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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa

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Feminist urban safety & community development practitioner. Escaping the toxic trumpets. Hoping for provocation, conversation, inspiration & collegiality.

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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 23h
A report to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) found alarming failures in metropolitan municipalities. Read groundup.org.za/article/murd... by Steve Kretzmann
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Ekurhuleni police force employed convicted killers, Parliament told
Damning draft report presented to SCOPA lists critical governance and financial failures across five cities
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 20h
Good luck to all of us finding good candidates for the local elections
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 23h
About 150 farm workers marched to Parliament in Cape Town on Thursday, calling on Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson to release public land for housing and for redistribution to farm workers. Read groundup.org.za/article/we-w... by Liezl Human
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Farm workers march in Cape Town for public land to be released for housing
The march followed the three-day National Farm Worker Platform, hosted by the Women on Farms Project
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 20h
Except.... that's not the way that tax would be spent, is it? If it were, there wouldn't be so much poverty.
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Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social · 21h
We are heading towards a likely El Niño, which will strain water resources. Now, the dams across the country have plenty of water, which could carry us through for some time. But wastage and water leaks are a risk. Municipalities must minimise these losses.
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 23h
You know what the worst part is? It will go viral.
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · 23h
Mondli Makhanya; Anti-immigrant mob, relying on disinformation, is fuelling a dangerous anti-constitutionalist fire www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
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Anti-immigrant mob is fuelling the dangerous anti-constitutionalist fire
A dangerous element landing with the population now is that the Constitution and the judiciary that upholds our republic’s founding document are a luxury. The anti-immigration lobby is driving this se...
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#BBCNews - Up to 50 Scottish police officers suspended over alleged crimes against women www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Up to 50 Scottish police officers suspended over alleged crimes against women
Chief constable Jo Farrell says more officers are likely to be suspended as officers are re-vetted.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 07/10/2026
Everyone is susceptible to propaganda. Right now, one of the biggest propaganda pushes right now is "you need AI" message from the technocratic class. A thing I think a lot about: the Silicon Valley of it all didn't force the internet on us they way they are w/AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back. (Gift Article)
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 06/10/2026
A child lies dying of cancer in a hospital in Ingwavuma, a remote part of KwaZulu-Natal. Social worker Taryn Bell tries to organise morphine. Without success. The baby dies screaming in pain. Read groundup.org.za/article/chil... by Sean Christie
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Children are dying in pain because our palliative care is so poor
Damning report from World Health Organisation confirms what professionals already know
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So if you are Lord Archer, you aren't called a convicted criminal or felon, despite your time in prison for perjury - which is a serious criminal offence. Reports of your death refer to 'a life tainted by scandal'. Its a strange, archaic system.
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Wandile Sihlobo @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
South Africa’s winter wheat harvest for the 2026-27 season is projected to drop to its lowest level in eight years, driving up reliance on global wheat imports despite overall growth in other winter crops. www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...
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We may need to rethink our worrying wheat industry
South Africa’s winter wheat harvest for the 2026-27 season is projected to drop to its lowest level in eight years, driving up reliance on global wheat imports despite overall growth in other winter c...
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 05/10/2026
Residents of Covid informal settlement have been protesting on the N2 and R300 for the City of Cape Town to install taps and toilets. Read groundup.org.za/article/prot... by Vincent Lali
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Protesters block N2 and R300 for taps and toilets
Residents of the Covid informal settlement have for years been fighting for services
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 05/10/2026
Laws that came into effect in 2020 allowed Home Affairs to bar asylum seekers from submitting an application if they had not obtained a valid transit visa from a port of entry. Read groundup.org.za/article/asyl... by Joseph Chirume
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Asylum system reopens after ConCourt judgment
Most new applicants have been barred from accessing the system since at least 2020
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bullies all.
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Sato Juniper @satojuniper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've heard hot rhetoric from Israel's spokespeople insisting that the stories about wholesale death & destruction in Gaza are antisemitic lies. Apparently, even Google Earth has now caught up with what is being done & it's there for those willing to see. #Auspol www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Google Earth exposes devastation in Gaza with new updated images
Google Earth shows the unprecedented devastation in Gaza, illustrating the scale of the wreckage
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Stéphanie Taberner 🔶 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 @singlesfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SpaceX is fuelled by its disdain for 🌍
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 29/09/2026
At least R3.2-million has been spent on forensic audits by the Gauteng Department of Social Development. Action on an audit that exposed corruption in 2019 was not taken until 2023. Read groundup.org.za/article/how-... by Daniel Steyn, Raymond Joseph and Joseph Bracken
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How not to fix a corrupt and incompetent government
The Gauteng Department of Social Development is a masterclass in how not to deal with mismanagement and corruption
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Images that are distressing: the president of the USA, his wife and children, a trillionaire, billionaires, guns. We all know what they look like (sadly). Maybe we could use proxy images to minimise exposure? I'm sure its bad for our collective mental health to see them all the time.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Poll finds 52% of Jewish Americans favor cutting or ending US aid to Israel www.timesofisrael.com/poll-majorit...
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Poll: Most US Jewish voters deeply concerned Netanyahu has fueled antisemitism
Survey shows that despite criticism of premier, 86% identify as pro-Israel, though majorities back aid cuts and remain divided over AIPAC’s role in primaries; most US Jews plan to vote Democrat
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine if all the press boycotted him... that would give us all a break, if nothing else?
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Mitch McConnell is obviously and irreversibly incapacitated. The politicians and staffers closest to him should have the decency to allow him to retire peacefully among family and friends.” @schaller67.bsky.social | @atrupar.com in a 🤯 PN
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A little explainer how energy costs ripple to the consumer.⁣ ⁣ Oil goes up, then gas prices go up, then airfare goes up, then diesel followed by shipping goes up, and eventually your avocado is somehow charging a fuel surcharge.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Gloria Steinem Gave It All The feminist icon understood that you may spend your whole life walking toward a world you will never enter, but that does not relieve you of the obligation to walk. Emma Watson www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
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Gloria Steinem Gave It All
Emma Watson remembers Gloria Steinem, who understood that you may spend your whole life walking toward a world you will never enter, but that does not relieve you of the obligation to walk.
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sickening.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Heavy Heart This Morning Coffee with Love, Respect, Honor, and HOPE NOT FAIR...IS IT Rest in Power Glorious Women Gloria, Dolly, & Jane
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, the pioneering journalist and feminist activist who helped transform the women's rights movement, has died at the age of 92.
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Gloria Steinem Dies
Gloria Steinem, the pioneering journalist and feminist activist who helped transform the women's rights movement, has died at the age of 92.
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Ben There 2 @benthere-2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class
Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was a feminist icon and democracy defender who spent her life fighting for human rights. Her memory should inspire us all to do a little, or a lot, each day. Rest in Peace, Gloria Steinem. 💔
"Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy."
-Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
its a thing. I once got a huge, gigantic water bill and my secretary called the municipality and I heard him say: 'where do you think she lives, the olympic village? She could have filled three olympic pools for this amount".
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. They told YOU to recycle better while they polluted more. Don't fall for it. Hold systems accountable. #ClimateCrisis
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I submit this is the most important story of the day. In 2017, a sailor told the President that the old steam carrier catapults were better than the new electric ones, probably in the same way your elderly neighbor says carburetors were better than these new fangled fuel injectors.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’ve written a short piece on the Americanisms that really get our goat. susiedent.substack.com/p/the-ize-ha...
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The -ize have it
A tale of scapegoating (verb) in English
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It is stunning how meek the WH press corps response has been to every aspect of this unprecedented AF1 scandal including being used as decoys. decoys! @vermontgmg.bsky.social is appropriately screaming from the rooftops about it in this excellent piece filled with facts & context:
 The White House’s subterfuge is so shocking because it belies a complete misunderstanding about the importance and role of the press pool that follows the president everywhere: They’re there, in part, for the security of the United States itself — to provide, if necessary, an independent and transparent proof of life and proof of presence in the event of a crisis or uncertainty about the president’s status.

