I had a really fun conversation with John Perlman on his ‘A Song, a Book, a Dish’ feature on
@Radio702
.
It’s a little slice of me, from childhood to now. Featuring my favourite book and favourite song. 😅
The South African legal team took a deliberate decision not to show graphic images of Palestinians being killed or dead.
This is to respect and affirm the dignity of those people, their families, and Palestinians generally.
What a year I’ve had today!
I woke up an hour late. 😭
Skipped breakfast.
Missed my ride to the airport.
Tore my pants😭
Made my flight.
Got upgraded to business class 🥺
I order for us to stop teenage pregnancy, we need more families to do this.
We should definitely normalise calling the police on our brothers and uncles who sleep with teenagers.
These lanes were expanded for the World Cup. Now we are back here again.
We can never solve traffic problems by building more highways.
Building affordable housing closer to job opportunities, plus an accessible, reliable public transport system is the way forward.
Chef Lesego recently won the right to his great book, Dijo. That means all proceeds from the new edition will go directly to him. I think it’s worth getting the new book as a tribute to him and his legacy.
No, it did not pay off.
No child should wake up at 4am when school only starts at 8am. No child should walk 16km to get to school, and walk 16km back home.
Zinhle did exceptionally well despite her circumstances. She did not deserve to pay this price for her education though.
Waking up at 4am to walk 16km to school (and then 16km home in the afternoon) has paid off for Zinhle Jiane, who achieved a bachelor’s matric pass. |
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Pinky from Stokvel ♥️
I wish the SABC would invest in sitcoms again. All these dark dramas at prime time are stressful. There’s a need for something light funny.
This video could get this guy into serious trouble with SACE.
Wearing political regalia on school premises, especially in the classroom, is not allowed by the Schools Act.
You really need to rethink this design of sprawling, treeless, standalone box houses that have zero infrastructure to support a “human settlement”.
No parks, no schools, no shops, no transport networks. It’s poverty traps.
#DHSProject
: Zanemvula Housing Project entails the upgrading of informal settlements in the Soweto-on-Sea and Veeplaas areas of Chatty and Joe Slovo West in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape. The project is benefiting over 10 000 families
#FreedomMonth
#LeavingNoOneBehind
#KZNFloods
Truck traffic on the N3 Durban bound from Pietermaritzburg side. It's believed the traffic is due to
#KZNFloods
. Some trucks are off ramping to Mpumalanga (Hammarsdale) bridge.
#eNCA
Artists are professionals at their craft and we should respect them.
There are no doctors or engineers who only accept ANC clients. Artists should be free to perform for anyone.
Media trainers always say “don’t wear branded clothes for TV interviews, unless you’re promoting that brand”. For a govt minister, I can’t explain how insanely distracting that top is.
The
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A lot of people are teasing Tshepo for missing the township life but many are missing the point.
It’s not normal to have a community with whole streets lined with tall security walls and there’s no sign of life other than cars driving past. No normal society does this.
As a guy from a township the suburbs life isn't for me, TF is the street like this 99% of the time?no kids playing nyana or Kedibone passing ka legging to the shop.Hai
Durban and the rest of KZN are slowly waking up to the reality that the ANC is fast plunging them into failed state status. The province is so far from recovering from the July Unrest and the floods. Things are bad bad.
They removed a career diplomat with a masters degree in diplomatic studies and worked in the foreign service for nearly 30 years in order to give the disaster that is Nathi Mthethwa a post?
This is the same tax inquiry led by Advocate Coreth Naudé SC who was shot four times in an attempted assassination last Thursday, when she was returning home from the tax inquiry proceedings.
City Press is also reporting that Andile Mpisane defied a demand by SARS to attend an inquiry into the family Shandi Trust tax debt of around R40million, and just didn’t go.
In other news, Mary Vilakazi will succeed Alan Pullinger as the CEO of the FirstRand Group from 1 April 2024.
This. Is. Awesome.🥂
#FirstRand
Phakama Vilakazi 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Ixesha lifikile💯💯💯
Every week an explanation must be given to apartheid beneficiaries why it is necessary to take actions and pass laws to redress the victims of apartheid — a crime against humanity
Meanwhile, not a single apartheid beneficiary has paid a single cent in reparations.
To what end?
Apartheid has been over for 30 years, but there are more laws prescribing racial classification in South Africa today than during Apartheid. In the last 30 years, 116 laws have been introduced regarding this, prescribing racial classification and even racial quotas. This makes
My sister?
