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Insight. Intellectual Curiosity. Truth to Power.

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@RpsAgainstTrump What happened to his America Party?

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@Telegraph Just a con artist doing con artist things. For a man who has bullied the IRS into never auditing his financial affairs, there is zero chance that he will hand over financial records from his Trust.

His only hope of winning this case is to take it to the captured SCOTUS!

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You formed an opinion after reading what is essentially a background chapter in a PhD thesis.

Worse, you tie yourself in contradictory knots - you acknowledge reflexivity & researcher positionality yet crucify Ndlozi for doing exactly that.

Read to understand not criticise.

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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.

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@LopesInsights @advocatemahere I support the Professors' viewpoint. I just don't like reading AI slop.

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@aime_mwizaa This. Just this:

https://t.co/nuE1Kp2fSQ

[LASHY BILLS @LASHYBILLS]

She giving the ladies a masterclass on how to keep their household together…Ladies do you agree with her?

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@RepWPH People often ask, how does someone like Donald Trump (and more like him across the world) win elections. You don't need to look far to understand why.

This rank madness by the left is frankly repugnant. A rational human being cannot, in good conscience, vote for Democrats!

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@daddyhope People often ask, how does someone like Donald Trump (and more like him across the world) win elections. You don't need to look far to understand why.

This rank madness by the left is frankly repugnant. A rational human being cannot, in good conscience, vote for Democrats!

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@LASHYBILLS 5 should be at the top, followed by one 😂

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@realninawysocka Is this what they mean by a 'blonde moment?'

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@S_Harudzibwi Precisely. Life has become so expensive that a household cant survive on one income.

People do want to have children - but the costs are so astronomical that they rather not.

And who is blamed? Immigrants. "These Immigrants are trying to replace us". Really!

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@zimlive They have no shame. What a disgrace. Complete joke.

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@RpsAgainstTrump @LauraLoomer looks like @RogerJStoneJr is much more influential than you. How does that make you feel?

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@JDVance Abomination - you didn't thank the President JD!

If ever there is anything called a 'lame duck Vice President', JD Vance is it.

Zero influence and nothing more than a side lined voice to be tolerated.

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@stephenpollard They'd rather have the NHS burdened with black men with prostate cancer than miss an opportunity to whip up race obsession among their base.

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@didem5654 Yes, it's uncivilised and rude.

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@PastorJohnHagee A whole industry (shrinks) has been created to deal with these "ailments", yet there is only one solution - Jesus Christ!

John 16:33: I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

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@ggdlams I'll keep you company in the meantime...

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@ggdlams I'll be patient, one day Gugu will say yes to that date...

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@Kinza1278 God, I see what you are doing for others🙏

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@AloeOnChain My love...10k na too much ooo