Saahier
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Saahier
@Saahier
Science & Society Researcher at the HSRC (my tweets are my own views), PhD survivor - If you’re not living life on the edge,you’re taking up too much space
Cape Town, RSA Katılım Temmuz 2009
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A colonizer is always angry, because a colonizer is always guilty.
A colonizer is always violent, because a colonizer is always afraid.
A colonizer is always angry and afraid because a colonizer is never home.
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Lately I started getting words for it, this colonizer homelessness, the fact that colonizers look and feel like aliens to natives not only because they don't belong, but because the colonizers themselves feel the same way.
Think about it: wherever a colonizer goes, whatever they see, smell or taste, it is never theirs, or completely natural. It is not organic to them, but engineered; their whole existence is.
Whatever sustains and nourishes the native, threatens the colonizer and reflects their strangeness: the food, the music, the landscape, the flora and fauna. the sounds and smells, everything.
Whatever comes naturally to the native is a great effort for the colonizer: they don't understand the codes, and never will. They can't be still.
Aa colonizer is not an immigrant, a tourist or a guest, they have to find meaning for their stay. It must be a higher purpose, a higher calling, else what can explain both their presence not home, and the violent means they always need to maintain it? We are not designed to inflict pain and injury for comfort. We need a story to put us in a positive light.
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So much of the western world's anxiety, I think, is just a colonizer's latent, repressed homelessness. Because colonialism is not just taking other people's home, it is also, and forever, being without one yourself.
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@DebbieSchafer What is absolutely abhorrent is that as a former mec for education you can't seem to read and comprehend that the reason is Not his faith, but his support of a genocidal and Illegitimate regime..... I am really disgusted...
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@ReaazAhmed @Aashiek Wrong brother dude.... He is the Ironman and more likely to put us thru our paces
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Guys what time does the Gareth Cliff uprising start, where do we meet, is it an online thing or do we just send a strongly worded email or how does it work? #GarethCliffMustFall
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In Langa, a street-side open-air meat market was preparing for Saturday morning trade;
With a wide spread of meat products on offer for customers near a major local taxi rank.
@News24 (@NoSurrenderRSA)




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This Sunday, 26 April 2020, we will be releasing the outcome for the second part of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of the survey on the impact the coronavirus has had on South Africans, done during a virtual media briefing. For more information follow @HigherEduGovZA

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Incredibly proud of our team. Our new campaign just launched. We are worth waiting for. ❤️ #lovecapetown #capeofgoodhope capetown.travel/we-are-worth-w…
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HSRC's Candice Groenewald @CJRGROENEWALD is running a project. "We are interested in South Africans' experiences of the #COVID2019 lockdown. If you want to share your #lifeduringlockdownstory pls contact us on 0658516942. More info below. Pls share/retweet
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Invitation
HSRC Seminar Series
Visualizing the Muslim Gandhi
Dr Timothy S. Dobe, Professor @ Grinnell College
Date: 24 April 2019 Time: 12h30
Use the link:
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Please RSVP to: Arlene Grossberg, Tel: (012) 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za
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As a citizen of South Africa, I would like you to share your current opinions about the services and products of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
It will take less than 10 min. Please help by sharing as widely as possible
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Al-Marhoom Sheikh Fuad Isaacs
Husband
Father
Teacher & Scholar
#31Heroes
South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) @sabonemreg
Proudly supported by the Rondebosch Medical Centre @RMC_hospital
Official Media Partner @radio786online

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Spare a moment to pray for the ill and aged.
-Mufti Ismail Menk
International Scholar
Inspirational Speaker
Author
#31Heroes
South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) @sabonemreg
Proudly supported by the Rondebosch Medical Centre @RMC_hospital
@radio786online

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He chose quality of life…
-Ebrahim Rasool
Community Leader
Former Ambassador
Scholar & Author
#31Heroes
South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) @sabonemreg
Proudly supported by the Rondebosch Medical Centre @RMC_hospital
Official Media Partner @radio786online

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Bone Marrow donation adds an important component to the key ingredients of faith & knowledge
-Ali Mia Chicktay
Father
Singer
Pharmacist
#31Heroes
South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) @sabonemreg
Supported by the Rondebosch Medical Centre @RMC_hospital
@radio786online

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Never give up hope, Allah loves those who put their trust in Him.
-Sheikh Ebrahim Gabriels
Imam
Freedom Fighter
President of the UUC SA
#31Heroes
South African Bone Marrow Registry @sabonemreg
Rondebosch Medical Centre @rmc_hospital
Media Partner @radio786online

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Continue praying and experience God’s gifts.
- Zerina Sablay
Physiotherapist
Mother
Music Lover
#31Heroes
South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) @sabonemreg
Proudly supported by the Rondebosch Medical Centre @RMC_hospital
Official Media Partner Radio786

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