Azra Karim

For the first time in the history of the Great City of New York, its Mayor names and remembers the Nakba. And I get to be alive to see it.

The number of possible contacts with hantavirus-infected people has increased to 97 in South Africa. Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has confirmed the number to the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) News. tinyurl.com/35x6cztx

Fact: He traveled there for his cooking show & when they tried to block this one episode, he said he would pull his entire show from the network & this was the first time the world ever saw behind the walls in Gaza 2013

One normal week in South Africa. That’s all I ask for.

No water in Hyde park @JHBWater

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Hi @JHBWater - no water in Dunkeld and Hyde Park

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas. Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours. Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count. Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024. Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds. Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it. The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record. Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

Watch Sabastian Sawe 🇰🇪 run 1:59:30 to destroy the Marathon World Record in London!!🤯🔥 First man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon. 2. Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 1:59:41 3. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 2:00:28 All under the previous World Record.

Justice Madlanga is going down as one of the best Justices to have served the country.

Great to see Bra Louis Seeco remain consistent in confronting injustice. He cut his activist cloth at Wits in the 1980s, when he made a huge personal sacrifice as an athlete by joining the “No Normal Sport in an Abnormal Society” campaign during the BSS era. Aluta Continua! ✊🏾

Houghton Golf Club bans a player because he has a Palestinian flag on his car. The insidious influence and control of and by zionists 🤔 is disconcerting.... Our justice centric patriot argued correctly...

South Africa was banned from the Olympics from 1964 to 1988 because it was an apartheid state. The ICJ declared Israel to be an apartheid state, so when does its ban start?

The biggest lesson In Surah Al fil is “If Allah wills , even birds will defeat elephants”.

There is a Quranic verse hanging behind his head in a frame that looks very old. The verse says: 'And say: My Lord, increase me in knowledge.' It is clear that this Israeli is living in a house stolen by his father from a Palestinian family after they were either killed or displaced. As if that wasn't enough, he is now headed to Gaza to target and kill children.

"Forget my ideology"

“What’s Tawakkul?” It means I don’t see the solution, I don’t see what’s going to happen tomorrow, but I do know one thing for sure and that is; إِنَّ مَعِيَ رَبِّي سَيَهْدِينِ “Indeed, Allah is with me; He will guide me” (26:62)

I made promise to research the engineering behind this magnificent structure yesterday and here is what I found out: The Tabuk University Mosque is incredible because it has no pillars inside. Usually, a room this large needs many legs to hold up the ceiling, but this prayer hall is just one massive open space. It covers over 7000 square meters with nothing in the middle to block your view. The trick is in the shape of the roof. It is built using the same logic as an eggshell. If you press on the top of an egg, it stays strong because the curve sends the pressure down the sides rather than allowing it go straight through. This roof is a giant concrete shell that pushes its own weight out to the thick walls at the edges. They also hid strong steel cables inside the concrete. These cables were pulled very tight to act as invisible muscles. They keep the roof from sagging or falling in. This is the main reason they could make the span so wide without needing any supports in the center of the hall. In a place as hot as Tabuk, the engineers also had to let the building breathe. Concrete grows when it gets hot, so they designed the joints to move a little bit. If the mosque was too stiff, the sun would just crack the whole thing open. The whole point of this difficult engineering was to make sure the lines of people praying are never broken. It creates a feeling of unity because everyone is in the same open room. It is a beautiful way for engineering to serve a spiritual goal. I hope this helps.

And CPT Muslims will keep voting for them while painting Palestine flags on their walls.

It would be a joy if she received funding from the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture.