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[🇵🇸🇿🇦 @FibroFly]

@JHBWater @SebotoKhethelo Which reservoir supplies Kyalami?

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

These are some terrifying stats on gambling:
Young people gamble nearly 50% of their income. They spend more on gambling than groceries according to Experian and Vault22. (My late brother would have no money within days of payday).
52% of working South Africans gamble.
R75 billion, the total amount lost by gamblers.
Men represent 61% of gamblers, 39% are women.
People in the lowest income group gamble on average R2000 pm.
Whilst wealthily people do gamble, they limit their exposure to 10% of their income.
The middle class spends between 38% - 50% of their income.

[Koshiek Karan @iamkoshiek]

⚠️⚠️ Super Group (Betway owner) held its Investor Day in London & revealed plans for Africa

they dropped a 155-page explosive strategy doc with detailed plans to completely dominate Africa 🌍🎰

I analyzed their blueprint & the details are chilling [THREAD]

(please share ‼️)

[maram @maram0zz]

Gaza buries its unidentified martyrs without family farewells, without mothers having the last sight or kiss, without tombs, eulogies and without names..

All of this because the entire world is unable to push zionist Israeli occupation leaders to respect international law.

[Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa]

The interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla is another grave offence by Israel of global solidarity and sentiment that is aimed at relieving suffering in Gaza and advancing peace in the region.

On behalf of our government and nation, I call on Israel to immediately release the South Africans abducted in international waters, and to release other nationals who have tried to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid.

The interception of the flotilla in international waters is contrary to international law and violates the sovereignty of every nation whose flag was flown on the dozens of vessels in the flotilla.

This action also violates an International Court of Justice injunction that humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow unimpeded.

South Africa calls on Israel to ensure that the life-saving cargo transported by this flotilla reaches the people of Gaza, as the flotilla represents solidarity with Gaza, not confrontation with Israel.

South Africa supports the call by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for Israel to urgently lift the blockade on Gaza and allow the entry of life-saving material through all means possible.

My thoughts are with all of the abductees and their families and it is my expectation that Israel will release the human rights activists as these abductions serve no purpose in the context of efforts to secure peace in the Middle East.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

At the Together 4 Palestine gig in London, Eric Cantona stood alongside ex-Palestinian player Mahmoud Sarsak, jailed 3 years by Israel, with a powerful reminder:

“FIFA and UEFA banned Russia 4 days after Ukraine. We’re 716 days into a genocide, and Israel still plays.”

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

If she was Israeli you would see headlines, but this is a Palestinian baby, so…

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is beyond horrifying.

New data shows Israel has killed over 680,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

Among them:

• 380,000 infants under 5
• 99,000 children over 5

That’s 479,000 children murdered by Israel.

Israel isn’t “defending itself.”

It is wiping out Palestinian life.

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

Heartbreaking scene of a child who lost his limbs in an Israeli airstrike.

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

Mariam Dagga, 33, was a mother and a daughter. She gave her father her kidney. An Israeli airstrike took her life while she was documenting her people’s suffering. A soul the world will never forget. 💔

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Spain to BAN people who served in the IDF from returning 👏🏻

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

I think this might be the single biggest mass abduction campaign carried out by the Zionist entity, ever.
This is fucking insane and the world just doesn't give a fuck.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Look at these youngsters very well: 10 teammates from Al-Mohtarifin Football Academy in Gaza City under 18— all murdered by Israel.

Their academy also destroyed. Mohammed killed today is indeed the tenth player from the academy to be slain by Israel.

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

Anas al Shareef, 28. A father and a husband, a journalist. Killed by Israel.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Where is the global outrage for him…

[Zapiro @zapiro]

Zapiro cartoon published on @dailymaverick (23 August 2025) on a Hard Look @netanyahu @IsraeliPM #Israel #GazaGenocide - https://t.co/eImEbAlXRE

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

❗️BREAKING❗️Rescuers killed in line of duty.
Scenes like this unfold every moment in Gaza, often unseen, largely undocumented. I beg STATES: how much more must be witnessed before you act to stop this carnage?
🔴Break the blockade
🔴Impose an Arms Embargo
🔴Impose Sanctions.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations" #Gaza