Musa Njoko

Artist

[Musa Njoko @NjokoMusa]

There are NO HIV Saints and Sinners!!! We are all People Living With HIV. No one deserves to be infected NOT One! In my journey living openly with HIV people of Faith often ask me how I got infected as if that changes anything 🙄. We've got to End HIV Stigma and all foolishness!

[Zakes Bantwini @ZakesBantwiniSA]

We've lost the line on whats funny. Joking about a mans career, his choices, his ego fair game, always has been. But building a bit around someone's stroke, someone still in recovery, what their body can or can't do right now that's not comedy anymore. That's cruelty wearing a laugh track. And it's happening more and more, like we've collectively forgotten there's a difference.

This isn't isolated. What happened on Spring Day kids pouring water on elderly people going to work, filming it, calling it fun is the same loss of a line, just a different costume. We keep finding new ways to make someone’s vulnerability the punchline and calling it content.

I know saying this might just feed the same clickbait cycle I'm talking about. I'm fine with that trade. But someone has to say it, there has to be a limit, and recovery, illness, and disability sit on the other side of it.

To the young men behind content like this you have real talent and a real platform. Use it with more care. Wisdom isn't the absence of edge, it's knowing what the edge is for. Sharpen it against power, ego, hypocrisy or anything for that matter but not against a man trying to get his hand working again, or a man who had an accident or an unfortunate life threatening condition. That discernment is what turns a voice into an influence people actually respect.

#therehastobealimit

[@luphumlongcayisa @luphumlongcayis]

Dear Banks,

In this the age of escalating fraud, cybercrime and identity theft, it can no longer be acceptable for us customers to simply trust that the person on the other end of the line is genuinely calling from the bank.

Just as we clients are required to verify our identities before discussing our accounts, bank employees should be subjected to a similar verification process. The burden of trust cannot rest solely on the customer.

There ought to be a secure authentication system that allows customers to verify that a caller is indeed an authorised representative of the bank before any conversation about personal or financial matters takes place. Whether this takes the form of a unique verification code, an in-app confirmation, a secure push notification, or another authentication mechanism.

Banks have invested heavily in protecting themselves from fraud. It is time they invest with equal urgency in protecting customers from fraudulent individuals impersonating bank employees.

The current model, where a stranger phones you and immediately begins asking security questions, is outdated and unsafe.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Thank you for this clearer and bolder statement. I appreciate it very much. I also appreciate you taking the time to reflect on my input on your first response and adapt your statement with clarity and firmness. Thank you

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Dear Mark. I assume you are a Saltzman, founders of Dischem. I do not know who your mother is. I have taken NO MONEY from her. The @Dischem Foundation supported good causes led by my previous employer @Radio702 . They also sponsored the Brain of 702. It was a partnership with a commercial radio station. Did your mother want our souls in return?Did your family think that was money coming to me personally? What money did your mother give ME, Redi? And when did I meet with her? Is this what you discuss at family dinners?

I am a big customer at Dischem and I assumed like any moral corporate citizen, the Foundation was set up for good deeds, not as a form of blackmail.

Perhaps @Dischem foundation should have made it clear to 702 management all those years that it supported good courses in return for MY obedience and silence on Israel's atrocities and war crimes. I'd have told them to go fuck themselves. And unless you and your mother can prove here, publicly, that I, Redihentse Tlhabi, took money from her, then you can also go fuck yourselves. And why is everything about money?

[shuaib manjra 🇵🇸🇨🇺🇪🇭 @ShuaibManjra]

@RediTlhabi @Dischem @Radio702 Mr Mark Salzman deleted his account, but here's the screen grab.

[Chipo Dendere @drDendere]

Back in 2013 when I was just starting my field work on migration I spent a lot of time in SA border towns. The healthcare systems had been expanded to accommodate an I flow of migrants who needed urgent care. South Africa carries a disproportionate load of responsibility.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

The "horror" is that HIV doesn't just infect you.....it becomes you!! Here is why we can't just clear it:

• Genomic Integration: It stitches its own DNA into yours. You can't kill the virus without killing the host cell.

• The Reservoir: It hides in resting memory cells for decades. It stays silent and invisible to both your immune system and our best drugs.

• Mutation Rate: It evolves faster than any biological entity we know. By the time we target one version, it has already mutated into a hundred others.

• Sanctuaries: It hides in the brain and other sites where most drugs can’t reach.

[Katlego Maseng 🧠 @KatlegoMaseng1]

A 31-year-old from Soweto just built a wheelchair that can move up, down, and climb stairs.

His name? Ernest Majenge.

Remember it.

Because this is how the world changes. 🌍

[🖍 @feziledhlamini_]

Crazy.

[🖍 @feziledhlamini_]

PLEASE REPOST:
I built South Africa's first black-owned electric vehicle company.
I have deployed 70+ EVs with Blue Chip Companies, Local SMEs and exported to the UAE.
I have invested R9.5 million of my own money over 10 years.
The IDC has given me R0.
They gave a white-owned competitor R69.9 million.

Thread. 🧵
@businessXplain @ParliamentofRSA @sedfa_dsbd @DSBD_SA @the_dtic @IDCSouthAfrica @PublicProtector @NAFCOCKZN

[Rendani (MBA - Wits) @Rendani666]

In Katlehong, a woman named Nomvula Khwasha woke up one morning to a message she did not understand. Her medical aid was notifying her that a R187,000 hospital claim had just been approved. The problem was simple and frightening at the same time. Nomvula had not been to a hospital in months.

A Thread

[Rendani (MBA - Wits) @Rendani666]

Case Study #144

One Monday morning in Sandton, the fraud team at a large South African bank (MK Bank) began receiving complaints from customers whose accounts had been emptied overnight.

At first the incidents looked unrelated. Different customers, suburbs and devices. But within a few hours investigators realised something far more serious was happening.

A thread.

[🌸❤️ @oddettem]

Good morning @StandardBankZA. Kindly please come this side.

Sivukile ☺️

[#HANDSOFFAFRIKA #FREEGOMA @_zeephele]

@StandardBankZA here is a proof that you are dishonest, lied to me using @sarstax , a fraud department manager and a branch manager lied. lawyers on my TL please help me sue this bank. @NPA_Prosecutes @SAPoliceService I am opening a case

[🦋usinazo🦋 @UsinazoKhumalo]

My grandfather is also a victim of the @StandardBankZA saga , he’s been going to the bank to enquirer about his money for 5 years now, but he’s still not getting help💔💔 Please bring back my grandfather’s money!!!!!!!!!!!!! R290k gone like dust

[The Culture Economy @thecultureecon]

Pretty certain Standard Bank is hoping this will go away. Insider job and they’re still silent on the matter 💀

[Pale Pale @palesamahlako]

It’s deeply concerning to see so many reports of elderly customers and pensioners falling victim to fraud at Standard Bank

@StandardBankZA it cannot be that all these people are mistaken or lying. Vulnerable clients deserve better protection and swift resolution, not denial or deflection.

Please take accountability, investigate these cases transparently, and show the public that you prioritise customer safety over excuses.

[Pamela Madi @madi_pamel91487]

I lost 300k in a short space of 2 hours from an Investment account with @StandardBankZA

[Le rata depth gore. @Ketso28]

Why do so many of these dodgy transactions seem to be happening to black women’s pension funds and savings? Is this some kind of syndicate or what? 👀

[Tilly 🇿🇦 @Tilly_tetelo]

.@StandardBankZA What’s happening with you? ?? I deposited money at the ATM, but the money didn’t go into my account. There was no confirmation and no receipt. The ATM just gave me back my card 😧