The tax is to level the playing field so that Chinese companies don’t undercut South African retailers.
It’s also to protect and create South African jobs in the fashion industry.
Where do all taxes go? To the national fiscus.
When the Govt cuts the budget to vital institutions like the IEC and StatsSA, of course we will see massive chaos and disruption.
We shouldn’t be angry at the IEC, we shouldn’t angry at the Govt.
A lot happened today.
But what stuck in my mind is that the DA removed the only African woman on the Western Cape cabinet.
The only person who has an actual professional background in their portfolio, who successfully navigated the department through a global pandemic.
The British press make a big deal out of the fact that Israel is represented by a law professor.
But they omit to mention that South Africa is represented by TWO professors of international law: Prof John Dugard SC (Wits & Leiden) and Prof Max du Plessis (UKZN).
The highest rates of new HIV infections is among black teenage girls who cannot negotiate condoms with the older men who prey on them.
I wish Metro FM took itself seriously as a radio station and not have a convicted sex pest preach harmful messages like this.
There are no international court that can overrule South African judges 😬
There is no court above the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
During his tenure, President Zuma shut down the SADC Tribunal, which would’ve allowed South Africans to file claims at that level.
Jewish people are a vital part of the fabric of South African society.
Jewish South Africans have a courageous and proud history of fighting apartheid oppression.
No way is criticism of the State of Israel and its fascist government a criticism of Jews in Israel or anywhere.
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@LeratoMannya
Please tell your friend to contact a surrogacy lawyer. He can’t just wing it in the way that he seems to be doing. Otherwise he’ll be in for a lot of pain and tears.
It’s time for people to take to the streets in Johannesburg.
No way can City Power justify charging people a R200 fee over and above the normal service charges for the unreliable electricity they provide.
This is just looting in broad daylight.
[MUST WATCH] Beginning today Gauteng residents on Joburg City Power’s prepaid meters will be charged a recurring R200 monthly fee.
Only customers registered as indigent (earn below R6k/m) will be exempt from this.
Frank Hinda, CP General Manager for Tariffs, explains. TCG
A SARS employee messaged his supervisor that he is sick, including the following day. Employee also got a medical certificate.
While watching the news, supervisor saw employee at the EFF march against Clicks. Employee dismissed for dishonesty.
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo says the Gupta brothers should be brought back into the country as soon as possible. Zondo is urging all law enforcement agencies to work together to ensure the Gupta brothers are brought to book.
#DStv403
#eNCA
I worked for many years in the Joburg CBD and I’ve been to many of the worst buildings you can imagine. The reality is that the City does not have a serious strategy to deal with housing in the CBD. Vigilante raids by politicians look exciting but won’t solve any problem.
🇺🇸In America they are debating whether women have a right to take decisions over their reproductive health.
🇿🇦In South Africa, the debate shut down 30 years ago. Instead the government actively promotes the availability of reproductive healthcare services.
#NoDNAjustRSA
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Lol guys kumnandi ukuhleka kodwa asizalwanga izolo.
I’m from deep Soweto.
I worked in JHB CBD, Khayelitsha and Philipi in 6 of the last 10yrs.
I have a long scar at the back of my neck from a stab wound from a robbery. I’ve had a gun in my face 3 times in Phillipi and JHB.
There was so much symbolism in today’s hearing. A documentary of this case would be amazing.
A teenage anti-apartheid activist sitting as a judge. A lawyer older than Israel who fought apartheid South Africa. A black Muslim woman leading the team. An Irish woman closing.
I just remembered that PRASA almost invested R1 billion in VBS.
Had the then PRASA CFO Yvonne Page not resigned in protest, a huge chunk of that money would’ve ended up at Gucci and Louis Vuitton or funding ANC/EFF campaigns.
A grand coalition between the ANC and the DA will probably upset both parties’ supporters but it might work out for the greater good of South Africa.
The ANC taking the government and the DA taking parliament might not be a bad deal for the greater good.
They said it was clever blacks. Now they’re admitting that they sacrificed a 100-year old organisation with its ruck history all for one man.
Do you hear that sound? It’s the chickens coming home to roost.
“We defended Former President Zuma, we even went to Parliament and said a swimming Pool is a fire Pool, The Constitutional Court led by Mogoeng Mogoeng released a judgement against Jacob Zuma but the ANC stood by him, today Zuma says he can't stand President Cyril Ramaphosa” ANC
We really don’t beat white people enough for their love of apartheid and always finding new words to dress it up. These guys can’t be older than 30. For them to say these things is why they need a sjambok.
