Cobus van Staden

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Cobus van Staden

Cobus van Staden

@stadenesque

Co-host of the China in Africa podcast. Senior China-Africa researcher at South African Institute of International Affairs.

Johannesburg Sumali Mart 2010
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Lina Benabdallah 🎩
Lina Benabdallah 🎩@LBenabdallah·
Tenured and Promoted!! ✅ 🧿 ✅ This will take a while to become real for me but for now am filled with gratitude for all my colleagues, letter writers, students, friends, and loving family. This was not an easy journey and the truce is welcome 😅 Here’s to paying it forward!
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Samuel Ramani
Samuel Ramani@SamRamani2·
@McFaul @gb_decarvalho @rhymeswbruised @lajohnstondr @OvigweEguegu @hmryder @priyal_singh @tmurithi12 @yushan_wu @siZondi @Siderop @jorgeheinel @LwaziSomya @stadenesque @SanushaNaidu @camilaafrika @kendraconnock @LauraRubidge @PolSciBhaso @emreersen @vijayprashad @AbbaOmarY1 Global South @McFaul is what I use. I don't recall ever receiving pushback from people in those parts of the world when I use it. Collective non-West is too integrated into Russian and Chinese state discourse/propaganda, so I only use this phrase when talking about Russia/China
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Gustavo de Carvalho@gb_decarvalho·
1/ I’ve been wondering (A LOT): what does the Global South mean? It’s not just about geography. It’s much more than that. Let me show you why. 🌎
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Cobus van Staden
Cobus van Staden@stadenesque·
@BarbraStrident The enraging part is that while rich countries make these calculations they’re also dependent on the Global South for numerous crucial commodities and markets. The GS will have to become a lot more hard-nosed and united
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Vox Customer Service
Vox Customer Service@VoxTalk2Us·
@stadenesque Thank you, I have had a look at ticket VOX18607073 Your connectivity issue is related to the outage below: Vox Notice: Vumatel GPON Fibre Services (FTTH). Sandown and Rosebank. Customers may experience problems with no connectivity. Vumatel engineers are investigating the fault.
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Cobus van Staden
Cobus van Staden@stadenesque·
@VoxTalk2Us Do you have any updates on the outage in the Richmond/Melville area in Johannesburg? Your call centre doesn’t seem to realize it’s happening
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Cobus van Staden@stadenesque·
@vumatel do you have an ETA for your outage in the Richmond area in Johannesburg? Your network has been down the whole day
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Cobus van Staden@stadenesque·
@VoxTalk2Us Most of our neighbors’ internet is also out, so it seems to be a wider outage
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