mandirainbow.bsky.social
Freelance writer and journalist passionate about the climate crisis, health and social issues.
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This triggers so many questions - impossible to hold conversation about ll of this in a character-limited space!
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Of course not - but I asked a question about something I don't know as a South African - is he a racist? I have no axe to grind on this, I want info.
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There were MANY pro-Nazi sympathizers in South Africa BEFORE WW2 - not much Nazi flight to SA post WW2. National Party leaders/supporters drew oxygen from Nazism, but Nazi refugees had little influence on development of the system.
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Is he considered racist? I know he's conservative, but in the South Africa he was born in, he would NOT have been classified as "white"? I don't know much about him - I'm South African, so not exposed to the inner stuff.
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I agree largely with your take - this is how my parents experienced it, a setting-in-stone & radical worsening of what had been before.
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I know this instantly, and I'm South African.
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The arrogance of thinking they can just ditch commitment by 193 countries?
Destructive, cruel &, I would add, evil.
On this Freedom Day, remembering apartheid's evil & the joy of the 1994 election, I wd issue a warning to the USA: evil clings to power long-term. Fight it now or face that future.
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Evidence, evidence, evidence.
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How would ANYONE get to be "wildly successful" at 18 - let alone this strangely pale and unattractive little man?
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Quite. The global fertility rate at 2.27 is getting pretty close to replacement rate of 2.1. The problem lies not with the relatively high (tho also decreasing) rate of 6 births per woman in Niger; it lies with the enormous consumption rate of the developed world.
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The US universities aren't doing that well...
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Thanks, Phoebe! This year's loss is really shocking - 62%! 2022/3 it was bad at up to 48%. Wild bees also down, I read. I think there must be multiple stressors at play here. My home & garden is FULL of mozzies, moths, butterflies, Parktown prawns - I am so grateful, but also so afraid...
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And wasn't he cute. He was just 18!
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Our neighbours in 'Nambia' are quivering with excitement, I'm sure...
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To add one tip: get your pharmacy to print out your prescriptions for you and carry them with you. You probably don't know what the active ingredients are and drugs have different names in different countries. Saw someone have difficulties because they didn't know the local name for their meds.
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You remind me of an eye-opening book I bought about 25 years ago.