A. S. Oscar Masinyana @oscarsibabalwe Twitter profile

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 years

That exact building in this picture is the two-storey African Studies Library, which contains some precious archives of early publishing in African languages. This is devastating.

IOL News

@IOL

4 years

The #capetownfire has now reached UCT's library. UCT said earlier that all students have been evacuated from campus by emergency services support staff. Read more here: Picture: Armand Hough @AfriNewsAgency

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1 year

When I taught isiXhosa classes at UCT 99% of 1st year classes were made up of white foreign students here for a semester or 2, usually learning so they can volunteer on projects in the surrounding townships. I don’t recall a single South African (black/white) in those classes.

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3 years

It’s so interesting how poor people/residential buildings have had their power cut for non-payment for years (the residential building I live in in the CBD as 1 definite example) & yet very wealthy corporates have been allowed to accumulate their debts to millions. Must be nice.

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@oscarsibabalwe

9 months

Swearing-in of South Africa’s Prof. Dire Tladi as a Judge of the International Court of Justice. 🙌🏾 At this point we are going to become very patriotic. A super annoying trait.

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

Some good news. SASL becomes the 12th official language from today. 🙌🏾

South African Government

@GovernmentZA

1 year

Today at 15h00 President Cyril Ramaphosa enacts sign language as 12th official language during a ceremony at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

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@oscarsibabalwe

8 months

When I tell you Afro-xenophobia is coming for all of us, I need you to take me serious. During a recent assault I was told I'm from Zim because my Zulu & Xhosa "don't sound right". I, who is born and bred in KZN/EC. I, who translates texts from and into both languages. Be afraid.

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

My niece went to the police to secure a protection order against her boyfriend who had attacked her and the family. They told her she was overreacting & must go sort out their misunderstanding. He shot & killed her few days later, the filled-in application papers on her dresser.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

8 months

We do not talk enough about Modiga's eye for styling or her self-image curation, on stage and promotion visuals. I mean... Look 👏🏽 at 👏🏽 this! 👏🏽 Stacking 3 izicholo, who would have thought! Très chic!

ZOË MODIGA

@Zoe_Modiga

8 months

ngelosi out now (still loading everywhere…) 👼🏾 💛 Thank you God for water that flows all around us and within us, the mountains alike with its the greenery, the imagination. Thank you for the darkness especially as it makes the light clearer.

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

African literary essays and criticism. 💜

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Living alone is nice and everything but… Dual income household >>>> Having a partner to talk through and manage household decisions and chores with >>>>> I won’t keep silent anymore. 👋🏽😂

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2 years

For years of ups and downs, 10 seconds of cheers at the public square. But we did it, Joe. 🙌🏾 Alhamdulillah. 🙏🏽

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Always try to pray for strength, the going-on, and then have faith in the twists & turns of your journey incl. the route your guides want to take you on. “Phantse ndahlala kwaphela Phantse ndaval'umnyango Phantse ndadyobh'amehlo Phantse ndadudel'uhambo Phantse ndalahl' umzamo…”

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@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

@Thabang_Tooi You see this suggestion! It's the one. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

@MvelaseP It’s a lot and I’m here for that level of Pugh diva-ness. 👏🏾 I could feel the thickness of yesterday’s afternoon air at the Venice Film Festival all the way in Johannesburg. 😂

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

I am so exhausted of the DA forcing us to defend the ANC against our will. 😭

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@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

Seems ‘CBD Twitter’ is not so much Twitter people who live in the CBD but Twitter people who hold certain kinds of beliefs. It’s a classist concept at core, associating the kinds of views people hold with where they would supposedly live, with that place deemed backwards. Yes/No?

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@oscarsibabalwe

9 months

Minister Naledi Pandor’s commentary on the judgement for the international media is so perfect. 🤌🏾 She’s on top of her game with such ease.

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@oscarsibabalwe

7 months

"What kind of system of values can allow for five months the crushing of children under rubble, the detonation of fragile bodies, the wasting away of babies, while still claiming to be humanitarian, tolerant, peace-seeking? And not just allow all this, but actively assist in it."

Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

7 months

From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters. My latest piece, on how the western media built the case for Israel to commit genocide:

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@oscarsibabalwe

9 months

Back at one of my favourite places in the world, the Buddhist Retreat Centre in Ixopo, for another 10 days of silent meditation retreat. See you on the other side, lovers. 💜 Be safe, Namaste.

