Keith Breckenridge's tweets

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RT : Ethiopian Parliament has approved the National Digital ID Proclamation You can find the Draft Proclamation on the… https://t.co/DjvJJqahYR — 1 day 12 hours ago
RT : Great to be at the conversations event in Bangalore today, hearing about the programs in 10… https://t.co/jAsskqWup1 — 2 weeks 4 days ago
RT : This piece by on the role of organised labour in Eskom's issues is one of the few nuanced piece on… https://t.co/nOC4scaGbW — 4 weeks 14 hours ago
RT : Here is an interesting case study of why South Africa's state is struggling to overcome the energy crisis around Es… https://t.co/lMR2YqlQq2 — 2 months 1 week ago
RT : የብሄራዊ መታወቂያ ፕሮግራም የምዝገባ ሂደቱን ለማፋጠንና ለማኅበረሰቡ ተደራሽነቱን ለማስፋት ዓለም የደረሰበትን ዘመናዊ ቴክኖሎጂ የሚጠቀሙ የምዝገባ መሳርያዎችን ወደ… https://t.co/UgiMM9Fpx6 — 2 months 2 weeks ago
Can't make this up. https://t.co/cml7rWhbvO — 4 months 2 weeks ago
Cancelled my little R60pm contract in July. I have confirmations by email, and the debit orders stopped go… https://t.co/evJdQ9mza7 — 4 months 2 weeks ago
And the South African roads are the most dangerous part of this journey. https://t.co/h9Ke6Upx4p — 4 months 3 weeks ago
RT : I applied for a South African visa on Oct19, 2022 and hoped to get back my passport within 2-6days as stated online… https://t.co/vgb2QttAbR — 4 months 4 weeks ago
RT : The reports that underspent their 2021/22 adjusted budget by a whopping R5.3bn - that i… https://t.co/FaDeerSnHV — 5 months 4 days ago
Yoh, , you watching? https://t.co/OKhYE2CA0f — 5 months 4 days ago
RT : New UNHCR country report on Zimbabwe - includes information on & access to identity documents - rely… https://t.co/OKRvtGa2gc — 5 months 1 week ago
See this 👇 — 5 months 2 weeks ago
This would be a *great* problem for the next meeting. https://t.co/2rehZ81Y8a — 5 months 2 weeks ago
Astonishing, this https://t.co/G0KVpnXDb2 by . Geopolitics of currency, debt and energy, including some… https://t.co/t00Id4DE3q — 5 months 3 weeks ago
RT : New article in with on the (un)making of electoral transparency through technology duri… https://t.co/TGPPMuK7DA — 5 months 3 weeks ago
Do you know who's working on Safaricom in Ethiopia, ? https://t.co/XUrMNxJFlp — 5 months 3 weeks ago
Anyone writing on this? — 5 months 3 weeks ago
RT : DISCUSSION | Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, a month ago announced the digitisation of around 350 million d… https://t.co/MWo5eWltkz — 5 months 3 weeks ago
RT : IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY‼️ Wits turns 100 today!! 🎂 https://t.co/AFTKr2lRTH — 5 months 4 weeks ago
At last. Isizulu is available on . Only a beginner’s course, but great news. 🙌 — 7 months 2 days ago
RT : A South African university publisher makes it to 100. A rare and important event … https://t.co/NRvzCwanXF — 7 months 1 week ago
RT : Our deep gratitude for sustained support to and our collaborators from in facilitating this impor… https://t.co/TvOllTSpdJ — 8 months 3 weeks ago
RT : Press release - expands collaborations on systems, & with… https://t.co/3rch6TtHjp — 8 months 3 weeks ago
Dear . I flew Oslo-Hthr-Joburg last Weds (booking ref RYRYGJ), bag receipt is BA706888. No bag in… https://t.co/axr4ggtY90 — 8 months 4 weeks ago
RT : Call for applications - , , and Fellowships for 3 early career research/practitioner… https://t.co/dLTNlSjl7e — 9 months 2 weeks ago
True. Our mad country in five hours. https://t.co/3XjNZaJIvP — 11 months 3 weeks ago
RT : Visa = $58; Obligatory extras: "biometrics"- $90; fee for filling in and paying via online form which… https://t.co/KigaE1NtrP — 11 months 4 weeks ago
RT : We've mapped roadblocks in South Sudan, the DR Congo, and the Central African Republic. So what about the rest of… https://t.co/32PSNznm4v — 1 year 18 hours ago
RT : Zotero 6: Your research workflow, transformed https://t.co/0nXMxbf2ZM https://t.co/ZrymrH3c5N — 1 year 2 weeks ago
RT : South Africa 🇿🇦 denied my visa application after holding my passport for 4 months but are now using my video to do… https://t.co/2yBjLAjVpB — 1 year 2 weeks ago
Seen this ⁦⁩, ⁦⁩? Australia’s media thrives after forcing Big Tech to pay for content via… https://t.co/cci2EWd9Zh — 1 year 2 weeks ago
The barbarous relic. — 1 year 3 weeks ago
RT : I wrote about how the history of South Africa's entanglements with Russia and Ukraine is more complicated than the… https://t.co/bpaghqv7OO — 1 year 3 weeks ago
Just watch this: “Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom” https://t.co/oR2sXtQHli — 1 year 1 month ago
Fibre network is back, connection restored by Pieter. Thanks and . The Rain can wait for another day. — 1 year 1 month ago
Hello , . My ticket is 673229, first reported nearly 48 hours ago. That's… https://t.co/ICr4Q3t8hR — 1 year 1 month ago
I've received no SMS from . — 1 year 1 month ago
Dear . How would I do that? You require your fibre customers to log faults with thei… https://t.co/gnGv0eF1Dl — 1 year 1 month ago
Thanks . The fault was logged, first, with , last night -- ref VOX16935510. — 1 year 1 month ago
Yes, thanks. The update was that there is no update; no response from . This is starting to feel very familiar. — 1 year 1 month ago
Come now and IP allocation / DHCP problem Fault Number VOX16935510. An update please. Don't… https://t.co/I6TMQp78tH — 1 year 1 month ago
RT : Dear , yesterday your algorithm recommended this xenophobic tweet by a hate-inciting South African politici… https://t.co/E80KEprP54 — 1 year 2 months ago
God help us. We already have the world's fanciest smartcard ID. It was always meant to include the drv license.… https://t.co/81PcworAFG — 1 year 3 months ago
some people paying attention — 1 year 3 months ago
Interesting, isn't it , that four of the thirteen Paypal Mafia -- , , … https://t.co/NQ1iFSEG0B — 1 year 3 months ago
Statistics you can trust. https://t.co/t0i3Gx4Oun — 1 year 3 months ago
Great. Long may this trend last. https://t.co/Z6mFkAheQa — 1 year 3 months ago
Great piece. Short, clear, puts the jigsaw pieces together (for me). Why nothing on derivatives specifically? https://t.co/LLUvzX6BvT — 1 year 3 months ago
Good news so far. If this continues our rich friends will be inviting us over to cough on them. https://t.co/eTYbZgU4Zj — 1 year 3 months ago
What to say to this? Congratulations , world class stupidity. https://t.co/BjnQEQN5Gt — 1 year 3 months ago
🤞🏼 https://t.co/zOtC82Dais — 1 year 4 months ago
This is right. The risks now for SA are mind-boggling. https://t.co/t036YH4nCu — 1 year 4 months ago
Just to be clear about why this is happening on the UK side -- it's coming from the scientists, not Javid. https://t.co/r4Z6sV4G4g — 1 year 4 months ago
Err. The scientists are not going to be paying for it. Their celebrity (and begging) will attract funding for the… https://t.co/59EOYMUma7 — 1 year 4 months ago
RT : Their scientists don't hold press conferences saying 'it's early days yet' while simultaneously terrifying… https://t.co/AxDBUXVPjQ — 1 year 4 months ago
RT : I will ask these 3 question everyday from now on until there is action: Mr President, what happened to the Zondo re… https://t.co/0NK4glu6Cs — 1 year 4 months ago
Dear , is there a planned release date for Version 6? Ta. — 1 year 4 months ago
RT : As Pravin Gordhan speaks, a local councillor has told us to hold steady - the grid in our part of the city is colla… https://t.co/Ma1GyKpP6x — 1 year 5 months ago
Some influences, ? https://t.co/uPz9QA2srQ — 1 year 5 months ago
RT : I am very pleased to say that has generously funded a project we've called 'Repositioning the Uganda Mus… https://t.co/eGh2vMj9kz — 1 year 6 months ago
Interesting that trust in provincial government can soften radical nationalisation scoring data. Beijing to break u… https://t.co/zS9P3yB9Ly — 1 year 6 months ago
Link please, Tom ... https://t.co/OAuwFMYHb5 — 1 year 7 months ago
Gold and platinum are part of the reason. Big Zuma devaluations between 2009 and 2015. But the real driver of ZAR v… https://t.co/7IblSuUkzG — 1 year 7 months ago
RT : Nesta quarta-feira (1/9), às 15h, será transmitida a Conferência de Abertura do ciclo de seminários “Identificação,… https://t.co/Cq6eoYDOnv — 1 year 7 months ago
You see. I love , but subfolder proliferation is killing us. https://t.co/IYnF2R577U — 1 year 7 months ago
RT : As a resident it continues to trouble me how national media ignore the disturbing politics of SA’s 2nd largest… https://t.co/7OpNwDEJ2a — 1 year 7 months ago
RT : For the amount of money you pay for a 3 bedroom house on 1/4 acre in some Kampala neighbourhoods, you can buy a 4 b… https://t.co/EACsaf9pnW — 1 year 7 months ago
The recordings are available here: https://t.co/fpP9e6nMlG. https://t.co/f1VvBuWdzm — 1 year 7 months ago
Elisha : What we need is a real civics, focus on the Dbn Jewel means that the… https://t.co/69CgDdBf3B — 1 year 7 months ago
Elisha : Law is disconnected from the real politics -- municipal mercenaries,… https://t.co/n1MWy3AAxP — 1 year 7 months ago
Elisha : Sam Sole's question -- is this over? Ryan's work shows that it is cont… https://t.co/4RPWD7yW48 — 1 year 7 months ago
Monica : 36 people were murdered in P; Places that were hardest hit were the po… https://t.co/axQCHMY2t4 — 1 year 7 months ago
Monica : it's very difficult to remove emotion if you have people living in the… https://t.co/CFcr9YkLeJ — 1 year 7 months ago
S'bu: ANC Membership card is a prerequisite for state employment, like EPWP.… https://t.co/adtAhxkkUU — 1 year 7 months ago
S'bu: Abahlali members have been taught to value life, and to act with discipl… https://t.co/LBY1UcgJVE — 1 year 7 months ago
S'bu: Abahlali was not surprised, people have been ruled with violence, the sta… https://t.co/yfeqMeI0WW — 1 year 7 months ago
Kira : How have we been tolerant of the fractures that people have used to secu… https://t.co/3ZLMOwtJMq — 1 year 7 months ago
Kira : It still feels pretty raw. The city feels incoherent. These cleavage… https://t.co/9ig2fwWqpY — 1 year 7 months ago
It's hard to think of a developmental rent in SA. Mainly because of the disconnection between local eco… https://t.co/uDnTrInpan — 1 year 7 months ago
Thina : factions are turning to the courts to contest controls over local gover… https://t.co/549Zyp2PwX — 1 year 7 months ago
Regimes of accumulation for the politically-connected, in both cities, have beg… https://t.co/yLNunTLfIz — 1 year 7 months ago
Glen : Not sure about the state on two legs. Ethekwini is still intact, PMB i… https://t.co/GFF38WPXgJ — 1 year 7 months ago
Tumi : the political order should be on its knees, given the ANC and social con… https://t.co/hsWmdur6SR — 1 year 7 months ago
RT : Event info -> https://t.co/PEsBwv8fN8 — 1 year 7 months ago
Not too late to join us -- signup at https://t.co/8HUEabRjaV https://t.co/hWlqfV5XVp — 1 year 7 months ago
Perhaps, but also thoughtless and egotistical scientific ambition. Architectures of information are potent. https://t.co/jLjEOmMn9Y — 1 year 7 months ago
Time to start treating cities as precious instruments of general prosperity, from https://t.co/uI4NvF1F1e — 1 year 8 months ago
Sounds like Uganda, according to : ID required for everything, but incompetent bureaucracy can't is… https://t.co/h0q64bu3it — 1 year 8 months ago
One day they will look here for explanations of the astonishing incompetence of the post-Zuma state. https://t.co/rCG2Tj96ZZ — 1 year 8 months ago
RT : Advocate Hassim states: "It is the task of this inquest to name those individuals who are responsible," for the dea… https://t.co/xMmBTObqLb — 1 year 8 months ago
RT : Uncedo Taxi boss, Diki Zamani, was a main guy who humiliated Andile Lungisa the other day. Now he's been assassinat… https://t.co/DHrYKnMQAN — 1 year 8 months ago
RT : How to celebrate the ingenuity of medical science. This is from inner-city Johannesburg. https://t.co/w3frxeLDSD — 1 year 8 months ago
RT : The CEO of Ubuntu Wealth Management was arrested for stealing booze and appliances. You can’t make make this stuff… https://t.co/9wdDEfSmLr — 1 year 8 months ago
Here's why: Patel, Nikhil, and Dora Xia. Offshore Markets Drive Trading of Emerging Market Currencies. Dec.… https://t.co/4lH55WrKat — 1 year 8 months ago
Agreed. Very impressive, and much appreciated. https://t.co/SpaVwt1Sir — 1 year 8 months ago
RT : Comment: Queen Nandi Drive is Looting Drive now for at least two days. No police and soldiers as people stream alo… https://t.co/saQMXYhH1R — 1 year 8 months ago
After a decade of terrorizing , the conspicuous absence of police as the poor streamed along Queen Na… https://t.co/k2qCfBNjb7 — 1 year 8 months ago
RT : Friends at thank you for sharing this good news. Please also think carefully what we can all do to… https://t.co/P5j1zuGpJK — 1 year 8 months ago
RT : What happens after the supply chain in the 3rd biggest economic hub in SA is wiped out? Interesting times.. — 1 year 8 months ago
RT : 📌 14 July, 4pm WiSER & to host Yuen Yuen Ang discussing her book 📚 China's Gilded Age : The Para… https://t.co/pyGmhkl45c — 1 year 8 months ago
