Vanessa Govender @Govender_V Twitter profile

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4 years

@SihleBolani_ @PresidencyZA Hi @PresidencyZA I am an award winning tv journalist @ enca I was physically and sexually abused by a radio Dj @lotusfm between 1999 and 2005 while at the #SABC . There are ppl in the industry who have been complicit & protected this man.

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@SihleBolani_ @PresidencyZA @Lotusfm There were so many in the SABC who knew and did nothing....... I had resources. Yet I was terrified to draw attention.... this was me from #sabc and #eNCA the world at my feet and I stil couldn’t speak. # #domesticviolence

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@nombonisogasa @MmusiMaimane As a survivor I am with @MmusiMaimane ✊🏾 I think it’s more the significance of the sentiment than actually wanting to box #mampintsha When men do stand up let’s not castigate them. When men speak to abusers in the language they understand I have no objection! #BabesWodumo

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I lost count of the times I went back despite not even loving him. I just never got it! His tears, his apologies, his gifts were all very calculated. They were not acts of love but rather the work of a master manipulator. I see that now!

Rosie Motene- Pan African Queer feminist! 🏳️‍🌈

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5 years

My love and strength still goes out to @BABESWODUMO ! I do not agree with her choice but I have to respect her decision to go back to her abuser. I still believe her, I still know that she’s a victim who has been manipulated by so many for so many years.

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@MbalulaFikile Hawu Askies Mr Fokkol 😂😂😂😂 shem! Never mind I am sure ubaba @CyrilRamaphosa can create a new portfolio Minister of Social Media..... just for you! #CabinetReshuffle #Ramaphosa #FIKILEMBALULA

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5 years

Don’t tell my husband but I invited this incredible author and man to join a bunch of us girls for drinks @ZakesMda ❤️❤️❤️ he was protesting but I think my powers of persuasion worked 🤔😎 #articulateAfrica #authors #storytelling

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8 years

Durban's darling #durbanbaby #siwaphiwe ... no clue in the world the stress she has put us all through 😍 so so glad she is safe!

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@cogatonline Lies

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7 years

We can't have #MduduziManana in charge of educating young minds when he himself needs schooling on how 2 treat women! #MduduziMananaIsTrash

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@Hector_Maoto Ps: I’m thinking of a 4th child .... maybe they can take out my heart this time seeing as I’m all out of kidneys 🤓

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7 years

@ANCDSGDuarte dear God! You have sold your soul & just spat on the graves of #Madiba #Kathrada #Sisulu #Tambo with this bull!

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@AvivaKlompas I’m not sure but I don’t think Twitter/X existed back then. But had something like social media existed a I’m pretty sure those us speaking out against genocide now if we around back then would be screaming out against the Nazis & their genocide against the Jews!

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6 years

Once upon a time We would have been a crime #freedom2018 #Freedom

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4 months

@AviMayer What prompted this Intifada?

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4 months

@bevthrills Most South Africans know life under apartheid if not ourselves directly then our parents & grandparents ….my personal feelings about @MYANC aside, I have zero objection to them aligning themselves to the Palestinian struggle for freedom. And I’m sure I’m not the only one ✌🏾

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5 years

Because of him I learned how a man should treat a woman Because of him I learned that love should never leave scars and bruises Because of him I have learned to live again Happy 50th Birthday to the man who helps me mend everyday ❤️🥳😍 #birthday #birthdayboy

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6 years

My mom only competed her std 6 is now 74 completed my book #BeatenButNotBroken in a day. She sobbed bitterly. She said u took this out of u & put in2 a book it’s time 2 live in the now. Then she asked “u still not smoking r u?Haaai Indian mommies ❤️❤️😂✊🏾she is my pillar!

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@haaretzcom This lady also, but from Israelis! seems they didn’t like that she was treated humanely and well. Or that she spoke about it truthfully too!

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@DocumentIsrael They have a school and can attend school! Gaza’s children if not blown up and dead definitely don’t have this luxury!

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@Gettingcontext You have gathered what so many are thinking and feeling and sometimes struggle to find the words for and put it together so powerfully and beautifully!

