Umari Stambuli

Broadcast Journalist at @AJEnglish. 🇿🇼 in 🇶🇦

[Irfaan Mangera 🍉🇿🇦 @IrfaanMangera]

South Africa is going through a sponsored seismic political shift right now.These are the years it will solidify itself, and soon we will have our own version of Trump.

My cry (once again) to fellow progressives is that we need more political solutions! Lets learn from the trend

[Qaanitah Hunter @QaanitahHunter]

It’s a silly manufactured social media campaign that has no roots in real life for South Africans

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Nnete. Mossad is GOOD. I hope our investigative journalists are working. I'm happy to give them leads. And ke serious.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Nearly 10,000 Palestinian detainees are held in Israeli prisons—most without trial—including hundreds of children, doctors, and academics. They are subjected to the most brutal forms of torture, and no one in the world speaks about them.

Be their voice.

[Sinawo Thambo @Sinawo_Thambo]

This chap is South African, he matriculated from the same high school I did in Uitenhage (now Kariega) in the Eastern Cape.

The environment of suspicion, cruelty and hate created by these groups, and the way it is growing into multiple typical forms of Western stereotypes is shocking. I do not have any recollection of SA having an Islamophobic problem.

We are on the brink of US-like Islamophobia, incredible that anyone still thinks that any of this hate is organic considering the US-Israel culture of hatred against the Muslim community and its genocide in the Middle-East.

Homes are being raided to look for foreign nafionals, people are being profiled based on their skin colour, people are being profiled based on their religions. Are we on the brink of a Nazi culture?

We should all condemn the attacks on this individual, whether it’s from Zionists or the idiots who think every 1 in 2 people in SA is a foreign national.

[FighterGiveUsASignal @athenkosi591]

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[Wits University @WitsUniversity]

Economic hardship is real. But does the evidence support the claim that migrants are to blame?

New research from Wits' Southern Centre for Inequality Studies explores the root causes of South Africa's economic challenges, highlighting how unemployment, declining public services and inequality fuel anti-migrant sentiment, while calling for evidence-based solutions instead of scapegoating.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/zeQaSWe7dz

#WitsUniversity #WitsResearch

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

In #Uganda, President Museveni’s son and military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba ordered the shutdown of the Daily Monitor newspaper, continuing his unchecked and unjust campaign of harassment and intimidation of independent media and civil society.

These latest attacks on media outlets in Uganda are emblematic of years-long crackdown on freedoms of expression and association in the country.
https://t.co/gdItBOco9B

[Sinawo Thambo @Sinawo_Thambo]

Perhaps when Former President Mbeki says it, it will make sense, because when the EFF says it we are distorted.

Former President Thabo Mbeki reminds us of the Apartheid regimes’ National Security Management System, where the Apartheid regime had cells and operatives in black townships for purposes of managing black people and security threats to the regime, but also infiltrating and disrupting the struggle.

This is exactly what we have been referring to in relation to the current wave of anti-immigration protests, that the machinery of apartheid is readily available and by simple observation, one can see it is being utilised.

Mbeki cites them in relation to the July unrests in 2021, as having been activated to test the ability of what he refers to as the counter-revolution, to destabilise the country. He states that this was the cause, rather than any discomfort in relation to the arrest of Former President Jacob Zuma.

That is debatable, but an important observation and concession is that genuine causes can be hijacked and used as cover for nefarious purposes.

In this instance, the genuine discomfort of injustice against Former President Jacob Zuma may have been used for purposes of destabilising the country by nefarious actors, in the same way genuine discomfort with illegal immigration can and is being used, for nefarious reasons.

We have been arguing consistently that these anti-immigration protests, and the violence associated with them, are not organic and that can be seen through the centrality of hostel dwellings in its activations and mobilisation.

It remains a verifiable fact that hostels are at the centre of this, and the absence of hostels in Cape Town, PE, East London, Polokwane and many other places exhibit its weakness in these areas and the weakness of Apartheid era security infrastructure there today. If they don’t bus themselves to these places, the turnout is pathetic.

Even in the 90’s before the democratic transition, the above mentioned areas did not have the same blood shed and violence. It was in the areas littered with hostels, where the Apartheid era maximised its disruption efforts of black on black violence.

Same script, same areas, same actors!