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 years

This time last year I was at a psych hospital struggling with mental illness, unaware the struggle would protract for the entire year compounded by 2020’s difficulties. The same period I spent in hospital, this year I’m spending in spiritual retreat. This is the poetry of life 🙏🏽

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1 year

Jubilation.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

8 months

It's moved past being a vocabulary test ("What is the name of an elbow in isiZulu," for e.g.) to being an accent/tone/phonetic test. Which it would, naturally, because the fundamental basis of the obsession is idiotic. We really cannot sit by and accept the Afro-xenophobia in SA.

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@oscarsibabalwe

4 months

What a time we are having in Makanda @NAArts festival! Oh what a time! @Zoe_Modiga will always be famous!

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@oscarsibabalwe

8 months

Regional dialects/variation are a thing in ALL languages. But the obsession with standard language/linguistic purity (or thinking that your own variety of the language is THE correct/standard form), that is just... idiotic, I'm really sorry. Language simply doesn't work that way.

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

It’s so endlessly fascinating how so many lovely, beautiful, talented (and even well-to-do, educated and/or independent people) are single, know of each other and that they are single, but for reasons unclear to me are not even trying to get into relationships with each other. 😂

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

“It is not marches or protests that are intrinsically violent. What is innately violent is a government that does not serve its people and an economy that does not adequately provide for or feed its workers.”

Kim Heller

@kimheller3

2 years

I support #ThePeoplesMarch and write that the condemnation and anger against Julius Malema and the EFF is misdirected. It is Cyril Ramaphosa & the ANC that are responsible for loadshedding and economic distress #NationalShutdown

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@oscarsibabalwe

8 months

Side note: They then insisted I cite my clan names as proof that I am indeed not a Zimbabwean who merely has acquired an expansive Nguni vocabulary. I did. They said I had clearly practiced for this moment, because ain't no way I had and knew those clan names. 😂 Royal mess.

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@oscarsibabalwe

6 months

Thandiswa Mazwai is a superstar guys. Like a proper superstar. Yho. 😭😭

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

Being forced to end things with someone you love due to unfavourable circumstances is so devastating. You think of all the ways you can change the conditions to make things work/manageable, but find nothing on offer but the inevitable pain and suffering. Adulting is a lot. Yho.

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

The city has no capacity for service delivery. No capacity to re-house people from unsafe structures to suitable alternate ones. No fire fighting capacity. Or capacity for accountability. So let’s blame NGOs, human rights discourse and, of course, African foreign nationals. Sick.

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@oscarsibabalwe

6 months

@NeliMsomi Rich aunt Viv! 😂😂😂

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Banks have been doing this for years and denying it, with @FNBSA being singled out as particularly notorious. See for example: Glad that matters are finally being taken to the courts. But given the benefits of malpractice they’re unlikely to be deferred.

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The muliple stories and court cases around local banks charging black clients higher interests rates aren't getting the amount of coverage they deserve.

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

The exception was with the isiXhosa classes taught to medical students, majority of whom were obviously South African. But I wasn’t involved in that program, and that was also not part of the isiXhosa major program but was a stream within the medical school curriculum.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Once heard of a story about a postgraduate class at a very good university in this country where the lecturer walked in to find the PAs of the registered senior students who were meant to be attending. To clarify: the students sent their PAs to attend class for them! 😂 So yah.

son of baldwin 🌹

@dansmywholename

2 years

One day soon the academic fraud story is going to break. There will be tears.

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

But when you went to the other schools of foreign languages (French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, etc.) the picture of the student body changed dramatically. Ay bandla.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

6 months

When there are no longer mud classrooms or pit latrines, when kids in village schools can get to class by safe transport & not have to walk & cross rivers on foot, when schools are equipped with or close to public, well stocked, functional, libraries THEN we'll congratulate you.

Fundile Gade

@MECGade

6 months

One thing for sure about equal education is that they are not an NGO with an agenda to help build South Africa but they are designed to ignite anger, hate,sensationalism and etc. Not a single day l have ever seen them commending anything we do in this province.

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@oscarsibabalwe

6 months

@tanyajunghans People just be talking. Dating a narcissist is so horrible.

