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I morges tok jeg en tur over på tankesmien Minerva sine nettsider og nok en gang undres jeg over de konservatives evne til å sørge over sammenbruddet i en verdensorden som aktivt har støttet og muliggjort Israels folkemord mot det palestinske folk i Gaza.

30 years of democracy and this is what freedom means for many South Africans: populist nationalism and anti-immigration. Fact check: the number of foreign academics in most SA unis is very low (stats quoted in my forthcoming book).

Current social media discourse about South African universities …

Doing this at the University of Agder today. The book is just a couple of months away now; you can check it out here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/

Go fuck yourself.

Fucking dumbass doesn’t know how hiring processes at South African universities work. The fucking dumbass has clearly also not heard of the South African Qualifications Authority.

This is utter gobshite wank. The fact of the matter is as follows: 1) Only 16.6% of academic staff at UP are foreigners. 2) Approximately 15% of academic staff at South African universities are foreigners. And more importantly, NONE of us are illegally employed.

This fucking poes, who slanders academics at South African universities on a daily basis, is too ignorant to know that “Head of Academia” is in fact not a job title that exists in said universities.

One shudders to think what the reaction of western governments would be if Iran or China binned a ship carrying humanitarian aid in international waters. (No, I haven’t gone Tankie; I’m just conducting an illuminating thought experiment.)

I had great fun talking about how to use fieldwork data in postgraduate dissertations at Wits HGC this afternoon.

These toxic lists of foreign academics who are supposedly "illegally" employed at University of Pretoria are now circulating on neighbourhood WhatsApp groups in Pretoria. Now would be a good time for the university to reach out to its international academics and assure us they have our backs.

And now, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, divests completely from Israel's Paz Retail and Energy. reuters.com/sustainability…

What it looks like when white South African refugees flee the country ...

Fantastic evisceration here, of Ashley Saul’s ignorant weaponization of the transformation imperative to advance xenophobic politics. Equally disappointing that South African colleagues got on the bandwagon, tbh. news24.com/opinions/colum…

This beast now has a publication date - 24 June, from the good people over at Manchester University Press! Read more about it here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/

I was pleased to have a chance to clap back at the xenophobic drivel targeting foreign staff at South African universities in last week's M&G. Fingers crossed that SA colleagues will note the stats in the piece and not buy into the garbage. mg.co.za/education/2025…

Poes.

It’s Arrighi’s systemic cycles of accumulation, innit tho?