Number 1:
Iraqi girl (10) ‘bitten to death’ with medieval torture device by female ISIS fanatics.
The child, who bled to death, was punished after stepping out of her home while cleaning. Another woman died after being given 30 lashes for lifting her veil. According to a Daily Mail article, under strict rules imposed by the fundamentalists in the city of Mosul, women were banned from leaving home on their own.
As usual, on a weekly basis, I experience many WTH moments. But this story leaves me speechless!?! My mind boggles that this kind of craziness (and the next on the list) is actually happening in 2017.
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Number 2:
Pastor demonstrated ‘the power of God’ by feeding his congregation rat poison.
We have heard of Dettol, Doom, eating snakes and grass, downing vehicle engine cleaning fluid but now, Rattex.
Pastor Light Monyeki mixed the deadly pellets, meant to kill rats and mice, with water and drank it himself before giving it to the congregants, to show that ‘death has no power over us’.
https://youtu.be/zn-wIlbnusg
This religious ‘stuff’ gets weirder by the day.
One has to wonder if these prophets will ever see the light or live to see another day.
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Number 3:
Weekly columnist, Justice Malala from Times Live, wrote a brilliant, hard-hitting piece on the 94 mentally ill people who died so horrifically in places of care in the past year.
Justice bluntly writes that government officials knew they were placing the patients in these unaccredited institutions .
“No one said a word. They starved to death. The carers said not a single truthful word. They stayed silent about their deaths and their reasons for them”
He wrote: ‘The sad truth is that in this black republic black lives don’t matter.’
“I don’t think Zuma and his colleagues even observed a moment of silence for the dead patients at their cabinet lekgotla at the past weekend. The deaths of 94 people don’t warrant their thoughts or sympathy. They don’t matter.”
I couldn’t agree more with Justice.
I don’t believe President Zuma has had one sleepless night over this tragic story.
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Number 4:
Controversial racist meme on the death of former Springbok, Joost van der Westhuizen.
Posted by Riaan Lucas on Facebook on Tuesday this week, this meme sparked outrage on social media.
https://twitter.com/TheEdgeSearch/status/829775247238901760
#RiaanLucas hope they will respond the same way Lay criminal charges over racist Facebook comments: Sanco https://t.co/nupHulIvig
— flixi (@flixipie) February 9, 2017
Enough with the hateful comments!
A string of racist rants made headlines last year. The likes of Penny Sparrow, Chris Hart, Vicki Momberg, Andre Slade, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins, Phillip Roodt, Matthew Theunissen, Ben Sasonof and Ntokozo Qwabe and MANY more landed in hot water for their crude and controversial racist posts.
A nasty comment can ruin a moment, a relationship or divide a society.
Now that I’m older, I understand the importance of my mother’s wise words – ‘You can’t take back what you say.’
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Number 5:
Ugu District Municipality plans an eight hour water shutdown on Valentine’s Day!
Be prepared!
You are going to need more than Cupid to survive this ordeal.
But don’t let Ugu District put a spell on you!
Perhaps a french bath, a glass of vino and a mint just might do the trick.
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