asked my boyfriend if he thinks the DA could fill up FNB stadium and his response was “no the only time a DA supporter would go to FNB stadium would be to drop off their kids for a Justin Bieber concert”
its funny that its always “why are people not protesting about load-shedding and unemployment” “why are people not more outraged” until the EFF organises a national shutdown and then its “we cannot tolerate such lawlessness”
literally no white person should be telling the black people of this country that the way they choose to react to the death of FW de Klerk is inappropriate
for who must we vote??
tired of this narrative of “we must get the ANC out” without any thought or care for who get voted in
the ANC is awful but its not like the other options are much better. and there are a lot of options that are actually far worse
at this point cyril needs to make vaccines mandatory for big events and gatherings
like you cannot be anti-vaccine and also expect to be jolling every weekend. pick your struggle
the casual cruelty that so many people display when the proudly proclaim they will fire their domestic workers rather than give them an increase in line with minimum wage
it is disgusting
the people that are ecstatic about no longer having to wear masks are just so weird to me
its such a minor thing to wear a mask and yet there are people celebrating not having to wear them like they won the lottery
how was wearing a mask the biggest inconvenience in your life
he realised he cannot get away with literally saying slurs so started being more subtle and says things in a way where he can maintain deniability but the audience he is speaking to knows exactly what he means
Did Renaldo Gouws say all of this stuff a really long time ago? Yes. Does it change anything? No. He's only resorted to SUBTLE racism in his later years because he became a public official. But I promise you, that level of racism and bigotry doesn't just go away. Not a chance.
@anna_swan_001
do you have a link to the full interview by any chance? and when was this from?
the way gareth cliff speaks over her and says he does not care about the racism she experiences is despicable by the way.
@MosaSediane1
@Anele
@947
I'd like to know if
@947
are ok with employing someone who openly praises a man who incites violence against a minority ethnic group.
If they are, then I'd like them to remove any of my music from their station.
sure the DA might be more diverse but in a country that is 80% black the ANC is more representative
most people do not care about or want the DAs token diversity they want representative diversity and the DA fails to give them that
what is with this narrative in South African politics that if you are critical of the DA then you must be pro ANC or EFF?
there are literally hundreds of parties in SA and it is very possible to be critical of multiple parties at the same time
gonna take this moment to remind everyone that leon schuster profited off black face and instead of apologising said he was sorry he could not make another black face movie
and also he is just not funny
The new trailer for 'Mr. Bones 3, Son of Bones', has just released featuring the beloved comedy pair Leon Schuster and Alfred “Shorty” Ntombela.
Mr. Bones 3 will be on the Ster-Kinekor big SKreen from 15 April 2022.
#DoMoviesRight
#HelloBigScreen
#SterKinekor
the wild thing is that steenhuisen could have made many valid critiques of this program but instead decided to bring up PEP (when the uniforms were not purchased there) and therefore create a particular connotation with regards to class (and therefore race because this is SA)
“What did Panyaza Lesufi do? He took your tax money to buy ill-fitting PEP Stores uniforms for untrained cadres and pretended that they were “crime wardens.” What kind of person pulls a drunkard out of a shebeen, gives him a uniform and a weapon, and then unleashes them onto a
20k people have liked a video on tiktok in which the creator quotes PW botha and confirms in the comments that he believes the PW was right when he said black people cannot govern themselves
yet people say racism is not a problem in SA
the apartheid propaganda runs deep
if you are against any form of vaccine mandates and are also against continuing lockdowns then what exactly is your proposed way of dealing with this pandemic?
because I agree we cannot handle more lockdowns but if people are not getting vaccinated then what else can we do?
seeing people who have never once spoken about what has been happening in palestine posting in support of israel now because “they care so deeply about the loss of life and violence” is extremely frustrating
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Israel's efforts against Hamas's reign of terror: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
asked mid journey AI to create a South African city ruled by the DA. this is what it gave me
would call it self-aware but I actually know what that word means…
gonna be taking a two week break from twitter as I leave tonight to go to switzerland and compete at the world pole and aerial sports championships
if you wanna keep updated on my travels and the competition then follow me on instagram as I will be posting a lot there
and where is the evidence to back up this fact that the apartheid state was incredibly capable??
because I have not seen that evident but what I have seen is evidence that the apartheid state was incredibly inefficient failing state that ultimately collapsed
Fact: Apartheid was a crime against humanity.
Also a fact: the Apartheid state machinery was incredibly capable.
BOTH OF THOSE THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE.
