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The cumulative pattern, 1995 to today*: 1995, high hopes and five star reviews. 1998, power warning ignored. 1999 to 2004, Telkom fined R449 million for abusing its monopoly, plus R200 million later, with R875 million in promised price savings. 2000s, Eskom and Transnet contracts tainted. 2010s, state capture, load shedding, rail collapse and municipal decay. 2020s, Covid corruption cases, Tembisa, Phala Phala, Madlanga Commission into police criminality and political interference, water shedding in Gauteng, and tower theft as a daily cost of doing business.
That is why, in your image, the flowers are still trying to grow, but they are smothered by weeds: the weeds are not one scandal, they are maintenance skipped, tenders looted, prosecutions stalled, and rules that reward compliance and connections over delivery, repeated for 30 years.
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A survey of 126 firms found median setup costs of R160,000 to R650,000 and ongoing annual costs of R225,000 to R2.5 million, 0.4% to 4% of turnover, with more than a third noncompliant or at Level 8. Fronting, nominee directors and shell companies were flagged as ways to chase points, and firms said compliance brought costs with no discernible benefit.
- *B-BBEE and Starlink, Telkom and procurement*: The 30% historically disadvantaged ownership rule for individual telecom licences became the block on Starlink, Telkom itself said the rules went beyond empowerment legislation and hindered competition, and the same ownership and procurement logic is blamed for inflated tenders, preference premiums and supply chains shifting offshore.
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*Loss of investment and confidence*: South Africa fell five places in Kearney's 2026 FDI Confidence Index, from 7th to 12th among emerging markets, after climbing from 17th in 2023 to 7th in 2025. Kearney cited mining contraction, infrastructure constraints and domestic political uncertainty. Unemployment was 33.6% in April to June 2026, and about a million South Africans were living abroad by mid 2024.
- *B-BBEE, race laws and compliance*: The Free Market Foundation and Solidarity Research Institute estimated B-BBEE compliance costs at R145 billion to R290 billion a year, 2 to 4% of GDP, up to 192,000 jobs lost a year, and more than R5 trillion in lost economic activity over nearly two decades, with benefits captured by a politically connected elite.
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Only 11 state capture cases had been concluded while 56 matters were still under investigation, and 880 corruption cases were outstanding in district and regional courts. In commercial crime courts, 34% of cases examined were withdrawn, with repeated postponements and poor case management.
- *Crime*: Reported murders fell 9.4% in 2025/26, from 25,573 to 23,171, still about 63 killings a day, with persistent violent crime, organised crime, extortion, cybercrime and crimes against critical infrastructure. SAPS met only 52.13% of its predetermined targets, while private security officers outnumber sworn police about four to one.
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*State capture and corruption losses*: The Zondo Commission estimated about R57 billion in state expenditure was tainted by state capture, more than 97% linked to Transnet and Eskom, with at least R15 billion going to the Gupta enterprise. Pravin Gordhan testified the total economic impact could have been as much as R500 billion, and other broader estimates put it as high as R1.5 trillion when lost growth, debt and tax revenue are counted. More than R17 billion had been recovered by mid 2026, against that scale of loss.
- *Courts, prosecutions and impunity*: The Zondo Commission cost about R1 billion, implicated 1,438 people according to DA figures, and was followed by only 4 convictions in that reporting. Of 5,994 SIU referrals since 2011, only 10% became registered criminal dockets.
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In November 2022 a parliamentary panel found he may have committed a serious violation of the law and Constitution, though the National Assembly voted the next month not to adopt its report. In November 2026 two accused were convicted in Modimolle over the theft, with evidence of luxury cars, a Porsche and diamond encrusted Rolex watches bought afterwards, while the magistrate criticised the investigation and noted the case was only opened about two years after the theft.
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The head of internal medicine resigned citing corruption, administrative gridlock and institutional neglect, and said Baragwanath, Helen Joseph and Rahima Moosa faced the same decay, shortages and copper pipe theft with no reported prosecutions.
- *Hospitals, medicines and prices*: A specialist cited bread bought at R27 to R30 against a market rate of R15, and medication bought at premium prices without premium quality, while providers lacked medicines, supplies, water or food, and thousands of unemployed doctors and nurses sat alongside collapsing public facilities.
- *Phala Phala*: In June 2022 Arthur Fraser accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of concealing the theft of US dollars hidden in a couch at Phala Phala. Ramaphosa said it was $580,000 paid by a Sudanese businessman for 20 buffaloes.
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Water and sewage*: Gauteng loses 33 to 49% of treated water, about 1.5 billion litres a day at peak. Johannesburg loses about 44.8% of its water at about R2.82 billion a year, with a R27 billion renewal backlog, and Tshwane has a R23 billion backlog and about 39% losses. Wastewater plants were overloaded, Rietspruit at 278%, Waterval at 247% and Ennerdale at 206%, with untreated sewage polluting rivers and dams.
- *Hospitals*: The SIU interim report in September 2025 uncovered a corruption network at Tembisa Hospital involving at least R2 billion in misappropriated funds, with R13.5 million recovered from one employee. At Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, fire damaged wards from the Covid period remained unrepaired years later amid blame shifting between health and infrastructure departments, staffing vacancies lasting 6 months to a year, and procurement delays of up to a year.
