Happy to be hearing the names of Naledi Pandor, Lindiwe Sisulu and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma being touted as potential deputy presidents. This is the world I want to live in. 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
@PresidencyZA
My parents who spent their whole working lives paying taxes under apartheid so that you could go to school for free when we couldn’t, access free healthcare that we couldn’t, and enjoy protection from police that either ignored or brutalized us, wish you well for your new life.
And so South Africa loses another productive, employment creating family..
Tired of paying more than R400,000 p.a. in income taxes for zero family benefit. Tired of crime, of living in fear, of endless, unpunished state theft & corruption. Of reading about it all by candlelight
[THREAD] 1. If the President resigns tonight it will open the door for the nastiest, most craven and unrepentant criminals in the ANC to start feasting again. Are you ready for “President David Mabuza”?
This crisis is really exposing who some people are. Selfish, entitled, racist, condescending, utterly brainless. In what universe does the black woman who daily cleans the home that you have made dirty, need *your* instruction on hygiene or cleanliness?
Conducting home evictions in winter, in the middle of a global pandemic, amongst the poorest and most vulnerable people in Cape Town is unconscionable. Doing so with violence and by publicly stripping people of their dignity is unforgivable. Where is leadership in the
@CityofCT
?
A whole section at
@Clicks_SA
devoted to convincing women that their bodies are “unclean”. Could somebody point me to the Men’s Intimate Hygiene section, please? 🤔😏😠
1. If I were you - specifically you - I’d avoid weaponising educational attainment as an insult, lest that same weapon be turned on me.
2. I look forward to your next interview on water infrastructure in your third language. Do you have a third language? Do you have a second?
Twitter friends, please let us be mature in politics. The
@MYANC
invited me to an event with
@CyrilRamaphosa
and I was delighted to attend. My fondness for our president is a matter of public record. This does not mean I support or wish to join the ANC. 🙏🏾
My mother, 8 months pregnant, was made to stand the entire trip on one of those trains despite having paid for a first class ticket, because of the racist laws you so clearly long for. My father spent the whole trip standing behind her holding her tight so she wouldn’t collapse.
Before ANC one could catch an overnight train from Joburg to Durban, eat and drink good food and wine in the dining car and sleep in a comfortable bed.
No contact or connection between the Belgian case and Southern Africa, yet the words “originated in Southern Africa” are repeated with reckless abandon. Disgraceful,
@SkyNews
.
This is an incredibly offensive headline about a sex crime. I doubt very much that the woman he assaulted finds this funny, but go ahead and enjoy your puns. Misogyny never ceases to amaze...
Contribute to the work that speaks to your authentic sense of what is right - where you know you are most needed. Do it publicly or privately, it doesn’t matter. Lead authentically and you’ll never need to defend your choices to anyone.
I want to help, but every time I help I am attacked for doing it in public. When I am quiet I am attacked for not being active. So ... can someone please clarify what the protocol is now for celebrities donating to help people who need it the most.
Yes, I am the very one. My parents’ taxes paid for you to enjoy an education in your home language so that you could tweet nonsense on the internet. I wonder how different your life would be today if you were consigned to the Bantu Education system. I hope you are grateful.
That “letter” and it’s attendant drama are latest evidence that the criminal justice system is making a comeback in SA after over a decade of destruction. The NPA, the SIU, the Hawks deserve every inch of our support. South Africa is bigger than *any* political party. 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
4. A Ramaphosa resignation is just what the crooks ordered. The next 18 months will be hell for our country. But in 2024 we get to decide if it’s time to end South Africa’s abusive relationship with the ANC. The decision is still ours to make. [/THREAD]
There is no dignity in being paraded on camera and social media while the government publicly singles you out as someone lacking dignity. Delete this footage, apologise to these young women and think about what you have done.
