Rosemary Yates🌱 Ⓥ

Vegan/Wife/Mom/Gran. Animal lover that's why I will not eat them!! Anti cruelty. Pro kindness. Always!!!

[Mel Gibson⭐ @MelGibsonxvyv]

Benjamin Netanyahu:

“Hamas monsters slaughtered Holocaust survivors and burned babies alive in front of their parents.”

Hamas has no right to exist.

[David Collier @mishtal]

We told you so.

For years we have been telling everyone that outlets like @bbcnews were spreading Hamas propaganda

Now the truth is out. All those Gazan journalists BBC News relied on were just Hamas terrorists in press jackets.

How many Hamas lies did BBC News send viral?

[Sarel Roets @Rebellium_Roets]

"I have not called for the slaughter of white people. At least for now!"
~ @Julius_S_Malema

Julius Malema was asked in court if he would pledge that he would never call for the slaughter of white people.

He refused.

When someone tells you who they are, you should believe him.

[Pookie's Polls & Opinions @pookiepolls]

Let me guess.

"It's not us. It's foreigners. We don't commit crime. We are angels."

Another truck looted after breaking down.

But yet the same people will set a teenager alight for stealing a phone, or an old lady who they accuse of being a witch.

Cursed.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Johannesburg has achieved total urban decay.

The operating system forced on the great city isn't working, and the decay is getting out of hand.

The politics changed from meritocratic leadership and municipal power to party loyalty and ideological obsession.

Service delivery died in the process, and society lowered civic responsibility, the standards bar, and its demands from authorities.

This disorder is a consistent pattern across post-independence Africa, infrastructure breakdown and poor service delivery are rampant.

Everything else is blamed except the people in power and the people living in such dirty conditions, without any accountability or ownership of responsibility.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is shocking & shameful.

[Alice VL @RiseAgainstEvil]

@CyrilRamaphosa on Heritage Day; “We are never, ever going to forget apartheid and what it did to us.”

This is a sitting president using a national holiday to keep racial grievance on life support 32 years later because the ANC still needs a White enemy to explain why the lights are off, the farms are burning, and the country is a crime scene.

You want people to “never forget” a system that ended before half the country was even born. Meanwhile White farmers are still being hunted on their own land; tied up, beaten, burned, raped, shot, and left for their families to find, because of this kind of rhetoric. That is the heritage your government actually delivers. You talk “united, democratic and inclusive nation” while “Kill the Boer” gets sung at rallies and farm attacks keep producing new White crosses. That is stirring racial hate, not healing it.

Heritage Day is supposed to bind the country. You used it to remind everyone who the designated villain still is. That is cheap, dangerous politics.

[Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 @EliAfriatISR]

The number-one orator on the globe takes the UN stage, holding up a jarring mirror to a world that refuses to see the truth.

A heart-stirring sight:
Bibi enters the hall, and the cowards flee. 🤣

Netanyahu looks straight ahead—primarily at the cameras, at the world—and begins his remarks without backing down.
No apologies.
No hanging his head.

He looks straight ahead—at the hall, at the cameras, and above all at the world—and opens with sharp words:

"Before I begin, if there are any more moral cowards here who haven't left the hall, please leave now."

Then he looks back 14 years:

"Fourteen years ago, I stood at this podium and drew a red line: I vowed to prevent Iran’s murderous dictatorship from developing nuclear bombs."

Then comes the sentence that illustrates the magnitude of the decision:

"Destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities was difficult. It was very hard to do.
But for me, it was one of the easiest decisions I ever had to make.
If we hadn't done it—we would all be dead."

And he continues:

"Israel is also defending many of the countries whose representatives walked out of the room." "Leaders thank us for striking Iran’s nuclear program."

Then Netanyahu turns back to October 7:

"On October 7—the darkest day in Israel’s history—thousands of terrorists invaded Israel."

From there, he moves to the war that has been raging for three years:

"Israel’s enemies expected the state to collapse—but that did not happen.
We fought like lions.
For three years now, we have been fighting on seven fronts."

Then comes one of the speech's most powerful lines:

"There is an eighth front in this war.
It is the war for the truth."

The war for public perception.
The war for the narrative.
The war for Israel’s right to tell the world what really happened here.

And Netanyahu does not stop there.

Here—at the speech's dramatic climax—he attacks the tyrant Erdogan for the first time:

"He is a tyrant.
He hosts Hamas’s terror leaders.
He has slaughtered thousands of Kurdish civilians.
He denies the Armenian Genocide; he imprisons journalists and opposition leaders.
In fact, I think he holds the world record in that regard."

And addressing the harsh accusations leveled against Israel, he says:

"Despite the pain, despite the suffering, we do not surrender. Your sacrifice will not be in vain." "We will continue to defend our country."

And this is perhaps the heart of the entire speech:

Israel does not apologize for its very existence.
Israel does not relinquish its right to defend itself.
And Israel does not intend to let others write its story for it.