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*Load shedding and Eskom*: A 1998 white paper warned spare power would run out around 2007, maintenance was skipped, and 2023 saw nearly 7,000 hours of cuts. Eskom's average price rose about 450% between 2007 and 2022, towns owed it more than R120 billion by July 2026, and operators spent billions on batteries and generators just to keep towers and businesses running during cuts.
- *Rail, ports and logistics*: Commuter rail fell from about 54 million trips a month at its peak to about 1.7 million, Cape Town was ranked 405th of 405 container ports in 2023, and mining production fell 2.7% year on year in November 2025 amid infrastructure and logistics constraints on coal and iron ore.
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*Cell towers, batteries and connectivity*: Telkom lost 7,841 batteries to theft in one year and said the money could have built about 35 new base stations. Vodacom estimates over R120 million a year lost to vandalism and theft, about 700 battery theft and vandalism incidents a month, and in another report about R100 million a year with restoration up to R100,000 per site. MTN recorded 378 theft and vandalism incidents in May 2021 alone, 53 base stations were destroyed and had to be terminated, and fixing repairable towers was put at R350 million. When towers are hit, communities lose the only connectivity they have, including access to emergency services.
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*Schools, learning and maintenance*: Delayed procurement, contractor underperformance, weather and local disruptions were blamed for remaining sanitation projects, and provinces were told to spend at least 60% of infrastructure grant money on preventative and corrective maintenance. The backlog is presented as historical underinvestment plus implementation failure at provincial level.
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*Schools, pit toilets and basic infrastructure*: In May 2025, 3,145 schools still had pit latrines, with 2,130 in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal alone, and 3,005 schools had insufficient or no fencing while 4,177 lacked reliable electricity. The SAFE programme started with 3,372 schools on pit toilets, and the government said in July 2026 all of those had been given safe sanitation, while admitting that did not mean every pit toilet in the country was gone. Children including Michael Komape, Lumka Mkhethwa and Langalam Viki died in pit latrines, which is why the issue became a national symbol of neglect.
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Telkom rubbish useless telkom! It's South Africa run by the corrupt wicked minded low grade ignorant gluttonous pigs in suits ๐ค Elon Musk don't give these pigs any rights, they hate to work with ethic.
BREAKING: South African telecom provider Telkom calls for easing ownership rules blocking Starlink. ๐ฟ๐ฆ
Telkom, a major phone and internet provider partly owned by South Africaโs government, has urged telecom regulator ICASA to make its empowerment rules more flexible.
โข Current rules require individual telecoms licensees to maintain at least 30% ownership by historically disadvantaged groups, a hurdle for Starlinkโs entry.
โข Telkom says the regulations go beyond national empowerment legislation, increase compliance costs and hinder competition.
โข It warns that regulatory uncertainty may have discouraged investment in South Africaโs networks.
โข It supports recognising investment in infrastructure, skills, local suppliers and research as ways to achieve empowerment goals.
โข Any changes should apply equally to existing providers and newcomers, including Starlink.
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*SIU investigation*: In January 2022 President Ramaphosa authorised the SIU to investigate Telkom over 16 years, from June 2006 to January 2022, covering the sale/disposal of iWayAfrica, Africa Online Mauritius and Multi-Links, plus telegraph and broadband/mobile advisory contracts, and any losses or prejudice to Telkom or the State. The proclamation itself does not state a total loss figure.
And the individual business/customer harm, which is real but anecdotal:
- *Billing for services not delivered*: One businesswoman was charged for a second 100Mbps fibre line before it was active, and then charged for the old 40Mbps line for 15 months after it was replaced. Telkom confirmed R8,000 in incorrect charges, she maintained it was closer to *R16,000*.
- *Recent complaints*: Customers in 2025 report duplicate accounts, double debits, unexplained deductions of R1,837, R159 and R3,501.25 in successive months, accounts handed to lawyers despite payment, and threats of blacklisting. Those are individual HelloPeter / complaints, not a national total.
๐ค๐ค๐ค ignorant foolish
*R649 million in competition penalties, plus R875 million in promised price savings*, and treat the SIU loss and the everyday billing harm as unquantified in public reporting, not zero.
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Elon Musk can't you start up your red light and zap him from your country, somehow insert a tracker and just zap the bastards!
How awesome would that be, God can that be possible please, we are seriously dying here under these bastards calling themselves ethical!
They can't even count properly always short change!
Tired of the toilet bowl of a country.
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Anything that came from ramapoza the drunkards mouth is venomous and needs to be investigated by actual educated investigators that are not in his pocket phal phala he is a scandal, a thief, a liar, a con artist, a deceiver, the devil in a suit with confusion written on his face!
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We got to get out of this screwed up toilet bowl of no ethics no morals low standards no equality fit for Foreigners with no birth rights!
Screw this radical racist corrupt demonic system of falsehood misrepresenting of idiocy
A parliament full of idiots in suits with no order!
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He isn't a president rear end the butt head with confusion written on his face!
Screwed up Islam lover ramaposa idiot is not a president ๐คข๐คข๐คข๐คข
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