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2 months

I was at Mugg & Bean at the Cape Town airport when my brother called. Weeping he told me my beloved son had died. My tears started rolling down my face and I burst out, "no no no my son has died!" Everyone froze, but not one young man who walked over to me. His eyes were filled

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Met a Zim Uber driver who belongs to what he described as a Mukando with 153 members. Each driver pays R 4000 pm to raise R 1.2 million every month. The Mukando buys two cars every week for their members. Once the cycle is completed and everyone owns a car, they plan to build

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Am I the only one detecting an increase in race baiting and attempts to create enmity between the different religions in South Africa?

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9 months

@nexta_tv Let Hungary join the Russian Federation and Ukraine join the European Union, perhaps Putin will feel less threatened by the West if this happens?

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MK is terrified of an ANC/DA coalition because there is nothing its leaders fear more than accountability.

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1 year

When a foreigner from Somalia arrives in South Africa, his fellow Somalians lend him the capital (interest free) to start a spaza shop. To repay the loan the spaza owner buys supplies from a network of suppliers controlled by Somalians. Until South Africans become as

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Attempted assassination of senior advocate Coreth Naude today. She like Cloete Murray last year was investigating high level corruption allegations. Unlike the highly rated Major Mathipi of the Hawks who was also assassinated late last year, Naude and Cloete were not from law

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1 year

The driver told me they contribute R 2000 per week and not R 4000 per month. My mistake. The lawyer in me asked him what happens if someone can't keep up with the payments. He answered that if this happens, the members help him find a new member to buy him out. Apparently

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Jacques Joubert

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9 months

The Springboks won because of the power of this man!

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The Chinese economy boomed when it set the market free. Yet here in South Africa some believe the market is the enemy.

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I paid a visit to a snake park near Plettenberg Bay a while ago. An Afrikaans family in a double cab with Gauteng registration plates arrived. Their blonde young children scurried around until they found their guide. He was black and they called him "oom." In their culture

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1 year

@BathoChief I'm deeply sorry for your loss Mr Mpholo. Only the truth can help you through this and all decent South Africans are behind you.

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1 year

I pledge my loyalty to the new South African flag, do you?

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8 months

@nexta_tv Can someone please ask Orban to join the Russian Federation and Russia to let Ukraine take Hungary's place in the EU.

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1 year

The first written text in Afrikaans was in Arabic, the first people to call themselves Afrikaners were a group of khoi, Indonesian nobility were troublesome for the Dutch colonists and exiled (not as slaves) to the Cape, Paul Kruger is a direct descendant of a freed slave's

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Such an engaging and delightful conversation showing how languages have traces of diverse roots

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1 year

Black people believe white people hate them and white people believe black people hate them. We know its not true but there are dark forces sowing hatred between us. The more apparent dark force is a faction of criminals in the ranks of the ANC and EFF. But i think we should

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Jacques Joubert

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10 months

How many South Africans know that the celebrated Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker is a direct descendant of the freed slaves, Jonker van Makassar and Rosetta van Bengalen? Her father, Abraham Jonker was so ashamed about his mixed heritage that he did his level best to bury the

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11 months

@SizweLo Thank you for sharing - these photos tell a story that we must never forget - the simple truth that apartheid was a crime

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I've never met a single Afrikaner with the surname van Riebeeck.....have you?

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11 months

@DrProudman As a mediator I tune in to the power imbalances between my clients because I intuitively know that power imbalances are an obstacle to help them through the conflict. The fake expression of anger by abusers is common place. In one case a client threw his toys out of the cot in

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1 year

@SivenNathan I didn't ask the driver that question. The only point I'm trying to make is that there is no lack of ingenuity amongst Africans.

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Jacques Joubert

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8 months

What's happening at the Masters Offices in South Africa? Are officials abusing their power to extort bribes from the beneficiaries of deceased estates? We're truly fucked if this is a widespread problem.

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5 months

The four container ships who have been transporting weapons from North Korea to Russia have been named: the Lady R, the Angara, the Maia-1 and the Maria. Remember Lady R who docked at Simonstown?

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7 months

Slap chips doused in vinegar wrapped up in white paper is a South African delicacy that'll lead me (happily) to an early grave.