Then Netanyahu turns his gaze to Jews around the world:

"Hold your heads high. Carry yourselves with pride. Do not be afraid."

Wow.
A masterfully crafted speech.

You might agree.
You might disagree.
You might argue.

But it is hard to remain indifferent to a speech like this.

Netanyahu on the UN stage—facing a cowardly hall,
facing international criticism and the world's cameras—chooses to speak in the clearest voice possible:

Israel will not stay silent.
Israel will not surrender.
And Israel will continue to fight for its truth.

Wow, wow,
quite a speech.
Kudos to the Prime Minister.

Remember what I am writing here.

This speech will be talked about for a long time.

And this speech will determine the fate of the government here.

-Yoram Adri.

[Democratic Alliance @Our_DA]

SPOTTED in Tshwane. 📍📸

R777 million in water-tanker invoices in 2025. That should have been used to fix the pipes!

On 4 November, Tshwane residents will have their say on who runs their city. Vote DA 🗳️

[Ian Cameron @IanCameron23]

Christine Robinson’s case is one I will never forget.

Christine was a retired British teacher who had made South Africa her home. After her husband died, she continued running the game lodge they had built together near Thabazimbi.

On 30 July 2014, Christine was raped and murdered at that lodge.

Andrew Ndlovu fled after the attack. Years passed, but Christine’s family never stopped looking for him.

I became personally involved with the family, following leads and trying to find him. Six years to the day after Christine was murdered, a tip-off following another social media appeal led us to Johannesburg.

Together with SAPS members, led by W/O Crewe and former police officer Colonel Sakkie Louwrens, we found Ndlovu that very evening in Johannesburg and arrested him.

I will never forget that day. The feeling of satisfaction to tell a family that we got him!

But even an arrest was only the beginning of the road to justice.

Almost eight years after Christine’s murder, Ndlovu finally stood trial. His DNA linked him to the crime and in April 2022 he was convicted of rape and murder. He ultimately received two life sentences.

Christine’s family waited almost eight years for that moment.

Their persistence is something I will always remember.

A case does not become less important because the headlines disappear. A victim does not matter less because years have passed.

Sometimes justice requires people who simply refuse to stop looking.

This is why we do what we do. 🙏🏼

IC

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

No fewer than 59 dogs were killed on October 7 by Hamas.

They were gunned down at point-blank range or burned alive. Most of these helpless souls were killed alongside their beloved owners in their homes.

We must never forget the evil Israel is fighting against.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Slovenia’s Prime Minister comes out and slams the Islamic Republic for mass executing Iranians.

He was the only EU leader to mention the murders that have taken place.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

"If you say the ANC must abandon BEE, you are saying we must cease to exist, and we won't do that."

— ANC SECRETARY GENERAL, FIKILE MBALULA

Without the BEE scam, there would be no ANC tenderpreneurs, no mining cartels, and no bogus businessmen.

These are the individuals who merely attach their names to investments and companies through their proximity to power, without offering any actual service or value.

The apartheid cow has been milked to the point of near collapse; there are now only bones and no flesh.

Race-based economics is simply not a viable option, and it will leave absolutely nothing for the next generations.

[Bongekile Mthembu🇿🇦 @_Bongekile_]

Kat Matlala and his wife 😭😂 Apparently, while viewing mansions around Gauteng, Kat allegedly told the estate agent that he was a prince from Swaziland and reportedly had a fake Eswatini ID with the surname Dlamini. Then allegedly paid R1.2 million upfront for a year’s rent. 😭😭 This whole saga is wild.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

The tragedy of Ramaphosa's leadership is watching his administration treat an economic worst case scenario like an acceptable trade-off.

When Minister Lamola tells the public to "prepare for the worst case scenario," he isn't displaying courage; he is announcing that the political elite have comfortably insulated themselves from the fallout of their own failed, ideological experiments.

A worst case scenario doesn't touch the political class.

Ramaphosa will remain comfortably in the presidency, Lamola will continue rotating through lucrative high offices, and the ruling elite will eat exceptionally well.

The actual bill for these flawed, economically destructive laws will be paid entirely by ordinary South Africans in the form of capital flight, job destruction, and permanent economic stagnation.

True leadership requires the pragmatism to resolve a crisis, not the stubborn arrogance to watch an economy dismantle itself just to preserve a broken status quo.

They simply do not care.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

In a free country, you are entitled to believe you are a woman with a penis. But not to take it into a female changing room, nor to cheat your way into a female athletic competition, nor in any way to impose your private delusion on the rest of us.
https://t.co/eZdizfnsMs

[Kallie Kriel @kalliekriel]

Fikile Mbalula sal nou in die hof moet verskyn op ’n strafregtelike klag van crimen injuria. Die klag hou verband met uitlatings waarin hy die Oos-Kaapse skoolhoof Jaco Pieterse valslik van die verkragting van ’n dogtertjie beskuldig en hom onder meer ’n “dier” genoem het.

