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Kathryn Berman

@KathyLBerman

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Innovator & Strategist; Afro-optimist. Social, Cultural & Political Activist and commentator; Defender of Democracy. Impact Practitioner.

South Africa
Joined February 2009
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Kathryn Berman
14 days
"Africa doesn’t need AI that works like #SiliconValley. Africa needs solutions that work when Silicon Valley #AI systems fail". SamanthaWolhuter at the @ITU @AIforGood #ImpactAfrica Conference who creates a tool for crisis management. https://t.co/7nbiQsDUUc Logo still image
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Kathryn Berman
20 days
Really sobering observations today around the threats to Democracy in our beloved #SouthAfrica. {{Please log on to #youtube link}}. But, from my perspective, made even more so, by the assault on our individual and sovereign national democracies globally by the #broliSgarchy
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Kathryn Berman
20 days
I am sad to be leaving this extraordinary organization today. But have to focus on my PhD in AI and justice. Follow the proceedings #defendourdemocracy
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Kathryn Berman
20 days
I am sad to be leaving this extraordinary organization today. But have to focus on my PhD in AI and justice. Follow the proceedings #defendourdemocracy
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Kathryn Berman
21 days
And it's a full house for Day 1 of @TEDxJoburg COUNTDOWN. immersion starting at GIBS. But you still have time to book for tomorrow's incredible line up at @NiroxFoundation Starting 10.00 25 October 2025. Booking link here. But I have four complimentary tickets on offer. Please DM
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Dr. Ezzideen
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I came back today. I thought I had known despair before, but what I saw today is beyond despair. It is not grief, nor horror, nor pain. It is something colder, a stillness where even God seems to have withdrawn His hand. The sky was impossibly blue. The kind of blue that mocks
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TEDxJohannesburg
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JEN VAN DEN BUSSCHE Designing dignity into the basics of survival. Urban innovator improving water & sanitation access. Sandton + NIROX | 24–25 Oct https://t.co/mzSu9qSv6a #TEDxJoburg #DesignForDignity #Countdown
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TEDxJohannesburg
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CHARLES MPOFU Cranes as sentinels of Africa’s wetlands. National Geographic Explorer studying ecosystem resilience. Sandton + NIROX | 24–25 Oct https://t.co/mzSu9qRXgC #TEDxJoburg #Wetlands #Countdown
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TEDxJohannesburg
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Climate isn’t changing. We are. What future are we changing into — and who decides? Sandton + NIROX Sculpture Park | 24–25 October 2025 Buy tickets today: https://t.co/46ircvKwbI #TEDxJoburg #Countdown #IdeasChangeEverything
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TEDxJohannesburg
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MUNEYI TEDxJoburg proudly presents Muneyi — the 2025 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music. A folk storyteller whose voice heals, remembers, and renews. Sandton + NIROX Sculpture Park | 24–25 Oct 2025 Buy your ticket: https://t.co/mzSu9qRXgC #IdeasChangeEverything
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Kathryn Berman
1 month
Don't miss @fakugesi at @TshimologongIT today and tomorrow
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@IlhanMN
Ilhan Omar
2 months
From denying Somalia had a president to making up a story, President Trump is a lying buffoon. No one should take this embarrassing fool seriously
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Collin Rugg
2 months
NEW: President Trump says he offered the head of Somalia to take Rep. Ilhan Omar back home. “I suggested maybe he’d like to take her back… He said, ‘I don’t want her.’” https://t.co/AKFBhEmbfV
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Mehdi Hasan
2 months
Trump’s hated for Comey is so bizarre when you think about the fact that without Comey’s October 2016 intervention, Trump probably wouldn’t have won the 2016 election and wouldn’t be president today.
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SABC News
2 months
WATCH | A Life Sciences teacher at Makhumbuza High School in Umlazi in KwaZulu-Natal has gained recognition for his innovative teaching methods. He uses music, including popular and trending songs, to help students learn and remember complex scientific concepts.
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The Tennessee Holler
2 months
WATCH: ICE agent VICIOUSLY shoves and tackles a woman who is upset after masked men dragged off her husband. Sickening. https://t.co/uiiOhSVBro
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Kathryn Berman
4 months
At the #Brag event by @socialtv and @919FM today: Hilton of @GrowthWheel notes that it is time to recognise those #informalsector #socialentrepreneurs instead of seeing them as #unemployed but as massive value-creators.
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Kathryn Berman
4 months
A great keynote motivator by #FaraiNtuli for the #CorpsAfrica cohort that people usually wait to their 50s to do good in community Congratulations to the young people who are starting out by doing good.
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Kathryn Berman
4 months
It's an extraordinary day. And I have faith in the good. At the #EuropeanCourtofHumanRights @CasterSemeny_a finally achieved justice. In Geneva at the #AiforGood conference #SouthAfricans feature - turning the bad rap about tech billionaires around. And now in #Sandton
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Kathryn Berman
4 months
It's an extraordinary day. And I have faith in the good. At the #EuropeanCourtofHumanRights @CasterSemeny_a finally achieved justice. In Geneva at the #AiforGood conference #SouthAfricans feature - turning the bad rap about tech billionaires around. And now in #Sandton
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Kathryn Berman
11 months
So the capricious swap of #Justice #Minister was in time for the #Walusz release? Otherwise the delegation could not have had credibility when visiting #chrishani family
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Kathryn Berman
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@KathyLBerman
Kathryn Berman
1 year
@ForDemocracySa and civil society #silent #protest
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