Nobuntu

Proud South African, pragmatic believer, cog in a complex wheel, family builder, teacher/mentor, justice seeker

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

In Africa, black Christian kids as young as 4 years old are being sold inside bags as slaves by Muslim slave traders.
The media, progressives, Palestinian protesters, the UN, and even the Pope remain silent.
Why is everyone silent on this?

[Democratic Alliance @Our_DA]

🚨 Every 12 minutes, someone is raped in South Africa.

Without DNA kits, rapists and murderers walk free while victims are denied justice.

The DA uncovered critical shortages of DNA collection kits at police stations, fought for action, and secured the delivery of 6,000 kits. We will keep fighting for a justice system that works for all. 🇿🇦💙

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Purdah is the Islamic practice of isolating and hiding women over the age of 9 from the outside world to “protect” their modesty and prevent them from committing adultery (or Zina) by tempting Muslim men to rape them.

In practice it means:
• Physical separation: Women and girls must stay behind curtains, walls or screens whenever unrelated men are present.

• Full covering: Burqas, niqabs or full hijabs that hide the entire body and face so women are barely visible.

• Gender apartheid: Women are forbidden from being present in any space with men who are not close male relatives (mahram). This often includes bans on work, education, shopping or walking in public without the female’s owner, aka male guardian.

• Islamic justification: Based on Quran verses (24:31, 33:59) and the example of Muhammad, which portray women over the age of 9 as sources of sexual temptation that must be controlled and hidden.

This system turns women into property of male relatives. It strips them of basic freedoms—education, work, independent movement and personal autonomy. In strict societies like Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia, violating purdah can lead to beatings, imprisonment or honor killings.

Purdah is not “culture” or “choice.” It is a core Islamic mechanism that treats women over the age of 9 as dangerous sexual objects who must be locked away rather than equal human beings with rights.

[David Maynier @DavidMaynier]

I am honoured to be appointed as Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, and look forward to serving as a member of the cabinet in the Government of National Unity!

[Sequestered @VanoSequestered]

Ian Small Smith has been engaging in questionable conduct within the criminal justice system for an extended period of time. His involvement often seems to herald the beginning of the end for prosecutions or even investigations. People like this operate on the fringes, under cover of their profession and have the ability to subvert the system. His role in these matters cannot be underestimated and should be investigated to establish whether anything untoward took place.

[Ian Cameron @IanCameron23]

The Madlanga Commission is exposing what many of us have warned about for years.

In December 2024, I received a lawyer’s letter from Ian Small Smith on behalf of Major-General Feroz Khan.

The letter accused me of making “defamatory” remarks, said it was “not unreasonable” to understand my reference to a “major general” as a reference to Khan, and demanded that I formally retract and “cease and desist” from making similar remarks.

The issues were already clear then: questionable procurement, the secret service fund, alleged media smear campaigns, and defeating the ends of justice in relation to a cocaine seizure case.

Now, Khan is at the centre of the very kind of Crime Intelligence crisis we warned about. He has already been charged and arrested, and where the evidence supports it, further charges must be added or further cases opened.

The Commission has now heard serious allegations involving Khan, his seized devices, alleged interference in investigations, and the wider capture of sensitive policing structures.

We also cannot ignore the role of Lieutenant-General Molefe Fani.

It must be explicitly answered why former Police Minister Bheki Cele and General Fannie Masemola, after being briefed by the @RSASIU about findings relating to Fani’s role in the COVID-19 PPE matter while he was still at National Treasury, allowed him to continue as SAPS Divisional Commissioner for Supply Chain Management.

That decision placed a person already carrying serious procurement controversy into one of the most powerful procurement positions in the police.

What was exposed at the Madlanga Commission today opens a whole new can of worms. This is no longer only about one tender, one general, or one questionable appointment. It points to a system where warnings were ignored, senior officials were protected, and accountability only arrived when commissions, court papers and seized devices forced the truth into the open.

Khan’s rise through the ranks also needs proper scrutiny. He reportedly moved from captain to full colonel, skipping lieutenant colonel, and later from colonel to major-general, skipping brigadier.

If that was irregular, who approved it, who protected it, and why?

South Africans deserve a police service run by people committed to law, discipline and integrity, not a Crime Intelligence environment where warnings are met with lawyer’s letters while the truth only surfaces years later.

Funny how the lawyer’s letters arrived quickly, but accountability took years.

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[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

They’ve given Johann Mettler 7 days to explain why he should not be suspended.

This is the same man who blocked irregular tenders worth millions and refused to let officials implicated in the Rooiwal scandal off the hook.

They are not suspending him because he failed this city. They are suspending him because he refused to help them loot it.

Link to the article is here:
https://t.co/toROhUHQo9

#TakeBackYourCity #BackBrink

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

In Nyanga and Gugulethu, we're fixing the roads on the Cape Flats 💙👏

While the roads of Soshanguve and Mabopane are forgotten by the ANC-led government 💔

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

The ANC-led coalition’s playbook in Tshwane is simple: remove the officials standing in the way, replace them with loyal cadres, and carry on looting taxpayers’ money. 🚫

But the DA won’t stay silent. We will continue shining a light on every attempt to abuse public funds and undermine accountability.

