De Beer: 2025’s opening moves by Cyril, Mashatile, Ndlozi - and The Donald

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In the first Sunday Show of 2025, Neil de Beer, the President of the United Independent Movement (UIM), comments on the opening moves of 2025 by politicians like President Cyril Ramaphosa, Vice President Paul Mashatile, former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP Dr. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and US President-Elect Donald Trump. Dissecting President Ramaphosa's speech this weekend, De Beer concludes that “the ANC is starting to face reality - and stark reality”. He slams Vice President Mashatile’s “absolute idiotic move” to accuse the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape of having no regard for the poor while standing in front of a rubbish heap in an ANC’s councillor’s ward. De Beer, who is also a Councillor in the City of Cape Town, describes how the City sometimes has to send the police to escort its rubbish trucks. De Beer weighs in on the big loss to the EFF of the “great mind” of Dr. Ndlozi who was “the wind that was carrying the EFF air” in Parliament. De Beer also marvels at US President-Elect Donald Trump’s survival of yet another legal challenge to head for his second inauguration - and warns that South Africa’s Government of National Unity (GNU) should notbe surprised if America said “we do not like your stance in the Middle East and we do not like what you have done - and you will have pressure from us to change your attitude”.
12 Jan 8AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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