Thapelo Lekabe

Journalist @News24 | Formerly @City_Press, @ewnreporter, @TheCitizen_News and @unisaradio | Reposts and likes are not endorsements.

[Mpho Popps Modikoane @MphoPopps]

Somebody will be arrested...🚨

#pnc #pncskits #peopleneedcomedy
#itstheskitsmydawg

[Reverend Al Sharpton @TheRevAl]

Today on MSNBC’s #MorningJoe, I called out the blatant bias behind Donald Trump’s refugee policy.

Trump welcomed 59 white Afrikaner farmers from South Africa with ceremony and status, yet turns his back on Haitians fleeing gang violence, and others in urgent need. I’ve traveled to South Africa more than a dozen times. I was there in 1994 as an election observer during Mandela’s historic rise. I know firsthand that the ANC stands for reconciliation, not race-based violence.

To take the words of extremists and twist them into foreign policy is dangerous. If Trump truly cared about protecting lives, he wouldn’t ignore what’s happening just south of Florida.

Bias is not leadership, it’s politics at its worst.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: In tense meeting with South African President Ramaphosa, President Trump plays videos promoting baseless claims of "white genocide" in the country. https://t.co/LQU3PgKCG9

[Julius Sello Malema @Julius_S_Malema]

A group of older men meet in Washington to gossip about me. No significant amount of intelligence evidence has been produced about white genocide. We will not agree to compromise our political principles on land expropriation without compensation for political expediency.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Video released of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy arguing in the Oval Office.

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

michelle trachtenberg has sadly passed away at the age of 39. rest in peace.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

So summary of executive order: freezes funding to South Africa and makes provision for resettling of Afrikaners as refugees. That last one😂. So are we expecting some wine and game farms to be evacuated?

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

The people that were protesting Kamala Harris about the Palestinians look like complete idiots.

[Pontsho Pilane @pontsho_pilane]

South Africa receives the largest share of U.S. HIV funding globally through PEPFAR. This funding supports millions of people living with HIV, providing life saving treatment and health worker salaries. A pause on this funding will devastate progress.

[claire mawisa @clairemawisa]

i'm no longer impressed or satisfied with arrests. i'm craving speedy trials and convictions that send a message.

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

I know we’re exhausted, disheartened, and rightly terrified. But we’ve been here before. We’ve fought, resisted, and built—together. Today, I’m reflecting on where we go from here and how we keep moving forward.

[claire mawisa @clairemawisa]

things could be worse. you could be living in america.

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Kamala Harris talks to Kamala Harris

[City Press @City_Press]

Irate Zille tells ANC: ‘It doesn't work that way’, after Mashatile announces first GNU dialogue date.

https://t.co/Ad9Wr2cx7J

[City Press @City_Press]

"We must take a decision as a society that we are not buying at the spaza shops. We are not buying at spaza shops that we are not sure where they are buying their products from," said Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni.
https://t.co/DYc08vR7jO

[City Press @City_Press]

Ramaphosa, Amnesty renew calls for Gaza ceasefire one year since deadly attacks.

https://t.co/Wp7qCgkZDn

[City Press @City_Press]

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) and its deputy president, John Hlophe, are facing an uphill battle in their urgent bid to block the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) from proceeding with interviews to fill critical judicial vacancies.

Read more here: https://t.co/mmZG7t1NqF

[City Press @City_Press]

Musk, the co-founder of Tesla, founder of SpaceX and owner of X (formerly Twitter), met with Ramaphosa as part of the president’s broader effort to attract foreign investment.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/3tI86sCSu9

[City Press @City_Press]

112 of South Africa’s 178 licensed municipalities were enforcing tariffs without the necessary studies, which detail the actual costs of providing electricity.

https://t.co/gxtv7p1s48

[City Press @City_Press]

“I’m happy to admit that we don’t always get it right. We never will. People make mistakes, people don’t always get it right," said Agriculture minister and DA leader John Steenhuisen.

Read more here: https://t.co/5vijqVre39