𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓴🇿🇦

Patriot🇿🇦Wilfully perverse🙃 Anchored nomad.Suffers common sense gladly. Not as logical or rational as I might like. Due for an upgrade.

[𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓴🇿🇦 @FrederickRomen]

It's always so jarring when women themselves perpetuate negative stereotypes regarding gender roles. An ugly reminder that the most ardent anti-feminists can be women themselves💀

[kwanele @kwanele41266145]

@FabriceTshib @RealBandile Ur wife is very lazy.... Divorce her... Im an engineer, a wife and a mother to a toddler.... I have a helper who comes in once a week.. Doesn't cook.. I cook all the meals.... And u don't even pay more than 200 rands a month.... U men are low key married to useless wives

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Sky News reports that a 28-year-old Palestinian woman, six months pregnant and suffering severe internal bleeding, was being transported from Qaryout in the occupied West Bank to Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus when Israeli soldiers stopped her ambulance at the Awarta checkpoint.

Video shows Israeli forces detained the ambulance crew for more than 30 minutes, subjected the bleeding, critically ill woman to a physical search, and ordered the driver to turn off the engine, cutting power to the vehicle’s onboard medical equipment.

During the forced delay, a nurse was forced to deliver the fetus stillborn inside the stranded ambulance. The woman was eventually allowed to proceed to the hospital, where doctors performed emergency surgery and saved her life. The baby could not be saved.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

People are allowed to care deeply about one human rights crisis without first issuing a press release on every other atrocity on Earth.

You can speak about the international human rights flashpoints that matter most to you. That doesn't mean you are indifferent to the rest. It means you're human.

When I raised my voice against gender-based violence, it didn't mean I didn't care about food insecurity. When I spoke out against corruption, it didn't mean I was indifferent to drug abuse. We all choose where we can make a meaningful contribution. No one has the capacity to be everywhere, every day, speaking about everything.

Yet somehow, Israel's most ardent defenders insist that unless you have an equal-opportunity outrage portfolio, your criticism of Israel's actions is invalid. It is an intellectually dishonest standard that they apply almost nowhere else. For many of us, Gaza is the defining moral test of our time.

Rwanda was that test in 1994. Humanity failed. Srebrenica was that test in 1995. Apartheid was that test for decades. Darfur was that test in 2003, and Sudan still demands our attention today. The persecution of the Rohingya has been another such test.
People did speak. People still do speak. The record exists for anyone prepared to look.

The accusation that "you only care about Gaza" is not a serious argument. It is whataboutism. It is a tactic designed to move the conversation away from Israel's conduct and onto the supposed inadequacies of its critics.

NO! NO!
We are entitled to judge Israel by its actions. We are entitled to listen when members of its own leadership make public statements about their genocidal intentions. We are entitled to condemn conduct we believe violates international law and basic human decency. We do not need permission to do so. Atleast I DON'T!

And let's stop pretending this is just another conflict. Few states command the level of international lobbying, diplomatic protection, information warfare, political pressure, and organised campaigns against critics that surround Israel. That extraordinary global footprint is one reason the scrutiny is extraordinary too.

So spare us the outrage about where our attention is directed. Our attention is right where it ought to be! And it will remain there for as long as Israel and its allies and supporters continue to unleash their GLOBAL bullying on us.

Some sisterly advice from me to tou:

If Sudan matters to you, speak!
If Myanmar matters to you, speak!
If Congo matters to you, speak!
If Ukraine matters to you, speak!

But do not demand that the rest of us earn the right to speak about Gaza by first solving every injustice on the planet. That's a rubbish argument.

And it won't work.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The United States has military bases in approximately 80 countries.

Not 8. Not 18. Eighty.

There is no other nation on earth with more than a handful of foreign military installations.

The United States has entire base ecosystems: multiple facilities, tens of thousands of personnel, prepositioning of weapons and vehicles and aircraft on every inhabited continent.

And the word used to describe this, in American political discourse, is not "occupation."

It is not "empire."

It is not even "presence."

It is called "security commitments."

The language is doing everything.

The language is the whole operation.

Because a "security commitment" sounds like something you offer to a friend. It sounds bilateral. It sounds consensual. It sounds like a favor.

It does not sound like what it is: the physical infrastructure of dominance.

The material fact of a single nation that has decided, and enforced the decision for eighty years, that it will have a military footprint on every strategically significant piece of land on earth.

And that any nation that objects to this will discover what the footprint feels like when it comes down on them.

Security commitments.

Eighty countries.

The most militarized nation in human history is the one that sets the global agenda on peace.

And somehow that sentence is not the first line of every newspaper every morning.

[𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓴🇿🇦 @FrederickRomen]

Corrupt thugs. Probably wanted "cool drink".

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

WATCH: @JoburgMPD officer assaults motorist.

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

WATCH: @JoburgMPD officer assaults motorist.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

.@JeffBezos beat you in your country of birth @elonmusk. 🤡

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

Welcome. You will have plenty of questions to answer. We take our digital sovereignty seriously. Well done on finding ways to exist within South Africa’s regulatory frameworks. Well done on partnering with South African companies. All the best. We will be watching closely.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

I am looking forward to this! Also featuring Richard Stengel, the man who spent HOURS with Mandela, helping him craft Long Walk To Freedom. We will talk about Mandela's leadership philosophy. It is much easier to embrace him as a symbol of comfortable consensus yet ignore the disruptive force of his leadership. Let's go!

