Emma Baines

UCT Law & BCom Graduate | Attorney | Optimist | Realist |

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

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This is expropriation w/o compensation just in case anyone was wondering. Does Elon know it's coming from inside his house?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: We're not going to have to buy, we're going to have gaza. We don't have to buy. There's nothing to buy. We will have gaza.

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

@Se_Railway My frustration is that the announcement came when I was already on the train - halfway to my destination - and didn't make a stop so that I could get off to take a different route. I've now had to travel to Dartford and double back.

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

@Se_Railway on the 08:03am to Gravesend. I got on at London Victoria. We are just about to get to Kidbrooke. Suddenly it's announced that the train is only going to run to Dartford. This is absolutely ridiculous!!! I need to get to Bexleyheath and can't get off anywhere to divert

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

@Se_Railway what is the reason that the 08:03am gravesend via bexleyheath won't be running to Bexleyheath? Will the 08:33am gravesend via bexleyheath be running to bexleyheath?

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

@PearlPillay It's giving flip flops and shorts in the pouring winter rain. I love it 😂

[Anele Mdoda @Anele]

South Africa!!!! We have been nominated for an Oscar!!!!!!!!!!!

The Last Ranger is going to win it and bring it home.

Salute to Cindy lee and David Lee for writing and telling an amazing story that needs to be heard.

Take a bow Avumile Qongqo and Liyabona Mroqoza for delivering earth shattering performances!!!

Salute to my fellow Executive Producers, Will Hawkes & Darwin Shaw for opening a door I never thought I would be worthy to walk through.

And thank you to @FrankieFire and Paul Buys my co owners at Rose and Oaks for always holding my hand and heart ❤️ we didn’t do… we are currently doing it!

South Africa 🇿🇦 your DNA cannot be matched.

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

Please leave "the house"...
I can't bear to watch again. Why are you putting fans through the misery 😭😭😭

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

United in the house 👋

#MUFC || #UEL

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

A rape is committed by a police officer, on average, every three days, according to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).

https://t.co/nkOdzaqsH9

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

If you’re keeping score “free Palestine” = anti-semitic. Nazi salute = not anti-semitic

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

@SW_Help Good evening, which platforms are being affected? I need to get to Clapham Junction

[History Speaks @History__Speaks]

In the name of fighting antisemitism, the Congress just voted to sanction (among other jurists) Theodor Meron, a literal Holocaust survivor, former Israeli Ambassador to Canada and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

(Meron was one of the experts Karim Khan consulted before formally seeking the warrants, and - on a standard of clear and convincing evidence - called for Khan to seek warrants for Netanyahu's and Gallant's arrest, for the use of starvation as a weapon of war and murder.)

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

United are an actively bad team. I don't even have words

[Titty Mboweni* 🇵🇸 @PearlPillay]

There aren’t enough derogatory words in all the languages that have ever existed, or will ever exist, for South African men.

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

How do I turn away from SA Twitter? A literal cesspool

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

Men already hate women so it's just called balance, really

[🇿🇦Ⓜ⍶∩ⓓⓎ Ndlela KaMaMlobeli Camera🎥 Lady @Fit_Mandisa]

@womenforchange5 Fight GBV without pushing one gender to hate the other

[Petite Ebony Girl 🇵🇸 @PetiteEbonyGirl]

Shut up

[Emma Baines @theonlybaines]

@SunBirdZAKH Power and control.

[bojack whoresman @LebohangMosia_]

south africa has a femicide rate that is six times the world average. SIX TIMES. that should be enough to radicalize you.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

Sibusiso Lawrence is no outlier, no exception, no rare oddity. South Africa has the one of highest rates of GBV in the world. It has one of highest rates of femicide in the world at nearly five times the global average

Sibusiso is a symptom of a great societal disease. He is the abusers 60% of women in South Africa are killed by intimate partners. I looked for his victims name, but she is only referred to as “girlfriend” and not by her name, because she is, perhaps unintentionally seen as a face, a number, yet another woman.

Sibusiso is not a “monster.” He is the men that 1 in 3 women have reported experiencing physical or sexual violence from a partner. He is many fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, and neighbours who are abusers. And whose actions are often met with secrecy or a blind eye, and when they eventually murder, hands wrung in shock like the signs were not there.

I don’t profess to have all the answers, but I do know this: none of this will change until patriarchy, misogyny, and rape culture are fundamentally uprooted. Any actions that are not specifically targeted at addressing these deep-seated issues are mere band-aids on a gushing aorta. It requires law enforcement, yes. But it also requires a whole-of-society approach where churches, communities, civil society, and individuals - everyone focuses on changing how women are viewed.

Your young sons will become the next Sibusiso if you aren’t raising them to respect women.

I hope Sibusiso Lawrence spurs this action.