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24 Jul 2023
Have now lived in Nairobi for 6 months and am yet to experience a power outage to rival the length of even stage 2 loadshedding, but sure (the grid is also 92% renewables).
Technology company Karooooo has warned that if the infrastructure failures hobbling South Africa are not addressed, the country will face a further drop in living standards that would spark a fresh wave of emigrations. | @SikonathiM
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28 Feb 2023
Quick reminder that the secret ballot underway in Tshwane will be replicated at presidential level (with a likely hung parliament) next year. At that point, we will have no idea how individuals elected to represent 30 000 people voted in an election to choose the next president.
28 Feb 2023
Voting numbers based on what we know so far publicly.
NB: Voting is taking place via secret ballot.
DA Coalition (109 Seats)
DA - 69
ActionSA - 19
VF PLUS - 17
ACDP - 2
IFP - 1
GOOD - 1
ANC coalition (105 seats)
ANC - 75
EFF - 23
AIC, DOP, PA, COPE, PAC, RC & OTHERS - 6
TCG
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28 Feb 2023
There is nothing like that traditional last-Tuesday-in-February, excitement as the Proteas open the home test cricket summer #SAvWI
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30 Aug 2022
Registered directors:
Botho-Botho - Patrice Motsepe
Fynbos Ekwiteit - Michiel and Johan Le Roux
Style Eyes of California - Gerard Canot, Darin Owen, Scott Walton, Nadine Duley
Shave and Gibson - Simon Downes, Mervyn Rawlings, Martin Frizelle, Deryk Champkins, Caroline Donaldson
30 Aug 2022
MEDIA RELEASE: Electoral Commission issues 2022-23 first quarter disclosure report in terms of the Political Party Funding Act and Regulations
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5 Aug 2022
No wonder @CheckersSA is eating into @WOOLWORTHS_SA's market share. Woolies products are only going to private school, not the Ivy League.
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23 Jul 2022
Full-time:
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HISTORY as Banyana Banyana clinch their first ever WAFCON trophy!!!
It’s coming home Mzansi!!!!😭😭😭🙏🏾🇿🇦💚💛
#TotalEnergiesWAFCON2022 #LiveTheImpossible
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18 Jul 2022
Linda Motlhalo converts!!!
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6 Jun 2022
.@SANDF_ZA Any chance of a landing slot at AFB Waterkloof tomorrow?
BREAKING | State capture kingpins Atul and Rajesh Gupta arrested in Dubai
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19 May 2022
My social cohesion plan would be for government to stop allowing xenophobic vigilantes free-reign. Just an idea.
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13 May 2022
This is quite the national media schedule for the mayor of a municipality with 70 000 people (the smallest district municipality in SA).
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6 May 2022
Living in the UK during the 2019 election was a difficult and formative part of my Jewish identity. I can only imagine how tough it was for Jewish Labour activists. To stay and fight for the party is impressive, to win back the community’s trust is superlative.
6 May 2022
Barnet results 🧵
This is a key Labour target, which the party failed to win in 2018 - largely due to failures over antisemitism
One of the surprise losses from last time was West Hendon
LAB have just GAINED all 3 seats from CON in West Hendon
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28 Mar 2022
Given Russian media suppression laws, publishing the work of a state media employee without sufficient caveats is editorial malpractice. @dailymaverick should know better.
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10 Mar 2022
Has any other @ICC member ever had a Chief Justice whose son had an international ODI cap?
10 Mar 2022
PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA APPOINTS JUSTICE ZONDO AS CHIEF JUSTICE
President @CyrilRamaphosa has in accordance with Section 174(3) of the Constitution, decided to appoint Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo as the next Chief Justice of South Africa with effect from 1 April 2022.
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10 Mar 2022
The @sajewishreport continues to publish the work of an RT employee on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They are shameful apologists for war crimes and SA Jewry should actively oppose them.
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3 Mar 2022
okay let’s not forget zimbabwe. the same zimbabwe that south africa watched degenerate and force thousands of its citizens into south africa, only for them to then be demonised and scapegoated in an increasingly xenophobic political environment
In arguably its most shameful foreign policy act since 1994, the South African government abstained from voting for a special resolution before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
news24.com/news24/southafric…
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3 Mar 2022
Timing wise, this would be like launching part 2 of the “celebrities singing Imagine at home” video halfway through the press conference where they announced the Omicron variant.
fourfourtwo.com/news/report-…
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2 Mar 2022
This abstention is deeply immoral and fundamentally shameful.
2 Mar 2022
An overwhelming vote at the UN General Assembly to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine: 141 in favour; 5 against; 35 abstaining. (South Africa is among those that abstained.)
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27 Feb 2022
There won’t be a better opportunity than now to build a progressive voice against Putin’s far-right Russian imperialism. This isn’t just important for Ukraine, it’s important for Syria and the Sahel too.
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27 Feb 2022
It also means acknowledging the uncomfortable reality that it took a highly covered war in Europe rather than the countless war crimes in Syria and increasingly in the Sahel. Though confronting the structural factors behind why that is the case should still be a progressive goal.
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27 Feb 2022
It matters because:
1Efforts to isolate Putin’s regime need strong progressive support
2The moral legitimacy of progressive movements depends on it
3Sanctions have a cost on those imposing them and efforts are needed to ensure the most vulnerable don’t bear the burden