South Africa initiated proceedings at the International Court of Justice against
#Israel
under the
#GenocideConvention
. The people of
#Palestine
especially
#Gaza
must be supported by us all. I support the government’s action. Read my position here
An Afrikaans poor white youth who grew up in an orphanage. An advocate who took on apartheid judges. A radical lawyer for workers, political prisoners & conscientious objectors, against forced removals,
#HIV
&
#LGBTI
discrimination. Edwin Cameron more than a judge, a decent human
Hearing tomorrow 10am: A long, illustrious judicial career is coming to an end. The Constitutional Court will honour Justice Edwin Cameron upon his retirement at a formal sitting that will take place in the courtroom.
My campaign
@Zackie2024
signed onto a letter to the
@IECSouthAfrica
because a number of people who voted for me across the City could not meet the deadline for their objections and we supported an extension of the deadline. I now withdraw my name from that letter.
Any number of
Are you celebrating the enslavement of my ancestors from the East, the genocide of the Khoisan, the colonisation of our country and the crimes against humanity perpetrated under the guise of
#apartheid
?
| STIGTINGSDAG |
Vandag, 6 April, is Van Riebeeck - dag of Stigtingsdag.
6 April 1652: Aankoms van Jan van Riebeeck
Die middag om 14h30 van 5 April 1652 word Tafelbaai gewaar deur die opperstuurman van die Drommedaris, een van die drie skepe waarmee kommandeur Jan van Riebeeck
The
#PravinGordhan
the Minister of
@DPE_ZA
may be many things but most importantly he is an ethical public servant and political leader. Never given to lies & populism.
#StandWithPravin
No Deputy President
@PMashatile
- the public will not follow your instruction to “allow SAPS the necessary space” to investigate forever and give the violent thugs a slap on the wrist.
They must be arrested and charged.
Deputy President
@PMashatile
has become aware of an unfortunate incident involving members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) who are attached to his protection detail and civilians, which occurred in Johannesburg over the weekend.
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.😏
In these uncertain times, I can only say that
@PresidencyZA
@CyrilRamaphosa
is a president acting on the basis of evidence and people’s needs.
#COVID19
We know what a difference that makes. Take the necessary time to make the best decisions.
The Apartheid regime banned the BBC, Channel Four and other news agencies from South Africa. They failed to hide their crimes against humanity from the world. The
@BBC
@itvnews
@Channel4News
had better coverage than any local radio or TV station. Let every Israeli dissident and
Imagine we asked for all money stolen from the state, claimed damages for every Group Areas removal, pass law arrest, back wages for all lowest paid workers ...domestic and farm workers... Imagine the tax burden on
@danroodt
& other crooks?
@Eusebius
Imagine
Blacks want "their land" back. But imagine if we demanded all of our goods back, stolen over the last 300 years... 7,2% of all SA households experience crime in any one year. Clothes, cars, jewellery, appliances, phones...
Dear Johnny
Go home.
The Western Cape has serious issues to deal with and your political panic is obsessively obscene. We have racist parties who are appealing to the basest instincts of marginalised coloured working-class people.
All anti-racist parties have a duty to build
[ICYMI] "Why are they coming to the Western Cape? If they get that right, it's gonna be the biggest bank heist you've ever seen." - DA leader John Steenhuisen criticises new political parties gunning for the Western Cape.
#Newzroom405
When will these fascists be jailed? And, why are movements and organisations so silent about the the violent racist patriarchy of Zuma’s junior lieutenants Malema & Mngxitama? Resist
#fascism
now!
!No Pasaran!
#antifa
@MaxduPreez
@PaulivW
@yolisa_pikie
𝗔𝗡𝗖-𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗚𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗚 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗦 𝗘-𝗧𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗦
ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson Cde Panyaza Lesufi has successfully championed the fall of e-tolls in the province.
#LetsDoMoreTogether
#VoteANC
#ANCGP
🚨BREAKING | “The DA AVERAGED 49% of all the votes cast in the Western Cape. 49% in every VD”
Someone has analysed the DA results from The party result spreadsheet, look at what their analyses found: 👇🏽
“The DA averaged 49% of all the votes cast in the Western Cape. 49% in
Young professionals, middle- and working class families, pensioners are all being displaced by unjust rental increases.
