Jenny Crwys Williams

Manages author events, adores interviewing, MC at large, esp in the arts. history etc. Mad about wine & so much more.

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

Would you pay to have dinner with me and ONE famous person: Author, Rugby Player, Chef (whoever) each month? Are you that true fan? 3 course meal included + wine💭🍷 𝗧𝗔𝗣 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗪 and let me know… something exciting is coming 😉

[Sue Spurgin @SueSpurgin]

What happened to alleged #Vietnamese #RhinoHorn kingpin Chu Dang Khoa & associate Huy Bao Tran? Arrested earlier this year over 98 #rhino horns, granted bail… now no court dates listed. Have they fled #SouthAfrica? @NPA_Prosecutes @SAPoliceService @environmentza
#transparency ❓

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: The House has PASSED @RepThomasMassie’s resolution to FORCE the release of names of Congressmen who used the Congressional slush fund to pay out for sexuaI misconduct settlements, 420-0

These are TAXPAYER DOLLARS being used to PAY OFF accusers.

And it’s all about to be public.

The Committee on Ethics must now preserve and public release all relevant records.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Your reminder that this sonofabitch Mitch McConnell, stole not 1 but 2 SCOTUS seats and packed the lower court with right-wing fanatics and refused to persuade Republican Senator's to convict Trump in both impeachment trials. He's responsible for this fucking nightmare.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Nilatpal Basu posted this on FB:

At the #WorldCup on Tuesday — a man in a red suit stood completely still for 90 minutes in the stands. Then he covered his mouth and pointed a gun to his head.
FIFA’s cameras cut away immediately.
His name is Michel Kuka Mboladinga — known as “Lumumba Vea,” which means “Lumumba Lives.” For more than a decade he has stood motionless at every DR Congo match — suit and tie, arm raised — as a living tribute to Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
Patrice Lumumba gave a stunning Independence Day speech on June 30, 1960 — standing before King Baudouin of Belgium — excoriating Belgian colonialism. Malcolm X called him “the greatest Black man who ever walked the African continent.”
Six months after independence, Belgian officers and soldiers captured Lumumba, tortured him, and executed him by firing squad. His body was dismembered and dissolved in acid. The only known remnant was a gold tooth kept by the Belgian officer responsible for 39 years until his death.
That is what Lumumba Vea stands in tribute to. Every single match. In a suit. Motionless. For 90 minutes.
On Tuesday against Colombia — he added something new. He covered his mouth and mimicked a gun to his head. A silent, devastating protest against the world’s silence over eastern DR Congo — one of the globe’s most severe yet least-covered humanitarian crises, which has displaced millions and claimed countless lives through violence and massacres.
Lumumba Vea went viral this week — covered by USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CNN and the BBC. Every outlet explained the Patrice Lumumba connection. Not one mentioned the link between Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination, the Western strategy to destabilize an independent Congo, and the current humanitarian catastrophe in eastern DRC today.
That connection is not a footnote. It is the entire story.
The same Western powers that assassinated Lumumba in 1961 — because he wanted Congo’s mineral wealth to benefit Congolese people — have spent 65 years ensuring the DRC remains destabilized, its cobalt and coltan flowing to Western technology companies while its people are massacred in the east.
FIFA cut the cameras. The mainstream media covered the gesture without the history. And a man in a red suit stood in the stands and said — without words — what the world refuses to hear.

Lumumba Lives.

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

Watching @WawrinkaStan he is such a loss to tennis. I’d like to see him in a serious position in something to do with tennis. He has serious skills other than on court.

[José Morón @jmgmoron]

Me quito el sombrero con este hombre.

Es muy inspirador lo de Stan Wawrinka. A sus 41 años, compitiendo como nadie en los Grand Slams y luchando durante más de cuatro horas para deleitarnos a todos con ese revés tan maravilloso.

La muestra de lo que es la pasión por lo que uno hace en la vida.

Él no quiere retirarse, pero el tiempo a veces tiene decisiones que solo podemos aceptar.

Siempre será recordado con mucho cariño, y ese es uno de los mayores premios que uno puede lograr en un deporte como el tenis. Incluso más grande que esos tres Grand Slams que tiene.

