James Whyle

Did ex-South African President Zuma’s daughter recruit for Russia’s war? Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is accused of luring men to Russia in the latest scandal rocking the prominent Zuma family.

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Why is Trump so obsessed with Venezuela? (Image: US attack on Venezuelan boat, posted)

Why is Trump so obsessed with Venezuela?
Steven Boykey Sidley
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The DA’s Gordian knot: How the party’s internal feud could affect the elections | Daily Maverick <p>The DA faces several difficult scenarios in dealing with the fallout from two serious and interrelated issues. How it deals both with the alleged misuse of a DA credit card by its leader, John Stee...

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How AI, crypto and an unused protocol will rewrite the Internet business model (image: via Currency News)

Will it soon be possible, for a few cents, to watch, specifically and only, the next Proteas or Springboks game?

How AI, crypto and an unused protocol will rewrite the Internet business model - Steven Boykey Sidley

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We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

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South Africa launches investigation into 17 citizens fighting in Ukraine Men aged 20 to 39 ‘lured to join mercenary force’ in Donbas region have requested assistance to return home

17 stories that need to be told

“Chinese social media is awash with recruitment videos for the Russian army, with influencers touting the glamour, riches and masculine kudos that supposedly come with joining the war.”

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Ethiopian quarter: how migrants have shaped a thriving shopping district in South Africa’s city of gold Ethiopian migrants in Johannesburg have reused buildings, densified commercial space and developed networks.

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The truth about the Cradock Four, and who ordered the murders, matters Justice must be done for the sake of our society, for healing the memory of our terrible past and, most importantly, to bring some closure to the families of the victims.

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(I saw a journalist ask how Mkwanazi was.
Answer: I’m still here.
Subtext: nobody taken me out yet.)

YouTube video by Three Beanies Network w/ Dan Corder Mkhwanazi Ad-Hoc Bombs: All You Need To Know // The Corder Report

Story Time
#Mduli #Mthethwa
I’ve been struggling to keep up with South African events. Like America, a great movie, but a complicated plot with multiple unreliable narrators. Be a bit lost without the Corder Report TBH.

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The AI detector dilemma – Gadget The digital border guards of academic and professional integrity are causing real-world harm in education and business, writes AI consultant MIKE WHYLE.

Excellent piece on AI in education from Mike Whyle

“The solutions we lean into may turn out to be non-technological. In education, it could mean reframing the question: not “did you use AI?” but “Do you truly understand the material?””

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South African Writers in solidarity with Zukiswa Wanner South African writers have put out a statement of solidarity on the kidnapping of South African writer Zukiswa Wanner off the coast of Gaza on the night of October 1, 2025.

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The Book of War The Book of War eBook : Whyle, James: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

The Book of War Kindle Edition
by James Whyle (Author)
£3.99 on Kindle
Which is an outright BARGAIN

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Suspended IDT CEO, spokesperson offer Daily Maverick journalist R60K in cash to quash investigation In possibly the most brazen act of attempted bribery ever recorded on camera in this country, the IDT’s suspended CEO and the entity’s spokesperson offered this journalist R60,000 in cash to bury an o...

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A walk through Hillbrow, the chaotic, rekindled heart of Joburg Parts of the inner-city suburb are being revived through the efforts of residents, property owners and nonprofit organisations. Now a walking tour offers a glimpse of the renewal.

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Nongqawuse was not primary cause of the 1856 Cattle Killing Treive Nicholas, the author of In Search of Nongqawuse, responds to historian and author JJ Klaas’s alternative version of the story, which was itself a response to a review of the book published by D...

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I call South Africa heaven ...

My father writes from France on the 18th of January 1916.

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole New theory makes testable predictions.

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#Memoir #Nonfiction #NarrativeNonfiction #WeTwoFromHeaven

We Two From Heaven: A Memoir We Two From Heaven: A Memoir - Kindle edition by Whyle, James. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading We Two From Heaven: A Memoir.

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We Two From Heaven contains clear warnings that it should be taken with a pinch of salt. It also contains documentary evidence of its veracity.
#Memoir #Nonfiction #books #NarrativeNonfiction

Hilary Mantel, The Art of Fiction No. 226 “I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.”

Hilary Mantel on fact and fiction:

Things get passed around so easily on the Internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to ­arbitrate and say, What are your sources?

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Flooding the zone – Google's response to the threat of obsolescence If you can't beat 'em...

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Book Choice - Fine Music Radio Book Choice is presented by Paige Nick with her team of bookworms. They will entertain and inform you as they chat about the latest fiction and non-fiction on the shelves. From popular to literary wor...

Fine Music Radio’s Book Choice, 27 May, 2025.

An extremely kind and thoughtful response to We Two From Heaven from Melvyn Minnaar.

(He can be found on Twitter - @Melvynminnaar)

His review is at minute 24:00.

But the whole thing is worth a listen.

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It's a privilege to have We Two From Heaven assessed by someone as gentle and funny and intelligent as Fred de Vries.
(Behind a paywall, but I'll trying and sneak in a snippet ...)

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Franschhoek Literary Festival.

A chat about We Two From Heaven with Cape Talk's John Maytham, who is the best and most influential radio anchor in South Africa when it come to books ..

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(PDF) Between Substance and Shadow: investigations into the cynanthropy of Gary the Dog PDF | In this essay I investigate the circumstances in which the rock musician Gary Herselman, playing on a nationwide tour, was temporarily afflicted... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

“I’m a mongrel. My mother is English and my father is Afrikaans.. they were housemother and father in an orphanage so I grew up with the wolves, you know. So I was running with the pack … well running behind the pack kind of thing…”
RIP
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Extraordinary writing by Warrick Sony on the musician Gary Herselman, AKA Piet Pers (Voelvry; Die Kerels)
“Piet Pers … didn’t pretend to to be a dog. He became a dog, so much so that other dogs thought he was a dog.”

Don’t you get it, Harry? You’re not a victim. You’re a rich man who can pay for his own sodding security | Marina Hyde One of the prince’s well-heeled friends should give our foremost podcaster a lesson on when to keep schtum, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Harry Antoinette.

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