Tebo_Maama

Ke ngoanana Mokuena🐊🐊

[🦢 @loungingmee]

As a woman I am extremely aware the only reason I have rights is because women before me got mouthy, organized, and made herself inconvenient. Thats why I see women who uphold the patriarchy as traitors

[🦢 @loungingmee]

feminism didn’t teach me to hate men. It taught me not to prioritize them above myself and apparently many men experience that as hate.

[Tebo_Maama @TheMaverick702]

@DrRebrand Even Dineo Ranaka said she doesn't subscribe to it & doesnt even understand it...said a man a king blah blah! Was so shook

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

Even a Philistine like me was moved. What a talent.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

This is how I arrive at my friend's house. 🤣 . And that's after a long day at work!

[🦋 🌷Love Music 🎶 & Dance 💃🏻🕺🏻 @Tiana_Celine_23]

Dolly wrote it with all her heart and performed it with all her tenderness. Whitney brought that vocal power to it, making it immortal.

[Dinesh Govender @dineshgovender]

For Tsontso

How you can support

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[nicole @Bigbrother_all]

Dineo Ranaka calls out MacG & Sol Phenduka

[Lynette Ntuli @MsNtuli]

The most active perpetrators of GBV and custodians of misogyny are fathers, partners, husbands, brothers, uncles…

The most unsafe place for girls and woman to be is actually at home. Beyond the SAPS stats, this (and one other I will reference another time) book by Nechama Brodie is critical reading 📊.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

And that is why I ask @GovernmentZA @PresidencyZA - what is the point of these regular "visits" to this ambassador? Which other ambassador gets ministers, almost on a weekly basis, coming to HIS turf for meetings and then before they even leave, posts absolute lies about South Africa? Which other Ambassador and mission has had the president and his senior aides meeting with them? This was a few weeks ago and yet here is @USAmbRSA lying viciously about a country that has afforded him respect and generosity? What is the value-add of these meetings that HE asks for? He gets indulged by the highest leadership of South Africa and then almost immediately, spits on the nation's face.

In this week when the nation is mourning brutal rapes and murders of women, this week when the possibility of a serial killer targeting Black women - this is what the ambassador of "the most powerful nation in the world" tweets?

I'm surprised some prominent South Africans are falling for Ambassador Bozell's sob story. He is telling you all that he is getting flack from Washington for not being hard enough on South Africa, for changing his views and being positive about the country. Really? Does the tweet below sound like someone who has become positive and wants to build relations? Stop falling for this manipulation, designed to get into your good books. Bozell is a hostile and dishonest ambassador. You owe him nothing.

[Clement Manyathela @TheRealClementM]

EVERY MAN SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS POEM 💔 https://t.co/2XFybEO6xL

[Tebo_Maama @TheMaverick702]

@Zulu_Loveletter @RediTlhabi "instead of you protecting yourself from such monsters"...What!! How was Uyinene supposed to protect herself at the Post Office? How are women who are raped & killed by uber drivers supposed to protect themselves? Your heartless!! O pelo empe

[Tebo_Maama @TheMaverick702]

@RediTlhabi 🤣🤣🤣 If I'm not mistaken I think there's also a croucheted white beret that matches that white dress...lol! Khumo must also try this fit I want to see something🤣: Mama was right, you'd prolly not know abuti ola oa paint hloohong kali cut & direction.... Why😭

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Winnie Mandela on meeting the Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee. (Death of Apartheid, BBC)

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Jacinta, despite my output being about the SABC's editorial architecture, you insist that I am focused on you - all because I responded to Lupi and addressed the main point of his post - editorial principles. Nonetheless, since you have asked let me indulge you because this is the editorial and narrative advisory work that I do and can deliver it in my sleep. I give you the grace and benefit of the doubt that your inquiry about verification is sincere. So here is the lesson:

Verification happens before amplification, not after an inflammatory allegation has been published to hundreds of thousands of people.

