health system in South Africa has been annihilated.
But NHI...
Motsoaledi outraged at failures highlighted in health ombud’s damning hospital report www.news24.com/southafrica/...
It is on his (and his ANC predecessors') watch that the public health system in South Africa has been annihilated.
But NHI...
Motsoaledi outraged at failures highlighted in health ombud’s damning hospital report www.news24.com/southafrica/...
Motsoaledi outraged at failures highlighted in health ombud’s damning hospital report | News24
Two new reports by Health Ombud Taole Mokoena paint a devastating picture of failures in both the public and private health sectors, detailing systemic negligence and alleged criminal misconduct at Pi...
www.news24.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The faux Ministerial outrage is galling.
It is on his (and his ANC predecessors') watch that the public health system in South Africa has been annihilated.
But NHI...
Motsoaledi outraged at failures highlighted in health ombud’s damning hospital report www.news24.com/southafrica/...
It is on his (and his ANC predecessors') watch that the public health system in South Africa has been annihilated.
But NHI...
Motsoaledi outraged at failures highlighted in health ombud’s damning hospital report www.news24.com/southafrica/...
Eben Etzebeth's eye-gouging hearing today.
In mitigation, his excellent and exemplary prior disciplinary record over 141 test matches.
In aggravation, he's a Springbok and therefore obviously a violently brutish rugby player prone to regular acts of extreme foul play without any prior provocation.
In mitigation, his excellent and exemplary prior disciplinary record over 141 test matches.
In aggravation, he's a Springbok and therefore obviously a violently brutish rugby player prone to regular acts of extreme foul play without any prior provocation.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Eben Etzebeth's eye-gouging hearing today.
In mitigation, his excellent and exemplary prior disciplinary record over 141 test matches.
In aggravation, he's a Springbok and therefore obviously a violently brutish rugby player prone to regular acts of extreme foul play without any prior provocation.
In mitigation, his excellent and exemplary prior disciplinary record over 141 test matches.
In aggravation, he's a Springbok and therefore obviously a violently brutish rugby player prone to regular acts of extreme foul play without any prior provocation.
Anything said by Nicholas Crisp and his colleagues at the Delartment of health about the Public Healthcare system being underfunded has zero credibility until they address the fraud, corruption, and poor management crippling it.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Financialisation is the last thing South Africa’s National Health Insurance needs | Daily Maverick
<p>South Africa's National Health Insurance (NHI) aims to address healthcare inequities, but the rise of financialisation threatens its success. Treating health as an asset compromises universal healt...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Anything said by Nicholas Crisp and his colleagues at the Delartment of health about the Public Healthcare system being underfunded has zero credibility until they address the fraud, corruption, and poor management crippling it.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
It's been obvious for the longest time that Emurhuleni is a crime scene.
One that no doubt includes the Gauteng ANC as a whole.
HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder www.news24.com/investigatio...
One that no doubt includes the Gauteng ANC as a whole.
HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder www.news24.com/investigatio...
HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder | News24
Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza sought to divert investigators’ attention by publicly insisting that chief auditor Mpho Mafole was working on an irregular rates clearance audit ahead of his mur...
www.news24.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
It's been obvious for the longest time that Emurhuleni is a crime scene.
One that no doubt includes the Gauteng ANC as a whole.
HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder www.news24.com/investigatio...
One that no doubt includes the Gauteng ANC as a whole.
HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder www.news24.com/investigatio...
Pierre de Vos - truth telling for AfriSol members (and their ilk).
Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ www.news24.com/opinions/ana...
Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ www.news24.com/opinions/ana...
Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ | News24
Pierre de Vos reflects on a 2023 report AfriForum submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which relies on Trump-style dishonesty by inflating a handful of redress laws ...
www.news24.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Pierre de Vos - truth telling for AfriSol members (and their ilk).
Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ www.news24.com/opinions/ana...
Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ www.news24.com/opinions/ana...
