It's been so long since this site has been good 🥲

My take on the Capitec CEO's pronouncement that the SA unemployment rate is actually 10%. Summary: "The Capitec CEO should stay in his lane and confine his pronouncements to topics such as borrowing and lending." businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/let…

Wow. Absolutely incredible piece by Firdose Moonda. Calling CLR James. What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? espncricinfo.com/story/temba-ba…

South Africa are definitely happy with what's in the briefcase 😲 #WTC25

"letters written by average people from only 150-200 years ago—" [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER SOUND]

So tired of this minister’s breathless explanations. Now she’s apologizing to the phantom chair of a process she called independent precisely because of that independent chair. So it wasn’t independent after all, hence it was loaded with her KZN peeps. When is she resigning?

Asked a few ANC leaders if they ever read the mood of the public, conduct actual research… that Nkabane is still employed, sitting pretty, is crazy business for a party that wants to remain in power

"The future is bright. The end is glorious; it is peaceful. But the intervening period is dark, bitter and finds its glory in the act of struggle. Joe Gqabi is part of this glory" - OR's eulogy to Gqabi, women's day 1981. Speech is worth reading in full: sahistory.org.za/archive/speech…

What a speech

South African Photojournalist Ernest Levi Tsoloane Cole (1940-1990). He worked as an assistant to Jurgen Schadeberg in 1958 & worked as a freelance photographer for Drum Magazine, Rand Daily Mail & the Sunday Express in the 1960's. He left South Africa in 1966 & secretly took his

“Having worked on gender-based violence for two decades … this is not something I have ever seen in other conflicts,” said Payal Shah ... “It is a really horrific and extreme form of sexual violence, and one that deserves the world’s attention.” theguardian.com/global-develop…

The IDF have now targeted and hunted down 242 Palestinian journalists in Gaza. This compares to 69 journalists killed in World War II and 63 killed in the Vietnam War. Why are Western leaders silent in the face of this appalling slaughter of the last witnesses of Israel's

Only at Maponya? What about Gautrain stations? And all the other places they bully us??? Stop claiming small victories, this only happened thanks to the citizens action!

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