Shabir Madhi

Professor of Vaccinology @WitsUniversity. Passionate about healthier lives by prevention of diseases through vaccination. Posts are in my personal capacity

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Let me dedicate this award to all of the survivors of international crimes as well as to practitioners and defenders of international justice whose passion and courage continue to ensure that impunity will not be allowed to reign.”

Today Navi Pillay, judge and human rights defender, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless dedication to upholding international law.

Read more about our newest peace laureate: https://t.co/qgw5a9MWPc

[Forest Whitaker @ForestWhitaker]

From fighting apartheid in South Africa to defending human rights worldwide, Navi Pillay reminds us that peace begins with the courage to imagine a more just world, and to spend a lifetime working toward it. Congratulations, Navi, on your well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize!

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?"

Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Navi Pillay es una reconocida jurista sudafricana que ha dedicado su vida a perseguir la impunidad y defender a los débiles frente a los poderosos. Desde su país, desde la ONU y desde la Corte Penal Internacional.

Hoy, ha sido galardonada con el Nobel de la Paz.

Desde el Gobierno de España nos sumamos al reconocimiento, aplaudimos su labor y reiteramos, ahora más que nunca, nuestro apoyo a organismos internacionales que se encargan de velar por la paz.

[Pierre de Vos ⚖️ @pierredevos]

Sounding completely unhinged and desperate.

[NFID @NFIDVaccines]

What does a resident's hunch about respiratory viruses have to do with childhood pneumonia?

2026 Maxwell Finland Award recipient @ShabirMadh from @WitsUniversity joins #InfectiousIDeas to talk #vaccines, #HIV, and the finding that surprised him most.

Listen to the 🆕 episode: https://t.co/RUrKDvPWit

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Congratulations Justice Pillay!
The committee in granting her the Nobel peace prize: “An international legal system in which war criminals are held to account and the victims of abuse see justice served is a precondition for a peaceful world.”
May this justice start in Palestine

[Shabir Madhi @ShabirMadh]

@AgnesCallamard Espousing proudly human (and South African) values 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Amazing moment.

Navi Pillay has received the Nobel Peace Prize ! https://t.co/HL3r1PJzLO

We are at the Nuremberg Court; I cannot think of a stronger symbol for her Nobel prize.

We are all so thrilled!

This is her first reactions upon hearing the news:

[Pierre de Vos ⚖️ @pierredevos]

"If you think racism, apartheid and abuse are bad, then you necessarily oppose Zionism. If you support Zionism, then you necessarily support racism, apartheid and abuse."

[Andre Vlok @vlok_andre]

How squeamish we are in this new geopolitical kitchen. How easily some of us choose sides against our own country.

Last year, when Ebrahim Rasool got expelled because he said the Trump administration was mobilizing white victimhood (a decision I endorsed), some of you were quick to point out the correct place and decorum of am ambassador.

Now, many of those same voices have changed to defending the ambassador, all based on "asks" that should at best be debated. See the pattern?

Speaking of patterns, have a look at this list of ambassadors openly criticizing their host countries, in breach of diplomatic protocols, and against the strong objection from those countries:

L. Brent Bozell III — United States ambassador to South Africa
Charles Kushner — United States ambassador to France
Tom Rose — United States ambassador to Poland
Pete Hoekstra — United States ambassador to Canada
Brandon Judd — United States ambassador to Chile
Bill White — United States ambassador to Belgium

See the pattern?

For many of you, your breathless indignation and your stated concern for the welfare of the country is little more than a thinly veiled, and terribly transparent, mask to hide your prejudice and your selfishness. If you want to improve the country, and by God we need so much if that, do it from this side of the fence.

If you are sincere about this, as most of you are, stop basing your decisions on fear and sophisticated hate campaigns that use you as gun fodder. Fight for your country without being gullible, without oversimplification, without doing further damage

[Shabir Madhi @ShabirMadh]

@SkyNews At long last !

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband: 'I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right'

https://t.co/jjI7yFVsAf

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

[Shabir Madhi @ShabirMadh]

@Facts_V_Fiction

[Shabir Madhi @ShabirMadh]

@Facts_V_Fiction All murders are unacceptable, but as interpretation seems to be an issue simplified

[Shabir Madhi @ShabirMadh]

@ErnstRoets Try interpreting this figure for meaning

[Shabir Madhi @ShabirMadh]

@NewsflashwJE Crime, including murders are a consequence of inequity and failures on part of Gvt on multiple fronts in SA- including security and policing, but the notion of genocide of any specific demographic is a complete fabrication.

[Wits University @WitsUniversity]

Meet Wits’ new Registrar, Tasneem Wadvalla! 💙🏛️

With 18 years of institutional, legal and governance expertise, Wadvalla brings extensive knowledge of Wits and its governance environment to one of the University’s key statutory roles.

Read More: https://t.co/CHbHSON64w

#WitsForGood #WitsUniversity #WitsNews

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Mmmm... I know this man. His name is Rodney. He lives in Norwood and in his day, before something happened to whatever happened to his legs, he used to run for Rockies Running Club. And on weekdays, ran with a group started by the late Gerald Fox from Old Eds. I've run with him and this group from Old Eds at 5:45am around 2009/2010. He was always rude and obnoxious. But, of course in the past 3 years, what lay hidden behind many "normal" attitudes has now been unmasked for what is: racist zionism (small letters deliberate) & supremacy, add an obsession with murder, rape and vulgarity.

Notice how the other man is reprimanding/restraining the victim. Because "We are always right."

[Pierre de Vos ⚖️ @pierredevos]

🔒Pierre de Vos | A colleague’s creepy email and the weaponising of antisemitism to protect the State of Israel, and justify its occupation and oppression of Palestinians, and its war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide. https://t.co/WMPJmjU1JI via @news24