Isoldé Laesecke

Civil Rights Activist
#Iets DOEN is beter as NIKS doen nie! Views expressed - my own.

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism. The day when all of Europe marks the end of the most terrible war of the 20th century. A war after which there should have been only genuine peace. That was the dream back then, when the guns of World War II began to fall silent.

That war turned our land into a battlefield of brutal fighting, abuse in occupied territory, and the mass destruction of people and life. The losses of the Ukrainian people were among the greatest in World War II. And the contribution of Ukrainians to the defeat of the Nazis was also among the greatest. Millions of Ukrainians, serving in various armies of the Anti-Hitler Coalition states, fought against Nazism. Millions of Ukrainians were among the victors, having done everything in their power to ensure that absolute evil was defeated.

Unfortunately, 81 years later, we are once again forced to stop evil – evil that is just as absolute. Evil that brings nothing but ruins and abuse. And evil based on a similar ideology of enmity. An updated version of Nazism, marked: made in Russia.

Today, such Russian aggression can and must be defeated by the united free world. And I am grateful to everyone who helps us defend life. I am grateful to everyone who is not allowing this Russian regime to dictate to the world what comes next. Defending people’s lives and the freedom of nations from Putin is an absolutely dignified way to honor the memory of those who did not allow Hitler to subjugate Europe and the world.

Eternal gratitude to all who fought against Nazism and liberated people! Blessed memory to all innocent victims of World War II! Glory to every defender of life! Glory to Ukraine!

[Isoldé Laesecke @ILaesecke]

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[Kallie Kriel @kalliekriel]

Justice prevails: @afriforum welcomes the court’s decision to sentence convicted felon @Julius_S_Malema to five years’ direct imprisonment.

Malema and the @EFFSouthAfrica acted with impunity and it was essential for the court to send a clear message that no one is above the law. This judgment reinforces the principles of accountability and equality before the law.

Although it took eight years for justice to prevail, this outcome demonstrates that persistence matters. AfriForum will thus continue to fight for justice and to ensure that the criminal justice system fulfils its mandate without fear, favour or prejudice.

This ruling should serve as a warning to politicians and others who contravene the law: they will be held accountable.

[Isoldé Laesecke @ILaesecke]

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[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

The Holocaust at Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas of antisemitism, words, stereotypes & prejudice, through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder of Jewish people.

The Holocaust took time.
#YomHaShoah

[Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets]

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[Isoldé Laesecke @ILaesecke]

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[Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources ‏ @DMPR_ZA]

Fuel Price Adjustments ⛽️ 📈

[Isoldé Laesecke @ILaesecke]

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[Isoldé Laesecke @ILaesecke]

06 Maart 2026

Die Papier in BETHLEHEM

Baie opgewonde om hierdie 1ste eksemplaar van Die Papier op #Dericks Kwik Spar se rakke vanoggend te kon vind!

Voorspoed en all sukses @barnardbeukman1 🥂🍾

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

🇿🇦South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, just offered “sincere condolences” to the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran over the death of Ali Khamenei.

Yes, Ali Khamenei. The Supreme Leader who oversaw the brutal repression and killing of tens of thousands of his own people. The man whose regime jails women for showing their hair and murders protesters for demanding basic freedoms.

While party officials in Pretoria were drafting condolences, many actual Iranians were dancing in the streets. In Tehran. In Los Angeles. In Berlin. Across a diaspora that has spent decades fighting for the freedom the regime denies them.

For years, South Africa’s leadership has grown closer to the Iranian regime. Just days after filing its “genocide” case against Israel over a war Hamas initiated, the ruling party suddenly announced it was financially stable again, leading many to wonder if money changed hands.

And now, even as Iran’s regime launches missiles at civilians in every country across the Middle East, South Africa still chooses to stand beside the ayatollahs instead of the Iranian people.

This should tell you something about South Africa's motivations for accusing Israel of "genocide."
"Justice" isn't one of them.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

You Had 47 Years of Diplomacy With Iran. Here's What It Got You.

Mahsa Amini was 22 years old. Arrested by Iran's morality police because her headscarf was too loose. She died in custody three days later. They beat her to death. Over a piece of fabric.

Her death set off the biggest protests Iran had seen in a generation. The regime's answer? Kill them. Over 500 dead.

They shot a 16-year-old girl named Nika Shakarami in the street. Then snatched her body and tried to bury her in secret before her family could find her.

