One moment it was edging on Autumn and the next … carnage. Seventy-two people dead, that was the count late last night. Many were children. Most were living near water. The task force came out to say they are begging people to move away from water deluges. It’s as if they don’t know that there are no ablution blocks and no cooking and washing facilities in these areas. The government should be held liable for the deaths in Mthatha. Then the snow arrived and yet again all hell froze over, leaving SA trapped between flooding and ice. And who was there to pick up the pieces? #GiftOfTheGivers obviously. Thank you to the teams at GOG who save us daily. #ECWeather.
I left you for one week and the biggest bromance in bromance history collapsed! That made fascinating viewing. Elon walked into the Oval Office with a shiner that needed a rump steak and more eish. According to Elon, his kid did it, poor littley being blamed before he can even write. Social media was fuelled by speculation. We seemed to settle on the perp being either an incumbent husband who lost a wife to Musky or Steve Bannon. Both are left-handed and that black eye came from a southpaw. And if you thought that was something, it was only the beginning.
Trump passed a “big beautiful bill” that threatened Muskette’s big but not-so-beautiful-electric-cars. Trump said: “Elon was ‘wearing thin, I asked him to leave; I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!” Elon (on the other hand Darren) called the bill a “big, ugly bill” that would add $5 trillion to the deficit in America, landing them in recession. He also added that the bill was a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill … a disgusting abomination”
And so began the war of billionaires. Trump said that Elon definitely gave a nazi salute on stage, twice, and in retaliation Musk, probably in a drug infused haze, fired shots at the orange numpty. Musk admitted to rigging elections and then told the world the reason why Epstein’s list had not been released … Donnie was on the list. We knew this but we were shocked when Trump’s bestie said it. He even added “have a nice day DJT” after dropping what he called a “bomb”. The memes were definitely my best. You had the Statue of Liberty eating popcorn and Twitter was now officially named EX. That was funny, but as it turns out you don’t just threaten Donald Trump because within days Elon was apologizing like the little runt that he is. Elon said: “I regret some of my posts about the president last week, they went too far.” He didn’t say that they were lies, he just said he went too far.
It was around this time that the riots began in LA. It started off with ICE trying to get rid of several illegal immigrants. But the community didn’t take kindly to that at all, and they stood up against them. Here’s the wonderful thing: when we the people stand up against the people in “control”, those people become obsolete. ICE was struggling so they backed off and in marched the National Guard. Again, the people showed them who’s boss, and then they brought in the marines with rubber bullets. Even journalists got hit, and suddenly it looked like there was a civil war in Merica. But it wasn’t confined to LA; the protests extended across the country. The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if that wasn’t all ignited to make sure that we don’t pay attention to the Epstein list. Or maybe not because we all know who’s on that list. We all know that none of them are going to have to go to jail or serve any time or pay reparations or face any comeuppance.
While we’re in international waters we might as well stay here and talk a little bit about the flotilla that was headed up by Greta Thunberg, headed to Gaza with aid. There were a team of people brave people making their way by sea to a place where those in control do not want any more bad publicity. Some call it a PR stunt, and I suppose it was in many ways, but the publicity stunt was there to show you exactly what Israel is capable of. They will prevent any aid assistance, even from Greta Thunberg. Without provocation, they were all arrested, and Greta was deported, along with another four people. The rest are in prison in Tel Aviv.
The world has had enough. My story of the week is about ordinary Muslims from all over the world, specifically North Africa and the Middle East who have put together their own army. Ordinary citizens who are not government sanctioned are making their way as we speak to Rafah. One aim: to get the aid through the crossing to a starving nation. There are tens of thousands of them. These are very brave people, and if this doesn’t work, if they kill these civilians that aren’t even from Palestine and the world still stands by and watches, I think the whole world will stand up and do its own thing. In the past few weeks, Israel has been experiencing the largest detraction against its regime: starvation, famine and shooting people while they’re queuing for food is not something even Israelis take lightly. Here we are, Zionists included all against what’s happening in Palestine. It’s been almost two years, and nobody’s helped these poor people who have been obliterated by Israel. Trump said he is no longer willing to arm Israel; the UK have said they’re not going to arm Israel; Spain has said they’re not going to arm Israel. The tide appears to be turning but is it too little and far too late? Hell has frozen over.
