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Author. Broadcaster. Lecturer @WitsUniversity . @UniofOxford PhD. #SMWX creator. Sumaya’s bag-carrier. 📩: info @smw -x.co.za | +27828914935

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Joined August 2011
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🎓♦️🙏🏽
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I passed my DPhil viva at @UniofOxford ! 😭🕺🏽🎉 🥳 🙏🏽
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11 years today. 💍❤️
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On a lighter note, I feel sorry for Israel at the International Court of Justice today. They don’t know that we, as South Africans, spend our lives arguing every possible major dispute in courts. This is our national sport—we were made for this. 😂
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Rocked to my core at the news of Kiernan’s death. Though our lives went in different directions, and we hadn’t spoken in years, I’ll never forget the times we shared making music. He was destined for greatness from then. Deepest sympathies with Uncle Tony, Aunt Lynn and Steffan.
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Uncle Tony. ❤️
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Yesterday our beautiful son, Hakim Thembekile Mpofu-Walsh, was born. May you grow to be wise and just and kind. ❤️
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Married 12 years today. ❤️🙏🏽
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I’ve been appointed Lecturer at the @WitsUniversity IR Department from 2022. Looking forward to my first full-time academic role, and to teaching and supervising a new generation of students. 🎉🕺🏽😁
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Good to catch up with this young star before he heads to Harvard later this year! We exchanged nerdy tips on study methods. 😁🤓📚👏🏽🙌🏽
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I had to wait 18 months to attend my @UniofOxford graduation ceremony, but the wait made it all the sweeter. 😭🎉
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New year, new vibes.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa should step down.
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Happy 60th birthday @AdvDali_Mpofu . Thank you for being such a loving father and grandfather. 🎉❤️🤗✊🏽
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Four months today. 🥰
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Happy birthday @AdvDali_Mpofu . 🤗❤️🎉
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Tell me you’re South African without telling me you’re South African:
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Guess who turned 1 today. 🙂🎂❤️🎁🤗 🎉
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Rest easy, Kiernan. #RIPAKA
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South Africans desperately need to imagine a future beyond sole dependence on the ANC.
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Stage 6 returned to remind us of the true state of our nation.
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South Africa continuing the African trend of expelling France. 😂👏🏽 #FRAvRSA
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Special delivery. ❤️
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From the disasters of state capture, to the president’s mystery money, to stage 6 rolling blackouts. Something’s gotta give. The ANC government is not coping.
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This episode has been watched 40K times since yesterday already. #SMWX has truly hit a new level this year. Thanks for watching and supporting. 😁🔥
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Apartheid did not die; it was privatised. #TheNewApartheid
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Fitted for tomorrow’s graduation ceremony. 🙂🎓
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The ANC has been telling South Africans to “trust the process” for 27 years. It’s time to stop trusting the process and start trusting our own eyes. #Elections2021
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What a phenomenal album. #MassCountry
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It’s all fun and games until Eskom says the snow affects the coal.
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As we spend time with family this festive season, I’m dropping a very special surprise episode, OUT NOW! 😁👑🔥❤️ #SMWX
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Ten years strong. 💍🙏🏽 “Thy eternal summer shall not fade.” ❤️
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From Khayelitsha, to medical doctor, to submitting his Oxford PhD. My friend @VuyaneMhlomi is unstoppable! Believe, work and achieve. 👊🔥🙌🎉
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After years of toil and many moments of self-doubt, today I officially submitted my DPhil thesis to @UniofOxford . Let’s hope for a merciful examination. Doctor Mpofu-Walsh loading, inshaAllah. 🙏🏽😭 | 📷: @HendricksSumaya ❤️
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Good times. 🤓📚🙌🏽⚡️
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Well done Bafana Bafana. You restored pride in South African football. 👏 Congrats to Nigeria. Phew, what a game.💔 #AFCON2023
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35. 🙂🎂🙏🏽
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The more President Ramaphosa dodges questions about Phala Phala, the bigger the scandal will become.
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The president’s speeches are increasingly sounding like works of speculative fiction. #SONA2022
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Afriforum’s confused agenda is to defend apartheid’s symbols while trying to ban symbols of resistance against apartheid. This agenda has nothing to do with “free speech” and everything to do with sanitising apartheid.
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The “new dawn” was a colossal scam.
