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A Note on the Recent Tragedies in Kempton Park and Ekurhuleni First and foremost, our hearts go out to the families, friends, and communities affected by the recent deaths of several women in and around Kempton Park and the wider Ekurhuleni area. This is a profoundly difficult and frightening time,…
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History has an uninvited guest: the liar. Not the one who forgets, but the one who deliberately rewrites the past in order to serve a modern agenda. In South Korea, two of the nation’s most painful memories have recently been placed under such an assault. The first is Gwangju in May 1980, when citizens rose up for democracy and were gunned down by their own soldiers; the second is Itaewon in October 2022, when 159 young people died in a dark, suffocating alley. A single YouTuber tried to poison both wells. According to the Chosun Ilbo, police have referred this…
In the bustling, gossip-rich atmosphere of Ghanaian public life, few issues have captured the national imagination quite like the strange saga surrounding the “Ghana Jollof” TikTok account. What began as a viral social media phenomenon—one of those peculiar digital creatures that feed on outrage, humor, and the blurry line between satire and slander—has since spiraled into a sobering legal drama involving arrests, constitutional debate, and a deep reckoning with the meaning of free speech. At the heart of this storm is Salomey Awity Baffoe, a senior nursing officer whose quiet professional life was upended when she was arrested and remanded…
