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On Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa told the tale of Tintswalo, a young girl born in 1994 who – through the changes introduced by the ANC government – has benefited throughout her life and is now working.
But, where he ended this narrative, South Africans continued it.
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The trending story of Tintswalo also reignited the fading profile of Ayanda Allie-Paine, who is now a candidate for Mmusi Maimane’s Bosa party. She excoriated Ramaphosa, saying he had delivered an impotent and untruthful address.
She added that Tintswalo was living in an RDP house that was falling apart, built with inferior materials so that politicians could benefit.
However, social media reminded us that she was a Tintswalo herself, having worked as a government spokesperson, a TV presenter, a failed musician and an aspirant politician, all thanks to democracy.
Residents of the Vaal in Gauteng, who receive probably the worst delivery from their municipalities, will be saddened to hear that Sedibeng mayor Lerato Maloka rejected a car allocated to her because it had “not been purchased as per her specifications”.
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It then lay for some time gathering dust at the municipal offices – and has now apparently been damaged by a “foreign substance”. The DA finds this very suspicious – and Siya wonders who would have taken the trouble to put a “foreign substance” in an idle car.