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

Stinging headline of the day, re seriously miffed @jsteenhuisen demotion comes from my old 702 mate, @StephenGrootes in @dailymaverick : ‘If he wanted loyalty, why didn’t Steenhuisen get a dog?’

[Sir Lebona Cabonena @LCabonena]

General Feroz Khan has 3 bulletproof BMWs.

But on his fake shooting, he was driving Cheapest Suzuki.

[Selby Bokaba @Selbybok]

There was a general belief that IDAC was a problem. It now appears that the problem is bigger than IDAC in respect of the Cat Matlala/IDAC/NPA plea & sentence deal.
Magistrate Ignatius Du Preez put the brakes on the deal. Thank goodness we still have a residue of independent and objective magistrates

[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.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Five moon bears which have spent decades living in cages in South Korea have been cleared by vets to be moved to Suffolk.

Jimmy's Farm & Wildlife Park near Ipswich and its charity Space for the Wild are working on the Bears Behind Bars campaign to transport the animals 5,500 miles (8,850km) to their new forever home.

The bears had been kept at one of South Korea's last bear bile farms – sites which have now been banned in the country.
Jimmy Doherty, founder of the Ipswich wildlife park, said the bears would soon be able to "finally feel real grass beneath their feet".

I'll never forget meeting these bears for the first time," he said.
"After decades trapped in tiny cages, it was heartbreaking to see what they'd endured.
"But even then, you could see a spark in them that was worth fighting for."

At the end of last year, South Korea announced it would ban the breeding and possession of bears and the extraction of their bile.
The bile would be used in medicines while the bears themselves were often kept in poor conditions and spent their lives in small cages.
While the practice has been phased out, there are still believed to be about 200 bears living in cages at the former farms.
Of the five coming to Suffolk, one has been kept at a farm since 1998, according to the wildlife park.

The wildlife park has started to work on a reserve for the bears.
Park director Stevie Sheppard said there was still no timeline for the bears' arrival, as a campaign to raise money for the project continues.
"No moon bears have ever come to the UK from South Korea. This is a brand new corridor we're opening for them to find a new home," he explained.
"We're not too sure on the full timeframe. We need to raise the money.
"Once we've got the money we can get the bears here."

The campaign has raised more than £50,000 but is aiming for £200,000.
Sarah Dawson, chief operating officer for Space for the Wild, said the flights for the bears were expected to be expensive.
"It's a long way here from South Korea and they've had a very difficult life. We want to make sure they're as comfortable as possible on the flight here," she said.
"Plus the crates, plus people to look after them on the flights, veterinary care, even the forklift trucks to lift the crates up on to the plane are expensive, so it all adds up."

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

Bring it on.

[Commentary Donald J. Trump @DonaldTrumpVois]

Epstein victim Sarah Ransome says she has tapes of Donald Trump doing things that will force him to resign from the presidency.

What’s your reaction?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Britain turned all its beavers into hats, then spent the next 400 years fighting against dysfunctional rivers.

Beavers were once native across Britain. They built wetlands, slowed floods, stored water, trapped sediment, raised water tables, created fish habitat, and turned simple streams into messy, living systems. Then we wiped them out.

By around the 16th century, beavers had been hunted to extinction for their fur, meat, and castoreum, a scent gland secretion used in perfume and medicine.

The rivers they left behind became poorer, faster, straighter, and less alive. That loss cost a great deal of money.

The UK spends billions on flood defenses because water now rushes through landscapes that used to be full of natural speed bumps: ponds, wetlands, woody dams, side channels, boggy ground, and beaver-built chaos.

When beavers returned to trial sites, they started rebuilding that missing infrastructure with sticks and mud.

Research has found beaver dams can reduce flood peaks by up to about 60%. In Devon, monitored beaver dams slowed stormwater, stored extra water, and delayed flood flows moving downstream. The same wetlands that slow floodwater can also hold water on the land longer during dry periods.

The wildlife response is just as dramatic. Beaver wetlands create habitat for dragonflies, frogs, fish, bats, birds, otters, water voles, plants, fungi, and insects. Recent UK research found beaver-created wetlands held more species than other wetland types.