On Friday, July 16, at 4pm, and will host a public, no-attribution panel discussion wit… https://t.co/Rq6XXWJ3zk — 1 year 8 months ago
A (mercifully short) discussion with on some of the implications for South Africans of 's Chin… https://t.co/zX6qbTLYIH — 1 year 9 months ago
RT : Ambulance to Lanseria, and then flown to Durban, King Shaka; then another ambulance to the receivi… https://t.co/gJ22GWCy8U — 1 year 9 months ago
RT : Our esteemed politicians keep telling the public there is no crisis. They claim to have created more beds in state… https://t.co/hZn79hRFjo — 1 year 9 months ago
RT : Today, we have transferred some icu patients from Johannesburg to Durban hospitals because we can’t continue caring… https://t.co/ByvdKiEyCg — 1 year 9 months ago
Interesting to go back to Michael Mann's 1993 book on Sources of Social Power : "Infrastructural power is the ... c… https://t.co/HVP4GXYM9B — 1 year 9 months ago
The same tweet, from the FM. https://t.co/rELev44ImG — 1 year 9 months ago
RT : Panel discussion of the launch of the new book by William Beinart & Saul Dubow:  Scientific Imagination in South A… https://t.co/fyPzrRXBaO — 1 year 9 months ago
RT : The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy https://t.co/ycuQPjCyAS — 1 year 9 months ago
RT : I made this , it tweets centers with slots available for drivers lic renewal in Gauteng, I'm questioning… https://t.co/sMzvI65BBq — 1 year 9 months ago
A group of us at Wits have been reading on corruption and state capacity for four years. We never agree ... until A… https://t.co/saTWY5Dk5w — 1 year 9 months ago
I don't much like on-line petitions, but the closing of the largest -- and the primary teaching -- hospital inside… https://t.co/VHCvbcrCdM — 1 year 9 months ago
Such a loss. A beautiful obituary of an amazing man. https://t.co/B68C33y3W3 — 1 year 10 months ago
Perhaps this is the problem. Too many priorities. We should be concentrating on not killing people. When we can… https://t.co/FlwP7jZ8hL — 1 year 10 months ago
These are large cities, with hundreds of thousands of households accustomed to a reliable supply of drinking water.… https://t.co/wRHUJv8xz9 — 1 year 10 months ago
There are many obvious remedies. Abolish renewals. Abolish K53. Teach simple, defensive driving in the school Li… https://t.co/XvcubdOCB4 — 1 year 10 months ago
South Africans all have an existing identity document, that does not require renewal. Renewal of licenses was a po… https://t.co/47dOlNfUAg — 1 year 10 months ago
Nothing is gained from the renewals. Drivers get the same laminated card, with its useless barcode and unuseable fi… https://t.co/Bfdty6brOd — 1 year 10 months ago
The DofT now requires people to register in order to join these interminable queues. Touts quickly discovered an e… https://t.co/RR6kRjYKNj — 1 year 10 months ago
Once you have a license the state requires you to renew it at a cost of R250 every five years. This is an onerous… https://t.co/2aDpMEczAa — 1 year 10 months ago
The driving test is designed to be so difficult that all must fail it. Unlicensed drivers MUST routinely bribe eve… https://t.co/05ukk3HwdX — 1 year 10 months ago
The curriculum is, simply, insane – as everyone who has taken it will attest. It covers ever possible fact about r… https://t.co/M0eE3KTfYE — 1 year 10 months ago
The current driving test is based on the K53 curriculum developed by the HSRC (as part of the mad Book of Life proj… https://t.co/lqjF4mNRAG — 1 year 10 months ago
Unemployment in SA is appalling, probably the worst in the world. A driver’s license is the simplest and most valu… https://t.co/Ikfg13OH4c — 1 year 10 months ago
There is no better example of the self-harming administrative foolishness of the South African state than the system. 1/10 — 1 year 10 months ago
Sure. should add . More at… https://t.co/3dT7nNB385 — 1 year 10 months ago
Hi . STS is definitely a (big) piece of what we do.… https://t.co/t12jId8LYo — 1 year 10 months ago
Thanks -- glad someone listened to it. https://t.co/icZNcyM952 — 1 year 10 months ago
RT : The JAH has a new podcast! To kick things off, Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye () talks to about writing… https://t.co/zSIXbw2BvL — 1 year 10 months ago
RT : KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala has delivered a total budget of R802-million for the province. R66-million of that budge… https://t.co/bhREUDInjI — 1 year 10 months ago
Easy to attend this workshop , . https://t.co/x52H36T05c — 1 year 10 months ago
RT : Mayor Kaunda places himself firmly in the camp & aligns a himself with the accused, for… https://t.co/Sy086jbc8D — 1 year 11 months ago
RT : Re-upping for the morally upright folks who took a proper social media break over the long weekend. For the uniniti… https://t.co/M5G4Y1xFbM — 1 year 11 months ago
Excellent reporting. “When it’s election time, they do have resources, they do go door to door,” [Gwebindlala] sai… https://t.co/PNwjPPPIYz — 2 years 1 week ago
You'll be interested in this : https://t.co/yu96rN7Lcl Offshore derivatives and hft trading in eme curr… https://t.co/o5csM27RNs — 2 years 2 weeks ago
RT : The worst front facing service delivery in the country. No punches pulled. Have lost so many packages. Private cour… https://t.co/bbPSzqv0uO — 2 years 3 weeks ago
This is the SA crisis. Everything depends on getting better performance from our bloated and unsustainable bureauc… https://t.co/oWbMyN1D14 — 2 years 3 weeks ago
RT : Incredible update to Zotero (beta): fantastic built-in PDF reader with many annotation features; better notes; a ne… https://t.co/AwCcCddxlv — 2 years 3 weeks ago
Yay! Now we have to persuade the developers to start working on symbolic references between collections. The comb… https://t.co/6XFRwmWOZu — 2 years 3 weeks ago
RT : Issue 1 of our 50th Volume is now in print. A special issue on ‘Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitali… https://t.co/lNOyx80YQG — 2 years 1 month ago
This would be a lot easier if -- truly an excellent language learning tool -- offered more African langua… https://t.co/PWrggiIrcX — 2 years 1 month ago
RT : No Congo companies in here (yet) but this piece on links between int'l accounting firms and Isabel… https://t.co/kGvOnSW3D0 — 2 years 1 month ago
Free offprints for the quick here : https://t.co/AMqJNUdkNP https://t.co/F8wVeuURu6 — 2 years 1 month ago
And "What happened to the theory of African capitalism?" is also finally out : https://t.co/prhLwtzu29.… https://t.co/h9WxYQWssT — 2 years 1 month ago
RT : Issue 1 of our 50th anniversary Volume will be out in print very, very soon. It is a special issue on African capit… https://t.co/S4DRyfIeG1 — 2 years 1 month ago
A great piece even if the demography is off. https://t.co/SOyi6rknxT — 2 years 1 month ago
RT : African mining & corruption: Swiss court gives Steinmetz 5 years & $56m fine for corruption in Guinea. Gertler rega… https://t.co/l4XCOZ5nfg — 2 years 2 months ago
RT : In the waning days of his administration, Trump paused sanctions on Dan Gertler for a year, to the surprise of many… https://t.co/NDsDpc4I9o — 2 years 2 months ago
RT : Check this out, Copper up 82% since March lows. Copper *by far* most important part of Congo's economy. Huge boost… https://t.co/nkEoyc9c57 — 2 years 2 months ago
Clever of us to kill Net1 just in time. https://t.co/hefxpeFdId — 2 years 2 months ago
If you're interested in the future of surveillance, globally, read this piece on the implications of Chinese digita… https://t.co/91ob2Me9eD — 2 years 2 months ago
RT : "a big biker gang dressed as circus performers and war-surplus barbarians ... stormed the ultimate country club, sq… https://t.co/93CfkN7umT — 2 years 2 months ago
RT : Hey, remember when Facebook bought WhatsApp and swore they wouldn’t do this? Surprise! https://t.co/2cVDroG3yZ — 2 years 2 months ago
RT : For the first time in its history, the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto says it has had NO trauma… https://t.co/EMe4FxxJoA — 2 years 2 months ago
RT : Looking to chat with anyone w/ expertise on in . Particularly curious about the transition… https://t.co/Q060syIjGy — 2 years 3 months ago
Even more surprising than the other news this morning: https://t.co/jVcGncSBFI — 2 years 4 months ago
RT : BREAKING NEWS Few people in the international community seem to be paying attention but this looks a lot like the s… https://t.co/V3RgvVPeOR — 2 years 4 months ago
RT : Heads up, PhD students! This is a great programme for those in the Global South working on History of Science, Tech… https://t.co/fSdD6RNgq8 — 2 years 5 months ago
RT : More insights in SAs municipal bill squeeze from . To cover spiraling costs & revenue shortfalls cit… https://t.co/xKwnWZFcLx — 2 years 5 months ago
RT : 🎧📻: In the Latest Episode of The WISER Podcast, Keith Breckenridge () explores biometric capitalism… https://t.co/1HGqV0apFg — 2 years 5 months ago
Dear please put the Hand Up icon into the middle of the Meeting Screen command strip. Hiding it in the el… https://t.co/YAtaNgtStm — 2 years 5 months ago
RT : South Africa’s economy is ailing, deficit is huge, debt has been downgraded to junk. BUT S Africa borrows in its ow… https://t.co/VfPrISngaf — 2 years 6 months ago
Bankruptcy, jail, ruined lives: inside the Post Office scandal via Nice example of IT calamity that isn’t Sout… https://t.co/joO9F923rU — 2 years 6 months ago
Not often the fate of the world hinges on Australian law ⁦⁩ https://t.co/UlghOEvVX8 — 2 years 7 months ago
For teachers trapped between the expectations and the realities of network access, Handbrake is a gift from heaven.… https://t.co/rFA7TZnG28 — 2 years 7 months ago
RT : Sad news about the the passing of UKZN Emeritus Prof Bill Freund. Deeply caring friend & mentor to… https://t.co/wlZNa0JjBv — 2 years 7 months ago
Please . Not today! Fix the outage in Greenside. — 2 years 7 months ago
I agree, Jonathan -- completely. Sacha Baron Cohen got it right. https://t.co/MTDk60nDwt — 2 years 10 months ago
Apparently. https://t.co/sZ36Rvyxjy — 2 years 11 months ago
46 new cases from 2663 tests. https://t.co/bLXxReSAmM — 3 years 14 hours ago
seems to be surprisingly effective: https://t.co/Ip63P4Tk3E — 3 years 1 day ago
RT : Op-Ed: The risks of economic inaction on Covid-19 are significantly high https://t.co/3OMfyEsQuJ — 3 years 1 week ago
Same here. Web site returns an error. Suggestions https://t.co/jwJiIGBvx5 https://t.co/Iqg3GZ2CVK — 3 years 2 weeks ago
speech recognition has become incredibly buggy, even on simple sentences. horrible user experience. — 3 years 4 months ago
Hey Laura ... Trying to reach you. K — 4 years 5 months ago
Dates for this? https://t.co/wzlQsUkbsy — 4 years 9 months ago
“Say No, Black Woman”: The Giant is Falling and the erasure of Black women in South Africa https://t.co/TZ6SRkEjQd — 5 years 1 month ago
RT : The are really not gonna like the story this march is telling. https://t.co/wSV1BdFU2D — 5 years 11 months ago
Hmm. Very interesting account of the (South African) content provider's predicament in the hapless Google Monopoly… https://t.co/hl40hXILaU — 5 years 11 months ago
RT : Africa's % of total global population: 2015: 16% 2050: 25% 2100: 39% More info: https://t.co/6k9HuuBnHx https://t.co/VKglEJ0Nxm — 5 years 11 months ago
RT : Explosive affidavit filed by SASSA CEO Thokozani Magwaza. Basically calls Minister a liar who blocked every interna… https://t.co/dGLaZw3bwy — 5 years 11 months ago
RT : Please take note https://t.co/gxMu6o6bH3 — 5 years 11 months ago
RT : Of liberal moralisation campaigns & reactionary programmes fuelled by rhetoric of anti-corruption - Ryan Brunette https://t.co/FrRJ9XKxjo — 5 years 12 months ago
RT : No cloak. Just daggers. https://t.co/WsUI4ap2Xo — 6 years 7 hours ago
RT : Radical Economic Transformation has arrived there at the SABC, salaries have not been paid. — 6 years 1 day ago
RT : Dear Cyril, What you do or not do in the next 48 hours will determine your legacy for the rest of your life; this is it — 6 years 2 days ago
RT : This time Zuma has a genuine reason to fire the finance minister - on the Zuma vs Gordhan conundrum | https://t.co/hJDGZJFMjl — 6 years 3 days ago
Join the WISH Seminar for Bettina Malcomess on Moving Image as chronotope of the Colonial Imagination https://t.co/Z2FCHuKP6d — 6 years 2 weeks ago
RT : Richard Pithouse unpacks discourses around violence on Eusebius’ show https://t.co/o0hYSVPfAr — 6 years 2 weeks ago
RT : Out now: Radical Hist Rev interview w on Confronting African Histories of Technology (correct link) https://t.co/APPBqRx5am — 6 years 3 weeks ago
RT : 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 was awarded the inaugural Humanities Book Award, presented by Prof… https://t.co/e0PrjbKHmI — 6 years 3 weeks ago
RT : Truly mind numbing. The entire nation will be suffering from Chronic traumatic encephalopathy by the time this is o… https://t.co/4BADLQzIMo — 6 years 1 month ago
Thanks ( and ). I'm not optimistic about taking the contract away from Net1, in either sense. — 6 years 1 month ago
This is (also :) ) nb Prez says https://t.co/nVGRbWjFVM but https://t.co/D4ZpbNEOLY — 6 years 1 month ago