#BackBrink #TakeBackYourCity

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

🇿🇦 HISTORIC: What a celebration today!

We had a proper party to celebrate the DA winning in Emfuleni - our first ever ward victory in a township across South Africa 💙

📲 Register to vote: https://t.co/mCglqM0eOD

[Nobuntu @Judeloods]

@africaIn24hrs @IanCameron23 There are evil men. Some use their unifiorms as power to commit evil. Can you not charge them? There is IPID; go to them.
They need to remove those criminals from SAPS. Please act.

[Brakanjan @Fouch79]

@IanCameron23 For as long as you only use words, the senseless killings will continue. These thugs only understand action. Hit them hard, very hard. That is the only language they understand and respect.

[🔱⚖️Jyo-Politicks⚖️🔱 @JusADayinSA]

How many more will have to be murdered before we say Enough is Enough?!

The country needs to be brought to a standstill, frankly, since the politicians we vote for cannot represent us efficiently in government, with the tax money we pay.

Get the bigger powers in BRICS involved, for all I care, of you cannot turn to Trump. The murders needs to stop. It's not a gun problem, it's who still gets to keep the guns used in crime.

[Cilliers Brink @CilliersB]

Too many young people are spending their days on street corners because there simply aren’t enough opportunities.

Idle time often leads to substance abuse and creates a void that is filled by all the wrong things. The conversations in this video are difficult, but they reflect the reality facing many young people in Tshwane.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Islam in Iran: Muslim husband smiles with his child bride’s severed head in public.

Mona Heidari was sold by her Muslim father at age 12 into a forced marriage with a monster. Her Muslim husband beat her if she failed to satisfy him sexually, feed him, or remain silent.

He subjected her to inhumane abuse and torture, enabled by Islamic authority. He tortured, raped, and inflicted sadistic violence on her, calling it marriage. She fell into depression shortly after the arranged marriage. At age 17, severely depressed and broken, unable to please him, she sought divorce and escape from Iran. He called his Muslim brother to punish her for disobedience.

They tied her hands and feet and tortured her to inflict maximum pain, ignoring her cries for mercy. No one called the police. In Iran under Islamic law, husbands are required to beat wives for discipline.

During the prolonged torment, the brothers mutilated her living body. Once she was too weak to resist, the enraged husband beheaded her. He then paraded her severed head through Ahvaz streets to restore family honor, showing pride.

Like many child brides in Iran and the Muslim world, Mona endured inhumane treatment from her husband and family, who knew of her suffering but blamed her for failing to obey.

Thousands of women in the Middle East and Asia are murdered yearly in “honor” killings—executions for dishonoring families or challenging male dominance.

Muslims may view these Islamic practices as justice fitting the will of Allah. In the civilized world, they are crimes against humanity, women, and human dignity.

Western leaders must not sacrifice women’s rights for political survival. Migrants seeking Western settlement must reject Islam’s Sharia laws or face asylum rejection.

This is not a “cultural difference.” This is barbarism enabled by Islamic doctrine. The West has no obligation to import or tolerate systems that treat women and girls as property to be bought, raped, tortured, and murdered.

[Democratic Alliance Gauteng Legislature @DA_GPL]

Gauteng Health Budget fails patients again.
13/37 hospitals have acting CEOs. Surgery waits up to 10 years. Cancer delays continue.
DA Shadow MEC Dr Jack Bloom calls on MEC Mazibuko to withdraw the wasteful court case against patient groups and focus on fixing the system.
The DA opposes this budget. Patients deserve better.
#DAatWork #RescueSA #DA_GPL #GautengHealth @Lesufi @GautengHealth @FaithMazibukoSA @JackBloomDA

YouTube: https://t.co/etS1KlPmFt

[Zille for Mayor @HelenZille4Jozi]

Where there was rubbish, there’s now food. These are community heroes from Davidsonville who turned this dumpsite into a food garden.🫜

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

40,000 Iranians were massacred by the Islamic regime in January!

[Democratic Alliance @Our_DA]

🗳️ Young South Africans, you have the power to get your town or city working.

Watch the DA's Ekurhuleni Mayoral Candidate Khathu Rasilingwane, on why to register to vote for basic services, the eradication of corruption, and good governance.

Visit https://t.co/6dFb92QjQy to ensure that you are ready to vote DA on 4 November.

[Democratic Alliance Gauteng Legislature @DA_GPL]

The abandoned pool in Duncanville is a monument to ANC failure in Emfuleni. 🏊💔

Once a place where our youth learned to swim & dreamed of Olympic glory now left to decay.

Public facilities belong to the people. The DA will restore them.

It's time to fix Emfuleni. 💙

#DAatWork #RescueSA #DA_GPL #Emfuleni @kingsoljr @Lesufi @EmfuleniLM

YouTube: https://t.co/rXcrnKvKhE