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Each one of us is God's gift to the world. Somewhere watching shooting stars but never making a wish 🌠✨

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

Because Iran is throwing missiles at Jordan right now, you need to know something first. Jordan did not grow out of the ground like an old country. It was stitched together in a hotel in Cairo in March 1921 by a handful of British officials who needed a cheap solution and a quiet map.
The Ottoman Empire had just collapsed. Britain was sitting on Mesopotamia, Palestine, and a big empty stretch of desert east of the Jordan River. Keeping troops there cost a fortune. Winston Churchill, then Colonial Secretary, called a meeting at the Semiramis Hotel. They joked they were the forty thieves. Gertrude Bell was the only woman in the room who actually knew the tribes and the roads. T. E. Lawrence was there. Sir Percy Cox came from Baghdad with the files.
They needed Arab kings who would take British money and not demand a giant army. Faisal, son of the Sharif of Mecca, got Iraq. His older brother Abdullah needed a prize too, otherwise the family would sulk. So they gave him the leftover desert and called it Transjordan. Churchill later said he created the place on a Sunday afternoon with a stroke of a pen. That is not poetry. That is how the country entered the world.
Abdullah became emir, then king. The British paid him, trained his force, and used the land as a buffer. After independence the Hashemite throne stayed. Decades later American aircraft and missile batteries moved onto Jordanian air bases because the same strip of desert sits in a useful place between Iraq, Syria, Israel, and the Gulf. King Hussein Air Base. Al Azraq. Muwaffaq Salti. Names on a modern war map that sit on ground first outlined in that Cairo dining room.
So when Iranian missiles fly toward those bases, they are not hitting some ancient kingdom that chose this fight in the year 700. They are hitting a state invented to save British cash and keep two Hashemite brothers employed. The joke is old and it is not funny anymore. A hotel table made the border. The border hosted the bases. The bases drew the missiles. That is the whole chain.
Read it once more if you have to. Cairo, March 1921. Cheap kings. A Sunday map. A country that still has to catch steel that was aimed at someone else’s war.

[James Hall @hallaboutafrica]

Colonialisation resistance 150 years ago today: a August 1876, the warriors of Bapedi leader Sekhukhune (pic) defeated in a decisive battle white invaders of South Africa’s Transvaal Republic, which declared war on the Bapedi nation to seize their lands. With their army destroyed, the Boers would hire a German mercenary, Conrad von Schlickmann, to attack the Bapedi. He will be killed in an ambush, and his unit defeated. The Boers will seek peace with the Bapedi in February 1877.

[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

@HotTopics_Lisa Yes once read that. If true, I wonder where is chichi maternal side of the family.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

When Trump was in Berlin for his first state visit with Angela Merkel he asked the secret of her great success.

Merkel told him you have to have intelligent people around you.

"How do you know if someone is intelligent?" asked Trump.

"Let me demonstrate." She picked up the phone, called Wolfgang Schäuble and asked him a question, "Mr. Schäuble, he’s your father's son but not your brother. Who is it?"

Without hesitation Schäuble answered, “Quite simply, it's me!"

"You see," Merkel told Trump, "this is how I test a person’s intelligence."

Thrilled, when Trump flew home he called Mike Pence and asked him the same question. ”He’s your father's son, but is not your brother. Who is it?"

After much back and forth, Pence said,
“I have no idea, but I’ll try to find out the answer by tomorrow!"

Of course Pence couldn’t figure it out and decided to seek advice from former President Obama, so he called him and said, “Mr. Obama, it's your father's son, but is not your brother. Who is it?"

Obama answered, “Easy, it's me!"

Happy to have found the answer, Pence called Trump and said triumphantly, "I have the answer, it's Barack Obama!"

Trump raged and shouted, "No, you jackass, it's Wolfgang Schäuble!"

[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

We still have to go through another weekend before end of the month 😒😮‍💨
#BigBrotherMzansi #BBMzansiS6 #UptheBucs

[James Hall @hallaboutafrica]

Today in 1981: South African mercenaries attempt a coup d’état in Seychelles but fail to replace Prime Minister France-Albert René when they cannot get out of the airport. A customs agent someone forgot to bribe finds weapons in their luggage. The press calls it a “coup d’farce.”

[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

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[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

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[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

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[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

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[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

@TelkomZA hi. You no longer have 1G data for 10?

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

South African, Sibusiso Kubheka has shattered the 6-hour barrier for 100km, stopping the clock in a staggering time of 5:59:20 during adidas' 'Chasing 100' project.

[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

@outmycoma 😂😂😂😂

[RNB RADAR @rnbradar]

idk if this is the top, but Toni Braxton’s secrets album is easily one of my favorite sophomore albums of all time 🔥

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

MISSING PERSON ALERT!!!

Name: Ntsako Mashele
Age: 17 years
Date Missing: 15 July 2025
Last Seen: Wearing camouflage cargo pants, grey sweater, and white boots.

Ntsako was last seen boarding a white Quantum taxi heading to Pretoria Central from Busy Corner, Block FF, Soshanguve, near the car wash.
She has not confirmed her safe arrival, and her whereabouts remain unknown.

The family is deeply concerned and appealing to the public for any information that could help locate her.

If you have seen her or know anything, PLEASE contact:

Jacky: 081 532 3764
Emily: 074 425 7890
Lebo: 074 318 3609

[SUPADUPA FLY 🔭🌉🌃🇿🇦 @Slender_Vee]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Keabetswe🌬 @akreana_]

As a matter of fact.

[Keabetswe🌬 @akreana_]

As a matter of fact.

[Mr President @KG_ZA2025]

Why did anyone not tell me about what @tshidi_lee did to that American journalist? She completely destroyed him in that interview. He thought he was interviewing his usual clueless American journalists. She came prepared for him.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

You were a superstar @tshidi_lee 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