Zane Dangor
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LLM (International Law); Masters in Management (MM); Public servant; human rights activist. The latter two not in contradiction.
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Cape Town is a place i come to frequently for work. Decided to do a holiday trip for the 1st time in many years. Will not do so in a hurry again. W/out the suit and with the All Stars etc.on,the levels of racism & exclusionary practises are terrible.Dear Durbs, fix those beaches!
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Harmful use of alcohol may be be an aggravating factor in some cases, but the real link is MEN. Us. With our TOXIC MASCULINITIES. With our belief that women BELONG to us. That women can’t say no. That women MUST respect us. That we are ENTITLED to sex! The research has been done
Cele calls for serious look into link between drugs, alcohol abuse and GBV
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Dear
@SuperSportTV
@DStv
The vast majority of South Africans are watching whether you will be doing the right thing and apologise to
#Ashwinwillemse
. As a premium subscriber I am watching with keen interest.
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Dear South African parliamentarians. Your policies may or may not be progressive. As individuals you may even be progressive. But you are NOT Revolutionaries. You are salaried elected officials, with medical aid and live in subsidized housing. Stop already. Perspective is VIP.
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The ONLY airport I have traveled through over last month.. including Frankfurt, Munich and Geneva where I WAS scanned and asked questions related to
#coronavirus
was OR Tambo Airport.
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South Africans should condemn without any reservations, the violence against Somalians or any other person because of their origin.If people are accused of selling dangerous products,redress must be sought through police. Inciting violence is a crime.
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xiii)The language of “wipe out” and “eradicate” indicate genocidal intent. Remember the crime of genocide turns on intent. Even if you kill just one child but the stated intent is to wipe out an identifiable group or
people, in part or in whole, it is the crime of genocide.
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Dire Tladi of South Africa was just elected by the UN Security Council and the General Assembly to be a judge for International Court of Justice. The first judge from SA for nearly 8 decades. He was one of 5 new judges elected onto the ICJ. Well done
@DireTladi4ICJ
@DIRCO_ZA
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When people with zero experience of peace-building make ill-informed statements about people who have actually been around this block a few times.
Rise Mzansi has criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Ukraine/Russia “peace mission” as an “unmitigated disaster that will yield nothing”.
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i of xx)This thread was in drafts for 2 days.After the strike on a refugee camp it has to be posted.We appointed a independent panel when we were accused of putting some weapons on a Russian ship. This was because we were concerned about SA weapons going into a war zone.
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It’s not only Israel on trial. South Africa is testing the west’s claim to moral superiority | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
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The ICJ found that its plausible that Israel is committing genocide and orders Israel to stop all genocidal acts.Para 78 essentially directs the IDF to stop killing.Those say that these orders are not comprehensive are either dishonest or have not read the judgement.
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Even if for some reason, you doubt the reality of Covid-19, out of respect for others wear a mask&adhere to social distancing measures. You may save a life.I lost a brother to Covid-19 due to someone thinking it was not necessary to wear a mask.Spread this message not the virus.
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Intensifying the genocidal killing after the ICJ ruling as a petulant ‘nothing ,no-one will stop us message? It’s time for counter-measures to stop this barbarity. And yes, the ‘civilisational’ language is deliberate.There comes a time when normal diplomatic language has no role.
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You are being dishonest. Read
the article and not only the title. I will not allow you to misrepresent what I have said. I will not falsely be accused of anti-semitism.
@ClaysonMonyela
@karynmaughan
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Cricketers not wanting to associate with
#BLM
because they associate it with Marxism, shows just how damaging Christian National Education was in SA!Black lives&dignity & the struggle for it, is ‘entangled’ with ‘Die Rooi Gevaar.’Shows how interconnected racism and capitalism is.
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#ashwinwillemse
Re:comments on the need to ‘wait for the other-side’ of the story. I do not have to.The look and reaction is one that I identify with because I experienced it. Insipid racism where there is no slur but the intent is just as malicious. I experienced the other side!
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Toxic masculinity is not party political. It’s a truly non-sectarian trait in SA. We should not rationalise or tolerate violence by any political leader or be fearful of calling it out. That alone should ring alarm bells. We wait for political leadership to be demonstrated now.
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Trying to get into
@WitsUniversity
as a visitor for legitimate reasons is good practise for those contemplating travelling to destinations where despite having a visa, the border personnel are obnoxious and intent on wielding petty power.
