Sinazo Sibisi

España no mira hacia otro lado. Sancionar a quienes defienden la justicia internacional es poner en riesgo todo el sistema de derechos humanos. La UE no puede permanecer de brazos cruzados ante esta persecución. Por eso, hoy pedimos a la Comisión que active el Estatuto de Bloqueo, para proteger la independencia de la Corte Penal Internacional y de Naciones Unidas, y sus acciones para acabar con el genocidio en Gaza.

No amount of deranged smears will ever convince me this man is anything other than genuine, kind, and ready to stand up for ordinary people.

Here i am at the anti imperialism protest chatting some more about Helen, gaza and the moment we are in

@Rainmaker1973 Was it the Roman's?

Two thousand years ago, Roman engineers discovered a secret that modern science is only beginning to understand: a concrete that gets stronger with time. Their legendary “marine concrete” was made by mixing volcanic ash, lime, and seawater — a combination that allowed structures like harbor piers and breakwaters to not only survive millennia of ocean waves but actually strengthen underwater. Modern research has revealed the secret ingredient: a rare chemical reaction that produces aluminum tobermorite, a mineral that forms and expands over time, sealing cracks and reinforcing the material. While modern cement crumbles in decades, Roman concrete endures for centuries. Engineers today are studying these ancient formulas to design self-healing, eco-friendly concretes that could revolutionize the building industry and drastically cut CO₂ emissions.

It's not just Ukraine. It's the vast web of lies that underpins Western identify and Yt supremacy. The mental gymnastics required to deny the lies leads to madness.

How long are we going to allow these people to tell lies about Africa? It's the right time every African should take advantage of social media to educate and debunk the lies that were told about us rather than non educational contents. Look at how they want to erase the history of Africa, feeding children with lies about Africa. I keep on saying that it should be the primary role of the parents to teach their children the unbiased history of their roots, rather than solely depending on schools which they may have no idea the lies they feed your children with, and that can have a negative impact as they come up in age.

“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth couldn't be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn't cheat. We really were in a bad way before the white men came, and I don't know how we managed to get along without these basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society.” ~ John Lame Deer, Miniconjou-Lakota,

I love history 💯

Remember Their Names: South Africa’s Assassinated Whistleblowers & Officials Honouring the lives of South Africans who were silenced for doing what was right. Whistleblowers, investigators, public servants, and ordinary officials - murdered for exposing corruption, protecting the public, speaking up, or simply doing their jobs. Remember their names. Their courage deserves the nation’s memory.

You know you are still actually under colonial rule if another state‘s military (believes it) can walk down your streets and arrest whoever it sees fit.

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments. One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?" "6:15," he said, confused. "Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it." He blinked. "You... you can do that?" "I can now," I said. Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?" "Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing." He cried. Right there in the parking lot. Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic. But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!" "Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel." He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us." The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over." Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it. But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note, "Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends" People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket. I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece." So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones. Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees. It's not glamorous. But it's everything." Let this story reach more hearts.... Credit: Mary Nelson

"I constantly ask myself, how is it possible that a community, in this case a white community, deeply religious, claiming to be devoutly Christian, building its whole life---or claiming to build its life, and also its political structure---on the recognition of God's sovereignty as it is stated in our constitution; how is it possible that we could, for instance, remove forcibly three and a half million people from their land, from where they live, from where they had settled down, from where they were happy as a community, force them into arid, remote areas where the possibility of livilihood, of income, of existence is in fact so small that for all practical purposes it is a process of slow death which they are facing." - C. F. Beyers Naude, Hope for Faith: A Conversation with Dorothee Solle (1985).

Excellent exchange at #CNNGlobalPerspectives with @richardQuest & @SinazoSibisi on how to boost support for ideas, innovation & strategic projects in Africa. The @EIB Group is forging win-win partnerships and nurturing private investment, #BuildingBridges across continents.

Thanks Fam!

Anthem of the year. Exactly what we needed! facebook.com/share/v/1DcB79…

Anthem of the year. Exactly what we needed! facebook.com/share/v/1DcB79…

Witness A at the #MadlangaCommission concludes his evidence and makes reference to his colleague and friend, Gavin Ndlovu, who was brutally murdered while investigating a tavern mass shooting in Soweto, where 16 people were killed. sowetan.co.za/news/south-afr…

We are only 330 nautical miles from Gaza to break the siege and create a humanitarian corridor! Come with us and join this global uprising for Palestine!

@Godongwana_N @MightiJamie No. I know him. He is a gun for hire and when he was hired for this, the fix was in. But now he realizes delivering thst fix is going to be very hard...

@MightiJamie Terry must do like Mkhwanazi did, come out and expose everything. We cannot afford to be defocused at this point. He must not act like a coward because he is not, VBS Heist and challenging Minister Chappies are not small issues, the man is brave and principled.

My theory is that some people are angry that the evidence leaders have been exposing too much and they are trying to micromanage Adv Terry Motau, in terms of witnesses called and other matters. The man might very well be receiving threats both economic and physical. The stakes are high and many people want to control the process and its outcomes. The commission is not going in a direction that some powerful people would like. The first four witnesses have made it impossible for Senzo Mchunu and the Maumela -Matlala cabal to avoid scrutiny (accountability is another story). There is not a lot of detail at this point in the reporting about the reasons for the request to leave the commission.

Israel has such complete surveillance and control of Gaza's communications networks that it can commandeer them to force their phones to broadcast Netanyahu's speech, but Israel had no clue that Hamas was planning an operation as large as Oct 7 and it then took hours to respond?