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[BB @SnarkyBb]

@NadiaFerreira85 @AtholT Exactly! 🤣

[🎀Strawberry Cheesecake🎀 @Radebe_merci]

🚨 THIS IS NOT NORMAL 🚨

Amanda, Omphile, and Malwande are still missing. And somehow, everyone is quiet.

South Africa, wake up. Share this. Make noise. Demand answers.

Someone knows something. Speak up.

[BB @SnarkyBb]

@AlexJayZA @jacarandafm Happy Birthday Alex

[Malume @bozzie_t]

Stop pranking your dogs, Rocky’s heart stopped here.

[BB @SnarkyBb]

@Abramjee Why does this not surprise me?

[Mzamo Dudula @MzamoDudula]

W/O Karl Sander, thank you for dedicating so many years of your life to our law enforcement, fighting criminals and corrupt police officers alike.
What your leaders failed to tell you over 30 years, South Africans are telling you in just 2 days: We thank you. We thank you.
We’re sorry you had to endure so much simply for doing what is right. Words are not enough to make up for all the promotions you lost. 🙏 Thank you sir 🫡
#ThankYouWOSander #MadlangaCommission

[Gina @ginnydmm]

“WHILE THEY WERE SINGING “FREE PALESTINE,” SOUTH AFRICA WAS BURNING

For years South Africans have been told what to care about.

March for Palestine. Block roads for Gaza. Shout at Israel. Wear the keffiyeh. Change your profile picture. Repeat the slogans. Ignore your own collapsing country.

And while politicians, activists, NGOs, celebrities, university radicals, and professional protesters were busy exporting outrage to the Middle East, South Africa was quietly sliding toward social explosion.

Now suddenly government ministers are panicking.

Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has admitted what many ordinary South Africans already knew: government ignored the anti-illegal immigration protests while they were still “provincial matters.” They ignored the frustrations in townships. Ignored the anger over jobs. Ignored the pressure on clinics, schools, housing, crime, and collapsing infrastructure.

Ignored it… until it became national and bloody.

Now there are emergency JCPS meetings. Now there are “rules of engagement.” Now there is concern. Now there is urgency.

Why?

Because the fire has become too big to hide.

The political class always waits until communities explode before pretending to listen. South Africans have been crying for years about unemployment, border failures, crime syndicates, drug trafficking, human trafficking, corruption, and the collapse of law enforcement. But instead of dealing with real issues affecting ordinary citizens, the nation was constantly distracted with imported political theatre.

Every week there is another Palestine march. Another anti-Israel protest. Another manufactured outrage campaign.

Meanwhile:

South Africans cannot find jobs.
Townships are drowning in crime.
Borders are porous.
Hospitals are overwhelmed.
Infrastructure is collapsing.
Communities are angry.
Citizens feel abandoned.

But somehow we were told the biggest moral issue facing South Africa was always Israel.

The hypocrisy is staggering.
Many of the same voices who scream about “occupation” overseas say almost nothing while South Africans feel occupied by corruption, criminality, government failure, and uncontrolled illegal immigration at home.

This is what happens when leaders abandon reality and govern through ideology, slogans, and public relations instead of truth and accountability.
Now tensions are exploding because pain ignored eventually becomes anger.

None of this justifies violence, xenophobia, or attacks on innocent people. Lawlessness must never become the answer. But pretending citizens have no legitimate frustrations is equally dangerous and dishonest.
A government that ignores its people long enough eventually loses control of the streets.

South Africans are tired. Tired of unemployment. Tired of corruption. Tired of being unheard. Tired of political performances while communities collapse.

The real tragedy is that many activists helped create this environment by training society to be emotionally outraged about everything happening overseas while remaining strangely silent about the growing crisis inside South Africa itself.

The country was bleeding while they were singing.
And now the explosion they ignored has arrived at their own doorstep.

Shalom
Pastor Thom”

[Danny Nel @magicdan60]

Still no Handcuffs...
https://t.co/Z7Vb8eAk9t

[Times LIVE @TimesLIVE]

A senior doctor is leaving the public health sector after exposing dysfunction at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital and alleged political interference, saying he has reached breaking point.
Sunday Times journalist Gill Gifford unpacks the story.

