Emma_Paul

FOLLOWS YOU! To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

[Mhe. Litundunya @litundunya]

Baas H.E ashamaliza kila kitu ... Itakua mbayaa it's going to be big!

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

Felicia Hambrick was babysitting her best friend’s three kids in Tacoma when the family’s pit bull suddenly attacked.

She was holding the 8-month-old baby when the dog knocked her to the floor.

Felicia curled her body around the baby and refused to let go.

She was bitten over and over on her arms, legs, stomach and neck, but she kept herself between the dog and the child the entire time.

The baby was never bitten once.

Felicia spent five days in the hospital and needed 94 staples to close her wounds.

She took the full force of that attack so someone else’s baby wouldn’t have to.

That is what a hero looks like.

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

I met Sifuna in Kieni. She is an MCA from Nyandarua. Her other name? Wacuka.

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi has built six new level four hospitals over the past three years and 26 level three hospitals, adding 1,600 beds countywide.
Existing hospitals are now upgraded with modern X-ray, ultrasound, dialysis, and endoscopy machines which addresses the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) emphasis on Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
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[mOkapendi @mOkapendi]

From what iShowSpeed shown me, I conclude that...

Nigeria is the worst country in Africa.

-Dirty.
- Annoying Accents.
- Unpleasant smell.
-Overcrowded.
-Poor.
- So dark/No electricity.
-Bad Governance.
-Corruption.

They aren't Africa's giants.

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Canadian lady says IShowSpeed's livestream in Nigeria is the worst on his African Tour due to the continuous begging.

[Emma_Paul @One_Dollar_KE]

@matinyarare This is sad

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

𝗛𝗜𝗝𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗨𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗟.

What many South Africans do not realise is that a large number of buildings in the country’s major cities—particularly Johannesburg, Randburg, and Pretoria—are owned by German and Dutch businesspeople who now live in Cape Town or Europe. Since leaving South Africa, many of these owners no longer maintain their buildings and fail to pay municipal rates or electricity to councils.

To maximise profits, most owners employ mainly Zulu or Sotho gangs (commonly referred to as AmaRussia) to pose as building hijackers. This arrangement allows the owners to distance themselves from responsibility and avoid paying rates and electricity. These “hijackers,” who effectively act as agents of the foreign-based owners, then subdivide two- or three-bedroom flats into 10 to 15 cubicles using curtains or wooden partitions. A single sitting room can be converted into four or five cubicles. Some buildings are also turned into brothels, where women sharing rooms are charged up to R200 per day, or about R18,000 per room per month.

The gangs illegally bridge electricity from City Power infrastructure or neighbouring buildings, and the cubicles are then rented out—mostly to foreign nationals working menial jobs—for between R800 and R1,000 per month/cubicle.

In essence, owners pay enforcers to transform their properties into shack-like slums or “curtain hotels,” where a three-bedroom flat in Hillbrow can generate between R14,000 and R18,000 per month.

Zulu or Sotho gangs act as rent collectors and enforcers, but they are themselves monitored by violent private security companies, many owned by former white South African police officers. These security companies also maintain relationships with separate Zulu and Sotho gangs that are reportedly used to eliminate hijackers or agents who no longer serve the owners’ interests.

The bulk of the money collected from these buildings is sent back to the owners in Cape Town or Europe, who pay no municipal rates, electricity, or estate agents to manage the properties.

When owners later decide to sell, they often instruct lawyers to claim that their buildings were hijacked. This results in municipal councils scrapping accumulated rates debt, after which the owners regain control of the buildings. The properties are then bought by entities such as Joburg Property Company, refurbished, and the cycle begins again on another building.

There are reports that some Zulu taxi owners have caught on to this model and have begun pooling their money to purchase old buildings and replicate the same system.

In buildings with as many as 400 flats, monthly collections can reach up to R5.6 million without paying for maintenance, electricity or rates. Hijacking buildings and turning them into slums is far more lucrative than managing them as well-maintained, law-abiding, rate paying properties. This is the economic logic behind building hijackings. It’s a money spinner.

