Coloured Mentality

COLOURED MENTALITY
Sarah Summers & Kelly Eve Koopman are a coloured queer couple, shaping & shifting our platform as part of a cultural movement for justice.

[Murder in Paris Film @MurderInParis]

JUSTICE FOR DULCIE! 33 years after her assassination Advocate Yves Laurin, acting on behalf of Dulcie September’s family, has served papers to motivate for re-opening the case. Sign our petition: https://t.co/SsY9IiLYnD @neorkgjn
@soundafrica @kelly_eve_k @ClrdMentality

[Heinrich Böll Stiftung Office Cape Town @boellza]

Like Credit Suisse, Russian state-owned bank, VTB Capital, has been an enabler of corruption in Mozambique. For case no. 25 of the Unaccountable series, our partner, @OpenSecretsZA, looks at VTB’s complicity in Mozambican #statecapture.
https://t.co/9oS7oBdtvt

[Axolile Notywala @AxolileNotywala]

John @jsteenhuisen, why are you not in the streets & communities of Cape Town in the Western Cape affected by the ongoing taxi violence? You were able to rush to other provinces but have done nothing in the province & city where the @Our_DA governs. Come on tata maan

[Coloured Mentality @ClrdMentality]

We invite you to join us in revealing& urging the way beyond this crumbling empire. Our Move Next is a speculative fiction anthology drawing visions, interpretations, cautionary tales & dreams beyond the hetronormative patriarchal capitalist paradigm.

[Heinrich Böll Stiftung Office Cape Town @boellza]

#OurMoveNext is a justice-oriented, creative exploration of what you think the future holds. Activists, organisers, cultural workers and healers are invited to explore speculative narratives around what the world is, how it was and how it could change.
https://t.co/cDdHEI10Kd

[Coloured Mentality @ClrdMentality]

nd no I'm we're not condoning taking from small businesses or spaza shops and yes of course some people protesting are Zuma loyalists but honestly let's not look at a widely diverse socio-geographic group of people and call them a mob

[Coloured Mentality @ClrdMentality]

It's really ok, we don't have to get angry on behalf of Panasonic, they'll survive. Also what's this middle class thing of going "yes I understand if people need food but surely not televisions"..while sitting in front of one.

[Coloured Mentality @ClrdMentality]

We are the most unequal country in the world stumbling through a pandemic with State emergency grants being unceremoniously and apathetically cut and unemployment at an all time high? What did we think would happen?

[Pumla Dineo Gqola, PhD @feminist_rogue]

Every sentence in @NewFrame_News’ latest editorial is sobering, searing, devastating. This has been a slow unfolding crisis. The pace has picked up & the explosion we witness has to be understood in historical terms, not as a strange quick moment.

[Pumla Dineo Gqola, PhD @feminist_rogue]

“In South Africa, unemployment is at 42.3%. The rate for young people is 74.7%. The scale of this social devastation is extraordinary in global terms.”
A place weeping : New Frame https://t.co/p9uMdYnixS

[Shaeera Akbar Kalla @shaeera_k]

We can hold these truths at the same time:

- There is legitimate desperation AND criminal opportunism

- You can understand peoples desperation AND disagree with their behaviour

- Government can treat this as a security threat AND have a socio political intervention

[New Frame @NewFrame_News]

[7/17] We repeat our call for national and international solidarity with Mndebele and Mbuyisa, with all journalists and activists facing repression in eSwatini, and for immediate and full democratic freedoms in that country, including the right to a free press.

[New Frame @NewFrame_News]

[6/17] As well as the @pressfreedom and progressive publications in Argentina, Brazil, Ghana, India, the United States and Tunisia.

[New Frame @NewFrame_News]

[5/17] We would like to note our deep appreciation for the statements of solidarity for Mndebele and Mbuyisa received from various organisations in South Africa, including @SAEditorsForum , Pan Africa Today, @Numsa_Media and Abahlali baseMjondolo,

[New Frame @NewFrame_News]

[4/17] We were also disturbed to learn that the police were searching for Mndebele and Mbuyisa when they were in hiding on the night after our lawyer secured their release from custody, and again the next day.

[New Frame @NewFrame_News]

[3/17] After a full debriefing, it is clear that the torture to which they were subjected was worse than we initially understood when only limited communication was possible via the quick use of a borrowed phone while the two were in hiding.

[New Frame @NewFrame_News]

[2/17] Magnificent Mndebele and Cebelihle Mbuyisa, the two 'New Frame' journalists who were assaulted and tortured in the Sigodvweni police station in eSwatini on Sunday 4 July, are in Johannesburg.

[cheryl roberts @cherylroberts00]

Today, we waking up to to a day in South Africa where SA’s black woman tennis player is playing a Wimbledon final. It’s the first such herstorical time. Today, It’s Kgothatso Montjane in the wheelchair women’s singles final at Wimbledon and then it’s the women’s doubles final

[Sanjeev Maharaj @MaharajSanj]

Do you guys remember Reader's Digest?

[Axolile Notywala @AxolileNotywala]

PEOPLE 👏🏾 ARE 👏🏾 DYING 👏🏾 IN 👏🏾THE 👏🏾 ‘BEST RUN’ 👏🏾 ‘LIVABLE’ 👏🏾 @CityofCT 👏🏾 BECAUSE 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾GUN 👏🏾 VIOLENCE 👏🏾

THE 👏🏾 GOVERNING 👏🏾 PARTY 👏🏾IN 👏🏾 THIS 👏🏾 CITY 👏🏾 IS ADVOCATING 👏🏾 FOR 👏🏾 PEOPLE 👏🏾 TO 👏🏾 HAVE 👏🏾 GUNS 👏🏾

[Jamil F. Khan @JamilFarouk]

There’s so much talk about decolonisation but there is a real callousness towards people whose histories and cultures were so deeply impacted and decimated by colonisation that they cannot, with any great effort, make sense of themselves without it, consciously or unconsciously.