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Zimasa "mooshtaffa" Vabaza
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Приєднався 12 чер 2022
I am Zimasa Vabaza more commonly known as @mooshtaffa on the socials, I created this platform because of the love I have for simplifying socio-economic knowledge, around South Africa, SADC, Africa & the globe.
Here we cover small & big stories that matter, stories that you should know but from a different, less explored perspective.
We also host podcast style conversations with interesting people. We hope you will watch, engage and enjoy.
Here we cover small & big stories that matter, stories that you should know but from a different, less explored perspective.
We also host podcast style conversations with interesting people. We hope you will watch, engage and enjoy.
THE MTHATHA PROTECTION FEE MAFIA THAT CONTROLS MORE THAN JUST THIS RURAL TOWN!
Let me explain why I believe that what is happening here in #Mthatha is a mafia enterprise…
In Mthatha and other regions in the province like Gqeberha, a troubling trend of extortion through “protection fees” is significantly affecting local businesses and vulnerable individuals and its been in the news.
The form of extortion - in which businesses, particularly those owned by foreigners but fast spreading to SA owned businesses, are coerced into paying for dubious protection services ( basically pay us to protect your business from us) - these criminal acts have led to some businesses shutting down due to alleged intimidation and threats from criminal syndicates.
What started with petty criminals harassing street vendors, then foreign run spaza shops and then foreign owned hardware stores has now upgrades to all types of trade business extortion. BnBs, Petrol Stations, Doctors Offices, Taverns, Street vendors, Apartment blocks konkeeee and its honestly so disheartening.
Some fees are rumored to be as high as R100,000 per month for some business and up to 50% for smaller businesses even from oMama selling amagwinya on the side of the road.
Other individuals and business owners, including property owners, are said to have been forced to pay R20 000 for small businesses, R50 000 for medium-sized, and more than R200 000 for big businesses.
One petrol station was even asked to pay 350k per month. Crazy
Even worse, school teachers and other professionals renting properties in Mthatha, have allegedly been forced to pay between R500 and R1 000 a month “for protection” and extra rent from some even gov owned properties.
The MTHATHA protection fee racket is but a small cog in a larger mafia style organized crime syndicate that is operating from the south coast of Durban right through Mthatha, East London, Gqeberha into the Western Cape.
The syndicate involves petty, criminals, semi organized, criminals, Security companies, CIT kingpins, small business owners, who are victims, big business owners, who many are also victims, but some are collaborators, also don’t forget some unscrupulous traditional leaders who hold a large sway in matters here due to land custodianship to allow businesses to be built in tribal land and then in the mix there are drug networks and foreign cocaine cartels. This is a crazy melting point of criminal potjie Kos. To be simple. Kubi eMthatha and the only law that exists here is the law of the gun.
People live in fear and there’s a realization that this network will soon, if it hasn’t already, start to run the district and possibly the province.
Let’s have this conversation in its entirety. Share your thoughts, your frustrations, your ideas.
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In Mthatha and other regions in the province like Gqeberha, a troubling trend of extortion through “protection fees” is significantly affecting local businesses and vulnerable individuals and its been in the news.
The form of extortion - in which businesses, particularly those owned by foreigners but fast spreading to SA owned businesses, are coerced into paying for dubious protection services ( basically pay us to protect your business from us) - these criminal acts have led to some businesses shutting down due to alleged intimidation and threats from criminal syndicates.
What started with petty criminals harassing street vendors, then foreign run spaza shops and then foreign owned hardware stores has now upgrades to all types of trade business extortion. BnBs, Petrol Stations, Doctors Offices, Taverns, Street vendors, Apartment blocks konkeeee and its honestly so disheartening.
Some fees are rumored to be as high as R100,000 per month for some business and up to 50% for smaller businesses even from oMama selling amagwinya on the side of the road.
