Mfuneko Toyana

South African Ministry of Finance

[Mfuneko Toyana @MfunekoToy]

"Radical hope and radical transformation require the rekindling of the link we used to establish between politics and ethics" -Mbembe (2008)

[Mfuneko Toyana @MfunekoToy]

“I think one of the many side-effects of consumer culture is that people have forgotten how to use places that are free.” https://t.co/ck9iqmk3Re

[صالح جارسيا @18s7_]

🚨🚨🚨🗣️جواو نيفيز:

-"نعلم ما فعله كريستيانو لنا ولمنتخبنا ولعالم كرة القدم، لكن في هذه اللحظة، هو ونحن نعلم أنه ليس مختلفًا، إنه مجرد لاعب آخر هنا للمساعدة ، لا يختلف عن الآخرين ، إنه هنا ليساهم مثلنا جميعًا".

[Topco Media @Topco_Media]

Hon. Enoch Godongwana brings extensive experience in development finance, having previously chaired the Development Bank of Southern Africa and championed infrastructure-driven economic growth.

#NedbankTopEmpowerment #TopcoMedia @Topco_Media

[Thabo Mbeki Foundation @TMFoundation_]

In this video, President Thabo Mbeki shares a powerful story about Soga’s Pan-African vision. He recounts how Soga responded to a 19th-century missionary who claimed Africans were a "perishing" people for refusing to convert. Soga rejected this narrow view, looking instead at the strength of Africans across the globe—from the Americas and the Caribbean to the continent itself. He argued that Africans, as a global diaspora, were not perishing but were part of a unified, resilient whole.

#TiyoSoga #TheMbekiFoundation #ClassicsOnTurf #AfricanRenaissance #20June

@dmandisi @kumasote

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Long New Yorker profile of the life and work of the late Jürgen Habermas: https://t.co/cBZhq9poIG

[Petina Gappah @VascoDaGappah]

Today is my birthday!

I'm moving into my dream house, a classic gem built in 1935.

And I'm starting a new novel!

I've been given kind permission by Doris Lessing's Estate to rewrite my fav Zim novel THE GRASS IS SINGING .. from the perspective of Moses!

I'm in 7th HEAVEN!

[Southern African Historical Society @SAHistSoc]

The South African Historical Journal is pleased to make Jon Hyslop's 2011 article, The Invention of the Concentration Camp: Cuba, Southern Africa and the Philippines, 1896–1907, free access until the end of the month. The paper, available on the link below, has recently been read and cited by a remarkable number of scholars and writers, following growing interest in concentration camps and immigration detention.

https://t.co/ZG6SUXpn5O

It was recently cited in the The Conversation article titled 'When immigration detention becomes a system of concentration: Lessons from research on 150 historical cases', available on the link below.

https://t.co/YkWhA14AsF

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

The leaders of South Africa’s anti-migrant movement claim that Black African migrants are primarily responsible for unemployment, crime, and failing public services. None of these claims is supported by evidence.

https://t.co/vFVovmXTwg

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

"The terms of entry were clear, even if unstated. African literature would be read insofar as it could be made legible within the frameworks that governed world literary circulation."

Modern African Literature Confronts the Constraints of the Global Politics of Reading | Tolu Daniel
https://t.co/4iZl7TU5i1

[Mdadisi @Udadisi]

“Reflexivity…is a methodological commitment to examining how knowledge is produced and to making visible the assumptions, relationships, and contexts that shape research” — American Anthropological Association (AAA)
https://t.co/04jPrzSZ4Q

[Justin Pearce @drjustinpearce]

JSAS Special Issue 'Liberation Armies' Imagined Futures in Southern Africa' is now out. We focus on military institutions formed by liberation struggles & remade in independent states as sites of political, social & cultural production. https://t.co/vJRgMIrUwj

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

I read Zinsser (together with every other major style manual) while writing The Sense of Style, and his book is indeed very good. (It's the only one that advises on how to get one sentence to flow into the next, which differentiates smooth and coherent from choppy prose.) But like every manual that is innocent of linguistics, it botches the obligatory advice to avoid the passive, and like Orwell and Strunk and White, it can't help but use the passive in its own advice to avoid the passive ("what is being perpetrated").

[Innov8 Bookshop @Innov8Bookshop]

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[Barton Fink @HillsJah]

SisGwen on the the Ramps.
Rampage on the page: Lesego Rampolokeng's When the Fires Go Down https://t.co/ZQ3r3mB64Y

[Kebotlhale Motseothata, MA. @KebotlhaleMotse]

Hi friends, my chapter on Bongi is for the forthcoming book "Miriam Makeba: The Revolutionary Voice". Here is some information on the book for your delight 🙂 👇🏿

[Wilfred Okiche @drwill20]

Words on The Trials of Winnie Mandela for @thecontinent_

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

The Weekly Read is "Enter the Mystery: Black Experimental Film and Visual Culture as Metaphysical and Spiritual Practice" by Michele Prettyman. The article is published in the open access journal liquid blackness. Read it for free: https://t.co/zpIgmHAcQu

[Multi-Award Winning Director @NqanaweLIVE]

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[Siphelele Nguse @siphelele_nguse]

Prof Ndlovu-Gatsheni on decoloniality. I enjoy his thinking.

It takes a great skill to translate sophisticated concepts to somewhat accessible language. A superb scholar!

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

“If you dive into history” nary a hair strand was dipped into history.

This is ahistorical BS laced in semi-middle register English.

Quick 🧵 Movements were intellectually informed. In this very country, at the height of censorship, poor people kept libraries in their houses.