A beaver isn't just a big-toothed critter, it's a watershed worker. It shows up every night, builds flood control, repairs drought resilience, digs wildlife habitat, filters water, and doesn't invoice the taxpayer for it.

Obviously, they need management in order to coexist with human habitation. Beavers can flood the wrong field, block the wrong culvert, or chew the wrong tree. Nobody serious is saying 'release them everywhere and walk away.' But pretending rivers are healthier without them is absurd.

Britain spent 400 years missing one of its best engineers. I'm glad to see them welcomed back.

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

He can surely give evidence from his bed?

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

Major-General Feroz Khan’s scheduled appearance will be the first item on today’s proceedings at the Madlanga Commission.

Khan was shot and wounded in Houghton JHB on Sunday evening. He remains in hospital.

It’s unclear if the Commission will
lead evidence in his absence.

He was scheduled to reply to questions before by the 22nd of June.

In court papers released by the Commission earlier, Khan’s links with several individuals emerged.

@pule_jones

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

A legend bids farewell 🫶

Stan, it's been an absolute pleasure

#Wimbledon

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Stan Wawrinka spoke with tears in his eyes after losing his final Wimbledon match to Berrettini

“This is your final Wimbledon appearance. After that performance are you sure you want to retire?”

Stan: “I don’t want to retire but I know it’s time for me to stop. 🥹One of the reasons I kept playing for so long was to enjoy these moments like tonight. So much emotion. I’m so grateful to have this opportunity. To have received a wildcard.. to have the chance to play one last time in Wimbledon. It’s such a special tournament. As a kid you always dream about maybe being here one day. I had a chance to play it so many times. With that kind of support, it means so much to me. Thank you so much for all those years.”

Stan: “It was not my first time here. I pushed it to my own limit tonight. It was a great fight. Matteo is a good friend. He’s a great guy. He deserved to win, so congrats. It’s never easy to say goodbye to something you love so much. I’ve always been passionate about the game. I’m grateful. I’d like to thank everybody because I had a chance, this opportunity to play here. I couldn’t dream of a better goodbye. Thank you so much for the support.” 🥹🥹🥹

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

Come come, @Poplak

[Richard Poplak @Poplak]

Turns out Tony Leon is running the country 🤷‍♂️

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

Curiouser and curiouser …

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

JUST IN:

A police report on last night’s shooting of Maj-Gen Feroz Khan says:

“Upon arrival, Major General Khan was already in theatre undergoing medical treatment.

“He had been driving a grey Suzuki Baleno, registration xx xxx xx GP, which was found parked on the side of the road.

“No bullet holes were found on the vehicle. However, a projectile impact was identified on the road surface, and two spent cartridges were recovered.

“A handwritten yellow note was also recovered at the scene.

“The note stated that a case of defeating or contempt of court should be opened against Colonel Khorombi and General Khumalo and investigated by IDAC.

“The vehicle was thoroughly searched, and the HP laptop was recovered from the spare wheel compartment.”

@pule_jones @eNCA

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

She was a significant figure during the struggle. Always courteous and firm as she articulated the difference between right & wrong. Wrote a bestseller, Call Me Woman. Boxed unerringly. And so much more.

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Author, anti-apartheid and women's rights activist - Ellen Kuzwayo (1914 - 2006) was born on this day in 1914. Photo Credit: Graeme Williams

[Thabzo @Thabzo_Siba]

@pule_jones @mokgethi_lenosh @eNCA Obviously staged. When his about to testify on Madlanga and he tried to win his phone back before they took everything they needed..

[Jenny Crwys Williams @jcwLIFE]

My thoughts entirely. Give it at least a further two weeks mimimim.

[Tebogo Khaas @tebogokhaas]

@pule_jones @BrendaWardle @eNCA Surely the Madlanga Commission’s term should be extended to allow Feroz Khan and Suleiman Carrim ample time to recover fully, while affording van Wyk the opportunity to gather his scattered marbles before proceedings resume.

Thoughts and prayers. ❤️‍🩹