Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika is a prayer 🙏

Writer. Editor. Toni Morrison groupie. 📕 “Broken Porcelain" (essays on depression/ mental illness)

[Phindile Kunene🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kunenephindz]

She lured a young relative to Johannesburg under the pretence of offering her a job. She then fraudulently took out funeral insurance policies on her and allegedly colluded with the gardener to murder the relative. Every person in this story is South African.

[Fashion MOEments @FashionMOEments]

NEW KASI FLAVOUR DROP!

https://t.co/in7BfcTzIY

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

Good news in South Africa: the murder rate has sharply declined. Key factors: better high-visibility policing, and the end of daily electricity cuts, according to crime experts in the analysis below.
It's important for us to acknowledge good news when it happens.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Bianca van Wyk @BiancavanWyk16]

Peet Viljoen in the US begging to be deported back to South Africa after making several videos about how white people in South Africa were being persecuted because of the colour of their skin in South Africa. 🤡

He was granted a deportation order.

[simple boi: mabele & amabele @Queen_Finxa]

06:00 in Cape Town City Centre is a morbid reminder that apartheid’s effect are present
Only Black and Coloured humans scattered in the streets after probably leaving home before 04:00
to start the economy
To clean up and beautify the city
The homeless scramble to hide themselves

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

“I am an African.” Pixley kaIsaka Seme said these words 120 years ago as he delivered his award winning “The Regeneration of Africa” speech at Columbia University. He’d go on to conceptualise the formation of the ANC. Today marks 75 years since his death, at 69 years old.

[Lelo @lelowhatsgood]

considering that it’s the Arts that often puts South Africa in the lead on the global cultural landscape.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Each circle has a different story

[Sinister in the Presidency @AmandaBRinquest]

i will never stop hoping. for a free palestine. for a love that stays. for a life well lived. for an africa at peace with itself. for my parents health and safety. but i’d be lying if I didn’t admit that hope has broken my heart almost as much as hopelessness has.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I think one of the worst things the internet did to reading was turn it into a pathetic competitive sport. You don’t need a 45 book goal. You just need to read what you actually like, at your own pace, and let the ideas sink in longer than a fleeting Instagram reel.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[My Kheswa 🇵🇸 @ThandoAfrika]

I think for our nations Arts deserves its own department away from sports. Arts is one of our biggest offerings, perhaps making it a priority wouldn’t be a bad idea.

[chanté @chantexcix]

but there’s no money to keep arts festivals going or to support people in the industry 😭👍🏼

[Malume Malusi @UncleCul]

Let’s not act brand new. This is grandstanding

If we really wanted to…we can flush people we don’t want in our community by simply boycotting their services and trades.

But instead we are asking them to leave while we are flooding their businesses with money.

[deji toye @dejitoye]

Wole Soyinka and American novelist, Russell Banks, disagree on the relationships between experience, imagination and empathy. They were visiting the West Bank as guests of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in 2002.

[My Kheswa 🇵🇸 @ThandoAfrika]

The SAPS criminalised a child 🥹💔

[Pierre de Vos ⚖️ @pierredevos]

"In South Africa, one of xenophobia’s quieter moral mechanisms is the way foreign wrongdoing is made to carry more meaning than citizen wrongdoing."

[yu_007 @YVaw123]

A Palestinian Boy In Gaza Paints The South African Flag 🇿🇦 On a Bombed Building Wall With a Message To South Africans Saying : " FROM GAZA Thank You South Africa ♥️"