If you’re not eating lunch over a rubbish bin, are you really an office worker?

J. M. Coetzee in conversation with Arnon Grunberg on Olive Schreiner and his invention, Elizabeth Costello. Amsterdam, October 2025. open.spotify.com/episode/4QKN...

The past 18 months have taught me that there are so many nails out there that actually think they're the hammer.

Reimagining money to reform public finance!

South Africa: In the news... www.instagram.com/reel/DX89I7T...

OK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!

HEFTY GIRLS WANTED FOR POLICE FORCE (must be fairly good looking). London Metropolitan Police, 1930s

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 454 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Alarm: From Italian all’arme (“to arms”), a call to prepare for battle. #etymology

This sounds outrageous 😮

Winnie Mandela doccie is harrowing stuff. Lots to unpack. Filmmakers have an agenda, the iconic liberation leader and protagonist too, and South Africa as a country as well. As a viewer you can’t stay detached either. You’re forced to interrogate yourself

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Doge was literally just the private equity model applied to the public space- take over, loot, leave. Coincidentally it was also the British empire model

Not US Americans flexing about how they’ve visited dangerous countries! 😬

87% of 19477 people murdered in one year in South Africa were men. The perpetrators are also overwhelmingly men. Understanding the male homicide epidemic means confronting inequality, poverty, the legacy of apartheid, male socialisation, firearms and alcohol. This study gives insights.

this chart was life altering to me

The Johannesburg Art Gallery Homecoming Collection is on at the Standard Bank Art Gallery in Joburg. Picasso, Matisse, Sekoto, Lichtenstein, Preller, Pemba, Kentridge, Warhol… Chinese ceramic art from 2000 years ago… all there to see in person. I was shocked I must admit!

The athlete sits in his vehicle, contemplating the wisdom of his park run decision

Pretty sure we are experiencing our 8th Spur birthday tonight. We have been here about 30 minutes! No complaints, but it’s like the Royal Drummers of Burundi in here! 😂

𝚂𝙾 𝙵𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙷. 𝚂𝙾 𝙲𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙽.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Despite South Africa’s 20 000+ murders every year, this one has upset me a bit. 😐

Whatever you do,

Pope Leo on AI: “Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.” This short thread is worth reading:

As a biased South African, that Sharks URC game vs Ospreys looked highly unfair. More head contact than a head-butting contest and suspiciously timed shift to uncontestables. Sharks let themselves down too but a frustrating watch from here.

Lion have been pretty impeccable today. #LIOGLA

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

I dress down because I am scruffy and style agnostic. My colleague dresses down because he has to commute to work for an hour+ from Soweto through the taxi rank in downtown Joburg to the offices in the north. Spatial apartheid still being felt in so many ways.

SEEMS BAD

The silence around the trafficking and exploitation linked to Mohamed Al-Fayed is breaking. Accountability must follow | Isabella

People willing calling people by their chosen names of Clavicular or Sneako but complain about trans people pronouns. Get fucked

u can pee urself right now. u wont have to clean it up. ur dreaming. this is a dream. nothing is real. piss urself

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Tips For Grandma on a double bill at Irish Club with The Crime Popes. 🤘

Again the glory of Conference League football to look forward to for Chelsea 👌

For donations to support Palestinians as they attempt to rebuild their lives, please consider South African organisation Gift of the Givers, which has been in existence for 34 years. https://giftofthegivers.org

A South African clothing startup is taking on the global athleisure market. Read how the Steinmann brothers are tapping into demand for vintage-style clothing and are taking their formula abroad here: bloom.bg/4sw9Rh7 📷️: Frits Visser/Old School

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

When war is your job

As white South Africans after apartheid, we did experience a bit of criticism, insult, humiliation even. Because we’d committed a crime against humanity! 🤷‍♂️ You live through it and you help build a united democratic state

Not everyday that you and your new book get name-dropped on the @SABCNews broadcast, but looks like today is that day for me! #Lesotho #Water #Gauteng #LHWP youtube.com/watch?v=_58i89 rxcLE (full interview is interesting, name-drop comes around the 4:45-4:55 mark)

See also, “grew up white under apartheid, and left South Africa to escape the pernicious system …”

New voting motivation just dropped here in South Africa: "I support the fix, not the frame". May help voters package their decisionmaking, where the obscene choice sometimes seems like "Potholes or genocide".

Jesus I mean who would dare host peace talks very brave ☹️

ME, POSTING: There is a water outage. EXPATS, ONLINE: You should emigrate to England!