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@IvynSambo I cringed on that too. It is really a sad state of affairs. All 3 of them, equally incapable of doing that job.

I know it’s 5 a.m. but I was rewatching some parts of the Madlanga Commission and got worried about how many innocent people have suffered due to poor court interpretation. Just look at how poor the Madlanga Commission translators were over those three days. Now imagine a similar situation but in a small magistrate’s court where the judge, prosecutor, and legal aid attorney all don’t speak the language of the accused!

@BafanaBafana @adidasZA @adidas Collar arrangement is unnecessary

The day you've been waiting for. South Africa 26/27 home and away jersey 💛💚 Available now. @adidasza @adidas

@BDliveSA It’s bad enough you quietly deleted your earlier tweet 2 hours after I showed there’s no readily available IMF publication backing this claim. But to repost it and hide behind “according to letter writer” is breathtakingly dishonest. Your job is to verify ALL content you publish

This is even worse than the previous tweet. First you took an opinion by Willem Cronje & falsely attributed it to the @IMFNews. When & where did the IMF say this? What's your agenda here @BDliveSA?

For the first time in our country, Liv Golf #GrowingGautengTogether

@Askash Can't @GovernmentZA through @HigherEduGovZA consider purchasing this and repurpose it for student accommodation? @ButiManamela

The City Lodge Hotel in Newtown, Johannesburg, is closing after more than a decade, and the building will be auctioned by the end of the month. The hotel was built in 2015 and initially cost R146 million to develop. It includes: • 148 rooms • Restaurant • 2 boardrooms • Gym and swimming pool • 55 basement parking bays City Lodge says the decision not to renew the lease is unrelated to staff performance, the brand, or the broader Johannesburg market. The group has operated for more than 40 years and has 58 hotels across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Mozambique. But the reality is, this hotel stopped turning a profit. And that says something more about hospitality in Johannesburg right now. Over the past few years, I have toured, written about, and presented on multiple hotel developments across the city, and one trend keeps coming up. Most visitors enter through OR Tambo, the busiest airport in Africa, yet we are not seeing the same wave of new hotel developments that we see in Cape Town. Johannesburg is still a business-driven city before it is a leisure destination. Corporate travel drives demand for 4 and 5-star hotels, and these are high-frequency travellers with high expectations. Instead of flooding the market with new supply, we are seeing the optimisation of existing stock in Johannesburg. Newtown made sense at one stage. It was positioned as a cultural precinct near the CBD, with significant public investment and high expectations for regeneration. But the guests have changed, and so have their expectations. Many visitors now choose Sandton, Rosebank, Melrose, Waterfall or Fourways, where there is stronger security, newer infrastructure, and integrated business and retail nodes. The closure of City Lodge Newtown is not just about one hotel. It is a sign of how the hospitality market in Johannesburg is being reshaped.

Thabo! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. My brothers?!!! Nou?!!

@RediTlhabi @Radio702 In their defense, I suppose they probably listened to you on a Friday only when you had discussions with the good Drs and Scientists in between your banter with Thomas and Aki...🤭🤭 Abanye have all the facts but they try to ignore them so their narrative can carry the day...

And then Helen came here and said I never said anything about corruption. All my 27 years of broadcasting and writing, I said nothing 🙄. There is no name we have not been called - house n!@#%rs. Add the misogynistic labelling. It wasn't just on @Radio702. There is an SABC journalist who actively mobilised Luthuli House not to come to The Big Debate and Unfiltered. Today she does a "good to see you..." Anyway, ALL these parties have accused us of SOMETHING. Their supporters don't get to lecture us. And we are not going anywhere.

DSG @LeighMathys, having just finished the recording following the appearance of Lt. Gen. Vuma (Ret.), I fully agree with your sentiment (as I paraphrase) that former minister Cele got away easily by not being challenged on his comments. He needs to account.

Hilarious! Have you ever heard of people racing back to a “genocide”

Ambassador @patrickgaspard, you are missed by the beautiful people of South Africa. Now, more than ever, we wish the number 1 diplomat from the US was yourself to ensure our relations are normalised based on facts, mutual respect and high level of good interactions.

Update: The discussion with the editorial team at @eNCA was both constructive & professional. They acknowledged the error, & while we didn't request it, appropriate consequence management was implemented. An independent media that reports fairly, factually, impartially, without fear, favour, or prejudice, is essential for upholding the principles of constitutional democracy in #SouthAfrica.

@SpokespersonRSA As the song goes, "A re mo states mo"

I so wish you had challenged him to show you the Constitutional section that says the Commander in Chief of our armed forces needs parliamentary approval to deploy the military beyond informing parliament. I wish you had asked him.

@AsstSecStateAF @nytimes @POTUS @CyrilRamaphosa No matter how much you repeat the lies, they will not turn into truth..

.@NYTimes is out to lunch. @POTUS is right to draw attention to government-sponsored race-based discrimination in South Africa. @CyrilRamaphosa and the ANC double down on a racial patronage system that only enriches connected elites while ordinary South Africans struggle and crime and unemployment rank among the world’s worst. These same leaders fail to condemn racial incitement against Afrikaners and offer condolences to the brutal Iranian terrorist regime. Constructively addressing these issues is necessary to reset U.S.-South Africa relations.

@Chrispin_JPhiri @UbuntuRadioZA @DIRCO_ZA @AlvinBotes74959 Good to put a face/name to a voice. I think our embassy is too quiet. They need to try and have some public engagements with citizens this side of the world.

South Africa’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, H.E. Jeremiah Nyamane Mamabolo, speaks to @UbuntuRadioZA about Deputy Minister Botes’ participation in the 26th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting (CFAMM) held at Lancaster House in London, United Kingdom, on 8 March 2026. This meeting brings together Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers to discuss the role of the Commonwealth in a rapidly changing international landscape and to explore impactful, transformative solutions that can unlock opportunities for shared prosperity across the Commonwealth, particularly in the context of an increasingly fractured global climate.

@NoncebaMhlauli It had that "bua" ring to it!

That “yes Sir” in the background as President Ramaphosa delivers a tribute to #RevJesseJackson 🥺🙌🏾🇿🇦

REMEMBERING REVEREND JESSE JACKSON 📍 South side of Chicago, Illinois Congressman Jonathan Jackson welcoming President @CyrilRamaphosa to the Rainbow PUSH HQ for Rev Jesse Jackson’s Homegoing Celebration. The President will deliver a tribute.

@GovernmentZA Siyathokoza kuMongameli ngokusikhulumela esilahlweni saka Rev. Jesse Jackson. We were indeed well represented as a country. Farewell to one of our own! #RiseJesseRise #JesseJacksonFuneral

Tribute by President Cyril Ramaphosa: “When Jesse Jackson reminded the United States that its strength lies not in exclusion, but in the beautiful diversity of its people – black and white, rich and poor, urban and rural, workers and farmers, immigrants and the forgotten – we were inspired by his message and embraced the universal values of diversity, inclusion and equity that he preached.” 🔗 Speech: zurl.co/jHAL0 #RIPJesseJackson #GovZAUpdates

President @CyrilRamaphosa welcomed by Congressman Jonathan Jackson to the Rainbow PUSH Headquarters for his father Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Homegoing Celebration.

The umbilical cord that binds people who have known real oppression and fought for every freedom they now enjoy can not be severed. Rev Jesse Jackson’s ties to Africa were forged in struggle and solidarity. They are sealed by history and can not be undone. A son's tribute to his father: