@RobynPorteous

Intersectional Feminist. Writer. Runner. Bibliophile. Anti-Racist. She/Her. Disinformation destroys democracy. #BlackLivesMatter. Charlotte & Sophie’s mama.

 Johannesburg, South Africa
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Joined March 2009
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The best parents 💔
Robyn Porteous@RobynPorteous29 Dec 2022
On Tuesday afternoon, my parents were involved in a head-on collision with a driver who appears to have swerved into their lane. Tragically, both of them died, my mum on the scene, and my dad a short while later at the hospital.
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Kim Heller
@kimheller3Oct 23
When Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng was approached about becoming the Economic Freedom Fighters’ mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, her husband was the first person she told. He encouraged her to make herself available, telling her that after years of fighting for other people’s rights around the world, she should bring that fight to the city they called home. That was one of their last conversations before her husband died on 10 July, leaving the 44-year-old medical doctor and human rights activist to navigate the demands of an election campaign while grieving his death and adjusting to life as a single parent.
Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng
@drtlalengOct 23
Our passion and our drive is not matched by processes and resources and infrastructure that works. The EFF’s commitments to insourcing municipal services and expanding access to basic infrastructure with a greater emphasis on how residents participate in decisions affecting their communities; ward-based people’s assemblies, technical oversight teams to scrutinise infrastructure spending and a one-stop municipal service centre where entrepreneurs and informal traders can get help with permits, registration and compliance. We work hard in Johannesburg, but we also come here to play and to dream, and to be creative. And I think it’s very important to not neglect that. #VoteEFF dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

Joburg mayoral candidate Tlaleng Mofokeng on balancing grief and her political vision

The medical doctor, activist and EFF candidate explains why she decided to continue campaigning despite her husband’s death, but stresses that she’s not in it to build a political career – she wants...

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Ayesha Bagus@Ayesha_BagusOct 23
The “mayor of the people” who refuses to listen to the people.
News24 🇿🇦
@News24Jan 29
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has confirmed the City will push ahead with plans to build a safety wall along the N2 near Cape Town International Airport to curb crime and improve road safety. brnw.ch/21wZuBY

Cape Town presses on with R114m N2 safety wall amid smash-and-grab crisis | News24

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has doubled down on plans for a controversial security wall along the crime-plagued N2, daring critics and state agencies to get out of the way.

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@soigomaaOct 24
Dead poets society
TVP
@TheveripostOct 24
When someone in the Netherlands dies with nobody to attend the funeral, a poet comes anyway. Since 2002, a rotating group of Dutch poets piece together each stranger's life from whatever is left behind,writing a poem that is read aloud beside the coffin.
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Ayesha Bagus@Ayesha_BagusOct 23
The privilege of this perspective. What if that was your kids under the rubble? @geordinhl
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Jared Holt@jaredlholtOct 23
For fuck’s sake
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goma
@soigomaa22h
I love seeing indigenous people win
TVP
@Theveripost22h
Amazon tribe wins lawsuit against Big Oil, saving millions of acres of rainforest.
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Eyewitness News
@ewnupdatesOct 23
Almost 94% of people who took part in a new survey say they don't support the proposed R115 million N2 'safety' wall. ewn.co.za/2026/10/23/new-sur…

New survey shows 94% of respondents oppose N2 wall

Many who responded to the survey said the money should rather be spent on education, youth development and tackling poverty.

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Gillian Godsell@gilliangodsell23h
Joburg look up. There is a most beautiful moon.
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And so it begins…
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African Child@ZikhonaTshonaOct 23
People are doing great things for their communities. We have a grandparent who dusted off his karate gear and is teaching kids karate. Another who loves maths spends every day helping children with their maths homework, this is Soweto.
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Please do not ask a bookworm if they are going to finish the books they have before buying more. It is very offensive in our culture.
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The Oliver Tambo Foundation annual lecture was as many parts energising as it was sobering and reflective. Justice Madlanga was clear, we cannot keep waiting and watching, something drastic needs to be done by us, the people, to turn things around...
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RISE Mzansi
@Rise_MzansiOct 23
Joburg loses about 45% of its treated water through leaks and ageing infrastructure before it ever reaches a tap. Through Pillar 2: Your Services, We Deliver, RISE Mzansi is committed to fixing failing infrastructure and ensuring reliable water services for every community. Read our Governance Plan: bit.ly/488kn6v #RISEMzansi #LGE2026
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RISE Mzansi
@Rise_MzansiOct 23
Another milestone for RISE Mzansi! Our billboard is officially up on the M1 highway! We’re taking our message further, showing up and continuing to rise as we build momentum towards the elections. We continue to rise! #RISEMzansi #RiseLGE2026 #LGE2026 #WeNeedNewLeaders
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On mob violence: I’ll never forget “Eat Him If You Like,” a book by Jean Teulé. In it, he tells the true story of Alain de Monèys, a kind and well-respected nobleman, who falls victim to the vicious and violent whims of a mob of civilians after a misunderstanding.
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As the title suggests, some of those involved eventually eat him after a string of extremely violent and horrific tortures have been enacted upon him.
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It’s a shameful story in France’s history (one of many, you could say). And methinks that the xenophobic violence we see erupt time and again here in South Africa is one of ours. Devastating.
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If you’re out here trying to justify this horror, then I honestly don’t know how to tell you that a mob murdering a man in cold blood is wrong.
🇯🇲@_afro_politanOct 23
A mob of 50 people beating someone to death is barbaric. They should all rot in prison for murder. There must be consequences for killing another human being.
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🇯🇲@_afro_politanOct 23
A mob of 50 people beating someone to death is barbaric. They should all rot in prison for murder. There must be consequences for killing another human being.
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Xenophobia is not a national project in South Africa! Not in our name! Down with violence against foreign nationals down!
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