#statecapture — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #statecapture, aggregated by home.social.
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Some home truths about the #Labor govt (and the two party duopoly by association) from #GregJerich writing for deepcutnews-dot-com this time — it really doesn’t matter who he writes for, The Point , The Guardian or here, he’s such a clear and insightful economic analyst everywhere he appears.
“The Labor Party finally saw the need to actually do things, but it remains wedded to the view that fiscal responsibility and hard choices are needed.”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/people-with-disabilities-the-biggest
#Budget #AusPol #Labor #Neoliberalism #Howardism #StateCapture
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Some home truths about the #Labor govt (and the two party duopoly by association) from #GregJerich writing for deepcutnews-dot-com this time — it really doesn’t matter who he writes for, The Point , The Guardian or here, he’s such a clear and insightful economic analyst everywhere he appears.
“The Labor Party finally saw the need to actually do things, but it remains wedded to the view that fiscal responsibility and hard choices are needed.”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/people-with-disabilities-the-biggest
#Budget #AusPol #Labor #Neoliberalism #Howardism #StateCapture
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Some home truths about the #Labor govt (and the two party duopoly by association) from #GregJerich writing for deepcutnews-dot-com this time — it really doesn’t matter who he writes for, The Point , The Guardian or here, he’s such a clear and insightful economic analyst everywhere he appears.
“The Labor Party finally saw the need to actually do things, but it remains wedded to the view that fiscal responsibility and hard choices are needed.”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/people-with-disabilities-the-biggest
#Budget #AusPol #Labor #Neoliberalism #Howardism #StateCapture
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Some home truths about the #Labor govt (and the two party duopoly by association) from #GregJerich writing for deepcutnews-dot-com this time — it really doesn’t matter who he writes for, The Point , The Guardian or here, he’s such a clear and insightful economic analyst everywhere he appears.
“The Labor Party finally saw the need to actually do things, but it remains wedded to the view that fiscal responsibility and hard choices are needed.”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/people-with-disabilities-the-biggest
#Budget #AusPol #Labor #Neoliberalism #Howardism #StateCapture
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Some home truths about the #Labor govt (and the two party duopoly by association) from #GregJerich writing for deepcutnews-dot-com this time — it really doesn’t matter who he writes for, The Point , The Guardian or here, he’s such a clear and insightful economic analyst everywhere he appears.
“The Labor Party finally saw the need to actually do things, but it remains wedded to the view that fiscal responsibility and hard choices are needed.”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/people-with-disabilities-the-biggest
#Budget #AusPol #Labor #Neoliberalism #Howardism #StateCapture
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@randahl
The pig is turning the office of POTUS into a corporate enterprise for himself and his cronies… and the US public sit on their arses and accept this overt #StateCapture as if it’s going to be great for them. It took less for the French to take to streets, armed and angry, to depose their King. The #US #King is no less vulnerable. What’s wrong with you #America ? -
@randahl
The pig is turning the office of POTUS into a corporate enterprise for himself and his cronies… and the US public sit on their arses and accept this overt #StateCapture as if it’s going to be great for them. It took less for the French to take to streets, armed and angry, to depose their King. The #US #King is no less vulnerable. What’s wrong with you #America ? -
@randahl
The pig is turning the office of POTUS into a corporate enterprise for himself and his cronies… and the US public sit on their arses and accept this overt #StateCapture as if it’s going to be great for them. It took less for the French to take to streets, armed and angry, to depose their King. The #US #King is no less vulnerable. What’s wrong with you #America ? -
@randahl
The pig is turning the office of POTUS into a corporate enterprise for himself and his cronies… and the US public sit on their arses and accept this overt #StateCapture as if it’s going to be great for them. It took less for the French to take to streets, armed and angry, to depose their King. The #US #King is no less vulnerable. What’s wrong with you #America ? -
Why wont this #SuperMajority party legislate a #Tax on #GasSuperProfits when the passing of the bill is handed to the Govt on a silver platter? All that is required to fix the budget, to provide the required #SafetyNet social services and more is a #SimpleYES and it’s done. THe chances of those progressive legislations being overturned by the opposition is NIL That is unless #SpinelessAlbo persists in his #HateCampaign against the #Greens which would effectively feed a #rebellion at the next election leading to unpredictable results. I’m stupid, and I can see that coming Albo! Wasting the opportunities given to you by the electorate to shape an Australia that cares for all Australians.