They can’t even say Xoli.
We need functioning public hospitals so that no one ever has to crowdfund for healthcare. We need a reliable train service so that people don’t have to be stuck on the N1 the whole day. We all need to hold government accountable, because middle class privilege won’t save you.
[COMING UP] She’s a businesswoman, a philanthropist and a television personality. We’ll meet Royal AM football club owner Shauwn Mhize at 8:15am on the
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#DStv403
The results might only be out on Sunday. Over the next few days social media will be full of all kinds of videos that want to create panic and doubt about the elections.
Please don’t share them.
Some people want violence and chaos. Don’t give it to them.
Lindokuhle Mnguni was born in 1994 and was an activist leader within Abahlali Basemjondolo, fighting for decent housing for shackdwellers in Durban.
He was assassinated this weekend in what is no doubt a political killing. He’s the 8th AbM leader to be assassinated.
South Africa could’ve been governed by angels since 1994 and it would STILL not make up for how apartheid destroyed people’s lives for generations.
People’s homes and businesses were physically destroyed, plunging children and grandchildren into the poverty we see today.
South Africa is really alive with possibilities.
Two men released from prison on medical parole for being terminally ill enjoying the simple pleasure of a grueling political campaign.
The peeling paint on those walls above the flag suggests that they haven’t been maintained. But somehow the City law enforcement found paint to cover the flag?
See how quickly they could remove this graffiti from the wall of the flats in Lavender Hill.They could never come and remove the gansterism graffiti from the same flat for all the years. Know your DA.😏
Today the Western Cape High Court ruled that Gayton McKenzie must account to forensic investigators for monies he raised as mayor of the Central Karoo Municipality.
In court papers, McKenzie resisted the investigation saying he raised the funds in his private capacity.
For over 25 yrs Thembi Nkadimeng has been fighting for the truth on the disappearance and death of her sister Thuli Simelane by apartheid police. The perpetrators of the death are currently standing trial in the PTA High Court.
Nkadimeng is the new Minister of Justice.
Poetic.
Is it my eyes or did eNCA send a camera crew to follow the vigilante mission of a political party whose colours coincidentally match the colours both presenters are wearing while asking viewers to comment on a key policy platform of said political party?
I must get new glasses.
It’s great to see state institutions working so well these elections:
- IEC
- SABC
- HSRC — Human Sciences Research Council
- CSIR - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
I love that it’s data, research and science that’s leading the conversation.
This is definitely NOT what the constitution says.
Section 26(1) of the Constitution says everyone has the right to have access to adequate housing and the STATE must take reasonable measures to ensure that everyone is catered for.
[WATCH] "When the constitution says people have a right to shelter it's not because it says it must be done by the government." - Human Settlements Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi.
#Newzroom405
Oh look, apartheid on steroids - 180 day detention without trial or legal representation.
Israel really imported the best quality apartheid from South Africa.
Israel extends emergency order preventing detained Gazans from seeing a lawyer: The regulation will be valid for an additional three months, and will allow the state to prevent prisoners from meeting with a lawyer for up to 180 days
This interview between JJ and Ace Magashule shows just how much the ANC has normalized corruption. Magashule’s complaint is not that he shouldn’t be prosecuted for corruption but only that others are also doing it and they haven’t been prosecuted yet.
@lwazilwapheshey
Definitely unethical for an advocate to be speaking like this in the media about the parties in a case before court.
She’s going back to court in July.
Rule 61 of the Code of Conduct is clear.
If you have read anything about autocrats around the world, you can clearly hear them echo in Jacob Zuma’s press briefing today.
He is daring the Independent Electoral Commission and issuing veiled threats of “we don’t want to be provoked”.
Sowing seeds of chaos and unrest.
There’s just too much religiosity in government events and institutions now.
From meetings to other events there’s now loud prayer at every government gathering, including long worship.
How about silent prayer or meditation to accommodate everyone?
No one is asking if the GNU is risking the DA being swallowed by the ANC.
People are not worried that the GNU will force the DA to support the nationalization of the Reserve Bank.
The noise seems to be how the GNU will affect the ANC but not the DA
Why is that?
A senior counsel stood up to say this person was terminally ill and cannot be in prison away from his doctors and wives who care for him.
