RT @tshidi_lee: Asked a few ANC leaders if they ever read the mood of the public, conduct actual research… that Nkabane is still employed,….

Not for the first time, seems like a real rookie communications error. and on something so seemingly easy. I just don't get it.

Confusing that president would summarily dismiss a coalition ministerial appointment without seeming to give any reason?? Now rumours abound about unauthorised trip vs some kind of lottery exposé. If there is a decent reason, why not get ahead of the story?? How hard is that?.

RT @MbekezeliMB: So tired of this minister’s breathless explanations. Now she’s apologizing to the phantom chair of a process she called….

RT @Sir_Paulord: "letters written by average people from only 150-200 years ago—" [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER SOUND] .

RT @ICC: South Africa are definitely happy with what's in the briefcase 😲. #WTC25

Wow. Absolutely incredible piece by @FirdoseM. Calling CLR James. What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?.

RT @spikekerr: My take on the Capitec CEO's pronouncement that the SA unemployment rate is actually 10%. Summary: "The Capitec CEO should s….

A generous article from Khumalo. Using the frankly ignorant and moronic claim of the Capitec CEO to instead explore some of the most interesting (imo) new research trying to explain the extent of SA unemployment. More stuff coming in this vein — watch this space!.

Zombie idea that just will not die. No, it is not true that “Stats SA doesn’t count self-employed people”. Take a look at any survey (Stats SA or others). Perhaps consider that maybe Stats SA & the people who study SA labour markets are not morons.

RT @PrettyBadLefty: It's been so long since this site has been good 🥲

RT @kenklippenstein: the whole Trump-Musk thing was like a sopranos subplot that you knew was going to end catastrophically just not when.

RT @ProfSrilaRoy: From Pakistan to South Africa to absolutely everywhere.

RT @NickKristof: SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I s….

RT @sohelasurajpal: If the police can kill accused murderers w/out a trial, then any one of us can be called a murderer and killed in the s….

RT @AmandaBRinquest: This is not justice. We don’t get to know the truth, we don’t get to know if there are more victims, if there are bo….

RT @SurbhiKesar: Excited to share details about workshop on “Labour, Informal Economy, and Structural Transformation under Post-Colonial Ca….

I suppose that, fundamentally, this is not a new thing. (this extract is from Blame Me on History, by William Bloke Modisane, which I am reading right now and finding absolutely staggering. First published in 1963, and ofc banned shortly thereafter by the apartheid government)

This is Ehud Olmert for crying out loud. And yet so many of my liberal American acquaintances, especially, just defend & equivocate, or at best say nothing after having defended & equivocated before. It's obscene. What point do things have to reach for them to critically reflect?

As things have just become worse and worse, I just no longer know how to express the horror and rage and. confusion. How people I know to be capable of self-reflection and empathy just ignore this, just justify, just rationalise, just equivocate.