First WISH Seminar of 2017 is Marielle Debos "Living by the Gun in Chad" — 6 years 1 month ago
SA has 16mh of arable land (which people can live on). 82mh of commercial land, three quarters too dry to support… https://t.co/NiPaa0owPl — 6 years 1 month ago
JZ "Only 8mh of arable land have been transferred to black people, which is only 9.8 percent of the 82mh of arable land in SA." — 6 years 1 month ago
Only 16m hectares of arable land in SA. See cousins and walker 2015, p 22. 80mh of commercial land, much of it semi-desert. — 6 years 1 month ago
500 billion and 900 billion = 💃🏾 https://t.co/UwQpErlG7U — 6 years 1 month ago
Which button for the Maimane audio? — 6 years 1 month ago
He he he — 6 years 1 month ago
RT : Such a shame the people leading South Africa can only offer "FUCK YOU!" & "FUCK OFF!" to their political opponents. *slow-clap* — 6 years 1 month ago
RT : 17 yo Cameroonian student, Collins Nji, is the first African to win Google's Code-In competition… https://t.co/B95Rj44ICS — 6 years 1 month ago
That is certainly worse than the Gauteng norm. The structure of cities is also important to how this works. Jozi p… https://t.co/kxaOW9uKEA — 6 years 1 month ago
. this could be about regional norms of bureaucratic performance. You'll have seen piece https://t.co/U62dB2EqJn — 6 years 1 month ago
RT : and show that right to life and well-being of people are not a priority for some of our leaders... — 6 years 1 month ago
RT : IF ONLY THE UNITED STATES HAD STRONG WESTERN INSTITUTIONS — 6 years 2 months ago
Two hours and forty minutes in Edenvale, but also efficient, professional, helpful. Passport ready after one week. https://t.co/Yydhpy1qDL — 6 years 2 months ago
Grim beyond our most dismal predictions. https://t.co/BqfMbGYugJ — 6 years 3 months ago
Something to mitigate the appalling politics. version 5 is about to be released. https://t.co/eYH5gTLnNW — 6 years 3 months ago
Seen Piketty's new incendiary research? https://t.co/pq8sZu5DI1 Not good for Basic Income Grant advocates — 6 years 3 months ago
How to Hide $400 Million; a Rich account of offshoring the assets of the wealthiest https://t.co/H7HpSoaxlB — 6 years 4 months ago
Full story at https://t.co/BoqLEDVJQj. Sounds exaggerated. https://t.co/5FHTOAm48x — 6 years 4 months ago
Mallett is obviously right, change the whole structure or lose . — 6 years 4 months ago
Or commit to a risky, long-term plan. He's losing anyway. https://t.co/mMBDfNhLEa — 6 years 4 months ago
No plan, no poise. — 6 years 4 months ago
RT : Sharing a view on , one way forward. https://t.co/CgZ0WvFqtr — 6 years 4 months ago
Mamdani on Makerere; much that is useful https://t.co/RLwXDXXX7g — 6 years 4 months ago
For 20 years Belamant has been outwitting those who promise to take grants infrastructure back, . Likely it will happen again. — 6 years 4 months ago
That's exactly right. Great piece . https://t.co/eqXB0w8KIJ — 6 years 4 months ago
Excellent journalism. Pensions > profitability > precariousness > Trump https://t.co/e5oLgOsKPv — 6 years 4 months ago
Ok. We're screwed. So much for power / knowledge. — 6 years 4 months ago
R110,000 for fees. https://t.co/wadG14d5co — 6 years 4 months ago
Jislaaik: https://t.co/hslNPdezna — 6 years 4 months ago
The strongest university outside of Egypt and South Africa. Closed by the Ugandan government. https://t.co/NTvSrNmKD8 — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : The seat of the AU. https://t.co/r7HdPH4Oc8 — 6 years 5 months ago
Courts are going enjoy this! https://t.co/lWHAAZOI8X — 6 years 5 months ago
. That's a hoax Andries https://t.co/syPyCoxZgD. See https://t.co/3P9o6aucAc for the . We'll also go there I think — 6 years 5 months ago
. seen this? Petrol bombs in Braam yesterday. Big march in Pretoria on Nov 2. Looks grim to me. https://t.co/pQj7Zqzdbz — 6 years 5 months ago
Hmm. A chief whip and a sitting head of state. I think we can call that historically unprecedented. Mbekists? https://t.co/jZqPToOwOc — 6 years 5 months ago
Please view this, historians especially: https://t.co/eFlZiQST1l — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : That's what I'm worried. What lunatic would want to run a university now? Who are we going to end up with? https://t.co/qePazipMX0 — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : That's an remote studio on fire outside Orbit. We are stuck inside. still performing. https://t.co/EzT1Bom3wa — 6 years 5 months ago
If this was a strategy -- and not a default macho enthusiasm for violence -- I would be happier. Poor . https://t.co/UppyoSgXFE — 6 years 5 months ago
Earlier, yes, but now I think it's the boys with the red headgear, notwithstanding their earlier v. good comments… https://t.co/oTBpAepR0p — 6 years 5 months ago
I think, if you look into it, you'll find Apartheid wasn't about the libraries being burned to the ground. — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : Assaulting Max Price, setting building alight occupied by students with disability, occupied by guards & more... th… https://t.co/PBlyKQ2WwH — 6 years 5 months ago
Perhaps the people who don't want to see the libraries and laboratories burned to the ground? Do you think? https://t.co/nbmXqJ3TiK — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : Ja, it baffles me how this can be, these people draw followers and that all trends seem to collapse into deference to them — 6 years 5 months ago
Pambo and Dlamini at have been titillating with threats and promises of violence against the institutions, su… https://t.co/jUlAnGWpxo — 6 years 5 months ago
Who, honestly, is surprised by this? These protests have been animated and entertained by the spectacle of violence… https://t.co/9heNnT0mJn — 6 years 5 months ago
It's more a reflection of the racial and gender isolation of the professional degrees (itself an English pattern) t… https://t.co/y3RiinpZZX — 6 years 5 months ago
Insightful and useful analysis. I still worry about ways to regulate TVETs. They're not community colleges. … https://t.co/8uvAFCEaLY — 6 years 5 months ago
Coincidence of the arrest warrant for PG, the interdict against at Thuli, and the role of ANC-darlings in the … https://t.co/igsszdIAbK — 6 years 5 months ago
Dear friends. Universities cannot defend themselves against violence. Only the law can do that. Grow up. https://t.co/5puv0zujyQ — 6 years 5 months ago
This is interesting https://t.co/5ycHJVChap — 6 years 5 months ago
. Elections aren't really my thing (I like money), but and , and many others, are well into them. — 6 years 5 months ago
I can't see what you're referring to, Andries — 6 years 5 months ago
Simplified pathos trumping complex economics https://t.co/KHxhES711p — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : Steven Friedman on - It’s time to open unis and protect people from being bullied by those… https://t.co/WI10ymhokH — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : We must rally around the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer and Kenneth Brown in particular. He is at great risk. — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : Constant ultra-left and radical nationlst attacks on the NT as neoliberal r dishonest + hopelessly naive. NT is holding SA together. — 6 years 5 months ago
At Stellenbosch? Not so much. They stand to benefit enormously from this chaos. https://t.co/JjcUhi0i17 — 6 years 5 months ago
Me too, but also how so many can believe that destroying their own university will persuade the state to fund them.… https://t.co/0TBLNVIDap — 6 years 5 months ago
JPF fantasy. A better view of what Wits staff think and want is at https://t.co/eNYeJjIDnX. — 6 years 5 months ago
There is an important petition from Wits staff in favour of peaceful reopening at https://t.co/eNYeJjIDnX — 6 years 5 months ago
But let's spend another R60 bn on the 6% who make it to university. That'll reduce inequality. — 6 years 5 months ago
. But where are the super-rich on this graph Glen? Just make them pay. — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : The de facto focus on Wits as the epicentre of the fees struggle means in some ways, all campuses involved are subject to Mcebo's fantasies — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : SRC's lack of legitimacy has seen it sidelined by an EFF faction and Mcebo Dlamini, a liar and an antisemite. — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : Huge diff between no fee incr. and free educ: R70bn vs R2,6bn. Current SRC demands mean unis remain closed indefinitely. Frightening — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : also, this (can i add: many casual workers are currently NOT earning salaries because of student shutdown) https://t.co/N4WtnHeSdj — 6 years 5 months ago
8) Those calling for further negotiations are endorsing the destruction of the university and the lives of many of its students — 6 years 5 months ago
7) No one at Wits believes that Mcebo Dlamini was ever going to stick to the terms of that Tuesday agreement — 6 years 5 months ago
6) On Friday morning the SRC reversed its agreement, demanding that Wits shuts down until free education has been achieved — 6 years 5 months ago
5) In return for these concessions the student leaders at the meeting agreed to the resumption of academic work on Monday October 10 — 6 years 5 months ago
4) The university also agreed to suspend academics for the remainder of the week and to the holding of the General Assembly on Friday — 6 years 5 months ago
3) This concession came despite the widely held view amongst academics that the rich should pay — 6 years 5 months ago
2) the university agreed to pledge itself to the principle of free education last Tuesday under the mediation of Moseneke and Moseko — 6 years 5 months ago
1) A large group of several thousand students believe that they will achieve free higher education by shutting down the institution — 6 years 5 months ago
Eight basic points on the last week at : ... — 6 years 5 months ago
Wit is already struggling to raise the R150m pa required to pay for insourcing 1500 casual workers. — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : Undergraduate activists will lose the most, but the most vocal leaders have postgraduate degrees right now. It's tricky. — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : I hope students ask the ones with postgraduate degrees: "Are you registered for Masters or Phd elsewhere". Because ...behind the scenes — 6 years 5 months ago
RT : BREAKING: Mcebo Dlamini misspoke. He didn't intend declaring himself vice-chancellor of Wits. He intended to declare himself a joke instead. — 6 years 5 months ago
Some good questions from https://t.co/MAijM4eKtv — 6 years 5 months ago
. that seems massively more than your previous estimates. Is there a document explaining it? — 6 years 5 months ago
Millenarianism is simple, easy to enforce, poetically fatalist. Students yesterday preaching Biko on the good death. — 6 years 5 months ago
. ah, that is cool. Made my day. — 6 years 5 months ago
I have to say I'm very curious about this: https://t.co/SAfW8KsuCg — 6 years 6 months ago
And the university and the state have have no plan? Astonishing, and depressing. https://t.co/5Uhdk0ml9l — 6 years 6 months ago
RT : One of the challenges of contemporary black radical thought is a theory of the state. It is not available from Fano… https://t.co/PIxSOtDYuU — 6 years 6 months ago
This short (illustrated) paper by is the most useful piece I've read on https://t.co/6s5iwNxtvz — 6 years 6 months ago
. https://t.co/BgI42CXELw — 6 years 6 months ago
Is anyone else getting that Marikana déjà vu feeling? Time for a deep breath and calmness. https://t.co/o7oU85BNuY — 6 years 6 months ago
I agree. Information about individuals' views can only strengthen Wits, even if most vote No. Opponents fear the… https://t.co/3tkkwWxrlF — 6 years 6 months ago
.gvanonselen writes beautifully and trenchantly but he's wrong on Wits and UCT where critique of the ANC is more of… https://t.co/3gqbOY3zEK — 6 years 6 months ago
. Apartheid cops would have used teargas and birdshot. The difference now is that students are attacking the university — 6 years 6 months ago
RT : From a matric class of 100 000 students from deciles 1-5 about 90% do not even qualify for university - https://t.co/1bclV3H4jJ — 6 years 6 months ago
Technomediated narcissism and brutal police. How far are we from live rounds on campus? https://t.co/oIxItv6yhl — 6 years 6 months ago
RT : Justice Malala: SA's universities - hostage to a small, radical, violent elite | Politics | RDM https://t.co/7M5E5tpRFj via — 6 years 6 months ago
This would really address youth inequality https://t.co/eOyag4ygIL — 6 years 6 months ago
I hope that this means that these two institutions are talking to each other. https://t.co/7dyNG33erL — 6 years 6 months ago
Achille on Twitter via Paul Gilroy : https://t.co/LYMikvU42t — 6 years 6 months ago
RT : Absolutely. All 700k TVET students now get fees paid via NSFAS but TVETS need massive expansion and improvement -a… https://t.co/ddT7ncGjwV — 6 years 6 months ago
