Passionate South African, VWS Firefighter, Wildfire Consultant & Trainer, Fire Investigator
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined March 2007
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The team has been doing great work on the new @Vulcan_VRS website. Check it out and let us know if you, or anyone you know, needs wildfire solutions or incident management training in preparation for the upcoming fire season! vulcanrisksolutions.com/
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CHAMPIONS! Another South African, another crazy record! THOMAS VAN TONDER YOU CHAMPION! ❤️🇿🇦🏆
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The British Museum is the largest repository of stolen goods known to man.
Give it back!
All the gold, diamonds, sapphires, sculptures, religious artefacts, and heirlooms that you've stolen from Africa & Asia.
Including the "Crown Jewels."
Give it all back, u filthy thieves!
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In awarding this year’s #NobelPeacePrize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. Peace requires justice.
History has shown that a world operating without the rule of law is unjust, unwise and inhumane. The judges – those who guard the thin red line between order and chaos – are therefore highly deserving of our praise. But today, as these same judges are sanctioned, and their institutions are attacked, we need people of courage, vision and determination – qualities that 2026 peace laureate Navi Pillay demonstrates in her work on the bench.
#NobelPrize
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As the Israel team travels to Europe where they will play against Austria, Ireland and Kosovo between 24 September - 6 October, Palestinian families are being displaced and dispossessed, their land stolen, their olive trees uprooted, and their histories erased by settlers with the support of the Israeli military. The beautiful game should bring people together, not rubber-stamp apartheid.
It’s unconscionable that the Israel men’s football team will participate in the UEFA Nations League this autumn despite clear evidence that Israel’s football association continues to support illegal settlements.
Sport should never be used as a public relations spectacle for states committing atrocities. When rules are broken, when occupation, apartheid and genocide are ongoing, we cannot look the other way.
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This Heritage Month, celebrate what makes South Africa special with a day out on top of Table Mountain?
From 1 – 31 October 2026, our Local is Lekker special is available.
Adult return ticket: R265
Child [up to 17] Student & Pensioners return ticket: R135
tablemountain.net/plan-your-…
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Beautiful stuff
We have official cockpit footage of @Fly_Airlink flyover of the Capetown stadium. 🏟️ Next level. South Africa 🇿🇦 is unbeaten. 😂
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Congratulations South Africa Legal Team. What a gift to humanity you are.
South Africa has officially submitted a substantial dossier to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), detailing Israel’s continued non-compliance with legally binding provisional measures.
The submission, formally handed over on 25 August 2026, serves to assist an ICJ committee of judges tasked with monitoring the implementation of the court’s orders in Gaza.
According to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Israel’s non-compliance directly undermines the protective functions of international justice.
Hence, the submission is a vital milestone in the struggle for global accountability. By formally documenting Israel’s refusal to adhere to the court’s binding provisional measures, Pretoria is doing far more than advocating for Palestinian survival.
Read the latest commentary by Iqbal Jassat.
palestinechronicle.com/south…
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A view of the planes flying over the Cape Town's DHL Stadium's roof from the roof 😭😅
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Heavy rain and aircraft dropping water have failed to fully extinguish a vast peat fire in the High Fens of eastern Belgium, where some 3,000 hectares of natural forest have been turned into a smouldering wasteland.
Al Jazeera's Peter Smith reports.
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On this day in 1977, Steve Biko was arrested on his way home from a political meeting and detained in Port Elizabeth under the Terrorism Act. This arrest was one of several each on different charges, including various allegations that he had broken his banning orders and a charge of obstructing the course of justice by persuading witnesses in a political trial to change their evidence. Biko was thirty years old and healthy when he was arrested. He was first taken to Port Elizabeth prison and on 11 September was transferred to Pretoria where he died in hospital after assaults in police custody. The police officers who had held Biko were questioned but none of them confirmed his cause of death. Source: SAHO, Image Source: Cape Argus
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For anyone in Europe who still thought climate change was a problem for future generations, this summer's sweltering heatwaves have brought home the reality that its costly and life-altering economic impacts have already arrived. reut.rs/4fWNU6H reut.rs/4fWNU6H
Since we started renting out our penthouse we have had guests from all over the world. Amazing reviews. Friendly people. Its been great. But we've also had 2 couples from Jo'burg and both have been complete nightmares! Local isn't always so lekker...
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Two crew on a firefighting helicopter crashed and died on Sunday near the seaside community of Psatha, about 40 km from Athens, after a mid-air brush with a second helicopter, whose two crew survived. reut.rs/4xlzGUc reut.rs/4xlzGUc
Hands off the Wild Coast!
The Wild Coast’s Mining Battle Is Back, And Xolobeni Isn’t Backing Down ift.tt/gl7Q1qH
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Firefighters struggle to contain Madrid wildfires, as more than 140,000 evacuated in France and Spain bbc.in/4bd2lSH
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More than 80,000 people have fled as fast-moving wildfires sweep through France and Spain. France has sought international help, while Spain has declared a national emergency.
Al Jazeera's Milena Veselinovic reports.
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A rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through 2,000 hectares of land west of the city of Bordeaux. reut.rs/4wX9EGs reut.rs/4wX9EGs
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O comentarista suíço David Lemos, encerrou a transmissão resumindo com precisão os problemas desta Copa do Mundo, ele foi perfeito.
🗣️"Não há dúvidas de que esta foi a Copa do Mundo mais comercial da história e também uma das mais politizadas."
"Não esqueceremos os preços que pessoas sem grande poder aquisitivo tiveram de pagar para viver sua paixão pelo futebol."
"Em alguns casos, sequer puderam entrar no país por causa de sua nacionalidade, fossem torcedores, jornalistas ou até árbitros, como o somali Omar Artan."
"Também lembramos do tratamento inaceitável dado à seleção do Irã, que não pôde defender suas chances de forma adequada durante o torneio."
"E há ainda o caso de Folarin Balogun. Vimos um presidente se vangloriar de ter ligado para o presidente da FIFA para conseguir retirar a suspensão de um jogador."
"A política se infiltrou no coração do futebol, embora a FIFA afirme querer mantê-la acima de tudo. Fica claro que isso só vale até certo ponto."
"Foi uma Copa do Mundo em que todas as partidas foram disputadas em quatro tempos, e cuja final teve um intervalo de quase 30 minutos."
"A crise tem dois nomes: dinheiro e poder. Hoje existe uma crise de confiança entre muitos dos envolvidos no futebol e a FIFA."
"Nas próximas semanas, muito dinheiro será distribuído a diversas federações e a muitos agentes do futebol, que serão educadamente convidados a permanecer em silêncio."
"Esperamos que tudo isso seja levado em consideração e que não volte a acontecer."