Viticulturist, South Africa, Wine & Food lover, Crazy about Comedy, Film & Music. Opinions all my own. Goofy at the best of times!!!
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Conduct that is encouraged or unsanctioned grows #JustAThought
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My 225-page 2020 South Africa report is live on my site, packed with opinions, insights, tasting notes and just a little controversy. £20 to download. bit.ly/3hkGQk2
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When the EFF condemns gender based violence in future, remember this tweet
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2. They easily mobilized by nativist & fascist leaders who stoke emotional vulnerabilities & deploy them to violent actions. Every generation has this layer, but the voice of this one is amplified by Twitter & s/media. The deep inequalities of our moment feed this even further.
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1. We need to talk abt our new generation of activists.Some have no understanding of history/politics, ironically regurgitate the very theories which inspired racism & colonialism,& think they act in the tradition of Fanon & Biko, but are more akin to Mobutu Sese Seko & Idi Amin.
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A true Cape winter... the back of the Franschhoek mountains on the Villiersdorp side. Icy & gorgeous! #visitwinelands @VisitWinelands - @Franschhoek_SA
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The man is a prophet. This is relevant 17 years on
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It beggars belief - between SAB, Heineken and Consol Glass, more than R13 billion in investment has been pulled. The economy has been sabotaged by the government because of NDZ's 'principled' prohibition. The impact will linger a lot longer than Covid-19 itself.
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The only, but only, explanation for the cigarette ban is that it is a Nkosazana D-Z power trip >> Govt admits smokers 'less likely to be infected' with coronavirus news24.com/news24/southafric… via @news24
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This is a fat NDZ middle finger to the public, assisted by a judge. It's a mockery. >> Govt lawyers in sudden about-turn, get court to delay cigarette case until August news24.com/fin24/companies/a… via @fin24
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The tobacco ban triggered the biggest crime spree in SA history in terms of the number of individual transgressions: some 500m illegal transactions since lockdown started (roughly 9m smokers, say 6m packets a day X 90 days). Millions of citizens broke the law for the 1st time.
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1. Collins Khosa was killed for the temerity of enjoying a beer on his stoep. We should not let revisionist accounts which divorce his death from the authoritarian militarized prohibitionist lockdown which saw 230,000 arrests of mostly black working class South Africans
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This is brilliant, An example of how #policing of protesters should be conducted, #deescalate, & #listen. Something all people of good will including @NickFerrariLBC would support. @charlesfogelman keep up the good work, I hear you were the chief instigator of this.
Quite a sight happening in Lincoln tonight...
@Lincoln_Police officers announce the "Hold Cops Accountable" initiative with local black community leaders.
Now, they're doing the Cupid Shuffle outside the @MaloneCenterLNK
(📹: @EllisWiltsey)
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If there ever was a tweet that perfectly encapsulated the failures of this government, this is it.
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It's 25 years later & the government/ANC has still not internalised that SA is a constitutional democracy where the constitution & not parliament/executive is supreme & the rationality of all actions can be tested in court.
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SAPS is spending much resources on finding cigarette sellers - just had a huge raid on cafes in my neighbourhood. Thousands have so far been criminalised. But when government loses next week's court case, it will all be for naught. Fight the virus, not the people!
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Tonight’s protest in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, in solidarity with George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter
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