And this is only for the 6% of youth who now make it to University. How much to fund the TVET students properly? W… https://t.co/IWkV4lA7bX — 6 years 6 months ago
This is twitter . I don't ask accountants to check tables. Data are from StatsSA, TVET and DOHE web si… https://t.co/C5Rkjuw2Np — 6 years 6 months ago
Some numbers that should be kept in mind when we're thinking about the state spending an additional R15bn pa on our… https://t.co/FjQDsd3Jje — 6 years 6 months ago
MBBCH is interesting; how to manage the risks of enormous state investment, given rates of emigration? … https://t.co/vn3uMG4IZs — 6 years 6 months ago
Which course costs R70,000? — 6 years 6 months ago
Seems right. Not working, yet, at Wits. Still lots of magical thinking about free education for everyone, including… https://t.co/UyRI7kxhuz — 6 years 6 months ago
RT : A completely fee free higher education system creates class parasitism by the upper income classes. It is not fair in SA. — 6 years 6 months ago
For example: https://t.co/DxMRXP8LWv https://t.co/C0JX4rhEpn — 6 years 6 months ago
7/7 Including the excluded 80% will mean an additional c. R140bn, a total of R175bn. New plant and lecturers would cost much more — 6 years 6 months ago
6/7 Free education for the existing student population at our sadly resourced levels requires another R15bn pa, a total of R35bn — 6 years 6 months ago
5/7 220,000 NSFASers attend TVET colleges and borrow about R7000 each. NSFAS lends about R40,000 to 180,000 university students. — 6 years 6 months ago
4a/7 Since the early 1990s the fund has paid out R50bn to 1.5m students. Recovering payment is not going well. — 6 years 6 months ago
4/7 Each year NSFAS provides loans to about 400,000 students from families earning less than R130,000 per annum. — 6 years 6 months ago
3/7 Student debt owed to the universities has grown from R2.5bn to R5bn between 2010 and 2016, driving much of the discontent. — 6 years 6 months ago
2/7 In 2012 Higher Ed Cost R50bn. The state paid R20bn in subsidy. Students and their families paid R15bn, scholarships the rest — 6 years 6 months ago
1/8 Many students say that they want free, quality, decolonized education -- for all -- now. What would that cost? — 6 years 6 months ago
Join the WISH Seminar for Nancy Hunt's A nervous state https://t.co/teqlsGGETw — 6 years 6 months ago
The real book for less than a mortgage : Biometric State is about to come out in paperback https://t.co/gteMzCR22f https://t.co/LQ4AbOfAdO — 6 years 6 months ago
RT : They're inside. All I can hear are gunshots and students screaming. WHO DO WE CALL? — 6 years 6 months ago
RT : Seems I spoke too soon. We are royally screwed. https://t.co/PFVGpgu4js — 6 years 6 months ago
Biometric Capitalism : Africa in the 21st Century https://t.co/gzvk3qSZlB — 6 years 7 months ago
Thanks -- it's all good now. — 6 years 7 months ago
Very slow network in Greenside and . What's up? — 6 years 7 months ago
RT : Public enterprise, Energy & Apartheid. The economic and political history of South Africa's oil-from-coal project https://t.co/nyzgEfvO4D — 6 years 9 months ago
RT : No money in history? 'Some investors paid more than half mil­lion dol­lars to get his­to­rian Niall Fer­gu­son’s pri­vate views.' Brexit WSJ — 6 years 9 months ago
no power in Mowbray Road, Greenside, CPWEB2014076. — 6 years 9 months ago
. no power in Greenside since 10h00 ref CPWEB2011297 — 6 years 9 months ago
https://t.co/A8uFTmTpE9 — 6 years 9 months ago
This is the problem for my lefty friends ... "“A dark side of me wants to see what happens if Trump is in” https://t.co/FOwBXpeRct — 6 years 9 months ago
Much better. Thanks! Did you get the Google DNS settings from Vox, or the hive mind? https://t.co/4vRSk6CaAE — 6 years 9 months ago
Anyone else getting strange "Server not found" DNS errors on and ? — 6 years 9 months ago
Object Agencies: Congolese artifacts as exhibition organisms https://t.co/uewnUbCBwL — 6 years 10 months ago
Join the WISH Seminar for Tim Wright on Bloody Vampire Fiction https://t.co/2ICCHrhEaf — 6 years 10 months ago
Livelihoods, the body, and city space. https://t.co/6006AumZTp — 6 years 10 months ago
From 'New Man' to Superman: The politics of work and socialism, from Maputo to Karl-Marx-Stadt, c. 1982 https://t.co/LImPJnLIAj — 6 years 11 months ago
RT : SAs R7-trillion foreign assets now larger than its foreign liabilities, by Brian Kantor, new regular on https://t.co/lZxK2r9AzB — 6 years 11 months ago
Sync server offline ? — 6 years 11 months ago
Habermas where are you? https://t.co/F36GWU4VZ7 — 6 years 11 months ago
Join Ellison Tjirera for the WISH Seminar on Windhoek's Legal Architecture on Monday https://t.co/fNakIQnRQ0 — 6 years 11 months ago
Fantastic : "It is suspicious when struggle leaders’ shirts make them look like giant bumblebees." https://t.co/wGp9Leqc5Y — 6 years 11 months ago
. in Berlin https://t.co/0IhX3qMOIf — 6 years 11 months ago
RT : Tonight's seminar 'Boko Haram: Nigeria's Militancy Problem' has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience. — 6 years 12 months ago
RT : OMG. They actually went there. Concourt has found that the President of the Republic of South Africa violated the Constitution. — 7 years 1 day ago
This is exactly right vvv https://t.co/zK9Rbi5GHT — 7 years 1 day ago
Attend! But, also, please read the paper beforehand : https://t.co/YRtYzxBaCV https://t.co/OB8TZLlyTf — 7 years 1 day ago
WISH at on Monday by Yasmina Martin on the legacy of Simon Nkoli and the TAC The paper at https://t.co/YRtYzxBaCV — 7 years 2 days ago
Whatever this is, it's not a corporation . https://t.co/PPML5HYXwa — 7 years 2 weeks ago
. https://t.co/sW2ScaQCFk — 7 years 3 weeks ago
WISH on Monday is by Julie Parle on the regulation of drugs in SA https://t.co/1KbuBJdmOd — 7 years 3 weeks ago
WISER is keen to host a panel on Anglo at the end of the month. Any chance that you can join us? One of Mar 29, 30 or 31 — 7 years 3 weeks ago
Zubov is fantastic, now and decades ago; really insightful and alert to the importance of paradox. https://t.co/rKNU45xpWj — 7 years 3 weeks ago
RT : Lucky you. Most people in Africa can just wish 😛 https://t.co/Ezy4wCHfit — 7 years 3 weeks ago
RT : Barclay exit causes panic https://t.co/w9yRNBncpA https://t.co/di10iiHdSq — 7 years 3 weeks ago
Come and engage on the politics of Luanda's slums in Monday's WISH https://t.co/fSH7mMLSbo — 7 years 4 weeks ago
RT : Opinion: A rich history archive has been left to rot. David Saks on neglected MuseumAfrica. https://t.co/F5vCoh7LLH https://t.co/obBSwMzWaq — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : I have hard evidence - court documents - & various sources supporting 's story. https://t.co/X6UAsfcbN5 https://t.co/d30tTPUc8W — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : 'It is easy to say let’s break everything, but then what? How do we rebuild? Who does the rebuilding?' https://t.co/5zgAIjPZqM by — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Over at the NPA the dedicated cadre Willie Hofmeyr being charged by the unibrowed Shaun Abrahams who nobody had ever heard of. Hidden hands. — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Now you see why Dramat (MK cop with a line to the movement) was let go for Ntlemeza (homeland cop accountable to President) to head Hawks. — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : This really is an important piece by Lumkile Mondi... https://t.co/34KvacLS8t — 7 years 1 month ago
Join WISH for Joshua Walker's paper on Face Values: Trust and Suspicion in Democratic Republic of Congo https://t.co/xfgzk7EGxk — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : https://t.co/GyK73xSKI5 — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Izzat a campus building?RT My sister just sent me this pic https://t.co/L5uWHflguC — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Statement to the media by University of Pretoria Academics for Change (UPAC) Tuesday, 23 February 2016 UPAC urge... https://t.co/m12dXPxu4K — 7 years 1 month ago
Now that is really amazing -- I always underestimate the strength of pentecostalism in SA https://t.co/lYl4KOrrBO — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Great piece in the City Press on National Treasury by Joel Pearson and Sarita Pillay. https://t.co/9wKeMV3IuE — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : And, is co-owned by the Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers Union https://t.co/TxkK5I9Zrs — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Surreal experience. Not the slightest mention of crisis in our democracy. Simply anonymous global forces causing all the trouble! — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : It's surely a red herring to capture headlines. While sensible, savings to government would be years away. — 7 years 1 month ago
Exactly : https://t.co/v27bNtAcN4 — 7 years 1 month ago
Mining sector no longer in turmoil; it scarcely exists. — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Absolutely. South Africans have no idea how blessed they are https://t.co/vWwQlx3cMi — 7 years 1 month ago
Has a head of state ever given a speech with less enthusiasm and conviction? — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : A smokescreen for continued looting. Anyway our capital should be in Johannesburg! https://t.co/O3oxlD0DZK — 7 years 1 month ago
The damage to the economy has already been done. No one believes this. — 7 years 1 month ago
How does that compare to Russian nukes? https://t.co/nmrUDXWA9i — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : And then he exits in a 7 series BMW... https://t.co/bO0eWacwGA — 7 years 1 month ago
The ghost of Mbeki has taken possession of the president. Hehehe. — 7 years 1 month ago
Audio and video from outside wombats — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Seconded. cc https://t.co/QknEVx5poz — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : This sound mixer must fall — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Show us the EFF, . This speech was written a year ago we've heard it already. — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : Please can we rather watch what's happening outside? — 7 years 1 month ago
Outside! — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : In in June and interested in publishing on or ? https://t.co/0Qtq1L6IMf — 7 years 1 month ago
Help the JAH editors reach African historians https://t.co/NcTCvouwOu — 7 years 1 month ago
If you're interested in the limits of the (British) colonial Will to Know, this piece is very interesting https://t.co/6BS04jRQZd — 7 years 1 month ago
Please RT widely historians and their friends https://t.co/xUpBPs7Ah3 — 7 years 1 month ago
RT : How a leading historian of modern Egypt found himself in the center of a revolution https://t.co/HGggpDssFo via — 7 years 2 months ago
Nasty leak on the corner of Sarazen and Clovelly roads, Greenside — 7 years 2 months ago
Unisa as well -- https://t.co/KjZFLr9QSH; amazing that leftists don't see how this will enforce market-only society. https://t.co/fRV8Yr0qFB — 7 years 2 months ago
One of the benefits of the state paying for universities https://t.co/DfAJFYf6FT — 7 years 2 months ago
Amazing parallels in this beautiful summary of another debate over the meaning of student protest. https://t.co/YCEEy878an — 7 years 2 months ago
. general power failure in Greenside. CPWEB948795 — 7 years 2 months ago
Interesting on the economics of visas, much that is very familiar. https://t.co/0vvueWxVQC — 7 years 2 months ago
is typical corruption, but , and are extreme forms of wrecking. ANC — 7 years 3 months ago
RT : Cabinet gave the green light to nuclear last week. Nene was fired hours later. Our lead today. https://t.co/PMyEab9Lzp — 7 years 3 months ago
RT : Ad Boycott https://t.co/8g3kPwvy0K https://t.co/p164rmddKL — 7 years 3 months ago
. Watching. — 7 years 3 months ago
RT : Dear Mr Zuma, We write to you as concerned citizens, convinced the message in this open letter is shared by millions https://t.co/oEhjKeXKde — 7 years 3 months ago
It's not about the Rand, it's about the wholesale looting and wrecking of institutions https://t.co/O19uhbIChJ — 7 years 3 months ago
RT : When all else fails resort to racial conspiracy theories. Lame and tired trick. https://t.co/rr2Vd5lEeU — 7 years 3 months ago
We're not alone with Zuma, the GOP is going with Trump https://t.co/qe009DBiEx 😖 because people love his idiocy. Enlightenment anyone? — 7 years 3 months ago
RT : I remember Minister Ebrahim Patel saying the rand was too strong, back in 2009. At over R15/$1 he must be happy now. Funny way of doing it. — 7 years 3 months ago
Hmm. https://t.co/kJ38M7sPqe — 7 years 4 months ago
No idea that Net1 tried this 20 years ago. Didn't end well. Phones, not cards, would really help. https://t.co/JY77QukuP6 — 7 years 4 months ago
RT : Heading to Munich to make a laudatory speech in honour of my friend Achille Mbembe's receipt of the Geschwister-Scholl prize. — 7 years 4 months ago
RT : Verleihung des Geschwister-Scholl-Preises 2015 an Achille Mbembe: Der Historiker u... https://t.co/2aKBsAEnD7 — 7 years 4 months ago
