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According to Grok3 Elon Musk is the biggest disinformation spreader on X

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Itumeleng Mahabane, who has lived in the USA for many years, says, “The problem with South Africa is that we have the kind of freedom people in the US think they have, and it makes us recklessly naive.” As a South African academic/ artist who has lived in the USA for 44 yrs I agree with him in toto.

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youtube.com/watch?v=AOLu... Tribute to Athol Fugard

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The last time I visited Athol Fugard in Stellenbosch (seen here with his wife Dr Paula Fourie) we joked about death and laughed at it. Yesterday it took him. He will be missed, but he lives forever in his works.

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“There’s the biggest mall that’s coming to Johannesburg,” says Panyaza Lesufi with aplomb. “Twenty-four thousand square meters. That’s the BRICS investment we managed to get.” Yep! We continue to build palaces of consumption, and none of production.

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Imagine him with 34 criminal convictions (equivalent of felonies in the USA) and yet allowed to run for parliament and then elected president! And many many more anti-democratic anomalies! Imagine! Imagine!

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For one thing, the USA would not have an imperial presidency as they have now. Imagine Cyril issuing executive orders left and right and centre like an emperor of the realm, which must be obeyed however stupid they are. Imagine our Constitutional Court ruling he cannot be charged with any crime.

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“If the US had to redraft its constitution, it should adopt South Africa’s” -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Thanks so much for sharing @poptartology.bsky.social @africa.theconversation.com Once again literature often leads the way in describing the terrors & dangers of #ZamaZama life in South Africa/Lesotho @zakesmda.bsky.social #Stillfontein #SouthAfrica #Marikana #NeverAgain #ANC #Zuma #Ramaphosa

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Zakes Mda on his latest novel, set in Lesotho’s musical gang wars theconversation.com/zakes-mda-on...

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American jurisprudence is a fine kettle of fish. “Unconditional discharge” is a conviction! It means that @realDonaldTrump carries the mark of a felon, but nothing else happens to Felon Trump. He lives happily ever after.

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Bua!

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Elon Musk: I know you believe that Donald Trump made you king of the world, hence your issuing directives to other countries, including BRICS, imperial UK and Germany. But I hate to tell you the truth, Boykie, yours is a papier-mâché crown; the Don does not own the world.

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What’s the problem? Cenk Uygur is merely returning to his rightwing roots.

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These things were not really coming. In 1995 they had already started happening

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A step in the right direction. I have kids in New Jersey. One day I may have grandkids there.

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Yes. And more.

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Seneca the Younger (4 BCE to 65 CE), the stoic philosopher, playwright and statesman of Rome, supposedly made the apt observation: “Religion is regarded by the common people [some quote him as saying by “the poor”] as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”