Morning walk.

South African Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George has published draft regulations for the banning of plastic microbeads, and plans to start phasing out single-use plastics. Video by Carol Albertyn Christie

I avoid vast swathes of white people in South Africa because they're involved in the culture wars and spout conspiracy theories. Mercifully, most South Africans don't care about these things, which is why we still follow science and care about one another. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Blown Away by Books: ‘Writing Mortality and Celebrating Life’ with Lucienne Bestall, Consuelo Roland and Stephen Symons The authors will be in conversation with @karinamszczurek.bsky.social Fish Hoek Library 20 September 2025 9:30 for 10:00AM karavanpress.com/2025/09/12/b...

When the local community street whatsapp "SOCIAL" group posts political stuff it is time to leave-the-group. Before I become righteously un-neighbourly! wtf Help me find a plumber but I'm not putting up with your MAGA in SA 🇿🇦 politics. T'sek

Official press release: "Karavan Press bags Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) Book Factory Prize for Publishing in Africa 2025" afreximbank.africa-newsroom.com/press/karava...

The political class in general disrespect our esteemed constitution. Inaction is the best measure of SA 🇿🇦 's ingrained patriarchal and sexist attitudes. And our progressive secular constitution is in 'conflict' with most religious /cultural ideologies. Why change a comfy hierarchical seat?

"It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die." (Nelson Mandela, 14 July, 2000)

Mother city undercover. September springtime is unreliable.

The only sign of *shame* are the denials, lies and the attempt to cover-up at all costs. The conspiracy was mild compared to the evidence. Typical, the victims voices was never going to be enough for the denialists

Actually... this makes me want to weep. Trains are the best mode of transport, the ANC government completely failed / destroyed our railway networks.

Opa is a "Modelleur." Here are some of his ceramic designs over the years

Dear 😴 leader, wake up!

An indigenous nursery and landscaping project in Claremont is helping people to move out of homelessness and rebuild their lives. Read groundup.org.za/article/indi... by Sharfaa Ahmed and Zora Hollie

CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa

Exploring Algiers with local author Hamza Koudri ❤️

Karina WON 1st prize 🥇 @karavanpress.bsky.social Your creativity, dedication and hard work is recognized and rewarded. (I'm tearful and so happy!💐)

We WON! ❤️

On my way to CANEX@IATF2025 in Algiers for the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa awards ceremony. Blurry-eyed but excited.

Freelance is tough, I know. If you offer yourself up as a "driver with a van" but don't have data for online maps...please consider a hardcopy (Western Cape) Map Book 📖 very handy to have! Cheaper than coffee for free wifi in the longterm... Plan your route, make notes ✍🏼️ 😉

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

5-7 September 2025: @openbookfestival.bsky.social - Karavan Press & @hollandhousebooks.bsky.social karavanpress.com/2025/08/26/o...

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🎨 🖼️ framed and packed for traveling 🚛💨

Dr Tebogo Makhubela's journey is an inspiring one, having recently won the prestigious National Geographic Wayfinder Award. His former high school teacher, Mashudu Vhulahani, couldn't be more proud. #CarteBlanche #SouthAfrica #science #STEM

Fascinating report on South Africa's new red gold (in addition to Rooibos we also have the rare conditions required to grow saffron) featuring our very own @wandilesihlobo.bsky.social. Would this work in Namaqualand @80incognito.bsky.social? edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/w...

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

Turkiye says that it will completely sever economic and trade ties with Israel and has closed its airspace to its aircraft, amid tensions over Israel's war on Gaza. Turkish FM Hakan Fidan said that Israel’s aggressive policies threatened to engulf the region in conflict.

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My Story: Bowie's three months this week! open.substack.com/pub/oppad/p/...

Newborns are being forced to share an incubator at Gaza City’s al-Helou International Hospital as rising cases of acute malnutrition overwhelm the wards. Doctors say hospitals are running out of space amid Israel's man-made famine.

An Al Jazeera journalist is among 15 Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At least three other journalists were killed in the attack.

Forensic investigator, Allen Few, has spent years looking into the Bakgatla-ba-Kgafela tribe's land claims. Without title deeds in hand, the community's land is free for the taking by government and mining companies. #CarteBlanche @ermbates.bsky.social#CarteBlanche#SouthAfrica

snippets from a fascinating read in the FT #TrumpPutin (I snuck past the pay wall somehow) "Medieval metaphysics merges with post-truth propaganda" "Or perhaps it is politics remaking the world, in death and destruction, to correspond to art"

📖 ❤️author crush! sublime and compelling reading ✍🏼️Jon McGregor

does the African Union (AU) exist in one form or another?

You can order your limited-edition copy of A Collection of Gaps by Frankie Murrey @thebooklounge.bsky.social here: booklounge.co.za/product/a-co...

Way past cynicism, total despair.

I wrote something - with the help of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, and US novelist Garth Greenwell - about our decadent elites: Why do the work when you can just have a National Dialogue? constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/on-decadent-...

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Colleagues pay tribute to assassinated Gaza journalists, vowing to continue their work.

Murdered journalists 🩸💔

We are delighted to announce that the SA Book Awards 2025 Adult Fiction Shortlist includes 'The Bitterness of Olives' by Andrew Brown! Congratulations, Andrew, and all other shortlisted authors! karavanpress.com/2025/08/07/s...

the RBO hypocrisy! weep 🩸 Art is never neutral nor does it wait for "global (aka western) consensus"

Karina's ginkgo leaves💛 A creative scribble. on a page of The London Review of Books seemed appropriate

Back country 😁🍷👌

CANEX PRIZE FOR PUBLISHING IN AFRICA LONGLIST features IN SILENCE MY HEART SPEAKS by THOBEKA YOSE (Karavan Press, 2024)! ❤️

No boundaries. #Fiscalshrike