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5 years

it’s official I am now a best selling author 🙏🏽 The 6th reprint of #BeatenButNotBroken a #memoir of #genderviolence by my ex partner a former @Lotusfm Dj, how so many at #sabc looked the other way & the rise of a woman he all but destroyed!

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I too believe @BABESWODUMO my sister I hope you know there are those of us who have walked before you..... when you are ready we will be waiting ✊🏾✊🏾❤️❤️ it is our duty to never stop helping. Never stop listening.

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8 years

@sanderson1611 by the way we in SA feel sorry for you. Never before have we come so close to encountering such an abomination

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7 years

Compadres @eNCA @AnnikaLarsen1 and @karynmaughan are really exceptional. #ZumaRecall

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7 years

@gwalax shut down those hostels they relics of apartheid era & currently breeding ground for criminals & crime! #TaxiRape

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@HenMazzig @Wikipedia Splitting hairs over words when children are being slaughtered this very second!

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6 years

The night before #BeatenButNotBroken @ThabisoTema @peterndoro @ShahanR @karynmaughan My voice gets louder my resolve gets stronger.... thank you all for your support and for standing with me! @JacanaMedia #BookLaunch @LoveBooksJozi

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@prem_thakker This is their world they have every right to demand they inherit a just and equal one

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8 years

#anc says #zuma apologized. sorry doesn't cut it not when millions go hungry!

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@jacksonhinklle @Israel These guys?

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4 months

@HowardFeldman @MZANSIISRAEL Both you and Bafana should book a room! Preferably in Isreal! I won’t speak for the rest but can safely assume I’m not the only one who abhors Isreal and what they are doing! You trying to normalise the slaughter of children Howie with your morally bankrupt propaganda!

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6 years

Here it is finally in my hands #BeatenButNotBroken this book that has taken everything I have. It has been both my curse and my salvation. For more than a decade this story has been waiting ... patiently to be written and to be read!

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7 years

@MbalulaFikile Is that the number of criminal cases you have cracked? Or the number of criminals you have arrested and convicted?

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3 months

@HenMazzig Can you please clarify this statement of yours “ we saw Israeli girls being raped in captivity “

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4 years

@bonglez This is an epidemic! It is a crisis that came long before CoViD which requires EVERY single law abiding South African to make it their duty to Get Involved!!!!! We work among these filth, they live in our communities, they are our family, they are our friends & we protect them!

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7 years

@__MimiOliphant @MbalulaFikile Tell everyone. Someone told me the best place to hide is in the light. Lay a criminal charge too. Let his family and friends know. Let everyone know!

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@SihleBolani_ @PresidencyZA Shall I tell you what totally turns my stomach inside out : #sabc hired this man twice despite management knowing what he was doing to me! And the pit bulls of the airways who knew did absolutely nothing so much so @sabc hired him again!

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@YaariCohen @piersmorgan And the only people who will buy this are the people cheering for the incineration of children because you know the hostages! The rest of the world not so much ✌🏾

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@jennineak Happy birthday Omar!!!! A long healthy happy life for you dear child!

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8 months

@NontandoMt @karlowitchy This is gaslighting not just the victim but everyone who has ever endured hate! People must think of their families and jobs first before they go spew their hate and prejudice! Not our job to think about their families it is their own!

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5 years

And Until you comprehend the deep and profound psychological brainwashing of a victim You can never appreciate why we go back. Why we stay. Some times some of us eventually decide we have had enough. Sometimes it’s a quiet realization. Sometimes we never make it out alive!

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@AvivaKlompas In a surprise to nobody indeed that @IDF would “discover” a tunnel shaft in a child’s immaculate bedroom in the middle of all the destruction and decimation in Gaza. #IsraeliButchers

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@petersavodnik Definitely a pattern

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7 months

@Michael_L130 @DrLoupis Only 30 thousand?!!!! Oh wow!!! You are some kind of special!

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@EylonALevy She had a very different story to tell!

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@EitanChitayat @AnnieLennox It’s become abundantly clear it is no longer about the hostages. They are being used to justify the mass slaughter of civilians & children. The Palestinian suffering & oppression has been ongoing for decades. October 7th is a consequence of this #IsraelCrimes it’s a vicious cycle

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@bharley71 @VividProwess There was peace before October 7th? For who exactly?