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A robust and fascinating engagement with @Julius_S_Malema last night. We discussed Eskom, the Russia-Ukraine situation, and coalition politics. You can watch the full video here:
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Been in Oxford this week for a feedback meeting on my thesis, which happened earlier today. It was exacting and demanding, but ultimately very helpful. One step closer to Doctor Mpofu-Walsh, InshaAllah! 🙏🏽
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Birthday vibes. 😁🎂❤️
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Matters of public interest should be prosecuted by institutions that represent, and draw legitimacy from, the public. Handing prosecutorial power to a self-declared ethnic lobby group threatens democracy, and enables covert legal racism. #Afriforum
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The delay of #SONA2018 shows the importance of opposition pressure. In years gone by, the ANC would have steamrolled through. Now it can’t. That’s why we need a competitive parliament, whoever wins in 2019. Never again should one party ride roughshod over the people.
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Can the President name any senior officials who have resigned or been fired for Covid-related corruption? Not just SIU reports that sit on shelves. Last year, he said he would leave “no stone unturned” after corruption was revealed. #QuestionsForRamaphosa
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Phew, first show done. Hope you enjoyed it. Catch you again on Thursday at 20.00 @SABCNews . 😁
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As one of the president’s firmest critics, I think the speech he just delivered was excellent. A drastic preventative course is our country’s best hope of mitigating disaster. Universities must come to the party and shut down. Prevent the spread in your own circle. #CoronaVirusSA
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The ANC needs time on the sidelines of power to reflect on how things went so wrong.
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One of the people in this photo can vosho. The other is me. 😂❤️ 📸: James Fox for #SMWX 📱
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The unrest we’ve seen this week can’t be narrowly reduced to a sinister plot. Or any simple story. Doubtless, coordinated sabotage formed part of the picture. But it’s a mistake to dismiss the economic and social crises—driven by ANC failures—that also fuelled the turmoil.
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Tonight I sit down with @Julius_S_Malema . 💥 Don’t miss it! See you at 20.00.
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A long-overdue sit-down with the brilliant @MbuyiseniNdlozi . 🙌🏽
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Denying the existence of racism is a form of racism.
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My new book #TheNewApartheid drops on 28 July. Help me build the wave. 🌊 Invite me to your TV show/YouTube channel/radio show/newspaper/podcast. Host me at to your workplace/university/school/event. DM me here or email hello @sizwempofuwalsh .com.
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Today’s testimony is not about how much you like President Cyril Ramaphosa. It’s about holding the ANC accountable as an institution for decades of deceit and destructive corruption. And that accountability must be pursued unapologetically and aggressively. #StateCaptureInquiry
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It’s official! Tomorrow, I drop an exclusive interview with former president Jacob Zuma. 🔥 Join #SMWX on WhatsApp to receive the link when it drops: From his time on Robben Island, to spy claims, to current ANC politics, it was liiiiit. 💣 Ayeye! 💥
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The breakout performance for me today came from Hon. Delisile Ngwenya. A brilliant speech touching on gender inequality and #Marikana . #SONADebate
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President Ramaphosa’s response so far: don’t hate the player, hate the “game”. 👀🐃😂
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Thanks to @MotsepeFoundtn for inviting me to facilitate a dialogue with SRC leaders from all 26 SA universities today. Following the dialogue, R30m was donated to the SRCs for registration, fees and historic debt.
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If the ANC loses national power in 2024, what should be the new government’s top priority?
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Wow, my conversation with @floydshivambu has now crossed 300K views. A first for #SMWX ! 🔥
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My conversation with @FloydShivambu on the #EFF10thAnniversary is the fastest #SMWX video to 100k views! It took just 2 days. 🔥🙌🏽
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Let’s do this.
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The ANC says it will bring change from the ANC.
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African Cup of Nations opening match (Bafana v Cameroon) with my big bro in 1996. Bafana won 3-0. We’ve waited long to see them make us happy again. Pic by @AdvDali_Mpofu who took us to the game.
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Love you Mum. My rock, inspiration and first ever editor.
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Our country has lost one of its finest broadcasters, analysts and public intellectuals. I have lost a dear friend and a major mentor. Thank you @Eusebius for setting the standard in so many ways. This is so desperately sad and unfair. 😭
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On Monday at 9am, this exclusive chat with @koko_matshela drops. Believe me, you don’t want to miss it! #SMWX 📺🔥
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Our country deserves more than government by teleprompter. The president’s lectures bypass all the duties of accountability on which our democracy is founded. One-way “addresses” might have made sense at the start of the pandemic, but they no longer serve a useful purpose.
