Estaleto
@estaleto.bsky.social
Politics, books, music. Never come across a rabbit hole not worth going down. "Don't listen to what they say. Go see." 🇿🇦 At various stages home was Syria, Lebanon, India, Yemen, Libya and Iraqi Kurdistan. Free Palestine.
The world has become so crazy that I'm actually sharing a Willem Petzer video 🤣But it's rather interesting. For those who, understandably, can't face 15 minutes of him and his Enlgish, a summary 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWR...
US Block Thousands of Afrikaner Refugees at the Last Minute After Already Accepting Them
YouTube video by Willem Petzer
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Deliver the seat 🤣🤣🤣🤣 First the story makes you laugh, and then the story teller makes you laugh even more. Oh SA, you are wonderful.
1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers. This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · yesterdayRoss Douthat asks the President how his net worth rose by nearly $3 billion, according to a Forbes estimate, since he returned to office. Watch the interview Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on 60 Minutes.
To be absolutely clear: This was another Y2K situation. Lots and lots of people worked diligently for months and years, at great cost, taking hours away from their friends & family, to make our elections a bit more free and fair. Voting was still threatened! It still took record-breaking turnout!
Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is so wrong The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months Here’s how: a thread (1/x)
Read our story on the recent incident at Cornwall Hill College here.
The SA gambling site that sent influencers to a pre-school
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Nairobi’s independent cinema Unseen has cancelled screenings of NAZA, the award winning documentary examining Israel’s military operations in Gaza, saying it had no choice but to comply with instructions it received. Unseen did not identify who issued the instructions or explain the circumstances.
FlowerPowered 🇿🇦🫶@lovinglifealot.bsky.social · 2d agoKenya smh www.sinemafocus.com/naza-screeni...
In the last 5 years, Martin Moshal, the online gambling tycoon with deep ties to Israel, gave: · R48m to the DA · R47m to ActionSA · R15.5m to BOSA · R7.5m to the IFP businesstech.co.za/news/wealth/...
The secretive billionaire who pumped R118 million into major political parties in South Africa
South African born billionaire Martin Moshal has donated R118 million to political parties over the last five years.
businesstech.co.za
Aber Kawas has made history as the 1st Palestinian American elected to the NY State Senate. Kawas, a Brooklyn-born community organiser, returned to New York in 2024 after completing a Master’s degree in Islamic Liberation Theology at the University of Johannesburg. www.sapeople.com/world/univer...
'We made history': University of Johannesburg alumnus makes milestone entry into New York Senate
University of Johannesburg alumnus Aber Kawas has made history as the first Palestinian American elected to the New York State Senate.
sapeople.com
How funny is this. On municipal elections day in South Africa, where service delivery is THE issue, we spent the entire day without electricty. Went off around 4am and only came back on at 5.30pm. You can't make this up 🤣
Trump fired 300,000 Black women from Federal jobs in his race war; that needs to be undone; but his hatred galvanized them to take over Georgia, in an epochal rebuke to the new Jim Crow
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 5d agoBlack people in America have played the longest of “long games.” The resilience and persistence it takes to believe and to keep fighting no matter the obstacles.
40 Million AIPAC dollars couldn't stop him. I'm excited to see what he will achieve in US politics over the next few decades.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d agoBreaking news: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Republican former congressman Mike Rogers in Michigan to become the country’s first Muslim elected to the Senate. https://wapo.st/3W9Nx2J
🤮🤮And this is why we follow US politics. Their white supremacists and ours walk hand in hand. GO ABDUL!!!
Painfully ironic that despite being told by Republicans and centrists for over a decade that Muslims wouldn't support people like me, the most prominent politicians standing up for trans people in America are all Muslim.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last wk.Yesterday, in a hostile 60 Minutes interview with a Bari Weiss acolyte who once called trans kids a “social contagion,” El-Sayed refused to budge on trans rights. “A failure to show up and fight for that right is a failure to show up and fight for your own.” Subscribe to support our journalism.
South Africa and Rwanda kicked out of Agoa. Take your Agoa and shove it up your fat orange ass, is my feeling. www.businessday.co.za/news/2026-11...
US removes South Africa from Agoa trade pact
Move raises fears for thousands of jobs in South Africa as duty-free access ends
businessday.co.za
Me here in South Africa, following every twist and turn of the El-Sayed / Haley Stevens drama even though I've never even been anywhere near Michigan.
The Plot Thickens
Alt: The Plot Thickens. Angela Lansbury munching on popcorn.
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The mother of highveld storms is flinging thunder, lightning and hailstones at us in all her fury. Spectacular.
In South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, efforts to contain the virus have been upended.
How Trump Destroyed South Africa’s Effort to Slow HIV Transmission
In South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, efforts to contain the virus have been upended.
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South Africa's local elections are on Wednesday and, spoiler alert, voters are not happy. I looked at my home city of Joburg (full disclosure: I can't vote), which has had 10 mayors in 10 years, has a 220bn rand/£9.9bn infrastructure backlog and where a quarter of water is lost to leaks.
Piles of rubbish, power cuts and potholes: anger grows over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure
The problems run deep in South Africa’s largest city. Will voters punish the ANC in next week’s local elections?
theguardian.com
Sorry man we just can't keep on going like this. Can't have people speaking like this, especially people in positions of power. This can't just be fine now
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoRFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt
This man killed Chris Hani in the hope it would trigger race riots and cause the South African government to reverse its rolling back of Apartheid. He served 29 years in jail, then deported back to his native Poland, where he is now a darling of the Polish far right and may become an MP?
GroundUp News@groundup.org.za · 4w agoJanusz Waluś, who murdered Chris Hani in 1993, was deported to Poland in December 2024. He has become a hero of Poland’s far right and football ultras. Read groundup.org.za/article/chri... by Jędrzej Słodkowski
They are sounding completely unhinged and desperate.
So rare for a good person, and the right person, to win one of these awards.
Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · last mo.Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner. Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize. A South African lawyer, she led investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
