One of my fondest memories of Eusebius Mckaiser: I was waking up in Australia one Saturday morning and the radio presenter, Geraldine Doogue, was interviewing him. His answers to her questions on SA were (as per usual) intellectual, yet easily understandable. A giant has left us.
Let's take a moment to appreciate the beautiful new R5 coin being released today. First time EVER that a marine animal features on our currency and we have a coastline of 2850km!
Somewhere in the deep blue waters off Britain, might be a Greenland shark that has witnessed the reign of 23 monarchs! Living up to 500 years, this magnificent creature may have been alive at the same time as Henry VIII (1509-1547) 👑🦈 #LongLiveTheShark
📷: Nick Caloyianis
#DearSouthAfrica: Let’s express our deepest gratitude to Justice Edwin Cameron for leading JICS with integrity and saving many lives by exposing the corruption enabled Thabo Bester prison break and surrounding shenanigans #ThankYouEdwinCameron
An official who was vocal about corruption at the embattled Lovedale Technical and Vocational Education and Training College in the Eastern Cape has resigned amid allegations of malicious traps set to get him dismissed. | @City_Press
https://t.co/QBzWLNAi5j
Glynnis Breytenbach was forced out of @NPA_Prosecutes precisely because of her excellent work in prosecuting corruption.
She’ll never stop being a prosecutor though, as we saw in Parliament this week:
📣 It’s hard to put into words how honored and blessed I feel to receive an invitation to perform at The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6th of May 2023.
📣✨🎉💝🙏💕👑🎉📣
📸: @gregorhohenberg#Coronation2023
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Dear @SATourismOnline - in case you don’t know, you work for us, we pay your salaries. If you smoke 💨 out and target 🎯 the whistleblower of your hare-brained scheme exposed by @dailymaverick, we will stand with them. We love ❤️ whistleblowers! (RT if you agree)
Our teams took off from OR Tambo Airport ✈️ on a mission to bring #HOPE and aid to the people of #Turkey 🇹🇷 and #Syria 📍. The devastating earthquake has claimed the lives of 6,000 people, leaving countless more injured and desperate for help.
“It fell off the back.”
“It fell off the back?”
“Yes.”
“And how big is it?”
“About the size of a ten cent coin. But you should stay five metres away if you find it. It’s very dangerous.”
“So where did it fall off?”
“Somewhere between Perth and the Pilbera.”