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Periodic reminder: there was no ceasefire on October 6th

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@toddrichman @Starbucks You should have shown them this … just for context purposes!

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@MorHogeg The world was waiting for this. Truth be told We were expecting it 🙄🤭

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4 months

@ACTBrigitte You are asking the Native Americans to leave the USA? ???? 😳😵‍💫 if anyone should be leaving it’s you!

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@sanderson1611 you know in my deepest of hearts I don't believe that you actually believe half the shit you spew out! You just a lost sheep👹

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5 years

Every single human being with a conscience should not just be alarmed by what #Brunei is doing to #gay people but outraged. It is an indictment on our race that people are being persecuted for who they love on our watch!

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6 years

If you driving drunk, speeding or flouting some road rule; you are a bloody killer! No two ways about that! There are families forever altered because of some asshole who thinks they an exception! #ArriveAlive what will it take for you to change?! #RoadSafety

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@HowardFeldman Don’t you ever get tired of playing the victim? Any criticism any opinion any analysis is always equated to antisemitism! It must be exhausting. Grow a pair Howie! You can advocate for killing children I’m sure you can take a little criticism…. Unlike Isreal It won’t kill you

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@Ostrov_A Repeat after me: Isreal is deliberately starving people. Isreal is deliberately starving people. Isreal is deliberately starving people. #gaza #Gaza_Holocaust #Rafah #RafahUnderAttack ‌ #famine #GenocideBylsrael

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3 months

@AviMayer Investigations by @IDF into @IDF enough said!

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6 years

Haibo! I woke up in the middle of the night to find a cat sitting on my bed! I don’t even own a #cat 😰😰😰

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5 years

In memory of my father! Death has left me constantly searching and yearning.... anchoring a man who has long turned to dust and ingraining him on my skin and in my soul! One day our particles will unite somewhere in this universe and I will never let go dad! #fatherdaughter

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@Hector_Maoto I’m still alive and happy after three C sections... guess they took all 3 of my kidneys it’s okay though ... I’m still here 😬🙄

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@Intifada_42 @Ostrov_A I call bull! Anyone whose anyone knows Am Isreali Chai is today’s version of Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer 🤭✌🏾🍉

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@LWaler I would love to live in a world where #israel didn’t incinerate and exterminate children and civilians! A world were there were no resistance fighters because it would mean equality and freedom! I would love to live in this fantasy world. But I don’t. What are ppl meant to do?

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@ApostateProphet And on cue !

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@AvivaKlompas Also we can’t forget this!

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@i24NEWS_EN Nice they investigating themselves! I’m sure they will find themselves not guilty of having done anything wrong.

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@Govender_V

5 years

Would never have been possible if it were not for @JacanaMedia and you @NGoetham that genius of a woman Joey Kok and the so many women who held my hand along the way @Debora_Patta @EmmaSadleir @neilwem this is more than I could ever ask for ✊🏾❤️🙏🏽

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So very proud of you @Govender_V for making the @SundayTimesZA #longlist for the Alan Paton Award! I recall the hard work it took to bring your memoir to the world. You deserve every accolade for being bold, brave and willing to tell YOUR story.

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@leekern13 So Isreal are the gatekeepers of democracy and human rights?

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@Govender_V

5 years

My abuser inflicted the greatest trauma. He also provided the greatest comfort..... when you have no self esteem/confidence then you are an easy target for these kind of men. It was easier to slip back to that roller coaster relationship. Who else could love me like he did?

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@HenryFrancisFy1 I have actually seen white, Indian and coloured people do this …. So not sure why you isolated one group 😵‍💫

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@Trevornoah You guys look good together 😬

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@Govender_V

7 years

#BlackFirstLandFirst clearly didn't get the memo about Not taking Nyaope before going on protest #Zumamarch #GuptaCompound #SaveSAmarch

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There is nothing more dangerous than a woman who seeks no validation Nothing more fearsome than she who knows the monster by its name Nothing more dangerous than she who lays her truth bare for the world to know #BeatenButNotBroken #YouDigMe #domesticViolenceSurvivor

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unless #MduduziManana is behind bars right now we don't want to hear ur PR bull crap about priority @MbalulaFikile please & thank u

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@toddrichman @MichaelRapaport @Israel If this is what’s considered inspiration then there is no hope 🥴

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5 years

In and out in less than 5 minutes! Made my mark #VOTE19 @IECSouthAfrica Thank you ✊🏾

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@DrewPavlou Let’s not be so facile to forget the ongoing occupation and oppression of an entire population which is ultimately to blame! Sooner or later people get tired of being victims!

