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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 14h

KILLED BY THE IDF: Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

OPINION | Through Zionism, progressive and egalitarian Jewish values have been corrupted | News24

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 16h

After deliberations, the JSC has forwarded this list of 5 candidates for appointment to the Constitutional Court, out of which President Ramaphosa must choose 2 to appoint:

Judge Nambitha Dambuza
Adv Alan Dodson SC
Judge Glenn Goosen
Judge Kate Savage
Judge Ashton Schippers

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 19h

🔒OPINION | Through Zionism, progressive and egalitarian Jewish values have been corrupted www.news24.com/opinions/col...

If Judaism is going to be part of the anti-fascist struggle for a better world, we will need to reclaim progressive traditions that have guided us for thousands of years, while also integrating them i...

New Cape Town transgender health service addresses Pepfar funding gap

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 20h

New Cape Town transgender health service addresses funding gap after Pepfar cuts www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Run by the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, the service at Groote Schuur Hospital seeks to help transgender and gender-diverse people who previously relied on specialised clinics that closed due to Pep...

ANC’s R1bn in public funds at risk as insolvency looms for party

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 20h

With at least three bank accounts attached and payments stopped to settle an R85-million debt, the ANC also faces an insolvency application that could jeopardise more than R1-billion in public funds it receives as a represented party.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The ANC faces an insolvency application that would be parlous for the party ahead of next year’s make-or-break local government elections.

Delayed judgments inevitable due to lack of staff, Dambuza-Mayosi tells JSC

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 20h

🔒Delayed judgments inevitable due to lack of staff, Dambuza-Mayosi tells JSC www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...

Constitutional Court hopeful pins blame for delays in delivering rulings at SCA on big shortage of researchers as candidates interviewed

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Church fund scandal claim shadows candidate for Constitutional Court

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 21h

🔒 Church fund scandal claim shadows candidate for Constitutional Court. Madumetja Kate Malepe under scrutiny over alleged misappropriation, for which she says she's been cleared, and debt woes. www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...

Madumetja Kate Malepe under scrutiny over alleged misappropriation, for which she says she's been cleared, and debt woes

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Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 1d

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes. Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’

Two Years After October 7, the Horrors Are Indescribable

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 1d

After October 7, Israeli society went into a vengeful genocidal tailspin, carrying out some of the most heinous crimes of this century again and again and again. Two years on, its leaders are unrepentant and baying for more blood. jacobin.com/2025/10/gaza...

After October 7, Israeli society went into a vengeful genocidal tailspin, carrying out some of the most heinous crimes of this century again and again and again. Two years on, its leaders are unrepent...

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Queue, the beloved country

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

Queue, the beloved country: We have come to accept that we must queue for hours for every public service - but it’s not normal. groundup.org.za/article/queu...

We have come to accept that we must queue for hours for every public service - but it’s not normal

groundup.org.za

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

Landowners must go through mediation before applying for an eviction, court rules groundup.org.za/article/land...

Landowners must go through mediation before applying for an eviction, court rules

Land Court lays out rules for mediation procedures

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

🔒Qaanitah Hunter | "It is how the ANC operates. Tenderpreneurs bankroll campaigns in exchange for protection. Hustlers broker deals and trade influence for cash. Politicians benefit and later act innocent when the details leak." www.news24.com/opinions/col...

Qaanitah Hunter | The political hustler the ANC now pretends not to know | News24

Disowning Brown Mogotsi will not fix the culture of tenderpreneurs bankrolling ANC politician’s internal campaigns because the problem is systemic, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

PKTT arrested me without a shred of evidence, corruption-busting lawyer tells Madlanga | News24

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 2d

🔒 Pierre de Vos | R2bn Tembisa Hospital looting: ANC leaders celebrate what should shame them

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 4d

🔒PKTT arrested me without a shred of evidence, corruption-busting lawyer tells Madlanga. She alleges that the abuse "at the hands of the PKTT was calculated, excessive and unconstitutional". www.news24.com/southafrica/...

After spending four years investigating and exposing rampant corruption at the University of Fort Hare, lawyer Sarah Burger was shocked when the same PKTT member she had briefed arrested her for corru...

At least 53 Palestinians killed in fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 5d

At least 53 more Palestinians killed by Israel in continuing wave of often indiscriminate attacks on Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Military offensive stepped up as Hamas leaders consider Trump’s 20-point peace plan

US archivist ousted after refusing to let Trump give Eisenhower’s sword to King Charles – reports

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 5d

US archivist ousted after refusing to let Trump give Eisenhower’s sword to King Charles – reports. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump administration ultimately gave the King a replica sword on the president’s recent state visit

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 5d

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity of the Trump regime seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as a problem of social systems rather than individuals. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

JSC interviews — hope and questions

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 5d

Hope and controversy as JSC prepares for crucial interviews amid ongoing vacancies in courts. Will the two vacancies on the Constitutional Court be filled to give the Court a full compliment of judges for the first time since 2016? www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

In this round of interviews, with two vacancies up for grabs, the JSC must send five names to the president, and must therefore interview an absolute minimum of five candidates, and ideally more. Happ...

Justice delayed — Fred Daniel defeats Mabuza, more than 20 years late

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 5d

ustice for the departed — Fred Daniel defeats Mabuza, more than 20 years late, as High Court rules that David Mabuza — South Africa’s former deputy president, who died in early July — was a primary architect of the massive land claims scam. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

On 30 September, for the first time since the story broke in the early 2000s, an officer of the law ruled that Mpumalanga strongman David Mabuza — South Africa’s former deputy president, who died in e...

Fikile Mbalula says criminal cartels have infiltrated ANC

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 5d

🔒Fikile Mbalula says criminal cartels have infiltrated ANC (One could argue the ANC itself is a criminal cartel.) www.businesslive.co.za/bd/politics/...

Secretary-general concedes networks have eroded trust as commission hears of underworld links to party funding

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 6d

Israel’s Gaza flotilla interception triggers protests, diplomatic expulsions and calls for strikes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel’s Gaza flotilla interception triggers protests, diplomatic expulsions and calls for strikes

Thousands marched in cities across the world following the interception of the flotilla and detainment of activists including Greta Thunberg

KZN water entity axes chairperson over undeclared business interests | News24

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 6d

🔒KZN water entity axes chairperson over undeclared business interests www.news24.com/investigatio...

uMngeni-uThukela Water has axed the chairperson of its subsidiary, uMngeni Water Services, after investigators found that he failed to make a full disclosure of his interests in a series of companies,...

R1.6bn contracts, mass raids – City of Cape Town probes take another turn

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 6d

Whistleblower sparks police raids as investigations into Cape Town’s R1.6 billion tender fraud intensify, following preliminary investigations conducted by both the City of Cape Town Municipality and SAPS www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Police say raids across Cape Town this week are linked to a corruption investigation involving R1.6-billion in municipal contracts. Previous raids involving the City of Cape Town caused controversy an...

Julius Malema’s firearm verdict and the EFF’s fork in the road

Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 6d

Julius Malema’s firearm verdict and the EFF’s fork in the road www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The finding by the East London Magistrates’ Court that EFF leader Julius Malema is guilty of an offence for firing a firearm at a rally in 2018 could be a significant step in the continued weakening o...