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It is a social injustice to place a premium on some lives but treat other lives as disposable. We rightly grieved the killing of children and other civilians in Ukraine. Yet the grieving of children killed in Palestine’s Gaza has been muted and the same with Iran’s children. #StopTheWars #StopUnilateralism #Peace ⚖️🕊️

Emergency numbers for #SouthAfrican🇿🇦 nationals in the middle east. Those that have registered with our embassies have been contacted directly (for the record...even prior to the attacks. We did advise those on our databases to get out). Please Share these numbers & help us reach everyone. 🇿🇦 1. QATAR EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00-974-5583-2762               WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/doha/ 2. IRAN EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00-98-912-230-8968    WEBSITE: southafricanembassy.ir/embassy/ 3. UAE (Dubai) EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00 971 50 558 1235 WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/dubai/ 4. Abu Dhabi EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00 971 50 622 42 91   00 971 50 445 94 99 WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/abudhabi/ 5.KUWAIT EMERGENCY NUMBER 00 965 9720 0172 00 965 9979 4483 00 965 9916 7899 WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/kuwait/ 6. SAUDI ARABIA Riyadh (+ Yemen, Bahrain, Oman) EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00 966 55 812 2215 WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/riyadh/ 7. Jeddah EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00 966 56 244 5376 WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/jeddah/ 8. JORDAN EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00-962-79-552-0245 WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/jordan/ 9. SYRIA (+ Iraq) EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00-963-966-44-4405 WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/syria/ 10. PALESTINE (+Israel) EMERGENCY NUMBER                                  00-972 053-2553-113 WEBSITE: dirco.gov.za/palestine/

@hmsouthafrica will there be a Ramadan or eid collection thsi year?

@TrafficSA Still ongoing fire and traffic.

Cape Town - N2 Outbound (Update): #FIRE near the film studio - MAJOR backlog

Highest rates of prostitution in the world: 1.Thailand (Buddhist) 2.Denmark (Christian) 3.Italy (Christian) 4.Germany (Christian) 5.France (Christian) 6.Norway (Christian) 7.Belgium (Christian) 8.Spain (Christian) 9.United Kingdom (Christian) 10.Finland (Christian) Highest rates of theft in the world: 1.Denmark and Finland (Christian) 2.Zimbabwe (Christian) 3.Australia (Christian) 4.Canada (Christian) 5.New Zealand (Christian) 6.India (Hindu) 7.England and Wales (Christian) 8.United States (Christian) 9.Sweden (Christian) 10.South Africa (Christian) Highest rates of alcohol addiction in the world: 1.Moldova (Christian) 2.Belarus (Christian) 3.Lithuania (Christian) 4.Russia (Christian) 5.Czech Republic (Christian) 6.Ukraine (Christian) 7.Andorra (Christian) 8.Romania (Christian) 9.Serbia (Christian) 10.Australia (Christian) Highest homicide rates in the world: 1.Honduras (Christian) 2.Venezuela (Christian) 3.Belize (Christian) 4.El Salvador (Christian) 5.Guatemala (Christian) 6.South Africa (Christian) 7.Saint Kitts and Nevis (Christian) 8.The Bahamas (Christian) 9.Lesotho (Christian) 10.Jamaica (Christian) Most dangerous gangs in the world: 1.Yakuza (non-religious) 2.Agberos (Christian) 3.Wah Sing (Christian) 4.Jamaica Posse (Christian) 5.Primeiro (Christian) 6.Aryan Brotherhood (Christian) Largest drug cartels in the world: 1.Pablo Escobar – Colombia (Christian) 2.Amado Carrillo – Colombia (Christian) 3.Carlos Lehder – Germany (Christian) 4.Griselda Blanco – Colombia (Christian) 5.Joaquín Guzmán – Mexico (Christian) 6.Rafael Caro – Mexico (Christian) And then they say that #Islam is the cause of violence and terrorism in the world and want us to believe that. Who started World War I? Not Muslims. Who started World War II? Not Muslims. Who killed about 20 million of Australia’s indigenous people? Not Muslims. Who dropped the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan? Not Muslims. Who killed more than 100 million Native Americans in South America? Not Muslims. Who killed about 50 million Native Americans in North America? Not Muslims. Who kidnapped more than 180 million Africans as slaves from Africa, of whom about 88% died and were thrown into the oceans? Not Muslims. First, we must define terrorism or understand how terrorism is viewed by non-Muslims. If a non-Muslim commits a terrorist act, it is called a crime; but if a Muslim commits it, it is called terrorism. We must stop dealing with double standards. Only then will you understand the purpose of my words. I am proud of my Islam. I am proud to be Muslim. Do not let it stop with you— inform others about the distortion of reality and truth. Praise be to Allah for the blessing of Islam and all its blessings.

@wendyknowler Thanks. The contractor has ghosted them and other clients. Is the only option left small claims court?

@ayeshbans He’s owed a refund from the contractor - the person he paid the money to.

