The next four years are going to be VERY distracting. Let's prepare ourselves for the exhausting emotional labour that Trump's America will necessitate. Toni Morrison warned us. I add: the very serious function of racism, homophobia, transphobia, & xenophobia, is distraction.

A tragic story. A grandmother killed at a traffic light minutes of arriving in Cape Town. Crime is so bad that the Department of Tourism has an official agreement with Google Maps to exclude Nyanga and other violent hotspots when determining routes on GPS https://t.co/s7a2K32USs

This article says that there are 630,000+ active PRIVATE security guards in SA. That's more than our police and army combined. We have completely privatised our personal safety and security in SA. Crime and violence affects everyone, it cannot be racialised.

If Father Christmas was a country 🎅

This is a classic example of "Don't go after your colleagues; because you might not get the result you were hoping for..." Advocate Chauke is sitting there thinking "Look who's going down now?" 💀

Ironically, the #NkabindeInquiry has become about Adv Shamila Bathoi's fitness to hold office. The complainant has become the suspect.

The Madlanga Commission will not recover from this. The murder of a witness renders this inquiry unsustainable and cruel. Marius van der Merwe paid with his life for speaking truth to power. Now his family & friends must suffer such tragic consequences? This is the end.

A deer in headlights. #NkabindeInquiry

Earlier this year, he was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the World Congress of Biological Psychiatry. In this interview he reflected on the choices he made over the course of his career. https://t.co/ixjO5KmaUj

RIP, Prof Dan Stein 🕊 A leading South African psychiatrist at UCT, he was in the top 2% of researchers in the world and in the top 100 in his field. A formidable academic. Condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and students.

At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.

The Madlanga Commission will not recover from this. The murder of a witness renders this inquiry unsustainable and cruel. Marius van der Merwe paid with his life for speaking truth to power. Now his family & friends must suffer such tragic consequences? This is the end.

@AwesomeNewsom @themlowery The White House has installed a machine so Trump can receive a peace prize any time, day or night.

PEACE?! The US spent $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel in the past two years alone. Trump is funding a genocide. FIFA is an international joke.

Trump reminds me of the megalomaniac dictator in the novel Wizard of the Crow, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. He is now beyond satire and parody.

A unique celestial collaboration: can stargazing transform mental health in South Africa? Psychologists at Stellenbosch University will explore the power of 'awe' and wonder at the night sky, what they term “soft fascination”, or effortless attention ✨️ https://t.co/SVwb8a7C2d

Today, the world's top medical journal @TheLancet reaffirms the fact that Donald Trump is presiding over "mass murder" of Palestinian people, and that under his "electoral autocracy" the US has become a form of "oligarchic capitalism". Powerful words. https://t.co/u5qOWM9b7u

A 1-bedroom, 50 sq meter flat in Sea Point = >R5-million. People are paying for this. Almost all 82 units in this new development are already sold. To be a property developer in Cape Town 🥂 🤑 💸

Yesterday, the Gauteng High Court ordered government and SAPS to act against xenophobia at public hospitals and clinics, including notices to be placed in front of clinics, stating that obstructing entry to healthcare facilities is unlawful.

Jacob Zuma swaps one daughter for another as an MP. Brumelda Zuma replaces Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla. Guys, our lawmakers are chosen based on who their father is. The MK is turning Parliament into a circus 🎪

South Africa has a dignity that too many in the global north cannot conceive let alone match. Of course, no country is above critique, but I continue to be thankful and inspired that South Africa remains a beacon for our world.