FIRDOZE BULBULIA #StrongerTogether

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[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

Death of the ANC and liberation politics

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[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

La interpretación de “La Vie en Rose” por la cantante italiana Giulia Falcone se ha convertido en un fenómeno viral en redes sociales, acumulando millones de reproducciones y elogios por devolverle la frescura a este icónico himno de París.

Con una voz sumamente dulce, elegante y un dominio técnico impecable, Falcone logra capturar la profunda melancolía y el romance de la obra original de Édith Piaf sin perder su propio estilo contemporáneo.

A diferencia de otras adaptaciones modernas que alteran demasiado el ritmo, la versión de Giulia Falcone en su canal de YouTube mantiene la instrumentación acústica y un tono íntimo que evoca las calles parisinas.

Su interpretación ha sido compartida masivamente en plataformas como Instagram y Facebook, donde amantes de la chanson française destacan su perfecta pronunciación y su emotividad.

Lanzada originalmente en 1947 por "El Gorrión de París", esta canción sigue siendo el símbolo definitivo del optimismo amoroso ("ver la vida en rosa"), y voces jóvenes como la de Giulia aseguran que siga conquistando a nuevas generaciones.


[DR. IQBAL SURVÉ @IqbalSurve]

Mbeki agrees with Ramaphosa that he should resign asap
He says he has achieved nothing in 8 years

[NyiKo🧔🏾 @Nyiko_Ntu]

THABO MBEKI HAS HAD ENOUGH

The former president believes Pres Cyril Ramaphosa and his ANC top 7 must resign.

His message is that South Africa has nothing good to show for their leadership.

Unemployment 📈
Crime 📈
Poverty 📈
Economic growth 📉

Resign to make way for renewal.

[FIRDOZE BULBULIA #StrongerTogether @FIRDOZ]

@mbeloldiges_lnb @HomeAffairsSA Halala! 💜🌷

[OLerato @mbeloldiges_lnb]

Two weeks ago, I left Joburg a Miss Mbele and yesterday I returned a Mrs O. Thank you to our families, friends, confidantes, compatriots and everyone who’s wished us well. I also want to acknowledge the team @HomeAffairsSA who worked double tap to get us through the legal stuff💍

[FIRDOZE BULBULIA #StrongerTogether @FIRDOZ]

@TheRealClementM important conversation on elections- the #Sandinista example resonated! I produced #SandinosDaughters in 1993✊never thought we would be here! @MYANC

[Pabi Moloi @PabiMoloi]

OMG. That was so unexpected 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng @drtlaleng]

And I’d do it all again and again. I am you and you are me. I chose us because you chose me and loved me. ❤️

[Peter Sterne @petersterne]

State Sen.-elect @AberKawas, the first Palestinian American elected to the NY state Legislature, stopped by the NYC-DSA watch party tonight to deliver a victory speech:

[Zane Dangor @Zwandid]

1. So, I come from communities where the mosques, methodist and Catholic churches are on same property divided by simple fences (Bosmont). We prayed, laughed and cried in all depending on whether it’s a wedding, baptism or funeral.This campaign to divide South Africans will fail

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Against all odds, Brasil re-elected Lula. CONGRATULATIONS!

[Zwelinzima Vavi @Zwelinzima1]

