@DingaS

A unionist by trade.

[@DingaS @DSikwebu]

DINGA SIKWEBU AND WOODRAJH AROUN | Protecting SA’s nascent renewable industry - will it be done correctly this time? https://t.co/hvOEN6iwQD

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Firstly touted in the 1998 White Paper on Energy Policy, significant steps taken to 'unbundle' transmission out of vertically-integrated ESKOM, as energy regulator grants licences to new National Transmission Company....
https://t.co/9WIKlc6uFs

[Ashish Kothari @chikikothari]

Gifting a copy of 'Pluriverse - A Post-development Dictionary' to Dinga Sikwebu, extraordinary trade unionist, rights and environmental activist in South Africa (see interview with him at https://t.co/TXo1XTpUR4) Pic @ Michelle Williams, Johannesburg, 6.3.2023
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On Twitter Space: How 'state capture' robbed many Denel workers of their livelihoods.... https://t.co/d4wD0XqHM3

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@kunenephindz How does one understand Zigogo 'Mgiliji' Nhleko's summoning of amabutho to eNkandla a week ago? When I listen to one of the 'Free Jacob Zuma' ringleaders Ngizwe Mchunu, the sentiments that he is tapping onto and mobilising are ethnic.

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An op-ed co-authored with Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo on govt's new Green Paper on electric vehicles.
https://t.co/RfZtWB2LfW

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Massacre in Ntabelanga on 24 May 1921. Our bloody history...

[Phindile Kunene🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kunenephindz]

Surely it's possible to stand with women who face abuse - (physical and financial) from their partners while still lamenting the fact that our public discourse is terribly middle class and it is the rich & their offspring who dominate our agenda & focus?

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Spent days with Ellies workers, whose company has just been liquidated. For the 1st time, the workers heard that they were beneficiaries of some BEE trust that
owned 26% of the company. Unfortunately, the stake is unsecured. Banks to be paid first from sale of assets.

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I am a discussant in a webinar on lessons to be learnt from early movements that opted to organise across colonial borders. Henry Dee will present on how the Industrial Commercial Workers Union (ICU) supported 'free movement' of black workers in Southern Africa.

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How today's City Press cartoonists see this week's elections in Uganda.

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By murdering the first Prime Minister of independent Congo 60-years ago, they hoped to extinguish the fire for freedom.

[ROAPE journal @ROAPEjournal]

On 17 January 1961, Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first leader, was murdered. Congolese scholar and activist, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, writes about Lumumba's leadership of the nationalist movement and argues liberation has yet to take place in Africa. https://t.co/4lHoxxTBuJ

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Watch Sat, Jan 16: Charles Lloyd: Kindred Spirits from @CAP_UCLA https://t.co/McKR0mPBYg

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On a Labor Network for Sustainability panel. Talking about how in the context of global warming and climate change, some unions in the global South think about the way to transition from fossil fuels to renewables.

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Talking on the making of 'unjust transitions' in the global South. -09 Dec 2020

[Just Transition Research Collaborative @JTRC2018]

We'll finish up our 2020 #webinar series with an exciting conversation on #JustTransition, power and politics feat. @anabella_tu, @DSikwebu, @hadrianmk, @jmijincha, moderated by Dimitris Stevis of @CSUPoliSci!
🗓️9 Dec. at 17:00 CET
Sign up here: https://t.co/nuokTniW23

[@DingaS @DSikwebu]

To mark 100 years of Sol Platjee's novel 'Mhudi', Jacana Media launches a new book on 23 Nov 2020. https://t.co/gShAkddWlB

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@DomBro90 Domza! The future is youth.The future is now!

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@KayaFMTalk @jcwLIFE 1. Dog Eat Dog - Niq Mhlongo
2. Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
3. The character in Blessed Girl is Bontle Tau

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@jcwLIFE
1. Do Eat Dog - Niq Mhlongo
2. Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
3. The character in Blessed Girl is Bontle Tau.

[@DingaS @DSikwebu]

'Suluman Saud' - Bellowing for McCoy Tyner (11 Dec 1938 - 06 March 2020) in Johannesburg last night. Bheki Mseleku wrote the tune for the departed pianist.