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www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Reading The Wretched of the Earth in isiZulu makes it resonate on a deeper, soul level. Dr Makhosazana Xaba has done a great, necessary and revolutionary thing.

Fear of the public, the hiding of the truth, was a function of an oppressive society. A democratic society should seek to be open and non-secretive. – Thabo Mbeki, 1995

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I’m screaming!

mg.co.za/news/2025-02...

Courage is actually sexy yazi. 🤤

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

Seems apt.

South Africa waiting for Trump to produce his receipts.

I’ve said it before, I’m saying it again: I’m really not the best person to be raising myself. Are the powers that be in the childhood-parenthood-adulthood-industrial complex aware how severely underprepared for adulthood we, former children, are these days? 😟

Trump, DeepSeek in focus as nations gather at Paris AI Summit - www.reuters.com/technology/a...

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

‘… the fixation on turning points risks overlooking their deeper causes. To understand them, we need to take a sober look at the underlying structural transformations that produce them … Indeed, events and structures are not mutually exclusive.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...