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The End Is Near...

The Citizen

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July 25, 2025

CRISIS: TAXPAYERS CAN NO LONGER BE A PIGGY BANK FOR CORRUPT POLITICIANS

- ISAAC MASHABA

The world is watching as SA stumbles from crisis to crisis while the president appoints multimillion-rand commissions and inquiries that everyone knows will lead nowhere.

The African Development Bank estimates the country will need about R725 billion a year to halt the decay and collapse of our country's infrastructure.

The country cannot pay for this. So despite the government's anti-business policies, along with unending corruption and blatant theft, the private sector President Cyril Ramaphosa so despises will have to foot the bill.

This begs the question—what are we paying taxes for?

Surely taxpayers can no longer be an unaccountable piggy bank for corrupt politicians and government officials?

Given the government's pro-terror and pariah state love affair, our export markets will soon be under pressure as the US, our largest trading partner, turns its back on us and punishes us with massive new tariffs.

The government and its lackeys in the media are trying to hide or simply ignore the fact that the Trump administration has taken steps to isolate South Africa, and every citizen of the country will carry the cost of the government's alignment with China, Russia and Iran, and black genocidal groups along with systemic corruption.

Kicking South Africa out of AGOA will be another nail in our worm-infested coffin.

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