You can start tracking them over the years as they pass the greats! (N.B. the greats somehow now includes Wiaan Mulder...)

www.espncricinfo.com/records/most...

As a lifelong spurs fan, I can say that as he comes under more pressure, Ange starts to look increasingly like a damp bit of lettuce at the bottom of a bag of mixed greens

For some reason predatory journals (and similar things) have latched on to book reviews that I've written. So they invite me to submit something based on... other people's work.

The Canadian Academic Mafia

Have you run into @aleshaporisky.bsky.social yet?

Yeah these low numbers scream "attenuation bias from measurement error"

Second, we show how land reform does not represent an attack on Afrikaans identity. Afrikaans rural identity, at least occupationally, is shifting as the commercial farming world becomes more diverse. But it is very much shifting endogenously and only on the terms of pre-existing group members.

What does this mean for America's offer of asylum to Afrikaans farmers? First, we challenge the narrative that land reform harms Afrikaans farmers. The stories we outline show huge agency on the part of white farmers to selectively accept others and define the qualities that make a "good" farmer.

English and Afrikaans speaking farmers have distinct responses to new Black land reform farmers in South Africa based on past stereotypes and forms of discrimination as well as the rural political economy. These responses define contemporary rural relations and shape how different groups interact.

We started working on this before the international furore over South Africa's Expropriation Act, but this piece has many implications for our understanding of Afrikaner farmers and land. We trace complex negotiations within land reform in South Africa that vary within the white farming community.

Thanks Erin! Maybe we'll overlap on family/research trips in SA!

Thanks Aditi!!

Thanks Haakon!

Thanks Aditi!

One of my main conclusions is that-perhaps unsurprisingly-the desire for financial profitability often gets in the way of full justice. But my work reveals a dynamic that is more complex than the idea that white farmers stand in opposition to or are oppressed by land reform.

And the stories from and actions of white farmers often flew in the face of the current adversarial rhetoric on farming/land in South Africa. Many were people who wanted to facilitate land reform and help Black farmers out of a desire for justice for past wrongs and because it made financial sense.

Most importantly, it involved speaking and engaging with a set of extraordinary people. There were Black farmers who were overcoming tremendous obstacles to create thriving farms and fulfil generational dreams to own and work the land that the apartheid state had taken from their people.