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4 months

#NewProfilePic

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Always try to pray for strength, the going-on, and then have faith in the twists & turns of your journey incl. the route your guides want to take you on. “Phantse ndahlala kwaphela Phantse ndaval'umnyango Phantse ndadyobh'amehlo Phantse ndadudel'uhambo Phantse ndalahl' umzamo…”

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

Simphiwe Dana decided uba during the Covid pandemic yena she’ll transform into a goddess. 👏🏾 Wow she looks amazing in that show! I would rewatch #MOYA just to see ‘Ndiredi’, ‘Mayine’, ‘Moya’ & song with Keke again; the whole show was amazing BUT those 4 song wow! WOW! I said WOW!

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

On Babita Deokaran: “Her warnings about Tembisa Hospital were ignored, her damning report was buried and nearly R1 billion meant for the sick and dying was stolen. The police investigation into her killing has gone cold.” The crime scene that is this country.

News24 🇿🇦

@News24

2 years

Tickets for the exclusive screening of News24's feature-length documentary titled Silenced: Why Babita Deokaran was murdered, which will premiere next week, were snapped up within an hour.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

6 months

Self Portrait or the Boy and His Eid Flowers at Breakfast (2024). Oil on stretched canvas. Unframed. Price available on request.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

‘Ted Hughes gaslit Plath for the seven years that they were married, and when she died? The bulk of the American and British literary establishment picked up where he left off. But the lights look dim, I know it, generations of Plath fans have said for half a century.’

Shailja #FreePalestine Patel

@shailjapatel

2 years

Sylvia Plath died by suicide 60 years ago today. This is your scheduled reminder that her husband Ted Hughes brutally battered her, tried to strangle her on their honeymoon, abused her emotionally, cheated on her, and burned her journals.

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Fellow Africans told us early and over and over again, from intellectuals to the ‘common person’, that what was unfolding in SA was following similar stages of development as had happened in their countries. And the consensus was, that won’t happen to us. Because we different.

Lebogang Mashile

@lebomashile

2 years

If and when we get out of this hellscape, we need to introspect as a nation. We bought the same revolutionary rhetoric that the rest of the continent bought into from their ruling parties, and now we find ourselves reeling as we get closer and closer to being a failed state.

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@oscarsibabalwe

8 months

We laugh, because we cannot always cry.

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@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

@blgtylr Sontag was like... 😂😂

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@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

Serving legs today.

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

#NewProfilePic

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@oscarsibabalwe

4 years

Most of those archives were moved to another building, but that building is close enough to the building now on fire so it too may also burn with all those other archival collections. 💔

Madeleine Fullard

@mfullard2

4 years

I'm thinking with absolute anguish of UCT Library Special Collections, including Ray Alexander Simons's papers, the Black Sash archives, some UDF collections ... my mind can't go further. I believe they are in this library building.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 years

Wonder how majority of Muslims are experiencing #Ramadan in lockdown, separated from communal fellowship linked with the month. For 7 of 10 yrs that I’ve been a Muslim, I’ve spent Ramadan (its iftars & Eids) mostly alone for many reasons, which include ‘racism’ in the community.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

Also how is it STILL Nov?! De Klerk died, we voted, Queen Elizabeth locked herself up, there was COP, there was the coalitions saga, Adele released, Lalela did not lalela, that groove with a swimming pool, there was Diwali, Thanksgiving plates, Scorpio szn & that’s just a gist 😭

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

The way extreme poverty and extreme affluence casually rubs shoulders in Cape Town is so… I don’t even have a word for it. It’s beyond uncomfortable/stressful/odd/unnerving/bizarre. And I can never get over it; every time it shocks me.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

I’ve started working as the Communications Manager @thecarpentries where we teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. You can read more on my background & the organisation here: So thrilled to work with this community. 👏🏾

Introducing The Carpentries Communications Manager, Oscar Masinyana

The Carpentries welcomes Oscar Masinyana, Communications Manager

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Joburgers, I’m gonna need you to wake up and head to @StandardBankArt to view Buhlebezwe Siwani’s IYEZA exhibition. 🙌🏾 A very rich, symbolically layered series of installations that speak to the artist’s memory of the their experiences with African spirituality. A MUST SEE! 👏🏾

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

@BNjalo_artist Never ever took the police seriously after that. Even after that homophobic attack incident we were tweeting about the other time, not once did I seriously think, “Maybe I should go to the police to report the incident.” I knew it will go nowhere.

