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Overheard: South Africa defeats occupation twice in one week.

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Every day Elon Musk proves, even more, that he is a product of white South Africa.

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I wish Gabriel Garcia Marquez was alive today for Colombia's first Leftist President and its first Afro-Colombian Vice President. Remember when he said in 1982 at his Nobel Prize lecture, "In spite of this, to oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life."

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@TPTFootball @sterling7 @KevinDeBruyne Basically, a polite way of saying Britain is racist.

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No one serious about African Studies thinks John Comaroff is " is one of the world’s leading experts on Africa and the Global South ..." No one.

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My mom, Eliza (1945-2020), passed away last Friday. She had a stroke. She was only 75. She was my favorite person in the world. RIP.

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South Africa’s first veterinarian was black – and he earned his qualification in 1886 (!). Dude came home, killed it. After his death, his memory and contributions to veterinary research were deliberately hidden from public view until after apartheid ended

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Keep the same energy for Palestinians that you have for Ukrainians.

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When Robin DiAngelo of 'white fragility' inadvertently slips out a truth to the @nytimes : “Capitalism is so bound up with racism. I avoid critiquing capitalism — I don’t need to give people reasons to dismiss me. But capitalism is dependent on inequality, on an underclass."

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10 months

Australia 1 Nigeria 2 '65.

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So after all that she has done to prevent quality education for the majority of school children in the Western Cape, Debbie Schafer is emigrating to the UK ...

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3 years

On this day, 103 years ago, Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was born in Mvezo, South Africa.

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This part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1982 @NobelPrize speech feels especially appropriate today given that is in his own country that we witness history today.

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RIP to Sugarman, Sixto Rodriguez, son of Mexican American immigrants to Detroit, who, ironically, became the soundtrack to disaffected white conscripts of apartheid South Africa's army. (Footnote: Swedish filmmaker who told Sixto's story threw himself in front of a subway train)

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FIFA knows that if it bans Russia outright (which it should), its hypocrisy would be exposed: Will it then ban Saudi Arabia (for invading Yemen), India (for occupying Kashmir), Israel (Palestinian land), and Morocco (Western Sahara) from international competition?

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The rest of us right now: White Americans can do anything they damn well can with no consequence from US police

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I don't know why Adam Habib (now SOAS director; ex Wits University vice chancellor) thought it was okay for him as a South African of Indian origin to say the N word. Or why he felt the need to do so.

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Apart from the laziness of @news24 (copy and pasting DA press releases), the DA has never achieved more than 20% of the vote (give or take) in national elections in South Africa. So this reads like propaganda and makes you wonder about News24.

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Desiree Ellis (born Salt River, Cape Town), one time @Banyana_Banyana national team player, voted African Coach of the Year (the third time) earlier this week. Today, she coached South Africa to victory in the final of the African Women's Cup of Nations.

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Saying it louder for those in the back: Israel is a member of @UEFA and @FIFAcom . It is time to kick Israel out of soccer. Because just like with apartheid South Africa, there is no normal sport in an abnormal society.

It’s Time to Kick Israel Out of Soccer

As we said for South Africa, “No normal sport in an abnormal society.” The idea has already rattled Israeli diplomats.

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5 years

@evansiegfried ... it would also help if election day was declared a public holiday as is the case in most functioning democracies, including in the so called developing world.

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@william_fitz The lack of solidarity from the city council - ‘Your time has expired’ - is just as telling.

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1 year

I wrote for @nytimes about the significance that the five teams representing Africa in the tournament all have African coaches.

Opinion | Something Remarkable Is Happening in African Football (Published 2022)

The continent’s teams are coming to understand the power of the diaspora.

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My dad Appollis Jacobs turned 78 years old today. In this picture I am about 5 or 6 years old. We're in the garden of Judge HEP Watermeyer in Bishopscourt, Cape Town. My dad was his gardener.

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For the clever ones who say Apartheid didn't end in South Africa (re Palestine). I lived through Apartheid (my childhood and youth) and so did my parents (and I know their story). You're welcome to go back there. I don't. If you don't see any difference between then and now, I do

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When Egypt's goalkeeper Abou Gabal went off with an injury, the live camera cut to young men in red with "Justice Pour Bennani" t-shirts. It's a campaign for a young Moroccan who disappeared 15 years ago. It is the only sign of protest at an Afcon 2021 (2022) game I've seen.

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RIP to the great Cecyl Esau (1955-2021), member of 1980s radical left class of activists from the Western Cape's coloured townships (Cecyl came from Worcester, outside Cape Town). He was imprisoned on Robben Island (1987-1991) for his guerrilla activities

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Burn. CNN anchor, Brianna Keilar, on Piers Morgan criticizing Simone Biles: "His only athletic claim to fame is when he ran off the set of his former TV show."