“Speaking on the Australia Institute’s Follow the Money podcast, Greens leader, Senator Larissa Waters, said the party’s new “Tax the 1%” campaign was aimed at securing major reforms that target ultra-wealthy Australians and gas exporters.” (Source: https://thepoint.com.au/news/260512-if-we-dont-act-well-end-up-like-the-us-greens-leader-larissa-waters-calls-for-tax-on-the-1)
Listen to Waters here:
https://omny.fm/shows/follow-the-money-au/greens-leader-larissa-waters-on-the-housing-crisis-gas-exports-taxing-the-1/embed#AusPol #ProgressivePoliciesNow #StateCapture #FrustratedElectorate #TaxReformNow #Antifa #TaxTheRich
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#AlanKohler is on board with Govt doing the job of building #SocialHousing as it cuts through a number of walls that seem intent on making sure Australia will never have enough houses to meet the needs of its population at an affordable cost/price.
“Like the NDIS (and child care), housing affordability is unsustainable and can't be left to be a by-product of monetary policy, the productivity and profitability of the building industry and the zoning vagaries of local councils.
And as with the NDIS (and child care), intergenerational fairness requires a radical solution: the government could do worse than going back to building some houses.” (Source: ABC News)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/federal-budget-housing-build-more-homes/106663204
#HousingCrisis #AusPol #StateCapture #SocialHousing #TaxReform #Productivity #Profits #Employment #Tradies
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/224072/ Zimbabwe’s patronage web: How oligarchs captured the State – The Mail & Guardian #Africa #CommandAgriculture #EmmersonMnangagwa #GwandaSolarProject #opinion #StateCapture #TembaMliswa #TinoMachakaire #WicknellChivhayoAndKudakwasheTagwirei #ZANUPF #zimbabwe
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@gusseting
I kind of agree with you, about the controling aspects of the #FossilFuelLobby. On the other hand, if not for fossil fuel, there would be other lobbies seeking #StateCapture. It is in the #moneyedClass interest to excert as much influence as money can buy after all. Remember the Tabacco Lobbies of yore? Same thing. Today we can also point to the #GamblingIndustry and increasingly #DefenceIndustries.Unfortunately, with power comes #Greed and #Corruption and #TheRich like it that way. All we can do is stay one step behind our #Leaders ensuring we don’t fall too far back. And the only way to do that is through the ballot box, consistent activism and community-led campaigns (including petitions, protest sit-ins/marches and boycotts, etc.).
I’m hopeful that consistent messaging by communities eventually cuts through to polies and that our govt (of whatever ilk) will eventually push back against #Zionism and its growing influence in everyday Australian social life because it is so egregious atm.
Also more peeps ought to have a good long think about it all and take a moral and ethical stand vis a vis #Gaza, #WestBank #Lebanon, etc. not much help if peeps keep watching #FoxFakeNews and similar #Cronies IMO.
In the grand scheme of things, we need to break up #Oligarchies , #Oligopolies and get serious about progressive #TaxReform.
/getting wordy here, better stop…/
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[edited to add link to Guardian article source]
How’s this for a complete and frank confession that the #Labor Govt is Wholy Owned by the #CorporateGiants making bucket loads of profit from #Raping the land and #Pillaging Australian #Resources:
“Trade minister Don Farrell said on Friday “we’re not changing our policies in respect to gas” and that “the most important thing” was to honour existing export contracts.”
Well, Mr #Farrell, for your information, the gas export contracts have nought to do with you or your govt. It is a #Commercial contract from which #Santos and others derive an outrageous profit. So if we were to #Tax that, it would reduce theirt bottom line by the same percentage without any change to the contracts they hold (unless they contain some cagey and dogey clauses — but that a commercial issue again and commercial law, nothing to do with the Govt.)
Nothing more is needed from our govt to prove that #StateCapture is alive and thriving in Aus when a Trade Minister goes to bat for an #ExtrativeIndustry Private Corporation! You just wait until the next election or by-elections, we’ll teach you a thing or two.