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Our mixed family 😍❤️ We live what we preach! We preach what we practice! #FamilyIsLove #Family

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@Govender_V

7 years

& how do we deal with taxi drivers who rape and rob? This culture of thuggery in SA among SOME men across the races is THE problem! #TaxiRape

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Man involved in Spur altercation advised to undergo anger management

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3 years

My other half @DavidWTedder got the first of his vaccine today! my mom &sisters (frontline doctors) my in laws all fully vaccinated!! So far my 5G reception hasn’t improved! Neither has Bill Gates been in touch! Our metal products safe but @DavidWTedder is still quite magnetic

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And in other news @ANN7tv selective outrage 😂😂😂 #AntiZumaMarches call it what it is comrades call it what it is! #SaveSouthAfrica

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5 years

The silence of the bush fills my ears Caressed by the sounds of birds The sultry heat that cascades the air and my skin The smell of the soil and animals fills my nose This is my heaven on earth! Aah my soul is at ease @LatestKruger #wildlife

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When men of integrity and power add their voice to the war waged on gender based violence.... we stand taller, we stand stronger, we stand resolute. #BookReview from a retired high court judge #BeatenButNotBroken #DomesticViolence requires good men to stand up & speak out!

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I have had my #DNA tested to learn more about where I come from. So I’m 92.8 % South Asian (no surprises there) but then it gets very interesting... turns out I have a little Japanese (1%) in me with also some Melanesian in the mix. #ancestory #WhereDoIComeFrom

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@r0timi_jr @Amy_beke 😂😂😂 show us your leg with date and time reference too and ideally your face in the pic too so we know 😬

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@ShaiDavidai Don’t you have lectures to conduct or something?

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@RedTrotsky @DrChrisParry @PaulHar10765609 Touche’

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We didn’t come here to dala We came to show dem what we can do with #Masala #potjiekos #DurbanCurry #MasalaMafia

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For every little child in the Indian community who was shamed & shunned & told you are not pretty enough or good enough because you are too dark #colorism For all of us who were made to feel ugly who were teased and taunted for the shade of our skin This is #XiaNarainForMissSA

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I am in great company here ❤️ @Sage_Of_Absurd @imanrappetti @Trevornoah #BeatenButNotBroken

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Firstly I hit stop the moment I heard the word. Don’t have data to waste on racist trash #KessieNair secondly he does not speak for me or anyone I know & thirdly my President @CyrilRamaphosa Because YOU are my President I am deeply ashamed & I am sorry! #NotInMyName #NoToRacism

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Dear #Mampintsha you were so brave to beat up your girlfriend #BabesWodumo sometimes I’v heard in the presence of others. You sure showed ‘em all “whose the man” hey? Funny thing though such a big brave “MAN” like yourself is now hiding like a low life coward!!

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@HowardFeldman Also I don’t want to make assumptions but you look like someone with access to good health care & a job. So this collective We is rather opportunistic suddenly caring about the masses 🙄

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@mishtal Very antisemitic indeed!

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7 years

Us Indian people all have that one older relative who can cut us down to size with even just a look. Uncle #PravinGordhan took it up a notch. #AnojSingh never stood a chance Shem 😁 #CountryDuty

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ANC MP Pravin Gordhan has accused former Eskom CFO Anoj Singh of dodging questions at the #EskomInquiry . Courtesy #DStv403

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@AvivaKlompas @WHO Oh good grief!!! Can you come up with something a little more concrete and convincing??? You do realise right that even me far far far away can post some pics and claim all sorts of things… this hospital was pounded weeks ago and this is what you found weeks later intact???

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My Marilyn Monroe moment (Well kind of sort of maybe )

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