@MbalulaFikile het @afriforum destyds ook skerp gekritiseer omdat ons Pieterse teen die valse beskuldigings bygestaan het.

Die staat het aanvanklik besluit om Mbalula nie te vervolg nie. Ná volgehoue druk deur adv. Gerrie Nel en sy span by AfriForum se Privaatvervolgingseenheid, sal Mbalula nou wel in die hof moet verskyn.

Dit is hoog tyd dat Mbalula hom voor ’n hof oor sy uitlatings moet verantwoord. Niemand is verhewe bo die reg of onaantasbaar nie. Mbalula sal nou, soos enige ander persoon wat strafregtelik aangekla word, die regsproses moet deurloop en hom in die hof teen die klag moet verdedig.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

As I have repeatedly explained, the Muslim Brotherhood along with their ilk have repeatedly explained that the West will be conquered through three means:

1) The womb of our women
2) Hijrah (the Arabic word for migration)
3) By using your miserable freedoms against you.

Despite screaming their conquest plans from the top of the mountain openly and brazenly, the West is steadfastly refusing to implement auto-corrective procedures to protect our civilization.

Suicidal Empathy is going to destroy us.

[Brett Ben Raphael @Brettbenraphael]

So what's CR doing playing golf yesterday hours after he was booked off because he was so darn ill... Surely if you well enough to pay golf you well enough to clear your inbox and sign off on matters as your first priority?

[Barry Bateman @barrybateman]

MEDIA STATEMENT: Fikile Mbalula to also face the music for falsely accusing Bergview principal of rape

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula will join EFF leader Julius Malema in facing criminal prosecution for falsely accusing an innocent school principal of rape. This is the second case where AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit has succeeded in convincing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that a politician should be prosecuted for crimen injuria after branding Jaco Pieterse, the former Bergview College principal, a child rapist. With the support of the unit, Pieterse laid criminal complaints against Mbalula, Malema, as well Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade. The NPA confirmed in August that the decision was made to prosecute Malema.

On 1 April 2025, Mbalula was addressing the media following a party meeting, where he referred to the alleged rape of the Bergview child, adding that “even more disgraceful is the involvement of organisations like AfriForum, who shield suspects rather than standing for justice.” At the time, it was public knowledge that the Private Prosecution Unit represented Pieterse. Mbalula went further to describe Pieterse as an animal, and that AfriForum was defending an animal.

The case involves a child whose mother alleges she was raped at the Bergview College in Matatiele, Eastern Cape, in October 2024. Pieterse and the school’s caretaker, whom the unit also represents, were the targets of a vicious social media campaign started in November that same year when the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) declined to prosecute the case due to a lack of evidence. In May last year, the NPA confirmed that it had decided not to prosecute anyone in connection with the alleged rape because, according to the NPA’s spokesperson, “there is no evidence of rape or sexual assault after the minor girl was interviewed and examined by medical practitioners and forensic social workers”.

In the representations to the NPA on 13 August 2026, head of the unit, Advocate Gerrie Nel referred addressed Mbalula and the ANC’s public defence that his comments were about gender-based violence in general, and not in reference to Pieterse. “The fact that Mr Pieterse was not expressly named cannot, in the circumstances of this matter, be determinative. The question is not merely whether his name was uttered, but whether the words, viewed in their full context and against the surrounding circumstances, were objectively understood to refer to him. The evidence and surrounding circumstances must be considered in their totality. Every prosecutor must be alive of the value and strength of circumstantial evidence.

“Similarly, the fact that Mr Pieterse subjectively experienced an impairment of his dignity cannot simply be dismissed. The circumstances are particularly compelling given that he was publicly associated with the alleged rape of a seven-year-old child despite the fact that he had never been a suspect and despite the subsequent confirmation of the NPA that there was no evidence that the child had been raped,” said Nel.

Barry Bateman, spokesperson for the unit, says like Malema, Mbalula has also frequently turned to the courts when have been allegedly falsely accused of having committed a crime. “Every time Fikile Mbalula has been publicly accused of involvement in the murder of Wandile Bozwana, he has turned to the courts to interdict his accusers. In a judgment last year, Mbalula argued that being falsely accused caused ongoing harm to his reputation and dignity, resulting in anxiety, humiliation and embarrassment.

“Mbalula therefore fully understands the harm caused by falsely accusing someone of committing a crime. He must realise that publicly branding a career teacher a child rapist and an animal, without a shred of evidence to support such a claim, fundamentally violates that teacher’s right to dignity. AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit believes a criminal court will agree, convict him accordingly, and send a clear message that there are consequences for politicians who use their public platforms to spread lies with scant regard for the consequences,” said Bateman.

(Extracts from our representations below)