“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it” ~ Helen Keller
KZN South Africa
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The more I’ve been listening to interviews with both, the more I believe this to be true. Added to which @HermanMashaba cannot show the required political maturity to truly listen to the will of the voters
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Recently placed a @CheckersSA sixty order. We live on a gated estate. Received a call from the driver to say he’s having a problem at the gate as he doesn’t have a valid license so can’t get in!
@CheckersSA don’t you check if the drivers are allowed to be on the roads??
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“Never in the history of the post-1994 election has the ANC had to make so many political decisions with so many consequences for so many of its members in so many places”.
Their whatsapp groups must be BUZZING this morning!
ANC on the rack — coalition minefield could unleash biggest internal ructions yet dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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Con Court comes to the ANC’s rescue. Full reasons to be handed down later
news24.com/politics/concourt…
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One for the good guys today!
DEVELOPING:
Bafana "King of the Sky" Sindane's case has been struck off the roll.
He failed to submit the necessary documentation for the court application to interdict his testimony at the Mdlanga Commission of Inquiry.
@eNCA
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“What kind of society are we becoming if our first response is to ask whether something is technically legal, rather than whether it is morally right?”
I've reflected a lot this week while watching the Sibiya bail hearings.
As a mother of an 18-year-old boy, this is not sitting well with me.
Not because I believe the accused should be convicted before the courts have spoken. We must respect due process.
But because I keep asking myself: what are we, as parents and as a society, teaching our children about power, consent, vulnerability and respect?
Sure, an 18-year-old is legally an adult. But when a 59-year-old senior police official is accused of rape involving an 18-year-old, surely we must ask more than whether she is legally a minor.
What does a massive age and power imbalance mean?
What responsibility comes with occupying a position of authority?
What conversations are we having with our daughters about consent and with our sons about respect, boundaries and power?
And perhaps the hardest question:
What kind of society are we becoming if our first response is to ask whether something is technically legal, rather than whether it is morally right?
The courts must determine the facts and guilt.
But we, as active citizens and parents, have a responsibility to ask the uncomfortable questions.
Because our children are watching us.
And they are learning from what we choose to question and what we choose to normalise.
#ShadrackSibiyaCase
#Sibiya
#PowerDynamis
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Watching the current exchange between the commissioners, Adv Sello and Adv Minni (sp?) regarding s204 is taking me back to those moot court days where you were put on the spot 🙈🙈
#MadlangaCommission
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Cyril appointed as SADC chairman. He and his party struggle to run municipalities, now a whole region? #SADC
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I’m reaching a point where I need a Madlanga Commission study guide. Remember when we were at school? We could get study guides for those set books we had to read.
#MadlangaCommission
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@OfficialSASSA helloooo, are you out there? No response to below. What are the next steps. Please
Yesterday my elderly mother’s SASSA card was “retained” by the atm. Why?? Now what?? She’s 93, has limited mobility, advancing dementia and poor hearing. Must she now venture into a SASSA office to get this resolved? 😫
@OfficialSASSA please help 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Yesterday my elderly mother’s SASSA card was “retained” by the atm. Why?? Now what?? She’s 93, has limited mobility, advancing dementia and poor hearing. Must she now venture into a SASSA office to get this resolved? 😫
@OfficialSASSA please help 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Witness Cele not taking kindly or respectfully to defense counsel’s questions! #catmatlala trial
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Hard to know where to focus
#madlanga? #catmatlala trial?
The current witness rather testy it seems. Even the interpreter placed a calming hand on his arm a short while ago. Judge Moosa a calming force in the court, seems he has his hands full IMO
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Nku’s inability to properly explain his travelling with R25000 cash to KZN is really annoying Commissioner Madlanga. Understandably so.
#MadlangaCommission
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The Commissioners have had enough of the slippery eel Jacob and now have him firmly in their grasp #MadlangaCommission
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“No, no Col Jacob we’ve had a long two days with you”
Commissioner Baloyi is understandably exasperated
#MadlangaCommission
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This! 👇🏻 Commissioner Khumalo nailed it. And as for Adv Sello’s smile…. #madlangacommission