Amban

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

My piece on why Starlink IS a national security issue for South Africa.
https://t.co/a9fq8znv7G

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

What a cowardly retreat "I don't know the facts." Yes, you do. You just switch to a default setting of making stuff up, lying about people who differ with you and framing yourself as a victim. It wasn't a mistake. Either that or your mother is a liar who told her mommy's boy lies. I don't know you. Never heard of you. It was a bold claim to say I took your mommy's money. She told you that? Tell her to keep my name out of her mouth or come and say this nonsense to my face.

Better still, she can come on a live show and tell us what @Dischem Foundation's aims were when they supported good courses in South Africa. Was it to secure support for Israel? There's a name for that.

As for what you think of me. I don't know you, I don't care. Feel free to continue thinking about me in whatever way.

Lastly, next time you come at me, bring a grown up man with solid, rational inputs. Not this mommy's boy who is still suckling poison and needs to be burped. I'm done here.

[shuaib manjra 🇵🇸🇨🇺🇪🇭 @ShuaibManjra]

Since @news24 invisibilised this excellent letter, be sure to read it. It exposes both N24 and the signatories

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Imraan Coovadia, Steven Robins: Sooliman doctorate: UCT got it right https://t.co/2RoVhNpeSe

[Prof Thuli Madonsela #KindnessBuilds @ThuliMadonsela3]

It is a social injustice to place a premium on some lives but treat other lives as disposable. We rightly grieved the killing of children and other civilians in Ukraine. Yet the grieving of children killed in Palestine’s Gaza has been muted and the same with Iran’s children. #StopTheWars #StopUnilateralism #Peace ⚖️🕊️

[Chrispin Phiri 🇿🇦 @Chrispin_JPhiri]

Emergency numbers for #SouthAfrican🇿🇦 nationals in the middle east.

Those that have registered with our embassies have been contacted directly (for the record...even prior to the attacks. We did advise those on our databases to get out).

Please Share these numbers & help us reach everyone. 🇿🇦

1. QATAR
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00-974-5583-2762              
WEBSITE: https://t.co/BfL13h1r6i

2. IRAN
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00-98-912-230-8968   
WEBSITE: https://t.co/qA5B9qPFiZ

3. UAE (Dubai)
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00 971 50 558 1235
WEBSITE: https://t.co/azttZSqVAQ

4. Abu Dhabi
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00 971 50 622 42 91  
00 971 50 445 94 99
WEBSITE: https://t.co/eqGZi5wDTb

5.KUWAIT
EMERGENCY NUMBER
00 965 9720 0172
00 965 9979 4483
00 965 9916 7899
WEBSITE: https://t.co/uMoSC1ZBN5

6. SAUDI ARABIA
Riyadh (+ Yemen, Bahrain, Oman)
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00 966 55 812 2215
WEBSITE: https://t.co/fa26KEZ99y

7. Jeddah
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00 966 56 244 5376
WEBSITE: https://t.co/GFjqi22vSC

8. JORDAN
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00-962-79-552-0245
WEBSITE: https://t.co/szKewWTvNM

9. SYRIA (+ Iraq)
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00-963-966-44-4405
WEBSITE: https://t.co/SnMe0v3v9U

10. PALESTINE (+Israel)
EMERGENCY NUMBER                                 
00-972 053-2553-113
WEBSITE: https://t.co/MoIsHA0yWR

[Amban @ayeshbans]

@hmsouthafrica will there be a Ramadan or eid collection thsi year?

[Amban @ayeshbans]

@TrafficSA

[Amban @ayeshbans]

@TrafficSA Still ongoing fire and traffic.

[Amban @ayeshbans]

@wendyknowler Thanks. The contractor has ghosted them and other clients. Is the only option left small claims court?

[Amban @ayeshbans]

@wendyknowler hi.Need advice pls.Client pays contractor to buy paving. Client has invoice from supplier + email from supplier confirming delivery address and date but fails to deliver. Can client claim refund from supplier? Both companies have ghosted client

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel tortured and sexually humiliated Greta Thunberg.

Some excerpts from her interview with the Swedish paper Aftonblatet:

"They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me."

