Proud South African, RT≠Endorsement, Twitter since 2009. Unjustly suspended with no recourse. Views are my own.
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Paul Mathai retweeted
To every single person who stood up, spoke out, and voted for a better tomorrow: this milestone belongs to you. RISE Mzansi and GOOD are ready to carry your hopes into every council and chamber. Thank you for trusting us to be your voice. Let’s keep rising together! #WeNeedNewLeaders @SongezoZibi
Paul Mathai retweeted
Here’s the notice of funding opportunity put out by the state dept for a grant titled “documentation of hateful rhetoric targeting minority populations in South Africa”.
Anticipated to be around $986500 or over 16 million Rand. It aligns with the propublica report below.
#sabcnews
Here's a story from propublica on potential funding to Afriforum from the U.S. State Dept.
Trump’s State Department Is Giving $1 Million to Controversial Group to Study Crimes Against White South Africans
propublica.org/article/afrif…
Paul Mathai retweeted
The 10 most-viewed X posts on France's unrest by MAGA-linked officials and influencers got 49 million views from October 16 to 18, report says. The 10 most-viewed posts from Israeli officials, media and influencers got 35 million views in same period.
reuters.com/world/europe/cov…
Paul Mathai retweeted
Social media accounts linked to Israel and the US MAGA movement pushed "hostile narratives" around the riots in France, linking them to radical Islamism and migration, according to a new French government report.
The 10 most-viewed X posts on France's unrest by MAGA-linked officials and influencers got 49 million views from October 16 to 18, report says. The 10 most-viewed posts from Israeli officials, media and influencers got 35 million views in same period.
reuters.com/world/europe/cov…
Paul Mathai retweeted
Portraits of Johannesburg | A concrete trash bin arse first in a pothole on the corner of Oak and Harley Aves in Randburg, as water from a broken pipe floods the hole (the leak has been going for months). #joburgportraits @CityofJoburgZA l
Paul Mathai retweeted
BREAKING: Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years and six months for rape and sexual assault.
Latest updates: trib.al/8qCUc28
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Paul Mathai retweeted
Just to add, that getting 3.6 million votes in 2019 is what cost Mmusi the leadership. But now 3.6 million votes is considered rapid growth?
Paul Mathai retweeted
Musk's Starlink is being used by the RSF, the former Janjaweed, which has perpetrated massacres and other atrocities against civilians in Sudan
🇸🇩Fascinating investigation from @nadaabouelamaim on the use of Starlink by RSF in Sudan, which proved essential to fly their drones. Transiting through Chad, the terminals also allow them to rent internet services to civilians in zones under RSF control.
africaintelligence.com/easte…
Paul Mathai retweeted
Hey so, DA hacks and aligned “civil society,” furiously penning vitriolic ActionSA coalition tweets and thinkpieces, I’m curious.
Is today your first day on Earth as human beings? Is it your first time interacting with other human beings?
Because how do you figure you can d-swing, belittle, bully and insult ActionSA into a coalition with your party?
Hello?!
You are doing so much damage. You are pushing ActionSA further away. You are doing more to convince ActionSA that the DA cannot be trusted. You are making Geordin’s and team’s work so much harder.
Shut it and get off your entitlement horse.
You can also stop with the literal “muscular liberal,” schpiel, no one but your circlejerk is impressed by it.
Sit down and let the leaders lead.
And, grow up.
Tiresome.
Paul Mathai retweeted
Robbie Williams defends Olivia Rodrigo after she was accused of copying his song “Candy” with “take me home (4 christmas)”:
“Artists deserve to be protected. But there’s a difference between protecting your work and treating every vaguely familiar sequence of notes as a winning lottery ticket. It sounds to me as though she may have accidentally stumbled across a musical echo of mine in one of her new songs. And do you know what? I couldn’t care less. I don’t know whether there’s technically a publishing issue, a copyright issue, or no issue whatsoever. And I don’t want to know. I’m not going after her. Because I think at some point, some f**king sanity has to prevail […] We all stand on the shoulders of people who came before us. Sometimes consciously. Sometimes without even knowing it. That’s how music works. If we keep punishing people for accidentally arriving somewhere somebody else has already been, eventually we’re going to frighten the creativity out of everyone.”
Paul Mathai retweeted
15歳の頃にインテルを好きになり「いつかイタリアに行けるような仕事につきたい」と思っていた。
ようやく夢だった試合観戦ができた。
涙腺にくる感動があり勝利を観戦できて本当に良かった！
17年前は夢として捉えていた体験を実現して、同じように17年後の自分のありたい姿を想像して人生を楽しんでいこうと思いました。
Paul Mathai retweeted
Your very NASA connects to the South African National Space Agency's Square Kilometer Array.
Secondly, the country launched its own satellites (13 since 1994) from a base of 0.
What the fuck are you on about?
Paul Mathai retweeted
Genocide is Racism, Apartheid is Racism, Zionism is Racism. Free Palestine...
#InterComo
Paul Mathai retweeted
How did it come to this? The slippery slide of perceived victimhood to conspiracy theories to complete nonsense.
Paul Mathai retweeted
Zohran Mamdani defends Democrats for campaigning with Hasan Piker.
FOX: "He's said things like 'Hamas is better than Israel, the U.S. deserved 9/11...'"
MAMDANI: "I didn't look up everything that you'd said before agreeing to come on this show."
Paul Mathai retweeted
Happy to have voted for @Rise_Mzansi. I truly believe in their vision. We need new leaders. 👏🏾 🇿🇦
5 seats in Johannesburg that’s a milestone. Congratulations @LukhonaMnguni @Rise_Mzansi @IrfaanMangera @VuyiswaRamokgop