Asanda

Proudly SAn🇿🇦||Taurus ♉|| Patriot 🇿🇦|| Law student ⚖️📚

[Asanda @AsandaJoseph6]

@Anele We love and support you sis Anele❤️you're doing a great job sisi

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Birthplace of World's First Trillionaire 🇿🇦

[The Border Management Authority SA @TheBMA_SA]

[NEWS UPDATES!!!] The Department of Home Affairs confirms that it has processed 586 Nigerian nationals for repatriation after they were found to be residing in the Republic of South Africa illegally....

[Lasizwe @lasizwe]

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[Dr Koena Moabelo🇿🇦 @RealKoenaza]

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[Bhut' uNduuh @Nduuh_Masondo]

Kunini sithi angeke.

[Nicholas Nyati🇿🇦 @NicholasNyati]

The DA will surprise many people on the 4th of November.

[Yemsss🌞🧡🌞 @Yeahmicee]

He ateeeeeeee 🔥🔥🥰

[Asanda @AsandaJoseph6]

@CilliersB When are you going to hire me bro?

[Asanda @AsandaJoseph6]

@penuelist_ Love the work you do god Pen!

[Geordin Hill-Lewis @geordinhl]

Today I visited His Majesty King Misuzulu kaZwelithini at Emashobeni Royal Palace, together with our DA leaders, to affirm the DA’s respect for the institution of traditional leadership and its important role in the lives of millions of South Africans. 🇿🇦

My message was that as the DA grows across the country, we will always continue this relationship of respect. Also, that the best way to honour the Zulu nation is to build a country that truly works - where young people can find work, families can live in safety, and children can receive a quality education. That is what the DA will do.

[Hermaine M @HermaineM]

The mandate is clear , We don’t vote for EFF or ANC ✊🏿🇿🇦

[Asanda @AsandaJoseph6]

@SothoDudu @OriginalKhoiSan @Malome_ZA @SechabaLerumo Wow, interesting take. What's the best thesis you've ever read? As an undergraduate student, I wish to read it, too.

[Khoisan_Dudu🇿🇦🍉🇨🇩✊🏽 @SothoDudu]

Yhoo. I am busy reading Ndlozi's PhD and I must admit I am struggling to understand how this opening chapter survived rigorous academic scrutiny. The chapter is structured almost entirely around Ndlozi's personal encounter with his estranged father. For lengthy stretches it reads less like a doctoral thesis and more like a memoir of childhood abandonment.

Yes, auto ethnography is a legitimate research methodology. The issue is not the use of personal experience. The issue is what is done with it. Personal narrative must illuminate the research problem not substitute for its analysis. A researcher cannot simply recount a deeply personal experience and then declare it theoretically significant. The analytical bridge must be built not assumed.

What I find troubling is that the connection between Ndlozi's one experience of father absence and the broader claim of colonial "permanent juniority" is repeatedly asserted but insufficiently demonstrated. The reader is expected to accept an enormous conceptual leap that should have been painstakingly justified through evidence, argumentation and engagement with competing explanations.

I am equally concerned about the methodology. Humanities scholars may disagree with me and I am open to correction but from the perspective of someone trained in scientific research, this approach would struggle to pass muster even in many undergraduate research projects. Reflexivity requires a researcher to acknowledge their positionality and potential biases. It does not require the researcher to become the dominant subject of the thesis itself.

A strict examiner might reasonably ask “Is this a PhD about black youth politics in the Vaal or is it a PhD about Mbuyiseni Ndlozi's relationship with his father?” When that question can be asked with a straight face after reading the opening chapter, there is a serious issue of focus.

What makes the situation even more disappointing is that Ndlozi appears not to have produced peer reviewed journal articles arising from this work. That matters. The value of a PhD is not merely that it is completed and archived. Its value lies in its contribution to the broader body of knowledge through scholarly circulation, criticism, replication, engagement and debate.

A thesis that remains largely confined to an institutional repository is a contribution that never fully enters the marketplace of ideas. Concepts remain underdeveloped, arguments remain insufficiently challenged and theoretical claims remain untested by the discipline of peer review. For a project making such ambitious claims, that is a significant missed opportunity.

The tragedy is not that the work exists. The tragedy is that it seems never to have been pushed through the crucible of open scholarly contestation where strong ideas are refined, weak ideas are exposed and genuine contributions are forged. If there was a significant theoretical contribution here, academia may never fully benefit from it. That is a loss not only for the field, but for Ndlozi's own scholarly legacy.

[Asanda @AsandaJoseph6]

@RasLera Ulwa no sathane na today? 😂😂

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

They robbed this lady yesterday at Nellmephius, Pretoria, she is so calm and has survival instincts 😢😢

[MaLih The Beggar🥺 @Lindy_nzabe]

By the way, Pedros is not better than Nando’s. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk🤝🏾

[Asanda @AsandaJoseph6]

@ntsako_bp All the best

[k @4dwrlddd]

twitter is kinda the perfect social media cause i can scroll while listening to music