David Robert Lewis

Encryption should be open, publicly tested and built on strong mathematics – a public good, not a secret weapon, writes SAICTA CEO Dr Jannie Zaaiman. #IndustryInsight #CyberSecurity itweb.co.za/article/when-s…

When Muslims gain full state power, the historical pattern undoubtedly repeats itself: • Armenia (1894–1923) → approx. 1.5 million Christians were murdered • Assyrian Genocide (1914–1923) → approx. 300,000 Christians were massacred • Greek Genocide (1913–1922) → approx. 1 million Christians were killed or expelled • Bangladesh (1971) → approx. 3 million Hindus were murdered • East Timor (1975–1999) → approx. 200,000 Christians died • Sudan (1983–2005) → approx. 2 million Christians and followers of indigenous religions were eradicated as part of the official Jihad • Nigeria (2009–present) → over 125,000 Christians have been murdered in a silent war Genocide (inter-societal groups) Every time Islam gained total political and military dominance over non-Muslims, the outcome was the same. - @kiankerman

@CyrilRamaphosa But crickets when it comes to ongoing Arab slave trade?

South Africa is aligned to the UN resolution that declared the transatlantic trafficking and racialised enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.   We affirm the role of reparations as a necessary step toward remedying historical injustice.

@SABCNews Same guy supports a justice system that denies apartheid ever happened, what an idiot.

WATCH | Veteran anti-Apartheid activist Dr Frank Chikane is calling on the United States and Israel to end the war on Iran, which he says has had an impact on the global economy, among other things.

🚨NEW DEVELOPMENT: Minister Malatsi finally reveals WHY data is so expensive in South Africa… and why @Starlink might be the game changer we’ve been waiting for.. This explanation will leave you asking serious questions…WATCH 👇

South Africa has a history of late adoption of technology, we only got broadband in 2010

🇿🇦🇬🇧South Africa's richest woman Magda Wierzycka says the United Kingdom is "uninvestable". Take a listen.

And I’m often called an optimist, although I tend to move away from that label because what I see my message is, is not so much we should look on the bright side, but rather just be aware of facts, such as that life expectancy has more than doubled, extreme poverty has been reduced from 90% of humanity to 10% of humanity, and deaths in wars are down. The fact that things have gotten better, though not perfect, does lead to some optimism—namely, if our ancestors did it and it kind of worked, sort of, better than not, then it’s not romantic, it’s not foolish, it’s not utopian to try to make things better still. (From @singforscience with José González. Link below.)

Ana Kasparian on @PiersMorgan yesterday: “The Gaza Health Ministry historically has been accurate and very careful when publishing death toll, it’s always confirmed and underestimated.”

ISIS has just issued a statement to Islamists in the West, telling them to set fire to churches around the world. Where are the press conferences? Where are the political leaders? Where is the UN? This is attempted genocide. “All Lives Matter!” Except Christians, apparently…

@CensoredHumans @Derek_Hanekom Same country responsible for the Inquisition that burnt Jews as heretics

“Netanyahu is the Hitler of the 21st century, and failing to stop him condemns us all.” Spain’s Ione Belarra

The Elder Speaks in a Time of Fire I was born into one faith. A Hindu. My wife into another. A Catholic. We have walked together for more than three decades without imposing belief on each other, on our children, or on our grandchildren. We trusted something older than doctrine. Something deeper than religion. My mother once taught me that all faiths are tributaries flowing into a great river that empties into the ocean of humanity. That is the faith I recognise. And yet we must speak truthfully now. Religion has not only united. It has divided. It has been used to give some men power over others, to justify hierarchy, to sanctify violence. Racism. Caste. Patriarchy. Chosen people. Promised lands claimed through domination. When religion loses humility, it becomes dangerous. I walked with Nelson Mandela into mosques, temples, and churches. He did not rank them. He understood that what makes a place sacred is not the structure, but the sincerity of the human heart within it. Today we are witnessing something deeper than war. We are witnessing exposure. For centuries a story has been told about civilisation, about superiority, about who is human and who is expendable. That story is breaking. Not quietly, but under rubble, under the unbearable truth we can no longer look away from. This is not only political failure. It is moral, spiritual, and religious failure. It is the failure of compassion itself. And still there are voices calling us back. Pope Leo speaks into this moment with conscience, calling for calm, for peace, for remembrance of what it means to be human. Because this moment is larger than geopolitics. The lands we call the Middle East are ancient grounds of memory, foundations of human civilisation. But they are not the only source of truth. We must abandon the arrogance of empire and of religions that claim exclusive access to the divine. We must ask ourselves honestly: how have our faiths been used to divide, to dominate, to justify suffering? This is the unveiling. And so the question before us is simple, but not easy: how do we respond? Do we walk the path of reconciliation our elders showed us? Or do we follow those who speak of destruction as destiny? This is dangerous language. It prepares the human mind to accept the unacceptable. We must resist not with rage, but with clarity. We must say: no. Not in our name. Not in the name of any God worthy of life. In Africa we understand that our ancestors walk with us. We are accountable not only to the living, but to those who came before and those yet to come. The old world is breaking. The illusion of superiority is collapsing. What comes next will depend on us. Whether we choose fear or reconciliation. Division or unity. Forgetting or remembering. The river still flows. The ancestors still walk beside us. And the future waits quietly for our courage to choose it. 🙏🏾❤️

@7Kiwi @Ex_Muslims_Irl @toadmeister Race is not immutable. To quote Robert Sobukwe, "There is no plural in race. There is only one race, the human race."