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Israel has announced plans to displace 1.5 mil Palestinians from Rafah. 1000s more Palestinians may be killed. This is a contravention of the ICJ orders! We have asked those on Security Council to convene urgently!
@antonioguterres
@StateDept
@mfaguyana
@SLOtoUN
@ukinsouthafrica
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Salute to
@drtlaleng
and
@FranceskAlbs
Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Health and on Occupied Palestinian Territories respectively. Your reports on the situation in Gaza are truthful and courageous. Thank you!
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Thanks so much Neil.
So proud of my country 🇿🇦, our government-on the right side of history- & our brilliant legal team. A special shout out to the DFA DG (& former IEJ Chair) Zane Dangor, who has played a critical role in navigating SA's historic interventions in opposing crimes against Palestinians
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“Noted”.
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Dear
@news24
&
@Bloomberg
(latter is source of the article). This is patently false and misleading. South Africa & the EU are working closely towards holding Summit. A quick check in with me &
@SandraKramerEU
would have confirmed that for you.
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At The Hague, Israel Mounted a Defense Based in an Alternate Reality - superb analysis. Critical and analytical journalism. Does not just repeat the Israeli legal team’s talking points but debunks them expertly.
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Despite the undiplomatic antics of the Israeli Ambassador who labelled as “terrorists”, those who intended to vote for the long overdue Palestinian membership ( not even full) of the UN, 2/3rds of those present voted for the resolution. It therefore carries. Only 9 voted against.
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@GregAbbott_TX
Daai dag toe jou ma se jy moet loop en twee Tex chocolates ( 2 texes) gaan koop voor sy Dallas kyk. Toe val jy hard op jou kop and dink jy moet Texas toe loop. Ons is so bly dat 50 jaar later, het ons jou opgespoor. Djirre! Van kop val tot Governor van Texas!
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85 countries, including South Africa co-sponsored this resolution.
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
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Thank you! But then you are biased of course.
If this were the Springbok team
@Zwandid
would be Rassie Erasmus
#ICJ
#ICJGenocideConvention
#Ceasefire_In_Gaza
#CEASEFIRE_NOW
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‘Djy is somma n kak bra - ek loop nou!’ — a new legal argument.
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We have political leaders & followers engaging in crude misogynistic attacks on womyn political analyst. Then in a month there will be an apology. Then the abuse and apology cycle will start again on someone else. It’s like the abuser who buys flowers. Battered nation syndrome!
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1986.Youth Activists in Harare. Calling for complete boycott of Apartheid South Africa.Many did not make it there and some arrested on return.Bafana Khumalo, Donovan Nadison and I. Bottom- decades later Bafana and I at UN conference.Thats why we now value our fundamental freedoms
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ii) In contrast, amidst an unfolding genocide, some
of those who made the accusations, which were not proven, are proudly funding and arming the armed forces carrying out atrocities in Gaza.
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And the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has been declining for all women across all ages and in all quintiles over last 15 years. Have not read such uninformed population control right-wing crap for a while. What is an ‘illegitimate’ birth. Being a conservative must be a hard job?
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That’s a lame excuse. Funding racism and bigotry is not exercising freedom of speech. Describing the attack on a black person’s dignity as an ‘exchange’ is in itself revealing. It’s as bad as those who try to justify their bigotry under the colour of critiquing ‘wokeism’.
We know that you know what happened in the exchange between the panelists on The Burning Platform on 21st October 2021. We are a proudly South African brand that takes the right to freedom of speech very seriously. [1/2]
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Freedom Day: despite our many challenges, let’s celebrate and defend our fundamental freedoms, including freedoms of expression, association and to peaceful protest. As we see these curtailed in the US and parts of Europe, these rights must never be taken for granted.
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Achmat Dangor, 1948—2020, RIP – The Johannesburg Review of Books
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xx) I hope that other senior diplomats across the world, in Africa,Europe, the Americas, Asia, decide to take a stand. Lets challenge the global culture of violence and impunity.
