says the son of parents who were in a longstanding relationship outside of marriage (though they married after his dad's first wife died), and the son of one of Britain's most successful women entrepreneurs.
well you know what they say about postcolony being the avant-garde of capitalism...
Those of us from the global south already have to provide this info when we apply for US, UK and Schengen visas. Add to the list three months of bank statements. Welcome to our world.
But can you learn to say Mamdani ?
Rana Duwaji is not Hindu though.
Deep South
Leonard Cohen. Rufus Wainwright. Martha Wainwright!
Catherine O’Hara!
Sandra Oh!
More folks should watch Raoul Peck's Exterminate All the Brutes, especially right now. It's on HBO & Max.
It's brilliant, and especially good at connecting slavery in the Americas with Native American genocide, and back further to European antisemitism and Islamophobia.
www.hbo.com/exterminate-...
I repeat: shipping people to forced labor camps in foreign countries based on little more than their ethnicity is a practice with a history.
Great paper. I was talking about it to friends today.
A picture of the University of Cape Town, where SALDRU is based.
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The Heritage Foundation, the group behind the radical pro-Trump Project 2025 agenda, held a private discussion this week about how to dismantle the EU.
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Kemi Badenoch's latest bonkers claim about the West being in a crisis made by its own weakness.
Have a great weekend. It could be our last.
sorry about this Zackie. Let's try and figure this out.
"The need to be authentic was greater than the fear to die"
Iman Muhsin Hendricks
South Africa’s LGBTQ+ community is in shock after the assassination of Cape Town’s Muhsin Hendricks, widely known as the world’s first openly gay imam, in what appears to be a targeted killing.
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
Book extract: The origins of the use of the term ‘farm attacks’ in South Africa and how its meaning changed and assumed racial undertones
EXTRACT | Farm Killings in South Africa: How the term 'farm attacks' came into use www.news24.com/news24/opini...
From ‘Farm Killings in South Africa’
Why doesn't the NYT have a share to bluesky option yet?
Masha Gessen in the NYT:
'... the objective is to control the means of reproduction. That’s usually the goal of movements that purport to protect women and girls.'
Drives me crazy. Fine if you have a good reason to decline. But some people are making a virtue out of refusing to review.
I hate to be such a cynic though.
Yes well, forked tongue and all that. JT has not yet stood up when it mattered on the issue of the Israeli government's impunity. 'Who we are' so far has been kowtowing to US agendas.
Of course they will refuse
Kimon de Greef, Ihsaan Haffejee and Kimberly Mutandiro have been at Stilfontein reporting on the trapped zama zamas.
Here Kimon describes the illegal mining situation (Ihsaan's pics mostly)
groundup.org.za/article/stil...
Here Kimon describes the rescue operation:
groundup.org.za/article/scen...
Chart showing average number of children killed per year in global conflicts. Ukraine - 501. Syria - 4,725. Gaza - 11,355
Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.
Nothing from Caitlyn Jenner today on the Great Capitol Bathroom Crisis.
Yes. If you wouldn’t sit around the table and share a meal with them what’s the point of allowing them into your other socials?
