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[Harsh @harsh8848]

Capability to function despite total cognitive dissonance is the first requirement for a fascist brain. How can we forget Hitler’s fascination with tall blue eyed blond aryans while being none of that himself.

[🇵🇸🌼🔻 @narniaianaaa]

this is what we mean when we say the luxuries you enjoy in the global north are built upon the oppression of people in the global south. may the US empire collapse 🙏🏻.

[Nolwazi Nkomo @NolwaziNkomo5]

Raf is Paying illegal immigrants without; Passport, Bank Accounts,..🥹
Make me understand South Africa 🥺

[Nomandla Bobo @nomandlabobo]

What happened to the white genocide ? Isn’t Soweto dangerous for your kind ?

[Temu Specialist @Nomaswazi_11]

First in my generation to see victims of genocide pay thousands to go see a sports game in a predominately black area with smiles on their faces.

Best genocide in the world!

[Dillan Oliphant @dillanoliphant]

Taking time off from the genocide to watch some rugby❤️

[pramitheus @pramitheus]

what is that saying? one day, everyone will have always been against this? hmm.

[Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo @GugsM]

Henderik Verwoerd was stabbed to death on this day in 1966. Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd in the neck and chest four times before being subdued. Happy Tsafendas Day to all who celebrate.

[Nolwazi Tusini @NolwAzi_Tusini]

I was EP for 702's Mandela funeral broadcast. The day he died, we were live in Soweto. During afternoon drive with Xolani Gwala,2 old men came to OB van with their dompas' & shared their stories. I wept. Xolani wept. 1 of them went on air. Listeners wept.
NINGAVUMI NGELIZWE LETHU

[Reed @ZandiReed]

@SethabileZ Since when is the customer personally responsible for supplementing a waiter’s salary?😭 What is the job of the owner of the establishment at this point? Exploit the service worker and ME as well as a customer??😭

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

ANC really failed us in holding apartheid perpetrators to account!

Wouter Basson is a Hero & is even celebrated in theatres!

Cry the Beloved Country!

[RockerBeez™️ @kgeremolla]

This is a very very dangerous play for our rural equity.

We should not allow capitalism to take ahold in our heritage

They will displace us.

[Lisa Bonnet ☀️ @Basetsana_Pule]

We found my grandfathers DOMPAS from 1974.

Frame 2? Registered as a Work Seeker, ordered to leave the prescribed area in 72 hrs.

My ears are HOT. This little book has made me so sad. I'm so angry at Apartheid and I will never stop.

[Reed @ZandiReed]

@hlovo_ Also “kids are just playing” PLAY WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU. Non of the people drenched in water consented to those foolish games. Can’t cry wolf when repercussions hit them with a car, cause why are you trying to damage my car engine with your buckets of water??😭

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

“Controversial.”
“Military Doctor.”
Are you out of your mind?

He was the head of the apartheid government’s chemical and biological warfare programme, Project Coast. One of its aims was reducing Black population growth, so insidious he investigated a biological agent intended to selectively kill Black people.

Project Coast scientists testified that the programme provided the drugs and poisons developed for use in murders of anti-apartheid activists.

Frank Chikane, then Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches, was poisoned through his clothing using a lethal poison. He suffered organ failure and nearly died twice. A Project Coast scientist testified that he had supplied the poison to security police operatives and instructed them how to apply it to clothing.

Clandestine SANDF units testified that SWAPO prisoners of war were given overdoses of muscle relaxants Basson provided before being thrown from helicopters into the sea. One Special Forces officer testified that Basson personally and regularly supplied him with these drugs, which he used on the majority of the more than 200 people he killed and disposed of at sea.

Controversial? Nay. Monstrous. War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity per the Rome Statute. The only reason he was not hauled before the ICC to answer for his crimes is because its rules did not exist during the commission of his crimes.

The only reason he isn’t behind bars in South Africa is because of a botched criminal prosecution in 1999. He faced 67 charges, including murder, conspiracy to murder, drug offences and fraud. The court did not adjudicate the substance of some of the most serious allegations, including those concerning the alleged killing of hundreds of SWAPO detainees in Namibia.

The State appealed to the Supreme Court of Appeal, which declined to hear the matter because the papers from the State were lodged late. The Constitutional Court found that the SCA had failed to give proper weight to the extreme gravity of the charges and held that the SCA should have accepted the State’s late filing and allowed the appeal. The Court reinstated six charges that had been quashed, expressly leaving questions of double jeopardy and unreasonable delay to a trial court if the State proceeded with the prosecution.

The NPA nevertheless declined to re-prosecute Basson. A court therefore never got to test those questions.

The programme was only wound down in 1993. 1993. One year before South Africa’s first democratic election. Three years after Nelson Mandela and others were released.

A man who headed apartheid South Africa’s secret chemical and biological warfare programme, involving the development of lethal agents and the investigation of their use against human beings?

He is a deeply disturbing figure in South Africa’s history.

He is a symbol of the machinery of apartheid at its most depraved.

That is why his moniker is “Dr Death.” He was the Apartheid regime’s Josef Mengele.

And that is the history that must never be sanitised or sugar-coated. Bfr.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Gestures to make you more elegant and feminine

[out of context brazil @oocbrazill]

e pq um colar da rainha do >egito< estava em viena?

[Reed @ZandiReed]

@cnehshuga I miss it when we were an ignored geographical location somewhere in Africa😭

[Silences of NGO Discourses @phethani4]

The biggest irony is we have stopped giving children English names, which is good, but we don't want them to speak our languages. Ke mathata fela!

[Variety @Variety]

Jane Fonda has released a statement in support of Mark Ruffalo after Paramount slammed the four-time Oscar nominee as “antisemitic”:

“Calling his criticism antisemitic is a smear to delegitimize criticism of the merger and to distract from the question Paramount would rather not answer: Should one company be allowed to accumulate this much power over our movies, television and news?”
https://t.co/AX1hR1Vys1