The #NHI Act has been gazetted. It happened on 16 May, a day after #CyrilRamaphosa signed it into law. static.pmg.org.za/50664_16-5_Nat…

Israel is such an out-of-control fascist regime that it is denouncing the United Nations as a 'terrorist organization'.

This is the textbook definition of a rogue state.

Israel is a 21st-century Rhodesia, carrying out a colonial genocide before the eyes of the entire world.

'Anti-queer discourse in Africa today tends to argue that homosexuality has no roots in the continent, that it was introduced by Europeans. As elsewhere, our research in Angola shows the precise opposite.'
theconversation.com/angolas-untold… via The Conversation Africa

The Economic Freedom Fighters both - supports AND rejects - the NHI

At US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/…

How a Brakpan meisie launched Grace Jones vryeweekblad.com/en/opinions-an… via Vrye Weekblad

Jozi, my ravaged Jozi: The city feels brittle, tattered and tired, yet life goes on in a place where governance went to die. vryeweekblad.com/en/news-and-po… via Vrye Weekblad

🔒Parliament gives Ramaphosa a blank cheque to set political party donation limits news24.com/news24/politic… via @news24

🔒Is it time for Zuma to sell his socks? Trial date set after 20 years, R28.9m of taxpayers' money news24.com/news24/southaf… via @news24

🔒SA Medical Association to mount legal challenge against the NHI, but no indication what the constitutional grounds for such a challenge might be. news24.com/news24/southaf… via @news24

It’s business as usual for medical schemes, with NHI implementation years away dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

Everything you ever wanted to know about the NHI but were afraid to ask dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

SARS gets bloody nose with tobacco CCTV camera interdict dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

How alleged RET ‘Guptabots’ migrated overnight to Zuma’s MK party dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

Confirmed - Secretary to Parliament Xolile George receives an annual salary of R5m dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

🔒JONNY STEINBERG: Thabo Mbeki’s new take on Zuma is naked paranoia businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/col… via BusinessLIVE

🔒CHRIS THURMAN: Naming and shaming the faith-based parties businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/col… via BusinessLIVE

“Individual conscience very often brings us to collective action.” - Zackie Achmat
It is the responsibility of every person & community in South Africa to organise around the particular challenges they face, & to work with government to create solutions. zackie2024.com/building-a-mov…

The verbatim record of today's hearings in South Africa v. Israel are now available on the ICJ's website:

icj-cij.org/sites/default/…

UCT students set up camp in solidarity with Palestinians

A white sheet with hundreds of names of those killed in Palestine since October was draped down the Sarah Baartman Hall steps

groundup.org.za/article/uct-st… by Ashraf Hendricks