@diananeille

Investigative journalist | Film writer/director/producer

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Brutal oppression has become Tanzania's status quo. Kenyan activist @bonifacemwangi has returned home, following days of detention and torture for attempting to attend the hearing of Chadema leader @TunduALissu. His colleague @AAgather is still missing.

https://t.co/JmPfxk8JC1

[Richard Poplak @Poplak]

A South African race grift lands in the Oval Office
https://t.co/TJftoD5OEN

[Music Exchange SA @musicexchange]

Morning next sat 30th nov #mex24
Join for an insightful experience , great minds in the music business! Tickets available from @QuicketSA please share @diananeille @jonsavagerocks @Glenn_Gillis @Siphokazi_J @MartinMyers @lancestehr @Biz_Lounge @CPTgigs @terrylevin @janjanmel

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Just saw the remains of 20-year-old Palestinian journalist Hassan Hamad reduced to a plastic bag and a shoebox. According to a fresh tally from CPJ, 123 journalists have now been killed in Israeli strikes. If you're a journalist and you're not speaking out in solidarity ... why?

[Abier @abierkhatib]

The algorithm won't like this one

“We know who the enemy of peace is. And unfortunately, he has a name. He's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu!"

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@mfullard2 Bravo, @mfullard2 and team!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, with colleagues, I introduced legislation to block arms sales to Israel.

Sending more weapons to Netanyahu's extremist government is immoral & illegal: U.S. weapons are responsible for far too many civilian casualties in Gaza.

We must end our complicity in this atrocity.

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@Jon_M_Berger @MbekezeliMB 😰

[Jonathan Berger @Jon_M_Berger]

Just 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 from @PresidencyZA.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Truly extraordinarily powerful interview of Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, on Gaza.

I can't stress enough how rare it is to hear a former French PM speak like this.

He says France "no longer has a voice on the international scene", because (among other things) of its "double-standards" and lack of action with regards to Gaza.

He calls France's internal silencing of what's happening in Gaza a "real scandal in terms of democracy", making France live in "absurdity" and resulting in it "fading away". He says that we (France and the West in general) would have many levers to stop the war - in terms of armament or economic sanctions - "but we refuse to use these levers with arguments which are absolutely unreal culturally or intellectually speaking. Saying 'we need to let Israel fight its war to the end': but what end? What is the end?".

As a consequence he says that France and the West will "foot the bill" for what's happening in terms of loss of credibility and legitimacy.

On Gaza specifically he calls it "undoubtedly the biggest historical scandal since... I don't even dare to find a reference", calling it a war "not like the others since it is civilian populations that die". He also rebukes the journalist for using the usual term "according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health" with regards to the number of death: "There's not only the Ministry of Health from Hamas which says that there are 40,000 dead. And there are probably many more, MANY more! So from this basis let's not give the feeling that it would be a number like that, unreliable. No!"

Probably the most powerful quote of the interview, literally gave me shivers: "In Gaza bodies are torn into pieces, Hearts are in pieces! Souls are in pieces! Heads are in pieces!" ("À Gaza les corps sont en morceaux! Les coeurs sont en morceaux! Les âmes sont en morceaux! Les têtes sont en morceaux!")

He says that ""Israel has no political objective and when you have no political objective the only thing you can do is war... There is a security objective, there is an identity objective, there is a messianic madness and that explains the catastrophe that we're witnessing."

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@RomanCabanac Nothing of what you’ve *ever* done could/should be called journalism. That’s a rank insult to those of us who work every day to try to uphold a profession that is intrinsic to democracy - one which you & your podbro ilk actively undermine. You give yourself far too much credit!

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"As long as these opaque practices continue, musicians will continue to be starved out of the industry. If South Africa hopes to keep fostering talent and listening to beautiful music, something must change."

My latest on SA music, for @dailymaverick

https://t.co/7h90Cv2YHu

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@cazzimali @MbekezeliMB Is this tweet in English? I can’t begin to decipher it.

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@Julia_J_Evans @SAEditorsForum @StandardBankZA @dailymaverick Congrats, Julia! Well deserved and hard earned. Proud to call you a colleague.

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@TheKiffness @Poplak LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

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@ozoneblue67 @Poplak Bro you are so fucken boring.

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@_msizi_ https://t.co/c49Vypbpbj

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@mbalimcdust Their submissions email doesn’t function 🤷‍♀️

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@NationalCoGTA The email address you provided expressly for this purpose doesn’t work.

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@JohnGaltSAfrica @Poplak No shit.