The past few weeks have been a lot. In and out of drug filled sleep, hospital machines pinging in the background, bad dreams, fear, excruciating pain, and sweat all amalgamated in a hot pot that was another round of sepsis mixed with auto-immune diseases. I cried a...
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Tonya’s in Hospital, the Nation’s in Chaos and SA doesn’t Care About Joshlin!
Tonya’s in hospital, and we’re sending strength her way – but if you thought the news would simmer down (out of respect), think again. We still watch the news even when Tonya doesn’t have to, and this week, South Africa did what it does best: headline whiplash....
#VATEnvy and Cyril’s #TrumpCard
Every single politician took credit for the #VATReversal this week, and I must admit, I called it wrong when I said that all VAT will go up seamlessly on the first of May. I am Tonya Khoury; come along with me and #ScratchTheSurface of the media week you missed while...
#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...
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The #VoetseKKers, #PutinsProxy and Gratitude
The past few weeks have been a lot. In and out of drug filled sleep, hospital machines pinging in the background, bad dreams, fear, excruciating pain, and sweat all amalgamated in a hot pot that was another round of sepsis mixed with auto-immune diseases. I cried a...
Tonya’s in Hospital, the Nation’s in Chaos and SA doesn’t Care About Joshlin!
Tonya’s in hospital, and we’re sending strength her way – but if you thought the news would simmer down (out of respect), think again. We still watch the news even when Tonya doesn’t have to, and this week, South Africa did what it does best: headline whiplash....
#VATEnvy and Cyril’s #TrumpCard
Every single politician took credit for the #VATReversal this week, and I must admit, I called it wrong when I said that all VAT will go up seamlessly on the first of May. I am Tonya Khoury; come along with me and #ScratchTheSurface of the media week you missed while...
#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...