Kgomotso Moyo

Just sharing what comes to mind and what I feel is relevant

[Kgomotso Moyo @Tsomies]

A thread of stories and things I've encountered while running. I will update it as I see fit:

[Tshenolo PI @TshenoloPi]

⚠️ URGENT: NEW KIDNAPPING SCAM IN SOUTH AFRICA - PLEASE SHARE ⚠️*

Ladies, please be careful in town, taxi ranks, malls, and parking lots. There’s a new method kidnappers are using:

*How the scam works:*
1. *The approach*: A man in a car stops next to you. He calls you by a name or says “Hey, get in the car! We’ve been looking for you.”
2. If you refuse and say you don’t know him, he immediately switches tactics.
He turns to people around and says loud enough for everyone to hear:
_“Don’t worry guys, she’s my wife. She has amnesia / she’s mentally ill. She gets confused like this. I just need to get her home.”_
3. *Why it works*: People don’t want to interfere in “family problems” or with someone who “has a mental illness.” So they look away. That’s exactly what he’s counting on. That’s how he gets you into the car. That’s the strategy

*IF THIS HAPPENS TO YOU:*
- Do NOT get in the car for any reason.
- Be loud and specific*: Yell “*I DO NOT KNOW THIS MAN. THIS IS KIDNAPPING. PLEASE CALL THE POLICE AND HELP ME.*”
The word “KIDNAPPING” makes people react way faster than “I’m fine.”
- *Draw attention*: Drop your bags, sit on the ground, scream. Make it impossible for him to look normal.
- *Call for help*

*AS A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC IF YOU SEE THIS HAPPENING:*
- Don’t assume it’s domestic. Don’t walk away, help the victim.

- Step in and ask the Scammer directly*: If they know the person they are trying to take, if they say yes, Ask the lady (victim) to whisper her name to you or the Lady(victim) to show you her ID…then Tell the scammer/kidnapper to tell you the name of that lady(victim) he’s trying to take.… if the scammer gets the name wrong it simply means he was trying to kidnap the lady….
- *Call 10111 or SAPS* right away and tell them you suspect a kidnapping.
- *Take details*: Car color, make, license plate, location, what the man looks like. Send to police and share to warn others.

Kidnappers are using our fear of “getting involved” and stigma around mental illness against us. Let’s not let it work.

*Please share this with your sisters, mothers, friends, coworkers, and WhatsApp groups.* One share could save a life.
Stay in groups where you can. Trust your gut. If something feels off, it probably is.

*Emergency numbers for Johannesburg:*
Tshenolopi: [phone]
SAPS: 10111 | Ambulance: 10177 | JMPD: 011 758 9650 | GBV Helpline: 0800 428 428

#SouthAfrica #KidnappingScam #WomensSafety #SAPS #StayAlert #TshenoloPI

[BREEZY SUPREME @BreezyxSupreme]

Tbh idk how to promote my band with these wild ass algorithms on here so if you black and fuck with rock just repost a nigga plz

[Kgomotso Moyo @Tsomies]

Don't mind me, just enjoying being the first man to win both 200 mile races in South Africa 🚶🏽

[goma @soigomaa]

She was a 25 year old lawyer in Ayacucho, Peru when her boyfriend attacked her in a hotel in July 2015. The security cameras captured everything. Him chasing her. Dragging her by the hair. Her screaming for help while hotel staff tried to intervene. The court watched the footage.
Then sentenced him to one year suspended for minor injuries. The more serious charges - dropped. She refused to accept it. She went public. Put her name and her face to everything. Took the fight to the media, to the courts, to the streets. On August 13 2016 half a million Peruvians marched through Lima. The largest demonstration in the history of Peru. Led by her.
The appeals court threw out the original verdict. He was retried. Convicted of attempted f3micide. Sentenced to 11 years in prison. She went on to become a member of Congress. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her name is Arlette Contreras. And she was just getting started.

[Divina António @DivinaTonio]

When you really think about it 1912 wasn't a long time ago but so much has changed including social norms because why does my congolese dad constantly tells me he doesn't like my locs 😭

[Silkaats @_KayTheLame_]

He woke up one day and decided to make one of the best hip hop joints ever released in this country

[COOLEE BRAVO @ItalianFiesta]

And I’m right in da middle if they both wanna get SIXTY ATE

[Nolwazi Tusini @NolwAzi_Tusini]

No. Ungasifaki in your loser behaviour.
Don’t try make your hate a national project, mark us absent.
Imagine. Supporting England over another African team?? Mxm.

[Bafana Bafana @BafanaBafana]

Bafana Bafana enter the history books as they progress to the next round of the FIFA World Cup for the first time ever thanks to a Thapelo Maseko goal in the 2nd half

#BafanaPride #BafanaBafana #FIFAWorldCup

[Dobie. M @Dobie_M]

…15 years later this car would go on to change the lives of Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe forever.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“Authors, please use easy words in your books” is a sentence designed in a lab to upset me. You only learn by reading things that challenge you. This idea that we should only ever be exposed to things we know already is deeply incurious and anti-intellectual.

[NBA @NBA]

"CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!"

Forever iconic, forever LBJ 🔥

10 years ago today.

[AKA @akaworldwide]

SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦

[Taurus Groove @jiggyjayy2]

Imagine these the women you see growing up and then society tells you some mf Gwyneth Paltrow is the most beautiful women in the world, GTF out my face

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Nudes are overrated. Send me a video of you reading so that I can see if you’re literate enough to fight against the technofascist wave of illiterate anti-intellectualism.

[Moneyforlaundry 🇿🇦🇸🇳🇫🇷 @bonchbobaine]

Then who tf was opening the gate

[Kgomotso Moyo @Tsomies]

So no one listened to Billie Jean I take it

[Global UPDATES @GlobalUpdates24]

People are wondering why the biological daughter of Michael Jackson looks so different from him

[Kgomotso Moyo @Tsomies]

I think the number plate was AHH/F 6680 pink/peach Suzuki Wagon R or Nissan DayZ.
I don't know, it was difficult to make out because it was dark but I think that was it.

[Kgomotso Moyo @Tsomies]

I'm used to confrontation when I run because I'm not wearing a shirt but today someone tried to kill me. Not fight me, yell at me then drive across the road to try run me over. Then when I crossed the road, he turned around followed me and tried again. And again, and again.

[Kgomotso Moyo @Tsomies]

There were witnesses, all people who see me run there every day. I've mostly blocked out the memory of what just happened but it's the first time I've felt genuinely unsafe running. He promised to try and kill me any day that he sees me and now I feel paranoid.