Erika Bornman

Award-winning author of Mission of Malice. Whistleblower, storyteller and child-safety advocate. Also, sacred cows make the best burgers. #igotout

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

I will go to my grave still incandescent with rage for the way #KwaSizabantu treated the children in their care. Wondering why? And why I won’t be silenced? Here are just 3 pages from #MissionOfMalice that will give you a glimpse into the hell my Zulu friends experienced there:

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

People who walk in the light are not afraid of the light.

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

I spoke to COGTA yesterday, and today today they “reaffirmed that freedom of religion and accountability need not be mutually exclusive” - will share my speech in the comments https://t.co/3bgleptl2r

[Bev @bevditsie]

I'm so excited that Nkoli: A Fierce and Fabulous Life is back in Joburg. The Cape Town version was SOLD OUT every single night cause it was EPIC. Even if you saw the Market Theatre version - please do yourself a favour - Check this out - this version will blow you away.

[🌳renée🕯️🌕🌈 @rainsister_3]

I am worried about the flotilla people. May they be safe. May Palestine be free soon and very soon.

[Megan Choritz @meganshead]

It's all good and well boycotting @Dischem now, but remember that there are products (Coke, McDonalds, Starbucks) to name a tiny sample, that must be boycotted too. Consistency is key. Every day. That is how BDS works.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Hello. Some of you mean well and I always appreciate and reflect on your counsel. But not always. For months, @Dischem 's Mark Saltzman (who has now deleted his account ( called me a bitch. I did nothing. I assumed he was another angry troll. I didn't know who he was until he outed himself and talked about his mommy's money.

Last week someone accused me of taking CR17 money. They retracted and apologized. Previously it's CIA, Stellenbosch Mafia, USAID and mysterious "handlers." I let it go so many times. So when you advise me to be restrained you must know I HAVE BEEN restrained. But there are days when things must be addressed. Today is one of them.
Presumably @Dischem is familiar with Mark's vocabulary and they know that he exercises his freedom of speech by calling people who disagree with him "BITCHES" for opposing Israel. I do hope that unlike Mark, they don't demand that their philanthropic interventions are conditional to South Africans supporting Israel. We don't have to. But I can live with the son of the founder of @Dischem and a major shareholder calling me a bitch. Repeatedly. But don't accuse of taking any money that I have not earned. I have also lent my name, time and access to worthy courses. Including for the some of the people who now call me antisemitic. The difference between me and them is that I don't think contributing to OUR South Africa must be transactional and conditional on them bending to my will. In conclusion, please do call me a bitch any time you want. But do not lie about serious things. I won't play along.

[Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng @drtlaleng]

Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng: What’s happening in Gaza is genocide—and silence is complicity. https://t.co/3ENuNI7mKU

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

@drtlaleng @lelowhatsgood Ooh, going to listen now! 🙏

[PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2026 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 @__Tshepo]

Let me tell you @lelowhatsgood cooked up a beautifully playlist that has all these artists and more!

Check it out. SA has a lot talent currently and it’s so beautiful!

https://t.co/bQvkEIQHgD

[Axolile Notywala @AxolileNotywala]

It’s not a just rental crisis. It’s a housing crisis tied to the perpetuation & expansion of Apartheid spatial planning by the DA over the past 20 years of their governance in Cape Town.

The DA refuses to acknowledge it as a housing crisis. We must insist & call it what it is!

[Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura @arnesa_kustura]

Not surprising, but still horrifying, that LLMs like Anthropic’s Claude are reproducing the racism, ethnonationalism, imperialism and classism embedded in the societies that trained them. These systems are not neutral. Digital colonialism, but make it automated.

[Licypriya Kangujam @LicypriyaK]

The little things in Singapore the LGU can adopt to start looking like Singapore.

[Wandile Mthiyane @wandileubuntu]

I got into Harvard because I built an AI platform to help families in informal settlements design and build dignified homes.

I can’t afford the fees, so I’m walking across South Africa to meet the families I’m fighting for and raise the funds.

A walk for home.

[Ayesha Bagus @Ayesha_Bagus]

We joined Murals for Gaza and activists in Bo-Kaap as they painted a powerful tribute to Marwan Barghouti.

It is fitting, in this month, to call for his release, often described as a Palestinian Mandela,and to ask everyone to amplify the campaign for his freedom. @FreeMarwanNow

[Dr.Hamza Alsharif 🇵🇸 @Hamzasharif5750]

We are human beings, not just numbers. 💔
NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE!

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

The comments on my posts criticising Zille and DA prove Malcolm X right, every single time.

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

Malcolm X was right. The white man is the devil. This week alone proves it (as if we needed more proof).
And yes, I know the colour of my skin. That’s why it’s my responsibility to right the wrongs done in my name. Once you see white supremacy for what it is, you cannot unsee it

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

Trivia.
Gaza.
The West Bank.
Lebanon.
Trivia.

Trivia.

Trivia.

Trivia.

Trivia.

Andrea, you are the very worst of us.

Trivia.

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

“It was right there in prison that I made up my mind to devote the rest of my life to telling the white man about himself, or die.” - Malcolm X

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

@nkewuernest5068 People vote to protect their pocket of privilege instead of voting to extend that privilege to others.

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

You didn’t fix Cape Town, you serviced pockets of affluence. You don’t see people as people - to you everyone is just a pawn in your games of power. You refuse to condemn Israel but expect us to believe you care about anyone who isn’t a pasty blancmange. Tsek.

[Polity.org.za @PolityZA]

‘I'm fighting to fix Johannesburg, not the Middle East’ – Helen Zille
https://t.co/YKIqzdsK69

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

If only they’d read, I’d recommend this book. But people like her are not interested in learning about the lived experience of poverty and oppression their privilege protects them from. She’ll remain blocked and my fervent wish remains: may all DA politicians be voted out. Tsek.

[Erika Bornman @EBee40]

This DA MP in the Western Cape needs a bit more education (but don’t they all?). White women really are such perfect examples of perpetual victimhood - accurately describing (her and my) skin tone as pasty blancmange is now hate speech. Tsek.