"They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me."

"They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little whore) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time."

In the corner where Greta was sitting, the police placed a flag.
"The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that."

"They were thrown to the ground and beaten. But I could only see it out of the corner of my eye, because every time I lifted my head from the ground, I was kicked by the guard standing next to me."

Greta was then taken into a building to be searched and undressed. "The guards have no empathy or humanity, and they keep taking selfies with me. There’s a lot I don’t remember. So much is happening at once. You’re in shock. You’re in pain, but you go into a state of trying to stay calm."

Outside, she was forced to take off her clothes again, she says. "It was mockery, rough handling, and everything was filmed. Everything they do is extremely violent."

"It was so hot, like 40 degrees. We begged the whole time: Can we have water? Can we have water? In the end, we screamed. The guards walked in front of the bars the whole time, laughing and holding up their water bottles. They threw the bottles with water in them into the trash cans in front of us."

"When people fainted, we banged on the cages and asked for a doctor. Then the guards came and said, ‘We’re going to gas you.’ It was standard for them to say that."

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Thunberg says the Swedish government greatly downplayed the abuse she and her fellow Sumud Flotilla activists suffered, and wouldn't even bring them water.

"We were together and told them about the treatment we received. About the lack of food, water, about the abuse. The torture. We showed them the physical injuries we had – bruises and scratches. We gave them all our contact details – I gave them my father's number and the number of our contact in the organization. We were clear: everything we say now must be released to the media."

"They didn’t do anything, they just said: ’Our job is to listen to you. We are here and you are entitled to consular support.’"

"We said over and over again: we need water. And they saw that the guards had water bottles. The embassy staff said: ’We’ll make a note of that.’ One of us, Vincent, said: ’Next time we meet you, you must bring water.’

Then it took two days before the embassy staff showed up again.

"They didn't bring any water, except for a small bottle of their own that was half empty. Vincent, who was in the worst shape, got to drink it. We kept asking the guards, 'Can we have some water?' but they just walked around with their water bottles and didn't answer."

"I said, 'Are you going to leave us like this? If you leave now, they will beat us up.' But they just kept walking."

When Aftonbladet compares emails sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to relatives, with what the captives describe telling embassy staff, it becomes clear that the seriousness of the situation has been downplayed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the scene at the port, where Greta Thunberg was beaten for hours, as follows: “She told us about harsh treatment and that she had been sitting on a hard surface for a long time.”

On Saturday, several media outlets published testimonies that Greta had been subjected to torture.

Aftonbladet has spoken to three other members of the flotilla who largely confirm what Greta Thunberg says and who have all experienced various types of abuse and humiliation. We have also spoken to relatives. Everyone is highly critical of how the Swedish embassy staff acted.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The media is madly focused on Israeli corpses.

But today Israel returned 52 corpses of Palestinians taken prisoner since 7 October 2023 who had died in Israeli custody, many tortured to death.

Zero media attention.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

45 Palestinian bodies have been released by Israel.

All had their hands and legs cuffed.

Some were blindfolded. Some had gunshot wounds.

"Others have been run over by tanks."

Just imagine these were the bodies of 45 Israeli hostages released by Hamas.

Imagine the coverage.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

They call it peace, but for the Palestinians, it risks to be Apartheid at its worst.

All eyes must remain on Palestine. People of the world, do not look away now. As the legacy of Nelson Mandela reminds us, no one is free until everyone is free.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“A holocaust just happened.. We will never forget this. You need to tell your children what happened in Gaza. 85% of Gaza has been destroyed in this pre-planned, controlled demolition of Gaza...”

—Candace Owens

[The National @ScotNational]

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

[Robert Martin 🇵🇸 @Robert_Martin72]

Most of the Israeli hostages being released are IOF soldiers — yet the world loses its mind calling their capture “terror.”

But when Palestinian doctors, journalists, healthcare workers, and 22 children are freed, not a fucking word.

Where was that same desperate outrage for them?

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

"I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten on my stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways."

Noa Avishag Schnall, a Jewish photojournalist who reported from the Conscience vessel of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, gave her testimony after being released from Israeli detention.