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2 months

R49,157,323,233.68 was stolen from state owned enterprises during state capture. No-one has yet calculated how much has been stolen and continues to be stolen from municipalities and other government departments. Theft of this magnitude is not possible without the complicity of

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Remember Vloog Theron, the late legendary South African conman? He stole an elephant while studying at Stellenbosch University and boasted that he attended church on Sundays to steal collections. I was his counsel many moon ago in fraud charges in the Cape Town Regional Court.

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6 months

Did you know that the legendary Isie Aaron Maises (QC) who represented Nelson Mandela in the famous South African Treason Trial in 1956 was an observant Jew and deeply involved in Zionist causes? His father like many South African Jews fled Pokroy, a small village in Lithuania

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10 months

Remember the murder of Anni Dewani in Cape Town by a taxi driver, Zola Tonga in 2010? The police arrested Tonga and he made a confession implicating her husband Shrien Dewani. For context the British couple were enjoying a honeymoon in Cape Town. Shrien comes from a

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10 months

@DeanMacpherson Pappas is one of the bravest people on the planet - I hope he'll be protected against KZN assassins

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5 months

Farming is dangerous in South Africa according to the Institute of Security Studies. It's not a black white issue.

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10 months

#Let our heroes rise Dr Kaka Mohammed of Muldersdrift near Krugersdorp in Gauteng runs a community medical practice. It doesn't matter who you're speaking to, everyone sings his praises. His patients are a kaleidoscope of South Africans. The icing on the cake is his consultation

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2 months

The CNN describing the EFF as a far left party is a joke. The EFF like MKP are criminal syndicates masquerading as political parties.

South Africa elections: A guide and everything you need to know | CNN

South Africans are set to go to the polls on May 29 for what will likely be the most pivotal general election since the end of apartheid. Here’s all you need to know.

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1 year

During the early eighties my Welkom parents took a young pupil under their wing. He had been arrested by the Apartheid police and held in solitary confinement for more than a year. His detention had a devastating psychological impact on him. My parents had a dilemma. The only

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9 months

@News24 If there is a hell and a God, I pray that the hottest place be reserved for warmongers.

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@HeidiGiokos It appears that the best evidence of the rainbow nation is to be found in criminal endeavours.

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@SACricketLover1 Immigrants are the fuel of economies world wide because they work hard without looking to governments to support them.

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9 months

@MikeBarendse Must be stage the video is too perfect

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10 months

Did you know about 13.5% of the South African population (7 million people) speak Afrikaans as a first language, making it the third most common first language in the country, after Zulu and Xhosa. Of the 13.5% the majority speakers by a mile are not so-called white South

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Sample of Afrikaans words derived from slaves from Asia and exiled Indonesian nobility: baie :many baklei :to fight baadjie :jacket blatjang :chutney koejawel :guava sjambok :whip piering :saucer piesang :banana soebat :to plead bredie :stew tronk: jail spanspek:sweet melon

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Remember the murder of Anni Dewani in Cape Town by a taxi driver, Zola Tonga in 2010? Tonga was arrested and made a confession implicating her husband Shrien Dewani. For context the couple were enjoying a honeymoon in Cape Town and Shrien Dewani's family is powerful and

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@TimesLIVE @NosihleG We must learn from the women of Iran and say her name out loud. Say it until the tears run down our cheeks. She's not a mere statistic. Her name is Luyanda Cele!

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During the Apartheid years, the childless wife of a Free State farmer had a relationship with the son of one his employees who worked on the farm. She fell pregnant and when a boy was born, the farmer forgave his wife and they raised him as their own. He was raised as a white

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I was once in a tavern in Soweto and saw a portrait of Helen Suzman hanging next to portraits of Nelson Mandela and Robert Sobukwe. I asked the owner why her portrait was hanging next to such great leaders. He answered simply, "She "saw" us during apartheid." Nothing could

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1 year

@LordCastleton Hate says more about the haters than the hated.

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8 months

The voters in the Western Cape next year must nip the notion of secession from the rest of South Africa in the bud. The notion will destabilise our country like no other.

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@kalliekriel June 16 in 1976 may not have happened if we did not whitewash the fact that black farmers and their families were also victims of the scorched earth policy.

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Jacques Joubert

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10 months

@Cyberdefensecom Spot on - he's playing the card no-one saw coming, yet the one they should have seen coming.

