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[Dots @DNdletyana]

New favouritre quote by George Bernard Shaw https://t.co/uTmSpiTN9k

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

In South Africa we have watched a quiet but relentless slide into lawlessness. Jumping traffic lights has become commonplace. Driving under the influence is often treated lightly. Pedestrians cross roads with little regard for the danger. Informal settlements spring up overnight on any open piece of land. Illegal electricity connections are no longer treated as serious offences - they are simply accepted as part of daily life. Informal traders claim pavements and intersections as their own. Prisoners somehow manage to keep smartphones. Driving without a licence is widespread.

One could go on forever. The point is simple: there has been a clear breakdown in law and order.

On the surface, the relaxation of rules is understandable. For decades, harsh and often humiliating laws targeted black South Africans in particular. So society swung from one extreme to the other, from rigid control to an “anything goes” environment.

In many ways this chaos is presented as freedom, the freedom that was denied to the majority for so long. We even open our borders to illegal immigration with the argument: “They took us in when we were running from the apartheid police.” A noble memory, but a problematic policy.

I once listened to a Minister of Correctional Services speaking about prisoners. The minister spoke much like a principal talking about learners, our collective duty to help them reach their full potential. The fact that some of these individuals were rapists, hardened killers and career criminals seemed to fade behind the focus on rehabilitation. We appear to have confused ordinary criminals with the political prisoners of the past. In our emphasis on ubuntu there is often little room left for the discipline that law and order require. It is as if, as a nation, we struggle to hold both compassion and consequences together.

This confused state is not progressive. It is setting us backwards. I know of no country that has ever become successful on a foundation of chaos. We urgently need to strike the right balance, one that honours our painful history without using it as a permanent excuse to abandon the very rules that keep a society from falling apart. #ProudlySA

[Dots @DNdletyana]

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[tersfees 🇿🇦 @tersfees]

@News24 Too late for damage control, Pietertjie.

[Mark Muzinda @kagmark]

@CowansView Thank you very much; at least you no longer conflate Andrea Johnson with IDAC. IDAC is not going anywhere, but Andrea and his cabal need to be shipped out

[Dash Scopo @OnceNotTwyce]

@CowansView I guess we're no longer sheep, heh Kyle? We're now together at the smart people table.

[kerry vilakazi @KerryVilakazi]

@CowansView You and Pieter actually remind me of Padayachee and Johnson. You think people are stupid. Thankfully, whatever you say or write further on this matter will be met with skepticism or eye rolls

[The Opinionated Engineer @Zungu_Ntobeko_]

... The below article was just 3 days ago. Any rational person knew the article was garbage in the most unsubtle way, with the facts that had already been presented.

The flip-flop from Pieter Du Toit is a little too late!

It appears it was agenda driven - the opposite can only be believed by someone who waits to get told what to think!

[Tebogo Khaas @tebogokhaas]

For far too long, you chose not to hear, see, or speak the truth when it came to those you idolised.

Instead, you insulted, ridiculed, maligned, and disrespected those who had the courage to question them and speak out. Dissent was met with contempt rather than honest engagement.

An unequivocal and unconditional public apology is now the very least that is owed.

Sies!

[Mbathane Matshaya 🇿🇦 @MbataneMatshaya]

@CowansView @siyantombela_ But you always had the “facts”, remember the point you made here! This was last week! Facts do not change! All this says to me Kyle is that @News24 systems are weak or non existent at the worst! You owe your readers and the people you wronged an apology!

[Dots @DNdletyana]

@gilliangodsell Good morning!

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

For 23 years, Jane Sayner called the same house in St Albans, Melbourne, home. She wasn't the owner. She was the tenant. Month after month, year after year, she paid her rent on time and treated the property as if it were her own.

The owners lived overseas, so Jane became the person they trusted completely. She looked after the house, handled many small repairs herself instead of bothering the landlords, and quietly cared for the property for more than two decades. Over the years, the relationship grew beyond that of landlord and tenant. It became a genuine friendship built on trust and respect.

When the owners eventually decided they no longer wanted to keep the house, they made an extraordinary decision. Rather than putting it on the market, they transferred ownership directly to Jane.

There was no legal obligation and no agreement promising her the property after a certain number of years. It was simply a remarkable gesture from owners who believed the person who had faithfully cared for their home for 23 years deserved to have it become her own

[Dr. Jen Wolkin | ADHD + Trauma Therapist @drjenwolkin]

I asked my mom (a baby boomer) the other day why she didn’t talk to be about perimenopause.

She said, “Jen, no one talked to me about what was going on, and I thought I was dying-I didn’t want to scare you.”

We are FINALLY talking about it, and people aren’t suffering in silence.

I won’t stop advocating. XO, Dr. Jen

[SABC News @SABCNews]

BREAKING NEWS | SAPS National Spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe has confirmed the arrest of 45-year-old UK fugitive Mkhanyisi Tshuma by the SAPS Organised Crime Unit and Interpol in Kensington, Johannesburg. Tshuma allegedly fled the United Kingdom after the deaths of his wife and two children. Mathe says, “South Africa is not a hiding place for fugitives.”

[Ayesha Bagus @Ayesha_Bagus]

Thank you, @GiftoftheGivers , for choosing humanity while politics sorts itself out.

Nearly 400 vulnerable people were transported safely and with dignity because compassion came first. Humanitarian aid should never be conditional.

[Mme a Masakona @FloMasebe]

#DearChild... Resist the urge to seek popularity by causing others pain.

[Mme a Masakona @FloMasebe]

#Dearchild... Breathe. You're ok.

[Mme a Masakona @FloMasebe]

#DearChild... It is never appropriate or necessary to celebrate someone's misfortunes.

[Mme a Masakona @FloMasebe]

#Dearchild... Sit up straight. Do not shrink yourself for anyone.

[Mme a Masakona @FloMasebe]

#Dearchild... Hold on, be still. Your restoration season is here.

[Mme a Masakona @FloMasebe]

#Dearchild... Gratitude is your magic wand. Give thanks always.