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@oscarsibabalwe

4 months

@BNjalo_artist @Blaqluckey Hope you're well. 🥺

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@oscarsibabalwe

5 months

No crying, just loads of fun. Lira is back to performing, everyone! 🎉✨

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

5 months

If Lira sings this next weekend it'll be so poignant, I'll probably just start crying. 😢 It's so prescient, given what she's gone through and triumphed over. I'm a sucker for a good victor story. 🥺

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

The cat is out of the bag! “When 3 Sevens Clash,” a collection of non-fiction, comic art and photo essays about Zimbabwe edited by @percyzvomuya is out! With contributions by @Dangurangu @BrianChikwava @goofyAfro @LalaTawanda @KBMpofu @AfricaInDC @tedoex @Atzushka @phirimarko . 👏🏾

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

“Pop psychology” told us to be true to ourselves omitting to tell us how high a cost that can be. Being isolated/outcast for years, waiting for your “tribe.” Integrating the snide remarks on your “uniqueness,” having to cultivate strength to bear the weight “otherness” can bring.

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@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

It basically seems to say: people who live in the CBD are the type that thinks in a particular way, a way which is inferior/fundamentally problematic compared to the manner in which the respectable folk of Sandton think. How can this sound like an acceptable premise to any1? 😂

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

@NthabiWabi They see themselves as part of the ruling class. 😂😂

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@oscarsibabalwe

6 years

Congratulations @zakeera_d ! Her thesis on the role of African lgs in transforming the SA legal system is here: . Might interest u @dee_smythe @nombonisogasa @carlalever @kirstenyouens @SERI_RightsSA @LHR_SA @CALS_ZA @ClsUct @CentreEnvRights @naturaljustice .

Rhodes University

@Rhodes_Uni

6 years

Congratulations to Rhodes University PhD candidate Zakeera Docrat for receiving the ‘Most Outstanding MA Thesis in Southern Africa in the Area of African Languages’ award last week from the African Languages Association of Southern Africa.

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1 year

9 yrs later, yesterday was my last day at @TandF_Africa ’s publishing program. An incredible journey that time may honour with befitting words. We achieved a lot of good here; but “you will know them by their fruit.” Such a privilege to work with everyone I did doing this work. 🙏🏽

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 years

I’ve become what my parents used to be and what I thought I wouldn’t become: I’ve stayed in one job @TandF_Africa for 7 years! Even I don’t believe it. I’ve never done any one thing besides school for this long. Strangely, however, I’m quite proud of myself. Well done me. 👏🏽

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3 years

And ‘Ndiredi’ was just — 🙆🏽‍♀️🤯

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

I cannot believe what I’m reading, and how other parents are responding to it, justifying teaching their kids homophobia as being reasonable. 🤯 Don’t know why I’m shocked, sad and disappointed, but I am. Wishing you loving kindness @ixhantilomzi and ways to get through this. 💜

Xhanti

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2 years

My sister shielding her kids away from me because she does not want them to grow up gay has got to be the wildest of experiences. I want to show you guys screenshots.

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@oscarsibabalwe

4 years

This time last year I was at a psych hospital struggling with mental illness, unaware the struggle would protract for the entire year compounded by 2020’s difficulties. The same period I spent in hospital, this year I’m spending in spiritual retreat. This is the poetry of life 🙏🏽

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

One thing about older me: I don’t wait to find out. I remove my presence the moment I sense ukuthi ikhona into e-off. I no longer have time or patience or tolerance for weird, especially discourteous, behaviour. I’ve spent all my “let me try understand” energy for this lifetime.

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

@thandiswamazwai Not you offering to send a reading list. 😂

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

Gregory Maqoma, 50 years young. 💜Caught at the last min his “Exit/Exist” @MarketTheatre yesterday and was blown away by how much and how beautifully he’s developed it over the years. If you’re heading to the @artsfestival catch it from 27 – 28 June 2023. What a talent & show. 🙌🏾

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

#NewProfilePic

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

A portion of the Joburg explosion site, and I had to take a photo because whatever.