Amirhesam Khodayarifard was 20 years old. Walked into a protest because his country was starving. He was chanting. Peacefully. A government agent shot him in the head.

This is who they are. This is who they've always been.

January 8th and 9th, 2026. The Islamic Republic of Iran executed the largest massacre of civilians in its modern history.

Snipers on rooftops firing into crowds. Targeting heads and chests. Dragging protesters into prisons. Torturing them. Raping them. Returning women's bodies with organs removed to destroy the evidence.

~36,000 dead. In days.

A former UN prosecutor who helped draft the Srebrenica genocide indictment said Iran killed twice as many in half the time.

He called it an extermination.

Where were the marches? Where was Ilhan Omar? Where was Rashida Tlaib? Where was Mamdani?

Nowhere.

But today, after we attack the regime that did this… NOW they want "diplomacy." NOW it's "illegal."

What country do you stand for?

In 1979 they stormed our embassy. Held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

In 1983 they bombed our Marine barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans crushed to death in their sleep.

Khobar Towers. 19 more Americans dead.

2003 to 2011. They supplied the bombs that killed 600+ American soldiers in Iraq.

They built Hezbollah. Funded Hamas. Armed the Houthis. Spent a billion dollars a year on terrorism.

Orchestrated October 7th.

Forty-seven years. The single greatest engine of death in the Middle East. And through all of it we kept talking and praying.

In 2002, Iran's own dissidents blew the whistle. Iran had been building nuclear weapons underground. For 17 years. Hidden from the world.

Not the CIA. Not the UN. Dissidents.

It took 13 years to get a deal. Keep enrichment at civilian grade. Keep the stockpile under 300 kilograms. Let inspectors in.

They agreed. Then broke every provision. From 300 kilograms to over 9,000. They ripped the cameras off the walls. By late 2024 they could build 5 to 6 bombs in under two weeks.

France, Germany, and the UK, not neocons, no war hawks, said Iran had a stockpile with "no credible civilian justification."

Two days before the strikes we sat with them in Muscat. Stop enriching. Stop the missiles. Stop funding terrorists. They said no. To all three.

You don't negotiate with someone loading a gun under the table. The Tooth Fairy isn't real. And neither was Iran's willingness to negotiate. Every year of "diplomacy" was another year closer to the bomb. That was always the plan.

This isn't about Democrat or Republican. By the laws of game theory, someone was going to have to confront Iran.

A regime that kills 36,000 of its own people doesn't stop because you ask nicely. A country enriching to weapons grade while funding terrorism on six continents doesn't come to the table in good faith.

Any president. Any party. This moment was always coming.

Spare me the "international law" lecture. You don't get to hide behind rules you've spent five decades burning to the ground.

You want to know what's illegal? Beating a 22-year-old woman to death over a headscarf. Shooting children from rooftops. Torturing women in prison. Removing organs from corpses. Building nuclear weapons while shaking hands with diplomats.

That's what's illegal.

Ilhan Omar. The day before a military operation she signaled the timing of a strike to a foreign adversary. That's not dissent. That is treason.

Iranians responded: "We don't care about Ramadan. We are waiting for the US attack to overthrow your friend the Ayatollah."

Listen to them. For once in your life.

The Iranian people are dancing in the streets. They waited 47 years for someone to act.

If not now, when? When they have the bomb? When it's too late?

It was now or never. And we chose now.

Diplomacy didn't fail. Diplomacy was the lie Iran told you while they built the bomb.

And you believed it. Every. Single. Time.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei..." - President Donald J. Trump

[South African Government @GovernmentZA]

Social grants ⬇️

For 2026/27, social grants are allocated R292.8 billion, enabling the following increases:

💳The old age grant, disability grant and care dependency grant rise by R80 in April 2026, to R2 400.

💳The war veterans grant also increases by R80 to R2 420.

💳 The foster care grant goes up to R1 290 in April, a R40 increase and to R1 300 in October, a R10 increase.

💳 The child support grant and grant-in-aid grant increase by R20 to R580.

💳The social relief of distress continues in its current form over the year ahead.
#Budget2026 #Budget #ANationThatWorksForAll #GovZAUpdates

[National Treasury RSA @Treasury_RSA]

It’s Budget Day! Tune in at 14:00 as the Minister of Finance tables the 2026 Budget Speech. Don’t miss it!
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#Budget2026

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[BREAKING NEWS] New U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, Brent Bozell III, to officially take up his duties in Pretoria.