Amazing to see the miracles medical science continues to deliver.
Really interesting case in the UK Supreme Court tomorrow.
Over R873m (about £37m) worth of silver meant for the SA Mint in 1942 was salvaged off the East Coast and taken to the UK. Now the SA government wants it back.
An interesting case involving SA (Argentum v Republic of South Africa) will be heard by the UK Supreme Court tomorrow. The dispute relates to the ownership of cargo (bars of silver) carried by a ship that sank in 1942 & raises questions of state immunity
There’s nothing that Shandu is saying here.
The National Assembly is made up 400 members. MK has 58 members. Even if all of them don’t show up, Parliament will go ahead without them as it needs only 201 MPs.
If MK MPs don’t show up for 15 days or more they lose membership.
The South African Law Reform Commission is calling for comments on its new discussion paper reviewing colonial and apartheid-era laws that stifle expressive constitutional rights (sections 15 - 19).
Comments due: 30 Sep 2024.
Full Discussion Paper 162:
Every single R2 contribution collected by KFC ADD Hope during December will be donated to Gift of the Givers. Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman says this collaboration will assist in setting up feeding centres and providing aid where there are disasters.
Dude, stop this. It’s embarrassing.
This is Adv Mpati Qofa and not Adv Mahlape Sello SC, who was on the Independent Panel. Unless you’re saying all black women look the same?
It’s scary how little younger people watch, listen or read the news.
They also are information illiterate, so they can’t tell what’s credible and what’s not on platforms like TikTok.
This podcast should be motivation for stronger civic education because it’s a crisis.
The Joburg High Court ruled that ENSAfrica — Africa’s largest law firm — must pay one of its clients R5.5mil + interest for negligently causing the client to fall victim to cyber fraud.
A fraudster intercepted an ENS email and changed the banking details.
One of Prof Rensburg’s legacies is turning a middle-class Afrikaner institution into a black working class university that understands its students’ struggles. I know people who struggled at Wits and thrived at UJ simply because of the environment and culture.
UJ slander is boring and old, it’s literally one of the best universities ever, it is progressive and continues to climb the ranks. The staff is extremely supportive and the environment is positive. But y’all get your likes and retweet’s.
The legal profession must speak out about the attempted assassination of Coreth Naudé SC.
If silence follows this ghastly incident, we must forget about an independent legal profession upholding the rule of law.
We can forget about having a viable country. Guns will rule.
The transport crisis in Cape Town is manufactured and was foreseen.
It’s sad that so many thousands of poor, innocent people are left in a situation where they have to walk 30km from the CBD to areas such as Khayelitsha.
Both the City of Cape Town and taxi owners are to blame
Meet Limpopo construction mogul, Makapane Modipa - founder of MacP Construction. With over 28 years of construction experience.
He has an estimated Net Worth of R500 Million.
Also a pilot. Richest man in Tzaneen for years with a collection of cars and helicopters.
😬 Dear reader of this tweet,
Zizi Kodwa is 54 years old.
He was 37 years old when Zuma became president of the ANC, and allegedly “taught” a “young” Kodwa bad politics.
Personal accountability? Dololo.
When I look at Zizi, my heart breaks that we lost a capable young cadre.
The Zuma era taught young people wrong things bcoz of poor and corrupt leadership. They fell into a trap of poor corrupt leadership.
We also lost Malusi Gigaba etc...bcoz of Corrupt leadership.
Zuma
MK Party’s game plan, based on presser.
1. Raise the stakes very high
2. Precipitate/leverage a crisis
3. Create a negotiating environment filled with anxiety/fear.
4. Secure the deals you want (hopefully)
The Sinovac review started in March and was already quite advanced, which is what SAHPRA has been saying for weeks. Sputnik only submitted their application recently. The EFF simply hopped onto a moving bus and are claiming to be the engine.
How did my pants tear?
I dived under those barriers to skip the que before the security gate. I heard a “rrrrrrrip!!” and by the time I got up the damage was done. 😭
If you listen carefully to Zuma and the MK, at once they demand that the IEC postpone announcing results to deal with specific objections.
AT THE SAME TIME they want the whole election to be redone.
There’s a huge gap between both demands.
The goal is chaos.
🦠NEW VARIANT—a new
#SARSCoV2
variant C.1.2 just identified in South Africa & several countries, with concerns it could be more infectious and evade vaccines.
#C12
also has mutation rate that is nearly **twice as fast** as the rate of the other variants.🧵