🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards

I'm a programmer and audiobook fan. I hate laziness, spam, racism and racist thinking. I refused to serve in the SADF. Learning to grow veggies #Resilience donnedwards.openaccess.co.za Johannesburg, South Africa Joined November 2009

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Cllr_Welekazi💜🇿🇦 @African_Spring

17 hours ago

Members of parliament have spent the last hour debating about how inadequate their living conditions are in parliamentary villages. They are proposing installation of gyms. How does this advance the lives of the people of South Africa? Meanwhilein in the real world, 58% of black women are unemployed.

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South African Institute of Race Relations @IRR_SouthAfrica

3 days ago

Those who celebrate Women's Day but oppose strong property rights are hypocrites. This Women's Day, let's stop the platitudes. Let's get real. Weak property rights make already vulnerable women even more vulnerable. Enough is enough. Property rights are women’s rights. Like & share if you agree.

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Ernst Roets @ErnstRoets

3 days ago

Try to read this without getting drunk... 'If they confiscate your property and pay "nil" compensation, that's not the same as "without" compensation, because "without compensation" suggests that there is no number, but "nil" is a number, and therefore not the same as "without." So paying "nil" compensation is constitutional, because it's still compensation and therefore not the same as "without" compensation, which would've been unconstitutional.'

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Cllr_Welekazi💜🇿🇦 @African_Spring

4 days ago

Yet we have South Africans who think our constitution is nonsensical. 😏

Nkanyezi @NkanyeziKubheka

4 days ago

In Senegal, you dont criticize the President on social media and call it a day. Cops will knock at your door.

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Rand Paul @RandPaul

a week ago

Why did a private citizen with no official public health role get security clearance to sit in on government pandemic discussions? Bill Gates helped shape COVID policy, and Americans never got to vote on it.

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Hannah @anah_sahh

a week ago

USA has ChatGPT USA has Grok USA has Claude USA has Gemini USA has Llama USA has Copilot China has DeepSeek China has Qwen China has Ernie China has GLM China has Kimi China has MiniMax Europe has?

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Boat-Rocking Baby @rocking_boat

a week ago

@anah_sahh Okay, you asked, so I put your Q to Google AI (the free version): Europe has: Mistral AI (France) Aleph Alpha (Germany) LightOn (France) Silo AI (Finland) Black Forest Labs (Germany) DeepL (Germany) Synthesia & ElevenLabs (UK/Europe) H Company (France) Wayve (UK) 🤷‍♂️

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🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards

a week ago

@DrNeilStone Especially when you used ventilators and Remdesivir instead of Zinc, Vitamin D and Ivermectin How many patients died because you "followed the Science™"?

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WSM @TheJaundicedEye

a week ago

South African farming households are attacked at roughly twice the rate of households in the general population and farmers are nearly seven times more likely to be killed in the attack than the national average – research from The Common Sense. thecommonsense.co.za/Politics/just-…

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Michael Atkins @atkinsmike1

a week ago

There is a simple way to make local elections more meaningful: Do not count the Ward ballot in the proportional totals for municipalities. We would have 3 to 8 candidates on the ballot in each Ward. Candidates would vie for the support of all voters. I say this leads to better candidates and more engaged voters. Ward elections are often just an extension of the party election, rather than picking the best person for the job.

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🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards

a week ago

@GBC_Press @grok please verify

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Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX

2 weeks ago

When someone tells you that “99% of scientists agree that there is a climate crisis,” what he or she is really saying is that “99% of scientists agree that they don’t want to lose their funding.” Since when do 99% of people agree on anything, especially these days?

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🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards

2 weeks ago

@glenn_tunes You may have to explain why you think Starmer, Macron, Zelensky and Van Der Leyen are such "great leaders". 🙄 The rest of the world wants to know

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The Undercurrent @NotTheirScript

2 weeks ago

THIS 1996 CLIP OF KARY MULLIS ON FAUCI AGED LIKE FINE WINE Kary Mullis invented PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) and won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In this 1996 interview, here’s what he said about Anthony Fauci: ➡️ Fauci doesn’t really know anything about the underlying science (Mullins says: “I would tell him that to his face.”) ➡️ Fauci doesn’t understand electron microscopy. ➡️ Fauci doesn’t understand medicine. ➡️ He described Fauci as an administrator rather than a scientist actively doing the work. ➡️ He said Fauci repeatedly declined invitations to publicly debate him. This wasn’t said after COVID. It was said 24 years before the pandemic by the inventor of one of the most important tools in modern molecular science.

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🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards

2 weeks ago

@novaxthanks We should aim higher. Trump has his faults

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🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards

2 weeks ago

@FaraiMazhindu Welcome to Apartheid 2.0

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Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu

2 weeks ago

In 2003, South Africa published the B-BBEE Strategy, a precursor to what would become one the most consequential economic policy in the country's post-apartheid history. On 7 January 2004, President Thabo Mbeki assented to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act No. 53 of 2003. It commenced on 21 April 2004. The Act's preamble made its case plainly: apartheid had used race to control access to South Africa's productive resources and skills, and the economy still excluded the majority of South Africans from ownership of productive assets. But the contradiction is; by 2004, apartheid was a decade dead. There was no law barring South Africans from working, owning businesses, or rising into corporate leadership. The rainbow nation was supposed to be built on unity across race, not a new economic order sorted by racial ledgers. Instead, BBBEE reintroduced the very currency apartheid had traded in, race as the gatekeeper of opportunity, just with the beneficiaries reversed. What it created wasn't empowerment. It was a mechanism, a small circle of ANC connected cadres now controlled the regulations, the scorecards, and the flow of wealth. Compliance became a currency of its own, and whoever held the pen on "transformation" held the leverage over who got contracts, tenders, and deals. By 2026, the pattern is hard to ignore. The most visible beneficiaries of BBBEE remain a familiar cast of politically connected tenderpreneurs and party loyalists. Meanwhile, millions of ordinary black South Africans remain locked out of the wealth the policy claimed to redistribute to them.

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🇿🇦 Donn Edwards @donnedwards

2 weeks ago

I don't have to have a medical PhD to know that the lockdowns caused great financial hardship to small businesses, and that too many people died alone because they were isolated from their families, and the vaccines didn't stop transmission or infection. Stop being a sanctimonious know-it-all. Like Fauci

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Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi

2 weeks ago

“Chuck is really an excellent journalist and although he must maintain his objectivity in reporting, it is very clear that he is really being a friend….” - A. Fauci

Chuck Todd @chucktodd

2 weeks ago

The stunning thing about this pile-on re: Fauci by a handful of GOP senators is the total lack of interest by these supposedly outraged senators at the person who had the power at the time. Fauci gave recommendations. Trump’s the one who had all the power. Their lack of interest

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Hummingbirder 🇺🇸🏈🌰 @Hummingbirder

2 weeks ago

@chucktodd Trump asked people to stay home for 15 days to stop the spread, and initiated Operation Warp Speed. He never said we had to get vaccinated. He never said we should remain shut down. His big mistake was putting his trust in Fauci and Birx. It was Biden ordering vax and shutdowns.