Kimayne Schorr

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Incredible speech from @Miss_Snuffy!

[Kosher @koshercockney]

This will forever be one of the most brutally articulate take downs.

And all it is, is truth. Pure unadulterated truth.

Incredible by @_ConnieShaw

Take a couple minutes out your day to listen.

[Graeme Joffe @Joffersmyboy]

Let’s get the ball rolling … my book, Sport: Greed & Betrayal was banned from distribution in SA after Highbury Safika Media got an urgent interdict. It wasn’t worth fighting it as it wasn’t about making money - it was about getting the truth out in the public domain. So, if you haven’t read it and want a free PDF, please DM your email address!

[Pookie's Polls & Opinions @pookiepolls]

I saw this on FB and it made me very sad. Is their absolutely NOTHING that this criminal government can do properly.

Written by James Deacon.

I am about to write what has to be one of the most difficult and painful posts for me to write on Facebook.

On Friday I was given news which unfortunately I cannot disclose yet that has forced me to turn my back on something I truly love with all my heart: Kirstenbosch Garden.

I have been involved there for 19 years due to my love and passion for the garden. However Kirstenbosch is no longer a place that brings me joy and happiness but rather pain and sadness.

When I walk through nursery now I see neglect, decay and death. The amazing plant collections that have taken decades and more to establish sit neglected slowly dying.

The Protea collection is less than a third of what it was and only a fraction of the Ericas remain. One plant has gone from extinct in the wild to completely extinct purely due to lack effort to keep it going. Places once full of plants sit empty and in some cases full of weeds because the production of plants is so diminished.

Great plantsmen and women like Ernst van Jaarsveld, Monique McQuillan , Louise Nurrish , Cherise Viljoen , Anthony Hitchcock who I admired and looked up to all left way before they should have because working there had become so unpleasant and because things like procurement made it impossible for them to do their jobs.

One told me when they tried to order pots the response they got from the management of SANBI the SOE that runs many of the country's botanical gardens was what were they cooking. Another ordered pots and three years later they yet to arrive.

Poor financial management has resulted in the organisation having to use funds donated for educational purpose to pay staff salaries.

Kirstenbosch no longer has a Protea or an Erica expert and hasn't had either for years.

Staff morale is at an all time low and respect for the leadership of the garden has broken down.

The garden cannot produce metal labels to tell visitor what the names of the plants are.

I say all these things not out of animosity to anyone or with the desire to see people in trouble. I say these things because I love the garden and what I am seeing is breaking my heart. I am also saying these things because after all the friends, experiences, knowledge and memories the garden has given me I feel I have a duty to speak out for the garden in difficult times such as these.

I don't know what will happen to me for saying all this. Maybe I will be banned from the garden or get into trouble. However I refuse to stay silent and standby while the things and people that I care about suffer. I also feel that we the current custodians of the garden have a duty to preserve and protect the work of those custodians of the past for the custodians of the future.

We have two choices to be remembered as those who fought for Kirstenbosch during its most difficult and challenging times or as those who sat idly by and allowed it break down and be ruined.

I don't know if anyone will read this or if it will achieve anything but I will not keep silent while the place I love suffers and will continue to speak out against what is happening.

[fred schorr @fredbear0]

Who do I contact to close a hole in Loveday Street South in Selby so I can keep my business running?

@helenezille
@CityofJoburgZA
@DadaMorero

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I sometimes think that the main purpose of Islam is to inflate the male ego

[Dr. Minh Tran @MinhDr18]

See, one China trawler can strip more fish in weeks than local fleets catch in months

Now picture 10,000 of them, nonstop, year-round, ignoring recovery cycles and crowding waters near places like the Galápagos Islands

This is eco-terrorism. And we’re still too quiet about it

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Here’s the real reason that they want to limit using old school cash. Payment by cash doesn’t give the banks any transactional charge money.

[Richard Spoor @Richard_Spoor]

The water tanker racket arrives in Johannesburg! With the cronies now at the trough, expect water tankers to become the new normal. They are there to stay and will destroy what remains of the water infrastructure to make sure of that. ✊🏽 https://t.co/ViIJ5JwMJ9

[Richard Wilkinson @wilkinsoncape]

Earlier today I did a 20 minute interview with Sara Gon on Chai FM explaining the situation at Pretoria High School for Girls.

You can listen to it at the link below.

#schoolcapture

https://t.co/BXVM1cP5uX

[Richard Wilkinson @wilkinsoncape]

I want to know about the Matthew Goniwe School of Leadership.