#AusPol fuck #neoliberalism and #Globalisation
#Antifa #AntiOligarchy #EatTheRich #SaveOurResources #Grifters #RunawayCapitalism -
[edited to add link to Guardian article source]
How’s this for a complete and frank confession that the #Labor Govt is Wholy Owned by the #CorporateGiants making bucket loads of profit from #Raping the land and #Pillaging Australian #Resources:
“Trade minister Don Farrell said on Friday “we’re not changing our policies in respect to gas” and that “the most important thing” was to honour existing export contracts.”
Well, Mr #Farrell, for your information, the gas export contracts have nought to do with you or your govt. It is a #Commercial contract from which #Santos and others derive an outrageous profit. So if we were to #Tax that, it would reduce theirt bottom line by the same percentage without any change to the contracts they hold (unless they contain some cagey and dogey clauses — but that a commercial issue again and commercial law, nothing to do with the Govt.)
Nothing more is needed from our govt to prove that #StateCapture is alive and thriving in Aus when a Trade Minister goes to bat for an #ExtrativeIndustry Private Corporation! You just wait until the next election or by-elections, we’ll teach you a thing or two.
#AusPol fuck #neoliberalism and #Globalisation
#Antifa #AntiOligarchy #EatTheRich #SaveOurResources #Grifters #RunawayCapitalism -
[edited to add link to Guardian article source]
How’s this for a complete and frank confession that the #Labor Govt is Wholy Owned by the #CorporateGiants making bucket loads of profit from #Raping the land and #Pillaging Australian #Resources:
“Trade minister Don Farrell said on Friday “we’re not changing our policies in respect to gas” and that “the most important thing” was to honour existing export contracts.”
Well, Mr #Farrell, for your information, the gas export contracts have nought to do with you or your govt. It is a #Commercial contract from which #Santos and others derive an outrageous profit. So if we were to #Tax that, it would reduce theirt bottom line by the same percentage without any change to the contracts they hold (unless they contain some cagey and dogey clauses — but that a commercial issue again and commercial law, nothing to do with the Govt.)
Nothing more is needed from our govt to prove that #StateCapture is alive and thriving in Aus when a Trade Minister goes to bat for an #ExtrativeIndustry Private Corporation! You just wait until the next election or by-elections, we’ll teach you a thing or two.
#AusPol fuck #neoliberalism and #Globalisation
#Antifa #AntiOligarchy #EatTheRich #SaveOurResources #Grifters #RunawayCapitalism -
[edited to add link to Guardian article source]
How’s this for a complete and frank confession that the #Labor Govt is Wholy Owned by the #CorporateGiants making bucket loads of profit from #Raping the land and #Pillaging Australian #Resources:
“Trade minister Don Farrell said on Friday “we’re not changing our policies in respect to gas” and that “the most important thing” was to honour existing export contracts.”
Well, Mr #Farrell, for your information, the gas export contracts have nought to do with you or your govt. It is a #Commercial contract from which #Santos and others derive an outrageous profit. So if we were to #Tax that, it would reduce theirt bottom line by the same percentage without any change to the contracts they hold (unless they contain some cagey and dogey clauses — but that a commercial issue again and commercial law, nothing to do with the Govt.)
Nothing more is needed from our govt to prove that #StateCapture is alive and thriving in Aus when a Trade Minister goes to bat for an #ExtrativeIndustry Private Corporation! You just wait until the next election or by-elections, we’ll teach you a thing or two.
#AusPol fuck #neoliberalism and #Globalisation
#Antifa #AntiOligarchy #EatTheRich #SaveOurResources #Grifters #RunawayCapitalism -
[edited to add link to Guardian article source]
How’s this for a complete and frank confession that the #Labor Govt is Wholy Owned by the #CorporateGiants making bucket loads of profit from #Raping the land and #Pillaging Australian #Resources:
“Trade minister Don Farrell said on Friday “we’re not changing our policies in respect to gas” and that “the most important thing” was to honour existing export contracts.”
Well, Mr #Farrell, for your information, the gas export contracts have nought to do with you or your govt. It is a #Commercial contract from which #Santos and others derive an outrageous profit. So if we were to #Tax that, it would reduce theirt bottom line by the same percentage without any change to the contracts they hold (unless they contain some cagey and dogey clauses — but that a commercial issue again and commercial law, nothing to do with the Govt.)