RT : The rich should pay for university fees, and much more than they currently do, argues CHET's director. https://t.co/VrBwBkMuyt — 7 years 4 months ago
This is astonishing, but almost no coverage : Protests intensify over KZN water shortages https://t.co/vC9n9S48K8 — 7 years 4 months ago
Thanks, but please see https://t.co/G4rF9v3fJn on silicosis surveillance specifically https://t.co/M37Z3ND1nq — 7 years 5 months ago
Model C schools costlier than varsities https://t.co/Ejg2zh3qPe — 7 years 5 months ago
Excellent piece by : https://t.co/9GOUsecb6K. — 7 years 5 months ago
Very useful https://t.co/kMtJhIwddq — 7 years 5 months ago
Back up now. Thanks. — 7 years 5 months ago
. ditto for . Connectivity has NOT been restored. — 7 years 5 months ago
Please come to the WISH Seminar for Rachel Caesar's paper on the politics of death in post-war Spain — 7 years 5 months ago
Join for Lucy Allais' "Kant on Race and Kant’s Racism" discussed by Achille Mbembe & chaired by http://t.co/WJbOjGQNrK — 7 years 5 months ago
DHET predicts its own collapse - Belinda Bozzoli http://t.co/Yd5w9jvbXa — 7 years 6 months ago
Join WISER for Lucy Allais' lecture "Kant on Race and Kant’s Racism" http://t.co/WJbOjGQNrK — 7 years 6 months ago
Morning . Please let people know that is on the plane and that he will be speaking at Wits this afternoon. — 7 years 6 months ago
Spotlight on tax havens reveals inequality link | Management | BDlive http://t.co/Z5X32HRMmi via — 7 years 6 months ago
Post-Postcolonial: Figaro South of the Zambesi http://t.co/qgbefwKRKh — 7 years 6 months ago
Come to Thembisa Waetjen's WISH seminar on the opium trade on the Witwatersrand http://t.co/DwxBK7G627 — 7 years 6 months ago
And I thought metrics were on the defensive http://t.co/qSUPtpTDir — 7 years 6 months ago
Join the WISH seminar for Liz Fouksman's "Typologies of Knowledge and the Practice of Development" http://t.co/AUQn6UDv2S — 7 years 6 months ago
Piketty's lessons for South Africa http://t.co/nPC2XzI9JI — 7 years 6 months ago
Join the WISH Seminar for Neo Muyanga on Making Poor Opera http://t.co/kv2UySEESV — 7 years 6 months ago
Come (early) to Jonny Steinberg's WISH Seminar on the early years of anti-retroviral treatment http://t.co/vYXYkrDMQf — 7 years 7 months ago
Line seems repaired here. Your ends? — 7 years 7 months ago
Seems better now -- someone rebooted the DNS servers? Weekend support? — 7 years 7 months ago
I suspect Sacks worked harder, longer and smarter than anyone at A, and now regrets it. https://t.co/Vtv9uYZEKC — 7 years 7 months ago
RT : STANDBY FOR IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Supreme Court verdict on right to privacy this week http://t.co/w7HgUJhAuJ http:/… — 7 years 7 months ago
David William Cohen on Barack Obama Snr and the 1965 Kenya Development Plan http://t.co/wbThnYz22i — 7 years 8 months ago
If none of the other proposals work Net1 may keep the social grants system http://t.co/eluSuNDTbn — 7 years 8 months ago
Brave and provocative piece by Jacob http://t.co/zLbAFbN9yj using and Meghan's http://t.co/GXIJVXXFCR. Jeff would be delighted. — 7 years 8 months ago
RT : Moneylender targets social grant beneficiaries at Nyanga church http://t.co/fDCkssOVtV — 7 years 8 months ago
Why mobile money has flopped in SA | TechCentral http://t.co/m9Amat4IWh — 7 years 8 months ago
RT : Jeremy Harding on ZA in MondoDiplo: http://t.co/3dYKn0l06h — 7 years 8 months ago
"Urban spatial form is responsible for patterns of rent seeking" Michael Sachs — 7 years 9 months ago
"All significant tenders and many BEE transactions involve political payoffs" at Pari workshop. Devastating presentation. — 7 years 9 months ago
Google knows. http://t.co/QVgtnCTvgR — 7 years 9 months ago
A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society by Thomas Piketty http://t.co/BRShuD2Egf via — 7 years 9 months ago
um.. more specifics would be kind? — 7 years 10 months ago
Will Greenside ever have electricity again? — 7 years 10 months ago
AM : Mass unemployment is a condition of contemporary capitalism. — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: Immigrants are not competing for limited jobs; there are no jobs. Immigrants create jobs for themselves. — 7 years 10 months ago
RT : Mbembe: In South Africa, we are making it impossible for African students to study at our universities — 7 years 10 months ago
RT : Mbembe: A huge part of the migrant population of the world today are students — 7 years 10 months ago
AM : Afropolitanism can be re-engineered for more expansive notions of belonging. Any person of African descent has a right to hospitality. — 7 years 10 months ago
Repurposing PA -- Denationalisation. A new relationship between Nation-States and Principles. — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: Price of policing Berlin 1884 -5 boundaries has been enormous: economically, politically, intellectually. — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: What would an unconditional right of entry to any country on the continent mean? — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: Requires move away from arrest and deportation (double penalisation on the continent) — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: The capacity to move (and aspire) should not be the privilege of the few. — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: Politics of immigration policing and National Sec has begun to seize official mind in SA. Driven by US and Expediency. — 7 years 10 months ago
Mbembe: Citizenship and Belonging in an age of transnational movement has become the norm. — 7 years 10 months ago
PA of the Future? Key problem of Global Resettlement. People are everywhere on the move. . — 7 years 10 months ago
Answers in Achille's arguments, I think. — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: History of PA is a history of care and concern, especially for the people of Africa; BUT also for the world at large. — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: Key to see that the metropolitan political theories were made by the global struggles of black people. — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: Emancipation's place in contemporary political philosophy by the black struggles of Abolitionism. — 7 years 10 months ago
AM: Roots of P-A nurtured by Abolitionism and, critically, Emancipation. — 7 years 10 months ago
RT : Mbembe: We must rethink Pan-Africanism as a future-oriented movement — 7 years 10 months ago
Mbembe -- there is a widely held view that PanAfricanism is dead (citing Moeletsi) — 7 years 10 months ago
Now Mbembe — 7 years 10 months ago
Mangcu: we need to interrogate the intellectual and political traditions (and identities) and history we have inherited. — 7 years 10 months ago
thanks. I have read the book. — 7 years 10 months ago
The boom was over by 1973, when the SA population was still under 25m; by 1980 45% were under 15. — 7 years 10 months ago
RT : Publication day today: http://t.co/WUAnd2bTD8 https://t.co/GngYitPvNx — 7 years 10 months ago
The WISH Seminar on Monday is by Belinda Bozzoli on The Weberian state, civility and explanations of rape http://t.co/mLRluAVkBW — 7 years 10 months ago
Monday's WISH Seminar: Dilip Menon on Deep time and the colonial present http://t.co/NVYHKOWzb5 — 7 years 10 months ago
Public positions on History and Politics : Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century http://t.co/88JVmBlF8L — 7 years 10 months ago
A one-year British academic visa = $250; US 10-year multi-entry visas = $160; French academic visas are free. Paris anyone? — 7 years 10 months ago
Any transcript for that, or a time and date? — 7 years 11 months ago
Join the WISH seminar for David Dickinson on the Post Office workers and Post-Apartheid Industrial Relations http://t.co/FqFFGdOi8F — 7 years 11 months ago
RT : A reading list for the data revolution http://t.co/4J6uJJVv2V Featuring … — 7 years 11 months ago
Good summary example of accidental neoliberalism, SA style. — 7 years 11 months ago
THE LAST WORD: The cheque is not, by a long shot, in the post | Columnists | BDlive http://t.co/neCu8nDxvO via — 7 years 11 months ago
Excellent reporting on xenophobia and crisis of governance in SA from http://t.co/r8fn2V0gcF — 7 years 11 months ago
RT : "We need to liberate ourselves from the liberators." David Koplan … — 8 years 2 weeks ago
Arguing for a gentler masculinity http://t.co/E0KrkfyXlq — 8 years 2 weeks ago
RT : "I did not set out to write this book. My aim was grapple with present." … — 8 years 2 weeks ago
RT : . Arianna Lissoni, , Mcebisi Ndletyana & . http://t.c… — 8 years 2 weeks ago
RT we are witnessing ... an end to politics of polite contestation. — 8 years 2 weeks ago
Many speakers angry about renewed and emboldened forms and events of (mainly white) public racism in contemporary SA — 8 years 2 weeks ago
Shibu Motimele transfixing the crowd http://t.co/Ucb1lK3sTA — 8 years 2 weeks ago
SM: racism as a struggle over the means of life helps to get beyond struggle for positions, reversed racism, corruption — 8 years 2 weeks ago
Shibu: I have experienced benefits of aesthetics of non-racism after Apartheid; but also experienced reality of racism — 8 years 2 weeks ago
AM: What to do? 1) Raise the cost of public racism; 2) a national strategy to combat racism; .. — 8 years 2 weeks ago
AM: Refers to http://t.co/pzgH0WjjyB — 8 years 2 weeks ago
AM: Most black South Africans experience their lives as if they are strangers in their own land. — 8 years 2 weeks ago
's Mandela http://t.co/mNHqpIXC2S — 8 years 2 weeks ago
Join us on Monday for Amy Niang's paper on the Franco-African Union http://t.co/6TAupcyUQ4 — 8 years 3 weeks ago
RT : 's controversial Person Registration Bill, what does it mean? will it set the trend? Analysis by ID4Africa http://t.c… — 8 years 3 weeks ago
Join the WISH Seminar for Danai Mupotsa's paper on Proper Sex http://t.co/WV5u8SdRoY — 8 years 3 weeks ago
About to be subjected to my own seminar discipline ... — 8 years 1 month ago
Perhaps for a different angle or version; this one is long owed to American Historical Review — 8 years 1 month ago
RT : My new colleague Jonny Steinberg on why he's returning to Joburg (and coming to ) http://t.co/v3SNNyGYtV for … — 8 years 1 month ago
WISH debate in MG: Will the Cahora Bassa Dam deal still be renegotiated? http://t.co/WGrZ1BVFoI via — 8 years 1 month ago
RT : Kingsolver: I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion and hard work and coming back to something again and again. — 8 years 1 month ago
Wake thinking it'll be Stage 3; delighted at 6am says its off; by 7am announces attached. http://t.co/mJQ2MIPx4D — 8 years 1 month ago
RT : Roy Rosenzweig and I wrote a brief history of copyright and where we are now, for those who want to learn more: http://t.co/L… — 8 years 1 month ago
RT : NEW PODCAST! Digital African Studies Part 2 feat. http://t.co/rNCtbpjG9y cc … — 8 years 1 month ago
RT : PODCAST: Digital African Studies feat. http://t.co/EEPGTPqqvM … — 8 years 2 months ago
RT : Africa Past & Present podcast begins series on in Jan. 1st up & ! http://t.co/EwUfW… — 8 years 3 months ago
No water in Mowbray Road, Greenside; pressure falling all afternoon — 8 years 3 months ago
RT : We apologise for the inconvenience — 8 years 3 months ago
RT : 2014 papers now available as free ebooks http://t.co/sTXjPLu5Jn — 8 years 4 months ago
Allais: there are no job vacancies at the end of the vocational track, fixing the colleges cannot create jobs — 8 years 4 months ago
The real problem is the delegation of all society's social justice problem to the Education system — 8 years 4 months ago
RO: Finland -- the Finns value equity over excellence (!) — 8 years 4 months ago
RO: Language reform -- language of power is English, is English enough. Are there ways to reframe the canon? — 8 years 4 months ago
RO: removing the pass-fail test will not create institutions to deal with the abandoned youth — 8 years 4 months ago
Exams are engines of inequality — 8 years 4 months ago
Ruksana: Exams are responsible for creating a very large, abandoned population of young people — 8 years 4 months ago
In service training, using R billions, has had almost no effect (SETA based training of educators) — 8 years 4 months ago
Girls do much better than boys in the language papers; Maths reverses this — 8 years 4 months ago
Taylor : First additional language is taken by 80% of students; focused on low-order language skills; often no real writing — 8 years 4 months ago
Culling: Btetween Grade 2 and Grade 9 enrolments are static; 50% fall away between Grade 10 and the end — 8 years 4 months ago
Improving English as a Second Language should be the priority for strengthening the curriculum — 8 years 4 months ago
Business Studies = 40%, Tourisim = 20% of students currently study these conceptually & vocationally weak disciplines — 8 years 4 months ago
Allais : 60% of Swiss high school leavers go into apprenticeships — 8 years 4 months ago
High school curricula caught between increasing academic (for tertiary entrance) and vocational (for work!) imperatives — 8 years 4 months ago