Johnny Steinberg - truth telling for all South Africans.
Jonny Steinberg | The inconvenient truth about apartheid’s economic ‘success’ www.news24.com/opinions/col...
Jonny Steinberg | The inconvenient truth about apartheid’s economic ‘success’ www.news24.com/opinions/col...
Jonny Steinberg | The inconvenient truth about apartheid’s economic ‘success’ | News24
Anyone suffering from apartheid nostalgia should read the work of renowned economist Charles Feinstein, writes Jonny Steinberg. His research revealed how South Africa plummeted from relative prosperit...
www.news24.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Johnny Steinberg - truth telling for all South Africans.
Jonny Steinberg | The inconvenient truth about apartheid’s economic ‘success’ www.news24.com/opinions/col...
Jonny Steinberg | The inconvenient truth about apartheid’s economic ‘success’ www.news24.com/opinions/col...
The American government behaving like a third-world warlord.
Whoever leaked this information served Hegseth up in a platter. Good.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The American government behaving like a third-world warlord.
Reposted by Stuart Johnson
This comment section is people going:
Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud.
With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud.
With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This comment section is people going:
Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud.
With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
Nah, misogyny has nothing to do with it, it's the fact that Hillary and Harris were centrist and that's totally worse and more horrifying than being a moronic crazy bigoted rapist pedophile insurrectionist fraud.
With a straight face. Like that is a sane take.
Umm, Daily Maverick...🤨
This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Is organised corruption a growing threat to SA’s municipalities?
Some local government corruption is highly organised, and will further undermine the delivery of essential services and democratic governance.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Umm, Daily Maverick...🤨
This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
This is not a new threat! Its been going on for decades!
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
The Democratic Alliance pandering to two revolting special interest groups - right wing Zionists and now the captive lion breeding industry.
Just gross.
So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Just gross.
So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Dion George axed, despite ‘doing my job without fear, favour or prejudice’
In a brief note, President Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted DA leader John Steenhuisen’s request to remove the key wildlife portfolio from Dion George.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The Democratic Alliance pandering to two revolting special interest groups - right wing Zionists and now the captive lion breeding industry.
Just gross.
So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Just gross.
So much for being the moral party immune to corrupt influences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Well, behaving sycophantically has its price.
As does needing a bailout.
It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs.
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...
As does needing a bailout.
It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs.
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit | News24
Argentine President Javier Milei will not be attending the upcoming G20 Leaders Summit set to take place at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg on 22 and 23 November.
www.news24.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Well, behaving sycophantically has its price.
As does needing a bailout.
It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs.
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...
As does needing a bailout.
It's not like South Africa can loan him the $40 billion he needs.
Argentine President Javier Milei joins Trump in skipping South Africa’s G20 summit www.news24.com/politics/arg...
Reposted by Stuart Johnson
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
Dear John - feels like another Roman moment doesn't it? An ill-judged decision as leader based on pleasuring a special interest group? Bit of a tangle again.
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 | News24
DA spokesperson Willie Aucamp tells News24 that he would “absolutely” replace Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George if President Cyril Ramaphosa so decided.
www.news24.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Dear John - feels like another Roman moment doesn't it? An ill-judged decision as leader based on pleasuring a special interest group? Bit of a tangle again.
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...
DA’s Aucamp ‘absolutely’ ready if asked to replace George, who is in Brazil at COP30 www.news24.com/business/cli...
Well said @AdriaanBasson.bsky.social - these self-interested bigots have contributed nothing to the South Africa most of us aspire to live in.
You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...
You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump | News24
History will call out the names of those who could but chose not to call out Trump’s barefaced lies about the persecution of Afrikaners – one of the wealthiest tribes in Africa – to advance his white ...
www.news24.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Well said @AdriaanBasson.bsky.social - these self-interested bigots have contributed nothing to the South Africa most of us aspire to live in.
You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...
You left out the odious Ernst Roets though.
Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump www.news24.com/opinions/col...