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[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

I have served long enough in leadership to recognise a troubling pattern. Too many among South Africa’s elite - black and white - appear to believe the rules that govern the rest of us do not apply to them.

As chairman of an SOE, I am regularly approached by business leaders asking me to intervene in operational or procurement matters. When I explain that my role is governance and oversight, not management, they say they understand. Yet the requests continue. This reveals a belief that exceptions exist for the connected few.

It was therefore striking to see Business Leadership South Africa and BUSA, organisations that have been vocal against state capture and political interference in state-owned enterprises, actively advocate for political intervention to transfer transmission assets to the Transmission System Operator. These are the same bodies that insist on corporate governance and board independence. Where, then, is the role of the SOE board? What exactly do they believe in?

Equally concerning are recent allegations involving former Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. Senior figures within his own party, including John Steenhuisen and Dion George, have raised issues that appear to involve conflicts of interest and undue influence. This from a voice that has long lectured on ethical standards and clean governance. Do these rules apply to everyone, or only when politically convenient? Selective morality is not morality at all.

When those who position themselves as guardians of good governance apply different standards to themselves, public trust erodes. But South Africans are watching. We see the inconsistencies. We now know where people stand.

The path forward requires courage. We must expose wrongdoing wherever it occurs without fear or favour. We must demand that those who preach accountability live it consistently. We must insist that rules bind the powerful as they bind ordinary citizens. And we must model the ethical society we want to build.

South Africa does not lack good people. What we need is the collective will to insist that principle applies to all. Let us find that courage. Let us call out double standards and build a nation where no one is above the law. That is the South Africa worth fighting for. #ProudlySA

[AJE Sport @AJE_Sport]

Video shows Israeli police confiscating and destroying footballs that were being played with by children in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, in what mosque authorities described as part of ongoing restrictions on Palestinians inside the holy site.

[izweLethu @Pascido]

@BonitasMedical your app is completely unusable right now. It keeps asking to be updated in a continuous loop and won’t let me log in. Is there a known issue or an ETA on a fix? This is incredibly frustrating when trying to access medical aid info. #Bonitas #Fail

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

Marco Rubio said:

“For five centuries before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding. Its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires. But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting.…”

And we in the ex European colonies say:

“For five centuries, Europeans, in search of food and resources after witnessing centuries of famine and pandemic plagues, and on the verge of collapse and self destruction through endless wars and genocide, decided to seek new lands with better climates and greater resources. They settled in the Americas, massacred millions of natives, burned down entire kingdoms, captured and killed millions of Africans, and forced millions of others into slavery for four centuries. After losing control over these colonies in the Americas, they turned to other continents such as Asia, Oceania, and Africa, where they replicated the same model. They were eventually pushed out through wars in which tens of millions died, from Vietnam to Algeria, from Cameroon to Angola, where they were defeated by people who would rather die than continue being enslaved by Europeans.”

Thank you, Marco Rubio, but you cannot rewrite history. You may teach your children this B.S. you call the expansion of Western civilization, but our children from the Global South will be waiting when they show up at our doors with that reckless naivety, believing they will encounter docile fools to “civilize.” Keep deceiving your people. If you of European descent miss colonialism, we of African descent do not miss slavery, and we shall not bow to the “civilization of rape, plunder, genocide and barbarity”….

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

[LBC @LBC]

‘You sound like you’re speaking for a country who’s afraid of a bigger country.’

@Lewis_Goodall grills Labour’s Darren Jones on the UK’s repsonse to the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.

[Siphamandla Mbatha @Ntokozo_Shandu]

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[dEAR @aey_dear]

Kaizer Chiefs fans getting ready to involve themselves in matters that do not concern them

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

“You are guilty not only when you commit a crime, but also when you do nothing to prevent it when you have the chance.”- Dimitri “Forever yena” Tsafendas ❤️

[Jeff Wicks 🇿🇦 @wicks_jeff]

Four years ago today, whistleblower Babita Deokaran sent a chilling message to her boss:

"Our lives could be in danger." 12 days later, she was dead.

This is the story of that warning, in a @News24 🧵. #BabitaDeokaran

[izweLethu @Pascido]

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[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

Okay so let's talk about the Beast of Soweto, Theuns Swanepoel who died on this day in 1998. Trained by the French who dealt with the Algerian liberation movement, he was a skilled torturer, founding member of Koevoet. He ordered the shooting of children on 16 June.

[Thabo Mbeki Foundation @TMFoundation_]

An Open Letter from President Thabo Mbeki, the Patron of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, addressed to DA leader John Steenhuisen—dated 3 July 2025—in which he responds to the DA’s withdrawal from the National Dialogue

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

26 May 1948 was election day in South Africa. 2 days later, having won by 5 seats, the National Party took power. Within 5 years the NP passed legislation that was foundational to entrenching "Baaskap" (white domination) in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
📸: Ernest Cole

[izweLethu @Pascido]

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[izweLethu @Pascido]

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[izweLethu @Pascido]

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[izweLethu @Pascido]

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[izweLethu @Pascido]

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