Don’t be so keen to be offended that you miss blatant truths.
officially homeowners and living together in our first apartment
beyond grateful that we have been so lucky to be able to get to this position and so excited to start this new chapter in our lives
really interesting that I am constantly getting comments about how much safer the country was during apartheid and yet the murder rate halved between 1994 and 2012
and by interesting I mean a blatant display of white supremacy and racism
really nice of him to post this without credit. here is the original post and the context is me responding to blatant dishonesty and racism in my comments section
maybe she “finds apartheid in everything” because the legacy of apartheid touches almost every aspect of our society
green public spaces are unequally distributed in large part due to the legacy of apartheid
this information is literally one google search away
She definitely is the "Finds Apartheid in Everything" type of person. This is the same person that not even a week ago said I had crude and simplistic views... well... the tweet below demonstrates exactly that from her.
how do those extra few minutes of the speech change the fact that john likened the DA to the NP and implied the the election in which the NP came to power was legitimate and democratic?
it literally makes no difference to the points I am raising
Will
@KaitlinRawson
apologies for misleading people and also for falling for a 24 second clip after she clearly didn’t bother to watch the entire 23 min long speech? I highly doubt it, but this is what happens when your bias and hatred is on full display.
my video about cyril getting covid has been up for a couple of hours now and I have not seen a single anti-vaxer in the comments section yet asking why he got covid if he is vaccinated or saying the vaccines do not work
it feels like a christmas miracle
do people not realise that immigration without colonialism and oppression is possible??
there is no reason it had to be violent
do not thank van riebeeck for being the reason you are here rather condemn him for giving white people in africa such a shameful history
If not for Jan van Riebeeck arriving here 370 years ago I would not be in the most beautiful country in the world. So thank you to Jan and my french heritage who decided to find a home in beautiful South Africa. I am African, I was born here and I will die here.
or - hear me out - how about instead of working police officers to death we actually deal with the poverty and inequality that is the root cause of most crime
"There will be no more weekends off for police officers," said Police Minister Bheki Cele. It's part of his hardline solution to combat crime in gang-ridden areas in the Western Cape. |
@MarvinCharles_
@nickymccain
healthcare is a human right
there are people desperate enough to leave their counties and come to SA public hospitals. these are people who are suffering and who are in need of help
it is heartless to turn them away & call them illegal simply because of where they were born
i wish political ideologies courses were compulsory at high school level because the way so many people throw terms around without knowing what they mean makes it really difficult to discuss these topics
do they even want people to vote for them at this point
like why would the leader of a party that already has a reputation for being a party of and for white people compare that party to the NP in any capacity
surely they would think through the repercussions & connotations
“Democrats, we have the privilege and massive responsibility to be the first party in South Africa in 75 years to go from opposition into a leading role in government. And our party has not experienced this since the National Party won its's first election.” - John Steenhuisen.
she says this as if she didn’t go on his YT channel and make the claim that there is a mission to “bring down white heterosexual males” and saying there has been enough time to move past “colonialism and this and that”
so
@RenaldoGouws
thinks that 99% of men have never committed GBV and that these men should be praised for not being rapists and not committing assault
this kind of thinking is exactly why rape culture is so normalised in SA
maybe the fact that we never see the DA condemning acts of racism while other parties do makes us believe that the DA would not condemn acts of racism
and the fact that party members regularly engage in whataboutism whenever there is a racist incident certainly does not help
@djwitaphd
What makes you believe the DA wouldn't condemn acts of racism? Do you really even have to ask such a stupid question? What do you think the DA stands for?
@News24
this is incredibly irresponsible journalism. paraphrasing in a way that changes the meaning
the actual statement while claiming the attacks are unsurprising does not state that they were justified
@ZintleMahlati
this is not an accurate representation of the statement
has anyone who is currently throwing a fit about unisex bathrooms ever spoken out against the family bathrooms you find in some malls that are *surprise surprise* unisex
or are unisex bathrooms only an issue when the point is to be inclusive to transgender people
on the “poor people should not have kids” conversation
the vast majority of people have kids for incredibly selfish reasons and struggle to act in the best interests of their kids
this is something that happens regardless of class
🔴 GREEDY BANYANA BANYANA PICKPOCKET SA🔴
The greedy Banyana Banyana players are demanding ridiculous, silly amounts
For being in World Cup, each player demands:
● R400 000 for wearing a 🇿🇦 jersey.
● R800 000 : last 16
● R1.6m : 1/4 finals
● R2m : semis
● R3.5m : finals
does the DA really think that antagonising people on twitter is an effective method of swaying voters to their side? like if you cannot deal with disagreement and criticism on twitter maybe politics is not the right field for you
you would swear the people complaining about the minimum wage increase for domestic workers do not know that part time work is a thing that exists
if you cannot afford someone full time anymore due to the increase then reduce their hours to what you can afford
this chart is not the reason inequality is high it is a reflection of the inequality caused by apartheid & racism has everything to do with it
like engage your brain for once and think why white people are so much more likely to get a bachelors degree
Somebody posted this. PLEASE have a look.
If all that’s here is true, then why are people shocked by the inequality between blacks and whites in South Africa?
