🇿🇦🏆 FROM A DURBAN BUS DRIVER’S DAUGHTER TO THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE! SOUTH AFRICA’S NAVI PILLAY MAKES HISTORY! 🌍👏 What an extraordinary day for South Africa! 🇿🇦❤️ At the age of 85, Durban-born Judge Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the FIRST South African woman and the FIFTH South African to receive this remarkable international honour! 🏆 But the story behind this achievement is even more inspiring. Born in Clairwood, Durban, in 1941, Navi was the daughter of a bus driver. Her family could not afford university fees, but her school principal recognised her potential and members of her community helped raise the money to give her an education. ❤️ Just imagine that! A community coming together to help one young girl follow her dream, never knowing that she would one day become one of the world's most respected champions of human rights. In 1967, Navi became the first woman to establish her own law practice in Natal. She defended anti-apartheid activists, fought for the rights of political prisoners and ultimately became a judge on some of the world's most important international courts. ⚖️ Her work on the Rwandan genocide helped establish that rape and sexual violence could constitute acts of genocide. She went on to serve as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and continues her involvement in international justice today. 🌍 The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognised her lifelong commitment to promoting peace and international law. Today she joins fellow South African Nobel Peace Prize laureates Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk. And perhaps the most beautiful part of this story is remembering where it all began. A school principal saw potential. A community believed in a young girl. And that girl went on to help change international law. Judge Navi Pillay, South Africa celebrates you! 🇿🇦🏆❤️ #GoodNewsSouthAfrica 📸 Photo Institute for African Women in Law Nobel Prize | University of KwaZulu-Natal | Equality Now | The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa United Nations Human Rights

An Afrikaner man who is part of the 49 people who went over to the US as 'refugees' has spoken out about how devastating it was to leave behind his five bedroom home and other possessions while fleeing from racial persecution in South Africa. #news #politics #Afrikaners #Refugee #US #DonaldTrump #racism #race #apartheid Read on https://tinyurl.com/3vya96d9

The Freedom Front Plus's mayoral candidate for the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality is a former apartheid-era police officer who spent almost 14 years in prison for the 1991 murder of ANC activist Mbongeni Jama. Read on https://tinyurl.com/4cdkcycb #BillHarington #FFPlus #NelsonMandelaBay #LGE2026 #SouthAfricaPolitics #IOLNews #netchain

College students exercising their right to peacefully protest in Vredendal because they had no water and internet access at the college for days are being shot by SAPS like they did during apartheid. Ek is bemal 😡😡😡😡it’s clear in the video our kids presented no threat at all #Student #Netchain #College #SAPS

1953, apartheid South Africa spent approximately R128 a year educating each white child and R17 on each Black child. By 1975, it spent approximately R605 on each white child and just R24 on each Black child. White schools averaged just 19 pupils per teacher, compared with 56 in Black schools — nearly three times more. White supremacy deliberately gave white children vastly greater educational resources and opportunities while denying them to Black children. Then it used the resulting differences in educational outcomes to portray white people as hardworking and intellectually superior and Black people as lazy, uninterested in education and inferior. Apartheid manufactured Black undereducation, poverty and inequality #mzasihistory #Netchain #Apartheid #SouthAfrica

On 23 December 1985, apartheid security police surrounded Dr Vejay Ramlakan’s home in Merewent, Durban, after weeks of tapping his telephone and penetrating the Umkhonto we Sizwe network around him. Police forced their way inside and arrested Ramlakan, his wife Sandy Afrika, and MK operatives Sihle Mbongwa, Phila Ndwandwe, Richard Naidoo and “Kwazi Sithole.” Ramlakan had joined MK in 1977 while studying medicine at the University of Natal, trained militarily in South Africa and Swaziland, and qualified as a doctor in 1980. While working in casualty at King Edward Hospital, he joined MK’s command structures in Natal and helped build Operation Butterfly, an underground network spanning Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Port Shepstone and Newcastle. Ramlakan commanded underground units and was later convicted of ordering the bombing of Amichand Rajbansi’s Chatsworth home, targeting the leader of apartheid’s tricameral House of Delegates. When MK operative Sbu Mazibuko survived an explosion that killed Zinto Cele in the Bluff, Ramlakan treated his wounds and helped hide him and his family while police helicopters searched for him. On trial for treason, Ramlakan refused to yield, declaring that apartheid could keep sentencing fighters, but more would follow “until the people do govern.” Apartheid sent him to Robben Island, before he walked free on 16 April 1991. White supremacy imprisoned the doctor, activist and MK commander. Vejay Ramlakan took the war to apartheid.