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South African Human Rights Activist and Political Commentator

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The city and township are still worlds apart. Spatial apartheid never left.
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If we had taken the townships into the cities and the cities into the townships in 1994, apartheid’s map would be gone
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Townships aren’t dirty. They’re ignored. 400 years of theft, 50 years of apartheid, and a failing state leave people to survive impossible conditions. Stop blaming them. Blame the system.
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Behind every story I tell, there are the people who made me who I am. Grateful for my parents, their lessons, their stubbornness, their love.
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Strong minds, shared purpose, unstoppable change.
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Today is Monday, and we have yet to receive any confirmation regarding @GaytonMcK’s dismissal from parliament.
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I’ve explored many faiths, but every road led back to this: no god has built a just world, and no prayer has dismantled oppression. Only people, organised and unafraid, have ever changed the course of human history.
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What does the PA look like post-Mckenzie? Will it still be a zionist funding lobby or does it dissolve into his toxic legacy?
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Let me not be the one to judge whether @GaytonMcK CAN use the K-word, but I sure as hell will be the one to judge whether he SHOULD. In his words: “I have presidential ambitions.” Now, does someone with presidential stature position himself like that?.
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Call out the Open Chat hypocrisy, but also call out @GaytonMcK and his own hypocrisy. WTF does he think he is, he built his political career on the K-word and derogatory statements towards Africans.
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“I have presidential aspirations he said!” Only in a country still drunk on the fumes of apartheid can a man who once spat the K-word think he’s fit to run it. Racists don’t want the presidency to serve the people, they want it to own them.
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Gayton McKenzie should be FIRED.
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Pieter Kriel
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On my way to Durban tomorrow to meet up with Nkosi Zulu, we plan our next few weeks in Cape Town, the Cape Flats, Durban, Phoenix, Joburg, Alexandria, and more.
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Pieter Kriel
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Join us this Friday, 8 August at the Durban Playhouse for the Unlikely Secret Agent - the Eleanor Kasrils story. We open up this space to young activist and thinkers…
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Pieter Kriel
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The government failed to decolonise Post-Apartheid South Africa. Why the TRC might have always been fundamentally flawed.
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Pieter Kriel
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I need to say, @GillianSchutte1 Weaponizing a tortured Black child (now man) to imply moral superiority over anyone else is grotesque.
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I invited @GillianSchutte1 to a play to have an honest discussion, and she puts on the performance of a lifetime…
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The Unlikely Secret Agent at the Durban Playhouse, 8-9 August. Join myself and Nkosi Zulu for a constructive conversation.
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I went to Palestine fully aware of the risk, not for optics, but because real solidarity means taking real risks. I’m 21 and I’ll make mistakes. But I’d rather stand with people facing a humanitarian catastrophe than posture safely from a distance. @GillianSchutte1
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Equality isn’t about everyone starting the race at the same line, it’s about dismantling the systems that made some of us the track and others the hurdle.
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