This chart is one of the major explanations why inequality is high; racism has very little to do with it.
SA ended the competition with two gold medals and one silver which is an impressive feat considering that our team only consisted of 11 people
additionally we had many athletes placing in the top 10. even in super competitive categories SA is there fighting at the front
for those of you who missed
@NatashaMazzone2
embarrassing twitter meltdown before she deleted her account I have done a summary of the whole debacle on my tiktok account.
how did I miss that this incident happened in a unisex bathroom?? oh wait it did not. it happened in a sex segregated bathroom.
there is no evidence that unisex bathrooms make it easier for GBV to happen but they do reduce the incidence of transphobic violence
Let's not make it easier for GBV to happen. We live in a country where we don't have the luxury of having things like unisex bathrooms at schools. If you want a reason as to why a unisex bathroom would be a bad idea then here is one...
when will people realise the liberal and leftist do not mean the same thing??
and that most liberals (especially the neoclassical kind) are closer to conservatives than they are to most leftists
like I hate what the american use of the word liberal has done
so totally disingenuous of you to present this departure as an isolated event when it is the latest in a growing list of significant departures of high-profile black politicians from the party
maybe you do not see a crisis but others do and optics is everything in politics
1/2 So totally disingenuous for the Star and other so-called "Independent Newspapers" to present Bongani Baloyi's decision to leave politics for the private sector as a crisis for the DA. Scores of politicians have done that from every conceivable party for decades..
so I watched that interview that Helen Zillow did with Renaldo and there were some very interesting clips that I would like to share with everyone
there are also video versions of this thread on my tiktok
we also had the first ever Nigerian and first ever black man to compete at IPSF worlds as an honorary member of our team and he ended up placing 3rd in his category
this is huge for representation and growing our sport which I am so passionate about
really excited to share I am partnering with
@MarieStopes_SA
to tell you about the
#freeabortionpill
campaign!
contact them on their toll-free number (0800 11 77 85) to book a consultation with one of their qualified nurses
nah I have too many apartheid defenders and glorifiers in my tiktok comments right now and it is fucking exhausting
like the lack of comprehension is real with them
honestly not sure how many more times I can explain the exact same thing over again without losing it
not someone in my comments trying to tell me that apartheid SA was a functioning state and that we are currently living in a failed state
racism really makes people stupid hey
like one of those two actually collapsed and spoiler alert it was the apartheid regime
the r word is a slur
it is extremely offensive to disabled people and people with developmental disorders
please do not use it or any of its derivatives
take it out of your vocabulary
this obsession with how much money you think I have and who pays for various things in my life is really getting weird at this point
but anything to deflect from the fact that the leader of your party does not have a basic understanding of political ideologies
Unfortunately, not everyone can get their studies sponsored by their daddy or a rich family member. You would know this if you didn't have such a privileged life. Most of us have to work for a living. We can't sit around waiting for mommy or daddy to flick out the credit card.
honestly I think you have to be delusional to live in SA and think that 99% of men are not rapists and abusers
there were 9500 rapes between july and september
between 28% - 30% of men have admitted to rape
1 in 5 partnered women have experienced physical violence by a partner
how close to a circle is the venn diagram of people who state that landlords should be able to discriminate against prospective tenants because “they should have the freedom to choose” and people who think that it is “unfair” that nandos is dropping their sponsorship of GC
we should not have to coerce men into supporting basic human fucking rights by praising them for doing nothing
and if you are the type of man who requires praise first before standing up for human rights then yes you are trash
this is how you know the people who complain about BEE have no idea what they are talking about
because every single one of these points was already in the employment equity act. nothing has been changed at all.
Guys, you really need to read this settlement.
It's unbelievable -
@solidariteit
really just completely erased the employment equity framework in effect.
ugh feeling super rough right now. it feels like nothing I do is good enough and what I do actually do is pointless. and ngl the hate comments and criticisms are starting to get to me a bit . it sucks because the positive stuff is out there but the negative is drowning it out rn
it is officially that stage in the semester where I am just submitting essays 100s of words under word count and without proofreading them and hoping for the best
way to announce that you are hanging out in the wrong circles buddy
if the people around you are not outraged then surround yourself with better people
helen are you cooked in the head for real??
strong state owned entities that only provided for a minority of the population
a state capable of inflicting violence and oppression on the majority of people in the country
okay so after finally catching up on the testimony from the
#EFFvsAfriforum
case I noticed something interesting
it seems that afriforum wants us to take the song literally - but only when it suits them
julius is vibing knowing that no one can form a majority government in JHB without the EFF and that the other opposition parties are airing their dirty coalition laundry on twitter for everyone to see
in 2 months I will be in switerland competing at the world pole & aerial sports championships
pole sports is a niche but growing sport & I am trying to help it grow
if anyone works in or has contacts in the media please reach out to me I am trying to share more about what we do