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@geordinhl What about a foreign army training civilian police without national approval?

No one is above the law! Bringing law and order to South Africa must be our top priority. Gun violence is out of control in SA, so any illegal firearms crime should be taken extremely seriously. I welcome the sentencing of Julius Malema. This is how we must restore faith in our criminal justice system ✅

How is this case going?!

[BREAKING] EFF leader Julius Malema gets five years direct imprisonment. More details to follow. Tune in to #eNCA, channel #DStv403

@RamaboduObakeng Media houses have always sought perspective from everyone unless the EFF has since become elitist.

The desperation, they even interviewing amaphara about CIC Julius Malema and taking their views seriously.

Malema is in deep trouble. Judge states that because the firing of the gun was planned beforehand, Malema decided to break the law, and then broke the law. Its looking like jail time, subject to Malema taking the case on appeal to a higher court

@MDNnewss Except that you weren't "speaking truth to power," you were illegally discharging a firearm which you were unlicensed to possess.

“They can imprison me, but they can never imprison my ideas,” says Julius Malema.

🇪🇸 Spain’s Left-wing government will give legal residency rights to at least half a million migrants under a new amnesty law. Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, said the amnesty was an act of justice but also of necessity, to continue Spain’s strong economic growth telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Taiwan overtook the UK in stock market value — making it the world's seventh largest — as tech firms regained favor. Read more: bloom.bg/4tklyc8 📷️: An Rong Xu/Bloomberg

@SABCNews What's your position on this @geordinhl ?

WATCH | The City of Cape Town MMC of Safety and Security, JP Smith, has described the uproar over a group of United States Marine Corps members training with Metro Police as a fake outrage. He adds that he doesn't believe it requires DIRCO involvement.

@mazwiblose2 There goes your peanut brain in full display.

President Malema to you, sir. Thank you.

About 250 missing after overcrowded migrant boat sinks bbc.in/4mDiGok

Read the latest our @News24 Hunted investigation tomorrow morning. Mpho Mafole’s work continues. @SikonathiM

We’re watching our country being invaded in real time whilst our government folds its arms! We’ve been calling for law enforcement to do something about these unpatriotic, unrelenting & opportunistic people! One day, very soon, we will wake up to the official Republic of Cape Town! The US Marines have been training security officers there recently. If the threat to national security isn’t taken seriously, we’re really going to see flames! #CountryDuty x.com/kimheller3/sta…

@kwets11 Can we also deal with the 20 million eligible South Africans who decided not to vote!

The next national elections are big and are make or break for South Africa, so let’s understand a few things. In the last national election, around 16 million votes were cast, that was the lowest voter turnout in democrat S.A history. Of those votes: • 6.4 million went to the ANC-40%, their lowest since the "new" South Africa, a 17% decline. • 3.5 million went to the DA, up around 1 percent from the previous election. • 2.3 million went to the MK Party, the wildcard no one saw, fresh out the box. • 1.5 million went to the EFF, showing little to no growth or loss from the previous election. Now, what does this mean if the ANC loses? The ANC would have to lose 3 million voters by 2029, and the DA would have to remain where they are or grow slightly. In that case, the same or a similar GNU would exist, only with the DA at its helm. If we don’t want the DA to win, that would mean we either vote for the MK in large numbers or the EFF in even larger numbers. The other option, which is far more difficult, is bringing up a party that has less than 1 million votes and concentrating our numbers there. For example, ActionSA received 192,000 votes, very far from the lowest of the top four. At least 3.5 million of us would have to vote for them to make them a viable option as the main opposition. Our Majority means nothing if we don’t actually turn up to elections. Our majority means even less if we continue to divide our vote, we have to pick our poison as black people and concentrate our numbers towards that party if we don’t want the DA winning.

CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone. cnn.com/interactive/20…

The youth unemployment rate in South Africa is depressing 😞 The figures are even understated they don't fully capture what's on the ground. I was at the village coupleof weeks ago, no one is working ...even those with qualifications My friends and relatives are getting old and they have never been employed ever in their lives. It's a hopeless situation. We can't go on like this

The right girl will make you discover your new favourite meals. You will see at that point that your mom was cooking for your dad and not you.

@_Karabo_M Why are you berating older people for buying affordable performance cars but celebrate them for buying supercars-which have the same kind of appeal?

Can’t be over 40 and wanting to get a GTI

@SizweLo He is a lawyer my friend. He serves the best interests of his clients.

Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi: “We are asking for a non-custodial punishment, and no one can sensibly say that other forms of punishment do not constitute punishment...you have a range of penal options that would reflect the society’s disapproval.” This is quite interesting coming from Adv Ngcukaitobi. In 2021, during the Zondo Commission/Jacob Zuma ConCourt proceedings, Ngcukaitobi explicitly told the court that the two years imprisonment sought by the Zondo commission was a serious penalty that took into consideration Zuma’s seniority and political standing. He further said the court should consider Zuma’s influence in society and the public nature of his disobedience. And on the question of a suspended sentence, Ngcukaitobi was unambiguous: “The question really is how long Mr Zuma should go to prison for? That he should go to prison should be clear.” To reiterate, in the Julius Malema case today, Ngcukaitobi is arguing that a custodial sentence is not the only option, that there’s a range of penal options available and that imprisonment actually achieves the opposite of what society wants. Yet in the Zuma matter, his position was the exact reverse. He told that court that a fine was out of the question, and that imprisonment was a “clear, effective remedy.” He specifically argued that a suspended sentence was inappropriate for Zuma, and that the only real question was how long Zuma should go to prison, not whether he should. So, the same advocate who argued there was essentially one appropriate punishment, i.e. direct imprisonment for Zuma, is now criticising the prosecution for allegedly thinking there is only one punishment for Malema. In Zuma’s case, whom he stringently presented as a former head of state, defying the highest court in the land, Ngcukaitobi pushed for the harshest custodial outcome available, using Zuma’s status as an aggravating factor. In Malema’s case, he is now arguing that imprisonment is counterproductive and that a person’s status should be irrelevant.

There's one man who's responsible for this lax demand.