RT : Allais argues at : a single, simple metric 4 measuring the health of our education system (pass v fail… — 8 years 4 months ago
The measurement of matric failure is an obstacle to improving (and strengthening) the educational system — 8 years 4 months ago
Steph Allais : Systems with national exams and curricula have more equal outcomes — 8 years 4 months ago
The event is being streamed live at http://t.co/8ZECSFXq4r for those poor creatures who can't be at — 8 years 4 months ago
With as I will be tweeting from the on Social Justice panel on the Matric as Metric. — 8 years 4 months ago
Join us for The Matric as Metric : Public Positions on Social Justice on Dec 2 http://t.co/dEjVYVBjGk — 8 years 4 months ago
RT : It must be galling for Mr Skweyiya that the man he says took millions from him was wearing what looks like a R400k watch. — 8 years 4 months ago
More (Fictional) Mineral Titles and the Zuma Presidency http://t.co/6TryU9M0S8 in Mpumalanga — 8 years 4 months ago
WISER asks you to support the TAC at this critical moment http://t.co/e2j7kt3vTi — 8 years 5 months ago
Join the WISH Seminar for a paper by Ran Greenstein on the Communist Parties of Israel/Palestine and South Africa http://t.co/InYkwEpDfh — 8 years 5 months ago
Join WISER for a discussion of Jacob Dlamini's Askari http://t.co/hRO6EbPUlM — 8 years 5 months ago
On Monday, Marijke du Toit will be presenting research on the early history of child maintenance grants http://t.co/eNS31okRok — 8 years 5 months ago
Join at the WISH Seminar on Monday http://t.co/RRazUMTaDJ — 8 years 5 months ago
Come to the launch of Biometric State, Monday October 20, 6pm : http://t.co/9tk7yrw5IE — 8 years 5 months ago
'The Waiting Room' by Catherine Burns http://t.co/gVgXnIaiQy — 8 years 6 months ago
read this http://t.co/8Ikh6zppdM — 8 years 6 months ago
This, really, is madness and the end of the democratic SA : http://t.co/8Ikh6zppdM — 8 years 6 months ago
RT : Dept of energy boggles the mind. They will procure nuclear despite not knowing the cost. Consumers will pay http://t.c… — 8 years 6 months ago
The WISH seminar on Monday is by Heike Becker on Muslim Resistance Art in Cape Town. Join us. http://t.co/d1S52GHK9r — 8 years 6 months ago
First real rain after four months : an apocalyptic hail storm. Very lovely. Hello Summer! — 8 years 6 months ago
Please join us for the launch of Jonny Steinberg's new book, A Man of Hope http://t.co/wNoUC9HPAX — 8 years 6 months ago
Medical Male Circumcision - the recording http://t.co/2MTVww4it2 — 8 years 6 months ago
Medical Male Circumcision - the recording http://t.co/F1a6XB2okL — 8 years 6 months ago
On Monday, a Peter Rosendorff talk on Transparency, Protest and Political (in)Stability http://t.co/bSbvM7ZUbO — 8 years 6 months ago
On Sept 25 at 6pm Academic Freedom in South Africa : A public discussion of two books http://t.co/YlNte50ZX2 — 8 years 6 months ago
RT : Joburg Water: We are looking at very late this evening until tomorrow morning for water to be restored — 8 years 6 months ago
Not yet, in a year ... — 8 years 6 months ago
Natasha Erlank on the history of the emotional difficulties of modern love http://t.co/4PnbYhVMqE — 8 years 6 months ago
Delighted to discover this morning that Biometric State will be available on Kindle. Sad that it will still cost R750 http://t.co/7D5pxU6QTd — 8 years 6 months ago
AN: The system has the appearance of functionality, but -- in a more fragmented political order -- it will disintegrate — 8 years 7 months ago
AN: 60% of the human resources (which we keep talking about) are in the private sector — 8 years 7 months ago
AN: In the 1990s the private system was small, insignificant, ignored. Enormous resources now lie in the private sector — 8 years 7 months ago
AN: if we do not take immediate corrective measures we may soon lose it all — 8 years 7 months ago
MH: .. the ANC sees Health Care as a key, prior intervention in the establishment of general, political dignity — 8 years 7 months ago
MH: There are nine troughs, one in each of the provinces, and they will remain until ... — 8 years 7 months ago
MH: There is ONE power but it is unable to demand accountability from its own subordinates — 8 years 7 months ago
MH: No institutional plans or fora to actually hear views of health care users or providers cites Holy Cross Hosp petition — 8 years 7 months ago
MS: Post-Apartheid health care policies are correct -- but we don't understand (after 20 years!) how to implement them — 8 years 7 months ago
MS: No capacity to absorb people trained in Cuba. — 8 years 7 months ago
MS: Health professionals have been ignored, that's why they're unhappy — 8 years 7 months ago
MS: We talk of Social Accountability instead of Social Justice. — 8 years 7 months ago
MS: Primary Care model without an understanding of an integrated system will not work (he's worried about surgery ...) . — 8 years 7 months ago
MS: I'm a clinician -- a surgeon, with a long history of activism. — 8 years 7 months ago
AN: As long as the Health Systems is seen as the place of the indigent we cannot expect that it will provide care — 8 years 7 months ago
RT : Core systemic problems: The equitable share system and the way our constitution allows constant reinterpretation of policy … — 8 years 7 months ago
AN: General Management: We were operating in idealized environment, no appreciation of ongoing corruption of the system — 8 years 7 months ago
AN: There is little focus (now) on what makes implementation work, amidst a host of other priorities. — 8 years 7 months ago
AN: Nobody ever decreed that nursing colleges should be closed in 1998 / 9. It was a response to Treasury Budget pressure — 8 years 7 months ago
AN: Real danger that health workers' frustration with the system is inflicted upon the most vulnerable — 8 years 7 months ago
WISH Seminar on Monday : Allison Drew on Anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and South Africa http://t.co/vAxLLPr3Wc — 8 years 7 months ago
Monday's WISH Seminar : Mark Hunter on the Family Intimacy of Schooling http://t.co/JJs7EFo1Dc — 8 years 7 months ago
debate has been very productive: philosophy, intellectual history & politics. Thanks Thad Metz, Lucy Allais — 8 years 7 months ago
RT thank YOU for holding this together : Thanks for the space you opened up for this debate. — 8 years 7 months ago
E : Metz's arguments seem very like Consequentialist and Utilitarian accounts. CONSENT is what matters — 8 years 7 months ago
Metz : Kant's stress on autonomous government of self (as basis for criticising rape) neglects its sexual nature — 8 years 7 months ago
Metz : the account that I give of why rape is wrong is better than utilitarianism and Kantianism [] No account of degradation — 8 years 7 months ago
E : there is no distinct ethical theory in Metz' account of — 8 years 7 months ago
E: is an African word for familiar terms for ethical behaviour that you will find in many other normative accounts — 8 years 7 months ago
Eusebius : Lucy you're being much too kind to Thad — 8 years 7 months ago
Gay people's rights to love each other may be endorsed by individuals' ability to commune — 8 years 7 months ago
The Kantian critique of torture is that it violates autonomy -- but this may not be stronger than its harm for community — 8 years 7 months ago
Torture IS very unfriendly, it flouts the ability to live in common with others — 8 years 7 months ago
Metz -- subordination (in ANY context) is not compatible with — 8 years 7 months ago
Correction -- the African philosophers endorse the search for a single value ethical system (this value varies) — 8 years 7 months ago
MANY African philosophers characterize African ethics in terms of the protection of communal harmony (gives many examples) — 8 years 7 months ago
All wicked acts flout the value of community — 8 years 7 months ago
Metz begins - my first enquiry was to understand what "a person is a person through other persons" — 8 years 7 months ago
The greater the proliferation of values in the support of the closer we are approaching Enlightenment thinking — 8 years 7 months ago
A just society is not modelled on an harmonious loving family > requires limiting the power of some individuals over others — 8 years 7 months ago
Kant: Harmony's not going to work; state entitlements vs private giving > Justice (not Harmony) requires unconditional affiliation — 8 years 7 months ago
Allais : Heidegger's individualism / existentialism wasn't equipped to resist the Nazi's — 8 years 7 months ago
Today at 2pm : Debating the philosophical capacities of Ubuntu : Allais, Metz and McKaiser at WISER http://t.co/ePgIlN0MU1 — 8 years 7 months ago
Good luck SA Juniors in the Finals -- strength after 12 debates in three days and 4 today. My kingdom for a photograph. — 8 years 8 months ago
RT : NYT's - explaining why he's always been & still is "a Zionist" - writes a perfect, vital paragraph http://t.c… — 8 years 8 months ago
On Monday the WISH Seminar will be by Hlonipha Mokoena and on Zulu Policemen in the Boer Republic. Join us http://t.co/qGldmVN6De — 8 years 8 months ago
Join WISER and WICE for a debate on the philosophical capacities of Ubuntu http://t.co/ePgIlN0MU1 — 8 years 8 months ago
RT : Nandan Nilekani impresses Narendra Modi & Arun Jaitley, gets Aadhaar a lifeline http://t.co/18qDRKelbY — 8 years 8 months ago
On that we can certainly agree. — 8 years 8 months ago
RT : well debate is always good. — 8 years 8 months ago
Khoi and San communities are being defined by affiliation in the new Traditional Authorities Bill — 8 years 8 months ago
Land sales are happening everywhere -- "permission to occupy certificates" offered by individuals and, mainly, chiefs — 8 years 8 months ago
Jane Barratt : when the LR Amendment came to Nedlac it was impossible to oppose within organisations — 8 years 8 months ago
Simphiwe : An Evil Triangle -- Chiefs are powerful; the politicians want access to chiefs power; Chiefs want money ... — 8 years 8 months ago
Capps : Bolstering incumbent, autocratic chiefs is part of a constant struggle over democratisation in the countryside (like 1927)! — 8 years 8 months ago
Recognising, in law, the alternative forms in which rural African communities are constituted is key — 8 years 8 months ago
We need to move away from communities, however defined, towards group ownership as a basis for land security — 8 years 8 months ago
Gavin Capps: Homelands have gone from being dumping grounds, they are now the prime sites of resources, especially mineral resources. — 8 years 8 months ago
Nomboniso : We have not exhausted the tools presented in the constitution — 8 years 8 months ago
Nomboniso citing John Berger : "History never says goodbye. History says see you later..." — 8 years 8 months ago
In the Restitution of Land Rights Amend. Act the ANC government is mobilizing tribal kings to circumvent claims by groups — 8 years 8 months ago
Live video of the discussion about traditional authorities and tribal land ownership is available at http://t.co/IXq9rKW2wN — 8 years 8 months ago
The first time I've seen a seminar dominated by a voice from twitter; a mixed success, I think — 8 years 8 months ago
RT : Seriously, academics. I am here, on Twitter, daily. YOU CAN ASK ME about my influences or intentions. i am one click away… — 8 years 8 months ago
RT : Argh. The Wits Wiser paper by Loren Kruger claims HH Holmes and Dragon Tattoo major influences on The Shining Girls. Spec… — 8 years 8 months ago
Amazingly useful OA archive of the century-long run of Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical & Mining Soc http://t.co/GPEaUibS6T — 8 years 8 months ago
RT : Can I come? I have hard questions RT pls join WISH Seminar Loren Kruger on http:… — 8 years 8 months ago
RT : great, cos there are so many things I need explained to me! (Alas, I'll be in london, but love… — 8 years 8 months ago
You, and your hard questions, are most welcome. — 8 years 8 months ago
Please join the WISH Seminar Loren Kruger on http://t.co/ZcXBbTUVbl — 8 years 8 months ago
Join us on Monday for a Public Positions Workshop on Property, communal land, and traditional leadership http://t.co/K450Jd8dUX — 8 years 8 months ago
Age and the Body: Cultures and Conversations at WISER on June 27 and 28 http://t.co/SLmgHcA4HT — 8 years 9 months ago
Monday WISH Seminar by Jon Klaaren on Governing the Judiciary http://t.co/eEbHc47VvB — 8 years 9 months ago
RT : Simphiwe Ngwane says black middle class were and are not frivolous spenders. His research debunks notion that black middle … — 8 years 9 months ago
Dilip Menon on Gandhi at Monday's WISH Seminar http://t.co/bm0BMTSNUz — 8 years 10 months ago
Achille: Rentseeking has become competitive; ANC's problem is whether it can monopolize clientalism — 8 years 10 months ago
Achille: 1994 a shift from a society of control to a society of consumption; liberation movement > rent seeking movement — 8 years 10 months ago
Achille: No agreement on the terms or arrangements for redistribution — 8 years 10 months ago
Achille: new cycle of research into politics of local government needs to begin (old cycle has clearly reached its limit) — 8 years 10 months ago
