Hi ShelleyO, 2 small problems (i) better to read before commenting, the tidbit was not written by me but by a columnist for the Sunday Times; (ii) your view that it is 'unpatriotic' to criticise or mock the leader of a political party is profoundly undemocratic.

Stay blessed.

🔒Mondli Makhanya | Zuma sows poisonous seeds of election doubt: What's his endgame?

“He conveniently forgets that it was the IEC which successfully fought, alongside the MKP, the ANC’s attempts to have the courts overturn the registration of the party.” news24.com/citypress/voic…

🔒Zuma's MK Party guns for the IEC with spurious and substantiated claims, also calls for Zondo's recusal in appeal news24.com/citypress/poli… via City Press

So, son of baldwin 🌹 your book is a stage prop in Marianne Thamm’s “Round of Applause - South Africa Still Standing”, the quirky, funny and ultimately hopeful show now on at the Baxter theatre.

🔒 K Sello Duiker: a trailblazer in post-apartheid SA literature. “One of the most remarkable aspects of Duiker’s writing is the graphic manner in which he depicts homosexuality, particularly in The Quiet Violence.” timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o… # via Times LIVE

Mampara of the week: John Steenhuisen timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o… # via Times LIVE

🔒Misguided DA is selling Zibi to the world timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o… # via Times LIVE

‘Liberated’ Zuma stokes a tribalist fire that threatens to engulf democratic SA timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o… # via Times LIVE

Amen.

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— Hannah Arendt

Every conference I've ever been at
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Today, Yanis Varoufakis was banned not just from visiting Germany but from participating in video conferences about politics hosted in Germany. Here’s the plea for humanity and justice in Palestine that got him banned. jacobin.com/2024/04/yanis-…

‘because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.’

My translation of NP van Wyk Louw's poem, 'Winter', followed by original Afrikaans version:

Winter

Now the earth lies nightlong and soaks
in the dark quiet mercy of the rain,
and twilight houses and branches daily pale
through the white mistiness and rustling.
Everything rich…

Disappointing... Housing activists lose Tafelberg case groundup.org.za/article/housin…

Full quote: 'The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than average leisure, brutality and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement & terrorism.'

I am now even prouder for participating in this!

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