Major new report launch event coming on 3rd November, Joburg & worldwide. Mail&Guardian: The Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics to host a livestream with leaders on a new report on the impact of Inequality on Pandemics. mg.co.za/partner-conten…

Book launch loading! Imperfect Harmony by the remarkable Kutlwano Masote. It's his memoir. You can also catch his classical music programme on SAfmRadio 📻 on Saturdays and Sundays. See you there!

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I probably just needed a hug, but ordered books instead… #BookDeliveryDay 🥰

The album ‘kwaNTU’ (by Madala Kunene & Sibusile Xaba) is out in the world this Friday! We can’t wait to share the full project with you. Listen (to singles) / Pre-Save / Pre-Order here - ffm.bio/madalakunene_s… 1Luv!

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Canon in D (Pachelbel's Canon) - Cello & Piano [BEST WEDDING VERSION] youtu.be/Ptk_1Dc2iPY?si… via YouTube

Join us for another special screening of Mother City, a powerful documentary that explores Cape Town’s ongoing housing crisis - exposing the human stories behind spatial inequality and the urgent need for affordable housing. Through intimate portraits of residents, activists, and

Soothing African Melodies | Non Verbal Vocal Harmonies That Quiet the Mind youtu.be/TYB-ymrXFaY?si… via YouTube

It is getting late;hill shades are clenching their fists. Friend, find a good soul with whom to follow the trail of the morning star.

Lenin: “There are decades when nothing happens. Then there are weeks when decades happen.”

Last week I had the honour of being inaugurated into the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) during the annual Awards Ceremony of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). SAYAS AcademyofScienceSA

RoseAnn DeMoro OZY Daniel Malloy Nick Four Aaron Regunberg DSA Michelle Goldberg Eugene Robinson Summer Lee Elizabeth Fiedler Sara Innamorato Philly DSA 🌹 Marcia Ranglin-Vassell,M.Ed RI Womxn’s Action Initiative Rhode Island Democratic Party Justice Ameer Arielle Cohen. Pittsburgh DSA Gina Raimondo Ted Nesi Paul Krugman Swing Left Public Seminar Craig Calhoun kathryn cohen MacArthur Foundation Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Get Out Taylor Swift Reverend Al Sharpton Morning Joe Leah Wright Rigueur Michael Eric Dyson Ari Melber Ayanna Pressley Mikie Sherrill Carter Edsall Jeannie Suk Gersen micah english b-boy bouiebaisse Rep. Justin Jones Justin J. Pearson Rep. Zooey Zephyr Michelle Cottle Shawn Fain Megan K. Stack John Mollenkopf Meher Zohran Kwame Mamdani “In a city that is home to the largest Muslim population in the US, a city that is still contending with the ugly legacy of post-9/11 Islamophobia, a city that has never before had a Muslim mayor, Zohran Kwame Mamdani clinched a generational victory. “ nytimes.com/2025/11/04/nyr… 1/

“No longer is politics something that is done to us. Now it is something that WE do.” -Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Scatterlings of Africa...

At the University of the Western Cape, #NobelinAfrica2025 symposium participants Aminatta Forna, Akachi Ezeigbo and Maaza Mengiste are on a panel discussion on making #AfricanLiterature visible. #LiteratureSymposiumOutreach

In South Africa, vigilante mobs ("Operation Dudula") have been preventing foreigners from entering health clinics and hospitals. A court has now ruled that this is illegal. But police have been simply ignoring the harassment of foreigners.

Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed discuss their powerful book 'Belonging: The History of Indian South Africans' Watch the FULL interview: bit.ly/4oiq1JO Jonathan Ball Publishers Local Jonathan Ball Publishers

This vigilante group in South Africa is openly ignoring a court order against its harassment of foreigners at hospitals -- yet it still cites the "illegality" of foreigners as the justification for its actions. The law applies to others -- not to them.

Terry Eagleton speaking at HM now youtube.com/live/zaTIppuAo…