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So
@ferialhaffajee
was @ school with me in a ‘colored’ area. We were classified ‘coloured’ by a racist regime because of mixed backgrounds. I was Azapo at school & Ferial too rejected the apartheid racial label. Argue with her on her politics & not your crisis about her identity
Don’t go silent
@FerialHaffajee
- we need strong and principled voices that speak for all of us across the divides. Ferial Haffajee: Malema, the Indian thing and my growing silence via
@News24
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Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It? - Craig Murray . Please read this! Craig is a former top UK diplomat. This is in stark contrast to the poor spin by the Brenthurst Foundation in the
@dailymaverick
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Great game! Congratulations to Nigeria. Well done South Africa.! African football triumphs!
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If
@CityofCT
gave the order for eviction, which is illegal under lockdown regulations, the person/s who gave the instruction is as liable if not more so than those who carried out the instructions. This is a gross violation of constitutional rights .
@SAHRCommission
urgent action!
@IrvinJimSA
Urgent investigation launched by City.
The incident of a nude man depicted on the video occurred during a City law enforcement operation.
The actions of officers involved in this matter is being investigated with urgency, including other footage which the City has, 1/4
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Global health policy cannot and should not be determined by billionaires and their foundations. It undermines the UN system and perpetuates global health and economic disparities.
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Glad that the issue has been definitively clarified. Children who are more vulnerable than adults now have the same legal protection against assault that adults enjoy. This is but one of many steps required to reduce the cycle of violence in our society.
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crime prevention activities: reduce inequality, eradicate poverty, access to food, decent housing, social infrastructure in communities, decent healthcare, access to education, in-school programmes to dismantle ideologies of superiority - The least equipped to do this - Police!
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iii)While we took a non-aligned stance on the war on Ukraine, we were clear on a few things. We called out the use of force by Russia as unlawful. We stated clearly that we do not condone the acquisition of territory through the use of force.
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Listen to all 17 minutes of this important Christmas Eve sermon in Bethlehem. South African clergy including Michael Weeder and Frank Chikane are in the church as part of their solidarity pilgrimage to the Palestine.
Christmas sermon in Bethlehem
"To our European friends. I never ever want to hear you lecture us on human rights and international law again. And I mean this. We are not white I guess. It does not apply to us according to your own logic."
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I have also just donated as the services provided by UNRWA can mean the difference between life and death for people in Gaza. Follow the links in the tweet below to donate if you can.
I just donated to UNRWA to help the UN help people in Gaza. You can too, click
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Firstly your stats are wrong. Moreover there are some of us who have had this virus and it’s not like any flu I have ever had. I had siblings die who were healthy before getting it. I saw loved ones struggling to breathe. So please shut up!
@Garsen
Been saying that for over a year now. Ever met anyone who has never had flu? Why should this virus be any different? Don’t fuss too much though. So far only 60,000 (just 0.01% of our total population of 60m), has succumbed.
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It’s disgusting but not surprising that the people behind the putsouthafricafirst twitter ‘movement’ are also behind the SARSmustrise hashtag. Young people are dying and instead of seeking peace they are asking for more bloodshed. Again we must say, Not in Our Name.
#ubuntufirst
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viii)(2)Ignore all the norms of international law and the laws of war that prohibit war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. (3) Deliberately mis-describe the provisions pertaining to the right to self defence..
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The missile attacks on two UN schools today,killing children is inexcusable.There can be no rationalising this. This impunity must end.The UNSC has called for extended humanitarian pauses.These attacks are flagrant disregard for a binding resolution. Countermeasures?
@UN
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xix)I hope this also helps some segments of the South African media reflect on why their differential reporting on Ukraine and Palestine mirror the contradictions of ‘the ‘they’ discussed in this thread. I suspect not. But the fear of being attacked is not an option now.
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Plausible genocide in Gaza(ICJ). Even if one has to discount the crime of crimes which is genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity are most definitely in play. Close to 30000 dead. Yet, based on interrogations by the perpetrator of those crimes UNRWA is defunded?Explain!
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xviii)The same, with regards to sticking to principle, cannot be said for them.This thread is unusual. Usual diplomatic practise cannot prevail if we want to stop a genocide.Hats off to
@CraigMokhiber
for his principled action today. He resigned from
@OHCHR
for failing Palestine
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Young man with little dagga-R1000 bail as its a “Serious” crime in ‘known drug area’. Dude charged with assault GBH-spoken to nicely and granted 500 bail. Same area-poverty& inequality is rife & where harmful drug use is a symptom & not a cause. War on Drugs mentality is toxic
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Was interviewed on AJ Arabic, earlier. They had to delay and interrupt the interview as they had to flight the breaking news on the horrors unfolding in Gaza. The translator was narrating the footage to me. The pain in his voice! How much more will world leaders tolerate?.
