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Jesus. People. Justice. Love. Season 4 of Out of the Fishbowl @FishbowlCodcast is ready and waiting for you:
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Can we just choose to be more Kind, and then see how that goes?
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BREAKING NEWS: John Steenhuizen planning trip to the moon to see if he can assess the GRAVITY of the situation.
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R9 from Muizenberg to Cape Town. Petrol is so expensive right now it costs me R9 just to look at my car. Imagine if we could get all of these systems up and running well, the impact it could have on the country...
#CatchATrain
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Here's the thing. i don't have any token Black, Coloured and Indian friends. But when we returned from the States seven years ago and i turned 40, everyone at my birthday party was white. Over the next few years i made some intentional decisions....
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Turns out Afriforum were responsible for the 'No Whites Allowed' stickers put up at the University [spoiler alert]:
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Worried about Mark Pilgrim cos last post was three days ago, and he was really looking thin. Watched my best friend go through this, and it is just such a hard thing. Hope his wife and family have strong and present support. Praying.
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What many people seem to struggle to understand is that many of us who think the DA is racist, anti-poor, anti-homeless and generally incapable ALSO think the ANC is corrupt, useless, awful and terrible. Both can be true at the same time. We lack good leaders, period!
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@MxolisiBob
Could it be the fact that it travels through the air and proximity to other people and surfaces?
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This idea of men helping out their wives at home is nonsense. You don't babysit your children, you parent your children. You don't help your wife with the dishes, you do your dishes. There needs to be a shared engagement around the things of the home. Come on.
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i feel like the death of Mark Pilgrim has hit me more than any other person i never met before except on these Twitterer streets. Just devastated. He invited us all into his painful journey, so it felt like we really did know him. Love & Peace to all those who had the privilege.
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Just caught the beginning of a John Steenhuisen
@Our_DA
video where he says: Imagine a South Africa without the Democratic Alliance. Stopped the video right there and am doing it and he is right, there is a big smile on my face. Well done, John. That's a message i can get behind!
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i don't think i ever quite get why white people get so offended when it is pointed out that we are privileged EXCEPT if we don't understand what is being meant when that is said. Stick with me a little...
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Looks like an angel..........................................................................isn't.
#KidsIn5Words
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Another Cape Town establishment needing to be called out for their racist practices. We have to keep on doing this.
Hank’s Olde Irish / Love Thy Neighbour turning people of colour away if they aren’t “accompanied by a white person”??? Surprise, surprise another racist watering hole…
@CapeTimesSA
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Doctor friend confirming that over ninety percent of people in ICU beds have not been vaccinated which has run on effect on cancer patients and others who need surgery but can't find a bed. So way bigger than just covid. Hectic ripple effect on why vaccinations are for everyone.
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@MishToTheK
i'm not sure that's true though - right now people hate what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people. Because of how dehumanising, inhumane and violent it is. That's very different to hating you because you are Jewish. i know many Jewish people who are hating those actions too!
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So
@jsteenhuisen
- any thoughts on sitting by while Gareth Cliff bullied a black woman and told her her lived experience counted for nothing in the country while you were chanting "service delivery" for some reason? That was an opportunity to interrupt and you failed miserably!
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DA: We will make things better!
[Police grab Helen Zille and escort her out of the voting grounds]
Crowd: Wow! That was quick. It really did get better!
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Do we actually have any political parties in South Africa who have a manifesto that is anything other than "We are not THAT party!"? i am so tired of hearing "The ANC this", "The DA this", "the EFF this" - we know everyone else is kak, start telling us what you are for/about!
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So important. We need to be better. White people in South Africa in particular. With the propaganda, lies, and mistruths we spread with zero accountability and consequence.
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@KingDon_za
Firstly, there is nothing wrong with a human being having a lunch break. Secondly, chances are with this attitude that you are paying well below basic human standards and you should seriously consider a decent raise. Thirdly, just stop. Be better!
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People asking, "Is this parody? Is it satire?" - i really don't think it matters because parody/satire only works if people are in on the joke and this is actually how many white South Africans think about this stff that doesn't affect them. It's ignorant, callous and dangerous!
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As a white person in South Africa, i am so grateful i have the internet else i would never know how bad white people have it in South Africa, given everything i see in the world. But fortunately i keep hearing on here how bad we have it so i can know...
#SarcasmFont
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The support and concern for Mark Pilgrim has been incredible to witness. Thinking so much about his wife Adrienne and the girls. How about we all take a moment today to flood his account with messages of support and encouragement directly to them, letting them know we see them.
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Afriforum fighting to be able to display the defined-as-hate-speech-lest-we-forget old South African (read Apartheid) flag?!?! When people tell you who they are, you really have to believe them. It's a hurtful, traumatic symbol. Just stop! Enough!
