We know. Her work speaks for itself. We must look at the caliber of the people attacking her. THEIR deeds speak for themselves. One can expect it of Israel and the Trump Administration. BUT South Africans so angry that a fellow South African won the Nobel Peace Prize gives us interesting insights into the psychology of belonging and allegiance. We have been taught lessons.
URGENT: POLICE SEARCHING FOR 14-YEAR-OLD ALLEGRA STYLES MISSING FROM GQEBERHA
Police in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, are appealing for public assistance in locating 14-year-old Allegra Styles, who has been missing since Thursday, 8 October 2026.
According to the missing-person appeal, Allegra was last seen at approximately 18:00 (6 PM) in Kamma Park, Gqeberha.
Her current whereabouts remain unknown.
Walmer SAPS is asking anyone who may have seen Allegra or has information about her whereabouts to come forward.
👧 MISSING CHILD DETAILS
• Name: Allegra Styles
• Age: 14 years
• Last seen: Kamma Park, Gqeberha
• Date: Thursday, 8 October 2026
• Time: Approximately 18:00
• Police station: Walmer SAPS
• Reference: 1/10/2026
👕 CLOTHING LAST WORN
• Beige top
• Blue jeans
🔎 HAVE YOU SEEN ALLEGRA?
We appeal to residents of Kamma Park, Walmer, Lorraine and surrounding Gqeberha communities to assist police in locating Allegra.
Anyone who may have seen her on Thursday evening or has information about her current whereabouts is urged to contact:
👮 Lieutenant Colonel Plaatjies
📞 071 352 4542
☎️ Walmer SAPS: 082 303 0345
Information can also be reported to the nearest police station.
🙏 PLEASE HELP FIND ALLEGRA STYLES.
Allegra is only 14 years old, and every genuine lead could help police establish her whereabouts.
If you live in Gqeberha or know someone in the area, please share this appeal.
⚠️ We ask the public to avoid spreading rumours or making assumptions about the circumstances of her disappearance.
Navi Pillay is a South African, Harvard-educated lawyer and human rights activist who joined the case against apartheid in 1967.
She was the first non-white woman to open her own practice there. She ran a shelter for abused women, and founded Equality Now.
They arrested and tortured her husband in retaliation for her work.
In 1995, Mandela nominated her to the UN security council judgeship, where she oversaw the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
She decided the case that made rape a war crime, stating "From time immemorial, rape has been regarded as spoils of war. Now it will be considered a war crime. We want to send out a strong signal that rape is no longer a trophy of war."
She also served on the case against Ferdinand Nahimana, which charged media organizations for their role in "spreading hate propaganda that amounted to public incitement to commit genocide."
She's worked on issues of genocide for more than 30 years, and was appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2008.
She's currently a judge on the Rohingya genocide case (Gambia v. Myanmar).
She has single-handedly shaped international law.
It'd be difficult to find someone more worthy.
Honouring Judge Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, laureate of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, for her lifelong commitment to peace, international law and justice.
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A tiny country in Africa’s most Southern tip has produced 12 Nobel Laureates since the first award was announced in December 1901
These great leaders and amazing human beings bestow huge responsibility on every South African @GovernmentZA
South Africa congratulates Justice Navi Pillay on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and reaffirm the importance of a rules-based international order where accountability, justice and human rights are upheld
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South African jurist Navanethem Pillay has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote peace and international law.
The ex-UN rights chief chaired the UN inquiry that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza, and served as Nelson Mandela’s defence lawyer.
Congratulations Judge Navi Pillay on winning the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Through your unshakeably compassionate, committed and courageous pursuit of truth and justice you have taught us that it is right and proper to stand for truth and justice even when unpopular at a particular moment. You remained one of the unshakeable voices on international law on war, human rights and peace even when it suddenly became unfashionable to do so. Well done to you and the Nobel Peace Prize - an immense blow was struck against impunity today. ⚖️🕊️
Congratulations to Justice Navi Pillay on being awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
She is the fifth South African to receive this honour, joining Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk. Among developing countries, this is exceptional. Only a handful of nations anywhere have produced more Peace Prize laureates, and none in the developing world have matched South Africa’s record.
What ties these five together is deeper than geography. They represent the full arc of one of the most difficult human challenges of the last century: confronting a system of institutionalised racial oppression, choosing negotiation and reconciliation over continued conflict, and then exporting the hard-won lessons of accountability into the world. Luthuli and Tutu led non-violent resistance. Mandela and de Klerk, from opposite sides of the divide, chose to dismantle the system peacefully. Justice Navi Pillay defended those who stood against apartheid and later helped build the international legal frameworks that prosecute genocide and war crimes. The common thread is not just resistance. It is the deliberate choice to build something better from the ruins of injustice.