@wendyknowler hi.Need advice pls.Client pays contractor to buy paving. Client has invoice from supplier + email from supplier confirming delivery address and date but fails to deliver. Can client claim refund from supplier? Both companies have ghosted client

Israel tortured and sexually humiliated Greta Thunberg. Some excerpts from her interview with the Swedish paper Aftonblatet: "They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me." "They dragged me to the opposite side from where the others were sitting, and I had the flag around me the whole time. They hit and kicked me." "They moved me very brutally to a corner that I was turned towards. ‘A special place for a special lady’, they said. And then they had learned ‘Lilla hora’ (Little whore) and ‘Hora Greta’ (Whore Greta) in Swedish, which they repeated all the time." In the corner where Greta was sitting, the police placed a flag. "The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted ‘Don’t touch the flag’ and kicked me in the side. After a while, my hands were tied with cable ties, very tightly. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me while I was sitting like that." "They were thrown to the ground and beaten. But I could only see it out of the corner of my eye, because every time I lifted my head from the ground, I was kicked by the guard standing next to me." Greta was then taken into a building to be searched and undressed. "The guards have no empathy or humanity, and they keep taking selfies with me. There’s a lot I don’t remember. So much is happening at once. You’re in shock. You’re in pain, but you go into a state of trying to stay calm." Outside, she was forced to take off her clothes again, she says. "It was mockery, rough handling, and everything was filmed. Everything they do is extremely violent." "It was so hot, like 40 degrees. We begged the whole time: Can we have water? Can we have water? In the end, we screamed. The guards walked in front of the bars the whole time, laughing and holding up their water bottles. They threw the bottles with water in them into the trash cans in front of us." "When people fainted, we banged on the cages and asked for a doctor. Then the guards came and said, ‘We’re going to gas you.’ It was standard for them to say that." "This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors." Thunberg says the Swedish government greatly downplayed the abuse she and her fellow Sumud Flotilla activists suffered, and wouldn't even bring them water. "We were together and told them about the treatment we received. About the lack of food, water, about the abuse. The torture. We showed them the physical injuries we had – bruises and scratches. We gave them all our contact details – I gave them my father's number and the number of our contact in the organization. We were clear: everything we say now must be released to the media." "They didn’t do anything, they just said: ’Our job is to listen to you. We are here and you are entitled to consular support.’" "We said over and over again: we need water. And they saw that the guards had water bottles. The embassy staff said: ’We’ll make a note of that.’ One of us, Vincent, said: ’Next time we meet you, you must bring water.’ Then it took two days before the embassy staff showed up again. "They didn't bring any water, except for a small bottle of their own that was half empty. Vincent, who was in the worst shape, got to drink it. We kept asking the guards, 'Can we have some water?' but they just walked around with their water bottles and didn't answer." "I said, 'Are you going to leave us like this? If you leave now, they will beat us up.' But they just kept walking." When Aftonbladet compares emails sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to relatives, with what the captives describe telling embassy staff, it becomes clear that the seriousness of the situation has been downplayed. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the scene at the port, where Greta Thunberg was beaten for hours, as follows: “She told us about harsh treatment and that she had been sitting on a hard surface for a long time.” On Saturday, several media outlets published testimonies that Greta had been subjected to torture. Aftonbladet has spoken to three other members of the flotilla who largely confirm what Greta Thunberg says and who have all experienced various types of abuse and humiliation. We have also spoken to relatives. Everyone is highly critical of how the Swedish embassy staff acted.

The media is madly focused on Israeli corpses. But today Israel returned 52 corpses of Palestinians taken prisoner since 7 October 2023 who had died in Israeli custody, many tortured to death. Zero media attention.

45 Palestinian bodies have been released by Israel. All had their hands and legs cuffed. Some were blindfolded. Some had gunshot wounds. "Others have been run over by tanks." Just imagine these were the bodies of 45 Israeli hostages released by Hamas. Imagine the coverage.

They call it peace, but for the Palestinians, it risks to be Apartheid at its worst. All eyes must remain on Palestine. People of the world, do not look away now. As the legacy of Nelson Mandela reminds us, no one is free until everyone is free.

“A holocaust just happened.. We will never forget this. You need to tell your children what happened in Gaza. 85% of Gaza has been destroyed in this pre-planned, controlled demolition of Gaza...” —Candace Owens

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 How genocide happened

Most of the Israeli hostages being released are IOF soldiers — yet the world loses its mind calling their capture “terror.” But when Palestinian doctors, journalists, healthcare workers, and 22 children are freed, not a fucking word. Where was that same desperate outrage for them?

"I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten on my stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways." Noa Avishag Schnall, a Jewish photojournalist who reported from the Conscience vessel of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, gave her testimony after being released from Israeli detention.

The images the media won't show you 👇

“I'm a Jewish American and in Israeli detention I was really treated like scum in a way that you read about in books about the Holocaust.. We were saying medic, medic, medic and a guard came to us and said, if you keep asking for a medic, we're going to gas you...”

This belongs in every headline today!! Abducting him from inside a hospital was a war crime. Killing his son, Ibrahim, was a war crime. Destroying the hospital was a war crime. Holding him, torturing him, for ten months now, is a war crime. Staying silent in the face of all this? That too is a war crime.