A Scottish fan chanted, "Free Palestine."
"I was a nurse in Gaza. I volunteered in Gaza. I’ve seen what happens. There is a genocide. Free Palestine."
She's a hero.
South Africans are deeply frustrated and with good reason about illegal immigration and the pressure it places on already scarce opportunities.
But the real crisis is not the immigrants themselves. The root cause is our failure, over the past fifteen years, to deliver inclusive economic growth that creates enough jobs, dignity and hope for our own people.
This failure has been driven by three systemic issues we can no longer ignore:
• A collapse in the rule of law that has enabled corruption, criminality, land invasions, illegal migration, and the brazen theft of electricity and water.
• Bureaucracy and red tape that continue to strangle enterprise, deter investment and kill job creation.
• Incompetent and, in too many cases, corrupt leadership in key positions across government, state-owned enterprises and parts of the private sector.
As leaders, we must have the courage to look in the mirror and ask a difficult but necessary question: How have we allowed these conditions to take root and persist?
This question is not about blame. It is about responsibility and that is precisely why it is empowering. It places the power to change things back where it belongs: with us. We are not helpless. We are not victims of forces beyond our control. By focusing on what lies within our sphere of influence our decisions, our standards, our willingness to confront uncomfortable truths and act decisively, we can begin to reverse the damage we have helped create.
The time for self-criticism and honest reflection is now. The time for excuses has long passed. South Africa’s future will be determined by leaders who are prepared to own their part in the mess and do the hard, disciplined work required to fix it.
Israel executed Jana and her baby daughter Maryam today in Saksakiyeh, South Lebanon.
They dropped a bomb on the home where Jana had taken refuge with her child.
A mother and her baby.
This little girl, Maryam Ramez Diab,
Maryam had dreams and a future..
She died after battling a blood disease and severe platelet deficiency, as the lack of medicine under the Israeli blockade on Gaza cost her life.
Maryam was only (5).
A simple question: did Iraq attack the US? No
Did Syria attack the US? No
Did Iran attack the US? No
Did Yemen, Sudan attack the US?
No
So why the US attacked these countries?
A simple answer: because Israel just wants that!
Ridiculous of the British Museum to remove the word 'Palestine" from its displays, when it has a greater antiquity than the word "British". The first reference to Palestine is on the Egyptian monument of Medinet Habu in 1186BCE. The first reference to Britain is the 4th century BC when it appears in the work of the Greek traveler Pytheas of Massalia.
"My name is Anish, I am from England..."
It appears Oren Anish is a British citizen participating in the Gaza genocide. I hope his prosecution will be sought.
This is what Palestinians have been doing for hundreds of years. Like my grandparents, planting, cultivating their land, & just want to be left in peace not killed.
Israel murdered a school bus driver at dawn today in Hanin, South Lebanon.
Not a combatant.
A school bus driver. Getting ready to transport children to school.
The man who k*lled 20,000 children, including over 1000 infants in the last 2 years alone, has joined "the board of peace!" Do you need any better tafsir for the following ayah that this:
“And when it is said to them, ‘Do not cause corruption on the earth,’ they say, ‘We are only peacemakers.’ Unquestionably, it is they who are the corrupters, but they perceive [it] not.” [2:11-12]