Then back here at home, we had the #ComradesMarathon and apart from a woman going missing who was later found, the biggest story out of this event was that the Israelis were allowed to compete. The EFF didn’t take very kindly to that, so they did what they do best: they marched against the running comrades. Funny hey?
#FloydShivambu went to go visit #ShepardBushiri, that didn’t go down well with uBaba (also smacks of a set up), so Floyd from Redefloyed. I think this is the fifth #MKParty member to be redeployed. That party’s a joke isn’t it.
Staying at home, a Limpopo woman killed her father; two cops were arrested for handing over a kidnap victim to a ransom gang; a 99-year-old woman was raped and killed. Shall I continue? The gruesomeness of the massacre in the #DiekloofHostel is something unbelievable; there is a R60,000 reward for the killer of IFP MP Sithole and there is R100,000 reward to find Ferdie Visser, the man who killed local Sodwana legend #JohnMatambu. And then I saw something my eyes just could not believe, and that was the racism incident at #LakeHaven school where girls and boys beat the crap out of each other because of racism. These kids cannot be older than 13/14. It was revolting to see children beat on children like that. When are we going to deal with this violence in our country? The truth is that the president started a #NationalDialogue this week. This is his answer to all the crime, carnage and genocide of women and children. The answer is for us to talk! Look I get it, Nelson Mandela was a big talker too, but he spoke with purpose and then after speaking with purpose, there was action but sadly that’s not what I’m feeling now. I’m feeling like this is fluff. #BillionaireBS
Dr Nkabane was eating while being questioned in a parliamentary session about the nepotism of her higher education committee. A member questioned her and said to her “Look you’re not allowed to eat while I’m asking you these questions.” She replied saying “I am allowed to eat, Google it”. And with that she made herself a viral sensation and ended up in the president’s office.
Probably my favourite story of the week is #SenzoMeyiwaTrial’s #JudgeRatha who had a go at Mnisi, one of the advocates representing the accused. Mnisi wanted two days off to run the comrades. The judge took great exception to this and lambasted Mnisi. He said that no white lawyer or advocate would ever have the gall to ask him for such permission. Obviously, this was followed by a slew of social media commentary about how racist this judge is. He is also the same judge who shouted when one of the advocates was running late because he was stuck in traffic. Judge Ratha said he would never have had the same experience with the white advocate. The judge went home and was fully chastised by the nation (and his wife it appears) because the next day he came back to chambers and apologized to everybody: he apologised to black lawyers, black judges, people who are studying law, people who aren’t even studying law, he apologised to the nation, he said he even apologised to foreigners that don’t even belong in this nation. He was quite sarcastic, and it was funny even if it wasn’t so very serious.
And then the most laughable story this week is Helen Zille is going to attempt to be mayor of Joburg. This makes me laugh for several reasons: how many times has Helen retired, can somebody count? Oh wait, I’ll read the news, so you don’t have to. She retired in 2013, 2015, 2019 and then sort of in 2023 and then she reappeared. Now she wants to be mayor of Joburg. She thinks we forgot that the DA had been in charge of Johannesburg for several years and they didn’t do anything then. Perhaps Helen’s whip doesn’t reach that far from Cape Town. Let’s be fair though, the people from the DA leading Johannesburg were probably under her control so why she thinks that putting her face to the mayoral chain would make it any better, I have no idea. But that’s GodZille for you and I for one want none of it thanks very much.
It’s time to wrap this up as I’ve run out of words so even though there were falling planes, northern lights and strawberry moons, I’m out for this week. I was lucky to spend time with a good friend for the week. I’m lucky, I’m really, really lucky if you only knew how lucky I was… This weekend (after 14 weeks) I’m going to be getting back into the water. I’m going to see Steven Patrick the octopus and I’m going to see if the potato bass will give me a smooch, but more importantly, I’m going to see if I can still dive. I’m Tonya Khoury and thank you for scratching the surface with me and Acumen Media.
