Starting again since my previous profile was hijacked.
Joined May 2026
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Mandy Collins retweeted
#Scotland — Neo-nazis carrying Israeli flags are trying to attack anti-racist demonstrators in Glasgow.
Yes, you heard that right: neo-nazis are now carrying Israeli flags.
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The small dog woke me at midnight and 2am, and the large one woke me at 5am. I'm just giving up now.
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Mandy Collins retweeted
Jun 12
They never ask how many paupers are created. That’s the metric that matters. Trickle down economics is a lie.
Jun 12
How many millionaires has Bernie sanders and Elizabeth Warren created in their lifetime?
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Mandy Collins retweeted
Jun 12
This photo was taken in 2008. I was a young reporter, notebook in hand, in Khayelitsha, trying to make sense of the first wave of xenophobic violence to rip through this country.
I was profoundly affected. I watched Somalian mothers in tents, cradling their babies in disbelief. Spoke to Ethiopian men, almost crying from the shock and pain of it all. I thought: We will never let this happen again.
Yet, here we are.
Eighteen years later and I'm watching the same fires, literal and figurative, and the same dangerous lies spreading faster than ever, turbocharged by social media and amplified by politicians who should know better.
But the numbers do not support the narrative.
Immigrants, documented and undocumented combined, make up roughly 4 million people. That is about 5% of our population. The idea that 5% of the country is responsible for our crime, our unemployment, our collapsing healthcare? It is not just wrong, it is mathematically absurd.
Look at who the Zondo and Madlanga Commissions have implicated. Look at rape statistics: 120 women a day, and a third of South African men have admitted to committing rape. Are we really blaming foreigners for that?
If every undocumented immigrant left tomorrow, your local public hospital would still be broken. Not because of the person standing ahead of you in the queue, but because of corruption, mismanagement and decades of underfunding that have nothing to do with them.
March and March's June 30 deadline is not a peaceful protest. It is a dog whistle. And the media and political figures who treat it as legitimate activism are complicit in what it is actually designed to trigger.
I started explain.co.za because I believe that access to accurate, contextual information is not a nice-to-have. It is the foundation of a functioning democracy. And a democracy that allows dangerous misinformation to go unchallenged, that allows real economic despair to be weaponised against the most vulnerable, is one that is putting itself at serious risk.
We have covered this crisis extensively at explain.co.za. We will keep doing so. Because owe it to each other to do better.
#SouthAfrica #Xenophobia #MediaLiteracy #Journalism #Democracy #Explain #FactsMatter #SouthAfricanMedia #BuildingInPublic #Immigration
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Mandy Collins retweeted
Jun 12
The DA, leaders, members, supporters, sockpuppets, laptop boys, must introspect on why its losing a leading position, how people view their 'always right" comms, and importantly reckon with their misogyny. 20 years in CT, 17 years in WC, 2 years in GNU and its drunk on power.
Jun 12
A few days ago, I tweeted that I think the DA will lose its majority in the City of Cape Town. That opinion has resulted in me receiving thousands of DMs containing rape and death threats from DA members/supporters.
You are welcome to disagree with my opinion. If I am wrong, I am wrong. But threatening me with sexual violence because you disagree with my view is disgusting.
In addition, I have been threatened with having my job as a journalist made “difficult”. I have been told I will not be given comment when I ask for it and that my editors will be contacted and pressured to remove me from stories.
This is a tactic many of my colleagues warned me about. I have told me to avoid talking about the DA altogether because of threats like these.
Twitter is not journalism. My journalistic integrity is measured by the articles I write, not by the opinions I share on social media. A tweet is not a news article. I did not publish a piece of reporting; I expressed an opinion.
In a country where GBV claims the lives of hundreds of women yearly and has been declared a national crisis, it is completely unacceptable that I am receiving rape threats for expressing a political opinion. This is not simply another aspect of my job. While threats and attacks against journalists are sadly common, nobody would be threatening me with rape if I were a man.
I will not be silenced because I expressed a view.
