Anli Serfontein

South African journalist, author, filmmaker based in Berlin. Retweets are not endorsements;

[Anli Serfontein @anliserfontein]

Hard to leave - I've been on here for 15 years, but definitely time to move on.... Find me on @anliserfontein.bsky.social

[Durban FilmMart SA @durbanfilmmart]

The news of Christine Tröstrum’s passing brings great sadness to the DFMI and the global film community.

Christine was a dear friend and colleague to the DFMI team. We will miss her. We send our deepest condolences to family, friends and the entire film community.

[visitBerlin @visitberlin]

3,2,1,.. #berlinsummer 🚀☀️ 🍉

#Berlin #Feiertag #Sommer

[Anli Serfontein @anliserfontein]

@mfullard2 I can recommend the Braai Room in Lonehill - a bit of a drive from Killarney. I recently had a lovely Saturday morning breakfast there with a view of the koppie. Maybe the Capetonian in you, could first hike there before tucking in.

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission has upheld an objection to stop Jacob Zuma from going to parliament.

This means Jacob Zuma is not allowed to contest in the upcoming South African elections due to a criminal record he acquired after being convicted and jailed for defying a court order to testify at a corruption inquiry.

Zuma was on a parliamentary list submitted by his new political party, uMkhonto we Sizwe known simply as MK.

[Zakes Mda @ZakesMda]

I am greatly moved by your tweet, son (I can call you that; you’re two years younger than my oldest son). This is the bravest thing any son of an icon can do. Ignore those who are denouncing you. What is more important is your truth and your healing. Many of us need such reckoning with the truth of our past. My father never physically beat up my mother - to my knowledge. But his words were abusive to her most times. I never said or did anything about it. I thought it was normal, it was how real men talked to women. It was the same when I saw Nelson Mandela slap his wife Evelyn in the kitchen in the presence of us kids. Here too I thought it was a normal thing that men should do occasionally - discipline “their” women. It was only on looking back as a young adult that I realized that what I saw growing up had left me traumatized. It was only after I had written about these incidents in my memoirs that I felt the relief, and I came face-to-face with my humanity once again. Like you, I was denounced by those who have placed themselves as gatekeepers of what is or is not African. They can all go fry eggs.

[Mukoma Wa Ngugi @MukomaWaNgugi]

My father @NgugiWaThiongo_ physically abused my late mother – he would beat her up. Some of my earliest memories are me going to visit her at my grandmother’s where she would seek refuge. But with that said it is the silencing of who she was that gets me. Ok- I have said it.

[Anli Serfontein @anliserfontein]

I encountered #EddieWebster as a first year student at #Wits. His Sociology lectures left a lasting impression, as it did on generations of students. After years of #apartheid education, it forced us to critically think. Later as a journalist I valued his insights of our society

[Charles Leonard @JCharlesLeonard]

"To build institutions and movements, you have to build people, and this is maybe the most radical thing anyone can invest their time in."
A heartfelt obituary by Andries Bezuidenhout in tribute to Eddie Webster.
#EddieWebster #obit #radical #unions #left
https://t.co/M7XM9h7O1k

[Deborah Cole @doberah]

THE ZONE OF INTEREST premiere in Berlin tonight. Hedwig Höß lived until 1989, which drew a gasp from the crowd. She died in her daughter's guest bed in Virginia & was buried in Arlington in a nameless grave with only "Mutti" on the headstone

[The Namibian @TheNamibian]

BREAKING NEWS: Namibia's third president, Hage Geingob, has died at a hospital in Windhoek. He was 82.
Vice president Nangolo Mbumba announced that Geingob died on Sunday morning.
"By his side was his wife and his dear children," said Mbumba said.

[Nina Scholz @NinaaScholz]

Jedes Jahr am 27. Januar fährt in Warschau eine leere alte Straßenbahn entlang des ehemal. Warschauer Ghettos. Sie nimmt keine Passagiere mit, um an die zu erinnern, die damals keine Straßenbahn mehr benutzen durften und später deportiert u ermordet wurden. #HolocaustMemorialDay

[Katrin Göring-Eckardt @GoeringEckardt]

Halle, Magdeburg, Spremberg, Luckenwalde, Eberswalde, Jena, Leipzig, Dresden, Erfurt, Potsdam. Überall im Osten sind Menschen für Demokratie auf der Straße, die wir 1989 erkämpft haben. Ermutigend! Freu mich über alle, die raus gegangen sind, aber besonders im Osten #wirsindmehr

[Shabir Madhi @ShabirMadh]

@WitsHealthFac Call out to all Wits alumni and associates who had the privilege of interacting with Prof Harry Seftel. Please take a moment to share your experience with the man who was a in a class of his own. Thanks Shabir Madhi - Dean at FHS, Wits. @WitsUSA @WitsUniversity @witsalumni

[Ambassadeur Stephan Steinlein @AmbDEenFR]

Le 3 octobre 1990, j’étais invité à l’ambassade de la RFA à Paris en tant que dernier ambassadeur de la RDA. Aujourd’hui, je représente à Paris l’Allemagne réunifiée. Je suis honoré d’œuvrer avec nos amis français pour une Europe plus forte.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Are you guys journalists or mere observers? Are you filters of truth or enablers of populism? Are you there to question and report with nuance, history & context or your day's job is to let politician speak whatever they want, without pause? Shameful.

[Ferial Haffajee @ferialhaffajee]

Comment: Eish! Once were warriors. Once were exiles in need of documents. Once were young activists fleeing apartheid’s cruel borders and in need of, and finding, succour and kindness. Once were kind and refined activists with hearts and deep solidarity. Once were…

[Anli Serfontein @anliserfontein]

#ZimbabweElections2023 #ZimbabweDecides2023

[Rev Dr Kenneth Mtata @kennethmtata]

Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go get something to eat and drink, for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!” (1 Kings 18:41-19:8)

[Anli Serfontein @anliserfontein]

Reset moral compass @ArchbishopThabo tells #UDF40 celebrations #SouthAfrica #ANC #Apartheid @ChurchTimes https://t.co/K53UKqKNTs