Gareth van Onselen
@GvanOnselen
Liberal. Humanist. Author. Editor: @insidepols @quotesanc and @EFFRevolution
Dear Diary, today I dialogued with a young, unemployed head of a household, who had dropped out of school. I dialogued that what he really needed was to think about what it means to be a SA citizen. He dialogued back that he had other things on his mind. #nationaldialgouediaries
Have always been tough on the President’s vagueness, but this is the right, principled position, and brave. And if anyone thinks the solution is otherwise, to embrace xenophobia and discount the value of (obviously legal, regulated) migration, they are wrong, and dangerous.
[WATCH] "We must reject xenophobia," President Cyril Ramaphosa says migration must not be seen as a threat. #Newzroom405
Party of morons want to do away with separation of executive and legislature, and have the legislature make its own appointments to executive, then expects that not to compromise its ability to provide oversight. What absolute clowns. Who dreams this shit up? Not a serious party.
ActionSA's constitutional amendment will serve before parliament and it proposes to: - Abolish All Deputy Ministers. - Allow Parliament to table motions Against Ministers. - Require Parliaments Approval of a Ministers Appointment. Who is with us?
Still baffles me that Epstein and Diddy never threw a joint party.
Dear Diary, today I dialogued with a shattered, broken and destitute young lady that, if I had R700m, I could help her out by getting actors together, to talk about poverty. She dialogued that there were better uses for R700m. It was a difficult dialogue. #nationaldialoguediaries
Dear Diary, today I dialogued about political assassinations, of which we have a pandemic. I’d like the assassins to be part of the dialogue (hard to get victims involved) and certainly want the ANC dialoguing on this. #goals #nationaldialoguediaries news24.com/southafrica/cr…
Translation: Don’t follow the fundamental and bigoted philosophy of masculinity, rather follow the bigoted masculine philosophy of Christianity.
Don't listen to Tate or any other psuedo masculine grifter. Marry one woman who loves God, have kids with her (only) and if you remain faithful to her & to God, whatever happens as a result will be the best possible outcome.
One of my favourite Twitter pastimes is reading the responses to critical Trump tweets. Never ceases to amuse. I particularly like this one today, Shakespearean. I don’t know what any of it means, “bad things” I presume, but I like that this person thinks I do.
Cry harder soy boy , beta pussies like you usually struggle when confronted with someone that knows how to get things done 😉
Just the way Trump insults his own supporters (who mindlessly lap it all up), it’s so impressively disdainful - up is down, left is right, black is white. He could tell them Hilary Clinton is a good person tomorrow and they would all agree. Has them all in total metal lock.
Trump: “I’m not focused on conspiracy theories”
Dear National Dialogue, I’ve been pushing for a dialogue on this for a decade now, no really seems keen to talk about it. Would be great if you could get stuck in ASAP, 1000s dead over the last 20 years. news24.com/southafrica/ne…
Dear Diary, today I dialogued with a water inspector who came to shut off our water for non-payment. I dialogued to him that 1. We had paid, and 2. We often have no water anyway. He dialogued that there was nothing he could do. It was a great dialogue. #nationaldialgouediaries
Best answer to this seem to be members of the dialogue panel, which isn’t saying much. Makes you think, perhaps item on the agenda of the national dialogue should be national dialogues, and what a waste of time and money they are.
Serious question, has anyone seen a public figure (outside the ANC), say of the National Dialogue: “This is a great and necessary idea, well-conceived and will deliver meaningful results” or any substantive endorsement of that sort? Looking for anything, struggling. Let me know.
Serious question, has anyone seen a public figure (outside the ANC), say of the National Dialogue: “This is a great and necessary idea, well-conceived and will deliver meaningful results” or any substantive endorsement of that sort? Looking for anything, struggling. Let me know.
Q: Have you dialogued today? Every bit of dialogue helps, cause SA’s real problem is the lack of talking. On that front, how many words do you think the average South African needs to contribute to the national dialogue to reduce our unemployment rate by 20%?
Trump: People wanted a toddler as President, cause toddlers are stubborn and have unconventional views, which they liked. But toddlers also sociopathic. So affirmed was this toddler, he thinks the country now belongs to him. And if he doesn’t get his way, he’ll break everything.
ASA internal democracy monitor: Day 1788 of Mashaba leading without being democratically elected at a party conference. Day 143 of ASA being in violation of its interim constitution by failing to call said conference “within 9 months after the 2024 national government elections”.
Sounds familiar.
The defining thing about the American right is their complete lack of shame. They revel in indecency as they degrade themselves in public.
A lot of comments here saying the 1980s were great for them. Not sure what to say about that. Perhaps it was, but it’s a bit like Stalin saying he was perfectly comfortable during the 1940s, and simply could not relate to all that moaning about the Gulag.
I was also there. The 1980s were awful. The alternative to the ANC isn’t Apartheid South Africa, which should be obvious to anyone with even the tiniest shred of human decency.
Unfortunately there is no policy coherence across government, as the MTDP shows. DTIC in particular lives on another planet.
The role of the Presidency is to ensure there is policy coherence across all the arms of government, and to give strategic direction to departments as they fulfil their respective mandates. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…