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[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

Remember the tv show Cheaters? Most podcasts are a new version of Cheaters. The more outrageous the better.

[@luphumlongcayisa @luphumlongcayis]

I understand that the media space is, and has always been, driven by numbers. However, I remain of the perhaps naive view that a podcast host, broadcaster or platform owner has a responsibility to exercise discernment and empathy. The fact that a guest is willing to share something does not automatically mean it should be published. There are moments in interviews when people become vulnerable and disclose things they may later wish they had kept private. In those moments, I believe the responsibility extends beyond simply recording the content. It requires one to consider whether airing it serves the public interest or merely satisfies public curiosity at the expense of the guest.

If I sense that what has been shared stands to cause lasting harm, embarrassment, damaged relationships or future regret for the guest, I would seriously consider pulling the interview altogether. This is particularly true when children are involved. Children do not get to choose whether deeply personal family matters become part of the public record, yet they often carry the consequences long after everyone else has moved on. Perhaps I am old-fashioned. But I would hate for anyone to regret having trusted me with their story. And I would hate for the children to see my show as the source and amplifier of their public shame and humiliation.

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@AfricanMarvin @Lephutshe Either supply them with guns or forget it. Mnangagwa isn't handing over power because of a few protests here and there.

[Bhudda_Marv 🇿🇦 @AfricanMarvin]

Zimbabwen brothers and sisters what can we do as South Africans to help you fight for your country?

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@byteAnfield @GamingNaRoli On a smart tv?

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@JamesonTimba How many members does your caucus have? Are they all voting against the bill? Don't put your neck on the block when you are not sure of the numbers you have.

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@lavidaNOTA They hyped Ngizwe until he got sued.

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@AfricaisBlack @watersonHashtag An even more important lesson is for the EFF not to embrace every praise singer. Be wary of such characters. The harm they cause when they turn against the party is immense.

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

You’ve raised an important issue in passing: Why did most of us assume you were a man? What does that say about our biases and our assumptions about how women should engage on certain matters? More importantly, what do we think a woman should sound like?

[Tau e Tshehadi @D_Molatoli]

My daughter sent me this old picture from her archives. It's some years ago when I was working for Funda Community College in Soweto and we were hosting a delegation from the German University of Hildesheim, in collaboration with TUT. For those who keep thinking I'm a man.😭 😅 Just an old woman with strong political views, nothing to write home about. 😊

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@sipho28825 @STRAUSSBABY That won't stop us from pointing out the high levels of black idiocy.
https://t.co/4iqNJEV2eA

[011Shiesty @011Shiesty]

Lieutenant-Colonel Kelebogile Thepa was threatened while she was with her kids, she was in tears she cried real tears. She was heald at gun point and threatened to be burned alive. This is telling the mind set of Black South Africa. White tears are saltier than a black womans

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

Where is this going? We hope you won't react when it's late. @Khu_Ntshavheni

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

There is NO ONE who genuinely seeks to solve any problem with fellow Africans mobilises us based on tribalism or ethnic hatred:- such a person is cooking raw civil instability! They seek to ruin our country, not fix it!

We know this! We are students of HISTORY! This is how you get a country to FAIL! It is a recipe that imperialists have used for over 200 years, to render Africa completely unstable and unable to run its own affairs without violence and war! This is the only way they manage to extract all the riches found in our soil.

When will you OPEN your eyes: these are not people genuinely resolving an illegal immigration problem. These are people seeking to entrench ethnic nationalism & drive a wedge into the very unity of South Africa itself! They seek national instability!

Let me be CLEAR, as I have always been:

No one MUST ever support lawlessness. Immigration laws MUST be respected & imposed by law enforcement in our country without any fear or favour. In fact, there is no Pan-AFRICANISM in lawlessness. I have said this many times, even when we address large halls in the continent. That’s why Bushiri hates me!

What I will NEVER support is chasing black people on the streets like dogs whilst calling them garbage! No!

I will never agree that the cause of our chronic unemployment is other Africans from our continent. It’s a lie created by those who fail to run our economy, so that you don’t hold them accountable! They just collected 2 trillion in taxes: like every trillion they collected over years- it ends in corruption! TRILLIONS!

They are possibly the ones funding all these marches!

You all have forgotten every detail that comes out at Madlanga- your focus and rage is redirected away from these powerful people who ruin your lives everyday. SAPS generals exposed as the real drug lords, murderers and crooks!

Here is another painful FACT: these spaza shops we are being told to shutdown are in actual fact doing business with South Africans. Poor households generate more income by renting their back rooms and garages. It’s a MUTUAL ECONOMY! The point is to harness it through LAW and ORDER: not destroy it!

How do you march against people you opened your garage for as if you are marching against Apartheid? You were not forced to do so. It is because you correctly benefit & need more help in making it into an even more profitable investment!

Mind you, there is no white man that will ever leave Europe & rent from your township back rooms, or do business in your garage!

Incidentally, when a white man opens a business in the township, it’s called an investment, but when poor small business people from the continent do the same; it’s criminal!

This logic is driven by black self-hate: & it will lead to an even worse outcome- other black South Africans will start being told to only do business where they come from. Never to go into other provinces: or work in those provinces regardless of skills! Simply because of tribalism!

FACT: There is NO Pan-AFRICANISM in drugs and human trafficking. Whomsoever does this, African or not, MUST face the full might of the LAW!

I know you are frustrated! I know it is hard. I too have had a sister brutally murdered, stabbed to death in front of her 4 year old daughter by an undocumented Mozambican man. No one could help us bring him to justice. He simply fled!

If you ever doubt my appreciation of what that means. There it is. I told you! It was all over the news. I WILL NEVER say there should not be DOCUMENTATION of foreign nationals.

No single revolutionary leader who paid in blood for this country’s freedom will ever agree that when there is a problem amongst us, we must resort to hate and violence.

But these ones, who are mobilising today, are men of hate: they are already announcing what is next! It was always what was next! Ethnic domination! They must not succeed! https://t.co/WjmNHALyQK

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@S_Harudzibwi https://t.co/2gMau9ylFL

[Mr. Tshweu @TshweuMoleme]

Thabo Mbeki: Agents Of Old Regime Within ANC, Occupying Key Positions, Blocking Change from Within

Speaks of apartheid-era agents who’ve infiltrated party & gvt, rising to high-ranking positions. Old handlers still served, sabotaging internal reform efforts, incl Nat’l Dialogue

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

KKK - Kwere Kwere Klan

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@DojaCat Elon is in trouble.

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@Absolute_Kganki Mcebo thinks we have forgotten that the Department of Home Affairs questioned his citizenship and required DNA testing to verify his claim to citizenship . They revoked his citizenship because DNA tests couldn't be done on his 'mother' before she passed on. How did that case go?

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@SabeloChalufu https://t.co/dOOmZsVrck

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@Sinawo_Thambo At some point you will all have to accept that the MKP subscribes to right wing nationalist politics which are not compatible with the left. It indicates left and turns right, all the time. You can force this marriage of convenience but it's doomed.

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@fy2fv @bag_manoranjan @voyager_hehe @Samaytwt How do you do that in practical terms?

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@Princymthombeni Shameful when such misplaced statements come from women.

[African Community Notes @AfricanComNotes]

@Newzroom405 Where was Nomvalo when Duduzile started the MKP with her father?
https://t.co/0nmS1pP8vJ

[Dudu “Grenade” Zuma-Sambudla @DZumaSambudla]

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