Ntobeko Ximba

mysterious brown recluse (he/him/yena/loyo)

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

If you love your wife, protect her from your evil family and hold her hand in public, people won’t even notice that you’re balding.

[Cape {town} Etc @CapeTownEtc]

Cape Town comedian Ntobeko Ximba will make his debut one-man show, aptly named Pharanoid, at the Masambe Theatre at the Baxter Theatre Centre, from 27 February to 1 March:
https://t.co/JdhVMdGo7R

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇮🇱 to Lebanese people: When we’re done, you can come back safely to your homes

Their homes:

[Sabreen /صبرىن @dakhterakhter]

We did have footage. But whether it was a photo of a Congolese man staring at the severed foot & hand of his 5 y/o daughter or Dr.s sharing CT scans of bullets in the heads of Palestinian kids, neither awareness nor compassion nor reason has ever halted the colonizer’s violence.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

Look who decided to start reporting the news. 👀

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Gazans burnt alive in tent camp after Israeli air strike

Israel says hospital compound it hit housed a command centre for Hamas terrorists, as videos show injured children

Find out more ⬇️
https://t.co/EtFScZ4Uu2

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

@mabbusi @tia_visagie Dunno, I don’t see it.

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

@papa_action That m*yor was serving us beers for breakfast this morning, are you still alive?

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

What is this?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Lebanese journalist Fadi Boudia was hit by Israel while reporting live on air.

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

Nothing is working… what are we supposed to do to pull the emergency brake here. No protest, no article, no court ruling. Nothing suffices. What are we supposed to do…

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

@mabbusi @loo_m19 Curtains are for the poor*

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

@mabbusi @sehviyat *seen*

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Macklemore cancels his show in Dubai to boycott the UAE in solidarity with the people of Sudan:

“At the end of the day I have to ask myself what is my intention as an artist? […] Although dismantling systemic oppression might not fully happen during my lifetime, our collective analysis is evolving. That is where it starts. When we realize our individual liberation IS Palestinian liberation. Is Sudanese liberation. Is Congolese liberation.”

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

Gelubi is a dragon, a very friendly dragon.

[Sambrella @Smaangele]

Guys where is this Khulula interchange that’s always in the traffic news ??

[Ntobeko Ximba @Phuphemini]

Some of us are grandparents so ya

[Zweli K 🇿🇦 @ZweliKing]

All the 1988 peeps your time as a youth is over 😔

[DIRCO South Africa @DIRCO_ZA]

South African Government condemns the unlawful targeting of refugee camps in Rafah by the Israeli occupation forces

READ | https://t.co/n7MCe6H47W

[D̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ 🕸️🕷️ @noeleeisaround]

As someone who still locked in west sudan, reading that 2.5 million Sudanese about do die from hunger in September drives me insane, because me and my whole family are included in this huge number, 2.5 MILLION oh world!!!
Aren't we matter? funny how you talk about humanity

[Ze 🇸🇩 @KushiticGyal]

Hello guys, you know that the famine in Sudan is striking really hard with horrific figures/statistics coming out everyday (2.5m ppl are expected to die by September) and the death toll reaching 10k per day So here are some ways you can help relieving the famine.
#KeepEyesOnSudan