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heavenly minded = earthly incredible

[Woolworths SA @WOOLWORTHS_SA]

That’s why we’re World Champions ❤️🇿🇦

[Tanya @taniawithay]

I’ll try to make this my last post about the flyover…but I’m not making any promises. 😂

But honestly, now we can clearly see just how much nonsense the media all over the world can share and how quickly people will believe it.

Let that sink in.

[Airlink @Fly_Airlink]

A moment for the history books! 🤩✈️

Two of Airlink’s custom-liveried Embraer aircraft performed a rare, double fly-over at a packed Ellis Park Stadium to celebrate the return of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry, presented by Castle Double Malt.

#Airlink proudly connecting Castle Double Malt Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry.

#FlyAirlink #FlyTheLink #Skybucks #RugbysGreatestRivalry

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

Dad, why is my middle name Airlink?

[MR. HiMSELF @pushinM15]

No, the plane did not almost crash into DHL Stadium on Saturday, no matter what your timeline is telling you this morning.

The clip everyone is sharing shows an Airlink jet passing through smoke from the pre match fireworks, and that looks apocalyptic in a ten second loop.

But that is pyrotechnic smoke drifting up into the flight path, not an aircraft dropping down onto a stadium roof, completely different physics.

Here is the number that actually matters, flight tracking logged the jets at 925 feet as they crossed DHL Stadium.

The stadium itself only reaches 164 feet, so work that out and the jets had more than four stadium heights of open air above the roof.

That is not a near miss by any definition of the term.

Ground level footage will always exaggerate this, your brain is bad at judging distance when you are looking straight up at a fast object crossing a static building.

Add a pitch change mid pass and the tail looks like it drops even though the jet is actually climbing.

It has spooked crowds since Laurie Kay first did this over Ellis Park in 95, and it will spook the next crowd too.

A near identical pass happened in Johannesburg the week before this one, and almost nobody reacted.

Your eyes panicked on Saturday, the altimeter never did.

[Dr George Sekonya, PhD 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇿🇦 @DrSekonya]

Airlink director of marketing walking into the office tomorrow like.....

[Airlink @Fly_Airlink]

Planning. Precision. Performance. ✈️✈️

Spectacular scenes of Airlink’s double Embraer flyover at the DHL Stadium.

Airlink is Proud Official Sponsor of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry, presented by Castle Double Malt 🏉

#Airlink #FlyAirlink #FlyTheLink #Skybucks #RugbysGreatestRivalry

[Khaya Sithole @CoruscaKhaya]

In other news...

[Dr M Shujat Rasool @DrMShujat]

A child accidentally swallows a small button battery from a toy.

What is the FIRST safe thing to give while rushing to the ER?

A) A glass of warm milk
B) Two teaspoons of pure honey
C) A spoonful of mustard
D) Plenty of plain water

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[OFootball @ofootball__]

Thank you Cape Verde! 🇨🇻❤️

[Pato Bonato @patobonato]

- Su arquero tiene 40 años y juega en la segunda división de Portugal
- Nadie del plantel juega en su liga local (que es semiprofesional)
- Los convocados son hijos y nietos de emigrantes criados en Europa.
- A un defensor lo buscaron por LinkedIn.
- Medio millón de habitantes (hay más caboverdianos viviendo fuera que en el propio país)
- Le sacaron un punto al campeón de Europa y llevaron al tiempo extra al campeón del mundo

Mis respetos para Cabo Verde 🇨🇻

[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.

[Mntaka God🙏🏾 @g0dsvryown]

TRC Episode 12, Part 06

[Arlin Medrano @arlinmedrano_]

El equipo nacional de Irán llevó mochilas escolares al campo del #2026WorldCup para honrar a los 175 niñas asesinadas en la escuela por Estados Unidos e Israel en Minab.

No solo están jugando futbol, están llevando un mensaje, uno que EE.UU no quiere escuchar.

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

💔💔💔 June 16 🔺 1976

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

The moniker "Tokyo" is so widely used that many forget it isn't his birth name. He was given the nickname during his youth due to his intense involvement and passion for karate. The name stuck with him through his schooling, his time underground, and his eventual public life, completely eclipsing his birth name, Mosima.

[Red Media @RedMedia_us]

Lupita Nyong'o while racists argue about her role as Helen of Troy in the 'Odyssey' 🔥😍:

[yu_007 @YVaw123]

When Institutions In America forced students to remove keffiyehs / Palestinian symbols during graduation ceremonies amid that Ongoing genocide in Gaza,South African 🇿🇦Students From our Honorable,admirable institution,The University of Cape Town , Showed the world🌎how its done🥹