Board of the international solidarity organization @africa4pal. Member of @myanc & @sacp1921 … From Port Shepstone 🇿🇦
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined February 2012
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" Love [and therefore life] is not a game of chess, but a game of backgammon, where you trust and throw the dice."
Rumi
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With the leadership of the import and export control unit of ITAC and the Vice President for Government Relations at BlackBerry, at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai yesterday.
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4 more hours til polls close! If you haven’t already, get out tonight to make your voice heard.
It’s been a pleasure getting out the vote this afternoon alongside my comrades in this movement. Thank you @dianaforqueens, @gonzalez4ny, @chuckforqueens, @claireforny, @samantha4queens, @jasgripper, @nywfp, @jfrejnyc, @nycdsa, and everyone else I couldn’t for in this post.
And an extra special thank you and congratulations to Sunnyside’s own Machka, NYC’s newly elected honorary Dog Mayor!!!!!
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Growing China-SA trade tells a story of Win-Win cooperation:
🔹Trade between China and SA reached nearly $15bn from May to August 2026, an increase of almost 24% year on year.
🔹Over the period, SA exports to China grew by about 25%, outpacing the 23% growth of SA imports from China.
🔹Agricultural exports to China reached $495m, an increase of more than 35% year on year. #ChinaZeroTariff
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A rubbish, self-sabotaging budget that guarantees average people will get poorer this Parliament, followed by crackdowns on pro-Palestine speech.
How is Burnham breaking with Starmerism again? Why does 2026 seem so much like 2024?
This is another deplorable act of authoritarianism by Shabana Mahmood. Malm is a highly respected associate professor from Sweden focusing on climate change, imperialism and Palestine. He's mystified as to why he's blocked as he travelled here in May. The only difference this time is he's speaking on a panel about Palestine with Huda Ammori, the founder of Palestine Action, at an event hosted by Tribune and Palestine Deep Dive.
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NEW: the Met issues update threatening “enforcement action” against anyone who provides “logistical support” (water?? snacks?? a foil blanket?) to peaceful protesters at the @defendourjuries demo outside the US embassy tomorrow news.met.police.uk/news/met-…
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Extraordinary overreach. What are they thinking? They're going to arrest the people driving pensioners and priests to a protest where they intend to hold up a sign? People who give them water? People acting as legal observers?
NEW: the Met issues update threatening “enforcement action” against anyone who provides “logistical support” (water?? snacks?? a foil blanket?) to peaceful protesters at the @defendourjuries demo outside the US embassy tomorrow news.met.police.uk/news/met-…
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WTF IS THIS?
BRITAIN IS A DICTATORSHIP!
FREE SPEECH IS DEAD!
Anyone planning to attend a demonstration in support of Palestine Action in the vicinity of the US Embassy on Saturday, 31 October will face arrest as part of a robust policing operation.
Expressing support for the group is an offence under the Terrorism Act following its proscription in June 2025, a decision upheld by the Court of Appeal in June 2026.
Read more: news.met.police.uk/news/met-…
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Peaceful?
Unarmed?
Patriotic?
[ACTIVE MARCHERS ARRESTED IN KZN]
Four suspects who have been actively involved in the ongoing anti illegal foreigners sentiment marches were arrested after they were found in possession of three firearms and ammunition in Muden in the early hours of Thursday, 29 October 2026.
National Crime Intelligence officers who are deployed in KwaZulu-Natal gathered intelligence that four people who are actively involved in the marches were allegedly involved in criminal activities such as cash in transit robberies and that they were in possession of guns.
The intelligence was operationalised and a multi-disciplinary operation involving police officers who are members of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Task Team was conducted. Intelligence led police to a residence in Muden where the four suspects were found in possession an AK47 assault rifle, two hand guns and 159 rounds of ammunition. They were duly arrested for being in an illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
The firearms will be taken for ballistic testing to ascertain if they were used in the commission of crime in and around KwaZulu-Natal or elsewhere in the country. The four suspects, aged between 19 and 35 years old, will appear in the Greytown Magistrate’s Court on Friday, 30 October 2026.