This looting is so much bigger than Jacob Zuma, although his odious children & their tribalist minions will claim otherwise. Our country is stalked by poverty, hunger, unemployment & desperation in this pandemic. People believe they have nothing to lose by joining the madness. 💔
The comments on this post are a masterclass from
#KenyanTwitter
on the toxicity of the “white gaze”. Nothing in the world exists until white people have seen & validated it. Notice how
@CNN
keeps digging, even when offered opportunity to retract and correct this absurd headline.
I am sick of people describing
@PatriciaDeLille
as "power drunk" as if this empty accusation can be legitimized by repetition. A black woman's ambition is not a crime. A black woman exercising power in elected office is not an aberration. We see you & your dog whistle politics.
@Dr_MakhosiKhoza
@PatriciaDeLille
@LindiMazibuko
You clearly dont know the reasons behind De Lilles eviction. First talk to her colleagues and city staff before you choose her side. What you see is not what you get with her. Unfortunately her colleagues and city staff may not talk out... she was power drunk
I’m glad this angle is finally surfacing in the press. I am reliably told that
@mphophalatse1
is routinely excluded from party negotiations about her own government, which are instead (mis)managed by DA’s leader and federal council chairman from Cape Town.
I’m going to need white South Africans to stop peddling the garbage that the apartheid government was “efficient” or “effective”.
A rotten, corrupt administration that left the country’s coffers empty before running for the hills is no exemplar of good government.
Breakfast with the amazing Duchess of Sussex and Women in Public Service in Cape Town this week. An important conversation at a critical time for women in South Africa. 🇿🇦🇬🇧
@KensingtonRoyal
@ukinsouthafrica
@ApoliticalAcad
“Racism is not the issue.”
“Racism has nothing to do with service delivery in South Africa.”
“Nobody cares about your identity politics during a local election.” 🙄😏
If you’re going to participate in this trash narrative peddled by unimaginative white supremacists, you should at least pretend to back up your claims with data and benchmarking, Vusi.
Lobbing lies like grenades on Twitter then SHOUTING IN CAPITAL LETTERS doesn’t make them true.
Fact: Apartheid was a crime against humanity.
Also a fact: the Apartheid state machinery was incredibly capable.
BOTH OF THOSE THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE.
Don’t be so keen to be offended that you miss blatant truths.
I’m not watching or reposting that “discussion”. From the clip, I see two white men back-slapping each other, lecturing a black woman about what her hierarchy of political issues should be, and telling her that her lived experiences in this country are irrelevant.
“While Cyril Ramaphosa has been publicly emasculated...”? Is this a joke? The casual misogyny. The dog-whistle messaging, chastising female power in politics. The complete ignorance of the constitutional provisions governing cabinet accountability. Who did this?
This is a very disappointing and shocking reporting by
@eNCA
and
@XoliMngambi
and
#JaneDutton
should be ashamed.
RT if you also think they are am embarrassment
No guys. Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach. Freedom of speech is not freedom from the consequences of that speech. You do not owe hateful people platforms on which to be hateful. And there is no virtue in granting them those platforms then saying “fReEdoM oF sPeeCh.”
We know that you know what happened in the exchange between the panelists on The Burning Platform on 21st October 2021. We are a proudly South African brand that takes the right to freedom of speech very seriously. [1/2]
[ON AIR] It’s now being reported that just in Limpopo over the last period eleven thousand female learners at school have become pregnant by teacher and older men - often known as blessers. George Moroasui, Ethics Manager at SACE on
#SAfmSunrise
with
@StephenGrootes
#sabcnews
My heart is aching. 💔 I understand the calls for a punishment that fits the crime, but putting these three men to death won’t deter the next three - studies around the world have proved this. We have an epidemic in our hands in 🇿🇦 and we are doing nothing to address its causes.
Kimberley police have arrested three people for the rape of a 7-year-old girl - two of them are her uncles and the third is her 60-year-old stepfather |
@nickymccain
You accepting half a billion rands in stolen government money to buy a fake business that was set up exclusively to steal from the people of SA is the furthest thing from “gossip”.
But keep twerking on social media if it helps you sleep at night while your sponsors are in jail.
