Just months after Oliver Liao arrived in Pretoria as Taiwan’s de facto ambassador, South Africa began a campaign to downgrade its relationship with the island — thrusting him into the epicenter of a geopolitical drama. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/asia-pacific/politics/china-pressure-taiwan-south-africa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #taiwan #southafrica
Springboks captain Siya Kolisi said he hoped his side's Rugby Championship triumph would provide fresh inspiration to South Africa as a whole. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/10/05/more-sports/south-africa-rugby-championship-inspiration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #siyakolisi #rugbychampionship #southafrica #argentina #springboks
#SouthAfrica says release its activists, including grandson of #NelsonMandela
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that Israel's interception of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla was a "grave offense" against "global solidarity & sentiment that is aimed at relieving suffering in #Gaza".
Ramaphosa called on #Israel to immediately release South Africans & others who were on the flotilla, including liberation hero Nelson Mandela's grandson, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela.
#MandlaMandela, as he is known, left Johannesburg in September to join the flotilla. He had said #Palestinians lives under Israeli occupation are worse than what South Africans experienced under #apartheid. #Israel rejects comparisons between the lives of Palestinians who have lived under #occupation or economic #blockade for more than half a century & the apartheid era in #SouthAfrica, when the Black majority was ruled by a repressive white minority government.
#Israel intercepts 39 #aid boats heading for #Gaza
Israeli forces have intercepted 39 boats carrying aid & foreign #activists to Gaza, leaving only one vessel still sailing towards the #Palestinian enclave, the flotilla organizers said on Thursday.
#Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis #starvation #HumanRights #FreedomFlotilla #GlobalSumudFlotilla
#SouthAfrica says release its activists, including grandson of #NelsonMandela
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that Israel's interception of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla was a "grave offense" against "global solidarity & sentiment that is aimed at relieving suffering in #Gaza".
Ramaphosa called on #Israel to immediately release South Africans & others who were on the flotilla, including liberation hero Nelson Mandela's grandson, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela.
I was just looking at the #stats from my @Castopod for the #podcast #audio version of #firesideFedi. I'm blown away at the diversity of folks. I see folks from #Nigera , #Brazil , #SouthAfrica , #Malaysia , #HongKong , #SouthKorea ! And of course #US , #Canada , #EU .
As an American that's never traveled, I can't wait to learn all about everyone, their cultures, their experiences, etc. I'm humbled as well. I'll be honest, if you asked me to point out on a map where these countries were, I probably couldn't. And I feel like I have to do better there. The internet allows all of us to connect and we need to learn as much about each other as we can so we can all learn.
Thank you ALL! <3
New Zealand stayed firm at its Eden Park fortress to claim an attritional 24-17 win over South Africa in a heavyweight clash between the world's top two rugby sides on Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/06/more-sports/all-blacks-top-south-africa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #allblacks #newzealand #auckland #edenpark #southafrica #springboks
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👉Interview: ‘Professor William #Schabas, one of the world’s foremost authorities on #genocide …argues that the case filed by #SouthAfrica against #Israel at the #ICJ is “arguably the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court,”... Crucially, he stresses that 3rd-party states, including the #US, #Germany, & others risk legal liability as “accomplices to genocide.” | ECPS https://www.populismstudies.org/professor-schabas-us-germany-and-others-could-be-held-liable-as-accomplices-to-genocide-in-gaza/
FIFA’s reticence to dock World Cup points from South Africa for using a defaulter in a March fixture is casting a cloud and creating confusion ahead of this week’s potentially decisive round of African qualifiers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/02/soccer/south-africa-fifa-points-controversy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #soccer #southafrica #fifa #2026worldcup
👉Interview: ‘Professor William #Schabas, one of the world’s foremost authorities on #genocide …argues that the case filed by #SouthAfrica against #Israel at the #ICJ is “arguably the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court,”... Crucially, he stresses that 3rd-party states, including the #US, #Germany, & others risk legal liability as “accomplices to genocide.” | ECPS https://www.populismstudies.org/professor-schabas-us-germany-and-others-could-be-held-liable-as-accomplices-to-genocide-in-gaza/
Tom
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Give us each a hectare of land, say women farm workers https://groundup.org.za/article/farm-women-march-to-parliament-calling-for-land-redistribution/
Give us each a hectare of land, say women farm workers https://groundup.org.za/article/farm-women-march-to-parliament-calling-for-land-redistribution/
🎵 Classic albums - Jaluka: Scatterlings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wonDbRMZS0E&list=PLnr8TjTaOReozP3vXf1SvvJ5j2FNj1Ixa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatterlings_of_Africa
Classic track:
Scatterlings of Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-o7Kfqbuw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatterlings_of_Africa
Namaste 🙏 🕊
#ClasssicAlbums#Jaluka#Savuka#JohnnyClegg#SouthAfrica#Zulu#WorldMusic
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David Meyer
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📍 False Bay, South Africa
📷 Amazon Fire Phone
#meermittwoch #oceanwednesday #photo #photography #foto #fotografie #falsebay #ocean #oceandrive #coastal #southafrica #nature #travel #travelphotography
📍 False Bay, South Africa
📷 Amazon Fire Phone
#meermittwoch #oceanwednesday #photo #photography #foto #fotografie #falsebay #ocean #oceandrive #coastal #southafrica #nature #travel #travelphotography
Eve Higgins scored the pivotal try as Ireland launched its Women's Rugby World Cup campaign with a 42-14 victory over Japan in Northampton on Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/25/more-sports/japan-ireland-womens-rugby-world-cup/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #women039srugbyworldcup #japan #ireland #southafrica #newzealand
South African Jean-Jacques "JJ" Wallis is redefining the limits of human flight — and putting South Africa on the global map of extreme aerial sports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/22/more-sports/wallis-south-africa-skydiving/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #jjwallis #southafrica #skydiving
John Hume, the South African who bred the world’s biggest rhino herd, has been arrested on charges of smuggling millions of dollars worth of the endangered animals’ horns. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/20/wildlife/rhino-herd-horn-smuggling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #wildlife #rhinos #southafrica #endangered #animalwelfare #poaching
A new bill in South Africa to legalize informal mining is seen as key to protecting and creating jobs as the nation moves away from planet-heating coal and toward renewables. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/19/markets/south-africa-miners-critical-minerals/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #southafrica #mining #coal
When climate rules are written to protect major powers, they risk locking the Global South out of the green economy. The world needs fairer trade frameworks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/18/world/trade-agenda-for-climate-development/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #climatechange #g20 #africa #southafrica #globalsouth #globaleconomy
All together, the Israeli campaign has amounted to “coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,” the organization wrote. “In other words: #Israel is committing #genocide against #Palestinians in the #Gaza Strip.”
…The debate over whether the #war in #Gaza constitutes #genocide has also played out at the #ICJ, where #SouthAfrica has brought a genocide case against #Israel. The court has yet to rule on the matter.
…Genocide has a specific definition in #InternationalLaw: particular acts carried out with intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. The accusation hits a painful nerve for Israel, a state founded after #Nazi Germany’s attempt to exterminate European Jewry.