Gail Eddy
@GailEddy
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Public policy. Human settlements. Local Government. Cities and urbanization. Sports Fan. History Nerd. @BlavatnikSchool alumna.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined March 2009
Introducing PoliceData ZA 🇿🇦 Free, open crime statistics dashboard for South Africa — built because SAPS publishes data as PDFs that nobody can actually use. CrimeStatsSA charges for this. Ours is free. https://t.co/MSDwcvaIFA
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Sky News foreign correspondent Alex Crawford reported that Lebanese health workers in Nabatieh are being forced to deliberately delay their arrival at emergency scenes to avoid Israeli “double-tap” strikes, which, she said, have become a “pattern”.
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This is objectively hilarious, but it's also an example of how the information war is shifting. Short thread. 1/
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This is ridiculous. South Africa is more democratic than the United States
‘According to Freedom House, the quality of US democracy is now at the same level as South Africa’s, though the latter’s has been improving, not deteriorating.’ Martin Wolf in the Financial Times
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The fire at the Botha Sigcau building isn’t just about bricks and timber, it’s about history. The land records of the former Transkei. People’s title deeds, keys to ownership, dignity, & hope. Though poor service delivery remains a feature in the province of the Eastern Cape.
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In 2016, Rafael Chaskalson (son of Adv Chaskalson from the #MadlangaCommission) wrote about the crucial land records at the Botha Sigcau in Mthatha and how we are at risk of losing them. Tonight, as Rafael warned, all those records are up in flames. 💔 https://t.co/Ajok0NCs3n
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Powerful words from University of Pennsylvania students against their university's headlong rush to embrace of AI:
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Powerful new longitudinal study finds that adolescents who increase their social media over a 2 year period show lower cognitive performance, compared to those who did not increase. Fom @jasonmnagata's team, using ABCD data, and controlling for all the right stuff.
🗣️ New @UCSFChildrens study in @LancetRH_Americ! 📱🧠 Increasing social media use among early adolescents associated with lower cognitive performance 2 years later 🔗 Read here: https://t.co/UvcCtuXZJ2
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Listen to the voice of Sol Plaatje in this first recording of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", made on October 16, 1923, in London, England, by Sol T Plaatje himself, accompanied by Sylvia Colenso on the piano.
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📣 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS MA research on endometriosis in Cape Town public healthcare. Looking for Black/Coloured women (18–55) diagnosed with endometriosis. 🗣 1 interview (±60 min) 🔒 Confidential & voluntary Please share 💛
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Ethnic cleansing.
This is a staggering statistic. Israel has forced about 20 percent of Lebanese people to flee their homes in just two weeks. No country in the region is safe.
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Trump declaring the war over every time the market is predicted to tank is one of the stupidest strategies I've ever seen. Yet it has worked every single time so I can't even blame him at this point.
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5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!
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Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks.
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The war in the Strait of Hormuz will reach your local pharmacy within six weeks. Not because your pharmacist follows geopolitics. Because the active pharmaceutical ingredients in roughly half of America’s generic prescriptions begin as petrochemical derivatives manufactured in
Your paracetamol is made from oil. The phenol comes from a cumene process that starts with naphtha. The naphtha comes from a refinery. The refinery’s feedstock transits the Strait of Hormuz. Ninety-nine percent of pharmaceutical feedstocks, solvents, reagents, and packaging are
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The scale of the catastrophe is starting to dawn on Western minds. But they’re still far behind the curve. This is not a Pyrrhic victory. It’s a strategic defeat, a military defeat, one that is impossible to miss: the former unipole is incapable of militarily subduing Iran.
You know things are bad when the fucking Guardian admits the US empire exists
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Six months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump administration fired all the State Department oil and gas experts. The people who modeled exactly this scenario. The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries. Now nobody knows who to call. You
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Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.
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Best cover drive in world cricket 😍😍
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A reminder that evacuation orders do not give carte blanch to Israel to bomb civilians or their homes. If civilians cannot or choose not to leave, they still cannot be targeted. Doing so is a war crime.
An Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in central Beirut, on Wednesday. The Israeli army had warned residents to evacuate about an hour before completely flattening it as day broke.
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