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Tuesday, 30 June 2026 — the day the SA state ceded power to rabble-rousers

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Everyone in Eritrea is desperate to flee, including the President’s son

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No Country for Young People: Notes From Ten Days in Eritrea, The Beautiful Prison

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How Africa Works [Chapters 5 – 6]

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There is something very disturbing about this reductive, inquisitorial reaction to even the least objectionable artefacts of Western history. Nothing speaks more strongly to the spiritual aridity of social justice extremists than their complete insensitivity to aesthetic nuance and artistic value.

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Torpedoing Africa, and then complaining about ‘migration’

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