Smarj 🇿🇦🇩🇪🇮🇹🇦🇹🇨🇵🇳🇱🇨🇿🇭🇺

Youth development & democracy | Civic engagement • Participation • Reform | Founder @ayv_wearethenow (Insta) | Thinking out loud on democracy 🇿🇦↔🌍

[Oliver Dickson @Oliver_Speaking]

This is an insanely good audition tape

[University of Fort Hare @ufh1916]

𝗡𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗮-𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗮

An esteemed University of Fort Hare (UFH) legal academic, alumna, and proud daughter of Qaga Village in the Eastern Cape, Prof Nomthandazo Ntlama-Makhanya, has been appointed Judge of the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Makhanda, bringing to the Bench a career shaped by law, learning, and service.

Her appointment was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 13 May (last Wednesday), under Section 174(6) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, and on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission.

Prof Ntlama-Makhanya describes the milestone as “a major breakthrough in my professional life.” Even so, she speaks about the moment with great humility.

READ MORE | https://t.co/QuOAUAdvP6

[Smarj 🇿🇦🇩🇪🇮🇹🇦🇹🇨🇵🇳🇱🇨🇿🇭🇺 @smarjfatuse]

Legal innocence does not erase political accountability. South Africa deserves leaders who know when to fall on their sword. 🇿🇦
#PhalaPhala #Ramaphosa

[Vincent Magwenya 🇿🇦 @SpokespersonRSA]

The Constitution applies to all of us equally. Everybody is entitled to due process. Even convicts can appeal their sentences.

[Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol) @FabAcademic]

If you happen to be in a position of leadership today, please LEAD and do what you’re paid to do TODAY.

Spare us the sudden wisdom after the damage is done and the cameras are rolling. Save us from all the reflections, the lessons learned, the explanations about what should have happened when you were literally in the position to make it happen but you chose not to for whatever reason. Just save us.

You can’t exercise leadership in hindsight, no matter how angelic you become after the fact. Tragic, I know. But fortunately, you have the opportunity to act NOW. Once you do, your actions will definitely speak for themselves when you’re gone.

And if you ever feel the need to speak, at least tell us what you DID, not what you could or should have done.

With Love,
Deputy Mother❤️

[The Presidency 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA]

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA TO ADDRESS THE NATION

President @CyrilRamaphosa will tonight at 20h00, address the nation following the judgment of the Constitutional Court in the case brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters challenging the National Assembly’s decision with respect to Section 89 proceedings against the President.

The President will address the nation as follows:

Date: Monday, 11 May 2026

Time: 20h00

Venue: Union Buildings, Pretoria

ISSUED BY THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

[Siphiwe Mhlambi @sphiwemhlambi]

❤️❤️❤️

[Smarj 🇿🇦🇩🇪🇮🇹🇦🇹🇨🇵🇳🇱🇨🇿🇭🇺 @smarjfatuse]

The ANC liberated you to be stupid if you want, @MbalulaFikile, so you are well within your rights to say "the center hold."

But, may constitutionalism, accountability, and the rule of law forever outlive political convenience. ✊🏾🇿🇦

#ConCourt #PhalaPhalaFarmGate #Ramaphosa

[ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula @MbalulaFikile]

Forward ever, backwards never, the center holds!

[Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧 @Sentletse]

30 years ago on this day, Deputy President Mbeki delivered this gem on occasion of the adoption of the Constitution.

“I Am An African”

[Thabo Mbeki Foundation @TMFoundation_]

30 years ago today, at the adoption of our historic Constitution, then-Deputy President Thabo Mbeki declared that our Africanness would never be defined by race, colour, or gender. Instead, it is rooted in the truth that all Africans share a common origin and a common destiny. This document, a unique creation of African hands and minds, remains our guiding light toward a society free from fear, oppression, and inequality. South Africa belongs to all who live in it!

[Smarj 🇿🇦🇩🇪🇮🇹🇦🇹🇨🇵🇳🇱🇨🇿🇭🇺 @smarjfatuse]

@MYANC and @CyrilRamaphosa @PresidencyZA, are you really going to stay silent on #Sisisi Tolashe? Do you really not care about the people and what is best for South Africa?

#Corruption #SisisiTolashe #UthandoNesthembu #ANC

[Mbhazima Shilowa @Enghumbhini]

You could swear that Advocate Ngcukaitobi is the first SC to be appointed to the CC as an acting judge

[Ous'B 💚 @BongsMahlangu_]

South African women weren’t just part of the revolution, they were leading it ✊🏽

[Dokhuments @doKHUments]

Thabo Mbeki Talks on Mama Winnie Mandela

[𝔹𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕋𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕘𝕠 𝕆𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕨𝕖 @Ngwana_Badimu]

A freedom fighter. A woman who refused to bow down. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was not built for comfort or compromise. She was shaped in the fire of struggle, where silence meant surrender and standing up came at a cost.

#WinnieMandela

[Mfanafuthi Biyela @Phathizwe_RSA]

“... certainly we can never mention brother Nelson Mandela without mentioning Winnie Mandela...” Dr Khalid Mohammad

Winnie Mandala was certainly a front line commander. The real fight against aparthied was really fought inside the country.

[Tambo Foundation @TamboFoundation]

“The whole of Africa lost something when he died. #OliverTambo was in a class of his own. We have lost a truly great man."
- President Kenneth Kaunda

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the passing of #ORTambo, who, after dedicating his life to the struggle for South Africa's liberation, passed away one year before the first democratic elections.

Clip: Oliver Tambo: Have You Heard From Johannesburg | Connie Field
#TamboRemembered

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

The Chris Hani Memorandum & Morogoro Conference

Today, Episode 9 of the #ANCHistorySeries on #AfricanRenaissancePodcast focuses on the historic Chris Hani Memo and the watershed conference that adopted the first Strategy and Tactics of the ANC: Morogoro Conference. This is the first time ANC officially adopted NDR as its theory of struggle.

We ask: What gave rise to the Memo? What did it contain? How did it affect the ANC? Did its contents end up in Morogoro Conference Resolutions? Was the Strategy & Tactics a Communist capture of the ANC? And what happened to the central figures who wrote & influenced the memo?

Looking at these questions, we hold a round table discussion with veterans Mavuso Msimang and Ronnie Kasrils.

It’s fireworks 🔥🔥🔥

Join us and tune in at 15h00 today: https://t.co/SecakSjAEO

[RSAJudiciary @OCJ_RSA]

In Memoriam: Remembering Retired Judge President Achmat Jappie.

[Smarj 🇿🇦🇩🇪🇮🇹🇦🇹🇨🇵🇳🇱🇨🇿🇭🇺 @smarjfatuse]

I feel for him, he’s no different from Nkosi, Sibiya, Senona, and the rest of the liars who appeared before the commission. He’s a blatant liar. But I have no doubt he will be dealt with, certainly by the commissioners.

#MadlangaCommission #Mnisi #QueQondile #Mawhoo #Ekurhuleni

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

You cannot commit GENOCIDE in Gaza, invade Lebanon, bomb Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, Violate geneva and vienna conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty, then hide behind ANTI-SEMITISM and the HOLOCAUST.