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[Duduetsang @dumo24]

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[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

He ran away from a pub in UK to celebrate Messi assist. 😂😂😂

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

Yes, those photos you’ve seen are real.

More than 18 years ago, a baby named Lamine Yamal and his mom Sheila met Lionel Messi at a UNICEF fundraising photoshoot.

Today, their achievements on the pitch inspire millions. Off the pitch, both Messi and Lamine Yamal use their voices and platforms as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors to support and advocate for children around the world.

The goal? That every child survives, thrives, and fulfils their potential.

We are proud to have them on our team.

Credit: Joan Monfort

[Siya @Ceeya_Mav]

South Africa is hosting the ODI World Cup next year yet the Proteas haven't played even a single ODI in 2026

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

Some South Africans insisted on being represented by them, to be governed by them, and to have them make laws and choose judges for them. South Africans. Why would anything happen when they’re consciously put in power by reasoning adults who don’t care?

[Manzi @ClixWell]

Result: England yellow card

isiXhosa commentary: Thatha istena sakho se cheese boy! 🗣️🗣️

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[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

No! No! No!. Mbeki apologized in December 2007 when South Africa entered its first major electricity crisis. He apologized for HIS government's failure to act on Eskom's warning (delivered in the late 90s) that generating capacity would run out. He said "Eskom was right and government was wrong."

I was there at the February 2008 State Of The Nation Address (his last one) where he again apologized and devoted a substantial portion of the speech to the energy crisis and the government's plans to address it.

Yes at the 11th hour, HIS government listened BUT what this article does, what Mbeki does, is start the story in the middle. I'm not suggesting that the tender chaos and looting of the 2010 onwards did not happen. We know it did. But fidelity to facts and the entire story is important. He cannot ignore the SIGNIFICANT genesis of this problem and his failure to act, both as a deputy president when Eskom issued the warning (1998) and as president when load shedding peaked during the dying days of his second term.

This is not time for, ommissions, mendacity and foggy memories. Hawu.

[Sabelo Chalufu | @BetterGovZA 🇿🇦 @SabeloChalufu]

If you’ve been suspecting that there is a well funded campaign to try and create a narrative that South Africans are a hateful people in order to have us isolated, and that it leads all the way back to our ICJ Case for the genocide Israel is committing in Palestine…here it is.

Look at the hundreds of hateful and mostly ignorant responses to Yusuf’s appointment. The bulk of these are from anonymous accounts from around the world masquerading as South Africans.

For one, South Africa has never had an Islamophobia problem. Nor have we had an anti-semitism problem. Neither have we been a people who claim to be a “Christian” country, even though most of us self-identify as Christian. We have had Muslim Ministers and Deputy Ministers since time immemorial, and all our cultures and faiths co-exist freely.

You would noticed the misinformation campaign by other African governments, led by the Ghanaian Foreign Minister, about the anti-illegal immigration protests. And AfriMAGA? Remember that?

They want to break us apart. RESIST!!!

[Mvelase 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🇿🇦 @MvelaseP]

Your slip is showing, dear.

[Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo @GugsM]

“As a Christian living in South Africa…”

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Dina Pule? ANC tradition trumps right and wrong? How did she leave parliament the first time? Here is a reminder:

July 2013, President Zuma removed her as Minister of Communications. Even by Zuma's low standards, she was not fit for office.

A parliamentary ethics inquiry subsequently found that she had breached Parliament's Code of Ethical Conduct. Pule had failed to disclose material aspects of her relationship with Phosane Mngqibisa, enabling him to benefit improperly from government-related activities. She also misled the inquiry on key facts.

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela issued a report finding that Pule had acted unlawfully and unethically, concluding that she had "persistently" misled investigators and recommending that she apologise and repay public funds spent on Mngqibisa's travel.

And today, 13 years later, @CyrilRamaphosa thinks this doesn't matter. It matters to many voters and you can not wish us away.