Other individuals and business owners, including property owners, are said to have been forced to pay R20 000 for small businesses, R50 000 for medium-sized, and more than R200 000 for big businesses.
One petrol station was even asked to pay 350k per month. Crazy
Even worse, school teachers and other professionals renting properties in Mthatha, have allegedly been forced to pay between R500 and R1 000 a month “for protection” and extra rent from some even gov owned properties.
The MTHATHA protection fee racket is but a small cog in a larger mafia style organized crime syndicate that is operating from the south coast of Durban right through Mthatha, East London, Gqeberha into the Western Cape.
The syndicate involves petty, criminals, semi organized, criminals, Security companies, CIT kingpins, small business owners, who are victims, big business owners, who many are also victims, but some are collaborators, also don’t forget some unscrupulous traditional leaders who hold a large sway in matters here due to land custodianship to allow businesses to be built in tribal land and then in the mix there are drug networks and foreign cocaine cartels. This is a crazy melting point of criminal potjie Kos. To be simple. Kubi eMthatha and the only law that exists here is the law of the gun.
People live in fear and there’s a realization that this network will soon, if it hasn’t already, start to run the district and possibly the province.
Let’s have this conversation in its entirety. Share your thoughts, your frustrations, your ideas.
B - ROLL CREDITS: B ROLL IS FOR ILLUSTRATIVE AND VISUALIZATION PURPOSES ONLY!
Music Credits:
► Music Credit: Artificial.Music
Track Name: "oceanic space [short edit]"
Music By: Artificial Music @ / artificial-music
YT Channel HERE: / smarttoaster
Original upload HERE - / oceans
License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.
Full License HERE - creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Music promoted by NCM goo.gl/fh3rEJ
--- ♪♫ FREE DOWNLOAD ♫♪ ---
► DOWNLOAD this track HERE - www.chilloutrecordsmusic.com/
ua-cam.com/video/IygKZNWPM_0/v-deo.html
♪ ♪ Biscuit (Prod. by Lukrembo)
Link : ua-cam.com/video/EtZ2m2Zm3vY/v-deo.html
Track: September Rain - Yme Fresh Music provided by Verde Música Studio
Watch: ua-cam.com/video/4-4VKeCP3M8/v-deo.html
Track: September - Not the King Music provided by Verde Música Studio
Watch: ua-cam.com/video/BOzYdczJ7Zo/v-deo.html
New Dawn
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License code: 2471 MABJR3C62MG8
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Makes sense as to why things have gotten so bad without any action. The authorities are definitely involved. At all levels in that province corruption is involved.
We should all stop paying taxes to fools. Now!
Guys look. You pay Taxes for a service right? Now. What services are we talking about? Yes! I dont know myself. The constitutional rights of the taxpayers are being Raped in the ass.
What? Our taxes is being robbed by government! Tax revolt now!
Until sone corrupt ANC official will benefit, no licenses will he official. The "BBEEE reseller" will certainly be one of the ANC cronies !!! BBEEE has NOTHING to do with Black empowerment and more with CORRUPT ANC empowerment !!
We can not as South Africans, take away jobs by allowing a service that only a few will use while not paying tax, to operate.
Don't forget about that 500kg coke that was stolen from a Hawks storage site👀
Starlink will take away thousand of jobs. They dont need mich because they use setalites whilte the rest of the companies have spent lots of money to build and improve their networks. Elon must just forget about it
Y show the b&b on the video.. ? They will watch this and go there ...
SABC should add you as a segment no-way. That is proper stuff.
Excellent content. I commend your bravery in addressing issues in your area with such integrity and impartiality.
I have yet to see BBEEE advantages go to the previously disadvantaged. Everything lands in the pockets of those who are well in advance already.
Taxi industry is not targeted because Uncedo president Fuzile is the kingpin of this extortion
mall in sa is overated . u just wanne go to a small squer or shopping centre get what u need and go
To think Elon Musk is a born South African but he put Americans in space ...heartbreaking...because why.....??
