
Niren Tolsi
@nirentolsi
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16-07-2009 12:56:25
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Always a pleasure writing for the Mail & Guardian Sipho Kings #BusiMhlongo gone ten years this week. My piece.

I haven't written in a while. Its been a decade since #BusiMhlongo died. A reason. Please do check out this week's Mail & Guardian for my piece.

Something I wrote about someone I loved. #BusiMhlongo M&G Friday Mail & Guardian

The racist insults directed at Lungisani Ngidi for daring to acknowledge that black lives matter and calling on the CSA to do so, reveal the racism that still lurks in cricket 26 years into democracy, reports Niren Tolsi. #BlackLivesMatter ow.ly/Qqbz50AAWoK

(2/2)...demands attention. While Faf Du Plessis eloquently owned up to his white blindness and promised to "listen", Graeme Smith remains unable to see beyond his privilege and whiteness. Some reasons why Proteas Men The Cricket Monthly : newframe.com/ngidi-exposes-…

The institutional whiteness and racism in Proteas Men has persisted from before the rebel tours into the present. A few reasons why director of cricket Graeme Smith and others don't get #BlackLivesMatter Andrew Fidel Fernando Karthik Krishnaswamy Firdose Moonda newframe.com/ngidi-exposes-…

The 80s Windies Cricket team was a powerful rallying point for Black South Africans during apartheid at a time of rebel tours and deadly state violence. On #MandelaDay2020 & in view of #BlackLivesMatter the line joining Michael Holding & Lungisani Ngidi newframe.com/ngidi-exposes-…

My annual NationalArtsFestival round-up from, um, the bedroom, not Makhanda, this year, it seems. #BlackLivesMatter #BBNajia

My annual NationalArtsFestival round-up, minus the drunkeness, snatched spliffs between shows and late-night Long Table ramblings. xoxo

Interesting (or perhaps expected?) that missing from new Proteas Men CEO Kugandrie Govender's top 3 priorities in the Sunday Times is the release of the report investigating former CEO Moroe. #CutFromTheSameCloth?

A story about apparent racism and sexism in the recruitment and car dealership sectors: mg.co.za/business/2020-… Mail & Guardian Land Rover Discovery BMW Julius Sello Malema Economic Freedom Fighters ANCKZN ANC - African National Congress




Judge President #Hlophe has one of the most interesting lawyers around. Courtnay Griffiths QC represented Liberia's Charles Taylor among others. My 2013 profile of him for the Mail & Guardian ChrisDillonForJudge mg.co.za/article/2013-0…

Having covered #JacobZuma for almost 20 years, his unlawful refusal to appear before the #ZondoCommission is unsurprising. On why Nxmalala is nothing but a two-bit gangster despot: newframe.com/a-despots-time… ANC - African National Congress John Steenhuisen MP Julius Sello Malema

Thanks @MG_FRiday for letting me trudge through the pages of the paper, pondering.... @gbgfilmfestival Ulf Kristersson Swedish Institute @swedense #dheel #Goteborg

Travelling without moving at @gbgfilmfestival An essay on a plague, patriarchy, film and... herring @swedense The Local Sweden SwedenInSA

Sat in a gynaecologist's examination chair, naked from the waist down, watching Anna Odell's The Examination is how most men should spend their Saturday mornings ESGO Khloe Kapri Ulf Kristersson Amanda Palmer 🎹 Cervical Cancer Action for Elimination Network Snoop Dogg Feminist Press Sasha Grey