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

They’re known for genocide in The Congo.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Someone whose name appears thousands of times in the Epstein files is now lecturing Iran about morality. Please, keep your mouth shut and worry about your own scandals instead.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Every few years, there are headlines about a child from an African country getting plaudits for being the best at something. Like mathematics, science or chess.

Then two decades later, that same person, or maybe another one, is paraded for being the “best”, “youngest” or “first” African, Burundian, Gambian or woman to achieve some prestigious thing; then again decades later, another achievement of some sort.

Meanwhile, when you look at the state of the countries these high achievers come from, you find that they have actively regressed through the years.

It’s almost as if “they” dish out these accolades to a sprinkling of individuals to gaslight the rest into believing it’s possible to succeed, when in reality it’s structurally not.

By centering one prodigy from a struggling nation who became a chess grandmaster or a world-class brain surgeon, “they” can say the system is working. If you are smart enough and work hard enough, you can make it.

This inspiration porn shifts the responsibility for success away from the political and economic system to the individual. When a million other kids in that same country fail, the narrative suggests it’s because they didn’t try hard enough.

By treating the anomaly as the benchmark, the responsibility of the state is completely erased. The narrative shifts from the poor school curriculum to asking children why they aren’t working as the girl genius from a warzone.

Meanwhile, the global audience demands a feel-good story that confirms the world is a meritocracy. They demand a story that demonstrates that if a boy from a warzone can become a tech billionaire, then the global economic system must be fair.

Again, while the geniuses are winning accolades, their home countries are often regressing because individual genius does not require a functioning state, it just requires a statistical anomaly.

For instance, Nigeria has almost 250 million people. Mathematically, even if a system is completely broken, you will always produce a few absolute geniuses by sheer force of numbers.

Of course, the individuals themselves usually put in staggering amounts of actual hard work, but still, the amplification of their stories by global media serves a purpose by providing a feel-good story that allows people to ignore the grim reality that the game is rigged.

In the end, a country cannot build a stable economy on the backs of three geniuses every decade. You still need solid primary schools and public infrastructure, the very things that continue to sink while social media posts cheer for a handful of maths olympiads.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They don't ask for context when Americans die.

On September 11, 2001, nobody on American television said:

"Before we process this, can we discuss U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East since 1953? Can we talk about the support for the Mujahideen? Can we contextualize the sanctions on Iraq that killed 500,000 children in the 1990s? Can we ask whether American actions created the conditions?"

Nobody said that.

It would have been considered monstrous to say that.

The dead deserved mourning, immediate and unconditional.

But when you show them the dead on the other side, suddenly context is everything.

Suddenly you need to condemn the right people first.

Suddenly grief requires paperwork.

The rule is not "context matters."

The rule is "context matters for their dead."

Yours just need to have filled out the form correctly before they were allowed to bleed.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

When the famine reached its peak in Gaza, with no food available, Israel would only allow one truckload to enter, which was then rushed by thousands of starving people in Gaza, some of whom died of suffocation and hunger.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Zwelinzima Vavi @Zwelinzima1]

South Africa must be one of the few countries in the world where a multibillionaire President is found with hundreds of thousands of dollars hidden inside his furniture; where a Deputy President owns mansions worth tens of millions of rand; where a police officer can afford a R39 million house; and where a municipal manager spends millions on a London shopping trip using a chartered flight costing R3 million.

Then we are lectured about “fiscal discipline”, “tightening our belts” and “living within our means.” A country where obscene wealth coexists with mass unemployment, hunger and collapsing public services is not suffering from a shortage of resources—it is suffering from a crisis of priorities, accountability and inequality.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

So India has frozen approval for Starlink due to national security concerns. Starlink's security clearance remains pending until the company explains how, given its global operations and US ownership, it can ensure compliance with Indian security requirements during periods of geopolitical tension when foreign governments may issue conflicting demands.

But we mustn't ask questions. La hlanya.

https://t.co/XyOjqj7uBD

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

It's a rubbish question and I can't believe there are still people twisting themselves into a pretzel allowing themselves to bullied into answering this rubbish, manipulative question. States don't have a right to exist. The apartheid state of South Africa had no right to exist as an apartheid state that was oppressing its black majority and threatening its neighbors. PEOPLE in South Africa, Black and White had and still have a right to exist, live and thrive in an equal democratic country. These illiterate manipulate questions about "right to exist" must either be ignored or thrown in the garbage. PEOPLE have a right to live in safety and freedom.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

It is truly "unbelievable" how people from India, Colorado, Texas, Uganda are so affected by the appointment of a Muslim as a deputy minister in South Africa. A Muslim who joins MANY other Muslims who have been in office since 1994. He is a deputy minister not even a minister but some people in Texas and India are "concerned?" Please don't be stupid guys. I mean...really. 🙄 😐

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Remember that for as long as South Africa stands against this, Israel will stop at nothing to destabilize the country. I say this with my chest out. Those who know, know.
https://t.co/nyIEGxzGhs

[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

.@DIRCO_ZA: "As a sovereign nation, 🇿🇦 pursues an independent foreign policy firmly anchored in the principle of non-alignment. Non-alignment must not be conflated with neutrality. We refuse to be drawn into geopolitical contestations or be pressured to take sides. We note the inherent contradiction in being publicly scrutinised for engaging Iran & China, the very same states with which the United States itself continues to actively interact".

[Michael de Villiers @Mikedotcoza]

Why enter South Africa on study visas, then once inside the country, open shops and start presenting yourself as investors? A travel visa is not a business visa. An asylum seeker is not a business visa.