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Happy birthday to @AdvDali_Mpofu ! Amandla and much love. 🙏✊️
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The ANC is rightly honouring Charlotte Maxeke this year. However, they forgot to mention that, despite founding the Bantu Women’s League, Maxeke was never able to become a member of the ANC because the organisation only accepted men until 1943. Maxeke died in 1939. #ANC109
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Me, my mother, and uTata Walter Sisulu circa 1992.
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A big one tonight: an exclusive with CJ Zondo. Is gov failing to implement his report, nearly a year later? His frankness surprised me. Tune in at 20.00 tonight. 🔥 #ZondoOnUnfiltered
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Ayeye! Coming soon ... #SMWX
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New Episode Alert 🚨🔥 Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane on the Constitution, race and law, and the failures of SA’s liberation struggle.
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I've just finished my next book. It nearly extracted my soul, emotionally and intellectually, but I'm so proud of it. Get ready, I'm coming for everything. It’s called: The New Apartheid.
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. @PublicProtector Mkhwebane: ‘At first I thought it was possible the President didn’t know... but the evidence I have shows he knew... he was a part of sourcing money and requesting the movement of money.’ Just dropped Part 1 of interview on #PPonSMWX
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AYEYE! The next episode of #SMWX with guest @FloydShivambu drops tomorrow at 9am. 🔥⚡️💣
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Without a hint of irony, the DA expropriated everyone’s phone number without consent or compensation to say the EFF and ANC will encroach on personal space. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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The MK Party will be elated by this. If the court hears this, it will hand MK a prime opportunity to mobilise on the eve of the election. It will keep MK in the headlines and further unite the party around a narrative of persecution—a narrative fmr pres Zuma thrives on.
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[Media Statement] Electoral Commission approaches the Constitutional Court for Clarity on Section 47(1)(e) of the Constitution.
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17 months. ❤️
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The ANC appears to have five different positions on the land question. Each of these five positions evolves daily, depending on the audience. I’m starting to wonder if there’s a plan at all.
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White supremacy involves inequality of privilege *and* inequality of punishment: white people are easily excused—and black people excessively penalised—for the same acts. It's a system founded on impunity and mercy for white people, and uncompromising harshness for everyone else.
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The cat is out of the bag: I’ll be hosting the now-legendary Eusebius McKaiser Show on @Radio702 for two weeks, from Monday! Expect unapologetic analysis, fresh and exciting conversation, and a touch of humour. Excited and nervous. Let’s do this! 📻
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Weeks ago, uGogo @MatshiqiAubrey cautioned that unrest would descend on SA. He was dismissed. He is now back with a further warning. And, this time, we should listen hard . . . #SMWX
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Update. 😁🙏🏽🎓
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I passed my DPhil viva at @UniofOxford ! 😭🕺🏽🎉 🥳 🙏🏽
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ANC MPs today failed to offer a convincing case for avoiding a further inquiry into Phala Phala. Instead, they continued their party’s long record of constitutional defilement.
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Ayeye! 🔥 The next guest on #SMWX needs no introduction. Sunday at 9am! ⏳
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Adv Sikhakhane didn’t hold back here…
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Every six months, we get a ‘new’ economic plan, which is just a repackaged old economic plan, thin on details. ‘Prioritising infrastructure’ has been a ‘priority’ since ‘94. The old ones are out of ideas, we need new blood. 😏 #StimulusPackage
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The New Apartheid mentioned in the New York Times. 🙂
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Shocking scenes from #brackenfellhigh . Every last one of those assailants must be brought to book. The brazen assault and intimidation of peaceful protestors isn’t a “clash”, it’s a crime.
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The broad and unqualified finding that internal political campaigns are merely "private affairs" harms accountability and sets a dangerous precedent in the fight against corruption—with implications far beyond Ramaphosa's specific campaign. #CR17BankStatements #ConCourt
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It was a good Eid. ❤️🌅
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I’ve just accepted an invitation to discuss #TheNewApartheid at the Stanford Centre for African Studies. My first US event for the book. 😁
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🚨 New episode alert 🚨 This story is wild. Dr Pedro Mzileni gave a lecture about colonialism. Next thing Afriforum complained to his university, and he was investigated. He eventually resigned because of what he went through. Listen…
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Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
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Been a minute @akaworldwide .
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