“In [apartheid] South Africa, there is 1 doctor for every 400 whites. And there is 1 doctor for every 44 000 blacks.”
In case anyone is wondering where this “apartheid was better” narrative is coming from.
@Ms_Mashishi
Learn how to say “no”. It doesn’t make you selfish or inconsiderate. You are not required to burn yourself out so others can enjoy life. Don’t waste time over-explaining or feeling guilty for setting boundaries. “No.” is a full sentence.
I do not hate the DA. I helped build that organisation how can I hate it. What I loathe is the tone-deaf, power-drunk, ignorant hubris of current leadership. Destroying what good people worked relentlessly under unreal circumstances to build. At the very moment it is most needed.
UK government confirm tonight that if a person has been vaccinated in Africa, or South America, or countries including UAE, India, Turkey, Jordan, Thailand, Russia…
…you are considered “unvaccinated” and must follow “unvaccinated” rules ⛔️ = 10 day home quarantine & tests
Making political hay out of one of the most devastating waves of racially-motivated violence in our country’s democratic history is not just cynical. It is despicable. Every single decision maker who approved that poster campaign should resign.
3. The ANC leadership deck is empty. Credible leaders such as Naledi Pandor or Ronald Lamola lack the time to build the groundswell for a win with literal days to go before conference. I would welcome another Motlanthe caretaker presidency but it’s a temporary solution at best.
This is the logical conclusion of Afrophobia and xenophobia in South Africa. “Put South Africans First” is just a crude proxy for ethnic nationalism, and we have seen the wages of that sin in genocide on our continent.
The time for polite detachment is over. Where do you stand?
WATCH: A group calling themselves Dudula in Alexandra township, Johannesburg forcefully removing sePedi and xiTsonga speaking people from their RDP houses.
#SABCNews
“Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering: remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important.”
Thank you, dearest Arch. We love you and we will miss you
@TheDesmondTutu
.❤️🇿🇦
For our overseas friends, the caption on this poster reads:
“I will shoot dead (using the term for “dead animal”) the first k*ffir (derogatory slur against black people; akin to n*gger) that enters my school. Keep our schools white.”
The bullet casings are self-explanatory.
I'm so pleased that the
@NPA_Prosecutes
is appealing this ruling. Foreplay is not consent, and consent can be withdrawn AT ANY TIME WHATSOEVER.
EXCLUSIVE | NPA appeals Ngcukaitobi rape ruling that says foreplay implies 'tacit consent’ via
@news24
Trail-blazing High Court Advocate and former
@IntlCrimCourt
lawyer Fadzayi Mahere
@advocatemahere
is national spokesperson for
@mdczimbabwe
. 🇿🇼 As an independent parliamentary candidate in 2018 her slogan was “Be The Change” a philosophy she continues to embody today.
#AfricaDay
I am deliberately not answering your questions because I will never have my ethical bona fides questioned by someone who consorts with criminals.
You have no standing here.
@LindiMazibuko
So, you are deliberately avoiding to answer my questions?
You have chosen to condone criminality because you want political favour from the corrupt and crooked people?
When is your appointment due ?
2. We will not have an early election and whoever is calling for one is just looking for an “angle” into the story.
Like Tories in the UK, the ANC will simply hold onto power and shuffle the leadership deck.
Note: for now, he retains his seat as a Member of Parliament, pending the outcome of a party disciplinary process. Constitutionally, elected MPs can only be removed from office under limited circumstances - in this case, if their party membership is terminated.
The DA has suspended its MP, Renaldo Gouws, after a 2012 video clip of him resurfaced in which he can be heard saying: "Kill all the k****rs". |
@JasonFelix
An amended Electoral Act can make provision for the recall of non-performing MPs and MPLs by the citizens who elected them. One of the many upshots of direct elections.
#IndependentCandidates
JUST IN
The man killed in
#Diepsloot
overnight has been identified as Elvis Nyathi.
His wife Nomsa is distraught this morning. She says people came banging on their door asking for their passports.
#SABCNEWS