Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫

Mama wa Thoriso- and yes, David Foster is a music legend.

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

@ShottaZee 😂😂😂😂

[Orlando Pirates @orlandopirates]

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[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

You are truly an asset Redi ❤️

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Dear Minister @Khu_Ntshavheni , as a communications student whose interest lies in Information Sovereignty and Geopolitical Power, it is truly concerning hearing your diagnosis if the information warfare. Your words indicate that the state of South Africa will continue to be penetrable and vulnerable precisely because it has not done the work of understanding Disinformation. Disinformation is not a legal problem. It is primarily an information ecosystem problem. The first line of defence is not banning falsehoods. You can't. The first response is to capacitate the state and modernize your communication architecture so that the state is faster than the lie.

Governments that communicate quickly, transparently and consistently create less space for disinformation to flourish. During crises, silence allows false narratives to become "truth."

The state is often reactionary rather than proactive. You cannot be proactive if you don't modernize GCIS so that it has the capacity to do risk analysis and craft rapid response units. GCIS has a moribund feel to it, way behind the times. These long press statements and briefings are so archaic. You need simplified , even engaging, gamefied interactive spaces with government data. Strategic narrative planning around your key priorities, beginning early in the year and involving ALL spokespersons and strategists pulled together in compulsory convenings, every quarter. You need an technologically savvy tracking mechanism that helps you identify communication weakness and which communities are vulnerable to disinformation on a particular government initiative or policy. You then reach them quickly and at their level.

Sure, tech companies can help to democratise the algorithm because disinformation is spread via manipulation of the algorithm. But you need a proper landscape analysis so that your intervention is commensurate with the scale of the threat.

You need to invest in public information literacy and craft a national resilience plan against information warfare. "We will not tolerate....you will bear the consequences...." is not going to help you. It will drive bot-level defiance. You cannot simply legislate against "fake news" because the crisis is not just the content but the networks themselves. You have an ecosystem problem here.

You have also made a rudimentary mistake: conflating concepts. Modern scholarship distinguishes between disinformation, misinformation and malinformation. It is important to understand the distinctions because it will help you confine yourself to what is legally possible. Threatening "fake news" broadly risks sweeping protected speech, mistakes, satire and wrong information into the same category.

I say this as someone who shares your concern about harmful disinformation and misinformation. I also lament poor journalism that also fuels this. I am a fanatic on this issue and I care deeply about the harm that has been done to South Africa. It has been very hurtful politically and personally. We are not disagreeing here.

All I am challenging your government to do is to understand the pillars of modern disinformation and be theoretically and forensically accurate in crafting solutions. Solutions that are not deliberate and have no depth, will fail.

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

I have served long enough in leadership to recognise a troubling pattern. Too many among South Africa’s elite - black and white - appear to believe the rules that govern the rest of us do not apply to them.

As chairman of an SOE, I am regularly approached by business leaders asking me to intervene in operational or procurement matters. When I explain that my role is governance and oversight, not management, they say they understand. Yet the requests continue. This reveals a belief that exceptions exist for the connected few.

It was therefore striking to see Business Leadership South Africa and BUSA, organisations that have been vocal against state capture and political interference in state-owned enterprises, actively advocate for political intervention to transfer transmission assets to the Transmission System Operator. These are the same bodies that insist on corporate governance and board independence. Where, then, is the role of the SOE board? What exactly do they believe in?

Equally concerning are recent allegations involving former Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. Senior figures within his own party, including John Steenhuisen and Dion George, have raised issues that appear to involve conflicts of interest and undue influence. This from a voice that has long lectured on ethical standards and clean governance. Do these rules apply to everyone, or only when politically convenient? Selective morality is not morality at all.

When those who position themselves as guardians of good governance apply different standards to themselves, public trust erodes. But South Africans are watching. We see the inconsistencies. We now know where people stand.

The path forward requires courage. We must expose wrongdoing wherever it occurs without fear or favour. We must demand that those who preach accountability live it consistently. We must insist that rules bind the powerful as they bind ordinary citizens. And we must model the ethical society we want to build.

