physiotherapist 👩🏼⚕️ 30seconds champ 🏆 (she/her) 🇿🇦🇵🇸
cape town, south africa
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Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
Taylor's fight to reclaim her masters was one of the single biggest victories for artists rights in decades. So many artists are better off because of it.
It made the labels mad as hell. And you wonder why there's such a large smear campaign around her, particularly trying to paint her as not being supportive to other artists.
You are all falling for big business smear campaigns because the capitalists are mad she hurt their bottom lines.
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Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
Not once in her 20 year career have you ever heard of Taylor Swift going out of her way to insult the career or music of someone else in her industry.
It’s not that hard to respect your colleagues and not be hateful
That’s why she’s so blessed
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
friends break up, friends get married
strangers get born, strangers get buried
trends change, rumors fly through new skies
but i’m right where you left me
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
La cantidad de simbolismos en la decisión del Comité del Nobel de la Paz este año:
- Una mujer de origen Indio-Tamil nacida en Sudáfrica que vivió en carne propia el apartheid.
- Hija de un chofer de autobús, creció en la pobreza y se indignó ante el trato a la población negra.
- Estudió leyes para poder defender a los oprimidos y perseguidos por el régimen, entre ellos Nelson Mandela.
- Juez de la Corte Penal Internacional, participó en los procesos por el genocidio en Ruanda.
- Definió a la violencia sexual como un crimen de guerra.
- Presidió la comisión de la ONU sobre Gaza que determinó que Israel llevaba a cabo un genocidio.
- Se encontraba en una conferencia sobre DDHH en Nuremberg cuando recibió el llamado desde Noruega.
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
It's getting less attention bc it was a long time ago, but Pillay was a trailblazer in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa, winning a ruling that brought those incarcerated on Robben Island, including Mandela, the right to counsel.
She knows apartheid when she sees it.
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
Wonderful to see Navi Pillay’s work recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize today. Her dedication to justice, human rights and accountability to those who commit unlawful acts and atrocities whether apartheid in South Africa or genocide in Gaza is inspiring and shows us the path to peace.
Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay for her efforts to ensure that war crimes and genocide are prosecuted. nyti.ms/3WfZKCI
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
What stands out to me from the screenshots was she had genuine affection for these men she thought were her friends while all along they were laughing at that behind her back, planning how to hurt her & continue to hurt her, & she was never even a human being to them.
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
Let me say this again. The Nobel Committee awarded Judge Navi Pillay the Nobel Peace Prize for her oeuvre, her ENTIRE life's work, including fighting apartheid when some of you and your ancestors were enjoying its fruits. She helped build the democratic edifice that has anchored our imperfect South Africa, and helped so many of you thrive. That you are losing your shit over one aspect of her work, is telling. You will be strong. Her work and its impact are a reality that your venom and childish outburst cannot erase.
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
You reckon? Let’s check her CV.
Education
BA, University of Natal, 1963.
LLB, University of Natal, 1965.
LLM, Harvard University, 1982.
Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD), Harvard University, 1988.
Positions held
Attorney and conveyancer in South Africa, 1967–1995.
Founder of her own law practice in Natal, 1967, becoming the first woman to establish a law practice in the province.
Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, from 1980.
Co-founder of Equality Now, 1985.
Acting judge of the South African High Court, 1995, becoming the first Black woman to serve as a judge on the Natal bench.
Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), 1995–1999.
President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 1999–2003.
Judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), 2003–2008.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2008–2014.
Ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), from 2019, in proceedings concerning the genocide case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar.
Chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, 2021–2025
But, sure Jan: HaTrEd Of iSRaeL.
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
If you're wondering since it's not provided, she was part of the UN jurists who concluded that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. She was also part of the International Criminal Tribunal that prosecuted Rwandans responsible for the genocide. She is also South African.
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
1/ I’m standing as a @Rise_Mzansi candidate in a ward I’m unlikely to win. It has been a DA stronghold for decades, and I’m realistic about the odds.
