COO/Legal Analyst /Author - LLB LLM Director The Book Emporium (Pty) Ltd. Pushing towards a Doctor of Laws Degree
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My dad used to say, 'Nunu, whites are as old as the hills. Ask me, they birthed me!" The penny hasn't dropped, it will never drop and perhaps, when it finally does, it will be too late for Mamma.
#LGE2026
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2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS: IEC SAYS RESULTS COUNTING PROGRESSING STEADILY
@IECSouthAfrica
The IEC says the capturing and verification of results from the 2026 Local Government Elections are progressing steadily.
Key figures as at 17:00:
More than 60% of the 66,073 results had been captured.
40,202 results slips scanned.
32,238 results independently audited.
65 of 213 municipalities (31%) have completed the full verification process.
Provincial capturing progress:
Northern Cape: 87%
Western Cape: 69%
Free State: 64%
Eastern Cape: 60%
Mpumalanga: 52%
KwaZulu-Natal: 37%
Gauteng: 35%
North West: 35%
Limpopo: 23%
Municipal completion: The Northern Cape leads with 81% of municipalities completing the process, followed by the Western Cape at 56%.
Gauteng has yet to complete the process in any municipality.
The IEC says the results remain provisional until all objections material to the elections have been finalised.
The Commission expects the results collation process to be completed by the weekend.
The IEC has also confirmed that its enhanced Issue Tracker has resolved more than 1,000 cases logged since the start of special voting.
The IEC has urged political parties, candidates and the public not to spread disinformation and to rely on officially verified results.
The Commission says accuracy, transparency and the integrity of the results remain its priority.
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1/2 I was coming out of the Bank when I saw someone who looks just like my friend walking different direction, I looked at him walking in my mind i was asking myself why he didn’t tell me his coming this side……..
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2/2 11:00am I received a call that my friend passed on 10:45 same day, I realised that was the time I saw the person that looks like him walking. I believe her 😔
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در سال ۲۰۰۲، یکی از شرکتکنندگان در مسابقه برادر بزرگ برزیل، هنگام آفتاب گرفتن در باغ، ناگهان صدای آشنایی شنید که نامش را صدا میزد. او فکر کرد صدای خواهرش است. سیدا نمیدانست که خواهرش ۴۵ دقیقه قبل فوت کرده. زیرا بخاطر برنامه در قرنطینه بود.
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We used to be visiting East London every other weekend because my dad absolutely loved my mom’s East London family…
Our kids who vote in the suburbs are gone shame - they don't care. Gone are the days when I used to threaten kids with ex-communication should they not vote ANC. Their choices left my mouth agape including 2 first-time voters.
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The most recent confirmed deleted tweet is Elon's Nov 3 "Vote red today!" (status 2117626744668905487), removed early Nov 4 after midterm losses including Texas races he funded heavily. Archives still show it.
Public reports mention possibly a couple more around the same time, but no verified list of exactly five latest deletions exists. Many other recent posts and RTs remain live on his account.
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In 2014, former flight attendant Dawn Michelle Hunt received an email saying she had won a contest. The prize was a free international trip.
It was a scam.
The trip took her to Hong Kong and then to China, where the scammers treated her like a winner.
They gave her gifts, including purses and a new suitcase, and convinced Michelle to take it with her when she left the country.
At the airport, police searched her luggage and found about 4.5 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside.
Her family says she had no idea the drugs were there, and that the scammers had used her as a drug mule.
In 2017, a Chinese court sentenced her to death. The sentence was later reduced to life in prison.
Before she was sentenced, she spent three years in a detention center. She later told her father that guards there raped her.
When her brother visited in 2024, Michelle had lost a lot of weight, and her hair had turned completely gray.
Doctors had also found tumors in her uterus and ovaries that could be cancer, but she refused treatment because she didn't trust the prison.
More than a decade later, she remains imprisoned. Her father died in January 2026, still waiting for his daughter to come home.
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BREAKING
[IN OTHER NEWS]
#FannieNkosi
[STRAP: DPP DECLINES NKOSI'S BID TO HAVE CHARGES RECONSIDERED]
Representations made to the Director of Public Prosecutions by former organised crime unit member #FannieNkosi to have the charges against him reconsidered, has been DECLINED.
Nkosi's lawyer Katlego Maleho has also withdrawn from the case.
Nkosi also resigned from the SAPS late last month.
The charges that Nkosi wanted re-considered relate to defeating the ends of justice, after he allegedly pretended to be a high ranking police officer from Pretoria and allegedly interfered with evidence at the Thohoyandou Police Station in Limpopo in 2022.
Also multiple charges, which include, theft, fraud and defeating the ends of justice after a police task team raided his Pretoria North property and allegedly found him in possession of illegal ammunition, firearms, official police dockets and a large sum of money.
#sabcnews
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Can someone in the know explain this national tally in local government elections? Obsession should be with Metros and Local Municipalities.
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Protests have erupted across Paraguay after Ueno Bank was shut down in the middle of the night over a solvency crisis, leaving customers unable to access their money. An estimated 60% of the adult population banks with Ueno.
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BREAKING: A major bank in Paraguay has failed, leaving nearly 60% of the country's adult population unable to access their accounts.
Ueno Bank has around 3 MILLION customers and $2.8 BILLION in deposits, including hundreds of millions in public funds.
The central bank has taken emergency control after the bank's financial condition collapsed, freezing withdrawals, transfers and card payments.
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URGENTE PARAGUAY 🇵🇾
Graves disturbios tras el cierre del Banco Ueno Bank por orden del B. Central dejando a 3 millones d paraguayos Sin acceso a su dinero, sueldos y jubilaciones!
OJO El Presidente Santiago Peña, derechista amigo de Milei y Kast, era ACCIONISTA DEL BANCO.
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Hay un CORRALITO en Paraguay. El presidente del Banco Central acaba de RENUNCIAR.
Hay quilombo en las calles, más de 3 millones de personas perdieron sus depósitos y sus jubilaciones. El modelo de país con la "macro ordenada" que te vendía Milei
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🚨 PARAGUAY 🇵🇾 RIOTS IN THE STREETS AFTER 3 MILLION PEOPLE GOT LOCKED OUT OF THEIR OWN MONEY
The central bank shut down Ueno Bank, one of the biggest banks in the country.
3 million customers. About 60% of all adults in Paraguay.
Salaries. Pensions. Savings. FROZEN.
No app. No cards. No ATMs.
Even $380 million of the state pension fund is stuck inside.
Covid locked people inside their homes. This locked them out of their own money.
Then it turned POLITICAL.
President Santiago Peña, the right-wing friend of Milei and Kast, was a SHAREHOLDER in Ueno's holding company until 2025.
And the man he picked to run the central bank in 2023 used to run Ueno.
Within 24 hours:
• the central bank chief signed his resignation after Peña asked for it
• Ueno's CEO handed himself in to police, 5 more executives DETAINED
• crowds in central Asunción demanding Peña's exit
• the opposition pushing to impeach him
The last time Paraguay's banks broke, in 1995, more than half of them went down.
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