Six District Six families living in Victorian cottages on Searle Street have been ordered to vacate by 6 March after an eviction order was granted in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court.

Read groundup.org.za/article/desp... by Matthew Hirsch

Israeli forces escalated their atrocities in 2025, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of genocide, and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. #Rights2026

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Iranian authorities in 2025 carried out executions on a scale unseen since the late 1980s, carried out mass killings in response to protests, conducted mass and arbitrary arrests, and ratcheted up repression. #Rights2026

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Nowhere in #Gaza is safe. Not even inside a health facility.

Doctors Without Borders reiterates our call for all parties to protect medical facilities and ensure medical staff and patients do not come under fire.

Good lord, please just let one thing be sacred 😭😩

We cannot and must not forget Israel continuing its genocide against the Palestinian people - including children. There is no ceasefire.

Words fail me sometimes to describe how deeply saddened I am by the genocide in Sudan. Everyone who died has a story. They have hopes and dreams and fears and loved and hated and cried and laughed. But now they don't. All that made them is lost is echoes of mortar shells and gunshots.

Saw this and immediately thought of Turtlemania on @moviestruck.bsky.social and also the Feywild episode of campaign 1 of @rollwithdifficulty.bsky.social

To me, it's disappointing seeing Mamdani temper his views on Palestine. If there's one person who predicted Zohran Mamdani's slide into becoming more moderate it was @fdsignifier.bsky.social and I gotta give him respect for sticking to his guns on that.

These people are beyond depraved: Far-right Israeli politicians and settlers discuss plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza, annex the territory and turn it into a hi-tech, luxury resort. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Court case exposes how Home Affairs red tape is obstructing birth registrations in Western Cape, leaving kids without IDs or access to fundamental rights.

I just want to take a hot second in send sympathy out to the Americans. Honestly, you lot have it rough and I wish you nothing but luck. On a side note, I also want to take this opportunity to criticise TLDR News for their segment about South Africa being a failed state.

Two researchers explain the disinformation tactics used by Christian fundamentalist groups to attack transgender and gender-diverse people.

A cohort of young doctors whose training was funded by the Free State government through the Nelson Mandela-Fidel Castro Bursary programme have been unable to find work in the public health sector upon completing their community service, despite a contractual obligation to serve the province that...

When you're driving to work and listening to @hellofutureme.bsky.social 's A Catalogue for the End of Humanity, and all of a sudden, you're sitting in the parking lot with a lump in your throat.

You ever just sit and think about how Iroh, in his hubris, encouraged Lu Ten to pursue glory and so when he died at the siege of Ba Sing Se, Iroh realised his son, the soldier was still his little boy? But now, he'll never come marching home.

#WestBank: Doctors Without Borders released a report on the escalation of violence. “Inflicting harm and denying care,” reveals how attacks by Israeli forces and settlers have obstructed access to healthcare.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/west-bank-pa...