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Governance, risk, compliance & ethics | MPhil Public Policy candidate | Ella's mum | Falkirk bairn | Cape Town 🇿🇦🏴@gillnie.bsky.social
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Replying to @Matthew_Winkler
@Matthew_Winkler: "...South Africa's political turning point is proving durable, making Africa's largest economy more attractive to global investors". 🔥🔥🔥❤️🇿🇦
Never mind what the White House says. South Africa's political turning point is proving durable, making Africa's largest economy more attractive to global investors, says @Matthew_Winkler (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
In 2022, a year before the World Cup, Rassie shocked and angered everyone by picking a B team to play Wales at home. They lost.
Now we’re picking a B team to take on Australia in Australia. And they played kak and nearly won.
Say what you want but that’s a lot of progress.
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Dear @USAmbRSA, if you are really interested in the plight of farmers, you would meet with @AgriSA1904 soonest. Unlike AfriForum and other fringe actors, they represent the majority of SA’s 40 000 commercial farmers. This is what their CEO Johann Kotzé wrote yesterday.
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Look at his lateral movement.
Able to move about 10 feet, laterally, with 3 or 4 microsteps.
Leaving solid defenders unable to even get within touching distance.
Let alone tackling distance.
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Flashback
So wrong! @BarackObama is hosting China's VP Xi Jinping today at the Pentagon with a full honor ceremony with music and cannons...
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Just don’t call it jerky economist.com/culture/2026/0…
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What a deeply disingenuous post.
AfriForum does not represent SA farmers or farming communities. @AgriSA1904 does but @USAmbRSA prefers to listen to a right-wing lobby group.
AfriForum does not need more money. They have billions but choose to spend only R2 of R10 on projects.
Today I visited AfriForum’s headquarters to see firsthand its community safety operations and neighborhood and farm-watch programs. They are doing a terrific job.
But they need help. Our ask was for the South African government to designate rural crime a priority and back up their words with resources. AfriForum asked for support from the South African government – and the United States offered to help financially. This was ignored.
President Trump has been clear, this does not bode well for U.S.-South Africa relations.
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I didn't know Presley Gerber. But I was rooting for him from afar, the way you root for anyone you recognize battling the same demons.
Addiction is a disease that knows no bounds. It doesn't care who your parents are, how much money you have, how loved you are, or how hard you're trying. And he was trying. He fought for his recovery in public, in front of a world that offers very little mercy to people who struggle where everyone can see.
We lost nearly 200 people to overdose in this country yesterday. We'll lose nearly 200 more today. About 1,300 a week. Almost 6,000 a month. Roughly 70,000 last year. Every one of them was somebody's Presley.
He started Mental Health Mondays because, in his words, "the goal was to spark real conversations about the stuff most people hide."
So don't hide. Ask for help. Keep asking. And if you've asked before and it didn't take, ask again.
You are not alone.
SAMHSA's National Helpline is free, confidential, and answers 24/7. 1-800-662-4357. You can also call or text 988.
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Replying to @RFitzwilliams
Presumably Spencer needs the money.
Odd that he'd come up with such an obvious fabrication.
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Breaking: 9th body of a half-naked woman discovered in Dawn Park Ekurhuleni.
#StopGBV
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Donald J Trump and AfriForum.
The attached Land Expropriation letter was issued in 1968, within living memory to my friend's grandfather. Compensation was not a primary consideration.
My friend was alive in 1968 and still lives. Grandfather Madasa was one of the wealthiest indigenous farmers in the Eastern Cape, with more than 2000 sheep, and a variety of livestock and crops in theTsolo area. He lived and worked among Mpondomise people on his customary land. The white apartheid government called his farm, residential rights regardless of the ancestral ties of the Krancolo people to that land, successful animal husband and crop farming. In 1968 the Madasa family was put on a clear downward economic and financial trend that has not been resolved. These are questions of concrete political struggle.
I is with heaviness of of heart that my own grandfather, Burnett Mafeje, uJola, lost all of his land among Mpondomise in the 1970s, by the 1980s there were no traces of his livestock wealth and his croplands. Our families were pauperised by the state while were already born and attending school. My partenal Ruben Swana lost his land around 1976, sinking us into poverty. I had eaten much fresh fruit from his highly developed orchard from the early 1970s.
It is imperative that EFF, PAC and our people as a whole look at the Land Question with greater determination regardless of the reckless threats from AfriForum and Donald J Trump.
Kubo makwedini!!! Ningabuyi ngamva. Kubo, kubi!!!
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There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.
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Among the details from the ProPublica piece on Don Jr's wedding is the fact that he had treatment to better define his jawline, according to insta post by pureskinpalmbeach
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My main concern with the current Springbok squad? In some positions, we only have eight world class players.