The model is especially lucrative because owners incur no costs for maintenance, municipal rates, or electricity. All the money goes directly into their pockets and a fraction to the enforcers. Tenants who fail to pay are violently evicted, their deposits withheld, and replaced immediately—and the new tenant is often required to pay a two-month deposit—without any legal eviction process.

Contrary to popular narratives, no foreign nationals control buildings in South Africa. Even Nigerian drug dealers are merely tenants of the local kingpins, because they lack the numbers and organised gangs required to control Johannesburg or Pretoria.

By attempting to clean up Johannesburg and remove undocumented immigrants—who are the most lucrative tenants for these building owners—Warras was stepping on the toes of extremely wealthy international property owners who profit from immigrant-occupied slums in South Africa.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Calling billionaires “the minority destroying America” is lazy thinking.

Bezos, Musk, Gates, and Zuckerberg’s companies employ nearly 2 million people directly and millions more indirectly. Their wealth is not hoarded cash. It is equity in productive companies that create jobs and services people actually use.

The U.S. government takes in $5 trillion a year. If poverty and suffering were just a money problem, they would already be solved.

Scapegoating the rich is easier than admitting bad policy, broken incentives, and institutional failure.

Billionaires are not destroying the country. Failed institutions are more at fault.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Nairobi River is in a deplorable state. This is in Ruaraka, Korogocho Ward.

[𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗 @fcbharrison]

On my life, Caicedo doesn’t just deserve a red card for that challenge, give him a four-month ban.

https://t.co/ZjlecqXGie

[Mod @CFCMods]

No red card for this 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[🎬N @Nino12x]

Yellow Card Red Card

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

How does Oburu Oginga justify leaving his sister—Beryl Achieng’—in the mortuary/funeral home, to attend the wedding (celebration) of Noordin Haji’s son?

[Abdulahi Adan @AbdulahiAdan10]

Thousands of Tanzanians are storming Business woman Jeniffer Jovin's Shops across the country to buy all the Masks and all her stockin Solidarity with Niffer who is facing treason Charges and potential death penalty for advising protestors to wear masks and selling masks to them

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

My people, I know most of you will disagree with me on this, but hear me out.

What Samia Suluhu(Idi amin mama) has done to Tanzania’s democracy barring Tundu Lissu, jailing critics, rigging the vote, is the same playbook Paul Kagame perfected in Rwanda.

And now? William Ruto is quietly running it in Kenya.
Not with guns. Not with jails.
But with handshakes, posts, and “broad-based govt” illusions.

The late Raila Odinga? Now in the govt.
Gideon Moi? Alliance sealed.
Next: Gachagua? Matiang’i? Kalonzo? Who knows.

He is not silencing you directly; He's buying the silence of your leaders.

But here’s what they forgot: we are the majority.
60% of East Africa is under 30.

We stopped the Finance Bill in 2024.
We are not dumb.

2027 is not an election, it’s a referendum on our future.
No more selling out.
No more illusions.
This time, we choose ourselves. ✊🏾

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the President of Burkina Faso, has made headlines with a bold and emotionally charged statement:

“They keep warning me that I will die like Gaddafi, Thomas Sankara, or any other young leader who tried to improve Africa. I am not afraid, and I will not regret dying for my people.”

This declaration comes amid growing threats against him for his uncompromising stance on sovereignty, anti-colonialism, and African self-determination.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Guy smiles for a photo after the tree he planted 35 years ago that he named Epimaco Amancio saved a bus from plunging off a cliff in Dalaguete, Cebu, Philippines.

It saved the lives of 37 people, most of them were students.

[JESHI LA SIFUNA @Jeshi_LaSifuna]

The "Sold out" Kasarani Stadium... You buy tickets in bulk just to stop massive numbers of Kenyans accessing the stadium koz you afraid of "WanTam" Chants ?

[I am Chege @_James041]

Tomorrow inform your area Church Leader that Wednesday is Wednesday.

June 25th 📌

#JusticeForOurMashujaa #RutoMustGoNow