This is South Africa’s distinct contribution to the world. Few places have demonstrated, at this scale, that people from radically different backgrounds and histories can choose justice over revenge, inclusion over exclusion, and shared progress over perpetual division. We have shown the world that diversity, when held together by integrity and a commitment to the rule of law, can produce extraordinary outcomes.
The uncomfortable truth is that we have been better at exporting this idea than living it fully at home. Our country still struggles with the very principles our laureates modelled: embracing difference, insisting on justice for all, and refusing to let past wounds dictate the future. We have the talent, the resilience and the moral capital. What we have not yet done consistently is apply the same discipline to ourselves that we have offered the world.
South Africa has the potential to be one of the great success stories of this century. Realising it requires us to stop treating excellence, inclusion and accountability as aspirations and start treating them as non-negotiable standards of how we work, lead and live together.
As I wrote in Betting on a Darkie: “When people transcend their differences and work together to achieve a common goal, greatness is possible.”
The world has already bet on South Africa’s capacity to show a better way. The question is whether we will bet on ourselves.
#LiveWhatYouExport #BetOnSouthAfrica #TranscendTheDifferences
South African jurist and 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay has held the following positions during her career:
1. Attorney and human rights lawyer, South Africa (1967–1995) – First woman to establish a law practice in Natal, representing anti-apartheid activists and political prisoners.
2. Lecturer, University of Natal (from 1980) – Taught law at what is now the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
3. Vice-President of the Council, University of Durban-Westville (1995) – Held a senior university governance position.
4. Acting Judge, South African High Court (1995) – Became the first Black woman to serve as a High Court judge in South Africa.
5. Judge, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1995–2003) – Helped establish groundbreaking international jurisprudence recognising rape as an act of genocide.
6. President, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1999–2003) – Led the UN tribunal responsible for prosecuting those implicated in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
7. Judge, International Criminal Court, The Hague (2003–2008) – Among the ICC's inaugural judges, adjudicating international crimes.
8. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008–2014) – The UN's most senior human rights official, serving under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
9. Commissioner and later President, International Commission Against the Death Penalty (2015 onward; president from 2017) – Advocated worldwide abolition of capital punishment.
10. Chair, UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (2021–2025) – Oversaw investigations into alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.
11. Judge ad hoc, International Court of Justice – Serving in the genocide proceedings brought by The Gambia against Myanmar concerning the Rohingya.
12. President, Advisory Council of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy – Supporting international criminal justice and accountability.
13. She also co-founded Equality Now, the international women's rights organisation, and contributed to South Africa's constitutional equality protections.
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International Criminal Court (ICC) President Tomoko Akane has responded to sweeping US sanctions against the tribunal, which US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said were necessary to ‘defend Washington's sovereignty’ after accusing the court of seeking to prosecute Americans.
MISSING TEENAGER: PLEASE HELP FIND 17-YEAR-OLD ZINHLE THANDEKA MFUTYANA
A mother is appealing to the public for assistance in locating her 17-year-old daughter, Zinhle Thandeka Mfutyana, who was last seen at Maponya Mall in Soweto, Gauteng.
According to her mother, Zinhle was last seen at approximately 13:12 (1:12 PM) near the Spitz store at Maponya Mall on Sunday, 27 September 2026.
Her whereabouts are currently unknown, and her mother is asking anyone who may have seen her to come forward.
👤 MISSING PERSON DETAILS
• Full name: Zinhle Thandeka Mfutyana
• Age: 17 years
• Date of birth: 6 March 2009
• Last seen: Spitz, Maponya Mall, Soweto
• Date: 27 September 2026
• Time: Approximately 13:12
👗 CLOTHING LAST WORN
• Long black dress
• Cropped denim jacket
🔎 HAVE YOU SEEN ZINHLE?
Anyone who may have seen Zinhle at Maponya Mall on the day she disappeared, or who has information about her current whereabouts, is urged to contact her mother.
📞 Mother: 068 981 6403
⚠️ POLICE REPORT: At the time this information was submitted, her mother had not yet reported the disappearance to SAPS. A case number and investigating officer's details are therefore not yet available.
Anyone with information can also contact their nearest police station.
PLEASE HELP THIS MOTHER FIND HER DAUGHTER.
We appeal to residents of Soweto, Maponya Mall, Pimville, Klipspruit and surrounding Johannesburg communities to share this appeal.
Someone may have seen Zinhle or noticed something that could help establish her whereabouts.
Zinhle is only 17 years old. Please help spread the word so she can be located safely.
Via Missing Person SA
The #NobelPeacePrize for 2026 goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. This year’s laureate Navi Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.
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Court rules in favour of ANC Member #AndileLungisa and finds that the decision by the ANC and SG to exclude him from being a Mayoral Candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay was unlawful, unconstitutional and is set aside.
Andile’s name to be added on the list of candidates.
Punitive Cost order against ANC and its SG
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BREAKING: South African jurist Navi Pillay, who fought apartheid and called out Israel's genocide in Gaza, wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
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