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Glad to see these statement getting attention.

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 190 of The Continent The world order is disintegrating. Whose interests will the African Union serve now? Read it here: bit.ly/TC190

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Over the weekend, a group of friends and I came together, driven by the conviction that the recent allegations by the President of the USA require a strong and clear response from white Christians in South Africa. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” -Gandhi Get ready. The days ahead are going to demand good trouble, holy mischief, and civil disobedience.

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Zapiro always draws it starkly.

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Even New York Times knows... "Still, those facts have done little to stop some on the far-right in South Africa from promoting the false narrative that white South Africans have been widely dispossessed of their land and have even been victims of genocide." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 188 of The Continent Goma has fallen. Rwanda-backed rebels are aiming for more land and more resources. Hear from the people living in Goma. Get your copy of this week's issue here: bit.ly/TC188

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I've come to appreciate The Continent as one effective way to keep informed and engaged on African news.

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Lottery bosses turned to State Security Agency to investigate leaks – but things didn’t go the way they wanted Read groundup.org.za/article/lott... by Raymond Joseph

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Probably the best thing I’ve read in response to the “absurdly scandalous, blasphemous indulgence that was the inauguration” open.substack.com/pub/thetunin...

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A preacher gets up, quotes scripture, and reminds the congregation that God loves the outcast — those in fear for their lives — the poor, prisoners, the disabled, and the oppressed. In response, an outraged mob tries to kill the preacher. Is this the New Testament or The Washington Post?

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 187 of The Continent African opposition figures usually boycott elections after disillusioning runs. Venâncio Mondlane believes his victory in Mozambique’s election was stolen. He's doing things differently and it's already paying off. bit.ly/Continent187

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For over a decade I was told by Anglican leaders around me that these USA episcopals were endangering the gospel. It turns out those throwing the stones were actually the ones who'd bowed their knees to the gods of their age.

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"All the goodness & the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again & rise up. It isn't that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn't die." - John Steinbeck Resist. Persist. The wars most worth fighting are not easily won.

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" When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am your God" – Leviticus 19:33-34.

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Learners at 287 South African public schools only have access to pit toilets. 174 of those schools are in the Eastern Cape. The Department of Basic Education had an initial target of supplying all schools with appropriate sanitation by the end of 2016. https://theoutlier.co.za/charts/chart/88628

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Top median salaries are R7,500 but the cost of basic household food basket in SA is R5,383 pmbejd.org.za/index.php/20...

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A question for President-elect Trump and his team as they prepare to cut funding for @UNFPA and re-impose the global gag rule: "Don't the lives of women and girls matter?" Here's what I found in the field: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...

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Can't they at least fight about how to eradicate unemployment/pit latrines/hunger/illiteracy/inequality or why their party is so useless at so much of this governing stuff? Mbalula vs Yengeni as ANC cracks whip on discipline. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

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I'd repost this even if there wasn't a prize.

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There is a perception that charity, donations and aid from the Global North is what is keeping African economies afloat. Yet the combined aid and development assistance to Africa in 2022 was $37-billion less than remittances from African diaspora. https://theoutlier.co.za/charts/chart/89546

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@drdrtsai.bsky.social we are enjoying a meal and talking of you with deep appreciation. So thought we should tell you.

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If you bike to work, you live longer, new study confirms. momentummag.com/if-you-bike-...

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A defeat for #displacement & #gentrification in Cape Town. Charnell Commando who was reviled by a racist judge (removed from the case) as a “kitchen girl” and her comrades are vindicated in the Constitutional Court. @pierredevos.bsky.social @nickhedley.bsky.social groundup.org.za/article/conc...

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 184 of The Continent Coup de latte: The trouble Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is brewing. Get your copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...

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Justice delayed but not denied. Four apartheid era police officers have been put on trial in South Africa, for the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka. One has already pled guilty, and testified that the others were complicit as well. 37 years later. @thecontinent.bsky.social

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“It’s wasteful because it’s not for me” A classic Singer that reminds me of @brenttoderian.bsky.social zinger!

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