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NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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No matter how much writing I do, I maintain 100% that the worst part remains the abstract. Why is it so hard to do? I wrote 86,000 words. Why is 300 so hard?!?!

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PS If you like books about jazz, photography, South African history & literature, African American history & literature, classical music, rock 'n' roll history, or motorsports, you're going to think you died & went to heaven at the next Gordon Avenue Library book sale. Mark your calendar.

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Lots of respect for ntate @charlesfogelman who is in the finishing stretches of the @ComradesRace Marathon right now. He is on track for a #bronze medal (10 hours-11 hours finishing), which is a heck of an achievement! (It also looks like he is learning just how long ~89km is!)

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Manuscript fully revised! Images, maps, and permissions sent to the publisher. Let's go! #SellingGravity moves a step closer to reality... ('Selling Gravity, Perpetuating Inequality: The Cold War, Apartheid, and the #Lesotho Highlands Water Project' is my current title for it)

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review. I hope everyone really hears this.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

A #Lesotho #trout farming company overstated its donations to local communities, reporting donations of fish heads five times higher than the actual amount: #LHDA #LHWP #Water lescij.org/2025/06/04/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Earning over $1 million. Sell soul for $3 million. End up with $0.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

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Want to know how exciting it is to write a book? I have just cut 509 uses of the word "that" from the manuscript. It started out with 1157 and now has less than 650! #Proofreading #AmWriting #LHWP #Lesotho #AlmostThere It does read better now, though!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Good read. The same thing happened in many cities & towns across the country. This is Virginia's story.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Am I old? Just spent some time on a Saturday morning crafting an email to ask a local public radio station not to tout a trip to Central Europe for their listeners as going to "Imperial Cities" because that subtly glorifies empires. Naaaah, I have always been a curmudgeon!

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It is also very clear as I listen to the computer read this manuscript back to me that I greatly overuse the word "that" in my writing. I am deleting it from just about every sentence where I used it! #AmWriting #Lesotho #LHWP #BookTalk #Proofreading

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Well, I did find an instance where I claimed that South African Prime Minister Verwoerd made a decision for Cabinet in November 1966...which would have been very hard for him to do since he was assassinated in September 1966! #AmProofreading #LHWP #BookTalk #Lesotho

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Let's see how many times I mis-typed "damning" instead of "damming" in this book, shall we? 🤣😂🤣 #OneAlready #LHWP #History #Lesotho #Proofreading

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WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II

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#Lesotho has reopened the #Muela hydropower station, meaning domestic #electricity supply has resumed. This is happening in the wake of the 7-month maintenance shutdown of the #LHWP supply tunnels that ran from Oct '24 to May '25 waterpowermagazine.com/news/lhda-comp

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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#Lesotho has reopened the #Muela hydropower station, meaning domestic #electricity supply has resumed. This is happening in the wake of the 7-month maintenance shutdown of the #LHWP supply tunnels that ran from Oct '24 to May '25 waterpowermagazine.com/news/lhda-comp

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I was today years old when I learned that the British Royal visit to #Basutoland in 1947 included a brief stop in #Ficksburg. The South African Railways, evidently, have a massive photo archive that is online. Fascinating stuff, like this: atom.drisa.co.za/index.php/fi...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Stanford's Joel Cabrita, professor of history, writes about the long history of #USA support for #SouthAfrica, or at least white, Afrikaner South Africans. time.com/7287684/hist...

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Stanford's Joel Cabrita, professor of history, writes about the long history of #USA support for #SouthAfrica, or at least white, Afrikaner South Africans. time.com/7287684/hist...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Thread on the South Africa of President Tr*mp's imagination

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"So far this year, math and statistics grant funding is lagging behind previous years by 72 percent. Funding for physics grants this year has fallen by 85 percent, and funding for materials research grants has dropped by 63 percent." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes, the newspaper of record contributes to the post-truth reality we live in. Compare these display page treatments of Trump's meeting with Ramaphosa. (WaPo headline, followed by NYT)

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

IMHO: stop calling the meeting an ambush. Ramaphosa had a plan: - staffing his delegation (golfers, a billionaire, and a white minister of ag.) - asking a few Trojan Horse Q’s (where is the video from?) - letting POTUS spew without interruption - letting the press ask the hard Q’s, rather than him

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Drinking some Five Roses here on a rainy 10 degree C day in solidarity with CR, the RSA delegation, and all the good folks in #SouthAfrica who had to face that stupid shit-show of lies and propaganda in DC earlier today.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

For anyone who wants to be well-informed on the topic, @brodiegal.bsky.social, who wrote the linked report, went on to write Farm Killings in South Africa. This is THE definitive book on the topic, a thorough and very considered investigation and a must-read for anyone interested in the facts.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Historian of South Africa here. What Ray says is the simple truth. 👇🏽

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

All I know is that CODESA was good training for many things, clearly...

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One of #Lesotho's brightest lights in #jazz, #fiction, and development economics (yes, all of them!) has passed. Rest in power Ntate Morabo #Morojele theconversation.com/morabo-moroj...

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‘On Tuesday 27 May our new Special Issue www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/c... ‘#BeyondFailure: exploring the #heart of the #Malawian #state’ will be launched @unima_official. Join in person or register here for the link to join online: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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One-hundred years ago today, #MalcolmLittle was born in #Omaha, Nebraska. The man the world would know as #MalcolmX grew up in #Lansing, #Michigan, where his worldview was shaped by his parents and family.

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