@benpooler

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Joined March 2009
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Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro left the country for the US after losing the presidential election and refusing to comply with ‌a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said reut.rs/3WaU8K5

Flavio Bolsonaro headed to the US after losing Brazil election, sources say

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports,...

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Polymarket
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JUST IN: General Motors to leave the New York Stock Exchange after 115 years.
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Shauwn Mkhize loses court bid to stop sale of properties worth R35m | News24

Shauwn Mkhize’s five Sandown properties, worth an estimated R35 million, must be sold to prevent further deterioration, the court has ruled, as SARS pursues millions in unpaid taxes.

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Jonny Steinberg | Will the DA triangulate itself to death? news24.com/opinions/columnis… via @news24

Jonny Steinberg | Will the DA triangulate itself to death? | News24

A decade ago, the DA self-harmed in its quest to win black votes. It may be about to make the same mistake again, writes Jonny Steinberg.

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Karyn Maughan@karynmaughan21h
Senong has lied about having a PhD since 2022. She also falsely claimed (in a poster for a 2023 Career Guidance Conference that charged attendees R1299 a ticket) that she was a Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) board member. PWC has denied any relationship with her.
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Dimpho Senong, who created a fake video of herself graduating with a forged PhD certificate from Wits University, says her false claims about having a doctorate “were intended to be satirical in nature” – as she holds a PhD in "life experience". news24.com/southafrica/news/…

‘Professor’ who doctored degree says forged PhD was ‘tongue in cheek’ | News24

Dimpho Senong, who created a fake video of herself graduating with a forged PhD certificate from Wits University, says her false claims about having a doctorate “were intended to be satirical in...

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Apartheid chain of command: ‘I know everything,’ Eugene de Kock tells TRC inquiry

The man who took the fall for apartheid-era atrocities, former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock, has told the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed post-TRC prosecutions that while he served...

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SA has moved on from Trump’s G20 summit snub, says Roelf Meyer

SA’s US ambassador, Roelf Meyer, says SA will attend the B20 in Washington and is already engaging with the UK about next year’s G20. …

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ANC security chief linked to SSA operation to spy on EFF | News24

The ANC’s former head of security, Tito Maleka, has emerged as a crucial figure in the apparently illegitimate but SSA-funded operation to infiltrate the EFF in 2015 and 2016.

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@ShakeLSOct 26
Piers Morgan's origin story, Haha 😂 😂 😂. OMG these videos are amazing hahaha 🤣 whole world is making fun of him calling him out lol
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Nicholas Dawes
@NicDawesOct 26
Worth noting that ahead of the second round, Lula's campaign dramatically upped its counter-algorithmic and digital mobilization game. They (belatedly) woke up to what they were facing, and fought it head on.
Songezo Zibi
@SongezoZibiOct 26
Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva won. Democracy won. Authoritarianism lost. Right wing authoritarian imperialism lost. But we in South Africa must be vigilant. The wave of online disinformation attacks employed in Brazil for years is now here, in full force.
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De Kock blames NPA for failure to prosecute apartheid crimes timeslive.co.za/politics/202…

De Kock blames NPA for failure to prosecute apartheid crimes

Former death squad commander says prosecutors ignored his offers to implicate police generals and politicians

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Proteas Men
@ProteasMenCSAOct 26
Playing XI for Third Dafabet Test vs Australia 🚨 #TheProteas skipper, Temba Bavuma, confirms the playing XI for tomorrow’s third and final Dafabet Test, with the series on the line at YesPlay Newlands. 🇿🇦 🔁 One change for #TheProteas sees Gerald Coetzee coming in for Anrich Nortje. #Unbreakable #SAvAUS
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Just like the first Test, SA have announced their playing XI a day early Gerald Coetzee is the only change with the injury to Anrich Nortje, and is set to play his first Test in nearly 2 years! #SAvAUS
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It’s time to clip SAA’s wings citizen.co.za/news/opinion/i…

It's time to clip SAA's wings | The Citizen

It stutters along because we, the long-suffering taxpayers, continue to pour bailout cash into it.

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Gayton McKenzie’s Blu Label visits raise fresh questions over Ticketpro sale dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

Gayton McKenzie’s mystery visits to Blu Label ahead of controversial Ticketpro deal

Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie made repeated visits to JSE-listed technology group Blu Label before it sold its Ticketpro subsidiary to a consortium linked to his political party, fuelling suspici...

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From EFF’s Malema to ANC’s Carrim — the politics permeating SA’s cop collusion scandal dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

From EFF’s Malema to ANC’s Carrim — the politics permeating SA’s cop collusion scandal

South Africa is on the brink of local elections. Meanwhile, the lines between various politicians, allegedly dodgy characters and suspicious activities have blurred more than ever. Take the EFF’s...

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Inside the big shiny plan to change how local government works dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

The big shiny plan to change how local government works

The real power of this change would be to remove the direct link between party interests and the interests of top managers. A new white paper wants to create a professional class of top city admini...

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Battle for Cape Town’s No 2 job: Five DA heavyweights eye deputy mayor post | News24

Five senior DA figures are jostling for the deputy mayor’s seat in Cape Town, with interviews set to begin on Monday in a contest that could shape the city’s political leadership, amid speculation...

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