South Africa does not lack good people. What we need is the collective will to insist that principle applies to all. Let us find that courage. Let us call out double standards and build a nation where no one is above the law. That is the South Africa worth fighting for. #ProudlySA

[Clement Manyathela @TheRealClementM]

BREAKING : Resolve Communications CEO Paul Boughey admits on #TheCMSHOW that Starlink is their client. He says even though they are against Elon Musk’s misinformation, Resolve Comms won’t stop working with Starlink. He says there is no ethical responsibility to do so. @Radio702

[Destiny ✨ @destiny_ndlovu]

Dear Home Affairs employees, do you see what you’ve done? All for a bribe. The country is burning because of corruption, and your actions have played a part in it.

[Lynette Ntuli @MsNtuli]

I need young people from every other nation on the African continent to read up on the Arab Spring tonight.

Replicate what you saw ordinary South Africans do today. Do it for You. For the homeland that is your inheritance. For the future.

The answers we are looking for don’t | won’t fit into the frameworks, distorted reality and educated order we are all socialised to seek.
Which is why your Goliath knows and believes you will not organise or fight.

[ꪝe @_wej01]

Hi... Norwegian here.

When a woman finds out she’s pregnant, here’s what happens:

She calls her GP or midwife.
Appointment within a week.

7 check-ups across the pregnancy.
Two ultrasounds included.
All antenatal care is 100% free.

The birth itself is also free.
After the birth: A year of paid leave.
Then daycare at $124/month.

No insurance.
No denied claims.
No bill.

Just a system that says: we’ve got you..

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

@Wimbledon @serenawilliams What time please?

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

@Poplak @Shelomohkeita You have always been itching to say this about South Africa ne.

[Dr. Hood Possum @DrLungi_Mashele]

What many don’t want to acknowledge is that the burden of immigration (illegal or legal) often rests on the shoulders of the poor.

They need to compete for access to schools, clinics, water, electricity, housing etc.

Since I’m in energy, I’ll use load reduction to illustrate.

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

@_BNSL Both Aubrey and Clement have consistently been balanced and objective in their views on this issue. But the one on the breakfast show… YHO!!!

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

@marangdream @advocatemahere @Sophie_Mokoena Waitse keng!!

[Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 @advocatemahere]

🔸Malawians are in the middle of a humanitarian crisis in South Africa. Their lives and livelihoods are under threat. Their leader’s response is to drink champagne and take a private jet to South Africa for his personal business. The bankruptcy of leadership is breathtaking.

The grand irony is that this is the same poor leadership that’s driven migrants away from home. Zimbabwe is in the same boat. It’s a mess.

We need new leaders.🇿🇼

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

@CCCforChange234 @DenzilTaylor This is the result of ur poor & brutal leadership in your country. Always excusing ur government’s failures and redirecting public outrage elsewhere. Accountability should begin with you, those entrusted togovern, not with convenient scapegoats. Aren’t u ashamed of yourselves?

[Ruidoazul @antjcp]

@MartinDandach La FIFA y EEUU son una basura.

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

@Arfness @AndileMlondo @CheckersSA @PicknPay We don’t know what discussions took place behind the scenes Andrew. It’s possible SAFA tried, and that the retailers simply didn’t see Bafana merchandise as commercially viable( which is unfortunate). We just don’t know . 🤷🏾‍♀️

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

The #US has become the worst #FIFA World Cup host in the tournament’s history. May they never be given this honour/opportunity again!!

[The Associated Press @AP]

Iran has been eliminated from the World Cup in heartbreaking fashion, narrowly failing to advance past the group stage in a politically charged tournament where the team played its matches amid tight restrictions imposed by the United States. https://t.co/3SxGDP1EOO

[Kego Mokgoro 💫 🇿🇦 💫 🇨🇩💫🇸🇸💫🇪🇹💫🇸🇩💫 @KegoMM]

@tapera_david @DrTedros @CyrilRamaphosa