It further shows that the strength of these anti-immigration protests, as genuine as the motivations underlying it may be, lies in Apartheid era security and infiltration infrastructure, which underpinned violence in the 1990’s before the democratic transition.

These cells, or this national security management system as per Mbeki, is at the centre of this turmoil, and has been activated to serve a destabilising and delegitimising effort against South Africa, and the hand of Israel is not far.

Very soon, we will be asked what moral authority do we have to call out atrocities in the world, particularly those committed by Israel, while we commit atrocities ourselves against foreign nationals?

[Sinawo Thambo @Sinawo_Thambo]

There are those who doubted when we said there is an article by an Israeli publication which outlines a desire to fragment South Africa on ethnic lines, and Africa generally.

Here is the article, published January 26, 2026👇🏾.

An extract from the article reads;

“South Africa must lead the way in fragmentation. Voluntary, referendum-based independence for historical ethno-cultural homelands—such as those of the Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Venda, and Tsonga—along with the Western Cape would replace coercion with genuine consent. A March 2025 poll by Victory Research (commissioned by the Cape Independence Advocacy Group) showed 51% support for a referendum and 43% for independence outright in the Western Cape, underscoring the mounting urgency of consensual separation. This is not regression to tribalism; it is the foundation of legitimate governance.”

A few months later, a hostel centric hate group parades our streets dividing our nation, singing about assaulting people identified as Shangaan, beating and murdering people of Tsonga descent and foreign nationals, burning East London and looting shops.

This is not a conspiracy, it’s a plan.

https://t.co/2m7JrNjs8p

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

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[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

Military lays siege to Daily Monitor, NTV after Gen Muhoozi orders shutdown.

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

VIDEO: The situation at some of the entrances to the Daily Monitor headquarters in Kampala during a military siege on June 28, 2026.

Following an order by military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Nation Media Group (NMG) outlets, including NTV, Spark TV, Daily Monitor, KFM, Dembe FM, and The East African, among others, were ordered shut down in a crackdown during the early hours of Sunday, as tensions escalated around one of Uganda's most influential media houses.
#NTVNews

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

PHOTOS: Armed soldiers are on guard outside the headquarters of Daily Monitor newspaper in Namuwongo, Kampala.

The offices remain under military siege following an order by President Museveni's son and military chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to shut down Nation Media Group (NMG) Uganda outlets.

A similar siege has been reported at the NTV and Spark TV broadcast centre at Serena Hotel since around 12am on Sunday, where military officials have since taken the stations off air.

Other affected outlets include Dembe FM, KFM, and The East African, all under NMG.
#NTVNews

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

VIDEO: Armed soldiers are on guard outside the headquarters of Daily Monitor newspaper in Namuwongo, Kampala.

The offices remain under military siege following an order by President Museveni's son and military chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to shut down Nation Media Group (NMG) Uganda outlets, including Daily Monitor and NTV.

Other affected outlets include Dembe FM, Spark TV, KFM, and The East African, all under NMG.

A similar siege has been reported at the NTV and Spark TV broadcast centre at Serena Hotel since around 12am on Sunday, where military officials have since taken the stations off air.

[Nahuel Lanzón @nahuelzn]

🇨🇩🇨🇩 La ciudad de Goma es una de las mas afectadas por la guerra civil en el este de la RD Congo.

Esta madrugada no importa nada. La gente sale a las calles a celebrar la hazaña de su selección. Qué lindo es el Mundial, carajo!

[Nahuel Lanzón @nahuelzn]

🇨🇩 Así se celebró la clasificación de RD Congo en el campo de refugiados de Musasa en Burundi.

Recordemos que muchísimos congoleños viven exiliados en campos por la guerra civil que asola al país en el este. Es sólo futbol, solo 11 tipos atrás de una pelotita... si, claro

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

🇸🇳 Senegal have qualified for the Round of 32 as a result of today's matches!

#FIFAWorldCup

[Africa First @AfricaFirsts]

African Countries that have qualified for the Round of 32 of the world cup:

1. South Africa 🇿🇦
2. Morocco 🇲🇦
3. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮
4. Cape Verde 🇨🇻
5. Senegal 🇸🇳
6. Egypt 🇪🇬
7. Ghana 🇬🇭

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

The smallest nation to ever reach the @FIFAWorldCup knockouts: Cabo Verde! 👏🇨🇻