Jane Lipman

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

🇿🇦 As world leaders gather in Johannesburg for Africa’s first G20 summit this month, #BBCAfricaEye exposes a city in crisis - abandoned buildings ‘hijacked’ by criminals, and residents trapped in dangerous, unliveable conditions.

🎥 Watch the documentary: https://t.co/rUl2sMxySx

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Ahead of the G20, is Johannesburg's city centre in ruins?

#BBCAfricaEye investigates. ⬇️

https://t.co/b8YHYFdeIC

[Jane Lipman @JaneLipman]

https://t.co/PYcfK5xiB0

[Malume @bozzie_t]

It’s not raining but it pours in Randburg.

[Karyn Maughan @karynmaughan]

Tonight in Cape Town!!!

[amaBhungane @amaBhungane]

Today amaBhungane begins publishing stories from Swazi Secrets - a multi-partner investigation coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), to which we have contributed. 

https://t.co/YnosXwq3ic

[Max du Preez @MaxduPreez]

Every morning when I wake up, I wonder if Israel’s army was going to kill another journalist in Gaza today - 79 since October 7. "By accident"? Remember how journalist Shireen Aby Akleh was executed by the IDF on 11 May 2022, no-one prosecuted? What kind of regime does this?

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Charles Michel’s decision to prematurely leave the EU Council presidency to pursue his own political career as MEP is not only self-centred but also irresponsible:

it will pave the way for Viktor Orbán, the then president of the rotating presidency of the Council to take over #EUCO until a new appointment.

But there’s (much) more.

A 🧵

https://t.co/U7pR1GINg2

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

A 2023🧵

In “In Praise of Learning”, Bertolt Brecht argued that the radical, everyday act was to “Put your finger on each item, ask: how did it get here?”.

What forces, what relationships, what entanglements, sit behind the objects and infrastructures that make our world?

[City Press @City_Press]

“To be silent about his evil past would be to insult the memories of those thousands of lives he ended prematurely,” writes City Press editor-in-chief Mondli Makhanya.

Read more here: https://t.co/g7NQjGTxNc

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

South Africa has secured loan agreements of €600 million (R10.7 billion) from France and Germany to aid its transition away from coal and adopt cleaner energy sources like solar PV and wind. | @LameezOmarjee

https://t.co/U9NkB1UkmJ

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

JUST IN | Human Rights Commission finds Malema's statements are incitement of violence, hate speech

https://t.co/92yAYDElel

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said it was laying off more than 11,000 workers after a steep slide in digital ad revenue and profit. https://t.co/B5k7qIlhED

[Richard Poplak @Poplak]

The fantasy of “free speech” is the most poignantly gorgeous notion to enter the heads of the meat sacks generating revenue for massive tech corps in the interregnum between neoliberalism and illiberal semi-democracy.

Makes me laugh every time.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan was shot in the leg at a rally, in what his aides have called a targeted attack.
https://t.co/JOBB9igL0d

[David Smith @SmithInAmerica]

Biden: "I believe the voices condoning political violence are a distinct minority in America. But they're loud and they're determined."

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Glencore officials delivered cash in private jets to officials across Africa, UK prosecutors said as they laid out a web of bribery and corruption orchestrated by the London oil trading desk. | @News24_Business

https://t.co/9QcwhpBrSR

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The UK is a democracy in name only, our politics captured by the ultra-rich. And now the oligarchs' oligarch is our unelected Prime Minister.
Everything we value depends on wresting power out of the hands of this plutocracy.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Rishi Sunak: The Oligarch Prime Minister @GeorgeMonbiot

[Bloomberg @business]

The inside story of Lula's historic comeback to win a third term as Brazil's president. With the country divided, he's still got a mountain to climb https://t.co/rumm4lizqO