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That period where you ask yourself whether you should have a cool (not cold) beer or red wine has arrived.

I kinda miss the north coast of KZN where winter didn't really exist as it does in Cape Town.

But then, these dreams and bills won't fulfill or pay themselves 🤷🏾‍♂️.

Dear #jazzsky

How early (or late) can one buy a 6 year old an affordable brass trumpet? (Affordable by South African standards. Cyril's economy and all🤷🏾‍♂️.)

I'm getting tired of the sound of the plastic trumpet and would much rather put up with a 'bad' imitation of Hugh Masekela on a brass trumpet.

When I was in school, I had to put my grades up for adoption because I couldn’t raise them

white house says the economy is trans and must be abolished

Voting yes in the referendum is not in and of itself a bad thing, I raise it to point out how nowadays (especially on Elon's platform) it is used as a device to say "be grateful, we did you a favour". When in fact the referendum was one small part of the fall of apartheid.

Not an issue at all. Frank discussions in good faith are always welcome on my side...

What I was trying to describe in my initial response is the civil society to full blown right wing movement pipeline of AfriForum (which the media is only picking up now)

They live among us, I suspect. They start movements fighting for minority (and language) rights. Then seek self determination (or is it isolation). They lobby foreign governments for assistance against "140 race laws". They remind everyone who cares to listen that they voted yes in 1992 etc...

The scene shows the side of a road with concrete supports going to a second level of road above the first. On the supports are four faces, two men and two women. The woman and man in the middle of the four are making music.

Faces

Murals on the supports of the M1 double decker highway going through Johannesburg.

#photography #grafitti #faces

A certified classic

Uthi uTrump no one has heard of it. So basically you're in a place that doesn't exist🤷🏾‍♂️😂

As far as I know, he's from Cape Town. Seen him in the Somerset area once.

Just looked up the match summary and you are absolutely right. Sheesh.

Haven't followed the team in years but I *really* have to ask: did they, uhmmm, choke? 🤔🙈

Freedom is/used to be a liberatory concept.

Under neoliberalism, the far right have taken ‘freedom’ as their play thing and run off with it.

By freedom’, they mean freedom of the market and freedom for the market.

They absolutely do not mean freedom for and of the ‘people’ around the world.

Reminds me of a colleague who once said their father was opposed to apartheid. In the same conversation they revealed that their father had served in the SADF for over 30 years and moved up the ranks (retired in the early 2000s).

Couldn't help but wonder how exactly this made sense to him🤔

the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see

Honestly, I really wouldn't be mad at a 10 part podcast series about this case.

The trouncing thar Orlando Pirates got from Sundowns really messed with my mood. Yerrr!!!

Yah, I read too fast and typed too quickly🙈. He is playing around.

Hauw, 2 nyana hours? Mhlawumbe ulele ubhuti🤷🏾‍♂️

Thank you. We're taking it a day at a time.

Inexplicable really.

Thank you🙏🏾

Thank you Marius. Much appreciated...

As we say ngesiZulu:

Ukufa inuku.

This has been an incredibly difficult week for my (paternal) family.

We lost our youngest cousin. A 20 year old who just didn't wake up last Friday.

She had upgraded her matric last year and had been accepted to both the universities she preferred.

She had her bags pack to leave home on the 20th😔

YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66 Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" Live 1959 [Reelin' In The Years Archives]

Strange Fruit
youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk?... #jazzsky

Funny how little has changed in terms of the grievance-bait.

"Pious divines and tender-hearted poetesses" is 18th century speak for virtue signalers and snowflakes.