Derek Hanekom

Ahmed Kathrada Foundation Board Chairperson ❤ South Africa

[John Robbie @John_C_Robbie]

Waking up on Zinkwazi Beach in Kwazulu Natal.
Paradise is not a powerful enough word.
Lagoon and ocean spotless. It’s just waiting for you.

Let Me Show You The South Africa I Love.

Enquire here: [email protected]
https://t.co/1CLeLcqshQ
@adore_africa

[Native American Pride @native_am_pride]

Paulette Jordan just won the Democratic primary for governor in Idaho. Meaning, she's now positioned to become the first female governor of Idaho--and the first Native American governor in the US.

[FreeMarwanNow @FreeMarwanNow]

“Our chains will be broken before we are because it is human nature to heed the call for freedom regardless of the cost.” - Marwan Barghouti

8,936 days.

That’s how long Palestinian leader and political prisoner Marwan Barghouti has been illegally imprisoned by Israel.

Join the campaign for his freedom: @FreeMarwanNow

[Derek Hanekom @Derek_Hanekom]

Indeed!

[Sophie Mokoena @Sophie_Mokoena]

Shocking.

[Zapiro @zapiro]

Zapiro cartoon published on @dailymaverick (30 September 2026) on Who'd believe @realDonaldTrump - https://t.co/e0ow1VZ8bG

[FreeMarwanNow @FreeMarwanNow]

New York Times Bestselling Authors Call for the Release of Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti
✌️

“We express our grave concern at the continuing imprisonment of Marwan Barghouti, his violent mistreatment and denial of legal rights whilst imprisoned. We call upon the United Nations and the Governments of the World to actively seek the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison.”

Signed:

Margaret Atwood (@MargaretAtwood)
Kaliane Bradley
Rob Delaney (@robdelaney)
Stephen Fry
Mohsin Hamid
Johann Hari (@johannhari101)
Marlon James
Rupi Kaur (@rupikaur_)
Rashid Khalidi
Lily King
Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein)
Gabor Maté (@DrGaborMate)
Colin Meloy (@colinmeloy)
David Nicholls
Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman)
Sally Rooney
Arundhati Roy
Zadie Smith
Colm Tóibín
Oliver Jeffers

Join the campaign, @FreeMarwanNow

#NYT #NYTBESTSELLERS #NEWYORKTIMES #BookTok

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

Breaking: Hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews danced today near a prison in occupied Palestine, where boys and girls who refuse to serve in the Israeli military are being held.
They danced to the Neturei Karta anthem and held banners declaring:
“We were here before Zionism, and we lived in peace with our Arab neighbors. We didn’t want a state because it is against the Jewish religion. Don’t ask us to take part in your crimes. You wanted a state—now swallow it yourselves.”

[Native American Chief @_native_america]

Paulette Jordan just won the Democratic primary for governor in Idaho. Meaning, she's now positioned to become the first female governor of Idaho--and the first Native American governor in the US.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

South Africa has a space programme, you barely sentient potato. It’s called the South African National Space Agency, which provides critical tracking, telemetry, and command tech and ground station tools for several major international missions, most recently NASA's Artemis II mission.

[Derek Hanekom @Derek_Hanekom]

Such arrogance!

[Sherwin Bryce-Pease @sherwiebp]

U.S. reaction on the 3rd Bozell démarche by DIRCO:

State Dept Spox:

"Ambassador Bozell went to South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) to discuss the bilateral relationship.  He stressed that the United States has been clear about the relationship we seek.  We are not interested in diplomatic maneuvering, procedural delays, or dialogue for dialogue’s sake.  The ball is now squarely in the Government of South Africa’s court to outline the relationship it wants with the United States and respond accordingly to President Trump’s executive order."

#sabcnews

[Derek Hanekom @Derek_Hanekom]

Very good point!

[Pieter Kriel @pieterkrielorg]

If the Trump administration truly believed that white farmers in South Africa were being hunted and dispossessed, one might expect some concrete measure of solidarity rather than a trade punishment that lands squarely on the agricultural sector itself. The U.S. is thinking of cutting South Africa from AGOA affecting primarily the farmers the administration claims to be defending. Wake up! This is not concern for our farmers, it is opportunism. A government that genuinely wished to protect rural livelihoods would not choose the instrument most likely to bankrupt the very people it pretends to protect.

[Derek Hanekom @Derek_Hanekom]

West Indies gets no less than 405 runs in the ODI against India. Comfortable win that should be. India defy all odds and get 406 in 43 overs!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Rachel Maddow on Trump: “He’s not just unpopular, he is the least popular president at this point of his presidency of any president in modern history. He is not just poorly reviewed, he is radioactive. He’s monstrously unpopular. Historically unprecedented hate for this president among the American people”

[X Global @X_Global_tv]

Actor Bill Skarsgård expresses his support for a free Palestine:

"O Sudan, O Palestine, Do not dig a grave for me; I will rest in every inch of the land. I will rest like water along the banks of the Nile; I have never abandoned my homeland: the land of absolute beauty."

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

That’s an 145% increase. Well done to all those working at the coalface of this sector. The silly campaigns to destroy South Africa even when spouted by the “Leader of the Fee World,” just ain’t landing. Encouraging.

Now. Convert that into economic growth. Jobs. Yesterday.

[Business Day @BDliveSA]

Taxi boss Joe Sibanyoni conceded on Tuesday at the Madlanga commission he received R2.29m from a subcontractor involved in a R3.7bn Moloto Road upgrade project in Mpumalanga for doing nothing but denied an extortion allegation against him.

https://t.co/pL5wFlycMO

[Sir Lebona Cabonena @LCabonena]

This man you see here is a taxi boss and mafia leader.

If government gives you a tender of R600 million, you must pay him R150 million because you won a tender in his province.

If you don't pay, then you're dead.

His name is Joe Sibanyoni.

[Derek Hanekom @Derek_Hanekom]

Heroes!

[#سعوديون_مع_الاقصى @Saudis2018]

خرجت هاتان السيدتان من السجن في بريطانيا بعدما تم سجنهما بسبب تحطيمهم لرادارات إسرائيلية عسكرية بقيمة حوالي 3 ملايين جنيه إسترليني كانت مخططة لإرسالها إلى الجيش الإسرائيلي.

استقبلهم الناس بالورود والتصفيق والترحاب!

[Derek Hanekom @Derek_Hanekom]

The best news for South Africa is that these crooks are being exposed, and will end up wearing orange overalls.

[Mbali Mashinini @mbalis_bakery]

Adv Baloyi is asking the question we’ve been asking ourselves for a while now. How can people who are not the contractors be sharing money of work they will not even be doing? By the time the contractor has to work, it is already in 30% debt.

You see why contractors leave jobs undone? How can they finish the job when people like Mr Sibanyoni and his friends are making sure that it is impossible to finish the job.
#MadlangaCommission