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South Africans Don’t Need Jobs By Noko Maleka – Insight Jozi News | [22/09/2024] For decades, South Africans have been fed the same political promise: “We will create jobs.” Election after election, this promise resurfaces like a broken record, and yet unemployment remains one of the highest in the world. Currently, South Africa’s unemployment rate hovers above 32% , with youth unemployment surpassing 45% . These statistics prove one simple truth: South Africans do not need jobs — they need ownership. The tragedy of our democracy is how easily citizens have become gullible to politicians and the media. Whenever a president or political party announces a plan to “create jobs,” many celebrate without asking the most important question: Where will these jobs come from? The reality is this: no president, no matter how charismatic, can directly manufacture employment on a scale that will fix unemployment. Governments simply don’t have the mechanisms to employ tens of millions of peopl...

The ANC is a Criminal Enterprise By Noko Maleka | Insight Jozi News South Africa is a country blessed with potential, yet crippled by leadership failures. This truth was laid bare once again when political analyst and author, Prince Mashele, appeared on the State of the Nation podcast with Mike Sham. His words were not coated in diplomacy, but charged with the urgency of a citizen who has had enough of watching his country drift under the weight of incompetence. Mashele’s criticism comes hot on the heels of his now-viral interview on the Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh Show, which attracted over a million views. Clearly, South Africans are listening, because he is saying what many are thinking but few dare to articulate: the ANC has lost all credibility, and President Cyril Ramaphosa is a man completely out of his depth in the highest office of the land. A Circus Called “National Dialogue” In the podcast, Mashele tore into the much-publicised “national dialogue” initiated by the ANC, dismissing it a...

  South Africa has been sold a lie of freedom—a meticulously crafted illusion by the architects of apartheid. The release of Nelson Mandela, once heralded as the dawn of liberation, was a calculated move by a cunning apartheid regime. Mandela was paraded globally, not as a symbol of true emancipation but as a puppet of a more sophisticated system of oppression. The apartheid government knew their crimes. And  brutality was unsustainable in the face of growing international scrutiny. They needed a new strategy—a subtler form of control that would maintain their grip on economic power while pacifying the masses with the illusion of democracy. This strategy was executed with surgical precision. Mandela, the revered revolutionary, was systematically groomed and manipulated during his post-release world tours. By 1992, he stood at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, delivering a speech that was a far cry from his earlier socialist ideals. Overnight, the African Nationa...

  Insight Jozi News By Noko Maleka SA Government Has No Political Will to Improve the Lives of Ordinary Citizens – Only the Elite Thrive Elon Musk Is It Time to Revisit B-BBEE? Elon Musk's Critique Sparks a Tough but Necessary Debate picture by: Ashraf Hendricks When tech billionaire Elon Musk recently declared that Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa "because I'm not black," he reignited a longstanding and increasingly contentious debate about the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policy and its real impact on the South African economy. While Musk's remarks may have come across as controversial, they demand a sober and critical examination—particularly from black South Africans—about who truly benefits from such laws and whether they serve the broader public good or merely entrench elite privilege. 1. Equity Ownership Requirements South African regulations mandate that telecommunications companies seeking certa...