Noor: If Chipkin is right, and decentralisation of procurement is taking place, the state is being changed dramatically — 8 years 10 months ago
NEO: Isn't it a good thing that there is general protest -- without (as Hobbes warns) the state will take what we want — 8 years 10 months ago
MN: Being a counsellor means controlling resources of patronage; they are what they are because of what there IS down there — 8 years 10 months ago
NN : Ndletyana: Stronger parties would mean that poor people are worse off. — 8 years 10 months ago
NN: Mining companies exercise very significant degree. — 8 years 10 months ago
NN: The informal continuity of the bantustans (responsible for most black urban areas) determines what happens today — 8 years 10 months ago
Noor Nieftagodien: The view of the local state exercising control over black people historically is wrong; it was weak. — 8 years 10 months ago
Democracy has been reduced to service delivery; — 8 years 10 months ago
MN : Party hegemony will solve these conflicts. — 8 years 10 months ago
MN: No permanence or independence in local government bureaucracy -- Directors are all Acting; Mayors serve for 1 year — 8 years 10 months ago
Ndletyana: Short of walking naked in the street, local government requires citizens to use violence to get attention. — 8 years 10 months ago
AM: Competition over rents is key > 7) but not all forms of rentseeking are harmful — 8 years 10 months ago
AM: 4) National government is not interested in local democracy. — 8 years 10 months ago
AM: 2) Local govt is not an extension of national democracy -- national revs globally have not generated local democracy — 8 years 10 months ago
AM: Seven objections: 1) reassert the political nature of local representation (not fiscal or technical matters) — 8 years 10 months ago
AM: The crisis of local government is understood locally. Do we not need a different scale to understand this crisis? — 8 years 10 months ago
web site is a case study in catastrophe. Congrats — 8 years 10 months ago
WISH Seminar on Monday is by Aurelia Segatti on the ghost of Mobutu in Kinshasa http://t.co/Rvcnuk8so0 — 8 years 10 months ago
Join the WISH seminar for a paper by Paige Sweet on plagiarism in history and fiction http://t.co/sZj9UyX7eW — 8 years 10 months ago
The bet was over government, not parliament. But they have done well, certainly. — 8 years 10 months ago
Join the WISH seminar for Antonio Tomas on Skin of the city: Luanda or the dialectics of spatial transformation http://t.co/1uK2LqTzoZ — 8 years 11 months ago
Regulation of gatherings act should be amended to ensure that grievances are handled properly — 8 years 11 months ago
Really very interesting on SA social expenditure http://t.co/r8aQ0h0zIm via — 8 years 11 months ago
Join us at the WISH Seminar for Jon Soske on the East African origins of Non-Racialism http://t.co/zGEJdxnyaF — 8 years 11 months ago
Public Positions on the Police against the People. Monday April 14 at 4:30pm at WISER http://t.co/7AifxwBo4Y — 8 years 12 months ago
Public Positions on the Police against the People http://t.co/C7pyPKRH6y — 8 years 12 months ago
Join the WISH seminar for a paper by Luise White on http://t.co/GTup5lj6ha — 8 years 12 months ago
Workshop on Audiences and Publics by Karin Barber http://t.co/jqsh0m1vmQ — 9 years 4 days ago
Satchwell: our job every days is not to change the world or end injustice; it is to do the next right thing — 9 years 1 week ago
Traditional legal training suggests that law is not about facts; experience in legal clinics shows the opposite — 9 years 1 week ago
Budlender: People entrust their lives to doctors who graduated last year ... — 9 years 1 week ago
Budlender: I know of no examples of independent courts in a socialized legal system — 9 years 1 week ago
Teboho Mosikili -- good decisions without political will takes us nowhere; some city officials simply ignore courts — 9 years 1 week ago
Dave Lewis -- the Legal Profession is deeply regulated, by the incumbents in the profession. There is no market. — 9 years 1 week ago
Achille -- the market paradigm cannot address the problems of social justice. We need: voice, capacities. — 9 years 1 week ago
Live streaming from http://t.co/7AifxwBo4Y; follow for more information about the series — 9 years 1 week ago
Join us this evening for the first event of the Public Positions in History and Politics on the Cost of Justice at WISER — 9 years 1 week ago
Join the WISH Seminar for David Johnson on the Union of South Africa http://t.co/LJ79tNyNrC — 9 years 1 week ago
First event in the Public Positions on History and Politics: The Cost of Justice http://t.co/kBQ8mBDiTK — 9 years 2 weeks ago
Join the WISH seminar for a paper by Lisa Vetten on story telling in the Zuma Trial http://t.co/Y3yoCxxLNj — 9 years 2 weeks ago
Not sure what's more annoying. Eskom or neighbours with generators. — 9 years 3 weeks ago
Not quite a credit history amnesty http://t.co/THT90J3BuF — 9 years 1 month ago
Amy Niang on the War on Terror and the Ethics of Ransoming http://t.co/a7O3wPWzzj — 9 years 1 month ago
RT : RT : Editorial Director adds Graduate Center Director of Intellectual Publics to his portfolio thi… — 9 years 1 month ago
http://t.co/AnfhdfWmw9 — 9 years 1 month ago
Ivor Chipkin asks "Can the people govern?" http://t.co/RKeyRsj7ug — 9 years 1 month ago
Another excellent report by on the crisis of policing in lieu of government http://t.co/DBoj5PYtxj — 9 years 1 month ago
Looking for a nice conference venue / hotel in the Pilanesberg. Suggestions ? — 9 years 1 month ago
Humour, at last: the DA finally makes us laugh. http://t.co/9Rgpo8ayy6 — 9 years 1 month ago
A state at war with its people? Or the police as the sole agency of bureaucratic rationality? Relela is a new crisis http://t.co/SvgJn7lS60 — 9 years 2 months ago
RT : BREAKING NEWS: Dr Mamphela is to be the DA's presidential candidate. — 9 years 2 months ago
Ooops, hold on almal. RT : Federal Reserve Decides to Cut Stimulus Program http://t.co/WXMQxm2hKc — 9 years 3 months ago
RT : In news my South African friends will enjoy, a man just arrived on a beaten-up bicycle and installed an 8 Mbps line. — 9 years 3 months ago
Even the weather's from KZN in Jozi today. — 9 years 3 months ago
Please can we have a procession through the streets of Jozi? Turning people away once FNB is full is a terrible idea. — 9 years 3 months ago
RT : 200 of SA's top scholar debaters will be next week battling it out in the National Debating finals: http… — 9 years 3 months ago
Lewis is right. Do it. " explains how we can make radical improvements to primary school education. http://t.co/yTz4veiqXp" — 9 years 4 months ago
WISH on Monday, Breckenridge on the South African origins of Eugenics http://t.co/J4pyDOqLdg — 9 years 4 months ago
WISH on Monday: Mehita Iqani on Media Forms as Spaces of Appearance http://t.co/kAOaur8g5v — 9 years 4 months ago
So Goldman Sachs, the bank that blew up the world, gets to judge how much our democracy has achieved? http://t.co/DBYM3J0i1m — 9 years 4 months ago
The argument is a banal, self-serving lament. His making it -- from Adelaide -- is especially hypocritical. — 9 years 5 months ago
Universities, and esp Humanities, need fierce, optimistic and determined defenders. 'Neoliberalism' requires spinelessness. — 9 years 5 months ago
Coetzee's complaints would be more credible if he had helped UKZN, when we asked him, in 2007: http://t.co/QJ2ESvtvCt — 9 years 5 months ago
Here is a political philosophy that can be enacted. Heywood: Reading, writing and justice. http://t.co/shi2LqePgl — 9 years 5 months ago
On Monday, the WISH seminar is by Stephen Sparks on the intellectual history of the neoliberal SASOL http://t.co/8XQhyao9QO — 9 years 5 months ago
And what will the US say when the Chinese are discovered tapping in to their politicians' phone calls? Nice, Obama. http://t.co/po7fLKtVpb — 9 years 5 months ago
Mining baroque as the children of Bekkersdal (a mining township) loot their own shops. http://t.co/VgIALFGPZ9 — 9 years 5 months ago
WISH Seminar on Monday by Marijke Dutoit on the origins of welfarism in Durban http://t.co/wOXbTN9pfu — 9 years 5 months ago
RT : I'll be tweeting the launch Shaun Viljoen's new biography of Richard over at from around 6pm, http://t… — 9 years 5 months ago
Storm drains in Hillbrow all blocked. Empire and Louis Botha looked impressively like pitch black rivers from Spirited Away. — 9 years 5 months ago
WISER invites you to a Book Launch -- Richard Rive : a partial biography by Shaun Viljoen http://t.co/KoNXjBe334 — 9 years 5 months ago
A WISH Seminar by Chris Lee on the US Military in the Indian Ocean http://t.co/GnWNvjcR7i — 9 years 6 months ago
WiSER-DUKE Writing Fellowship http://t.co/WKbMG5bxG6 — 9 years 6 months ago
Join us for the Launch of Jeff Guy's new book on Shepstone http://t.co/zNWHjbQiG0 — 9 years 6 months ago
WISH Seminar by Bernard Dubbeld on social grants and rural life without work http://t.co/JYnDadAjow — 9 years 6 months ago
Join us for John McCumber's discussion of Eze's Critique of Reason http://t.co/nlbkceLCzc — 9 years 7 months ago
Black male mineworkers in Joburg earned the same, £4 average, as male workers in London in 1900. Alas wages here stayed there. — 9 years 7 months ago
NELSON MANDELA: RUGBY, SOCCER AND THE FUTURE OF THE NATION http://t.co/O9Twus2bIc WISER Panel August 15 at 5pm — 9 years 7 months ago
Keith Hart's Manifesto for a Human Economy http://t.co/roLJUjTHiv — 9 years 7 months ago
Pier Larson on Literacy and Power in Madagascar http://t.co/yMRWZy8jry — 9 years 7 months ago
Book Launch -- Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony by Gill Hart http://t.co/f4scTOWMbJ — 9 years 7 months ago
Walter Mignolo on Spirit Return to the East: The Racial Distribution of Capital and Knowledge http://t.co/xBbPpeK0TB — 9 years 8 months ago
Well said Jonny: http://t.co/pvkErIQdPL Can someone explain what has happened to the Basic Income Grant? — 9 years 8 months ago
Sure. See email — 9 years 8 months ago
At last a clear light in to the Vavi controversy -- government can't stand criticism. http://t.co/Ydl5LRhoI6 via — 9 years 8 months ago
21st C Barbarism : Detroit’s Creditors Eye Its Art Collection http://t.co/lb4aO123N5 — 9 years 8 months ago
Hlonipha Mokoena on Anonymity and the Zulu Policeman: An Economy of Portraiture http://t.co/ztPP9Kdgdy — 9 years 8 months ago
Thanks for power outage three hours before you promised ; proving the neurotic pessimists right. — 9 years 8 months ago
Lynn Thomas on Skin Lighteners http://t.co/37exFbtuyc — 9 years 8 months ago
Panel Discussion of Open Access Publishing http://t.co/aSulp68cqi — 9 years 9 months ago
Roundtable: Global South studies of, and responses to, Rape http://t.co/EWr8tEuKXj — 9 years 9 months ago
Book Launch: The Future as a Cultural Act by Arjun Appadurai http://t.co/uZVmBeWYYA — 9 years 9 months ago
The developers of http://t.co/IouaTD76Dr deserve the Order of Mapungubwe. Absolutely excellent, public work. Phela umsebenzi owenqabileyo. — 9 years 9 months ago
@ jhbwater please send a crew ASAP. A river of fresh water pouring done Vardon Rd, Greenside from Greenside Primary. — 9 years 9 months ago
Dan Magaziner on Apartheid's Art School http://t.co/ki43PCjjTF — 9 years 10 months ago
Join us at the Wish Seminar -- Alan Mabin on Southern theory and cities of the South http://t.co/wik2fCQtB9 @Wiser — 9 years 10 months ago
Launch of a new Book by Mandisa Mbali - South African Aids Activism and Global Health Politics http://t.co/yR66931mM2 — 9 years 10 months ago
Public Lecture by Arvind Panagariya on ‘India’s Growth Explosion: Its Roots and Impact on the Poor’ http://t.co/N5gjxKam1c — 9 years 10 months ago
Links between the new economy and the old. http://t.co/rZIFx2GcsD — 9 years 10 months ago
Imraan Coovadia on Coetzee: In and Out of Cape Town http://t.co/M8hjx0GU3H — 9 years 10 months ago
Launch of Isabel Hofmeyr’s new book: Gandhi’s Printing Press Experiments in Slow Reading http://t.co/hQ6la6fDDc — 9 years 10 months ago
Sarah Nuttall on Researching the surface http://t.co/Ke66s5uezK — 9 years 10 months ago
Maggie Davey on Okhela http://t.co/s9XD9pJhfB @WISER — 9 years 10 months ago
The national welfare budget in 2005 was less than R10b, it's now at R113b. This is very important. More please! http://t.co/Q5Zoo8hubK — 9 years 10 months ago
Clearer please SODS & MG. If 'current' GINI of .61 is based on 2005 grants, real (2012) rate should be much lower. http://t.co/Q5Zoo8hubK — 9 years 10 months ago
Excellent! — 9 years 10 months ago
Lovely piece by Vashna on the Gupta's Bollywood Wedding http://t.co/tI3eAX5g1B — 9 years 11 months ago
Cynthia Kros on Comparing Swiss and South African Truth Commissions http://t.co/4IvUHmJyQd — 9 years 11 months ago
Launch of The Disorder of Things : A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah http://t.co/TU7m6WjhQy — 9 years 11 months ago
Hmm. Anyone researching this? : Mbeki is making point of civil servants from bantustans. Bad habits and bad delivery... — 9 years 11 months ago
