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[Pharm. Greatman @OGreat6]

Men who treat their birthday like a normal day

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[Collium Banda @ColliumBanda]

@ukhozi_fm Great show, happy World Radio Day!

[In Touch Ministries @InTouchMin]

An eager anticipation of the Lord’s return keeps us living productively. - Life Principle #30

When your heart is set on eternity, your priorities shift. Living each day with the hope of Christ’s return brings clarity, purpose, and urgency. It’s not about doing more—it’s about living fully for what matters most.

[Collium Banda @ColliumBanda]

@ukhozi_fm @Tshatha_Ngobe Umvangeli uTshatha!🙏🙌

[Chuck Swindoll @chuckswindoll]

"You know what? God personally cares about the things that worry us. He cares more about them than we care about them: those things that hang in our minds as nagging, aching, worrisome thoughts....He cares. You are His personal concern." - Chuck Swindoll

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

🧵Today marks 48 years since Black Wednesday, the day when three newspapers and about 19 Black Consciousness Movement organisations were banned. Percy Qoboza, editor of The World was among those arrested on this day as seen in this photographed. He was detained for 5 months.

[James Hall @hallaboutafrica]

Remembering a Pan-Africanist visionary. Today in 1986 on a flight from Lusaka to Maputo, Mozambique independence leader and first President Samora Machel was killed along with 34 other people when his presidential plane crashed where the SA, Moz and Swaziland borders converge.

[OTWOMA THE BRAND🇰🇪 @Isaac_Otwoma]

H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo cannot miss the burial of Baba Raila Odinga. Their friendship and bond were exceptional.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

For many years now, I have been haunted by a small historical theory of my own invention: dictators and tyrants -- cannibals, mass murderers, enemies of the human race on the stage of history -- inevitably carry within themselves the seeds of their own downfall and destruction.

This ticking time bomb, with its countdown already set, lies in their own madness.

In the insanity of their inhuman and absurd ideologies. In their delusional ideas and their insatiable, unhinged thirst for blood and power. In the atrocities that blind even the coldest reason and step by step drag them -- and the dictatorships they create -- toward collapse.

A classic example, among many, is Nazi Germany.

In 1944–1945, already standing on the threshold of total defeat, at the height of its desperate war effort, with its military economy strained to the breaking point, the Reich nevertheless diverted enormous railway resources to transport masses of people to the death camps.

One would think -- total war, heavy defeats, relentless Allied offensives, every wagon and every mile of railway desperately needed for the front.

But no.

The inhuman, fanatical obsession of Nazism dictated from the deepest pits of hell: kill, kill, kill, kill Jews on an industrial scale. At any cost, no matter what. Even at the price of destroying the regime itself. The machinery of mass extermination in Auschwitz was kept running at full power until the very last second.

This is just one among countless examples showing how the congenital deformity and madness of dictatorships already contain the seed of their own inglorious demise.

And now, the same principle of dictatorial self-destruction seems to be working against Vladimir Putin in his war on Ukraine.

One would think -- in 2025, three years into a full-scale invasion, Donald Trump has returned to the political stage: an open admirer of Putin, a would-be dictator himself. The Kremlin suddenly has in the White House an administration that is phenomenally loyal, almost to the point of caricature.

A U.S. president who openly despises Ukraine, NATO, European allies, and Euro-Atlantic values. A president drowning in demagogical fantasies about how he will ��pull Russia away from China” and “exploit commercial opportunities” with the Kremlin.

This administration declared openly that it will not lift a finger to defend NATO allies from possible Russian aggression.

It twisted Kyiv’s arms, hurled absurd insults and vile accusations, forced Ukraine to humiliate itself and “prove it wants peace,” practically coercing it into absurd and impossible terms of capitulation. And all this in a war that Ukraine has not lost in the least -- a war where it has exceeded every expectation of three years ago many times over.

Putin got himself a U.S. president who agrees unconditionally to all of his maximalist, delusional demands against Ukraine. Who gives away every negotiating position at the snap of a finger, demanding nothing in return.

A U.S. president who fawns over him, rolls out the red carpet, claps like a fangirl, calls him incessantly, and does nothing about his empty threats -- always granting him another two weeks.

One would think -- Russia has been hopelessly bogged down in its war against Ukraine for more than three years. It has suffered unprecedented losses, achieved none of its goals, its economy and international standing are under dire threat. It has fallen into complete vassal dependence on China.

Its army continues, month after month and year after year, to smash itself to pieces against small ruined villages and towns on the devastated Donbas.

One would think -- Trump offered Putin PERFECT, impossibly advantageous terms to exit a failed war. Terms that Russia’s army on the ground could never have secured even after years of fighting.

But no.

Putin has grown too fond of this great bloodletting.

He has grown too fond of feeling like Stalin. Of pushing divisions across maps, of erasing Russia’s present and future on Ukraine’s fields of death. He takes true pleasure in the nightly barrages of hundreds of missiles and drones burying Ukrainians under their homes.

He savors the humiliation of forcing the president of the United States to crawl before him on his knees. To beg, to flatter, to make himself a global laughingstock.

For a once gray and hopeless KGB bureaucrat, the ecstasy of wiping his feet on the U.S. president, of making him look like nothing, of forcing him to plead and almost kiss his boots before the eyes of the world -- is irresistible.

And to ruin relations with such a U.S. president, to force Donald Trump (!) in the end to publicly speak of Ukraine’s victory and even of possible Tomahawk deliveries to Kyiv -- that takes some doing, of course.

But Putin, in his insatiable lust for blood, power, and self-affirmation, did exactly that.

And by the laws of history, this -- along with many other factors -- is what will bury him, just as it buried those before him.

[Mzala Tom @RealMzalaTom]

🚨🚨🚨WATCH🚨🚨🚨

The story of Johannes Lodewickus Lee, a hunter who became King Mzilikazi's Chief Immigration Adviser. It was a great privilege to be a part of this production. Thank you @zenzele thank you @citezw !🙏🏾🫡💯👌🏾

[Tonderai Shoko @ShokoTonderai]

#DAY 2241 Well done #DIFTK @doit4thekidz_
We all have to be responsible always
it does not take much to make a difference let's #KeepBulawayoClean

[Nongcebo V. McKenzie @NVMcKenzie]

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[iMayor yeZhwane @NkulumoSibanda]

@freemanchari @zenzele My father was One of the Engineers who perished leaving Ikela in a Boat

[Mbali Mashinini @mbalis_bakery]

When you finally see the original video of the trending sound 🥺❤️, I am yet to see the person who started the Sobonana emathuneni trend.

[Mthulisi Nkala @mtnkala]

Mr Dube, the man in the famous "isotsha eliphethe umntwana" photograph that inspired the 1980 Patriotic Front ZAPU logo, has been identified. The child, Mr Ngwenya, in the picture is now a councillor in Kwezimnyama Plumtree. After Smith's bombings, the child was found stranded.

[Collium Banda @ColliumBanda]

@DJSgqemeza Umkhulu umusa kaKristu!

[Phumlane S Mbatha @DJSgqemeza]

Wanna know more about, DJ Sgqemeza, Sipho Mbatha, Evangelist PS Mbatha nohambo lwakhe… the episode is out!!!!

[Freeman @freemanchari]

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[🌷 LIZZIE🌷 @farmingandJesus]

Widows of Christian martyrs in Islamic countries speak out

Somehow I don’t think American Christians have any idea…

[Collium Banda @ColliumBanda]

@zenzele 😢