In 2023, I publicly stated that I believed the ANC would lose its majority in 2024. Many people disagreed with me, but I did not receive a single rape threat from ANC members or supporters.
I do not speak about the DA more than any other political party. Analysing political parties is literally my job as a political analyst. What disgusts me is that in a country with constitutional protections for freedom of expression, a young woman can be threatened with rape and violence simply for making a political prediction.
Disagree with me if you want. Argue with me. Tell me I am wrong. But do not threaten my safety because you dislike my opinion.
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Jun 12
I do feel like this ship has already sailed.
[COPS MOONLIGHTING AS TAXI BOSSES WILL BE PROSECUTED]
There are complaints and allegations that police officials are involved in the taxi industry and that they and their spouses/partners are operating taxis.
Police officials, as custodians responsible for the enforcement of the National Land Transport Act (NLTA), cannot be involved in the “taxi industry”.
Based on the provisions of section 13 of the NLTA, no police official, his or her spouse are allowed to own taxis. Police officers and their spouses therefore commit an offence should they own taxis or otherwise are involved in the public transport industry.
They also contravene the National Instruction 18 of 2019: Integrity Management in the South African Police Service. All police officials are well aware of this national instruction and are sensitised on a frequent basis of integrity management.
If any police official is found to be involved in a prohibited industry, such as the transport or security sector, a disciplinary investigation must be initiated for the purpose of remedial steps.
Where there are allegations, suspicions or complaints that police officers (or their spouse, partners and/or immediate family) are involved in the public transport industry and there is sufficient information available, line managers/commanders must immediately institute internal disciplinary processes and where applicable also register criminal case dockets.
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Mandy Collins retweeted
Jun 11
How can you not love this country! 😭😭
Jun 11
The Madlanga Commissioners don the Bafana Bafana jerseys today in support of the national team ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 opening match against Mexico
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Mandy Collins retweeted
Jun 11
The daily anti-illegal immigrant marches and attacks roiling South Africa are led by a failed Zulu radio personality, a DJ dropped by a small regional radio station and an unheralded actor.
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Jun 10
Jirre the mist just popping up randomly in areas. We must be careful, when it clears there is soema another block of flats up.
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Mandy Collins retweeted
Jun 11
Kirstenbosch: Drowning in neglected poached plants dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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Jun 11
I feel like I need a well day off. Monday has two meetings, but for the rest of it, I'm switching off. Then hopefully a four-day (mostly) weekend will do the trick.
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“We cannot let this become the new normal – children losing their lives to violence should cause global outrage and must be condemned at every level.” - @UNICEFmena's Edouard Beigbeder as deadly violence continues to claim children's lives across Gaza and the West Bank.
Full statement: unicef.link/4uuuifB
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Jun 10
Dear influencers, I do not want to hear about steps or cortisol or regulating my nervous system, or protein, or barefoot shoes, or how I am doing everything wrong anymore. I'm done.
STFU.
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Jun 10
Oh, and let's not forget lifting and "let them".
Again, STFU.
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Jun 10
Relearning Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is hard enough, but do you know what makes it harder?
A Labrador that a) tries to lick the hand cream off your hands while you're playing b) howls along and c) stands between your knees and the piano so you also have to dodge a wagging tail.
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Jun 10
Well, I should hope so. I'd be worried if a murder wasn't considered heartless and barbaric by definition.
Gauteng police commissioner Tommy Mthombeni has described the murder of 12 people at Jumpers Informal Settlement in Cleveland, Johannesburg, as “heartless” and “barbaric”. The provincial police boss visited the area on Wednesday morning to assess the damage and announce police interventions following the shooting, which left nine other people wounded.
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Jun 10
I used to (in the old days) be the Sort of Person who saw everything as fodder for a tweet. Now I do the same, except on LinkedIn. WHO AM I EVEN?
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Jun 10
Me on Monday: Sheesh, it's quiet.
Me on Tuesday night: SHIT! I FORGOT TO DO THAT THING DUE YESTERDAY!
<Tuesday night all the things land – every emergency job in the industry>
Me on Wednesday: Challenge accepted. But first, breakfast out.
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