The tenacity of the crowd. ": in court room ... a few die hard supporters. Loads of empty chairs though." — 9 years 11 months ago
Lucy Allais on On Freedom and Forgiveness http://t.co/Ah4wR39cpn — 9 years 11 months ago
What's at stake in the Reeva Steenkamp murder trial? http://t.co/PcaN5Q8Pyg — 9 years 11 months ago
There's no virtue in abandoning an old Parktown mansion. Enough of those already. Come see. — 9 years 11 months ago
How do we theorize rape? http://t.co/U08RA5bbpV — 9 years 12 months ago
Achille Mbembe on Africa in Theory http://t.co/iN10t14re7 — 9 years 12 months ago
Louise Bethlehem on Lauren Beukes: Instalments in a Literature of the Governed http://t.co/nvVfXlEfnF — 10 years 5 days ago
A state that doesn't know how to keep its citizens alive. http://t.co/dj0V2JJCZf — 10 years 1 week ago
Ivor Chipkin on Capitalism, City, Apartheid in the Twenty First Century http://t.co/uA01XcsjiY — 10 years 1 week ago
Sometimes everything comes together. SAfrican politics, mining title and biometrics in W Africa http://t.co/nyKITd2Ugi — 10 years 1 week ago
This UKZN story is still not resolved. Will someone explain to Blade? http://t.co/1HvTTFFbTU — 10 years 2 weeks ago
Forget mining, here is the real economic power of modern South Africa: SABMiller (and Naspers and Checkers) http://t.co/zCxsPmqdh4 — 10 years 2 weeks ago
Catherine Burns on the Middle Class on Radio 702 http://t.co/qGfIK4qsQU — 10 years 2 weeks ago
Groan. Has it really taken them this long to read the document; or is it SADTU? Cosatu's Vavi condemns NDP http://t.co/uiLJj8SOXi — 10 years 3 weeks ago
Discussion with Oxfam's Duncan Green Political Economy of Citizenship: which matters more, poverty or inequality? http://t.co/X7WUWtfaMe — 10 years 3 weeks ago
Achille Mbembe on Difference and repetition: reflections on the current South African moment http://t.co/6OuJTZuoL0 — 10 years 3 weeks ago
Simple Looting: R40m pa for a Word Press web site. http://t.co/Q6W8dtM7JM via — 10 years 4 weeks ago
Jacob Dlamini on My traitors' narratives: Betrayal in South African history http://t.co/RPxx5sD74L — 10 years 4 weeks ago
A warning, missed http://t.co/DX626VTja3 — 10 years 4 weeks ago
Slavery in the Cities of the Slave Trade http://t.co/XzywsZDhdX — 10 years 4 weeks ago
WiSER presents Santu Mofokeng in conversation with Achille Mbembe http://t.co/dX4mr3RDR5 — 10 years 1 month ago
TBC http://t.co/MC7a103Uzh — 10 years 1 month ago
South African anthropology strikes back -- Minister slams 'Afrikaner men' - http://t.co/OXUIOC1t7Z via — 10 years 1 month ago
Santu Mofokeng in Conversation with Achillle http://t.co/yioi6R1b1o — 10 years 1 month ago
Alex Lichtenstein on From Durban to Wiehahn: Black Workers, Employers, and the State in South Africa during the 1970s http://t.co/yoORcK1pjH — 10 years 1 month ago
very lucky anthropologist. — 10 years 1 month ago
State of the Archives on Radio 702 : Keith Breckenridge on Jenny Cwrys-Williams Show http://t.co/nQB8CeGU — 10 years 1 month ago
William Kentridge in conversation with Sarah Nuttall http://t.co/NZ1hSQm5 — 10 years 1 month ago
Catherine Burns on McCord Hospital: Defending a legacy of healthcare integrity http://t.co/x4zhObJR — 10 years 1 month ago
Book Launch: Pretending democracy: Israel, an ethnocratic state http://t.co/geAEtcMv — 10 years 1 month ago
Doctoral Fellowships http://t.co/vrr281Gd — 10 years 1 month ago
Travel Writing and the origins of the Enlightenment http://t.co/nn4PDiPI — 10 years 1 month ago
Call for Papers: Body Knowledge: Medicine and the Humanities in Conversation http://t.co/TYTJvqVg — 10 years 2 months ago
Now this is a first for SA - Half of Motsepe fortune goes to the poor http://t.co/k17g4RlZ via — 10 years 2 months ago
Stephen Sparks on the Sasolburg crisis http://t.co/R9J3aOJy via — 10 years 2 months ago
Public Symposium on New Directions In Critical Race Theory http://t.co/T21rnF36 — 10 years 2 months ago
Interesting laboratory experiment of the effects of ANC representation on local protest http://t.co/S261cvPu — 10 years 2 months ago
Soap, Bloodsuckers, and Surveys: Moral Economies of AIDS Survey Research in Malawi http://t.co/CF1WQj3A — 10 years 2 months ago
Very amusing! Zuma: what's good for the gander is not for the goose. Ha ha ha. http://t.co/uLZ3bRYV — 10 years 2 months ago
Another shocking example of the limits on biopolitics in contemporary South Africa: http://t.co/U9gL8rLr — 10 years 3 months ago
ETA for Gauteng busses? — 10 years 3 months ago
thanks. Do tweet it please! — 10 years 3 months ago
Thanks! More please. What's the Juniors' motion?! — 10 years 3 months ago
Odd that. You'll know, of course, that Galton (founder of eugenics) had VD and no children. — 10 years 3 months ago
I think you mean Senior semis. Please tell us which teams are competing. — 10 years 3 months ago
KZN and Gteng. — 10 years 3 months ago
and senior finallists? — 10 years 3 months ago
Motion and positions for Juniors please. — 10 years 3 months ago
Land Reform SA style http://t.co/IIb3ABs1 — 10 years 4 months ago
Happy Birthday wonderful ; another thing to celebrate on Sunday. — 10 years 4 months ago
Book Discussion -- Saving Mandela: The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa http://t.co/kRIry1Vx — 10 years 4 months ago
Cancelled Registration book-launch scheduled 4 months ago for 5pm tomorrow in New York. Great timing . — 10 years 5 months ago
Astonishing: 80% of RDOs are from Pondoland, aged between 45 and 55! http://t.co/avJuh8QP via — 10 years 5 months ago
Vukile Khumalo on Post-Apartheid (Rural) Citizenship http://t.co/EBOQpys3 — 10 years 5 months ago
Breckenridge on the Imperial Biometric Laboratory http://t.co/boJea5hn — 10 years 6 months ago
Justifying the Removal of Non-Natives: A Case Study from Hawaii http://t.co/3U1m1Bv5 — 10 years 6 months ago
Lissoni and Suriano on Tanzanian Women and the ANC http://t.co/j5DQbTec — 10 years 6 months ago
SHAKA’S PROGENY: Historical reflections on global Zulu culture in the modern Atlantic world http://t.co/GeJcZG58 — 10 years 6 months ago
Interesting story about the attempts to close down the department of politics and government at Ben Gurion University http://t.co/9g0trdnC — 10 years 6 months ago
This really needs more coverage: SA man reaches exalted Grandmaster status http://t.co/zYZO0P1A — 10 years 6 months ago
University of the Witwatersrand has appointed a new WISER Director: Professor Sarah Nuttall http://t.co/b0DVTv8U — 10 years 6 months ago
Jimmy Pieterse on the Moffie and the Gendered Ordering of Afrikaner Society http://t.co/9sHFxfJ1 — 10 years 6 months ago
WISER and Wits Press book launch: Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa http://t.co/qoxuy1zg — 10 years 6 months ago
How many corruption charges have involved wall building in the new SA? http://t.co/Sn0qc6An — 10 years 6 months ago
Bheki Peterson on repressions of nation-building and reconciliation http://t.co/J71zTDPS — 10 years 6 months ago
Sparks very good on the consequences of ANC succession processes http://t.co/wqbySNhu — 10 years 7 months ago
Fascinating differences between mining in SA and OZ http://t.co/hb6oMqlm via — 10 years 7 months ago
Langa and von Holdt on Insurgent Citizenship http://t.co/JN5UG4oO — 10 years 7 months ago
Mark Hunter on Circuits of Schooling and the Production of Space after Apartheid http://t.co/3wnXFa6u — 10 years 7 months ago
Ran Greenstein on theoretical considerations of the Israel / Palestine - Apartheid Analogy http://t.co/S6GbWsUG — 10 years 7 months ago
No, sorry. Try Shirley Brooks at UWC. — 10 years 7 months ago
Catherine Burns on the History of Sex in South Africa http://t.co/dJ1xWBR6 — 10 years 8 months ago
WiSER will host a Zotero Workshop on the 8 August http://t.co/tu7DN5lE — 10 years 8 months ago
Juan Cole on the Arab Spring http://t.co/lnFX3Iqz — 10 years 8 months ago
Liz Gunner on the Origins, Politics and Consequences of Zulu Radio http://t.co/w8lt33Gf — 10 years 8 months ago
I am. Have you talked to Veronica Klippen at Wits Press. — 10 years 8 months ago
Paying for a 10mb adsl line from ; generally get less than 1mb. "Technical support" doesn't know or care to fix it. Agree with JSE. — 10 years 8 months ago
Married to the ANC: the life histories of Tanzanian women and their entanglement in South Africa’s liberation struggle http://t.co/I7CsebjL — 10 years 8 months ago
Keith Shear on War and the Pass System http://t.co/qyJDQHv4 — 10 years 8 months ago
WISER Book launch: Embroiled - Jeannerat, Morier-Genoud and Peclard http://t.co/ZgSqf1Ix — 10 years 8 months ago
The truth about intellectual property, patents and lawyers http://t.co/wiJBxN1P — 10 years 9 months ago
JWTC Public Events: Futures of Nature http://t.co/Zlf4zjrG — 10 years 9 months ago
History and Policy Workshop http://t.co/SLpVeeIu — 10 years 9 months ago
Vashna Jagarnath on Gandhi's Diary Writing http://t.co/vESuYznJ — 10 years 10 months ago
That'll teach the Greeks -- Christine Lagarde, scourge of tax evaders, pays no tax http://t.co/UBhplQkj via — 10 years 10 months ago
Shirona's office has it -- promises it'll be on the Wits web on Monday — 10 years 10 months ago
Exactly. ": So I have never bought city press before, I think this is the best time to start." — 10 years 10 months ago
Southern Theory | Global Humanities -- A Lecture Series on Frantz Fanon http://t.co/pZdFsr8t — 10 years 10 months ago
Richard Pithouse on Thought Amidst Waste http://t.co/Ag4lJkRV — 10 years 10 months ago
Debating the ANC "Second Transition" Policy Documents http://t.co/TSrwcb7a — 10 years 10 months ago
Moeletsi Mbeki: What has the ANC achieved in nearly two decades? http://t.co/HpJiZczk — 10 years 10 months ago
Debating the ANC "Second Transition" Policy Documents http://t.co/EfRBHkA1 — 10 years 10 months ago
What has the ANC achieved in nearly two decades? http://t.co/fheRP2J5 — 10 years 10 months ago
Mabin on the future of the city http://t.co/2tEq6gO9 — 10 years 10 months ago
Lucy Allais on Kant on giving to beggars http://t.co/I97alv0C — 10 years 10 months ago
Dunbar Moodie on the Afrikaner Broederbond during the CODESA negotiations http://t.co/ePPp6YlG — 10 years 11 months ago
Julia Hornberger on Biopolitics and Drug Security http://t.co/BzWjtB2s — 10 years 11 months ago
Jansen on Seven costly mistakes in Education (nothing no SADTU ...) - Times LIVE http://t.co/Ssko8wdj via — 10 years 12 months ago
Ubuntu anyone? More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet http://t.co/NPRf3ojU via — 10 years 12 months ago
Drupal's doing ... — 10 years 12 months ago
Introduction to Zotero -- Keith Breckenridge http://t.co/M4pqFCAk — 10 years 12 months ago
Book Launch of Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities http://t.co/vq2HSvlK — 11 years 2 weeks ago
Loren Landau on the Changing Character of African Migration and Hospitality http://t.co/pJ3oorNQ — 11 years 2 weeks ago
Isabel Hofmeyr on Reading the Gandhian Press @Wits http://t.co/vnOYs5hR — 11 years 3 weeks ago
Prinish Badassy on the History of Baby Farming http://t.co/qhBLaHEY — 11 years 1 month ago
Beinart on the Social History of the Prickly Pear http://t.co/OFm6X1Ip — 11 years 1 month ago
Jon Hyslop on The Steamship Lascar in the British Imagination c.1880-1960 http://t.co/jEstfDyD — 11 years 1 month ago
Talk by Sarah Maddison on Post-Colonial Guilt and National Identity in Australia http://t.co/u0DU5H7k — 11 years 1 month ago
Seminar by Ute Holl on Media, Ethnology and Cybernetics http://t.co/MmgNRlj0 Monday 20 February at 3:00pm — 11 years 1 month ago
New post: A single CPS tender for grants is big news http://t.co/B11te8VC — 11 years 1 month ago
Excellent piece by Khadija Patel on Johannesburg's new municipal library http://t.co/LtMIZB2J — 11 years 1 month ago
Not just educ, working insts of local govt and citizenship - parish birth, death and marriage reg — 11 years 4 months ago
Brazil had Catholicism, especially in the 19th C, and we had Bantu Education. They also have lots of good land. — 11 years 4 months ago
Help protect 's democracy against the new - Send a message to the Chief Whips NOW: http://t.co/3RiNh8zX — 11 years 6 months ago
SA win by 16 with 54 — 11 years 8 months ago
after round nine SA lead by 20 with 54 — 11 years 8 months ago
SA won round 8. Lead by 16. — 11 years 8 months ago
SA won round seven. Lead by 13. — 11 years 8 months ago
very tense. Canada won that round by five points. SA still lead by 8 ... — 11 years 8 months ago
at halftime SA 34 Canada 21 UK 19 England 15 NZ 14 NZ2 15 — 11 years 8 months ago
at half time SA lead by 13 with 34 points. Canada in second, UK in third. — 11 years 8 months ago
south Africa won that round by eight points! Mgps leads by six. — 11 years 8 months ago
graphic novels are our thing! — 11 years 8 months ago
mgps tied second after round three. Canadians lead. — 11 years 8 months ago
mgps won that round by four points! Tied first. — 11 years 8 months ago
very tough questions! — 11 years 8 months ago
intros from Wayne explaining teams — 11 years 8 months ago
Praises of Wayne Mills! — 11 years 8 months ago
Auditorium of about 400 nearly full. Waiting for higher ups - Gov Gen — 11 years 8 months ago