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This @TheEconomist headline ("White South African farmers are thriving in Mississippi") is stinging: How easily white South Africans, whether immigrants or on work visas, fit into existing racially hierarchies to the detriment of local black workers.

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Good morning. The @EFFSouthAfrica 's @MbuyiseniNdlozi , who is not a medical doctor or a health professional, is promoting an ingredient used in sheep and cattle drenches as a vaccine and demanding churches reopen in the middle of a COVID-19 surge in South Africa. Enjoy your day.

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Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Untitled, 2019.

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This is unfortunate. Bobi Wine had a zoom meeting of sorts with Juan Guaidó, then called Guaido "President" of Venezuela. Who is advising Wine? That said, Wine has suffered for his bravery, but he may be politically naive or this just exposes his actual politics.

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I wrote about on @CAF_Online 's #AFCON2021 for the @nytimes ' @nytopinion . Apart from loving the exploits of Sierra Leone (especially!), Gambia and Comoros, I also get serious: "In Afcon, I see hints of the Africa that [Kwame] Nkrumah imagined."

Opinion | The Most Exciting Sporting Event in the World Is Happening Right Now (Published 2022)

The Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament shows glimpses of a different vision for the continent.

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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."

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Father's Day with my first born, Rosa, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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Fresh.

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Edgar Morin, 101, philosopher: "Being on the Left means taking elements from 3 main sources, and from a fourth: from anarchism, the free individual; of socialism, a better society; of communism, a human brotherhood. The 4th is the relationship with nature that ecology teaches us"

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In tandem, this headline and first paragraph say so much about Daily Maverick's role in manufacturing center right public consent in South Africa.

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"In South Africa we have always managed to keep politics out of sport." - Mr Vorster. (Cartoon by Illingworth, Punch Magazine, 25 September 1968).

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Paul Robeson playing softball in Central Park.

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Demented and offensive. How is this some kind of achievement? Helen Zille, chairperson of the DA Federal Council, to Radio 702: "To be poor in Langa in Cape Town is a hundred, probably a thousand times better than to be poor in many of the townships in the rest of the country."

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Random childhood memory: When I was 12, Neville Alexander used to deliver "Upbeat" magazine to my primary school in Lotus River, Cape Town. Later my teacher, Evelyn Mehl, slipped out that Alexander spent 10 years in Robben Island prison with Mandela, Sisulu & Kathrada. #Matla .

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Next, let's get rid of Die Stem as part of our national anthem.

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I don't think anyone who embraces a democratic South Africa based on equality and dignity would have doubted that the old flag represents a hurtful yearning for the racist past. But good that the SCA has now spelled it out for those like @afriforum who pretend not to know this.

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@juliabacha Whiteness is a drug.

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David Samaai from Paarl in the Western Cape was the first black (and coloured) South African to play at Wimbledon in 1949 when he was 21 years old. He was probably the first black player globally ever to do so; before Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe.

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Demanding South Africa's government arrest Vladimir Putin for war crimes makes no sense. The people who write these silly pieces know South Africa doesn't have that pull, but they can’t seem to resist the opportunity for moralistic posturing.

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Let the hagiographies on Zulu king, Goodwill Zwelithini, begin. @africasacountry has other ideas.

The emperor has no clothes

South Africa’s most famous monarch holds fast to power and prestige at no cost to himself.

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My dad, born in 1942, turns 79 on April 1. (This was taken in 2016 when he, and my late mom, visited us the last time in Brooklyn). Happy birthday pa.

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The only African to win the Ballon d'Or. George Manneh Oppong Weah. In 1995.

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Excellent review and exploration of Frank Wilderson III's "Afropessimism" as bad theory and a death-end, very American ethnocentric politics:

The Argument of “Afropessimism”

Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.

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In the early 1990s, I took this photo of Oom Piekie, my maternal grandmother's brother, who was a farm worker in Kruis River in the small Karoo. (My late mother grew up there as a farm worker too before she migrated to do domestic work in Cape Town) #ThrowbackThursday .

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"Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programs" - Karl Marx.

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My son, 11, just walked in and told me, that he learned via Tik Tok, that Mansa Musa was the all time richest person in the world. Not Jeff Bezos. I am not sure what to do with that information.

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Seventeen years today.

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#TBT . In 1990, during summer break from university I traveled to Kruisrivier in the Karoo where my mom was from. Older family members there were still farmworkers. I had an old Pentax and snapped pictures. This was my late grandmother's brother, known as Pikinin, and his wife,Tai

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The @chronicle letter in support of John Comaroff was signed mostly by senior South African academics based at South African universities. How's the reaction been to them signing it and any fallout for them, especially in a country with such high levels of gender violence?

