@effectuator
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Reportedly "an avid reader, a high-up muckity-muck... and an all-round fascinating character." Also @effectuator@mastodonapp.uk
Joined November 2008
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Here’s a fun fact as Women’s Month draws to a close: Lillian Ngoyi & Helen Joseph are buried in the same plot. They’d made a pact that they would continue fighting for women’s liberation in every lifetime until said liberation is achieved.
📸: Peter Magubane; Helen Joseph papers
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The DA's spokesperson on finance is the founder and chair of a company that runs algorithmic crypto arbitrage plays in foreign currency? Even if Kastelo's product is exchange control compliant -and the Reserve Bank thinks not - it's hard to imagine a business more orthogonal to South Africa's needs. saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPJHC/…
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School device use links with lower test scores and distractions abound. But reversing the entrenched pandemic pivot to screens will be hard.
sciencenews.org/article/scie…
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@JHBWater there is water pouring out of the pavement at 37 Fricker Road, Illovo. Closest corner is Harries Road and it’s next to the Illovo Water Reservoir and Towers.
Reference No: JWAPP-40136082.
New research: assessment on how MNEs are responding to the #GlobalMinimumTax offers early evidence on the impact of co-ordinated international tax reform.
Read the #OECD working paper🔗brnw.ch/21x49EJ
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On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded:
“Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”
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Anyone who has travelled on a weak passport will celebrate investigative reporting into VFS global, the near monopoly intermediary that handles visa applications for 71 countries. lighthousereports.com/invest…
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Four months after George Orwell published 1984, his former teacher sent him a letter.
Aldous Huxley had one message: you described the wrong dystopia. 🧵
Hi @CityPowerJhb, the steet lights on Rudd Road, Illovo between Otto Street and Chaplin Road are not working. Perhaps because the thin overhead wiring has snapped?
Hi @JHBWater, this leak has been going for over a week now. Corner of Chaplin and Atherstone Roads, Illovo.
@JHBWater This iteration of the recurring sewer overflow on Rudd Road, Illovo, between Chaplin Road and Otto Street is coming up for a week old now.
It also demonstrates that the sinkhole, first on the pavement but now going under the road, which @MyJRA has been ignoring for two or three years now, extends for 30-40 metres further under the pavement. Small problems ignored become big ones.
Still no substantive action by @MyJRA but at least we now have warning / protection for both vehicles and pedestrians.
@dailymaverick Multiple errors in Kieswetter turnaround story: 2016-2019=7, not 6. SARS office picture is in Johannesburg, not Pretoria. "Pravin Manuel" in graphic?
Interesting to see the graphic has been silently deleted and the other two errors have been left untouched. If you want to check the office picture, try Google steet maps for the corner of Rissik and Albert streets in Johannesburg.
@dailymaverick Good to see you have explained the graphic error now. The other two errors mentioned in this thread remain.
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I believe in truth in #advertising. And I found this on socials and it feels increasingly more relevant as time passes.