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@taythenomad
Must be nice sitting in his car with "Everyone is all smiles" and not a clue about the majority of the province, people walking two-and-a-half hours trying to get to work, missing children and women, a few dead...
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South African men, listen up, i have an invitation for you. South African women, feel free to tag the men you know or point them in this direction. South Africa has a huge issue when it comes to fathers (and keep listening even if you are not a biological father) & we have a plan
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BREAKING NEWS: John Steenhuisen plans trip to the England to make sure that everyone over there is UK.
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Best Meryl Streep award. That way other women get a chance of an Oscar any year she is acting in any movie.
#MerylStreep
#OscarsWeNeed
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15 March 2022, a not pleasant anniversary. A year ago today my wife moved out & a few months later after much couples & individual counselling, let me know that she didn't want to be married to me any more. It has been a hard, confusing & surreal year. Thankful for good friends.
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Yoh, white people, this is not a good look on us. White people climbing out of a pool en masse when a Black person jumps in still happening in 2022? No man. Plus all the rest of the nonsense. Vernon going to struggle to spin this one...
NEW: Security camera footage of the attack on Black teens at a pool in South Africa provides a more complete picture of what happened. You can see a white man stopping the boys at the gate & almost all the white swimmers getting out of the pool when one of the teens gets in.
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For all those who have been waiting patiently, it looks a little something like this...
#TatTwo
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Seven years later, when i celebrate my birthday it is a beautiful mix of people. Who bring different sounds and styles and tastes and experiences and life stories to the mix. There is no quota and there is no right number or percentage. Just intentionality.
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i seem to be struggling to find the DA's response to Afriform and the stickers cos surely they must be livid?!?!
The DA has lodged a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission requesting an urgent investigation into the EFF Student Command’s recent attempts to bar certain students from the University of Pretoria campus.
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How are people in South Africa still arguing about the reality of white privilege? It can only be ignorance and not understanding what the term means surely, because the evidence is absolutely everywhere.
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i am fully-able-to-appreciate-the-imagery-on-this-coffee-cup years old. You?
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@Greg5Boer
Greg, just walk away from your racism and save yourself this trouble? Do the research - last year more than 19000 murders in SA of which between 50 and 70 were farm murders. SA doesn't have a farm murder problem, we have a murder problem. Where do you stand on all deaths matter?
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In 1994, the law of apartheid was changed [largely] but the spirit of apartheid remained in so many places and spaces and mentalities, which is why, almost 30 years later we are still talking about these things. In 1994, for the most part, nothing changed for white people
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i know who let the dogs out, have a strong suspicion of who shot the Sheriff & have in my pocket what Bono was looking for.
#ReasonsToLoveMe
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What if we reach a compromise and send all the Cape Independence people to go and live on Robben Island? i would refendum the heck out of that!
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@ErnstRoets
That's just not true. If you think of so many women who live in townships and wake up at crazy hours to catch three modes of transport to clean some white person's house. Not many people work/risk as much as them and they are largely devoid of privilege.
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For those of you who may have noticed a little bit less engagement from me on the Twitterer in the last five and a bit weeks...
#positivedistraction
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@MishToTheK
Have you done much reading up on the history of the country before October. The Nakba for example. The dehumanisations at the check points. The refugee camps. The murder of journalists, children, families, doctors... the list goes on.
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Saw a picture of the South African flag next to the DA logo on Facebook asking which colour is missing in the DA logo and the answer will not surprise you...
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#BeforeTheInternetExisted
nobody had to keep up with the kardashians... and it was good...
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Any white South Africans here who have never travelled on a South African minibus taxi? How come? And when are you going to give it a try?
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Cape Town white folks... can we start talking about race NOW? Can we admit we have a problem & it's a heavily influenced by race one (with a touch of class)? Can we admit that systems & structures need to be challenged & torn down? How many more urinating students will it take?
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“Hofmeyer has been banned from appearing on any Multichoice programme, been banned from performing at any Sun International because of his backward views. Yet, the DA-run City of CT is using the tax monies of the same poor people Hofmeyer thinks little of, to sponsor his concert.
Reason number 1million, why I will never vote for the DA
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In a country as diverse as South Africa and with such a checkered and violent past, i have been given the privilege of listening to stories from my friends, meeting their families, spending time with them, volunteering together and playing board games or having braais.
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BREAKING NEWS: John Steenhuisen extends his fact-finding world tour so that he has some time to Rome around Italy, grab a Vienna in Austria, and perhaps chew on some Brussels in Belgium. He is adamant that the tour has to end in Poland so that he can verify that he the War saw!