Every time I read the Arabic news re Gaza I am horrified by how little the horror of what Israel is doing in Gaza actually filters through here. And yet there is still enormous revulsion here at what Israel is doing. Imagine if the mainstream media actually covered Gaza.
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vii)In a conflict between a well funded &heavily armed army that attacks and kills thousands of civilians including thousands of children, they (1) accept that the civilians including children are and will be killed as the Israelis are seeking to ‘eradicate’ a militia.?
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iv)Further, we expressed solidarity with the Ukrainian civilians. Our non-aligned stance was not neutral and indifferent to the deaths and misery of civilians. We are non-aligned as this war was in many ways a battle
involving global powers on Ukraine territory.
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South Africa, along with like-minded States, submits joint referral of the situation in Palestine to the ICC:
Statement of
#ICC
Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
on the Situation in the State of
#Palestine
: receipt of a referral from five States Parties ⤵️
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This latest atrocity on starving Palestinians seeking life-saving aid comes as South Africa prepares its response to Israel’s report to the ICJ. Legal remedies is one route to end these crimes by Israel. An unconditional ceasefire is the only moral choice!
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It has to be said and publicly. The US ambassador at the UN has perhaps read a different ruling by the ICJ on the provisional measures?
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Stratcom is alive and well. Still strategically destroying the reputations of struggle icons, just like they did with Ma Winnie. The question to answer always, is, “who benefits?”. Politically and otherwise.
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x)We have stated that Hamas attacking civilians is a war crime and needs to be condemned and investigated.(4)This deliberate misdirection of an occupying power’s ‘right to defend itself’ can only be to provide the justification for Israel’s attack on Gaza and its people
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Rest in peace Prof Eddie Webster. A legend at Wits and an activist his entire life.
#EddieWebster
who tragically passed today talks👇about another giant of
@WitsUniversity
-David Webster, assassinated among others for activism in the detainees movement. Eddie's words to describe David-a 'gentle revolutionary'- could equally be used to describe Eddie.
#HambaKahle
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Philanthropy centered diplomacy is paternalistic and its primary goal is maintain the global status quo, which is a global governance system that sustains colonial era patterns of production and consumption that exploits fungible resources in the South.
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ix)Its deliberate as its established fact in law that Israel as the occupying power cannot use military means to defend itself against the people that it occupies and has effective control over. They can use policing powers to deal with criminal actions.
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ICC jurisprudence focuses on Individual criminal liability& specifically those with command & superior responsibility including those who wield state power.Our referral called for ALL responsible to be investigated.The ICC has to investigate ALL who may be responsible w/out fear.
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xiv)Moreover, despite the mounting atrocities and evidence of breaches of serious international crimes, there is continued moral support and even more funding for more weapons for the army killing most of the civilians.
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vi)Now, what are those who questioned our morality on a non-aligned stance in a war between 2 countries involving big powers where the military material were not that asymmetrical, and with the very real threat of NATO getting involved, doing?.
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v)We called for an immediate ceasefire, so that lives can be spared, for humanitarian corridors to be opened. We called for meaningful dialogues towards a just and lasting peace. Hence we are participating in all the various initiatives working towards peace in Ukraine.
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xvi) We will continue to work for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and Gaza and work towards a just and lasting peace in both situations. We will also continue to ask that in both situations, that those guilty of war crimes be investigated and held
accountable.
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An interesting test case for the inchoate crime of incitement to genocide and even separately the crime of complicity.?. These crimes are punishable under US law and if they are unwilling or unable, then at the ICC. Jurisdiction should not be an issue.
@theCCR
Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.
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xii)(6) It rings hollow as despite the atrocities, there has been attempts to question the numbers of civilians killed. They have blocked resolutions towards a ceasefire as they believe that its ‘right’ that Israel uses force unlawfully to “wipe out” Hamas.
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xi)(5) This means condoning the indiscriminate killing of civilians?. The disclaimer ‘in
line with humanitarian law’ at the end of the de facto ‘go ahead’ for the unlawful use of force, came late as a result of pressure and frankly, rings hollow.