SAFTU CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT LULA ON HIS VICTORY: A PEOPLE DEFEND GAINS THEY CAN SEE – 26 October 2026
The South African Federation of Trade Unions congratulates President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his re-election and salutes the Brazilian workers, poor people, Indigenous communities and all those who mobilised to defend their democratic and social gains.
Lula won 51.8% of the vote, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro by nearly 4.4 million votes. His victory is a setback for the right-wing forces seeking to consolidate power across Latin America and bring the region closer to the agenda of US President Donald Trump. It gives Brazil the opportunity to continue advancing an independent voice for the Global South. 
This election was not simply a vote for a political personality. It was a struggle over land, livelihood, dignity and the direction of development. Brazil’s Indigenous communities had particular reason to fear a Bolsonaro victory. Lula’s government restored the process of recognising Indigenous territories, established a Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and appointed Indigenous leaders to senior positions. By November 2025, his administration had approved 20 territories covering about 2.5 million hectares. These advances are incomplete, and Indigenous organisations continue to demand faster demarcation and stronger protection. But the return of territorial recognition gave communities something concrete to defend. 
Land reform also matters to Brazil’s landless rural workers and small farmers. Lula’s government says 266,000 families have been included in its agrarian reform programme during this term through new settlements, recognition of land claims and regularisation. The Landless Workers’ Movement continues to criticise the pace of reform, while insisting that access to land is essential to democracy and food sovereignty. 
Workers and poor families also had material gains to defend. Between 2022 and 2024, about 17.3 million people moved out of poverty. In 2024 alone, 1.9 million people moved out of extreme poverty, while 24.4 million left severe food insecurity. Brazil’s employed population reached a record 103.3 million in 2024, and the number of unemployed people fell by 1.1 million from the previous year. Lula’s government raised the minimum wage in real terms and introduced income-tax relief for people earning up to R$5,000 a month. These gains did not end inequality or insecurity, but they were tangible improvements that ordinary people could see in their lives. 
The contrast with South Africa is stark:
Brazil: gains people mobilised to defend
South Africa: setbacks and growing demoralisation
Indigenous territorial recognition resumed, with new areas approved and Indigenous people given a place in government. Agrarian reform included hundreds of thousands of families, though movements continue to demand more.
Land restitution and redistribution remain painfully slow. The promise of land reform has not transformed ownership or rural livelihoods at the scale required.
About 17.3 million people moved out of poverty between 2022 and 2024; 24.4 million left severe food insecurity.
Poverty and hunger remain widespread. SAFTU has cited estimates that 17 to 20 million people skip meals daily, while unemployment and inequality remain entrenched.
Employment reached a record 103.3 million in 2024; unemployment fell by 1.1 million that year.
Mass unemployment, deindustrialisation and retrenchments continue, while many people rely on insecure and precarious work.
Real minimum-wage increases and tax relief for lower earners put more income into workers’ hands.
Austerity and rising living costs erode working-class incomes and constrain the public services people depend on.
People could point to gains in land, food security, income and employment while demanding that Lula do more.
The ANC’s support fell from 69.7% in 2004 to 40.18% in 2024. In 2024, only 16.29 million people voted out of a voting-age population of roughly 40 million.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Brazil President Lula da Silva:

“What Israel is doing to the Palestinian people is NOT WAR. It is GENOCIDE. If this isn’t GENOCIDE, I don’t know what is.”

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I’m getting emotional over Brazil’s election results this morning, but what’s really breaking me is seeing these kids w all 4 limbs. Whole. Intact. Just being kids. I haven’t seen that in so fking long. I can’t even explain wut it does to u to go so long w/o seeing something so damn normal. 💔

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Yes. Yes. Yes.

[Human @SoodyQ]

@business If it weren’t for meddling by Meta and the like, he would have already won.

[FIRDOZE BULBULIA #StrongerTogether @FIRDOZ]

@mbele_lnb Huge congrats! Wishing you endless happiness 💜🥳🌸

[Sus @Suswam3]

@drtlaleng

[Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng @drtlaleng]

Our passion and our drive is not matched by processes and resources and infrastructure that works. The EFF’s commitments to insourcing municipal services and expanding access to basic infrastructure with a greater emphasis on how residents participate in decisions affecting their communities; ward-based people’s assemblies, technical oversight teams to scrutinise infrastructure spending and a one-stop municipal service centre where entrepreneurs and informal traders can get help with permits, registration and compliance.
We work hard in Johannesburg, but we also come here to play and to dream, and to be creative. And I think it’s very important to not neglect that.

#VoteEFF

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