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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"He didn't fear anybody. He had those people so scared they had to kill him. They couldn't buy him, they couldn't frighten him, they couldn't reach him."

—Malcolm X on Patrice Lumumba

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Dr. Kesaveloo Goonam (1906 - 1998) was a South African medical doctor, feminist, and anti-apartheid activist who became the first Indian woman to practise medicine in South Africa. Born in Durban in 1906, she dedicated her life to both healing underserved communities and aggressively fighting state-sanctioned racial segregation and gender inequality. She traveled to Scotland in 1928 to study at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Upon graduating in 1936, she was denied hospital placement because white nurses refused to take orders from a woman of color. She opened a highly successful private clinic in Durban's Grey Street complex. Alongside fellow activists like Dr. Monty Naicker, she led the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign against the "Ghetto Act," which restricted land ownership for Indians. For her relentless civil disobedience against apartheid segregation laws, she was arrested and imprisoned at least 17 times. Facing extreme, non-stop harassment from the state's apartheid Security Branch, Goonam left South Africa in 1978. She lived and practiced medicine in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Zimbabwe. Following the unbanning of liberation movements and the release of Nelson Mandela, she returned to Durban in 1990. She triumphantly cast her vote in South Africa's historic, first democratic election in 1994, before passing away in 1998. Source: Source: SAHO, Brown History, Wikipedia

[The Counterhegemon @GillianSchutte1]

"African farmers face a different historical landscape. Stats SA’s 2024 General Household Survey counted 3.33 million South African households involved in one or more agricultural production activities.

Of these, 3.115 million were Black African households, compared with 130 000 white households. This means Black households participate in agriculture on a mass scale, although policy, media and finance rarely treat their production as central to national food sovereignty.

Most of these households farm because food insecurity presses directly on daily life. Stats SA reports that households involved in agriculture mostly did so to secure either an additional source of food, at 75.5%, or a main source of food, at 12.6%. Only 7.2% farmed to generate income. This production carries survival, care and household reproduction rather than the export glamour attached to commercial estates." From Schutte’s M&G article below: THE MYTH OF THE GREAT WHITE FARMER.

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

1904 satirical German cartoon depicting the major European colonial powers in Africa & their methods

-First panel shows Germans organizing & drilling local wildlife, satirizing Germany’s ambitions to bring order & discipline to the wild. The sign on the tree reads “No snow dumping”

-Second panel shows a British colonial administrator pouring Whisky into the mouth of an African man, while a soldier grinds the man in a machine to produce gold, as a missionary reads the Bible to the man, reflecting Britain’s brutal industrial scale exploiting of Africa for profit, while pacifying the natives with alcohol & religion

-Third panel shows French soldiers frolicking with African women, implying the French were really just there for for the women

-Fourth panel depicts King Leopold of Belgium dining on the severed head of an African man while the rest of his body is spit-roasted on a fire behind Leopold

[The Counterhegemon @GillianSchutte1]

The global right has built a sentimental story around the South African white farmer. 

In that story, the farmer appears as a uniquely gifted agricultural figure who turned land into food through discipline, instinct and inherited ability. 

The story removes conquest, slavery, land dispossession, cheap Black labour, state-backed infrastructure, irrigation, commercial credit, agrochemical dependency, protected markets and generations of racialised advantage from the frame.

When foreign actors speak about offering South African farmers opportunities abroad, they usually mean white farm owners. They rarely mean African farm supervisors, farm managers, tractor operators, irrigation workers, animal handlers, seed keepers and small producers who have kept farms working while receiving none of the global sympathy attached to white ownership.
🔴Read here. https://t.co/pJvOdgSe6p

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The web is disappearing 🕳️

According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.

But that’s not the whole story.

In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.

Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from the Internet Archive

📖 Download & read: https://t.co/BrawXOwMBr
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/EB58IliqDm

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Did you know? In 1938, Oliver Tambo and Joseph Mokoena broke academic barriers for Black students, with their high scores in Mathematics and Physical Science in the Transvaal being matched by only one White student that year. This prompted the government to probe their marks and ordered them to rewrite both subjects. Even after rewriting, both Tambo & Mokoena still topped the matric class of the year. Source: Beyond The Engeli Mountains by Luli Callinicos/SAHO.

[Lu_Guy @LuGuy20]

The Cadbury's Dairy Milk sold in South Africa contains only 20% cocoa solids; the rest is vegetable oils & fats. In other countries it wouldn't be considered to be chocolate & couldn't be legally called chocolate...learning new madness every day.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

When we see the image that Donald Trump posted—placing himself in the likeness of Jesus—and when we hear his attacks on the Pope, we must be clear: this did not emerge in a vacuum.

This is the outcome of years of religious language that elevated him—declaring him “raised up by God,” chosen, even anointed.

And this is not only about evangelical figures like Paula White-Cain. We must also look at voices like @BishopBarron , a Catholic bishop—who stood among those offering prayers and praise in that now infamous gathering—and has acknowledged that Trump’s comments about the Pope were inappropriate and disrespectful. And yet, in the same breath, he expresses gratitude for serving on Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission.

This is the same framework of “religious liberty” that has been used to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. The same “religious liberty” commission that removed @CarriePrejean1 for daring to challenge Zionism.

And so what is being said—perhaps indirectly, but clearly—is this: proximity to power still matters.

Even while acknowledging wrongdoing, the relationship remains intact. The benefits remain. The access remains.

In fact, the bishop goes further—commending Trump by saying that no president in his lifetime has shown greater dedication to defending “our first liberty.”

That says everything.

Yes, he concludes by saying the president owes the Pope an apology. But by then, the deeper truth has already been revealed.

This is the system working exactly as designed.

[Immortal Stat @immortalstats]

THE NESTLÉ SUGAR GAP: AN ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL CERELAC STANDARDS — 2026

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

The artwork is a depiction of a historical event that involved the massacre of Aboriginal children that occurred in the colonization of Australia. As described in 'Massacres to Mining: the Colonization of Aboriginal Australia' by Janine Roberts, an Aboriginal person recounts how her mother would sit and cry and tell the story of how Aboriginal children were murdered during the colonization years: "They buried our babies in the ground with only their heads above the ground. All in a row they were. Then they had tests to see who could kick the babies' head off the furthest. One man clubbed a baby's head off from horseback."

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

They’re trying to come back. So they’re trying to facilitate a regime change that will align as closely as possible with a system they sorely miss.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in southern Lebanon not to hide Muslim residents among them as their forces advance.

Not a peep from Sheryl Sandberg.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israeli authorities confess they are singling out the Shi'ite Lebanese population for destruction.

This is textbook ethnic cleansing, described as "Israel's message" by the @nytimes.

[member of Hamas🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 @kwets11]

When foreign investors and the DA say South Africa has too much red tape, what they mean is they cannot legally wake up on a random Monday and send an email at 6am laying off 30 000 workers without severance pay with no heads up or due process.👍🏾

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Stone Age?
At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.

We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.

[cthulhucachoo @Cthulhucachoo]

On one hand, Gift of the Givers have helped thousands of South Africans for nothing. On the other hand, the Zionist community has done none of that AND demanded we worship a country where people throw kittens into bonfires to celebrate a religious holiday. How will we choose!?