You know who I miss to tell the G20 story with nuance, humour and with a firm sense of who and where we are 💓💐👇🏾 May we do it with your panache and elan, Ms Madia.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called on the youth of the world to unite in confronting global injustices, economic inequalities, and to embrace their role as architects of a more equitable future.
https://t.co/znC4TqFa80
This man was given 6 months to live.
Terminal lung cancer.
But he made ONE major change…
& lived another 37 years.
Here’s what he did (& his insane story):
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Julius Malema's speech in Parliament today was an outrage
Robust political debate is important and should be encouraged.
I too have serious questions about the new #GNU, and the programme which the President laid out yesterday, and encourage serious engagement on the issues at hand.
Parliament is a critical forum for such debate.
But Julius Malema's personal attacks today on President Ramaphosa in Parliament were not only scurrilous and defamatory, but completely distort and misrepresent South Africa's political history under apartheid, as well as diverting from the real issues at hand.
Instead of engaging the President politically, Malema chose to personally vilify him as an apartheid collaborator, and a stooge of mining bosses.
We appreciate that Malema was not yet born when the President was detained twice by the apartheid security police for a total of seventeen months, and he therefore may not understand the extent of suffering and sacrifice that entailed.
Of course Malema was too young by the time of freedom (he was 13 in 1994) to have that experience of repression, so we won't hold that against him, or call him an impimpi.
We understand that Malema was not yet born when the National Union of Mineworkers was formed, and is therefore ignorant of its history; or that Malema was only age six when Cyril Ramaphosa led the largest mineworkers' strike in South Africa's history, as NUM General Secretary.
We won't hold that ignorance of trade union history against Malema, or call him anti-worker, or a union basher.
The conduct by the EFF leader in today's speech was not only outrageous, but also explains why the majority of South Africans don't trust him or take him seriously, and why the party has hit a 9% ceiling- leaving aside the serious allegations against him and his fellow EFF leaders, which they still haven't answered.
It is a good thing that a progressive caucus has been formed in parliament to hold the executive to account, and hopefully to advance progressive policies.
But if this is the kind of conduct we can expect from them, don't be surprised if they sink like a stone.
#ParliamentarySession