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Ambassador Huckabee, this is unreleased video of an American who was beaten almost to death last week by Israeli settlers. You know his name because he came to you for help, but you blew him off. That’s disgraceful. Do your job.
@GovMikeHuckabee
@SecRubio
@davidamilstein
@WhiteHouse
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🔎Looking for family of #YakubHasanSait & #KhadijaYakubHasan (Madras/Chennai, India)
They were politically involved in India’s struggle for freedom against British Colonialism in the 1920s to 1940s and were primarily based in Madras/Chennai.
More info on poster👇
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@JacintaNgobese Are you gonna be in Court to support your hooligans and assist them with bail?
[ACTIVE MARCHERS ARRESTED IN KZN]
Four suspects who have been actively involved in the ongoing anti illegal foreigners sentiment marches were arrested after they were found in possession of three firearms and ammunition in Muden in the early hours of Thursday, 29 October 2026.
National Crime Intelligence officers who are deployed in KwaZulu-Natal gathered intelligence that four people who are actively involved in the marches were allegedly involved in criminal activities such as cash in transit robberies and that they were in possession of guns.
The intelligence was operationalised and a multi-disciplinary operation involving police officers who are members of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Task Team was conducted. Intelligence led police to a residence in Muden where the four suspects were found in possession an AK47 assault rifle, two hand guns and 159 rounds of ammunition. They were duly arrested for being in an illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
The firearms will be taken for ballistic testing to ascertain if they were used in the commission of crime in and around KwaZulu-Natal or elsewhere in the country. The four suspects, aged between 19 and 35 years old, will appear in the Greytown Magistrate’s Court on Friday, 30 October 2026.
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JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia showcases international payment systems operating independently of Western financial networks.
🔎Looking for family of #YakubHasanSait & #KhadijaYakubHasan (Madras/Chennai, India)
They were politically involved in India’s struggle for freedom against British Colonialism in the 1920s to 1940s and were primarily based in Madras/Chennai.
More info on poster👇
🙏
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🇷🇺🇿🇦 Russia Pays Tribute to Anti-Apartheid Hero Oliver Tambo
On 27 Oct, Russian Chargé d’Affaires Evgeny Sadikov took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Tamboville Cemetery, honouring O.R.Tambo, ANC President (1967-1991) and a key figure in South Africa’s liberation struggle.
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Eugene de Kok explained to the TRC how him and apartheid police send guns and cash to Inkatha IFP in Ulundi Kzn, to kill other blacks especially ANC
And how Advocate Gerrie Nel let Phillip Powell (IFP member of parliament) to flee the country after tons of guns were found in Ulundi.
I was in High school that time, thousands of blacks were killed by IFP with these guns, I also survived, the person who was involved is alive.
IFP was never held accountable
#TRCCommission
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"We gave IFP guns and cash..."
Hearing Eugene de Kock testimony revealed a deep relationship between the apartheid government and the IFP. The IFP received guns and cash from the apartheid regime to unleash terror on black communities.
Pietermaritzburg (The Seven Day War - March 1990): 100+ people were killed.
Table Mountain: (Near Pietermaritzburg - March 5, 1993)10 people were killed in an ambush.
Bruntville: (Mooi River - December 1991) 19 people left dead following attacks.
KwaMakhutha (January 21, 1987): 13 people killed (including 7 children).
Inanda/Ohlange (Durban metro): An estimated 2,000 deaths resulting from fierce territorial fighting and "no go zones".
Boipatong (June 17, 1992): 45 people killed (including women, babies, and children).
Soweto (Mofolo / Jabulani): 13 people killed following an IFP rally.
KwaShobashobane (Shobashobane - Christmas Day 1995): 19 people killed (including a 16 month old infant and elderly residents).
Never forget history and who was on the wrong side of the liberation struggle. 🇿🇦