Nothing more is needed from our govt to prove that #StateCapture is alive and thriving in Aus when a Trade Minister goes to bat for an #ExtrativeIndustry Private Corporation! You just wait until the next election or by-elections, we’ll teach you a thing or two.
#AusPol fuck #neoliberalism and #Globalisation
#Antifa #AntiOligarchy #EatTheRich #SaveOurResources #Grifters #RunawayCapitalism -
@johnquiggin
It’s painful to watch govts relearn the lessons from previous attempts at #Privatisation and #Corporatisation of social services. Most painful is the fact that they don’t appear to be learning those lessons at all. We seem to be electing dunces to office in every electoral cycle. What’s to be done? -
https://www.europesays.com/africa/152185/ ATM data links R11m in cash deposits to ex-Eskom boss locations #BrianMolefe #eskom #GuptaFamily #Guptas #PalcocapPtyLtd #PieterLouisMyburgh #SouthAfrica #StateCapture #StateOfCaptureReport #ThuliMadonsela #Transnet
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I don’t think many of the tooters I see on my feed need convincing that our biggest threat (after a certain certifiable case in charge of a big, bigger than you’ve ever seen, country) lies in the privatisation of #infrastructure crucial to #NationalSecurity. But just in case, I’m tooting this article to make that very point, again. We cannot be warned enough…
”If critical digital infrastructure markets are structurally producing unavoidable private monopolies, what does that mean for economic power, political influence and democratic control more broadly? Starlink may be a particularly visible case, but it is part of a much wider pattern now emerging across the digital economy.”
#TechBros #Nepo #Monopolies #OutSourcing #StateCapture
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I don’t think many of the tooters I see on my feed need convincing that our biggest threat (after a certain certifiable case in charge of a big, bigger than you’ve ever seen, country) lies in the privatisation of #infrastructure crucial to #NationalSecurity. But just in case, I’m tooting this article to make that very point, again. We cannot be warned enough…
”If critical digital infrastructure markets are structurally producing unavoidable private monopolies, what does that mean for economic power, political influence and democratic control more broadly? Starlink may be a particularly visible case, but it is part of a much wider pattern now emerging across the digital economy.”
#TechBros #Nepo #Monopolies #OutSourcing #StateCapture
#LEO #Communications -
I don’t think many of the tooters I see on my feed need convincing that our biggest threat (after a certain certifiable case in charge of a big, bigger than you’ve ever seen, country) lies in the privatisation of #infrastructure crucial to #NationalSecurity. But just in case, I’m tooting this article to make that very point, again. We cannot be warned enough…
”If critical digital infrastructure markets are structurally producing unavoidable private monopolies, what does that mean for economic power, political influence and democratic control more broadly? Starlink may be a particularly visible case, but it is part of a much wider pattern now emerging across the digital economy.”
#TechBros #Nepo #Monopolies #OutSourcing #StateCapture
#LEO #Communications -
I don’t think many of the tooters I see on my feed need convincing that our biggest threat (after a certain certifiable case in charge of a big, bigger than you’ve ever seen, country) lies in the privatisation of #infrastructure crucial to #NationalSecurity. But just in case, I’m tooting this article to make that very point, again. We cannot be warned enough…
”If critical digital infrastructure markets are structurally producing unavoidable private monopolies, what does that mean for economic power, political influence and democratic control more broadly? Starlink may be a particularly visible case, but it is part of a much wider pattern now emerging across the digital economy.”
#TechBros #Nepo #Monopolies #OutSourcing #StateCapture
#LEO #Communications -
I don’t think many of the tooters I see on my feed need convincing that our biggest threat (after a certain certifiable case in charge of a big, bigger than you’ve ever seen, country) lies in the privatisation of #infrastructure crucial to #NationalSecurity. But just in case, I’m tooting this article to make that very point, again. We cannot be warned enough…
”If critical digital infrastructure markets are structurally producing unavoidable private monopolies, what does that mean for economic power, political influence and democratic control more broadly? Starlink may be a particularly visible case, but it is part of a much wider pattern now emerging across the digital economy.”
