Finally. The country stopped. It stopped for seven-year-old #CweCwe. That’s not her name, obviously, we can’t have a raped seven-year old’s real name tied to the biggest story in South Africa. We can’t use her name because this story will be with her for her entire...
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#ChildCarnage and a #CoalitionCollision
She is only seven years old, and we have established that she was raped repeatedly. The child told us that the principal did this to her, a man called #JacoPieterse. When this hit the media, Jaco was refusing to hand over his DNA and #Afriforum was representing him....
#TheAmbassadors and #MiddleFingers. South Africa is #PassiveAggressive
#HugoFerreira, 37, plead guilty to raping and severely beating his eight-day-old daughter, who later died. He said he would give her something to “cry about” before he killed her. You would expect the world to stop. You’d expect South Africa to stop, yet this was...
#NotFitForPurpose. No Time to Play in SA
She said she’d accept five grand for Joshlin. Promised twenty grand, but she’d accept five. According to witness testimony this week, Kelly Smith made those statements more than once while her child was alive. We learnt how she had tried to stab her other child, how...
#WhiteVictimhood, You are Here! #SAisAMovie
It’s 4am on the sixth day of #Ramadan in South Africa. I started my morning with fruit juice, yoghurt and some good #Ricoffy. I am blessed. Ramadan is a time of reflection about your relationship with God, a time of self-discipline and a time of obligatory charity....
Wake Up South Africa. #CheckYourBias! T(he)REASON
Nandos said it best: “VAT gaan aan?”. I left you for one week, I put my soul under the ocean and swam with apex predators and it was sublime, until I broke the surface and gave my final OK. #StageSix loadshedding, #ZeroBudget and the rebirth of apartheid. If you look...
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#CweCwe,#JusticeForAllVictims and #ConversationsWithMandla.
Finally. The country stopped. It stopped for seven-year-old #CweCwe. That’s not her name, obviously, we can’t have a raped seven-year old’s real name tied to the biggest story in South Africa. We can’t use her name because this story will be with her for her entire...
#ChildCarnage and a #CoalitionCollision
She is only seven years old, and we have established that she was raped repeatedly. The child told us that the principal did this to her, a man called #JacoPieterse. When this hit the media, Jaco was refusing to hand over his DNA and #Afriforum was representing him....
#TheAmbassadors and #MiddleFingers. South Africa is #PassiveAggressive
#HugoFerreira, 37, plead guilty to raping and severely beating his eight-day-old daughter, who later died. He said he would give her something to “cry about” before he killed her. You would expect the world to stop. You’d expect South Africa to stop, yet this was...
#NotFitForPurpose. No Time to Play in SA
She said she’d accept five grand for Joshlin. Promised twenty grand, but she’d accept five. According to witness testimony this week, Kelly Smith made those statements more than once while her child was alive. We learnt how she had tried to stab her other child, how...