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[Amjad Masad @amasad]

@sahouraxo Hardly a day goes by without horrific news coming from the genocide regime.

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

SOUTH AFRICA IS NOW THE WORLD’S LEADING CITRUS EXPORTER.

South Africa has overtaken Spain and is now the world's leading exporter by volume.

Citrus is the leading agricultural export product, accounting for 17% of South Africa’s agricultural exports of US$15.1 billion in 2025.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Remembering Shireen after Israel murdered her and lied about it for 5 months before reluctantly admitting that the IDF did it. "The most moral army."

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Why isn’t every major news outlet covering the fact that Israel now controls nearly two-thirds of Gaza?

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

South Africa is constructing its second largest solar project, the 510MW Khauta solar PV project in Welkom.

It will include 715,000 panels, and will produce 1,073 GWh of electricity per year.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Kenyan startup turns invasive water hyacinth into biodegradable packaging.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

If you don’t have a problem with this, you are the problem

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

“Football Unites the World”, right @FIFAcom?

[Francois Meyer @francoisrmeyer]

Introducing 🇿🇦MzansiLM, a new 125m-parameter decoder-only model pretrained on 11 South African languages!

📜 Paper: https://t.co/ddxtCJXaE6
🤗 Dataset: https://t.co/bci3tvk2fC
🤗 Model: https://t.co/ss7qZdfyrL

This was led by @anri_m_lombard and co-supervised with @janmbuys.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

How anyone can see the routine slaughter of children and not feel great anger and sorrow. How anyone can place geographic or racial boundaries on their empathy. That’s having none at all. For true empathy knows no boundaries. It sees human as human, full stop, and feels.

[Proudly South African 🇿🇦 @SayEntrepreneur]

When other stations were out of range, SA kept the Artemis II astronauts talking to Mission Control.

SA National Space Agency (SANSA) played a critical role in NASA’s Artemis II mission!

Our Hartebeesthoek Ground Station provided vital tracking and telemetry as the Orion spacecraft looped the Moon—keeping humanity’s first lunar crew in over 50 years connected to Earth.

Our specialized antennas and "hydrogen maser" atomic clocks, provided the extreme accuracy needed for Doppler measurements.

🌕👨‍🚀

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! Amid widespread bombing across Arab regions, Israel approves its largest-ever colonial expansion. Under the "fog of war'', what I warned on 14 Oct 2023 is unfolding: the largest ethnic cleansing/land grab in Palestine, since the Nakba. It’s happening. Under our watch.

[Scott Firsing, PhD @scottfirsing]

NASA’s Artemis II mission is a truly global endeavor, and South Africa is proudly part of the story.

Through the South African National Space Agency (@SANSA7) the Hartebeesthoek Ground Station (HartRAO) is playing a vital role in deep space tracking and communications. As part of NASA’s worldwide ground station network supporting the Orion spacecraft, SANSA’s team provides essential tracking, telemetry, and ranging data. This helps keep the mission connected, the spacecraft healthy, and the crew safely on course during this historic journey.

South Africa’s contributions to space exploration have deep roots too.

Upington Airport (FAUP) in the Northern Cape boasts one of the longest civilian runways in the world - Runway 17/35 stretches an impressive 4,900 meters (16,076 feet). With its clear desert skies, minimal obstacles, and strategic location, the airport has long been celebrated locally as a strong potential emergency landing site for large aircraft, including hypothetical Space Shuttle scenarios. While it was never formally designated as a NASA Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) site, its exceptional capabilities have made it a memorable part of South Africa’s space heritage narrative.

Back in 2015, I had the privilege of taking my Aerospace Leadership Academy cadets to visit SANSA’s Space Operations at Hartebeesthoek. It was a chilly day, but the experience left a lasting impression; a powerful reminder of the talent, infrastructure, and ambition already thriving in Africa’s space ecosystem.

Seeing those same facilities actively supporting today’s Artemis missions, while reflecting on Upington’s impressive runway standing ready in the desert, feels incredibly meaningful.

Moments like these remind us why we invest in the next generation of aerospace leaders: because today’s students will become tomorrow’s mission enablers, innovators, and ground station operators.

Here’s to SANSA, to South Africa’s growing, and historic role in space exploration, and to turning inspiration into real impact.

#ArtemisII #SpaceExploration #SANSA #Aerospace #SouthAfrica #STEMEducation #SpaceHistory @USEmbassySA @USAmbRSA

[UCT @UCT_news]

When Dr Imtiaz Sooliman was called to the podium to be honoured with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (honoris causa), a rousing applause filled UCT's Sarah Baartman Hall.

Dr Sooliman, one of South Africa’s most distinguished humanitarian leaders and the founder of Gift of the Givers, acknowledged the applause with a wave and stood with a composed pose as his citation was read out on 30 March 2026. #UCTGrad2026

Read more: https://t.co/BPZjsq4S5M

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Since 1967, Israel has destroyed over one million Palestinian olive trees.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Wow, this tweet went very viral!

I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file". The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it for your specific needs.

So here's the idea in a gist format: https://t.co/NlAfEJjtJV

You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directions to take this in. And ofc, people can adjust the idea or contribute their own in the Discussion which is cool.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

He'd make Hitler blush.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what terrorism looks like, state terrorism, we do it to others and then we act shocked when others do it back to us.

War crimes:

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

HEADS UP. Popular JSON formatter extension has started injecting geolocation tracking and donation UI into websites

Reddit thread seems to think they are also swapping tracking IDs for affiliates (a-la honey)

Uninstall and switch to another one

[Ayesha Bagus @Ayesha_Bagus]

A standing ovation for a remarkable human being, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman.

Dr Imtiaz Sooliman has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy (honoris causa) for his decades of humanitarian work through @GiftoftheGivers, Africa’s largest disaster-response organisation.