[RaiZel @landbourainier]

🚨 SHOCKING VIDEO: ARMED THUGS HIJACK SOUTH AFRICAN ROADS WITH MAKESHIFT TOLL GATES – PAY R50 OR GO🔥 THIS IS NOT HUSTLE, THIS IS PURE EXTORTION AND SA IS COLLAPSING LIVE ON CAMERA‼️ 🇿🇦

North of Pretoria, I’m just trying to drive my bakkie down a dusty track when I roll straight into a full-blown ambush‼️ Not cops or roadworks. A mob of 15+ lowlifes has completely blocked the road with logs and rocks.

One thug is swinging a thick branch like a weapon, a yellow-vest clown is strutting around like he owns the bush, two black SUVs are idling ready for trouble and a cocky teenager on the embankment flips me the bird, grins like a psychopath and points straight at my windscreen.
“R50 to pass,” the leader barks at my window. No uniform, badge or shame, just the smug entitlement of someone who’s been running this scam for weeks‼️ “Road maintenance,” he lies through his teeth. The whole gang tightens up, branch scraping the sand like a death line. Pay up or we make this personal. No police or backup in sight. Just empty veld and my blood boiling over.
I shoved the fifty rand at him like it burned my hand🔥 He didn’t even thank me, just flicked his wrist and the “gate” opened. In the rear-view I watched them reset the logs, already licking their lips for the next victim.

This is the new South Africa. Rural roads, township routes, game reserve edges, all turning into open-air cash machines run by thugs who graduated from begging at robots to straight-up armed extortion in broad daylight🔥 Call it “African entrepreneurship” if you’re a spineless apologist. I call it highway robbery by the untouchables‼️

We are a country drowning in record farm murders by illegal foreigners, cash-in-transit heists, total lawlessness and now this💥 The government has abandoned its own people. Borders wide open, police are too stretched, too weak or too corrupt to stop it. The vacuum is being filled by these dirt-road gangsters who know exactly how weak we’ve become🔥

We used to mock Venezuela and Nigeria for this kind of anarchy. Now it’s here🔥 One R50 at a time. One blocked road at a time. Until every route in the country is taxed by whoever’s holding the biggest stick.
South Africa isn’t a complete hellhole yet but pieces of it are rotting faster than anyone wants to admit ‼️‼️‼️🔥

[Maverick @MaxPatricius]

In the dusty heart of the Northern Cape, an invasive tree was devouring farmland, drinking rivers dry, and choking communities.
Meet MannaBrew.
Deep in Prieska, (Again) on the banks of the Orange River, Brandt Coetzee and his brother Aam watched mesquite trees (Prosopis) overrun the arid Karoo. Aggressive, Thirsty, Unstoppable.
For over 26 years the Coetzees searched for an answer. Then came the breakthrough, the golden seedpods weren’t waste.
They were superfood.
Hand-harvested by local communities, slow-roasted, and ground into a smooth, caffeine-free espresso. Naturally sweet.
Rich in fibre, minerals, and gentle energy.
No jitters.
No crash.
Just pure Karoo resilience cuppa.
Today, every harvest creates seasonal work for up to a thousand, in one of South Africa’s poorest regions.
Every bag of pods helps restore precious water, grazing land, and hope.
The biggest solutions often hide inside the problems everyone else wants to burn or bulldoze.
Big institutions see crisis.
Conviction sees opportunity.
The Coetzees conquered an invader and turned it into manna, income for families, life for the land, and a premium brew the world is discovering.
One sip at a time, the desert is fighting back.

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly."

The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal.

When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience."

Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable.

When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates.

I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped.

The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault."

I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology."

Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident.

Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize."

I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time."

They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again."

I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes.

© 6IX.

[Clement Manyathela @TheRealClementM]

JUST IN : Geordin Hill Lewis tells me on #TheCMShow that members of the business community & ANC have been calling him over the weekend to suggest to him that DA must NOT vote to impeach the president, even if the impeachment committee finds against the President. He disagrees.