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As usual with elections in Brazil, people wonder who Brazil's men's national football team members vote for. Most support Bolsonaro apparently. A video is circulating of Neymar singing along to a song calling for a second term for Bolsonaro. Word is only Richarlison is pro-Lula.

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Dumpster fire of antisemitism: The EFF's Julius Malema told those listening at an election rally (South Africa holds elections for local councils on November 1) that he vaccinated because he saw Jews doing it and he was convinced because Jews don't “play with their lives.”

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Despite evidence that a wide representation of fans at the World Cup - Japanese, South American, European, African and Arab - show public support for Palestine and when interviewed by Israeli reporters make that case, the @nytimes and @washingtonpost frame it as only Arab support

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This is an excellent analysis of the looting in parts of two of South Africa's provinces over the last day. Worth a read. Not sure if it is set as public.

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On the way to my local barbershop in my part of Brooklyn I ran into @thandiswamazwai — a South African icon living. I may have embarrassed her with all the praise.

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This always amazes me: The story of the coloured South African who jump ship in pre-revolutionary Cuba, joins Castro's revolution then the Cuban army and fights in defeating apartheid South Africa's army in Angola. There's a film about it. "Brothers in Arms" by Jack Lewis, 2007.

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Kraaifontein.

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. @HectorBellerin speaks facts. And no it’s not whataboutism.

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. @AlJazeera / @AJEnglish is doing a live Youtube screening of the new South African film "Barakat" tonight. The film is worth it and beautiful and I can definitely recommend it, but there a few errors in its PR for the film, especially the description on Youtube. A thread ...

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Wednesday, 23 September 2020, 4pm EST.

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Nobody. Gary Player, who once did PR for Hendrik Verwoerd’s apartheid regime, to @thetimes : One of my recent rounds (of golf) was with Donald Trump, a “very good friend ... I admire his principles tremendously.”

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“My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.” -- The poet Nayyirah Waheed.

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SMH at the glimpse of Paul Biya in stands at end of the Cameroon v Burkina Faso match. He can't even stand up anymore. He is 88 years old. He has been president since 1982. Prime minister since 1975. The oldest Cameroonian player on the field, Choupo-Moting, was born in 1989.

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Until last week former NBA player Kwame Brown's Youtube channel was about his support for Donald Trump, police and saying Black Lives Matter uses the "race card." Now he is some everyman (he's quite the misogynist) taking on the Man. US public debate sucks

Kwame Brown is blasting everyone in sight for joking about his NBA career

What is even happening here?

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Olympic cyclist Chris Froome's wife, actress Michelle (Muslims are a 'drain on society' and there are 'no innocent Gazans'), is a white South African. That's all.

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@rafaelshimunov How much do you bet one or more of their families are immigrants to Israel from white South Africa ...

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I am now waiting for Western media to cover labor issues leading up to Olympics in Paris next year, with the same intensity they covered the lead up to the World Cup in Qatar ...

Africa Is a Country

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The undocumented construction workers preparing the sites for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. 80% of the workers on the Olympic building sites are immigrants. "All these beautiful stadiums are built by poor people who are exploited," said a Malian worker.

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Speaking for a friend: People realize Thabo Bester, the South African murderer who exploited the affinity for grifters among the country's new elites, broke out of a private prison, right? Repeat it: a private prison.

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Reactions to Gurnah’s Nobel win, mostly social media, play up his Africanness & Blackness. That's fine, but Gurnah is from Zanzibar, an island nation (think Indian Ocean, Arab and African mix) & Tanzanians and Zanzibaris contest him. And his work is all about rejecting categories

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One of my favorites. I remember taking this picture of my parents in Ottery township in late 1996. I had a new camera I bought in Chicago, where I had gone to study, and just came back to Cape Town. Most images of my family are formal. So I am happy at this exception.

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These views are more widespread among white South Africans than we think. The DA, a party with the majority of support among white South Africans, copy MAGA politics (add anti-vax politics), so do Afriforum and Freedom Front Plus and media like Rapport.

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Woman at Trump rally says she is a ‘South African MAGA Preacher.’ She says God sent Trump to her in a dream and told her to come to America to help him because Heaven is backing him and he is a modern-day Cyrus sent by God to save the world.

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"I went into the Vatican and saw that golden roof. And I said to myself how could somebody be such a son of bitch as to live with a golden roof and then go to poor countries and kiss children with a full belly? I stopped believing." - Diego Maradona (1960-2020).

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Listen. The first episode of Africa Is a Country Radio, our a monthly deep dive into the music and cultural politics of the African continent and beyond. Hosted by @intlblk .

