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Lesley Cowling retweeted
In the @LSEReviewBooks! writing about my @Journ_SA experience @WitsUniversity which = #womeninsolitary. Had it not been for embarking on these studies (when it felt the industry was at its lowest) this ultimate long-form would not be. Esp thanks to @vanillacaramel @Justworldbooks
'I wanted to look at how the narratives of female activists were recorded in South African and global history' - author Shanthini Naidoo discusses writing her new book Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid ow.ly/bAIE50BJxhd
Lesley Cowling retweeted
Drum becomes an online-only magazine this month, almost 70 years after it was first launched as an African print publication bit.ly/2CcgYs7 | From @TC_Africa by Associate Professor, @vanillacaramel at Wits Journalism (@Journ_SA)
Lesley Cowling retweeted
@JoburgParksZoo Hi. Why is the skate park in Westdene always locked and how can residents gain access to it?
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#Archive30 – Day 26: Recommended Read - The World's Great Question: Olive Schreiner's key letters on South African people, politics and racial order. Many originals in @UCTLibrary_SC Olive Schreiner Collection. Letters online: oliveschreiner.org/ #KeepersOfOurMemory
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#Archive30 - Day 28: Something Unusual. The cloth in which Olive Schreiner wrapped the manuscript of The Story of an African Farm (1883) when sending it from South Africa to John and Mary Brown to find a publisher in England. An early feminist novel, it was an enduring success.
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'He is a gangster like us': New book reveals Zuma's 'darkest secret' ow.ly/DKPT30gcrSO
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@StandardBankZA FYI 2nd attempt to call SBSA insurance, cut off at 50 minutes.
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Our Deputy HoS @AntheaGarman and former DHoS @hwasser book is now on sale at Van Schaiks,find their table at #HA2017
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Feeling so much pride to have won the 400m. Thank you South Africa. Thank you London. #London2017
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He's battled addiction to the most destructive drugs, shown his quality, steel, resolve and now Luvo Manyonga is our WORLD CHAMPION!!
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Our media often come under fire - sometimes deservedly but they are also capable of fantastic reporting like this! @WitsJusticeProj
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Finance Minister Brian Molefe.
Wow. What have we been saved from?
#StateCaptureReport #BrianMolefe
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#savesa Jonny Clegg sing inside the St Albans church and the crowd outside enjoying the – at Pretoria, South Africa
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Look forward to reading @mailandguardian edited by @khadijapatel who has made @thedailyvox one of South Africa's most interesting websites. xitter.gq/khadijapatel/status/78…
I'm very happy - and humbled- to announce that I'm the new editor of the M&G. xitter.gq/mailandguardian/status…