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xv)The only commonality of their approach to the war in Ukraine and the massacres in Gaza is that in both cases they rejected ceasefires. In Ukraine to avoid a ‘frozen conflict’. gaza: well, ‘Hamas has to be wiped out at all costs’. The deaths of thousands of children? ‘Tough’??
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Thinking about decolonisation:, lets start with terns such as Your Excellency/honour. Descriptions of value now cult of subservience!
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Concourt(CC)CORRECTLY outlawed death penalty based on founding principles,Bill of Rights & International law that prohibit cruel, unusual and inhuman punishment. Politician saying they can change this through simple legislation is misleading&engaging in dog-whistle politics.
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Statement: South Africa is appalled by the recent grim discovery of reported discovery of mass graves at Al-Shifa Hospital.
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You write this anti-women,anti-poor crap, despite evidence to the contrary?Read the work of reputable academics & research institutions. Even the anti- welfarism stats on the US is wrong. Why not write about the well-being of people in fully fledged welfare states such as Sweden?
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Statement by DIRCO and the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of South Africa | EEAS
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Dear
@Bruceps
Amazing! Tell us how you did this? Supplies have been pre-ordered by rich countries to vaccinate their populations many times over thereby choking supply to COVAX and hundreds of other developing countries.The UNSG & the WHO, NGOs should all learn from you!
PETER BRUCE: Hello, useless ANC. I phoned Moderna and they have vaccines for us
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Rev. Michael Weeder, the Dean of St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town is on Day 5 of his fast for and end to genocide in Gaza and for peace.We salute Michael for his spirituality that remains liberatory and for his bravery.A display of humanity in a time of monsters.
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Heavy handed policing is not a solution 4 ending gangs & gangsterism. Social conditions - poverty. Inequality, social exclusion, disconnectedness,prohibitionist drug laws that sustain gangs are not issues that police can deal with through ‘crime prevention’.
#tiltingatwindmills
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xvii)I am using the term ‘They’ as its easier and more accurate than ‘West’.This thread was necessitated because some asked,”Well what about your stance in Ukraine?”. We had some inconsistencies & mis-steps with Ukraine but we stuck to principles as much as possible.
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‘Our Women’ is part of the problem!Rather campaign for all to accept the rights to bodily integrity & autonomy. That GBV will only end when all of us accept and support the fact a woman’s body belongs to her & that continuous consent for sex even in marriage is required.
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People in LMICs are NOT vaccinated because they DON’T have access to vaccines & not because of hesitancy.South Africa has a hesitancy issue due to misinformation,distrust & ideologues similar to those driving anti-vax sentiment in Europe/US who message with the intent to mislead.
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Damn!I was a DG in wrong area. 😂Maybe the dragging effect of having 2 Masters Degrees,30 years work experience & working class background.?
Personal enrichment is what it is all about for so many people. Regrettably. And it is your taxpayer's money!
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How much more massacres like these will we see before the ICJ orders are complied with and compliance enforced. Those who oppose a ceasefire are complicit. There is no rationalising this. There are no excuses. None.
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Those inciting and encouraging this hatred and violence are as culpable as the people wielding the weapons.
Today a group of anti foreign national Burnt shops in the CBD of
#Durban
. Look how 👇🏿
#Sinageless
hawker man was beaten up by a group of men from
#PutSouthAficansFirst
. Honourable
@CyrilRamaphosa
why is ur govern’t quite on what’ happening to the foreigners?
#Xenophobia
#IWD2021
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We want to END the GENOCIDE ! Leading diplomat behind SOUTH AFRICA' cas... via
@YouTube
Discussion with Frank Barat last week. We now wait for the actual decision by the ICJ on Friday 26 January 2024.
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And the branding had nothing to do with the refusal.? And the regulations that compel them to refuse branding related to sectarian organisations and political party insignia has nothing to do with the refusal? Your grandstanding in the midst of a crisis is a disgrace.
What a disgrace! This Maj. Gen. would rather gamble with the lives of
#SAPS
members than allowing
@afriforum
to help. So much for Pres
@CyrilRamaphosa
's
#ThumaMina
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Hau mara political analysts. Complained because JZ reshuffled without consultation. Now complaining that Cyril is consulting too much?
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Normalize calling out racists.
Normalize calling out sexists.
Normalize calling out homophobes. Normalize calling out xenophobes. Normalize calling out ethnic chauvinists. Normalize calling out narrow nationalists. NEVER normalize bigotry and discrimination!
#ubuntufirst
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