Sometime journalist. Hoards wine. Drinks amaros. Pats small dogs and trills at cats. Waiting for eternity.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined January 2008
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"An assault across many fronts.”
Loren Landau, a professor of migration and development at Oxford University, on the message the Trump administration is sending by granting some white South Africans refugee status in the US.
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Trump’s championing of Afrikaner grievances sparks backlash in South Africa on.ft.com/43RuJqC
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Get drunk and stay that way.
On what?
On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever.
But get drunk.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
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24 hours on from the TV debate between Harris and Trump, there's been a lot of attention on how the debate was moderated and fact-checked. Our latest video assesses claims that the approach was unfair.
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Steve Biko, murdered by apartheid police on September 12, 1977, was an avid rugby player. From the Eastern Cape, one of two regions combined known for their rich black (including coloured) rugby tradition as old as that of whites, Biko is shown here (top back) in a match in 1970 between white and black students from the segregated campuses of the University of Natal, where he studied medicine. The game in itself was a political act. The photo was first published on @News24 in 2019.
7 years ago I was excited to be in #johannesburg and this went viral. I am still very happy to be here though frustrated I've spent 4.5 years either waiting for visa rectification of renewals. #SouthAfrica medium.com/south-african/why… – at Roodepoort, South Africa
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I've never seen anything that summed up the difference between Britain and America quite as well as this.
It's from the advice page in The Spectator -
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How the culture wars came to conservation - my take on a topic that will affect the future or our planet on.ft.com/4cJotCk via @financialtimes
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How cool is this for @WOSA_ZA !
@MaluLambert is a TOP5 Finalist in the @67pallmall Global Wine Communicator Awards for her piece on "Decolonising the Wine Lexicon"
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I reference the piece at least once a week in my chats with winelovers and vinous explorers.
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The Amapiano genre has seen a crazy explosion over the last decade coming out of South Africa. In 2023 alone, the genre had 1.4 billion streams on Spotify - with 55% of that being played in markets outside of Africa. Very cool to see it taking the global stage! Check out more here - newsroom.spotify.com/amapian…
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The only reason Dutton can put out such rubbish and call it “policy” is that he knows any turd he presents will be polished and celebrated by a large cohort (not all) of the media.
crikey.com.au/2024/06/20/jou…