[Disprin @DisprinXtra]

de Ruyter was right corruption is deeply entrenched, citing that approximately R1 billion is stolen from Eskom monthly, and accused high-level ANC politicians of knowing about or supporting this corruption.
@GwedeMantashe1

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

I was waiting at a crosswalk in Tokyo. The traffic light was red but no cars were coming. A bunch of people were waiting anyway.

The tourist next to me said to his friend "why is everyone waiting? There's no cars."

He started to cross. An old woman said something to him in Japanese. He didn't understand and ignored her.

She stepped in front of him, blocking his path. Said more firmly in Japanese, pointing at the light.

A Japanese guy nearby translated for the tourist: "She says you must wait for the green light. Even if there are no cars. That is the rule."

Tourists got annoyed. "That's a stupid rule. There's literally no cars."

The translator told the old woman what he said. She responded in Japanese.

The translator said: "She says rules are not about cars. Rules are about respect for order. If everyone follows rules only when convenient, society breaks down. You wait for the green light because that is what civilized people do. Not because of cars. Because of civilization."

The tourist kind of scoffed but stopped trying to cross.

The light turned green. The old woman smiled at him, gestured for him to go ahead of her.

As we all crossed, the translator said to me quietly "she is right, you know. We follow small rules so we can trust each other with big rules."

That stuck with me. The idea that waiting at an empty crosswalk isn't about traffic. It's about proving to each other that we're all willing to follow rules even when no one would know if we didn't.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

After nine years and 34 successful rescues, a search-and-rescue Pitbull named Ranger retired. But instead of resting, he faded. He stopped eating, lost weight, and fell into a deep depression. His handler, Officer Dale, realized the heartbreaking truth: Ranger hadn't just lost his job; he had lost his purpose.

Hoping to spark something in him, the department let Ranger tag along on a search for an elderly man with dementia. The moment the truck doors opened, Ranger's instincts switched back on. Twenty-two minutes later, he found the disoriented man, pressing close to keep him warm and safe.

That night, Ranger finally ate and slept peacefully. He now has a new role. Every Tuesday, he visits a memory care center, bringing light and comfort to people who struggle to remember their own names. Some dogs don't just retire they find a new way to show up. Because sometimes, all any of us need is to feel like we still matter.

[PawPaw @pieterpawpaw]

Just drove back from Florida and it hit me like a ton of bricks, Johannesburg has become utterly decrepit.

Hardly a working streetlight anywhere. You’re too busy scanning for massive puddles of water hiding craters affectionately called potholes, because there is no sufficient drainage systems anymore.

You can’t stop at a working traffic light, if you even find one, for fear of being robbed or hijacked. So you change your final route home just to ensure you are not being followed.

And when you finally get close to your gate, still avoiding the well known crater in the road leading to your driveway, you open the gate from 3m away just to avoid a vehicle pulling up and blocking your driveway.

We truly live in a world class African city.

[Phumlani M. Majozi @PhumlaniMMajozi]

Good morning 🇿🇦,

If you agree with everything in my book, Lessons from Past Heroes, something will be very wrong. There’s no way you’ll agree with everything. In fact, you’ll find some passages provocative. You’ll appreciate the overall narrative, though. Get yourself a copy! #economy #politics #books

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

My beloved homeland South Africa, once a force to be reckoned with around the globe, gifting the world the first ever heart transplant, the Rooivalk helicopter and a world class railway system to supply Africa with food by some of the world’s best farmers.

Now 2026 it’s a total failed state, decaying infrastructure, destroyed and abandoned trains everywhere, and so riddled with murder, rape, corruption, violence and radical racism towards whites to the point of physical persecution.

Farmers brutality tortured and execute, citizens have more than 140 race laws against them.

It’s a failed DEI program

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

Another day, another race law scandal in South Africa.

The Chamber of Mines kept a report secret since 2015 that exposes that only 46 black "entrepreneurs" got 60% of R155 billion - R282 billion in "Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) deals.

Read more on @Politicsweb: https://t.co/XIjDoTalm3