All food should not be taxed.
We are on our OWN
It's time for Marshall Law
We are on our OWN
Lmao@ sisekakeni, the respect in the tone of i voice ka mjita xa esitsho 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well driving through umthata must be the worst town to drive through. No shot about this.
BBEEE is like cutting the legs off of runners so that the fat kids have a chance. I will never comply to BEBULLSHAT
One of the solutions could be using military police for enforcing law, investigating and arresting the culprits. We cannot continue this way as a khantri
I wanted to finish watching your video, but my internet connection bombed out. I suspect your message is bullshit anyway. Like bbbbbbbbeeeeeee or something.
Starlink is not going to give 30% to this corrupt government
It's going to be much harder to bribe Elon musk, that why it's going to take longer
Exactly what privacy do some people want since they voluntarily post their details all over the internet?
Only DA can put this country back on track, yes and i'm black by the way😪
kuphandle ngeEC and this has been happening for years its nothing new. If government was serious and not part of this they would have solved this 10yrs ago but because top people from politicians to top cops being involved they've let it go as is. Its up to citizens to revolt but unfortunately it comes at a high price of life being taken.
You’re a brave man and I solute you sir! All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to sit back and do nothing. You’re not one of those men. We need more in SA. Come men of SA, let’s join together, fearlessly, for the future of our country, for the future of our woman and children.
He's talking about the So What guy
I live 2 or 3 km away and the thought if going there with my lil girl, is appalling. The experience itself is exhausting and can take the whole day
I am from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape and I appreciate this content.
Have you checked the subscription fees in the region? It offers cheaper packages for countries in the region. As far as I know even in Zimbabwe you can order it directly from the company online. And yes I am in zimbabwe. Im not going to argue with your point because i dont know too much about SA telecoms laws but your prices are higher than what we are being offered here in zimbabwe for equipment and subscritions and if I am not mistaken prices are lower in Mozambique as well.
It's strange as this video makes it sound like it's only happening in Umthatha.....
This video covers Mthatha and what’s going on there. Would you have liked a 6 hours dissertation video on the criminal underworld of SA and its web ?
Oscar 😡😡😡😡😡
Since you have started your investigations on this, can you investigate economic terrorism as a whole in this country? How it has started and whom does it benefit? I hope you remain safe while doing so ngoba this mthatha thung is a small piece on the puzzle.. Soon we wont have a country ,there is a deliberate effort to destroy it.
I stand with you on this one(economic terrorism).Nothing is working out for South Africa at all.Most other African countries failed because of rebel attacks now in South Africa. We are going to fail, given the criminal levels. This just makes you feel that someone wanted us to fail after a certain tim or we could swallow our pride and ask the apartheid government officials how to keep safety measures in place?
@@Thabisoalan-kx1sv yep it's all planned , some type of strategy that's slowly winning and we need to wake up now ....
Kubi e south Africa
The 30% extortion may be 2 pronged. 30% is a legal regualtion for contracts over a R30 million contract value. This should be distributed amongst the local SMMEs to boost local entrepreneurs and economy. Its also possible that they demand it from contracts below that value.
Police are definitely involved 😢
It is not Umthatha!!!!
Very sad our country is in a mess!
BEEE only for blacks not colored so for me I am going to buy a kit
Interesting video. I think it has to do with the saturation of retail in the area.
Something needs to be done ASAP!
It's nolonger about foreigners now, it's affecting everyone and the law enforcement in this country is busy tip toeing around the issue and the country is officially becoming LAWLESS!
Kubi kwiSouth Africa yonke
It's heartbreaking how high unemployment rates and poverty are leading to more unemployment due to unchecked criminal activities and business closures!
a tip , don't mention so many people without mentioning names , leaves your video with so many holes
😂😂😂😂😂who are you blacks going to blame 😂😂😂😂😂😂 it serve you right.......blacks are corrupt to the core since 95