EB

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” - Plato

[EB @EuphemiahEK]

"...Opportunities are like mangoes, while you are waiting for them to be ripe, others are eating them with salt... " source unknown

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

You reckon? Let’s check her CV.

Education
BA, University of Natal, 1963.
LLB, University of Natal, 1965.
LLM, Harvard University, 1982.
Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD), Harvard University, 1988.

Positions held
Attorney and conveyancer in South Africa, 1967–1995.

Founder of her own law practice in Natal, 1967, becoming the first woman to establish a law practice in the province.

Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, from 1980.
Co-founder of Equality Now, 1985.

Acting judge of the South African High Court, 1995, becoming the first Black woman to serve as a judge on the Natal bench.

Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), 1995–1999.

President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 1999–2003.

Judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), 2003–2008.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2008–2014.

Ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), from 2019, in proceedings concerning the genocide case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar.

Chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, 2021–2025

But, sure Jan: HaTrEd Of iSRaeL.

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Kganki Chávez Mphahlele 🇿🇦 @Absolute_Kganki]

“If the United States say that Thabo Mbeki must die today because it is in the national interests of their government, they will decisively act on that.” - President Thabo Mbeki 🇿🇦🇮🇷🇵🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱

President Thabo Mbeki gives a brief summary of multilateralism, the South African relationship with Iran and Palestine, the antagonism of the relationship by Israel and the United States. He further touches on the allegations that Iran bribed South Africa to take Israel to the ICJ, Marco Rubio’s explosive statements, etc.

[Darkie @Darkiemantsu]

When whites reprimand whites.

[Somaali🇸🇴 @6_somaali]

Indeed the writing is on the wall and everyone can now see.

[IG:Joy-Zelda @joy_zelda]

Let's make them Trend until they are found

[Dr. Zamani Saul @dr_zsaul1]

🔴 stop and listen to these wise and profound words: "Proximity to power is not cover, wise people know and understand that. Wise people do not borrow confidence from proximity. They build credibility through character, competence and consistency. They make themselves valuable beyond relationships"

[andrew merrifield @andrewmerrifie7]

@Zwelinzima1 you failed your own daughters and I hope they blame you for it. As Secretary General of COSATU you helped the ANC craft a post-Apartheid economy that has collapsed thanks largely to the policies you promoted. YOU ARE THE FAILURE!

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

BOYCOTT AMERICA ✊✊✊✊✊

[ML Smith @maria48308]

Tourists warning.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

ABSOLUTELY 🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️

[TasetiReloaded2 🇧🇫🇳🇪🇲🇱🔴⚫️🟢 @Tasetireloaded2]

The US cannot host the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup. They can't attack Venezuela, impose travel bans, and think they can host international events. Brazil, Mexico, Senegal, and Colombia need to withdraw.

[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

In 2026......Please.....!!! #HappyNewYear2026 ❤️🇿🇦

[Peché Africa 🇿🇦 @pmcafrica]

Happy birthday, if it's your birthday 🎂 🥳

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

You are a liar of note. Just as you have been going to America and lying about a fake genocide, you are now lying about fabricated stories of American officials being detained. Do you have no shame at all.

You are deliberately spreading falsehoods and doing everything possible to damage the image of South Africa abroad with these blatant lies. You ought to have some self respect and stop misleading people for attention. Shame on you!!!

[Zapiro @zapiro]

Zapiro cartoon published on @dailymaverick (11 December 2025) on FIFA Fealty @realDonaldTrump @FIFAcom - https://t.co/MoNPPGqGHq

[Mmusi Maimane MP @MmusiMaimane]

In the age of machine learning and in the race for artificial general intelligence we cannot keep telling any child that they will make it anywhere with 30% on a piece of paper!

Even a TVET needs you to have theoretical competence and core knowledge at over 50%.