Debbie van Rooyen

I'm passionate about property. Mother to 4 incredible humans, grandmother to Hudson & and wife of 31 years to the love of my life :)

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@Sixty60_Tweets spent over R1000.00 on my last order, got a message to say stickies were included and guess what? Nothing 🤷‍♀️

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@GaytonMcK Start a super-fan lottery, if you win, you attend 💪 use the funds raised to pay the winners travel expenses and the rest for sport development at grass roots level.

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@MbalulaFikile A government that cares doesn’t allow their cadres to keep stealing from the fiscus 😡

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@AbsaSouthAfrica you have frozen my bank account in error, I can’t pay my linked ABSA home loan, almost two hours at your Galleria branch last week & a promise to call me in 48 hours and … NOTHING!!! I’m so sick of this, no-one is fixing this despite all the promises 😡

[Nicholas Woode-Smith @NWoodeSmith]

Black Economic Empowerment and its companion laws make skin colour central to doing business. A country that hardwires race into commerce is not building non-racialism, it is building permanent conflict.

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@SaffaZimbo4 @morrow_nw Apple TV

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@morrow_nw Great series 👌

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@Askash Everything the ANC touches …….

[Justice Malala @justicemalala]

Parts of the suburb of Melville in Johannesburg has not had water in three weeks. All across the country, cities and towns are experiencing the same “shortages”.
I honestly don’t know how the ANC manages to stay in power when there is so much despair and decay in the country.

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@_Bonga @HermanMashaba Come and try the ANC’s eThekwini Municipality - highest rates in the country and Durban has nothing to show for it 😭

[Zwelinzima Vavi @Zwelinzima1]

Today I witnessed something that broke my heart.

A call centre advertised posts in Woodmead.

Thousands of young people arrived.

Among them were my two daughters.

One has an LLB degree.
The other is a qualified graphic designer.

Both graduates.
Both standing in a queue for a call-centre job.

That is the reality of South Africa in 2026.

This is not laziness.
This is not lack of skills.
This is not young people refusing to work.

This is an economy that has collapsed for the working class.

We have seen this pain before.

In Johannesburg, a young woman died in a stampede simply trying to apply for Metro Police posts.

In Cape Town, thousands slept outside a stadium overnight just to submit job applications.

Today it’s call centres.

Tomorrow it will be something else.

Meanwhile ministers sit comfortably and tell young people that they are basking in the sun, totally out of touch with the desperation in our homes.

Our children are qualified.
Our children are willing.
Our children are trying.

But there are no jobs.

South Africa cannot survive like this.

We need:
• public investment
• factories
• infrastructure
• decent work
• an end to austerity

Not empty speeches.

The youth are not failing.

The system is failing them.

#YouthUnemployment #WorkingClassReality #JobsNow #SAFTU

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@claudset @Vodacom My 92 year old Mom has been without Vodacom service (it works outside her complex) for over 10 days - there are others in the same complex with the same issue. Vodacom doesn’t care! We move her to MTN on 1st Feb. I too moved to MTN after 25 years with Vodacom.

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

🤣🤣🤣

[Mufasa007 @Mufasa0062]

The longest drum solo was 10 hours and 26 minutes and was performed by the child sitting behind me on SAA flight 735 from JHB to London ...

[Mike Abel @abelmike]

Everyone keeps asking whether Ahmed Al-Ahmad is Muslim or Coptic Christian.

I understand the instinct given the stare of the world. His name suggests he is likely Muslim, and all indications point that way.

But it reminds me of something my old headmaster once said when asked whether a certain schoolboy was White, Black or Coloured.

“He’s none of those,” he replied.
“He’s a Grey Boy.”

Ahmed Al-Ahmad is an Australian.

That’s what matters.

On a beach in Sydney, a man who runs a fruit shop bravely stepped forward and disarmed a terrorist, saving many lives. Not because of theology. Not because of politics. But because he was a decent human being who chose courage over fear.

If he is Muslim, then what a powerful rebuke to those who choose to hijack the faith in that country, for violence.

If he is Lebanese by heritage, what a beautiful reminder of what immigrants give to the countries that welcome them.

He is simply a man who did the right thing, and that alone is enough.

We are tearing the world apart by obsessing over labels - religion, race, tribe, ideology, identity - when the truth is far simpler.

Strip any of us down to the bone and we are identical. The differences are clothes we put on, not truths written into nature.

Religion that divides is not faith; it is doctrine.
Faith should unite.
It should protect life.
It should always choose love over hate.

A Muslim man saved Jewish people on an Australian beach, celebrating Hanukkah 🕎

A universe of history, migration, chance and humanity converged in one single moment - and goodness won.

Today, I don’t want to see people arguing about what Ahmed Al-Ahmad is.
I want us to honour who he was in that moment.

A brave man.
A good man.
A proud son, and father.
A fruit seller who became a hero.

A great Australian 🇦🇺

#AhmedElAhmad #Hero #BondiAttack

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@ExclusiveBooks Pavilion, you make me drive a 60km round trip only to be told ‘sorry, we sold one of the books (that I specifically ordered) to someone else 🤬 absolute BS!!!

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@tribe_talking Proud South African & proud Bok supporter but Eben’s actions (no matter what the provocation was) are unacceptable. Many disappointed SA fans tonight 😩

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@ElonMuskNews47 A

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@RassieRugby Ditto ❤️🇿🇦

[A-P @rugby_ap]

Thug. Ban him for a long time

[Debbie van Rooyen @DebbieVR]

@VGS767 @thehonestnick