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Thank you Nigel Branken. As she is busy with her campaign trail. The questions below should be posed to Helen Zille each time she opens her mouth: I asked Johannesburg Mayoral Candidate, Helen Zille a simple question last night... First: when will she finally call this what it is? GENOCIDE! How many more dead children, how many more starving families, how many more bombed hospitals, before she finds the moral courage to say the word genocide? Second: the claim that we must all sit quietly until the ICJ gives a final ruling is nonsense. The genocide convention requires we act to prevent genocide. The ICJ has already acted because the rights protected under the Genocide Convention were plausibly at risk. Amnesty International has called it genocide. Human Rights Watch has documented extermination and acts of genocide. The International Association of Genocide Scholars has said it is genocide. It is genocide - we MUST name it and act to prevent it. ... and Third: the DA keeps telling us they can do nothing and that South Africa cannot influence what is happening. That is also nonsense. They can support the South African ICJ court case. They can support sanctions. They can support stopping coal exports. They can support the prosecution of South Africans serving in the IDF. They can choose to stand on the side of the oppressed instead of pretending powerlessness. And how did she respond? Basically this: South Africa is busy with its own great kumbaya project, we cannot influence the rest of the world, and what matters most is that we work on our project. In other words, our diversity becomes an excuse for silence while Palestinians are bombed, starved and erased.

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At a round table discussion hosted by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation about a month ago. I get a text that reads ‘dude, where are you, come back, Chief is looking for you.’ In my head I’m thinking hayi bo according to the program, the old man should still be on the podium mos, what could he possibly want from me. I rush back to the conference room. Kanti all he wants is for me to use my own discretion in deciding on who, among the 30 odd people in the room gets a copy of these stats since he only had 9 copies at his disposal. The entire audience burst into laughter, myself included. To me, being summoned for this random task registered as a wonderful, warm, affirming moment. It was an ‘hey you rebel of a nonconformist, I see and acknowledge your efforts. You matter.’ I live for such moments. It is marvellous being affirmed and validated both in private and in public. You feel loved and needed. Being loved and needed is empowering and inspiring. As we enter into this new month of May with its possibilities and challenges that lie ahead, may you develop a habit of affirming and validating others. We are no different from children. We thrive when validated and affirmed. P.S By the way, when I’m not busy gyrating on the streets or coordinating celebratory events; I produce and project manage conferences, roundtable discussions and symposiums. We oscillate between frivolity and sensibility. Very dynamic and gifted this one of Luphumlo. A fantastic resource he is 😜

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