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Quinton de Kock should never play for South Africa again. Also, that it takes a directive from @OfficialCSA to get the white players in the @OfficialProteas to be in solidarity against racism should end the nonsense that cricket there is better on racism. cc @LawsonNaidoo

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Hoping all those who fell for Magufuli's hype (hashtags and all), long before his denialism, as he 'efficiently' ordered workers around like children, instituted neoliberalism, set the police on his political opponents, and built authoritarianism, won't be revisionists now

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Ma se kind.

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Remember when @Sisonkemsimang wrote "All your faves are problematic" and some of you got mad ...

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Halala Dr Jacquelin Katanedzka, who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation at @TheNewSchool , an ethnography of the cross border on-demand economy to Zimbabwe from South Africa that developed in a state of scarcity in Zimbabwe. Committee: Miriam Ticktin, Seyram Avle and mna.

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"[Marcelo Bielsa] is the nicest man in football: a staunch socialist who believes that football is a sport purely for the fans ... crushed by every defeat ... because he feels that he has let down the working men and women who pay to attend the games." [Patrick Gunn, Medium.]

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Church. "Abdullah Ibrahim: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert", via @nprmusic . Amen.

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"Give Us More Guns: How South Africa's gangs were armed" is a book about Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo, head of a police armory, sold 2,400 police-owned guns to gang lords. Deaths of 89 kids in Cape Town's townships linked to these guns. He's on the left. Book cover is on the right

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Reason 1,000,003 why I can't support England.

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England penalty-takers hit by racist abuse. England's Football Association says it is appalled and disgusted after racist trolls targeted Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka following Sunday's #EURO2020 final defeat to Italy

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R.I.P.

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"Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) and Chris McGregor, New Brighton Stadium, Port Elizabeth, 1971." By Ian Bruce Huntley.

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The summer of 1996 "Stakes is High" I had just completed a MA in Political Science at @NorthwesternU . It was my first time living outside South Africa. A few months later I went back to Cape Town. @WeAreDeLaSoul is a part of my story. RIP Dave Jolicoeur, Trugoy The Dove.

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My 2023 wish is South Africans take advice from the young black man attacked by white racists at a Bloemfontein resort: “There's a lot of flaws (to our nonracial democratic experiment). We are a young nation, but great things take time. We are working toward something great”

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Best news today. @bennimccarthy17 from Hanover Park, the so-called gangster leagues, Crusaders AFC, Seven Stars, @AFCAjax , @RCCelta , @FCPorto , @Rovers and @orlandopirates and lately coach of @AmaZuluFootball , is the new South African men's national football team coach.

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Yes!

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‘Media in Postapartheid South Africa’ by @_SeanJacobs is hot off the press! Check it out here:

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My mom would have been 77 years old today. (She passed away in Cape Town 2020.) The image is her visiting Coney Island in November 2014.

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I am now a newly minted @ShuttleworthFdn Fellow. Joining @Al2kA of @arribada_i , @Anasuyashh of @WhoseKnowledge , Andrew Lamb, @chartgerink , @jenny_molloy of @openbioeconomy , @muguika and @trklou of #Glia .

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@SundayTimesZA @Bruceps What actual evidence is there for this wild claim, @Bruceps ? The only foreign meddling in South Africa's elections has been a request by a South African party, the very reactionary @Our_DA , begging the US, a country that makes it really hard for its citizens to vote, to…

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My daughter, Rosa, turned 16 today. In the pic, the great Adolph Reed Jnr read a bedtime story to Rosa in 2009: ‘If you give a mouse a cookie.’ Say happy birthday to Rosa, named in honor of her grandmothers—Rosina Windvogel and Rose Blatt—Rosa Luxembourg and Rosa Parks.

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I am from the Cape Flats in Cape Town. Going back and reading this by Gabeba Baderoon, a friend and Penn State professor, makes a lot make sense. I just went wow. That Gabeba is from there too is probably why she gets it right

The creation of black criminality in South Africa

There is a seamless transition in how the South African state in tandem with capital, for 400 years utilize prisons to control black bodies.

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@_ElevenPeople

2 years

I can't believe how Thabo Mbeki is now some kind of truth teller, given that he spearheaded the policies that deepened class inequalities inherited from apartheid (racially as well as in and amongst black people) and proposed black capitalism as solution

Katy Katopodis

@KatyKatopodis

2 years

Thabo Mbeki issues a dire warning to SA … “One of my fears is that one of these days we will have our own version of the #ArabSpring ” He says you can’t have so much poverty, unemployment because… “One day it’s going to explode” #JesseDuarteMemorial

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