Detective Yu retweeted
Tatjana Smith gets failed by Swimming SA, and she has a Dutch passport to fall back on.
Onthatile Zulu had to beg for hockey funding while R31m went on a FIFA World Cup trip. She has no Netherlands to switch to.
Same system failing both. Only one has an exit. 🇿🇦
Detective Yu retweeted
The real betrayal wasn't Tatjana Smith choosing another flag. It was Swimming SA withholding her R570k prize money for more than a year over a swimsuit dispute. An Olympic champion shouldn't have to fight that hard to get paid.
Detective Yu retweeted
A MASSIVE blow to SA Swimming and SA Sports in general 😔💔 but i do not blame her at all.
Department of Sports Arts and Culture is in complete shambles but what do we expect when it is being run by a convicted criminal.
South Africa’s most decorated Olympian, Tatjana Smith, has officially switched sporting allegiance to the Netherlands after World Aquatics approved her change of nationality.
🥇🥇 Olympic gold medals
🥈🥈 Olympic silver medals
🇿🇦 A South African legend
While she will now compete in Dutch colours and target LA 2028, Smith will remain based in South Africa, continue training with her long-time coaches, and support local athletes through the Lighthouse Sport Foundation.
👉 A new flag, but an enduring legacy in South African sport. 💚💛
@robertmarawa
#TatjanaSmith #Olympics #Swimming #SouthAfrica #Netherlands 🏊♀️✨
8 am: Home
9 am: Church
FIVE CASH-IN-TRANSIT ROBBERY SUSPECTS SHOT DEAD BY POLICE IN GQEBERHA
Five suspected cash-in-transit robbers were shot and killed by members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) during an alleged attempted cash-in-transit robbery on Kempston Road in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape.
The incident occurred on Monday morning, following a police operation.
The Hawks have confirmed the deaths of the five suspects. Further details surrounding the incident are awaited.
#AfricanVibeMedia #Gqeberha #CITRobbery #SAPS #EasternCape
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Detective Yu retweeted
You guys will respect Semenyo by force. 👍🏼
🚨🔵 Antoine Semenyo to Manchester City, here we go! Documents exchanged and sealed with Bournemouth.
£65m transfer fee, Semenyo to sign long term deal after medical tests on Thursday.
Semenyo picked #MCFC over 4 PL top clubs as wanted to work under Pep Guardiola.
What is the job of a striker? And why did we replace Nunez?
Nunez has been more productive for LFC than Isak has been so far as well as working harder
And I'm no Nunez fan
Isak has been poor! #LFC
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"I robbed a bank to prove how bad the police are"
In the end, the writing is on the wall—properly displayed in percentages.
It begs the obvious question: what is it about YOU that produced this performance? Why is it that you have lost almost half of your vote share? Yes, YOU!
As I have said before, go argue with the wall.
As for me, I did abstain. A deliberate, conscientious abstention.
The right to abstain is not limited to parliament or council sessions. It is very much constitutional, and available to all citizens—especially those who DO register to vote!
That our voter registration increases by millions every time is a sign of genuine interest. When they do not show up to vote, after turning out to register, they may very well be refusing to choose between different versions of failure!
Voting MUST NEVER be a conscription; it is a right that comes with responsibility—one that can’t be deployed without conscience.
Above all, NO ONE is entitled to people's votes. VOTES are earned, just like respect. To say otherwise is the gospel according to dictators.
How else can we explain that Mandela campaigned in 1994 and lost both KZN and Western Cape, yet Mbeki won both 10 years later? They earned the votes through results on the ground by improving the living standards of our people. They were NOT ENTITLED to them!
Those who protest by deliberately not voting or deliberately spoiling their vote are exercising as sacred a right as the right to vote! A true revolutionary should know that, and would listen to them, for they too have registered a view!
It is in line with this spirit—the letter of which is in the Constitution, that 'every citizen is free to make political choices'—that Ronnie Kasrils, alongside Barney Pityana and others, in 2014 called on people to protest by spoiling their vote.
I’m sure you’ll agree, these are stalwarts of the anti-apartheid movement. They understood that no one—NOT even their own comrades—is ENTITLED to votes.
But first, go to the wall, brother. There, the measure of your weight is fully determined."
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Detective Yu retweeted
I recall back in 2022, at UJ APK you lectured us on the importance of voting. You said we must never make a mistake of thinking not voting is a solution, instead we would be at risk of selling our democracy to the white minority that would exercise that right and take over. 🫵🏽🤐
In the end, the writing is on the wall—properly displayed in percentages.
It begs the obvious question: what is it about YOU that produced this performance? Why is it that you have lost almost half of your vote share? Yes, YOU!
As I have said before, go argue with the wall.
As for me, I did abstain. A deliberate, conscientious abstention.
The right to abstain is not limited to parliament or council sessions. It is very much constitutional, and available to all citizens—especially those who DO register to vote!
That our voter registration increases by millions every time is a sign of genuine interest. When they do not show up to vote, after turning out to register, they may very well be refusing to choose between different versions of failure!
Voting MUST NEVER be a conscription; it is a right that comes with responsibility—one that can’t be deployed without conscience.
Above all, NO ONE is entitled to people's votes. VOTES are earned, just like respect. To say otherwise is the gospel according to dictators.
How else can we explain that Mandela campaigned in 1994 and lost both KZN and Western Cape, yet Mbeki won both 10 years later? They earned the votes through results on the ground by improving the living standards of our people. They were NOT ENTITLED to them!
Those who protest by deliberately not voting or deliberately spoiling their vote are exercising as sacred a right as the right to vote! A true revolutionary should know that, and would listen to them, for they too have registered a view!
It is in line with this spirit—the letter of which is in the Constitution, that 'every citizen is free to make political choices'—that Ronnie Kasrils, alongside Barney Pityana and others, in 2014 called on people to protest by spoiling their vote.
I’m sure you’ll agree, these are stalwarts of the anti-apartheid movement. They understood that no one—NOT even their own comrades—is ENTITLED to votes.
But first, go to the wall, brother. There, the measure of your weight is fully determined."