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What i haven't seen anyone talk about, because the obvious is horrendous, is that there was an opportunity for John to step in & show that the DA is for everyone. Unfortunately he just showed us what we already know about the DA while letting another white man bully uninterrupted
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A "Can't we just move on and stop talking about race" thread.
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You see Gareth Cliff trending and you just know it's not because he did a thing for a person. Go and take a look... No, it's nob. Gareth Cliff being a nob. With some names you just know... how does he still have airplay anywhere?
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EVERY South African needs to see this story...
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Anyone out there who is struggling a bit and okay to say it? i am pretty exhausted after thing after thing after thing and am not feeling so great in this moment. This too shall pass. But just wondering who else out there needs a bit of a cheering up? Sending out some Love...
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Got called a satanist today for promoting vaccinations making me think some people may not know what satanists are. Or vaccinations.
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The diversity of the group has only added to my lived experience. It has definitely added to my knowledge and understanding of the country and given me glimpses of how some people who don't look like me have experienced it. This is all good stuff.
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Parents, chat to your teenage children. If they mention Andrew Tate as a role model, then take them out for a milkshake or meal and know that you have a whole lot of work to do with them. His disgusting life philosophies should not be invited into your home.
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There is a movie called Sodium Day on Netflix that was shot in the Cape Flats that i watched the other night and [if you at least somewhat know the Cape Flats] it was really brilliant - hilarious and tragic but such a true reflection of life there - check it out!
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Good morning all. Just a reminder that representation matters. In a country where white people make up 8%of the population, we need to be asking questions any time we have an all-white anything. Leadership, panel, friendship group, church, gathering... Richness in diversity.
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So this Free State swimming pool incident is an opportunity for white people to really pause & LISTEN to the experiences of Black people in South Africa without needing to lead the dialogue on this - i have already seen a clashing of heads in a Whatsapp group of people committed
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@grey_Oasis
@uMlungisi_
yeah, that kind of food belongs in an art exhibit, not on my plate. Pass the ribs!
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Faf de Klerk can wear those South African budgie smugglers with pride. What a game! He was a big part of us winning tonight!
#Faf
#WorldCupRugby
#Springboks
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Cheese. The Answer is Cheese. And wickedly amazing puns. Some sort of combo of those.
#MySweetDreamsAreMadeOfThese
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Theuns du Toit. Has there been a statement from his parents expressing shock and outrage and condemning this act in the highest and loudest possible way? Have not seen anything either way but kinda guessing the answer.
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White people all day long (many from South Africa surprisingly?) defending Kyle Rittenhouse, or more directly attacking me for suggesting the verdict was wrong. Whether the law backs it or not, America has messed up gun laws and Injustice was present.
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@TheKiffness
@RobynPorteous
@Real411orgza
While we are glad that you are outside the country, we are not amped that you are repesenting us in any way, shape or form. Time for you to own your kak or at least change your name to be more on point.
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'These communities are not crime hot spots - they are poverty hotspots. Every crime hotspot is firstly a poverty hotspot.' [Lorenzo Davids]
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Had a helicopter rescue happen right in front of us on Lion's Head this morning for a hiker who had broken his leg...
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What is this bank confirmation letter nonsense people have started requesting when they need to pay me money. It's the bank i am with and i have given you the details, just send me the money already...
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@RobinHnic
@IOL
@QuinnyDeKock69
i believe you spelled "good riddance" wrong. Unless you meant to applaud a guy for refusing to make a statement that black lives do in fact matter?!?
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@ErnstRoets
And the amount of men i drive past sitting at the side of the road with their gardening/painting equipment hoping/praying someone will give them work. Put in so much energy and effort which is not rewarded by the privilege you speak about. It's a false narrative. Blatant lie!
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Why is no-one talking about loadshedding which overnight seems to have gone from is-loadshedding-still-a-thing to stage dark ages overnight? Or is that just happening in "the city that works for all"?
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To remain a billionaire in a world where someone in the country you live in has to pull a piece of cardboard over themselves to try find some warmth at night after eating 'food' reclaimed from the trash is an act of deep injustice. Whoever you are. Whatever you have done.
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So maybe before you rush to "What about" or F Bomb or childish meme, take an extra minute to just be quiet and listen and ask yourself a big "What if?" about what might happen to/for you if you lowered your defences a little bit and took the time to offer your friendship on here.
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@RevMeshoe
i think Steve Homeyfr supporting your tweet should show you everything you need to know. But why put your support behind someone who is pretty much the opposite of the 'Love your neighbour' Jesus called us to be? You are prepared to ignore all his hatred and violence and bigotry?
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