[WATCH] Seehaam Samaai, of Women’s Legal Centre, says the elections are critical for democracy to work for South Africa. "Our democracy will work - it can work - because the people will make it work," she says. #SAElections24#ElectionsSM24
“Destroying any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or the use of long range missiles. It only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in the examinations by the students… The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation.” (Anon)
Struggling to celebrate good news with everything else going on + exhaustion.
But I was selected as one of 7 young human rights educators globally to form part of a multimedia tool as a project by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Office, Amnesty Intl and SGI 🤲🏾
Amongst all of this, I got my results today (Alhamdulillah). I got a distinction and one of the examiners said it was one of the best MSc dissertations they've read 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
'“The poor cannot sleep, because they are hungry and the rich cannot sleep because the poor are awake" - Nigerian economist Sam Aluko's ringing true in South Africa today
Multiple things are true at once here. There are pro-Zuma loyalists who are looting specifically because they want Zuma out of prison. There are opportunistic criminals. And there are desperate people using this as an opportunity to finally put food on their tables
Why did snoring have to exist? Like I know the human body is perfect by God's design but neh snoring. I literally cannot sleep next to or hear someone snoring when I need to sleep. Yho people are tired mos in this house tonight.
The more I study and use astrology, I've come to see that it's a better tool for understanding and developing your character than trying to control or anticipate your future.
She was a Nazi collaborator - hence why the French resistance killed her. This post is a good summary of contemporary liberal feminism which privileges the existence of women over the substance of women. Doing that makes women into unicorns incapable of making [im]moral choices.
THIS.
Picked up my medication once with a man who spoke to me about my whole life, told me to reply to his messages on Insta and hid his name tag when I was in store.
I had never interacted with him socially before in my life, didn’t know him from a bar of soap.