@toadmeister Race is an immutable characteristic. Islam, like other religions, is an idea. You can't be racist against an idea. In a free society all religions, including Islam, are fair game for criticism and ridicule.

People who criticise Islam are "racist" and it's "completely demented" to single out Islam for criticism, former Tory minister turned podcaster Rory Stewart has said. dailysceptic.org/2026/04/02/peo…

And so God created Palestinians

@Tom_Slater_ @Ex_Muslims_Irl @spikedonline The days when opposing women's rights made you right wing are over, nowadays it's a leftist shibboleth.

Islamism is the biggest terror threat we face by a mile. This movement hates Jews, hates women, hates gay people, hates freedom. Any ‘anti-fascist’ worth his salt would be agitating against them, not marching with them My @spikedonline piece

@justicemalala @palesa_morudu You telling us that for decades there has been no death penalty in Israel for the crime of Terrorism?

For those of us who were born under apartheid and grew up under that system, this sounds very familiar

There is a genre of October 7 commentary that works by constructing a historical arc so compressed and so selective that the conclusion becomes inevitable. A people wronged, hemmed in, their world dismantled across generations. Rage follows. What else would you expect? The history offered in support of this arc is not really history. It begins where it needs to begin, omits what complicates it, and arrives at a destination that was chosen before the argument started. The Arab population of Mandatory Palestine never held sovereignty that was taken from them. There was no state. A significant portion immigrated to the land only in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The land passed from Ottoman to British control, and two national movements competed within that framework. One of them, the Jewish national movement, was not a colonial project arriving from outside. Jewish communities had existed without interruption in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Gaza, Tiberias, the Galilee and elsewhere, through centuries of pre-modern colonial empires, Roman, Byzantine, several Arab Caliphates, the Crusaders, and Ottoman, and long before any of them emerged. The Zionist movement was a national liberation movement of a people with three thousand years of documented connection to that land, rejecting the exile that was imposed on many of them, and building upon a presence that had never left. The other national movement, the Arab Palestinian one, crystallised largely in reaction to Zionism rather than predating it, which is why the sovereign state being projected backwards into history as ancient and continuous is itself part of the inversion, not a foundation for it. Arab leaders, who rarely called themselves Palestinians then and most of whom saw themselves as part of greater Syria, rejected partition in 1937 and again in 1947. That rejection, and the violence that accompanied it across the three decades of the Mandate period, is precisely what this genre of argument leaves out. What does the enforcing are films like "Palestine 36," marketed as historical drama about the bloody Arab Revolt, but functioning as something closer to historical replacement. They strip Jewish indigeneity and continuity from the record, recast a people with millennia of connection to that land as recent colonial arrivals, and present the conflict as a simple story of indigenous resistance to foreign imposition. The purpose is not to inform Western audiences about a complex national conflict. It is to recruit them to a conclusion: that Jews and Israel are an illegitimate implant in the region, that the appropriate remedy is dismantlement, and that what would follow, the imagined state from the river to the sea, would be a tolerant, secular, democratic alternative, where Jews can live in peace under their Arab Palestinian Muslim rulers, not as a national group but as a religious minority. That last part is perhaps the most dishonest element of the entire narrative. The movements driving that agenda in the Middle East are neither democratic nor secular, and whatever secular veneer some of them maintain is precisely that, a veneer. The model being implicitly promised has no precedent among Muslim-majority states in the region, and sits in direct and unacknowledged tension with the political and religious character of the organisations whose cause these films are made to serve, like Hamas. Without all of this, October 7 cannot be made to look like the inevitable product of accumulated injustice. It looks instead like what it was: a brutal, sadistic rampage by Arab Palestinian Islamist terrorist organisations, and the civilians who joined them, to murder, rape, and kidnap Israeli citizens, residents, and foreign nationals. No historical narrative, however artfully constructed, changes what happened that morning. It only changes who the audience is willing to hold responsible for it. This is the genre James represents, and he is far from alone in it. It is not engagement with history. It is the use of a selective version of it to launder a conclusion that was held before the argument began.

New evidence of PW Botha's Apartheid police abusing peaceful protesters....Just kidding, it is the peace loving Iranian regime (friends of Ramaphosa) torturing its citizens.....