One of the most egregious reasons for the increased demand in the
@CityofCT
is
@Airbnb
.
Airbnb must be regulated and increased taxes should be used to expand
𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗲
The population growth in the W/C is what is creating higher demand for rental properties, which is keeping vacancy rates low, currently the lowest in the country- sitting at 3.18%.
This increase demand is seen in rental properties valued at R12,000+
We must be ready to see the nomination of a new President and the
#ZumaExit
tomorrow. If the
#ANCTop6
fail to do this before or when
@CyrilRamaphosa
speaks at
#Mandela100
then they would have missed a superb symbolic moment. And, show further cowardice
Dis my moedertaal en is ook geskep deur slawe en Eerste Nasie inwonelinge (Khoi en San). Nasionaliste het die taal gebruik vir wit heerskappy misbruik. Please learn.
@Zwelinzima1
Comrade
@Zwelinzima1
this is one of the saddest moments for our country. Xenophobia and insinuating Islamophobia from a comrade with enormous power. Where is your anti-fascist international programme to build people’s solidarity on work, income, ecology, justice & peace?
Ms Diko, I humbly request that the NCCC ask Minister
#EbrahimPatel
@the_dti
to put bell bottoms and kaftans on the list of allowed items but he must criminalise skinny jeans because I have put on weight during the
#LockdownSA
.
Mbeki’s callousness led to millions of new infections, repeated painful illnesses, death and the destruction of family life.
Never was a doctor so vilified as Jerry
#Coovadia
in the ANC for his implacable and quietly militant stand against Thabo Mbeki.
The Department of Public Enterprises welcomes the commitment by National Treasury that the government will support and source funding for a business rescue plan for SAA, which will result in the emergence of a new viable, sustainable, competitive national airline.
#Apartheid
- no White person ever supported this crime against humanity. After 27 April 1994.
#Mugabe
no-one in
@zanu_pf
ever supported his crimes against humanity. After 18 November 2017.
The
@IECSouthAfrica
’s online candidate registration checks supporters signatures in real time. ID numbers of supporters are immediately matched to a name on the voters roll. An impressive system keeps a clear tally of required numbers and information needed.
@Zackie2024
was
If the IEC has the capacity to check that every signature was signed by a registered voter, then the IEC is impressively resourced.
If they use a sampling strategy, that's a smart and statistically sensible approach.
Let us remember the millions of people in
#Zimbabwe
who tonight mourn
#MorganTsvangirai
whose Presidency was stolen by
#Mugabe
&
#Mbeki
. We stand with you and remember his courage. Let
#Africa
rise with its new generations of youth.
Every thinking person must condemn the unlawful militarism, threats of violence and fascism represented by the criminally convicted former president
#Zuma
. While his party has the right to campaign, it does not have the right to turn KZN into a killing field along with the
[WATCH]
@MkhontoweSizwex
members marching to the Durban high court where arguments between the party and
@MYANC
will be heard over the name and logo affiliated with the former liberation movement’s paramilitary during apartheid.
@_NMabaso
Haat en alle taal-heerskappy moet bestry word met menswaardigheid.
#Afrikaans
is my eerste taal. Elke kind (0-12) moet elke dag ‘n storie hoor of lees in hul moedertaal insluitend al die ander Afrika-tale soos Sesotho en isiZulu. En elke jeug moet daagliks boek-lees of potgooi.
Just heard on eNCA a Cosas leader, Michael Mayolo, say Afrikaans speakers should go "back to Holland". Astonishing ignorance of who Afrikaans mother tongue South Africans are, where they "come from" and the roots of the language. And he is a leader of students nogal
REFLECTION: Twitter and the rest of social media are a rising threat to media freedom — and I am part of their roadkill By Ferial Haffajee
@ferialhaffajee
Thank you Dr
@DlaminiZuma
for EDL, Medicines Act, Medical Schemes Act and primary care clinics. I really wish I could have endorsed you but the people who support your candidacy want to destroy democracy.
