Carilee Osborne
@carileeo.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Sociology @ Brown University. | Welfare States, Development, Rassie Erasmus.
Brilliant from William Shoki on the current moment in South Africa jacobin.com/2025/02/musk...
Elon Musk Is a Mouthpiece for South Africa’s White Far Right
Elon Musk’s claim that South Africa’s land expropriation laws are part of a broader attack on the country’s white minority is divorced from reality. But it represents South African elites’ inability t...
jacobin.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Brilliant from William Shoki on the current moment in South Africa jacobin.com/2025/02/musk...
Reposted by Carilee Osborne
"We are witnessing the rise of nationalism, protectionism, the pursuit of narrow interests and the decline of common cause... We stand for our shared humanity, not for the survival of the fittest."
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address
February 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"We are witnessing the rise of nationalism, protectionism, the pursuit of narrow interests and the decline of common cause... We stand for our shared humanity, not for the survival of the fittest."
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address
Yesterday in South Africa, the North Gauteng High Court issued a judgement in a case bought by IEJ & #PayTheGrants against the Department of Social Development over the administration of a key cash transfer programme, the SRD, introduced first during the 2020 COVID pandemic
January 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Yesterday in South Africa, the North Gauteng High Court issued a judgement in a case bought by IEJ & #PayTheGrants against the Department of Social Development over the administration of a key cash transfer programme, the SRD, introduced first during the 2020 COVID pandemic
Some rare good news out of Johannesburg www.news24.com/news24/south...
Historical Johannesburg library prepares for February reopening | News24
The Johannesburg City Library is set to reopen next month, four years after it was closed due to leaks and fire risks.
www.news24.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Some rare good news out of Johannesburg www.news24.com/news24/south...
Excellent reporting from @groundupnews.bsky.social on the devastating situation in Stilfontein. Shows both the dire situation facing the hundreds of people trapped below the surface and the vast, complex criminal networks illegal mining feeds.
groundup.org.za/article/stil...
groundup.org.za/article/stil...
Stilfontein’s dangerous and desperate illegal mining industry
Zama zamas search for gold in a vast and unmapped underground network of tunnels
groundup.org.za
November 19, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Excellent reporting from @groundupnews.bsky.social on the devastating situation in Stilfontein. Shows both the dire situation facing the hundreds of people trapped below the surface and the vast, complex criminal networks illegal mining feeds.
groundup.org.za/article/stil...
groundup.org.za/article/stil...
Reposted by Carilee Osborne
This is a historic injustice that a nation which has relied almost exclusively on renewable energy for 70 years is being pulverished by climate change that people there contributed little to.
November 18, 2024 at 8:07 PM
This is a historic injustice that a nation which has relied almost exclusively on renewable energy for 70 years is being pulverished by climate change that people there contributed little to.