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[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

This is why you shouldn’t argue with people ‼️

[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

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[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

WTF is this??🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Forget everything you’ve been told about justice being blind, about the law being neutral, about courts being the great equaliser. In South Africa, the men who brought European law made no effort to hide their true intentions.

They said it openly, proudly, and without shame: “The law” was not about justice—it was about control. It was about domination. It was about ensuring Africans knew their place. The courtroom was not a temple of fairness; it was a cage. The legal system was not blind—it was wide-eyed and watchful. It watched for rebellion, for resistance, for any spark of freedom that needed to be crushed.

Leading this colonial project of legal subjugation was Theophilus Shepstone—a man who crafted laws like a jailer forges shackles: custom-fitted to those he wished to keep in chains.

Roman-Dutch law was brought to Africans not to deliver justice, but to keep them in line. The architects of Southern Africa’s legal order admitted as much. In a debate with Orange Free State President F.W. Reitz, Shepstone wrote:

“[Natives] are guided in every respect by the will of their legally-constituted superiors; and it is this feeling I so anxiously recommend the Government to take advantage of before it gives way to more dangerous views, from continued relaxation from control.”

Shepstone feared that if Africans were allowed to develop their own ideas of law and justice if they continued to practise what he called "native law" beyond British oversight, it would lead to “dangerous views”—meaning resistance.

Within British circles, there was debate about which law to impose over Africans: Roman-Dutch law or a hybrid of “native” and “civilised” law. But both sides agreed on the fundamental point—the purpose of law was not justice, but control.

To be clear, Shepstone opposed the blanket imposition of European law on Africans—not out of concern for their well-being, but because it risked loosening the grip of control. As he wrote:

“When civilised government is called upon to undertake the control of an inferior race... for its internal control, and easily adaptable to our civilised methods it is optional with such government to take into its own hands that organisation.”

His vision was clear: a customised legal system, purpose-built to control Africans—not despite their traditions, but by manipulating them.

This strategy was set out in the 1847 Natal Locations Commission report, which asserted that prosperity depended on “management and efficient control of the large native population”.

According to the British, this control depended on the assumption that Africans had “grown up in habits of such servile compliance to the wills of their despotic rulers that they still show ready obedience to constituted authority”.

In their view, Africans were suited to despotism, and colonial rule would simply modernise this tradition under the guise of civilisation.

For Shepstone, this meant fusing “native” and “civilised” law—not for justice, but for control.

This is the foundational lesson: the legal system was designed to discipline and dominate Africans. Law and order were merely its by-products. Their own writings leave no doubt: The law was not for justice—certainly not for Africans. It was for management, surveillance, and submission.

Shepstone’s project was never about fairness. It was about authority. His strategy of combining legal traditions was a cold calculation—a way of tightening British control while appearing to respect African customs.

The idea that Africans were inherently suited to despotic rule reveals the racial logic at the heart of colonial law. This was not a system of justice—it was a science of domination, designed to entrench hierarchy and enforce subordination.

And so the question remains: how much of this system survives today? In post-apartheid South Africa, colonial and apartheid-era legal frameworks still cast long shadows. The law often continues to serve the powerful, not the marginalised.

This is not accidental. Systems designed for domination do not die easily.
In fact, they rarely die at all. They adapt. They survive. They learn new languages, wear new robes and cite new constitutions.

Today, the custodians of this legacy are no longer colonial administrators. They sit in parliamentary benches, corporate boardrooms, and NGO offices. They call themselves defenders of “constitutionalism”. They wrap themselves in the rhetoric of “good governance”, “transparency”, and—most tellingly—“the rule of law”.

But this rule of law is not a shield for the vulnerable. It is a weapon against the dispossessed.

When the poor rise, when shack-dwellers organise, when workers strike, when the landless occupy—the powerful cry out for law and order. What they demand is not justice. It is containment.

This is Shepstone’s dream in the twenty-first century: a legal system that appears neutral, universal, and civilised—but whose purpose remains the same as it was in 1847. To manage. To control. To pacify.

And so we confront the bitter irony of colonial law: the more things change, the more precisely they stay the same. The cage has been polished. The bars glisten brighter. The wardens speak the language of democracy now. But a cage is still a cage. And we are still inside it.

[Norma Kay @realnorma_kay]

Thank you for dismantling USAID @elonmusk @POTUS

[Penuel The Black Pen @penuelist_]

Jacob Zuma implements DOGE, with the help of the foreign Gupta Brothers...