[ComradesRace @ComradesRace]

History is calling! The date for the monumental 100th Comrades Marathon is officially locked in 🔏🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻

📅 Sunday, 13 June 2027

The road to the 100th chapter starts here. Keep your eyes glued to our page—more exciting information and centenary details will be shared this coming July! 🛠️

Who is joining us to make history on the start line? 👇

#Comrades100 #Comrades2027 #CentenaryRace #TheUltimateHumanRace #ComradesMarathon #RoadToComrades

[@SAgovnews @SAgovnews]

The Presidency has warned against the spread of misinformation about South Africa’s immigration challenges.

https://t.co/Hd9Z52whMT

#GovZAUpdates

[Tau e Tshehadi @D_Molatoli]

BAFANA BAFANA HONOURED BY MADLANGA COMMISSION ⚽️🇿🇦

All Commissioners abd staff of the Commission came wearing Bafana Bafana jersey. What a beautiful pleasantly surprising moment!! Commissioner Khumalo is wearing his sporty. 😅 Chair says he panned to go to the World Cup, but here he is. 😊❤️
#MadlangaCommission

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

MAJOR game changer! Internet providers can now transmit wireless internet without fibre, at fibre speed. Good news for rural SA. AND the big networks were excluded, to finally allow smaller operators market access. Pro-competition regulation? ICASA, my darling. We move 🇿🇦♥️🤙🏾

[Sagar @Sagar_kr_Maity]

Imagine writing a PhD thesis so foundational that the title is literally just the name of the entire field of study.

​Paul Dirac, 1926: "Quantum Mechanics."

[Elias @iam_elias1]

ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke.

Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics.

And it told patients to see a specialist.

The disease is called Bixonimania. A Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg invented it in 2024 to answer one question: what happens when you plant obviously fake medical information on the internet and watch AI absorb it?

She deliberately chose the name bixonimania because it sounded ridiculous — bixon is a nonsense word, and mania is a psychiatric term that no legitimate eye condition would ever use. She uploaded two papers to a preprint server. Both were obviously fraudulent. AI-generated images of patients with dark circles gave the fake research a veneer of plausibility.

Then she waited.

She did not have to wait long.

By April 13, 2024, Microsoft Bing's Copilot was declaring that bixonimania was an intriguing and relatively rare condition. On the same day, Google's Gemini was informing users that bixonimania was caused by excessive blue light exposure and advising them to visit an ophthalmologist. Later that month, Perplexity AI outlined its prevalence, one in 90,000 individuals were affected and OpenAI's ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms matched the fictional illness.

One in 90,000. A precise statistic. For a disease that does not exist.

Every red flag was visible. The name was absurd. The papers were crude. The condition made no scientific sense. None of the AI systems flagged any of it.

They read the fake papers. They absorbed the fake statistics. They presented both to patients with clinical authority and zero hesitation.

Then it got worse.

Three researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India published a paper in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal owned by Springer Nature, the parent publisher of Nature itself that cited the bixonimania preprints as legitimate sources.

A real peer-reviewed paper. In a Springer Nature journal. Citing a fictional disease as established medical fact. Passing editorial review. Entering the permanent scientific record.

It was only retracted after the hoax became public.

Nature published a full investigation of the experiment. Alex Ruani, a health-misinformation researcher at University College London, called it a masterclass in how misinformation operates.

Here is the scale of what this means.

More than 40 million people turn to ChatGPT every day for health information, according to OpenAI's own analysis. ECRI, a US patient-safety nonprofit has named chatbot misuse the number-one health technology hazard of 2026. ECRI's report found that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted substandard medical supplies, and even invented nonexistent anatomy when responding to medical questions.

Number one. Out of every health technology hazard that exists in 2026.

An April 2026 study published in BMJ Open found that nearly half of the answers provided by leading AI chatbots to common health questions contain misleading or problematic information.

Nearly half. Of all health answers. From the tools 40 million people use every day.

Here is the line from the researcher that cuts through everything.

The Bixonimania case is striking precisely because it was engineered to be so obviously fake. The real question it raises is: what is passing through the same systems that is not nearly so easy to spot?

The experiment used a ridiculous name. Fraudulent papers. Visible red flags at every level.

It was designed to be caught.

It was not caught.

The AI that told patients about Bixonimania is the same AI they asked about their chest pain, their medication, their child's symptoms, and their cancer screening schedule.

40 million people. Every day.

And nobody is telling them that nearly half of what comes back may be wrong.

Source: Osmanovic Thunström · University of Gothenburg · Nature · April 2026 ·

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[SAHRCommission @SAHRCommission]

Media Advisory: South African Human Rights Commission calls for public submissions on data centres and human rights in South Africa https://t.co/n9V5wrOd6S

[SABC News @SABCNews]

BREAKING NEWS | South Africa's official unemployment rate rises to 32.7% in Q1.
345 000 jobs were lost in the first three months of 2026.