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Jacques Joubert

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2 years

@ML_Philosophy they're unhappy in their existing relationships and testing the waters for potential new relationships - sad but true

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1 year

If "white" South Africans say they built South Africa then they should not be surprised if black resentment is willing to tear it all down. A mind shift is required that South Africa would have been a backwater if it had not been for black labour. The corruption in South Africa

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@londani_t @RenaldoGouws thank you for clarifying - I love watching them - Ngalma is just jealous

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How many people know that a wealthy white farmer David Pratt tried to assassinate Hendrik Verwoerd in 1960? At court he declared: "South Africa has to throw off the slimy snake apartheid which is gripping its throat." South Africa's history is infinitely more interesting than

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1 year

A gypsy in Paris pick pocketed me many moons ago. He stood next to me explaining how the public phones worked. I felt his hand gently lift my wallet from my jacket's pocket. He continued talking to me as if nothing happened, oblivious that I knew what was going on. I stepped

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South Africans are the victims of corruption on levels other than the raiding of the cookie jar meant to right the wrongs of apartheid. As seen from this hypothetical scenario: Joe Dlamini is a young innovator and tech entrepreneur. After years of hard work he invents a

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Does South Africa have an oversupply of intellectuals and an undersupply of practical men and women who can make things happen?

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1 year

@maphalakasib You sound to me like a "kla kous", ignorant of business practices.

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Jacques Joubert

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11 months

@e_huws @DrProudman Thanks - I ascribe to this wisdom about neutrality of the anti-apartheid cleric Desmond Tutu: "If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

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Jacques Joubert

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2 years

@Gerashchenko_en brave men - compared to the Russian cowards who refuse to stand up against Putin....

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1 year

How many isiXhosa speakers know that their beautiful language borrowed many words from Afrikaans? The word, esibhedlele for a hospital is derived from the Afrikaans word bed en lê. Literally meaning a hospital is a place where one lies on a bed for a long time. Other isiXhosa

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10 months

@PMath69 @RenaldoGouws Exactly my thoughts

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Many moons ago i heard a case in the Magistrate Court of Wynberg that explains how the criminal legal system works in South Africa. I was the magistrate and the responsibility fell on me to decide if a young man accused of burglary (housebreaking) was guilty or not. In a

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11 months

@NOELreports Any body language expert will tell you that this is not man who is confident about victory.....

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Jacques Joubert

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2 years

@AdamParkhomenko Wow - he floats ideas and all you can come up with his to insult him from behind the safety of your keyboard...ask the Ukrainian army how they would have fared without Starlink...

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1 year

@ma_gxara Cynical voices are valid and I asked the driver how they ensure that someone who received his car, continues paying. His answer was that in some cases the driver who receives his car has to hand over the papers to the member who is next in line to receive a car. He also said

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News report: "Meghan Cremer, 29, a show jumper and manager at a bakery, who lived on a farm in Philippi, was murdered on Saturday, August 3, 2019. She was strangled, beaten on the head and blue ribbons were tied around her neck and hands. A few days after her murder, Jeremy

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Who is the largest institutional investor in South Africa controlling over 10% of the market capitalisation of the JSE? Rupert and the Stellenbosch mafia? Oppenheimer and the Jewish mafia? Sorry to disappoint it happens to be the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) wholly

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A lawyer friend tells me that he can no longer in good conscience advise his clients to venture to court in civil cases because the magistrates courts have become so dysfunctional. These are the courts in which less well heeled people put their trust in. If one removes the

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I trained a black doctor as a mediator who told me that he had to attend to an elderly white patient soon after the liberation from Apartheid. The patient was being observed in hospital for a possible heart attack and was fast asleep in his bed. When the patient opened his eyes

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10 months

The story about South Africa is incomplete without South African Indians. The majority are descended from indentured labourers who were brought to South Africa by the British colonial authorities in the mid-19th century. They were brought to work on the sugar plantations but as

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Photograph of my Oupa and Ouma during the early eighties in the Friend newspaper. My Oupa's father was a British soldier and his mother a Boer woman. During the war his mother hid Boer soldiers in a well when they were chased by English soldiers and English soldiers when they

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1 year

@ThuliMadonsela3 I don't want to jump to our president's defence but one must be dull-witted not to appreciate how difficult it is to govern our country,

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5 months

Let's be clear Navalny was Russia's Nelson Mandela. The Putin regime is more evil than the apartheid regime.