If you have any information, please contact me.

Will keep your involvement confidential.

#schoolcapture

[Kimayne Schorr @KimayneSchorr]

#schoolcapture
@eNCA

[Richard Wilkinson @wilkinsoncape]

Hey @eNCA - are you guys going to be amplifying the Gauteng Education Department’s narrative the whole time without any scrutiny?

Here, I did some actual journalism for you. Feel free to use it:

https://t.co/pHUFTzxalq

#schoolcapture

(And a tip: look into the consultants)

[Ian Cameron @IanCameron23]

Let’s make them famous and help @SAPoliceService. PLEASE RETWEET!

[Richard Wilkinson @wilkinsoncape]

“How white children and teachers are being systematically targeted and abused at Pretoria High School for Girls.”

New essay, by me, on #schoolcapture

https://t.co/pHUFTzwCvS

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

⚠️ I never tweet anything remotely profane, but I’m making an exception for this: 🖕🖕🖕 F YOU to NYTimes, Gavin Newsom & everyone else who demanded we close schools for over a year to save millions of kids and who now say, as the NYT editorial board said today: “The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education. It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children.”

THE MOST DAMAGING DISRUPTION IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION. This is from the New York Times editorial board, which served as a semi-official state news agency during the pandemic to push for unscientific COVID policies that many of us who had common sense continuously said were WRONG.

They saved absolutely ZERO kids from death in the entire nation, while creating a pandemic of learning loss & chronic absenteeism that’s concentrated among poor, inner city, and minority communities. And instead of falling for accountability, such as the resignation of Governors like Newsom who imposed this hell on our most vulnerable kids (while HIS kids attended private school that didn’t close), the NYTimes simply advocates for spending many billions more in a futile attempt to undo their harm.

We need to have absolute accountability in the way of resignations and firings of ALL officials involved at the local, state and federal levels, as well as compensation to affected kids & families in the form of scholarships to private educational institutions and 1:1 private education. Additionally, we must pass strong laws that make it impossible to ever close schools again. For ANY reason. If there’s ever another health emergency, give PARENTS the choice of where to send their kids for school - in person or via “Zoom.”

And Gavin Newsom, we won’t allow the nation to forget what you did when you run. This will be an enormous liability for you and you’ve done zero to atone for it.

[Goolam @goolammv]

Meet the alleged godfather of corruption in Ekurhuleni, MMC for Finance , The EFF’s
Nkululeko Dunga. Dunga was appointed MMC in April this year. An MMC earns around R90 000 per month Dunga was in an accident yesterday, traveling in a massive motorcade which had blue lights together with multiple bodyguards. Dunga was driven in his
R2 MILLION German vehicle. No other MMC in the entire country gets driven in a motorcade. Dunga also allegedly bought a house for millions of rands paid for in cash in Bassonia after he was appointed MMC. Before Dunga took over as MMC of Finance, Ekurhuleni had well over a BILLION rands cash on hands, Dunga has totally depleted this and Ekurhuleni cash on hand today can carry the municipality’ just for a few days. The city owes a staggering
R3 BILLION to creditors. Ekurhuleni has totally collapsed. The alleged EFF looting led by Dunga according to people working in the municipality is nothing like one has ever seen. They stealing everything. An ANC staff member in Ekurhuleni said, The DA led coalition government stabilised the entire municipality with finances etc and these EFF people have totally DESTROYED it in less than 6 months. This is the so called pro poor , pro black socialist EFF for you, nothing about service delivery but all about self enrichment, just like it’s cult leader Julius Malema.

[Jack Devnarain @JackD157]

How little do we think of ourselves.
As South Africans.
As dreamers, soiled by our own sleep,
Awaken to choose the nightmare once again.
How little do we think of ourselves.
Tomorrow used to be ours,
It's on the shelf at China Mall.
Next to the fake flags and Mandela masks.

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

If you wanna know what’s happening with the migrant crisis in Italy on the island Lampedusa and want a primer, make it this one.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Australian broadcaster, Alan Jones, utterly schools a panel of climate zealots on the reality of the #ClimateScam.

"CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere, and human beings are responsible for 3% of that 0.04%... It's like saying: 'There's a granule of sugar on the Harbour Bridge. Clean the bridge up, it's dirty'."

Sources:
https://t.co/Tm2kratHVw
https://t.co/1xpbh4oqC4

For more content like this, visit: https://t.co/KIgEQYjeJS

[Richard Wilkinson @wilkinsoncape]

An absolutely extraordinary video.

Must watch.

#schoolcapture