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@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

Congrats @VariousHats on your PhD graduation today from York! It’s been a long journey looking at travel writing/mobility of black intellectuals in SA incl. Noni Jabavu, Sol Plaatje @ZakesMda & others! Hey now, “Dr Remmington, I presume,” as the late Bheki Peterson once said.👏🏽🥰

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@oscarsibabalwe

4 months

The authority with which you speak is not warranted by the level of knowledge you clearly do not possess. You simply do not have the range or the sincere curiosity to engage with this topic, let alone to do so in good faith.

jatella

@jatella

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I’m happy y’all are showing y’all colors 😉 race is only “mess” for those embarrassed by theirs; it’s only “mess” when you can’t hide behind fake activism and shoddy multiracial solidarity politics; race is only “mess” when it pays to be racially ambiguous.

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@oscarsibabalwe

6 months

Roots.

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@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

At first I took it at face value: Twitter people who live in the CBD vs those in Sandton, and perhaps that’s where it started. But it’s actually more about values rather than location, but values being given a class & geographical character. It’s a bit eew… if that’s the case.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

Been seeing tweets that the BOYCOTT by SA of Miss Universe in Israel is hypocritical given we still import (TRADE) products from Israel. These are two rather different activities, the latter being mainly governed by SA’s obligations under international trade & public intrnl laws.

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@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

I’m glad to see so many people’s lively interest in issues related to the formal study, learning, development and promotion of African languages in SA, but I’ve muted this chat. Just started my workday, and generally not a big fan of mid-week viral discoursing tweets. Nibesafety.

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@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Few contemporary artists, in my mind, shook South Africa’s fine art scene to the extent (and for as long as) Nandipha Mntambo did from around her first solo exhibition in 2007 till around the launch of the Zeitz in 2017. Her cowhide sculptures were a cut above the rest. Sublime!

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

Try being radical with a bond and kids (a bond of their own), intertwined families (another bond by any other name), a job and bills. You literally must Sobukwe life or just get around it. And most people don’t have the courage let alone ability to Sobukwe their way through life.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

‘This cycle is continuing, as mountain villages in Lesotho continue to be displaced for reservoirs as part of the ongoing Lesotho Highlands Water Project, initiated during apartheid to supply water-scarce South Africa. “My grandmother’s village is on the verge of displacement.”’

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

I’m still so high on this. Yho @simphiwedana - you were incredible. So regal. And your backup singers! 🙌🏾 Hay no, we were FED emoyeni. Can’t wait for the live recording of #MOYA to drop!

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

Simphiwe Dana decided uba during the Covid pandemic yena she’ll transform into a goddess. 👏🏾 Wow she looks amazing in that show! I would rewatch #MOYA just to see ‘Ndiredi’, ‘Mayine’, ‘Moya’ & song with Keke again; the whole show was amazing BUT those 4 song wow! WOW! I said WOW!

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

But all of them stating the desire to be in a relationship. 😂 We are so complex as human beings, it’s quite intriguing to watch the little things unfold.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

You see 73 people dead and your first thought is: it’s their fault. And a government with all the resources and mechanisms and the state purse at its disposal is here crying foul and playing victim and you have scores of people cheering them on?! The f***! 🤯

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

This! 🔥

Erick

@esimanao

1 year

@Noma_Afrika_ @LebohangWrites Here is the link, great story

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

One last thing. I’m gonna need all the jazz lovers on my TL to listen to Lupi Ngcayisa at #GloriaBosman ’s memorial service tear into you and read you for filth for your supposed snobbery! 😂 But he was really such a great MC for this occasion, really did such a wonderful job. 👏🏾

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

The light that was #GloriaBosman has gone out of the jazz and music worlds. Condolences to the family and to those that knew and were close to her. Gratitude remains, always, for the music and for all those she’s left behind, inspired and guided by her example and experiences. 🙏🏽

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

I recall as a child being rudely and urgently woken in the middle of the night/early hours of morning by my mother, who pulled me to go hide emasimini with her because the men had arrived to raid our home. We hid there until I fell asleep and she must have carried me back to bed.