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⚡️ In Georgia, Russians marched in a rally over Navalny's death

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@SaneleW2 @DasenThathiah 100% No mother abandons their child lightly. She likely needs help not prison.

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@Newzroom405 We need more judges like judge Mokgoatlheng. The spectacle of aimless cross-examination aimed to impress the public must be addressed by the judiciary.

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"A Hundred Years From Now by Jeremy Gordin. A hundred years from now, who will be here to say? Who'll know about my life, or even care I passed this away? The things I thought so important, Will have long since passed away My dreams and fears and struggles, Will mean nothing

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The truth that Apartheid was a crime against humanity doesn't diminish the truth that our country is in the grip of an existential corruption emergency. The truth that our country is in the grip of an existential corruption emergency doesn't diminish the truth that Apartheid was

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The US ambassador has not apologised for being wrong about his assertion that South Africa exported arms to Russia. He apologised for breaking diplomatic protocol. Russia has since the end of last year started to source weapons from Iran and North Korea. Because it was

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@mehdirhasan While Muslims and Jews are at it each others' throats, their common enemy of white supremacists is biding its time in the shadows.

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@CyrilRamaphosa You are in bed with the EU's arch enemy Vladimir Putin, what do you expect?

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Life altering experience in what it means to trust real power....

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Travellers in South Africa are advised to used registered taxi services, Uber or Bolt at our airports. I had a nasty experience with a driver on Sunday who tried to extort an additional fare from me, failing which he would drop me off in the middle of nowhere at night!

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A man who attempted a coup out of desperation to stay in power is not beyond staging his own attempted assassination to regain power.

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5 months

@News24 @Classicswag99 @City_Press I may be wrong but the judge may have made an ironic statement as the case dealt with black empowerment.

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Soon after the first Boer War, Eugene Marais in 1883 came across the bones of a dead English soldier while hunting. He buried the bones and wrote, "The Soldier's Grave." His earlier poems were written in English. Marais was 12 years old when he wrote this poem. Few wrote in

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@anneapplebaum “It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain.

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@NOELreports Why do Hungary and Serbia not just join the Russian Federation?

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Meet doctor Kar Teoh, Trauma Orthopedic Surgeon. Studied in Edinburg UK. He was an award winning surgeon in foot and ankle surgery. He was murdered in front of his wife during the taxi violence. An asset to humanity lost forever.

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Does South Africa in the light of its general legal obligation to prevent genocide support Ukraine's case in the ICJ against Russia?

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Nothing unexpected from South Africa today and I'm interested to hear Israel's rebuttal tomorrow. Israel is likely to argue that Hamas has the genocidal intention to wipe Israelis from the face of the planet. It's a pity that Hamas is not before the ICJ to explain its

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@Gerashchenko_en The Russians have to pass through the stages of loss: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance

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If you want to know more about the target of Coreth Naude's investigation:

Shauwn Mkhize: A clean sheet? | Carte Blanche | M-Net

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟭 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.Shauwn Mkhize is a flamboyant, high-flying businesswoman and soccer boss fr...

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@Am_Blujay Likely to an early grave - foot soldiers like him are expendable - I'd sleep with one eye open if I were him

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The Afrikaans poet Eugene Marais was profoundly influenced by what he described as the pure poetry of the local San, Nama, Khoi and the Herero. He collected a large store of African folklore in Waterberg from an elderly San storyteller, Ou Hendrick. Confronted by reverend A.J.

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@Am_Blujay when the diamonds buried by colonialism, apartheid and state capture shine, the stars will dim their lights out of respect!

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How much more pain can the Russian people endure before they turn on Putin hiding in his bunker? How much more pain can the Palestinians endure before they turn on Hamas hiding in their tunnels?

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This was Suzman's response to a Nationalist member of parliament who asked her what the Jews have done for Africa: “You say your people brought the Bible over the mountains and ask what mine did. They wrote it, my dear …”

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Our pro Kremlin government is silent about the death of Navalny, the Nelson Mandela of Russia. Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu must be turning in their graves.

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I recently visited a high end security estate in Gauteng and wearing Cape Town glasses I thought so this is where rich white folk have taken refuge. I was wrong, the majority of residents were black folk.

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A few years ago the SAPS anti-stock theft unit in Ladysmith from the cleaner all the way up the station commander were, wait for it.... Arrested for stock theft, lock stock and barrel.

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