(Donald Trump implements DOGE, with the help of a foreigner, Elon Musk)

Dudu Myeni uncovers that only 3% of suppliers at SAA are black
Matshela Koko & Brian Molefe expose Glencore, Exxaro, & others with evergreen contracts to supply coal at Eskom
Matshela Koko & Brian Molefe stop loadshedding for 2 years
Hlaudi Motsoeneng implements 90% local, so that local creators can make money
Hlaudi Motsoeneng implement permanent contracts at the SABC
Lucky Montana builds local trains at PRASA/Transnet
Zuma tries to set up a nuclear energy plan with Russia (his effort to innovate like Eskom did with Hendrik van der Bijl)
Zuma tries to increase black mining ownership through the Mining Charter
Treasury is fully black for the first time
2 universities built in MpumaLanga and the Northern Cape
Zuma encourages municipalities to bank with small banks like VBS, besides just the banking cartel
Guptas set up a new independent media agency, in ANN7 & The New Age, and hand it over to Mzwanele Manyi
Corruption is uncovered aggressively, even though Zuma is blamed for it
Zuma declares free tertiary education after Fees Must Fall

WHAT IF JACOB ZUMA IMPLEMENTED DOGE BACK THEN & MANY PEOPLE MISSED IT???

Instead, we were told about 9 wasted years & a billion Rand Zondo Commission later, nothing has come from it...

A theory raised in the latest episode of Konvo with Warras.

[NtsikiMazwaiMedia @ntsikimazwai]

Lemme leave these here….

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Cuba (Since 1959)
Chile (1973)
Ghana (1966)
Nicaragua (1980s)
Vietnam (1950 - 1975)
Laos (1960s)
Cambodia (1960s)
Guatemala (1954)
Iran (1953)
Congo (1961)
Grenada (1979)
Angola (1970s)
Mozambique (1970 & 80s)
Afghanistan (1970s)
Indonesia (1965)
Bolivia (1971 & 2019)
Haiti (1990s & 2000s)
Venezuela (Since 1998-)
Syria (2024)
Libya (2011)
Yugoslavia (1990s)

[Veena Jain @Vtxt21]

Hypocrisy of America

Trump pushes "America First" & imposes reciprocal tariffs on India to benefit USA

But when India follows "India First" & buys Oil from Iran, same USA imposes sanctions

If USA offers no additional benefits, it has no right to dictate India's choices 🙌

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇨🇳 REMINDER: China developed a cure for diabetes & American pharma companies DON'T want to use it because it is bad for profits.

Video Credit: @EdbieLigerSmith

[Manu Sisti @Manu_Sisti]

Meet Dr. Sebi.

At 30 he had diabetes, by 40 he healed himself with herbs, by 50 he treated celebrities like Michael Jackson.

Here are 8 hacks that healed thousands when doctors couldn’t (& how you can use them): 🧵

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Nothing Vladimir Putin says about the ruling Globalist Elites is wrong

Ask yourselves why your leaders despise this man so much? Is it because they "Love" Ukraine?

Is it because they care about Democracy and freedom?

No. They only care about Profit.

[Warren English @TheWarEnglish]

Big Pharma wants you sick.

I was a pharmacist, so I would know.

Now I’m revealing the 5 biggest health secrets Big Pharma hid from you to sell you more pills:

Secret #1: Eggs Do NOT Raise Cholesterol

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr EXPOSES the TRUTH about Ukraine in 3 minutes. Make the World Safe again

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

🇷🇺 Russian President Putin says "people who destroy whole nations do not have the right to teach us democracy and the values of living freely."

[NeoRepublicZA @NeoRepublic_ZA]

Nazo🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Updates

Afrikaans university built by Afriforum and Union of Solidarity with only 150 000 members.

COSATU has over 5 million members but they have built Nothing.🤮🤮🤮

[The King of Trolls @StHonorable]

A different perception about Tito Mboweni's clean sheet of corruption.

[Dali Mpofu @AdvDali_Mpofu]

Today 5 October we celebrate the birthday of a great intellectual,patriot,thought leader & legal mind Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC✊🏾

You’ll be insulted by many bigots & self-hating miserable nincompoops seeking relevance but know that our people love you❤️

[MDN NEWS @MDNnewss]

EFF MP EXPOSES MASSIVE PENSION FUND SCANDAL

In this shocking episode of #mdntvexpose, Economic Freedom Fighters @EFFSouthAfrica Member of Parliament @Sinawo_Thambo exposes how municipalities and private security companies have allegedly failed to pay pension funds, jeopardizing the livelihoods of vulnerable security guards.

According to the FSCA, over 3,000 private security companies and municipalities have unlawfully withheld pension and provident fund contributions for more than 240 months. Could this be one of the largest pension fund heists in South African history?

Is the complicity of those in power adding to the injustice, affecting the most vulnerable in society? Tune in for more on this shocking story.

Watch the full video below
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https://t.co/i06my86rIa

[South African Daily @southafricandly]

Wow, impressive... This young man from Venda invented a water-powered car. He needs to be celebrated and protected ...

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