Charlotte’s Mum
@RobynPorteous
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Intersectional Feminist. Writer. Runner. Bibliophile. Anti-Racist. She/Her. Disinformation destroys democracy. #BlackLivesMatter @Real411orgza. Views my own.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined March 2009
The best parents 💔
On Tuesday afternoon, my parents were involved in a head-on collision with a driver who appears to have swerved into their lane. Tragically, both of them died, my mum on the scene, and my dad a short while later at the hospital.
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RT @TheRealClementM: One things about @tshidi_lee , she always told us how much she loved us. And she always bullied me to say “I love yo….
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RT @ZimasaMatiwane: Dear children - there’s no better time to read George Orwell’s 1984 than now. In the context of the state of the world….
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RT @watsenaam: @RobynPorteous @khwezi_shange We're not okay until we're ALL okay. Things like COVID19 should teach us that lesson, but no.….
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RT @smriiis_reading: carrying a book everywhere you go is important. even if you can't read it. its important to carry one. always. i ca….
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RT @zellieimani: There is no neutral ground in genocide. Only the side of life, and the side of mass murder.
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RT @khwezi_shange: @RobynPorteous Binged watched a show called The gilded age and I can't help but feel like somethings have gotten better….
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RT @khwezi_shange: @RobynPorteous I'm sure you've heard that the wealthy spend tons trying to keep socialism at bay however I believe if th….
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RT @karynmaughan: “Your family must have thought they gave birth to a rebel, an enigma, a round peg in a square hole. I have no doubt they….
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RT @IrfaanMangera: From every river, to every sea, we will continue to shout, that Palestine will be free. .
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RT @yarahawari: Ordinary citizens are stepping in where states have failed. There is no other choice.
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RT @AmschelKavka: Were you to grant me but one of my many requests, let it be this one: Don’t work so hard, go for walks. Franz Kafka, 1914.
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RT @Ayesha_Bagus: Deep admiration for Megan Choritz, a South African Jewish sister whose courage, integrity and sacrifice in standing again….
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أصبحت ميغان تشوريتز، التي نشأت وسط نظام الأبارتهايد، رمزا للمقاومة ضد الصهيونية رغم التكاليف الشخصية الباهظة التي شملت تهديدات ومضايقات وتعطيل مسيرتها المهنية.
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RT @SiyaSindelo: The South African health department plans to make the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, available at more than 300 g….
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More than 300 government clinics are in line for the first roll-out of the widely-hailed twice-yearly anti-HIV jab lenacapavir within the next two years – with hopes that a cheaper generic will...
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When Matshona Dhliwayo said "Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings" and when Pablo Neruda said "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming" and when Virginia Woolf said "Yes, I deserve a Spring - I owe nobody nothing.".
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RT @malonebarry: Said it before, I'll say it again: Greta Thunberg actually goes out into the world and tries to do something about the thi….
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