South African jazz is incredible. Check out Skyjack... open.spotify.com/search/skyjack

In South Africa, people can wear whatever

Respect to Canada 🫡

The annual @pewresearch.org list of striking research findings from the past year is out. #1 on the list: After more than 50 years of rapid growth, the immigrant population in the United States is now in decline. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids. Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km. We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.

Counterpoint: Nobody is ‘old enough’ to handle social media. The adults are the ones with the most cooked brains due to it. Using online should be like having a heavy machinery licence.

MAGA is bringing back traditional masculinity by obsessing over fonts, gold trim and ballrooms.

We moved to a new office park. Colleagures are complaining huge about the travel. Apartheid spatial planning is real. Me, white, now 5 minutes from work. My black colleagues now taking two taxis from Soweto via the edgy Noord street taxi rank in downtown Joburg for an hour+ commute one-way.

The whole of my life, the anti consumerist, anti corporate, anti capitalist message was that we all “owned too much stuff”. But it turns out that owning stuff can actually be both a comfort and a rebellious act, because making you rent it keeps you on a much shorter leash, at their whim.

A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."

"The world's oldest ritual." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

South Africa exported 45,917 tonnes of maize last week. About 57% going to Zimbabwe, 14% to Botswana, and the remainder to other countries in the Southern African region. 1/

"Bigots, go to hell" is not incompatible with "you do not get to use your personal challenges as shields in social situations when you have chosen to be an asshole to strangers".

I have a newsletter that we deliver for free to your inbox, covering mainly agricultural economics and trade matters in South Africa and our region, and occasionally in other parts of the world. You can subscribe to it here: wandile.substack.com

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

It’s not “nationalism” in any American sense, loyal to the Constitution or values it embodies. It’s a white internationale intent on drawing a cordon blanc, you might say — and coldly willing to place democratic multiracial societies with long ties of loyalty to the U.S. outside of it.

So... ctrl-f then? That's literally all you're describing. Except ctrl-f doesn't lie to you.

A delicacy worth billions is being stripped from Nelson Mandela Bay’s coastline. But the damage goes far beyond the ocean. The black market trade in perlemoen is fuelling South Africa’s criminal underworld. Daily Maverick’s Riaan Marais explains.

A woman told me last night that her daughter still comes and suckles on her breast every morning. The daughter is 20. 😐

Chelsea poor so far.

Have confirmed that my old mates from the Sandton Brazen Head are now drinking at The Filly in Sunninghill. As hard as ever! 😳

Capitalist exploitation isn't human nature. The ruling class sells us that idea to justify their violence and greed. Human beings flourish through mutual aid, cooperation and collaboration.

My child won 10 trophies at her primary school prize-giving! Had to share maths and Economics and didn’t win Zulu. Otherwise clean sweep very proud! ❤️

Fairly comprehensive win by the Boks

Big "My friend kicked my ball into your yard and bust your window, can I have my ball back" energy

Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary." Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%? When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?

An MP in Zimbabwe has called for the repeal of the country's "backwards" 1977 abortion law. He argued that safe abortion should be available to a wider range of Zimbabwean women, as it is currently restricted to a privileged few. Each year, 60,000 women die due to unsafe abortion.

🌍 The 1st of December marks World Aids Day, which calls for sustained political leadership, international cooperation, and human-rights-centred approaches to end Aids by 2030. Empower yourself with verified facts today: africacheck.org/infofinder

So, Thanksgiving, is that basically the US national holiday that celebrates migration?

In South Africa’s Makanaskop, the kraal is a sacred space for rituals but small plots with outside toilets undermine this cultural use. theconversation.com/no-space-for... #EnvironmentAndEnergy

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

The PR agency I work at won Agency of the Year in our country, which is South Africa. 👍

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family. In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity. youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...

Wow you cannot take Ireland for granted!

Mapped: The Ad Agencies Behind a French Oil Giant’s Ill-Fated Rebrand www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/m...

Reasons for South Africa’s out-of-hand murder rate: inequality, alcohol and firearms. Also the socialising of wealth as only measure of male value. See Matzopolous et al. 90% of murder victims are men, 93% of murderers are men gh.bmj.com/content/bmjg...

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Unsolicited parenting advice in a bottle store. 👌

Over the past four years, the number of domestic violence incidents against women reported to police in South Africa has almost doubled, from 33,000 in 2020/23 to 63,000 in 2023/24. Read groundup.org.za/article/poli... by The Outlier and GroundUp Staff

I adore miniminuteman and his efforts as a science/history communicator, fighting the tide of bullshit out there. But he left one important note out of his vid on the "mystery" out the Roanoke colony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl5...

Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.

What if what the current moment required was humility?

Always, always, ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY!

Criminal courts in Cape Town are near to collapse. That, in a nutshell, is my experience as an attorney who has worked in these courts for the past 30 years. Read groundup.org.za/article/crim... by William Booth

48 teams qualify, which makes these fairytales possible (non ironic)

quirked up white boys made Orlando local news on this night in 1991