Professional Aikidoka//South Africa//Japan//mother//lover//fighter 🥋
Urayasu-shi, Chiba
Joined December 2020
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May this Festival of Lights bring peace, love, joy and prosperity to you and your loved ones. May light always triumph over darkness, hope over despair and goodness over hatred ✨
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Loving the moves 🕺🏉
@SiyaKolisi #RolexParisMasters
Sorry Italy 😳
A brilliant start to the Nations Championship Northern Series in Italy 👏
#Springboks #ForeverGreenForeverGold
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Meant to say “ grow your skill set” and said “grow your quilt kit “ instead. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk
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PSDT must be protected at all costs. Let him go and chill on his wine farm in Riebeek-Kasteel, and just emerge ahead of every Test season like Mariah Carey at Christmas.
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Ugh 🥹♥️🇿🇦
I'm deeply proud of South Africa today. Our democracy has matured, and remains relatively stable having moving beyond a single-party liberation democracy into an era of multi-party democratic contestation. Many African countries failed to make that transition. Many said we wouldn’t.
To the future and beyond. We've got this. We really have. 🇿🇦
Let them talk us down. Let them say disaster awaits. Let them count us out. We know who we are and what we can do, and we will again and again.
I breathe a little easier this evening. Thank you all.
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Before you vote this week, remember that the Concourt ruled that in the WC the DA perpetuates apartheid spatial planning whose intent is to keep blacks in the outskirts of the city of Cape Town. They do this by selling public land to commercial interests instead of public good
Just saw a family with three kids all dressed in their Halloween costumes: 1 was a little dinosaur; 1 a little witch/fairy and one was wearing a Chinese communist army uniform?!?!
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We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope — with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
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Mount Fuji gets first snowcap of 2026 season
It's keenly awaited news in Japan: Mount Fuji is capped with snow. It's the first snowcap confirmed using data analysis instead of human observation.
More on Japan: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/news…
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I’m so proud of Brazil. This election literally saved the planet. Lula’s commitment to stopping deforestation of the Amazon can and will slow climate change. Not to mention the way people were mobilized. People were in canoes to go vote! The power of the people is so beautiful.
Went to the library yesterday. Libraries have the same magical smell no matter where in the world you are 📚
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Dear All
The overwhelming majority of South Africans are definitively, decidedly, unequivocally anti-zionist.
Not because we're antisemitic - on the contrary, we love our Jewish brothers & sisters, many of whom were leaders in our liberation struggle.
We oppose zionism as it mirrors the racism, dispossession & cruelty of the apartheid regime.
We're able to immediately identify with the oppressed, dispossessed Palestinians - not because we're Muslim - but because we went through similar draconian suppression & racism.
I say similar, because zionism is apartheid on steroids.
Zionism is Steve Biko's assassination x a million.
Zionism is Nelson Mandela's incarceration x a billion.
Zionism is apartheid torture, savagery & inhumanity x a trillion.
The overwhelming majority of South Africans -- suppressed, oppressed, dispossessed, & harshly discriminated against for centuries (since the arrival of european colonialists) -- stand steadfast in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle against their zionist oppressors.
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