1) The number from which this message came is your first lead; it is not evidence. Call the sender. Ask probing questions: First, who is the sender and what is his/her interests in the matter? Why did the sender come to you and not the police, church, etc. Who was allegedly killed? When and where? Was a case opened? What is the case number? Which police station investigated it? How was the alleged perpetrator’s nationality established?

2) Ask who else witnessed these events and speak to those people independently. Those are your SECONDARY sources. Research the community, examine the available crime data and GO THERE with credible witnesses to see for yourself. Speak separately to residents, community leaders, the police and, where possible, the affected family. Do not simply gather people who will confirm what you already believe.

3) And a sincere caution: given your reach and ambitions, you must understand that not everyone who contacts you will tell you the truth. Some will tell you what they think you want to hear. Others may deliberately craft messages calculated to trigger your platform. Others may want to trap you. Anyone with a public profile can be manipulated or set up. Vigilance and verification protect the public, but they also protect YOU. This is not something to be playful or sarcastic about. The best way to insulate yourself is to arm yourself with the truth. That's why NOBODY can bring me down. Oh they can insult me but nothing they say is true precisely because I SEEK the truth. You need to make the truth and verified facts, with evidence, your friend. Not anonymous messages or unattributable posts.

4) If your movement is serious, ask its funders to invest in competent researchers and fact-checkers. WhatsApp messages are neither investigations nor proof - particularly when they make grave claims about an entire category of people.

5) Establish a relationship with accredited, APOLITICAL research institutions with a long history of data output that has been quoted internationally and is trusted by formidable organizations. Institutions that have won awards or other accolades for their work. Have a professional and respectful relationship with them.

6) NOBODY knows everything. Have a list of respected, high achieving and respected professionals AND community workers to be your sounding board. Just like some have spiritual leaders or financial advisers, have a cohort of people with whom yiu can be vulnerable. You don't have to always listen to them. But they are there as a sounding board..they are there to say "Wait, breathe, reflect."

Conclusion: This level of editorial and strategic advice would ordinarily arrive with a report, list of contacts and a R200,000 invoice from me. Today, consider it a public-service contribution from me. You are also welcome to enrol in one of my modules on editorial integrity. I teach this stuff and advise institutions on it. It is good to volunteer it to you.

I have indulged this sufficiently. I must return to work and an early morning run.

[Anele Mdoda @Anele]

Hawuuuuuu

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

If the exam wasn't multiple-choice I'd have failed again..I never used my calculator after the 4th question. I was already dizzy. I did a "Piki Piki Mabelane sala sala gentlemani....." type of exam..I was done in 30 minutes
Having given up after question 4. 😳 🫣

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

And you know how I EVENTUALLY passed STATS? 😃 My varsity boyfriend from 2nd year to Honours, to early years of work was an Engineering student. Brilliant at Maths and Stats (I have a type 😃 🤫. We stopped fooling around and WORKED. He became my tutor. I still didn't understand but clearly something finally clicked. 😃 😀

[Ananya🤍 @ananya_pvtpf]

If you don't let people experience consequences of their actions towards you , you will remain a safe space for their worst behavior.

[Mia♡ @luxemiaa]

I have been a pretty committed atheist for decades now.

But Dolly Parton is in heaven with Jesus and I will not be taking questions on this.

I don't want to hear about the vastness of the cosmos or the absence of empirical evidence or any of my own arguments that I have made confidently for years. None of that applies here. We are making an exception and the exception is Dolly.

If there is a heaven and Jesus is up there he has been waiting for her specifically and there was a whole moment when she arrived. That's just what happened. I don't know how to explain the theological mechanics of it and I'm not going to try.

Some people just live in a way that makes the universe owe them something on the other side and Dolly Parton sent books to millions of children she never met and asked doctors to use her dying body to save strangers and wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You and funded research that helped create a Covid vaccine and just kept going like that for decades.

If heaven has any kind of selection process she didn't even have to apply.

I'm still an atheist about everything else. The rules still apply across the board.

Except Dolly.

Dolly is with Jesus now and that's just a fact and the cosmos can deal with it.