Paul Graham

Neither the @UN nor @Nato should let the primary belligerents walk away from this as those they were merely innocents abroad.

Art and Ubuntu Trust Launches Book Series Elevating African Knowledge and Artists zubeidajaffer.co.za/art-and-ubuntu…

The American experiment looks increasingly likely to be bookended by two mad kings. hrp.org.uk/kew-palace/his…

@ferialhaffajee @MyJRA Joburg drivers and Joburg roads - a lethal combination - but the anti Gogo twitter mob is strong these days.

Comment: This is the car falling into the hole on Jan Smuts near Colony Centre. The dongas we dodge with their yellow barriers and red tape are not normal. Gogo Swim responses show we have come to normalise the abnormal in Joburg. The hole is still there ⁦@MyJRA⁩

@NASAArtemis versus @SpaceX - you can see the differences in the public communications styles.

@amazon - don't you believe your customers know where they want to be? Our is your @AmazonUK site struggling to keep people?

This week humans go back to the moon - half a century ago, when last we did it, @IDF were bombing schools - so little has changed for them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahr_El-B…

A first look at an apparent tungsten pellet from the U.S. strikes on Lamerd, Feb. 28. PrSM is designed to detonate above target and disperse thousands of these pellets outward. Our analysis shows they killed at least 21 people, including girls who were at volleyball practice.

If you are presently in a petrol queue trying to fill up your car, just remember exactly who you have to thank - Number 45/47!

So they didn't even count the cost...

@SkateRogers This means supporting small independent publishing houses, and independent bookshops. Africa used to have networks of both.

Don't Let African Literature Die

A Street Photographer, Johannesburg, 1948. Photo Credit: Constance Stuart Larrabee, Smithsonian Archives

"There would be one long staircase just going up And one even longer coming down And one more leading nowhere, just for show" —from If I Were a Rich Man (lyrics by Sheldon Harnick)

'Predictable decisions' ... 'clear rules' ... - how about ending the war that is driving costs and shortages?

Have bankrupted his own businesses in the past, the US president has moved on to trying to bankrupt the world.

A peacekeeper was tragically killed last night when a projectile exploded in a UNIFIL position near Adchit Al Qusayr. Another was critically injured. No one should ever lose their life serving the cause of peace.

I have spoken before about the existence of two parallel worlds in our country. These worlds that exist side by side, yet are fundamentally disconnected. On the one hand, there is a world defined by humiliating poverty, mass unemployment, and deepening, degrading inequality. It is a world in which the working class and even sections of the middle strata are sinking under unbearable levels of debt. A world where families are losing their homes and cars through bank repossessions, where dignity is stripped away, and where the psychological toll is so severe that it is contributing to a growing crisis of mental illness and even suicide epidemic. But alongside this reality, there exists another world. A world of excess, opulence, privilege, and insulation from suffering. In this world, elites parade in foreign designer labels such as brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Versace, Dior, Balenciaga, Prada, Hermès and Chanel. These outfits cost more than what many workers earn in months or even years. In this world the elites move around in chauffeur-driven luxury vehicles worth millions: Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Maybach, Range Rover Autobiography and top of a range Vianno: These are symbols not just of wealth, but of social distance from the lived reality of the majority. The Madlanga Commission has helped to educate the country about these two worlds. The top elites of politically connected gather at exclusive events where a single bottle of wine can cost more than a worker’s monthly wage — Château Margaux, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Screaming Eagle, Penfolds Grange or where rare whiskies like Macallan 1926, Dalmore 62, or Glenfiddich 1937 are poured, not for necessity, but for status. Prices inflated not just by rarity, but by venues designed to exclude the very people whose labour sustains this economy. These are not just two different lifestyles. They are two different realities: one of survival, the other of opulence. And in the shadows of this widening divide, a dangerous shift is taking place: sections of the working class, pushed to the brink, are increasingly turning against one another. Regionalism, tribalism and xenophobia are rising, as the poor are driven to fight the poor, while the real sources of the crisis remain untouched. Meanwhile, the elites in Houghton, Sandton, Ballito, and enclaves such as Constantia, Bishopscourt, Clifton, Camps Bay and Bantry Bay in Cape Town remain largely insulated from the daily realities of violence, insecurity and social breakdown. The latest findings associated with voter participation trends, as reflected in IEC-related data, point to a deeply worrying reality: barely a quarter of eligible voters still believe that this democracy, one that has produced such extremes is worth participating in. This is not apathy. It is a crisis of legitimacy. It is a silent protest by millions who feel abandoned, excluded, and betrayed. Unless this widening chasm is confronted, unless the economy is fundamentally restructured to serve the many and not the few, we are not just facing an economic crisis, but a profound social and political rupture. This is a powder keg waiting to implode.

@israelnewspulse The heel of Achilles

Greece has approved a €3 billion defense program to build “Achilles Shield,” a multi-layered air defense system designed to counter missiles and drones. The project is expected to include advanced Israeli technology, with Israeli firms likely playing a central role.

@ICannot_Enough Well that is not true. I can't be the only human left to have been in a lift driven by an operator.

Nobody is skeptical of autonomous elevators because nobody alive today was even around to see a human elevator operator in real life before the last one got laid off. Automation is far safer.

Former PAC President Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba was born on 29 March 1933. HAPPY 93RD BIRTHDAY MY PRESIDENT! Mogoba is the author of "Stone, Steel and Sjambok." The book reflects on his painful experiences as a political prisoner on Robben Island. He has also written moving poems