Sokhulu

@BonganiNtuli

1 year

At some point my mother attempted dressing me up as a girl so those goons wouldn’t kill me too, by sheer luck I was a little too young to be forced to join either IFP or ANC at the time. Many boys who did are long dead or recently came back from prison.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 years

I’ve become what my parents used to be and what I thought I wouldn’t become: I’ve stayed in one job @TandF_Africa for 7 years! Even I don’t believe it. I’ve never done any one thing besides school for this long. Strangely, however, I’m quite proud of myself. Well done me. 👏🏽

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 months

Got another photo with Biko, also here in Makanda during National Arts Fest. 🥰 This Biko is from @concourt_art @ConcourtTrust 's traveling exhibition "ALUTA CONTINUA: Reflecting on 30 years of democracy through Constitutional Court Art Collection" currently showing @artsfestival .

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 months

#NewProfilePic

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

It’s basically a mystical spiritual tradition, but most people have only encountered spirituality through the rituals of organised religions and therefore don’t know how to speak of/practice African spirituality without imposing the rubric/s of an organised religious tradition.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

A very brave book by a very brave woman during a time fraught with tension. I hope she’s well where she is; the imprecise impression I got was that her career (and character) really took a knock from writing this book and she had very few public defenders. 🥹

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Before there was Coconut Kelz, there was, well, this… (This one is for you @manofcolor_ & @janiecrawfordx .) 🥹

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Can’t recall who said that the history of writing is a history of writers having conversations, and last night reminded me of that. Famous academe chef @Sugarintheplum hosted @percyzvomuya & I to feast on mouthwatering Sri Lankan curry & engage in expansive, soul-reviving talk.😌

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 years

Pleased to report I have finally showered (8 or so days later) and I still look pretty. So. And more importantly, while others are out jogging, I am finally at my desk again, which seemed impossible for so long I thought it would never happen again. Pandemic + depression = Mess.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

4 months

11 days later, I am back home. Scenes from Makanda during the National Arts Festival (in no particular order). So lovely to meet you @AmoMaledu . 🥰

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

Blessed are the vaxxed. 🙏🏽

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

‘The story told by the data was clear. It was in the taxi industry that a large market for assassination was born. And as that market grew, so others began to hire its vendors, until contracted killings had become entrenched in several other parts of SA society.’

Natasha Marrian

@NatashaMarrian

2 years

JONNY STEINBERG: Liberated from the law, hitmen put SA leaders in their crosshairs Still an important read. But people don't read and politicians like it that way.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

1 year

Few things are more beautiful to watch than a steady but sure success… Sithi #IphuphiLikaBiko #Malifezeke bethuna. The collective @IphuphoLikaBiko deserves all the love & praise they get, whether @UntitledBaseme2 #UntitledBasement or 👇🏾 the old @OrbitJazz . Mo love & respect xx

A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

6 years

Iphupho L’ka Biko @OrbitJazz #Malifezeke #amaafricaamahle

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

3 years

@NgwenyaMpumz When is the next Games Night?

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

Heidi, Operation Dudula is a vigilante formation & you need to start reporting on it that way. If you don’t, I PROMISE you one day you will have to answer to some Commission or even a higher court for your style of reporting their spread and activities, which possibly abets them.

Heidi Giokos

@HeidiGiokos

2 years

Today Operation Dudula will be launching a branch in the North West. The operation has already started it’s operations in KZN as well. We’ve been told there has been a keen interest for this operation to have presence in NW. #eNCA

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

5 years

Celebrating the upcoming dual language (Kiswahili + English) issue of @EALCS_Journal , the success of #Afems2019 and just being safe in Jhb. 👋🏼👋🏼. Also reminiscing on Ethiopia and last month’s #EALCS19 #ealcs2019 @ealcs2019 . Tired as can be but what a year! #Grateful .

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

The level of deep, profound, unrelenting unhappiness that I and several people I know are experiencing (probably for months now) is so unsettling. I’m getting worried for all of us, and there are no solutions in sight. It’s like going into a dark night of the soul, it’s awful. 🥹

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

2 years

It is hard to overstate just how much South African literature changed over the last decade. Below, a sorto representative sample of fiction published in 2000 to 2010. Very different in tone to the 2011 to 2022 output, I’d say. But someone would need to do a proper study of this.

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A. S. Oscar Masinyana

@oscarsibabalwe

6 months

"Is'hluthu phambili Simnyama ngenkani Akho cebo limbi Amasela akaphumi ePalamente" "Siphethwe ngamasela thina Sibhuqabhuqana nama sela thina" What a banger! Can't wait for tomorrow's album launch @thandiswamazwai ! 😭🙌🏽

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