#NDZ
@ZackieAchmat
@AfricaCheck
Thank you
@ZackieAchmat
. Wouldn’t have done it without an active civil society, you included. Here is a summarized article on the study If you have more studies please share them with me.
Advocate
@ThuliMadonsela3
your work in the Derailed Report has paid off with the
#PrasaLeaks
- thank you
@PLMyburgh
your work inspired us as well. R2.5 billion “irregular expenditure” & R3.5 billion unverified.
You can struggle against the
@Our_DA
&
@MyANC
with democratic freedoms mostly intact. But, try that with an MK and EFF government. We compromise to strengthen not to treacherously abandon working-class interests and democratic freedoms.
MEC
@Lesufi
, ek stem saam met jou algemene oogpunt dat Afrikaans baie meer voorkeur het as ander Afrika-tale maar die uittarting van die taal se sprekers is ‘n probleem. Ek is Afrikaans-sprekend gebore en glo vas dat jy met ons moet gesels en rasiste ignoreer.
Complete isolation of Israel is the only solution.
The breaking of all trade, financial, diplomatic, educational and cultural relations together with an arms embargo of Israel will give a small measure of justice to the people of Palestine. This must be accompanied by travel
No
@MYANC
. Your attack on
@MayorPappas
is evil. The route to power would be to clean out the Luthuli House Mafia franchisees. Then again, that is as likely as Zeus reappearing to assist the criminally convicted Nkandla Don.
Trevor Manuel is pompous and unreflective. A promoter of unbridled capitalism. The judgment may be wrong but personal attacks on a judge because you lose is a losers response. So
#Juju
.
"The EFF, when it takes over next year, will arm Hamas and make sure they have ammunition to fight the murderers." - EFF leader Julius Malema.
#Newzroom405
So does that give you licence to publish blue LIES and fantasy about me?
I have not seen any questions from you..You never called me!
Like you I work for a living.I'm NOT your garden boy who must jump at the exact same time that you feel like doing YOUR day job..VERSTAAN JY??
A military coup is the most dangerous and the Zimbabwe military have been the worst criminals at home and in the DRC. Solidarity with many friends and comrades in
#Zimbabwe
Thanks Mayor
@geordinhl
- I was on the march and the tiny Hezbollah flag in a sea of Palestinian flags did not faze me as an atheist and queer man. The majority of Muslims present sought to
#StopTheGenocide
not threaten anyone. Everyone has the right to gather peacefully.
@CapetonianCt
@alanwinde
As a matter of interest, what exactly is your objection? This march looks entirely peaceful and lawful. You may disagree with it, but that is not a valid objection in a free democracy.
I have been on
#ARVs
for more than 20 years and the
#HIV
virus is undetectable because I take my medication every day.
Thank you for this message
@tshwane_mayor
STATEMENT: City of Tshwane urges people living with HIV not to default on their antiretroviral treatment. Tshwane is among the Top 5 districts with a high burden of HIV and the third highest in Gauteng.
@CityTshwane
The original
#SJC21
. 11 comrades were acquitted & the
#SJC10
were convicted of convening an unlawful gathering. We chained ourselves to then Mayor
@PatriciaDeLille
’s office. Today the
@ConCourtSA
overturned our criminal conviction. Gatherings Act unconstitutional. Thanks LEC
Minister Gordhan
@DPE_ZA
& Minister
@tito_mboweni
@TreasuryRSA
we cutting science research but finding money for SAA, a
@MYANC
vanity project. Millions of people in our country will suffer because of scientific research cuts and SAA waste.
Thousands of postgraduate and PhD grants. Hundreds of research grants. The National Science Week. Research chairs and centres of excellence. These are some of the victims of SA's pandemic budget cuts unveiled on 15 July.
My story:
The existential horror that the gangster ZANU-PF has visited on the people of Zimbabwe must be criminally prosecuted. The
@MYANC
’s “friendship” with the regime of Mnangagwa is based on support for corruption and admiration of totalitarianism, not principle.
ZANU-PF’s destruction