Colleen du Toit

Working to strengthen #CivilSociety in #Africa. Love books, movies, oldie rock music, sea, mountains and travel.

[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

@CityPowerJhb @citypower update on outage in orchards PLEASE!

[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

@RediTlhabi 🇿🇦💜

[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

With you all the way @MaxduPreez - #onssalsaam !

[Max du Preez @MaxduPreez]

Ag shame boetie. The 'assault' is in your head - or is it manufactured so you could build your little empire on fear and paranoia? The rest of us Afrikaners side with the rest of the nation to build a better future. AfriSol says 'ons sal self', we say 'ons sal saam'

[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

Such a great initiative for #SouthAfrica - thank you @RediTlhabi thank you @NYCMayor and of course thank you @NelsonMandela 💜

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

I have a lot of work to do today so I am quickly posting evidence to all the St George's alumni in Cape Town that I did do what you asked me to do. Whilst waiting backstage, I passed on all your messages to @NYCMayor. The 3rd frame is me telling him I like his dad, Prof Mamdani more. He responded enthusiastically, "he's here! In the audience!" Thank you Mr Mayor!

[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

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[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

https://t.co/QTY5PVyCaF

[Manikivana @Manikipi]

The appointment of Dina Pule helps me understand certain things I doubted about an organisation I truly believed it could turn the corner.

I'm hurt actually, very hurt.

[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

@MaxduPreez No more words for all this - just tears & heartbreaking disappointment

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

How can these looters claim they are fixing their country when they are being broadcast on one of the world’s biggest international news networks, watched by a global audience, looting and destroying property?

Nothing is being fixed here. The only thing being showcased to the rest of the world is barbarism, lawlessness and criminality.

Every scene like this damages South Africa’s international reputation, undermines investor confidence, discourages tourism and reinforces the perception that mobs, rather than the rule of law, are in control. No country builds its future by celebrating criminality.

[Shareen Singh @ShareenSingh8]

Appropriate song for SA on edge

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I remember reporting almost two weeks ago about Zimbabweans camped outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town. What I do not understand is this: these people have made it clear that they want to return home. We all know they did not plan for these circumstances. They have been stripped of their livelihoods and, in many cases, no longer have the financial means to get back to Zimbabwe.

What stops the President from instructing the Minister of Finance and the relevant ministries to organise buses to transport our people from Cape Town back home?
What stops the government from allowing them to cross the border with their personal goods and belongings without charging customs duty, given that this is clearly a humanitarian crisis?

This is not a complicated policy issue. It is a basic act of leadership and compassion.

What I struggle to understand about the Zimbabwean government is that you see men in expensive suits and women in elegant dresses, yet they fail to think in such simple, practical terms.
At times like these, a government should be seen doing what governments are meant to do, protecting and assisting its citizens.

South African media have reported on the plight of these Zimbabweans almost every day. The situation is neither hidden nor unknown. Yet there has been no meaningful humanitarian response from Harare.

The government and its supporters will no doubt come up with all sorts of excuses. But this really is straightforward. Send buses. Bring your people home. Waive customs duties on their personal belongings. They have been forced into this situation by the climate of xenophobia and Afrophobia they have experienced in South Africa.

A government’s responsibility is not to make excuses. It is to act.

[Karyn Maughan @karynmaughan]

Well done Bafana Bafana!!
South Africa is so so proud of you!
❤️🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

[The Standard @theLDNstandard]

The Royal Opera Chorus stopped everyone in their tracks at Covent Garden today with an unannounced performance of Nessun Dorma to mark the start of the World Cup 2026

#london #londonmusic #football #worldcup #soccer

[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

@ferialhaffajee Thank you for heads-up on this wonderful obituary @ferialhaffajee - I need to read his book now!

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

My piece on why Starlink IS a national security issue for South Africa.
https://t.co/a9fq8znv7G

[Ferial Haffajee @ferialhaffajee]

https://t.co/WIc3Ne4F73

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.

[Colleen du Toit @ColleenAnne2]

@Sibusis99106958 @karynmaughan @NPA_Prosecutes “This isn’t just about Jacob Zuma.
It blocks abuse of appeals to avoid trial.
It’s HUGE”

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“I tell the rogues to read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the internet or watch too much television lose it... Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading by contemporary society.”

— Werner Herzog