So lets for once listen to communities who have for too long been robbed of their agency in a manner which has created the scourge of gangsterism to begin with.

How is MILITARISATION going to solve the systemic issues that plague #CapeFlats communities? Govt really does not care about the people. Imagine the trauma that is bound to come with this “solution”.

Worse, that somehow those areas should then also take responsibility for dealing with it. The hasty shuffling away from taking communal responsibility for the symptoms of the legacy of apartheid spatial planning and forced removals.

It's time we started responding differently to an escalating crisis. Arise Family is based in a community on the Cape Flats & believes we need a different kind of army to the one being deployed. #CapeFlats #crisis #ARMY arisefamily.org/2019/07/12/the…

#gangviolence #warzone This is hectic. Reports of heavy gang shootings in Hanover Park and Manenberg, Cape Town. This is unacceptable. People on the Cape Flats are bleeding. Video as received this morning. News24 🇿🇦 Yusuf Abramjee REZA SA Police Service 🇿🇦 eNCA @SABCNewsOnline

Any other parents having to navigate snorting pigs & adventures? WIN tickets to see PEPPA PIG LIVE in Cape Town! thingstodowithkids.co.za/win/giveaways/… via ThingsToDo WithKids

This afternoon I met Miche Solomon, born Zephany Nurse. She is an incredible young woman. She has been through a hell most cannot even imagine. As is inevitable, the armchair commentators have begun to come for her. "Why does she still love the woman who took her?"#zephanynurse

"She has no empathy for her biological parents", they say. To those people, I say, you have no idea. Please watch this BRILLIANT interview with John Maytham. capetalk.co.za/articles/35788… #ZephanyNurse

The book, 'Zephany' by Joanne Jowell is out now - buy it, read it, but above all, save your judgement of this brave, young soul. #zephanynurse

Let’s face it, if I declared myself the Chosen One and King of the Jews then cancelled a meeting because no one would sell me Greenland, they’d haul my ass into the emergency room on a 5150 before I could finish the sentence.

Trump’s “chosen one” remarks reveals people love messiahs... as long as the content of the term Christ isn’t that pathetic nonviolent crucified fool, Jesus of Nazareth. No, many Christians want Barabbas.

We are finally out! Thank you so much to all those who have been praying for us and showing your solidarity. Huge thank you to ZLHR for the legal representation. So many reflections from the past two days but that’s for another day. Feeling grateful, hopeful, energized!

We talk a lot about self care, but I think we don’t talk enough about collective care. Because we belong to each other, taking care of ourselves need not always be in isolation. If our liberation is bound together, then so is our care.

I hope you’re going to reply to the other 5 million of us who think that what you have done is the most regressive step - a strong opposition is good for SA but your return and “colorblindness” is short sighted and will cost our country. #MmusiMaimane is doing the right thing!

Do you think Gogo is reflecting on the damage her return is doing to the party?

Siya Kolisi remembers that he watched the 2007 World Cup final, which the Springboks won, in a local tavern because he didn’t have a TV at home. He would have been around 16 years old then. Next week he captains South Africa in the 2019 final. Guys. What a thing. 🇿🇦✊🏽

I love Everything Happens with Kate Bowler | Ray Barfield: This is Going to Hurt Just a Little, let's play it! podbean.com/ea/dir-g5qcc-3…

Shout out to all municipalities to get hold of us and share schedules in EXCEL/CSV format so we can load them quickly! Please @ your municipality here!

I have just visited Nicholas Dlamini in hospital and heard first hand his horrible experience. I have instructed SANParks to suspend all official involved and implement an independent investigation.