#TechBros #Nepo #Monopolies #OutSourcing #StateCapture
#LEO #Communications -
https://www.europesays.com/africa/111802/ Brian Molefe linked to secret ‘slush fund’ used for luxury lifestyle #BrianMolefe #Palcocap #SlushFund #StateCapture #Tanzania
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"A global youth revolt is shaking the foundations of political power. In just a few months, millions of young people have taken to the streets across continents – from Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Kenya, Tanzania, Morocco, Madagascar, Peru and Paraguay – to denounce corruption and collapsing public systems."
link below:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/04/state-capture-corruption-democracy -
For a really depressing account of our govt failure to curb fossil fuel extraction & exports read on:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-in-the-northern-territory/
If it’s too much for you. Write/email your elected members to tell then how sickening their support for more pollution is and that you’ll be voting Greens at the next election. If you can’t do that, at least be informed and read the article.
Not only are you paying for it all through your energy bills, you are also giving away some of your rightful share of public funds (in terms of social services) to grifters, profiteers and the filthy rich.
#FossilFuel #ClimateAction #AusPol #AlboPM #Labor #Environment #StateCapture #EatTheRich #InUnity
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The view from Grogs
https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/parliament-live-senate-estimates-gets-underway-all-the-days-events-as-it-happens/Of course, this is the expected outcomes with every public infrastructure (Telecom sale) sold to the private sector. Falling service standards and profit taking priorities as long as profits are to be had, else the service tanks and privateers pull out without penalties.
#StateCapture #PrivatisationRuins #NeoliberalEconomics #ShortTermGains #LongTermFailures #InUnity #PublicInfrastructure #Optus #000Fiasco
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@amyremeikis.bsky.social
#TaxTheRich instead. Close #TaxLoopHoles. Massively increase #PRRT. Renounce #StateCapture. Cap #CEORemuneration. Break up #MonopoliesGood gracious, our Govt is ‘owned’! By #CorporateAustralia
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The Guardian used to be reasonably reliable.
No longer.
Confusing ‘captain’s call’ with ‘ministerial responsibility’ to act in the best interests of Australia.
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Am I the only one having these conversations??
#statecapture #america #elonmusk #treason #traitor #cybersecurity #russia #compromised #exfiltration #resist #trump
#hostile #government #takeover
Is something more important going on in this country? NO, everything else is a DISTRACTION
We are actively being pillaged!
SOMBODY STOP THEM!
DO YOU'R FUCKING JOB #CONGRESS
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《STATE CAPTURE》Now that's a term everyone should start using.
#StateCapture #Coup #SelfCoup #US #America #Friday #KingOfAmerica #Autocracy #Tyranny #DemocracyIsDead #DirtyPoliticians #Dictatorship #Corruption #Capitalism #Tesla #Greed
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Fran Blanche calls it what it is. #FranBlanche
#StateCapture #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency
(... well, she observes that there is a term for it ...)
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“…details vary by context, but poli scientist Elizabeth David-Barrett lays out 3 general mechanisms of #StateCapture. They now sound familiar:shaping the rules of the game thru #law & #policy; #influencing admin decisions by capturing the #budget, appts, govt #contracts & #regulatory decisions;& #disabling checks on #power by #dismantling #accountability structures like the #judiciary, law enforcement & prosecution, & audit institutions like #IGs & #media.”
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#sideration #casse #administrations #coupdetat #statecapture
Elon #Musk et son «Département de l’efficacité gouvernementale» se livrent à une opération de #casse sans précédent
https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/a-washington-elon-musk-et-son-doge-se-livrent-a-une-casse-sans-precedent-20250204_ELNBN5VGCNCFTGFJMCMH372QOM/?redirected=1 -
「Transnet personnel changes paying off
Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.
Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.
In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.
Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.
Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.
#Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.
Encouraging signs of progress
Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.
“Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.
Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:
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The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.
“The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.
“If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”
The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.
[...]
Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.
」https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/transnet-personnel-changes-paying-off/
#SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail
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「Transnet personnel changes paying off
Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.
Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.
In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.
Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.
Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.
#Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.
Encouraging signs of progress
Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.
“Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.
Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:
[...]
The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.
“The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.
“If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”
The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.
[...]
Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.
」https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/transnet-personnel-changes-paying-off/
#SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail
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「Transnet personnel changes paying off
Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.
Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.
In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.
Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.
Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.
#Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.
