PhD Law & Political Sciences/ ECPS Non-Residential Research Fellow/ Public Intellectual
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Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
nna shame i refuse to believe the red party is not doing anything to meet the electorate halfway. i also don’t think that south africans are so dumb that they have to be spoonfed. i am so sorry.
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
What does the data tell us about the number of jobs reclaimed by South Africans since the beginning of Mabahambe? How many black South Africans have taken over or opened spaza shops? How many South Africans have been employed by restaurants following the marches? Beyond anecdotes about empty clinics and hospitals, what do the figures show? Have patient-to-healthcare-worker ratios improved? Are waiting times shorter?
eNCA has led the coverage of the marches with extraordinary enthusiasm, with the SABC close behind. After devoting so much attention to the demonstrations and their leaders, both broadcasters should now be asking these important questions: What has changed? How many jobs have been reclaimed? How many businesses have changed hands? Have public services improved? With so much destruction of property and anxiety, surely this feedback is in the public interest. Or are the broadcasters just drawn to the drama of the demonstrations.
I am here for these kinds of data analysis!
1/3 Who won the registration battle in JHB?
Ok, so I am making my through the voters roll changes per VD in JHB over the two registration weekends. I have mapped them. Just to be clear though, changes in voters roll is one measure of registration success, but not the definitive measure. It is however the point of it all, and a good proxy for voter enthusiasm.
I have done one map for weekend 1, one for weekend 2 and one for both weekends combined.
Accompanying each map is a data table. These will be where the real insight lies.
I have worked out how the voters roll changed in VDs where the ANC is first, those where the DA is first and those where any other party is first.
This is also a good general proxy for enthusiasm or registration effectiveness for the two big parties.
But let me illustrate, here is the map for weekend 1.
The average growth of the voters roll across all VDs was 20.34. In other words the voters roll grew by an average of 20.34 voters per VD.
The average in ANC first VDs was 7.32.
The average in DA first VDs was 23.72
The average in other first VDs was 18.94
So, we can be pretty sure the DA out-registered the ANC by a ratio of around 3:1.
Others did well, not quite as well as the DA, but better than the ANC.
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
1/3 Who won the registration battle in JHB?
Ok, so I am making my through the voters roll changes per VD in JHB over the two registration weekends. I have mapped them. Just to be clear though, changes in voters roll is one measure of registration success, but not the definitive measure. It is however the point of it all, and a good proxy for voter enthusiasm.
I have done one map for weekend 1, one for weekend 2 and one for both weekends combined.
Accompanying each map is a data table. These will be where the real insight lies.
I have worked out how the voters roll changed in VDs where the ANC is first, those where the DA is first and those where any other party is first.
This is also a good general proxy for enthusiasm or registration effectiveness for the two big parties.
But let me illustrate, here is the map for weekend 1.
The average growth of the voters roll across all VDs was 20.34. In other words the voters roll grew by an average of 20.34 voters per VD.
The average in ANC first VDs was 7.32.
The average in DA first VDs was 23.72
The average in other first VDs was 18.94
So, we can be pretty sure the DA out-registered the ANC by a ratio of around 3:1.
Others did well, not quite as well as the DA, but better than the ANC.
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
South Africans are in denial. At Madlanga Commission its all South Africans committing all sorts of crime. I don't dispute the fact that some immigrants are criminals too, but ya'll scapegoating them. It's a mess.
I got a message from a former close friend of the dead shooter in the Umbilo “hijacking” last week.
The individual says the suspect is from Harding, KZN, but also had a home in Inanda.
His nickname was Smile.
According to the friend, he was out on parole since 9 January this year.
It’s believed he was a hitman who worked closely with drug dealers.
Police records now also confirm the dead gunman is a South African.
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
The UNITED NATIONS appointed ME as an expert for SIX years with ALL of this in the public domain - UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health
I wrote a groundbreaking UNITED NATIONS REPORT to the general assembly on the impact of COVID on sexual and reproductive health
A Commissioner at the Commission for GENDER EQUALITY specialising in SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE health rights - research, investigations, reports
Global Citizen - Main speaker - Sexual and reproductive health, Central Park, NY
Contributor to the WHO Human Reproduction Special Programme (HRP) strategy
Key opinion leader - Global sexual health pharmaceuticals
Research and development on sexual and reproductive products eg condoms, lubricants, menstrual cups
Radio for 4yrs - kaya fm
Moja love TV show - Sex talk with Dr T
Bestselling book - A guide to SEXUAL HEALTH & PLEASURE
UN Commission on the Status of Women delegate - 10yrs
Global advisory on sexual health and wellbeing - Headquarters in London
Sunday Times for 3yrs columnists - sexual and reproductive health
Peer educator 18yrs - sexual health and HIV prevention
Medical doctor - Sexual and reproductive health private practice
The first civil society member to make a statement on safe sexual reproductive healthcare on behalf of 264 organisations at the UN Human Rights council - 2016
................this a summary!
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
Tell people to have healthy, consensual, fun sex is a crime in South Africa
I wonder why
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
everyone is driving crime in South Africa including your politicians and police officers who are South African. let's not pretend like without foreigners, South Africa would be this crime free prime location to live in. so disingenuous
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
The unfortunate part about these local government elections being unnecessarily dominated by the topic of immigration is that we missing out on speaking about many real life issues affecting municipalities.
We not even hearing innovative ideas to reform local government.
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
Famously no debate about who was allowed to use which restroom in 1965. Or water fountain. Or lunch counter.
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
People who earn less than R750,000 a year still pay taxes so I’m a bit confused by this. And even people who don’t earn enough for PAYE still pay tax via VAT & fuel levies
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
This highlights a major double standard in how crime is reported and discussed. When foreign nationals are involved in crime, the media and public figures often explicitly highlight their nationality to fuel xenophobia. However, when South Africans are caught running massive drug labs (like this one in Soweto or the one in Krugersdorp), their nationality is simply omitted, and they are just referred to as "suspects."
Crime has no nationality. The drug crisis is not a foreigner problem, it is a local criminal enterprise.
FOUR SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOLLOWING DISCOVERY OF SUSPECTED DRUG LABORATORY IN MEADOWLANDS, SOWETO
Gauteng Organised Crime Investigations’ Tracing and Narcotics teams, working closely Police Emergency Services Flexi and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), Serious Organised Crime Investigations, have arrested four suspects following the discovery of a suspected drug laboratory at a house in Soweto.
The team received information regarding suspected illicit drug-related activities at the premises and conducted surveillance on the evening of 15 October 2026.
Further information received indicated that the suspects might be in the process of moving suspected drugs.
The team subsequently proceeded to the premises, where four suspects were arrested.
The premises is a family residence, and police discovered the drug-manufacturing operation in a room situated at the back of the house.
All the necessary resources were mobilised including the Criminal Record and Crime Scene Management who are processing the scene. The equipment and chemicals found at the premises will be seized for further investigation and analysis.
A substantial quantity of pills suspected to have been manufactured somewhere else was also found.
The case has been handed over to the DPCI Hawks for further investigation.
The four suspects aged between 21 and 25 are expected to appear before court soon to face drug related charges.
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
Hey @elonmusk, in SA we have been making cars fly since 2023
Dr. Sithole 🇿🇦 🇭🇺 retweeted
There are 167 000 asylum seekers and refugees in South Africa right now. If you think they are THE REASON you can't get a job or the state runs out of money, or crime is an issue in SA, then you must think Malawians have skills the rest of us don't have: unhcr.org/where-we-work/coun…