The whereabouts and status of the U.S. president is an incredibly important national security and geopolitical issue — one with immense implications for financial markets, military command and control, foreign adversaries and allies alike — and here, for the first known time in US and world history, you had the president of the United States on a plane that no one outside of the US government knew about, traveling internationally over foreign territory, amid what the US military and Secret Service apparently believed was one of the most serious threats to presidential security since 9/11 itself.
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Carte Blanche @carteblanche.co.za · 13/08/2026
Johannesburg is estimated to lose 655 million litres of water a day, more than a third of its supply. As wealthier households increasingly go off-grid, others remain dependent on tankers. Would you go off-grid if you could? #CarteBlanche #JoburgWater
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Absolutely. Most people don’t want to be rich. They want to be safe, healthy, comfortable and less anxious about what will happen to them if things go wrong. We shouldn’t be structuring our economies around turning everyone into a maximised consumer.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
As an aside, those politicians who created the current crisis - increasing prison sentences for tabloid applause while cutting prisons and courts to the bone - may want to quietly reflect on their culpability, instead of running for the megaphone in an unedifying fumble for clicks.
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I wish SA would do the same. The gambling industry combined with the alcohol industry seems to have a grip on us that is petrifying. Every cent comes out of the belly of a hungry child.
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Indigo ☾*✲⋆. @indigosu73.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Good evening 🌆
They say 'the machines of the future' will be as smart as people...
OK, but WHICH people?
Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
And yet.... Barack Obama and Joe Biden make it onto this list? What does it say about America? Nearly a quarter of a million Americans think this of Barack Obama? Who are these people? What goes on in their minds?
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
NAOMI KLEIN
@think_and_exist
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Supposedly the most intelligent of all species...humans.
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Not enough DV within the current hours?
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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Join the 2nd Social Media Storm Against Xenophobia 13:00 today, 30 June. Join the WhatsApp: chat.whatsapp.com/FYpAMOQzVzW3... Submit to amplify: counterx.mobilizeapp.tech/pages/survey... See Day 1's posts here: counterx.co.za/roundup-1/ You don't need to be an expert. You just need to show up.
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