Mary Alexander 🇿🇦
South African writer, editor, web publisher, factchecker, mosaicer (?) and slow-blinker at cats.
southafrica-info.com
- The National Lotteries Commission used ProEthics to circumvent procurement processes. The NLC paid ProEthics. ProEthics then paid a large portion of this money to NLC suppliers, who were therefore shielded from competitive processes to get the NLC’s business.
- Trump is making China – not America – great again, global survey suggests. In South Africa, 19% consider the US an ally ... and 15% think it's an adversary. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- A snapshot of each country on a continent you need to know more about ... Carbon emissions, gender inequality, history, human development, income inequality, internet access, languages, LGBT+ equality, trade partners, population density, size, urbanisation, women in parliament and much more.
- South Africa has the 10th-largest disparity between legal protections (77%) and public opinion (58%) in Africa, giving us an Equaldex LGBT equality score of 67%.
- From the UNDP Human Development Report 2025 hdr.undp.org/system/files...
- The improvement is substantial. Viral suppression in kids on treatment aged one to four increased from 58% in June 2023 to 76% in June 2025, based on a cut-off of around 1 000 copies/ml. Using the much stricter cut-off of 50 copies/ml, viral suppression was 34% in June 2023 and 54% in June 2025.
- "Nerd Reich". Hilarious if it weren't so floccing scary. Wilfully, gleefully, boastfully ignorant men. Jissis.
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- The 400 years of slavery had a huge effect. Africans were being invaded both from the Islamic world and, of course, the Western world. Up to that point, communities had settled in comfortable places, such as plains and valleys. But then, suddenly, they all disappeared ...
- The problem is, 320,158 tonnes is more than all the gold produced since we started mining the stuff about 6,000 years ago. The best estimates suggest that around 216,265 tonnes of gold have been mined throughout history. That’s only two-thirds of what’s promised in Uganda.
- If this isn't genocide, then what is? "Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare."
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- “The current size of the map of Africa is wrong,” said Moky Makura, the executive director of Africa No Filter. “It’s the world’s longest misinformation and disinformation campaign, and it just simply has to stop.”
- The graphic? So cool. The data? Not cool.
- Finally! I worked there when I was 18. A magical, irreplaceable resource. "The central library was closed in May 2021 ... Residents were not able to access the library which holds over 1.5-million books as well as a vast collection of archived material not available anywhere else."
- A headline that sums it all up.
- Reposted by Mary Alexander 🇿🇦The crux of their argument is that if they're found liable, then the consequences of their own actions that no one forced them to take could ruin them and the rest of their industry that undertakes similar practices. To which I say motherfucker did you never hear about Napster
- Out of the R114 million in Google's new fund to help small, local and independent news publishers, Tshikululu Social Investments will get a R16 million management fee. That's 14%. A local publisher has described sum as “obscene”.
- In its entirety, Jones’s claim is false. The clip is from a moment four years ago, when the country faced the unprecedented crisis of the arrest of a former president. And it could be said that the July 2021 riots were ultimately caused by the “White Oppression” of apartheid, not by its removal.
- The destruction is beyond imagining, but there it is. "From the skies, it is striking just how small Gaza is – a sliver of land that has become the stage for one of the world’s bloodiest conflicts ... more than 60,000 people have been killed ... Thousands more ... remain buried under the rubble."
- The 1996 census recorded a population of 40.6 million. Black people made up 76.7% of the total, coloured people 8.9%, Indian/Asian people 2.6% and white people 10.9%. In about 2013 the coloured population overtook the white population as South Africa’s second-largest group.
- Moeketsi was no unschooled, mad, untameable “natural” genius sprung from squalor. He came from a home filled with music books. He studied and practiced devotedly to master his craft. His irresponsible youth had been no different from many of his peers’.
- Do you really know your rights? Our no-nonsense guide will help you understand your rights, and the rights of everyone else. You can also read the full text of the Bill of Rights in 11 of South Africa’s official languages.
- The idea of wellbeing often carries a Eurocentric emphasis on the individual – personal satisfaction, autonomy, achievement. Flourishing accounts for how whole a person is in relation to their environment, such as their values within their community.
- Their important contributions have been relegated to the footnotes of the pages that document their findings. “These guys might not have degrees, but they actually know everything. In fact, a number of them have actually taught the professors and researchers who come to the site."
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- CG Finch-Davies, a British colonial soldier stationed in South Africa - and what was then South West Africa (today's Namibia) - before, during and after the first world war. He is most famous for his bird paintings. Unhappily, most of the birds he painted, he first shot. Some of his paintings:
- It may be life, Jim. But not as we know it.
- Did I say dumb as rocks? Yep, dumb as rocks.
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- Eswatini, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and the Central African Republic.
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