Max du Preez

In the late 1970s the old apartheid government of South Africa also spent vast amounts of money to polish its image. It was called the Info Scandal. It failed miserably, and backfired. You cannot polish a turd

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@Acyn Omg, lol. 😂

New satellite analysis from the European Space Agency reveals the IDF has demolished at least 20 villages and towns in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border, reducing communities like Bint Jbeil, Al-Khiam, Markaba, and Taybeh to rubble. A source in the IDF tells me: "This is needed to secure the north from Hezbollah. Some of these towns will be replaced by bases. In all cases the residents will not be allowed back." The imagery shows destruction extending beyond combat damage: government offices, schools, hospitals, and mosques have been leveled through controlled demolitions and engineering operations, much of it during the ceasefire period. An Amnesty International expert described the pattern as similar to what the organization documented in Gaza. IDF sources separately told Haaretz the systematic demolitions are part of a broader policy internally called "Silver Plow," modeled on operations in the Strip. The plan of the IDF is to destroy 55 villages in their entirety in the first stage. Then other villages are to be taken and destroyed in the second phase.

Jewish Israeli settlers vandalise Christian graves in occupied East Jerusalem.

Last week @Nissan announced a $45-million investment to expand manufacturing capacity in Egypt. Not South Africa. Egypt. blsa.org.za/thought-leader…

Tjo. Guys!

On his 50th birthday, the wife of Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, presented him with a cake depicting a gallows.

This is what happens when the soul merges with the violin: the music running in your veins.

לראשונה מאז הכיבוש של 1967 ישראל מגרשת שכונה פלסטינית שלמה בירושלים. מרחב סילוואן הנמצא בסמוך ל"אגן הקדוש", הר הבית ומסגד אל-אקצא, משופע באתרים ארכיאולוגיים והיסטוריים בעלי חשיבות מיוחדת. נכון לאפריל 2026, כ-1,800 תושבים בסילוואן תחת איום גירוש, לאחר שבשנתיים האחרונות כבר נעקרו מאות והפכו לחסרי בית. בבטן אל-הווא לבדה, 33 משפחות כבר גורשו ו-53 משפחות נוספות, הכוללות 130 ילדים, עומדות בפני גורל דומה. באל-בוסתאן, ישראל כבר הרסה 48 בתים ומתכננת להרוס את בתיהן של 123 משפחות נוספות, מה שיביא לגירושם של כ-1,450 בני אדם. הגירוש בסילוואן הוא חלק ממדיניות של טיהור אתני בכל הגדה המערבית. למידע המלא >> btselem.org/hebrew/jerusal…

I grew up in Thokoza in the East Rand. Katlehong, Thokoza and Vosloorus were called Kathorus. I grew up during the time when violence between the IFP and the ANC erupted. Zulu people aligned to the IFP from the hostel on the main road, Khumalo street, were fighting with Self Defense Units aligned to the ANC based in the township. It is believed the hostel dwellers were sponsored with arms by the apartheid police, and would often be accompanied by Army caspers when they went into the township to attack. They would attack indiscrimately, hacking families with spears and pangas, breaking windows, burning houses etc. Chris Hani and them were involved in providing arms to the SDF's to defend themselves against the apartheid sponsored IFP. Fortunately for my family, this happened immediately after my father, who was a priest in Thokoza, had just lost my mother and his closest friend, a Taxi owner Ntate Sanie, who was shot in his presence just a month after my mom. The family in the Free State insisted he leaves Gauteng and come back home because it was no longer safe. I was at UCT at the time, and never went back to Thokoza. Families of friends that I went to High School with were killed, others displaced. It was a dirty war. In Soweto, where my boyfriend then lived in Senaone, it was the same conflict. Zulus from Merafe hostel attacked townships of Phiri, Mapetla, Chiawelo etc. Kids that were born in the 90's and 2000's do not know what it was like when there were scenes of communities fearful that the Zulus will come and kill anyone who did not speak isiZulu. You are Xhosa, Mosotho, Kendall, Shangaan, anything they came across that didn't speak Zulu would be hacked to death. In KZN it became Zulu against Zulu, with IFP vs ANC, which the boers called "Black on Black violence", knowing very well they were the sponsors of this conflict. It took a very long time for peace to prevail between these two parties and for communities to heal. Many families remain with scars and trauma from that period. The same way that political killings have continued during election time, which led to the establishment of the PKTT. I have no problem with Zulu pride. Some of us can speak and write isiZulu fluently, and love the language and culture. What I have anxiety about, it's mobilization of society under the "Hlangana Zulu" banner. The notion that "Zulu people will fix this country" by dealing with foreign nationals because of their supposed bravery. I'm not sure if that is where it will end. However, in the absence of Government leadership and State Intelligence on the foreign nationals crisis, people are resorting to Zulu Hlangana leadership. What can we say.

Robin Williams warned the US about Donald Trump and his links to Miss America Pageants and underage girls in 2012. Really should have listened.

For the first time since the 1967 occupation, Israel is expelling an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem. The Silwan area, located near the "Holy Basin," the Temple Mount, and al-Aqsa Mosque, is home to many archaeological and historical sites of exceptional significance. As of April 2026, approximately 1,800 residents in Silwan are under threat of expulsion, after hundreds have already been uprooted and left homeless in the past two years. In Baten al-Hawa alone, 33 families have already been expelled, and 53 additional families, including 130 children, face a similar fate. In al-Bustan, Israel has already demolished 48 homes and plans to demolish the homes of 123 more families, which will lead to the expulsion of approximately 1,450 people. The expulsion in Silwan is part of a policy of ethnic cleansing throughout the entire West Bank. Link to the full article >> btselem.org/jerusalem/2026…

Israel's mass slaughter in Gaza, enabled by the US, was a moral outrage. And now, as the @nytimes reports, Israel is applying the Gaza model in Lebanon -- and once again we Americans are enabling this moral catastrophe. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@BenMFreeman @noaleee I’m a Jew. It’s genocide. It’s not antisemitism. You are welcome.

@GWannenbur15690 @matthewparkscpt @PieterDuToit Read my book, complete with interview with Barnard. And the story how he lied in court to get me in jail

@matthewparkscpt @PieterDuToit @MaxduPreez I begin to wander, in retrospect, whether he was working for the National Intelligence Service of Niel Barnard when he became the first to visit the ANC in exile in 1986 or so. And if so, has he continued this association?

Essay | I hold AfriSol responsible for reviving the image of my tribe as selfish, racist bullies news24.com/opinions/analy…

@JacquesBroodryk Dis uit jou duim gesuig, boet. Ek het nog nooit so iets gesê nie. Intendeel. Lees meer, en as jy nie lus is nie, vra KI om die feite te check

I'd simply call it sensible, and the vast majority of reasonable people, including Afrikaners, agree with us. @MaxduPreez has publicly stated that he is no longer an Afrikaner. So, Max, please stop your cultural appropriation by claiming to be one of us. #sies

This is the South Africa🇿🇦 that Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Afriforum hate to see🤞

‘For more than 930 days, Israel has barred foreign reporters from independently entering the territory’ - let us into Gaza, say more than two dozen media leaders

🧅 Every time a layer is peeled back, the core gets more radical. Iraj Abedian explains the "Onion Effect": assassinating Iran’s leaders is revealing a core of apocalyptic fanatics who refuse to negotiate. 🔗 Link in Bio for more