Encouraging signs of progress
Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.
“Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.
Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:
[...]
The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.
“The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.
“If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”
The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.
[...]
Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.
」https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/transnet-personnel-changes-paying-off/
#SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail
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「Transnet personnel changes paying off
Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.
Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.
In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.
Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.
Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.
#Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.
Encouraging signs of progress
Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.
“Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.
Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:
[...]
The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.
“The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.
“If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”
The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.
[...]
Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.
」https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/transnet-personnel-changes-paying-off/
#SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail
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「Transnet personnel changes paying off
Coal export volumes railed to #RichardsBay were up more than 10% in the December quarter, and port backlogs are declining.
Then #PublicEnterprises Minister Pravin #Gordhan took a meat cleaver to the board.
In came #MineralsCouncil vice-president Andile #Sangqu as chair of #Transnet in July 2023, giving a voice to the company’s largest customer, the mining sector – accounting for roughly 80% of Transnet Freight Rail’s business and 50% of overall revenue. The board was loaded with engineers, industry representatives and labour, people who knew how to run an enterprise of this complexity.
Out went #Derby and #Mzimela, replaced by Michelle #Phillips as acting group CEO and Russell #Baatjies as acting CEO for freight rail.
Several former Transnet executives who left the organisation over the years have been lured back, including former programme director Marc Descoins.
#Havenga says several other former top executives have been roped into the Transnet recovery plan, many of them with salaries paid by #BusinessSouthAfrica.
Encouraging signs of progress
Writing in Moneyweb last week, Juanita Maree, CEO of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders – which sounded the alarm on Transnet a year ago – noted the encouraging signs of progress since business got involved in the #NLCC. The turnaround at #Durban Container Terminal Pier 2, with a recovery plan crafted and implemented by the crisis committee, will remove the vessel backlog by the end of this month.
“Cabinet’s approval and activation of the Freight Logistics Roadmap also opens the way for reviving a properly resourced, inter-modal, world-class logistics network for South Africa and the region,” says Maree.
Transnet seems to be embracing the collaboration with business:
[...]
The new management team led by Phillips and Baatjies has changed the culture and mood at Transnet, adds Havenga.
“The improvements we have seen in the last few months have all been achieved without massive investment in locomotives and wagons. These improvements are the result of operating smarter. Transnet has a rail network of about 21 000km, but virtually all of its rail revenue comes from just 1 500km of that network. That’s where we need to focus the attention.
“If we can improve turnaround times on the #Sishen-#SaldanhaBay railway line so we get trains turned around in 80 hours instead of 100 hours, that means we can run an extra train a day using the same rolling stock we have. And this can be done.”
The 861km Sishen-Saldanha line between the #NorthernCape and the port of Saldanha Bay in the #WesternCape handles most of the country’s iron ore exports, and its efficiency has had a direct impact on the revenue and profits of #Kumba Iron Ore and other iron ore exporters.
[...]
Perhaps Transnet has finally turned the corner and demonstrated what can be done when cadres are replaced by industry specialists.
」https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/transnet-personnel-changes-paying-off/
#SouthAfrica #GoodNews #StateCapture #Economy #TFR #TransnetFreightRail
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「How Koko's case crumbled: Cop details lack of resources while VIP protection budget balloons
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While the state's inability to present its case against #Koko and his co-accused within a year of their arrest has provided fuel for his conspiracy claims against the #NPA, they have also sharply revealed the impact of budget cuts and protracted financial bureaucracy on the administration of justice.
This is particularly hard to swallow when contrasted with the ease of government spending on VIP protection for President Cyril #Ramaphosa and his high-level cohorts in government.
The Institute of Security Studies previously pointed out that the budget for this protection – which is available to only 200 people – is 74% of the total budget allocated to the NPA and 167% of the #Hawks budget. 」
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@daedalus
The real kicker for every person in #Australia who values their basic #privacy (ie. hiding their #IPAddress with #TorBrowser) is #MyGov is decrypted by #Akamai.Yes, a US multinational (spin-off of #Microsoft during the 1990s) is a Man-in-the-middle-attack-(#MITM)-as-a-Service, between you and intimate #health and #employment services.
Oh and prior to the #covidCrisis the #landRegistries in most states were #privatised.
Welcome to dystopia.
