@Agathasge

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

[🧡Lulu🌾; @ItsLulu_7]

Ugh we are fucked guys

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Trump offers to help Russia combat a suspected pneumonic plague outbreak, warning that “microbes have gotten stronger and stronger.”

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Author Annie Jacobsen warns pneumonic plague has a "100% death rate" without treatment.

[Valtteri Bottas @ValtteriBottas]

Yea I’m riding to Singapore 🚲

On the gravel roads less travelled with my new @canyon_bikes Grail CFR.

See you there 🇸🇬

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

When the President has to explain that it’s actually our proxy war in Eastern Europe, not our regime change war in the Middle East, that’s driving up the cost of living for hardworking Americans, it should be evident to everyone that our foreign policy does not serve the American people.

[Kenzie Goldberg ✴︎ reflections @KenzieGoldberg]

Bozell running to Fox News to deliver economic ultimatums on TV like a corporate raider on a media tour.💀

When Washington says South Africa needs to "remove barriers" for American capital, what they actually mean is scrapping democratic transformation policies like B-BBEE, dismantling local ownership requirements, and abandoning constitutional redress. They don't want a trade partner... they want a deregulation playground where foreign capital operates completely unbothered by historical context or domestic law.

If the US Mission actually cared about bilateral investment, they would negotiate through standard, professional diplomatic channels. Complaining to conservative cable news anchors about Pretoria’s domestic policies is not economic strategy... it’s theatrical posturing designed to feed domestic political talking points back home and give local lobby groups ammunition.

US corporations invest in South Africa because we have the most advanced financial infrastructure, mineral reserves, and legal protection on the continent, not out of imperial charity. Threatening to hold back capital unless a sovereign democracy rewrites its domestic statutes to suit foreign investors isn't "doing business." It’s economic blackmail.

South Africa is open for investment, but we are not putting our Constitution on the clearance rack to appease foreign embassies or Fox News hits.

[Clement Manyathela @TheRealClementM]

I just interviewed the DDG at home affairs on #TheCMShow about the much talked about Asylum applications at refugee reception centres. He confirmed that the department will NO LONGER turn someone away at the door simply because they entered the country illegally. He admits that this is going to overwhelm the department because some illegal immigrants may take advantage and go queue and claim to be asylum seekers. This will cause an administration burden.

[Karabo Mokgoko 🦄🌞 @Karabo_Mokgoko]

Haibo, alcohol ice block sold to school children, by a woman! #Vimba

[amaBhungane @amaBhungane]

[ICYMI] Betway’s parent company has a labyrinthine international structure. Listed in New York, but ultimately registered in Guernsey, with more than 100 subsidiaries around the world.

Now @SAReserveBank is probing historical transfers from South Africa to offshore group entities.

Read the latest update from @DewaldvanRensb1: https://t.co/0NUmZaWnbF

[Kenzie Goldberg ✴︎ reflections @KenzieGoldberg]

Playing the victim on social media while acting like a viceroy... South Africa is not a satellite state that takes public lectures from a U.S. ambassador on a megaphone power trip.
If Washington wants a relationship, try respecting our courts, our constitution, and basic diplomatic channels instead of throwing tantrums online.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

When people set you up, they use the things that they know you like doing...they entice and lure you with those things because they know THAT'S what you respond to...that's what you do! NOBODY can make you pile an 18 year old with alcohol and rape her whilst she is passed out. Nobody can make you ask a 16 year old for nudes and videos late at night and have sexually explicit talk with her. Fuck off with this acceptance and justification of rape culture..it is part of the problem- not just men who do it but those who justify and normalize it.

[Silverstone @SilverstoneUK]

What. A. Comeback. 👊

#BahrainGP

[Sihle Mavuso @ZANewsFlash]

NEWS: Interpol has arrested two Turkish nationals who were wanted for rape in their home country and were hiding in South Africa.

One of them is a former primary school principal who was wanted for sexually assaulting a 9 year-old girl and he was hiding in Cape Town.

The other one was wanted for raping his former lover and was hiding in Isiphingo in the south of Durban - KZN Tonight Podcast

[Sky News @SkyNews]

The G7 will share millions of barrels of oil and diesel from its reserves, according to Emmanuel Macron.

Donald Trump has hailed the move after threatening to ban US diesel exports.

Sky’s @EdConwaySky looks at why diesel prices matter so much to the US president.

[Lerato Tshabalala @LeratoTJ]

I’m not exaggerating when I say I think about this skit at least four times a year! 🤣🤣🤣
I love everything about it! 😂😂😂

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Death row inmate unconscious and on ventilator after botched execution, lawyers say

https://t.co/02FxanwgI3

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A former Cornell University student has accused seven men of sexually assaulting her in 2024. Now, with a civil lawsuit filed and the criminal investigation reopened, the case has sparked massive debate online.

Sky's @OliveLineham explains what we know so far ⬇️

[Kenzie Goldberg ✴︎ reflections @KenzieGoldberg]

Let’s talk about Adv. Nel’s question: “Why did a 16-year-old have naked pictures of herself?”

In legal and psychological terms, this is a classic smokescreen: shift the focus away from the conduct of the adult under scrutiny and onto the behaviour of the minor.

The Victim-Blaming Pivot
Instead of focusing on how an adult allegedly acquired, possessed or distributed explicit images of a teenager, the defence shifts attention to the teenager’s camera roll... because apparently the urgent legal issue is now her digital-storage habits.

Erasing the Power Dynamic
Grooming and exploitation often involve significant age and authority imbalances. By focusing on what the 16-year-old was doing, the defence risks creating the illusion of equal agency between a teenager and a much older adult. Her behaviour does not automatically answer questions about his alleged conduct.

The “Passive Bystander” Sleight of Hand
It is also a familiar defence tactic: portray the powerful adult as a passive recipient of circumstances... as though the images simply materialised on his phone and he had no agency over what he requested, retained or forwarded.
“Oops, look what magically appeared on my phone.” 😭

The question seemed less designed to illuminate the adult’s alleged conduct than to invite moral judgment of the teenager. And once everyone starts debating what a 16-year-old “should” or “shouldn’t” have been doing, attention conveniently drifts away from the far more serious questions facing the adult.

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Petrol set to smash R30/litre next week; diesel may also hit record high

https://t.co/lQtPo03wU7

[Nandi Madida 🇿🇦 @Nandi_Madida]

I guess now we know why crime has always been such a problem in South Africa… when the very people meant to fight it were allegedly part of it. 😔💔🇿🇦