Mary Alexander 🇿🇦
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Mary Alexander 🇿🇦
@marycalexander.bsky.social
South African writer, editor, web publisher, factchecker, mosaicer (?) and slow-blinker at cats.
https://southafrica-info.com/
From the UNDP Human Development Report 2025
hdr.undp.org/system/files...
September 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
August 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Elon Musk's fascism is American fascism.
March 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
South Africa has been a progressive democracy for 30 years.
Get over your poor choices, Americans.
March 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
March 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
March 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
1 Purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinica), 1907
2 Cape vulture (Gyps coprotheres), 1911
3 Wahlberg's eagle (Aquila wahlbergi), 1911
4 White pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), 1919
March 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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:
March 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
March 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Is this my "race to ire"?
March 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
March 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
March 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
March 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
March 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Maybe the USA should take responsibility for the fact that it elected Donald Trump.
Musk's fascism is USA fascism.
March 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
March 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
March 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Elon Musk's fascism is USA fascism.
March 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
March 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Elon Musk's fascism is American fascism.
South Africa has been a progressive democracy for 30 years.
Your country elected Donald Trump. Trump appointed Musk.
Take responsibility for your country's choices.
March 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Elon Musk's fascism is USA fascism. Take responsibility for the fact that your country elected Donald Trump.
March 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
March 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Elon Musk's fascism is USA fascism.
Take responsibility for the fact that your country elected Donald Trump. And Donald Trump appointed Elon Musk.
March 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The USA elected Trump. Trump appointed Musk.
Musk would not be welcome in South Africa.
Stop transferring blame for your country's choices.
We have been a progressive democracy for 30 years with rights denied to Americans enshrined in our constitution.
March 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
March 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM