Forever first mate to the Pirate dog. Comms specialist for African engineering, science and civil society. She/her. Tweet’alig.
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“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond347t
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🚨 Big win for democracy! A German court has ordered X to hand over election data after researchers flagged possible voter manipulation. 2024 saw the highest rates of election misinformation ever recorded. This is a crucial step for transparency! More: sa.lrc.org.za/4gy0oA7
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[THREAD] The vast majority of @USAID money spent in SA goes to civil society, research groups and to 'health systems support' of government projects. See a detailed breakdown here: foreignassistance.gov/cd/sou…
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If you’re trying to understand what’s happening in Goma, I highly recommend this week’s issue of @thecontinent_ . It’s free to access via WhatsApp and it’s the most comprehensive weekly newspaper on matters Africa.
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I don't know why we need to say this over and over again. If you think this is too much, then YOU CANNOT AFFORD A FULL TIME DOMESTIC WORKER. You're not entitled to one.
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By virtue of being human, EVERYONE has the right to:
- life
- equality
- human dignity
Life & human dignity are sacrosanct & are ENTIRELY non-derogable.
The right to equality is non-derogable wrt unfair discrimination based on race, colour, origin, sex, religion or language.
✌🏾
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Might not feel this way on twitter - but back here on earth, DOGE did not have a great day yesterday on the @USAID front.
Elon's attempt to speedrun the destruction of USAID is starting to hit real legal and political bumps.
The pushback is starting - and must be sustained.
🧵
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Let’s be clear, Afriforum represents its about 315000 paying members. It does NOT represent all white people or even all white Afrikaans speaking people in South Africa.
Campaigning for a foreign government to interfere or influence South African domestic policy is unpatriotic, and some would even say could be seen as treasonous.
#ProudlySouthAfrican
"We want the international role players to target with sanctions South African Politicians that push through evil and destructive policies." - Ernst Van Zyl, Afriforum.
#ExpropirationAct. #NewsLink #eNCA #DStv403
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Pumpkin Spice Putin: “White South Africans have no rights, they’re having their land taken away. It’s very bad.”
Meanwhile White South Africans:
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This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic. That FAFO moment when you realise that part of South Africa’s trade is agricultural produce (R19 billion) and you’ve spent years pushing for something that would ultimately hurt the farmers you claim to protect. Years of calling for South Africa to face sanctions. Going on Fox News. Appealing to MAGA, Lying about a ‘white genocide.’
This is what you wanted, no?
No one will forget, Kallie. No one. And farmers must not forget either. Well done, champ. Trump finally said what you’ve been wanting him to say, no? FAFO ♥️
Scrapping AGOA would impact thousands of ordinary South Africans, while politicians remain unaffected, warned AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel. | @gerbjan
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.@afriforum will officially request the USA to directly punish senior ANC leaders and not the people of South Africa.
We, as ordinary citizens, are already being punished by a hostile and foolish government and @PresidencyZA in South Africa and do not want to be punished as well.
#Trump
South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!
Donald Trump Truth Social Post 06:19 PM EST 02/02/25
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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 2.0 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬?
African winners will be those countries that pragmatically play to #Trump’s ego and self-proclaimed dealmaker status.
#USAElections2024
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If you really want to see media complicity in creating division then right now the U.K. is a brilliant case study.
The ongoing racist attacks by the far right? A result of racism and anti-migrant rhetoric totally normalised by the media and the government.
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HERE IT IS!
My interview with the GOAT— Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon.
We talked about everything from breaking records, motherhood and - Obvs I asked her if like me she ever has days where she doesn’t wanna train!
In this week’s @thecontinent_
(This is my third front page story!!!)
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Government of Nigeria has issued a travel alert to its citizens planning to travel to the United Kingdom amid attacks by far right groups.
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Sad thing is there actually is a lot of western influence behind a lot of anti LGBT legislation in GS countries but it has nothing to do with western queers buying Unilever & everything to do with the impact of colonialism + well funded religious right lobby orgs
