Panyar Dit

[khalifa said #SUDAN 🇸🇩 ☭🌹 @ThatBoyKhalifax]

.@DrHmwinyi, kwa niaba ya masikini wote, tunakusihi sana usikerwe na kuudhika na sisi masikini. kerwa na umasikini na ufukara unaozaliswa, na kuendelezwa, na serikali yako na chama chako, @ccm_tanzania:

[The Elephant @theelephantinfo]

In Governance and Transition Politics in Kenya, Adams Oloo highlights the 1950s Swynnerton Plan, a British colonial strategy to manufacture a loyal African middle class. By letting them grow cash crops like coffee, the colonizers aimed to buy their loyalty and align them with European settlers. Fast forward 62 years post-independence, and that blueprint of an insulated, self-serving political class still echoes. Is the current political class still operating on this exact colonial blueprint, or have they evolved their own system of self-interest?
Read Analysis: https://t.co/xpUfzZYeXi

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#IWentToAlliance #TheElephant #EliteMediocrity #Governance

[Panyar Dit @panyadit2005]

@bradleybirzer I am interested my email address is [email protected]

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

He gets up at 4am. He stands in the queue for his turn to wash. The queue is usually long at this time and more often than not he leaves the hostel without having washed. There is no breakfast for him.

Outside where he works are women selling some kind of fat-cakes known as magwinya . These are easy to eat without tea, so he purchases four or five at tea time. For lunch he has a cold lump of mealie-pap, molatswa, which is left over from the previous night.

After work he rushes ‘home’. Getting into the train carrying africans is a feat both physical and mental. At the hostel there is a long queue for a place at the stove to cook his meal. By the time he sits down to his meal he is thoroughly exhausted. He has been literally fighting it out the whole day, like an animal. But perhaps night will bring him rest? This what awaits him:

The utensils need cleaning. He goes out into the street where there is a communal water tap, if he doesn’t want to push and fight again for the kitchen scullery. A bath before he goes to bed? Not for him. There are communal showers with no hot water, whatever the season. He shares his open room with 15 other men, irrespective of age.

Washing facilities are primitive: communal toilets with rows of buckets next to each other. He watches some desperate men practicing homosexuality and prostitution openly. To add to this, police with torches may break noisily into the room looking for women who have been smuggled in, disguised. How long can a migrant worker stand this?

His reaction to this dehumanized life is not surprising. Within a week or a month he will have to find a way out. Along the street dividing the hostels from the residential houses are the women selling magwinya, sweet potatoes, etc. There are also houses near the hostels where food and drinks are sold in home-like surroundings.

These places give comfort to the migrant worker. Soon he becomes an unofficial member of the family or an unofficial son-in-law. But the pay packet of 30 or 40 rand is definitely not enough for two families – and it is the family in the far-away homeland that suffers. To help out some men take up odd jobs on Saturdays and Sundays – gardening in the townships or in the towns, for whites.

This helps them to get train fare money for the week. Such jobs pay them one to one-and-a-half rand a day. Some become open-air barbers, others cobblers. They never rest – small wonder their life expectation is 35 years.

Source: https://t.co/YjfKROheb1

[Panyar Dit @panyadit2005]

@Manero96010135 @Newzroom405 Very good point, the French people went after their King and those around him who enabled his excess at the expense of the masses, so far at least I have not seen protesters going after South African leaders and those of your elites who benefit by being close to them.

[Maria Sarungi Tsehai @MariaSTsehai]

Hey @volker_turk @UN_HRC
This is your Chair of Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan who is saying following the massacre of THOUSANDS and #EnforcedDisappearances in #Tanzania that people “disappear” even in Europe so it is not a big deal
Kindly remove him from your mission because he cannot repeat this outrageous rationalization for Sudan! The people of Sudan should be really worried because they deserve better! Chande is a stooge happy to say whatever those in power want him to - he is not objective!
How callous to dismiss the anguish of families looking for their loved ones who were abducted by the State! He is blaming the victims and throwing around LIES that they were armed while majority were killed in their homes!
Disgraceful 🚮
We need an independent investigation but PLEASE don’t bring stooges like Chande! Thank you!

[Chude @Chude_ND1]

Civil society groups in South Africa are taking a stand against xenophobia and dehumanizing of other Africans.

They are marching to Constitution Hill to demand an end to the "scapegoating of migrants".

Indeed every cloud has a silver lining.

[Panyar Dit @panyadit2005]

@LLudada92783 @Newzroom405 You are right marching is within the law, vigilantism is another matter altogether.

[Benjamin Strick @BenDoBrown]

Hi @LazaroNyalandu, given your statements on Sky News to @BarbaraGSerra, I'd be happy to run you through this report from @Cen4infoRes which verified 180+ videos showing the shooting and violence by Tanzanian Government forces.

You can read it here: https://t.co/FbSoaOb5X0

[Panyar Dit @panyadit2005]

@Soulful1865 Nani kama mama? Asante mama.

[Sophie Mokoena @Sophie_Mokoena]

Former President Thabo Mbeki on the issue of Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool. #sabcnews

[Panyar Dit @panyadit2005]

@fan_fintwit

[Panyar Dit @panyadit2005]

@AbroadTanzania Wasomali ni waarabu? Tangu lini?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Adam Smith’s masterpiece is one of those rare classics that almost everyone knows about, but a very few have actually read.

It is fundamentally misunderstood — yet it's just as important today as it was in 1776. Let me explain. https://t.co/jfOPxmF9ti

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

These are the views of a US senator — a Democrat, so he’s deeply opposed to Pres Trump. But he has access to high-level briefings, and he makes some powerful points.

[MBENGA ARTS @MbengaBenjamin]

Nearly 2,000 hours of work on this work, thank you for seeing and sharing it.

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

For guests, Epstein’s island was a Caribbean dream; for victims, a nightmare with no escape. CNN's Kyung Lah reports on what files released by the Department of Justice reveal.