Mr Samson Lehlogonolo Makalela

It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

People who considers themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

When dealing with people, always remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotions so be always careful before making sensitive, provocative statements on the public platforms.

I would personally like to extent my appreciation of all our medical fraternity and all those who provide the essential services, which includes the scientist, doctors, nurses, police, soldiers, post office and retailers that provide essential services, who put unwavering selfless contribution and put the interests of the country first, in order to provide essential services. They provide sterling work under difficult circumstances. They indeed our heroes, and your efforts and tireless dedication is of paramount importance. Thank you, we salute you.

Our country is in dire state of national disaster, and our economy is on its knees, while our community continue to live in squalor and we see huge marshalling of funds and mobilization of resources, although it is for a good course, but we cannot be deafened by the conditions prevailing in our country. My question is where was this money when our people continue to live in poverty and subhuman conditions, and the question is where the consciousness from our political leaders.

We are facing invincible enemy of epic proportions, and efforts must be made to deal with the aftermath of covid 19 and its ripple effects. 25 years in our democracy, it took a virus to unite the Country. The ripple effects caused by cronyism and corruption continue to resurface in subjective state of our financial distress. The conduct of bureaucracy is caring out daily functions of the state. To circumspect the huge billion donations from the elite, the Rupert’s, Oppenheimers and Naspers under the auspices of covid 19, seem to deflect from the sole purpose of the heightened political will which is enforced by global pandemic of the virus, which continue to unite and compact our divided country.

We are in state of paralysis, our integrity is been sabotaged by parallel processes imposed by the interminiterial task team through every press meetings. This binary narrative of our Ministers to make abrupt destructive concessions leaves the country in disaster. The country is still reeling from the quack mire of dire disease but our government is stalling to bring effective regulations without chopping and changing the rules. The prevailing parallel process of double standards takes us nowhere. The informal traders and spaza shops are only now being considered. If be government is relaxing the regulations, national press meeting must be held to address all the shortfalls of their latter decisions.sam_makalela73

Game of Thrones, today is the deeday! This might make history as the shortest mayoral term on record. Last year February, Former Mayor Stevens Mokgalapa was put to take charge of Tshwane by DA after Solly Msimanga was shuffled to Gauteng provincial legislature. Stevens Mokgalapa’s explosive recording surfaced where he was eavesdropped gossiping about his colleague’s, together with former MMC of Transport, Sheila Senkubuge. Stevens Mokgalapa took a decision to resign, opening the flood-gate for EFF and ANC to contest yet again for the new Mayor. These happened after sudden resignation and departure of Musi Maimane and Herman Mashaba, DA’s inability to sustain municipality is a bridge too far. We are waiting with anticipation to see with keen interest how things are going to unfold. Some political soothsayers and prophet of gloom have precipitated Maimane’s downfall, and he was a pillar of DA. ANC and EFF remains the only real possibility to take over Tshwane in the next Municipal...

Domicile of choice, why are you still there, it is because of your status, pride, children, love, or economic reasons? Do you care enough to think beyond the obvious regarding the feelings of a friend, family member who suffered abuse, intimate partner violence and humiliation from his/her partner? You might not live to tell the story or the ordeal whatsoever, maybe your friends who cared less or ignorant family member will. What does not grow you destroys you if a fruit stays on the tree for too long after its ripened, it will rot and wither, so change whatever you’re doing if it does not grow you or serve your pre-destined purpose, do it now before is too late. There was a time and place for that, but when it’s time to let go, we need to do so, while we still have our dignity intact, or else its just a down-hill from there, guaranteed. Start a new chapter in your life, the time is now, and do not waste any more time. May we learn to fall in love with “goodbye” and letting g...

You don’t thank birds for flying or fish for swimming, because that’s what they are supposed to do. Government is obliged by law to deliver goods and services to the community, that a social contract and enforced compliance which is binding on the government to deliver, and failure to deliver, there will be repercussions, service delivery protests, mass actions and so forth. The community must hold the government to account, in all duty bound mandate. The executive wing of the state has been rogue and predatory, through its legislative wing, which also failed to hold the executive to account. The executive have a long time obfuscated, ducked and dived over shenanigans involving billions stolen from state coffers, it deferred matters until former advocated Thuli Madonsela, suggested a state capture probe to be established by Former state President, to be chaired by  Deputy Chief Justice Rymond Zondo. My question is, this another whitewash which after recommendations, there will ...

Domicile of choice, why are you still there, it is because of your status, pride, children, love, or economic reasons? Do you care enough to think beyond the obvious regarding the feelings of a friend, family member who suffered abuse, intimate partner violence and humiliation from his/her partner? You might not live to tell the story or the ordeal whatsoever, maybe your friends who cared less or ignorant family member will. What does not grow you destroys you if a fruit stays on the tree for too long after its ripened, it will rot and wither, so change whatever you’re doing if it does not grow you or serve your pre-destined purpose, do it now before is too late. There was a time and place for that, but when it’s time to let go, we need to do so, while we still have our dignity intact, or else its just a down-hill from there, guaranteed. Start a new chapter in your life, the time is now, and do not waste any more time. May we learn to fall in love with “goodbye” and letting g...

Renouncing corporeal pleasures for the far richer rewards of the spirit is the first step to finding eternal life. Beware that even great leaders, kings and Queens are susceptible to making dangerous assumptions and be willing to challenge your own ideas, facts in order to see the "opportunity dimension" behind the perception veil....@makalelasamson

DE JA VU Very predictable speech, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Myriad of bottlenecks, corruption, red-tape and political instability, regulatory discrepancy that hamper our economy in a larger scale, while complex and lengthy inefficient border administrations, challenging Africa’s commercial landscape, charecterised by patchwork of tared rules and regulations which make cross-border trade cumbersome, and sometimes impossible to function. Unemployment continue to escalate, and corruption continue to cripple our economic growth. We all anticipate with optimism for the Finance Minister, Mr Tito Titus Mboweni to outline effective and proper strategy to expedite foreign direct investments in order to improve our economy. He must impose sin tax on products that continue to destroy our community, and cut on wage expenditure in public sector wage, equitable share on provinces. Informal trading has risen partly as a “rational response to the costs and red t...

I think cynicism and destructiveness which seemed to be rampant in the previous presidency inflicted ernomous pain and damage to structural institutions and overwhelmed believe, trust and promise.....i do think the ambit of assault on our constitutional institutions defectiveness in play through its paralysis, but the remarkable fact is that they have survived for us to make better efforts and strides to improve and realign our democracy by uniting as one nation. We also need civil society, stronger media and collective voiced opposition which will change the country for the the better in a functioning democracy.

our griviences my be greater and more burdensome, but the question of acknowleding and respecting the reasons for grievience while also trying to garner our contrustive efforts in moving forward in our new democratical dispensation. More effort must be chanelled into improving the lives of young people, especially the unemployed youth, and to forge forward into aligning broader impact and scale to improve skill's development in our country.