But I believe that democracy is not only worth participating in when victory is guaranteed. So, here is why I chose to stand. 🧵
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
That one sovereign nation will think that they can DEMAND something from another sovereign nation will never not be baffling to me
And then complain when the demands aren't met
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Ambassador L. Brent Bozell III criticized South Africa's president for refusing to condemn the "Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!" chant.
Bozell, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, says three of five demands from the Trump administration have been ignored by Pretoria. The ambassador has now been hit with three diplomatic rebukes in just nine months for pressing Trump's agenda — including confronting race-based business policies, alleged farmer killings and South Africa's deepening ties to Iran, Russia, China and Hamas.
The State Department told Fox News Digital: "The ball is now squarely in the Government of South Africa's court to outline the relationship it wants with the United States."
@USAmbRSA
Full story here foxnews.com/world/exclusive-…
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
Everyone in SA should read. Ernst Roets ' campaign - the links to AWB, Ku Klux Klan...It is shocking. Rebecca Davis has done a brilliant job unpacking the white supremacy movement.
The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
I'm not a supporter of the death penalty at all
After 2, yes TWO, failed attempts... the universe is telling you something
Both doses failed and she was left snoring loudly, to be taken away by ambulance ... wild !
BREAKING: Tennessee governor puts a halt on executions after inmate Christa Gail Pike survives a lethal injection attempt. apnews.com/article/christa-p…
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
#NOOZ SUMMARY
Last night, the president solemnly addressed you about GBV and the recent spate of killings in the country
A NOOZ summary:
- I can read, as proof, here are the names of some of the ladies who have lost their lives.
- Women are dying. Death is what women are currently experiencing.
- You guys, I told you 4 years ago to stop killing women. You haven't stopped.
- On the Ekurhuleni killings, we are doing some work. The work of investigating by involving investigators and those who investigate.
- We are going to fix this using all available resources.
- Guys, tell us when you know that someone is being femicided. You people keep quiet too much.
- We will intervene and someone must prevent these matters. That someone is called government.
- Our GBV national counsel is now available.
- Insert keywords here: GBV. Sexual assault cases. Survivors. ✨️RESOURCES✨️
- Go to the GBV desk at your local police station (I promise you they will treat you well)
- Bad things must not happen at all.
- here's what I'm gonna do
1. the Minister of Police and his band of police folk will collect and audit all stalled cases involving women and children who have been harmed or murdered. And I want this report in 90 days or else.
2. In 2 months I want an action plan on the forensics backlog situation, or else.
3. Every municipality must do a woman's safety audit. Check all the places and things that make women unsafe: Street lights, routes, tall grass, cemetries and such. We will identify and talk about when to fix these things.
Taverns... listen, I'm coming for you.
4. Beers don't hurt people. But I'm saying that people drink too much and then beat women. So, the ministers of Trade, Health, police and COGTA must look at this alcohol thing, man.
- I'm sorry about the street lights, guys.
- I promise I'm not just talking. We're going to fix this. I'm going to force everyone to report on what they're working on.
- Let's prevent violence.
- Men must stop punching, harassing, abusing, being jealous of, owning, being wealthy jerks against women.
- Guys, I'm serious. Stop killing women.
- Tell your friends to stop being jerks to women.
- Just stop it. Okay.
- Women, I'm sorry.
- Men! Stop it.
- You're embarrassing me. Why do I have to stand here and tell you all this stuff? No president should have to do this.
- Stop it right now.
Thanks.
President @CyrilRamaphosa addresses the nation on the killings of women in Ekurhuleni and the national response on gender-based violence and femicide.
youtube.com/live/64VEzSHytw4
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
People really be having the audacity to come for Taylor and claim she’s trapped in adolescence like she didn’t just drop one of the most a stunning and moving depictions of the toxicity of a relationship that I’ve ever seen in a music video
Leigh 🌊🐭 retweeted
It really irks me how people are misinterpreting "you only need to find one person in this entire world who doesn't find you completely insufferable" to make it about settling. It's about NOT settling.
A former pathological people pleaser is telling you that you don't need to settle and change who you are, because you don't need everyone to like you. Eventually, the right person will come along and love you for you. You don't need to settle for less.