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[Times LIVE @TimesLIVE]

The ANC in Johannesburg has taken a decision to recall Dada Morero as the mayor of the City of Johannesburg.

https://t.co/5ZYMVQ5I5h

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1348, the Black Death reached England.

By 1350, somewhere between a third and a half of the English population was dead.

What happened next was, from the perspective of the English nobility, a disaster that had nothing to do with plague.

Labour was suddenly catastrophically scarce. Peasants who had survived the decimation found themselves in possession of something they had never previously held: leverage. Lords needed workers to bring in harvests, to tend livestock, to maintain estates. Workers could demand pay. They could demand conditions. They could, in the chaos that followed, demand food.

And what they demanded, when they had the power to demand it, was meat.

The historical record here is specific and striking. Post-plague wage contracts from the 1350s and 1360s frequently include food provisions as part of the payment, and the food provisions include meat. Fresh meat. Multiple times per week. Not the feast-day and harvest-time access that had previously defined peasant protein consumption. Regular, weekly, contractual meat.

Within a generation of gaining access to adequate animal protein, the skeletal record shows measurable change. Average height among the labouring classes increases. Bone density improves. The markers of chronic nutritional deficiency that define pre-plague peasant remains begin to appear less frequently.

A well-fed labouring class is a productive labouring class, which is good. It is also, however, a physically capable labouring class, which is rather more complicated.

The English nobility was alarmed.

In 1349, Parliament passed the Statute of Labourers, attempting to freeze wages at pre-plague levels and prevent workers from demanding "excessive" compensation. The Statute was widely ignored because the economic reality overwhelmed the legal intention. Labour remained scarce. Workers remained able to negotiate.

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 brought a well-fed army of common people to the gates of London. They burned the Savoy Palace. They beheaded the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord High Treasurer. They presented a list of demands to Richard II that included the abolition of serfdom and free access to the land.

Richard, who was fourteen years old, rode out to meet them at Smithfield. His advisors had the rebel leader Wat Tyler killed during the negotiations. The revolt was suppressed.

The lesson the ruling class drew was not that they should keep feeding people adequately.

The lesson they drew was that they should never again allow the conditions that had produced an adequately fed peasantry.

The Forest Laws tightened. Sumptuary legislation was introduced: laws dictating what foods the lower orders were permitted to consume, framed in the language of moral propriety. Religious fasting requirements were enforced more rigorously.

The experiment in meat equity lasted approximately thirty years.

The nobility shut it down as quickly as they were able.

The Peasants' Revolt is taught as a failed rebellion.
It might more accurately be taught as proof of what happens when you feed people properly.

[Priviso Live @PoPI_Act]

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[Florence Lox 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @floboflo]

How on earth do the BBC know the scores already?!
Rugby is fixed and this is the proof.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

This guy is a legend at this. 😂😂

[Mufasa007 @Mufasa0062]

Go Stormers, 🤣🤣🤣

[IG:Joy-Zelda @joy_zelda]

Outside Luthuli House 😭😭😭😭😭

[Cape Independence Advocacy Group @LetsFreeTheCape]

"Stupid is as stupid does"

[Renaldo “Ngamla” Gouws 🇿🇦 @RenaldoGouws]

@LeratoPillayZA Can you please explain to me in detail how people that moved overseas decades ago managed to be counted as refugees when that program started only May last year.

I will wait patiently for you to explain why you would share this information when it's already been debunked.

[All Blacks @AllBlacks]

An iconic game. Jonah Lomu's four tries against England in 1995 🎞️🕊️

Watch more of Jonah 🎥: https://t.co/tMe4iW95vy

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

Being an anti-regime Iranian in the diaspora is a wild ride.

First, the moment you speak up you basically say goodbye to ever going back home. Then come the threats, from the regime and its supporters everywhere. Then the harassment from leftists and progressives explaining to you how your lived reality wasn’t real, that you’re a paid agent, or that you just “want to be white.”

And just when you think the circus is complete, some far-right Nazi punches you or calls you a “Jew” like it’s an insult.

All of this because you dared to speak for people inside Iran who are living under internet blackouts while a regime points guns at them, ready to slaughter them if they step out of line.

#InternetBlackout

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

"Kill the Boer" is hate speech.

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

Yet another attack on an e-hailing driver…

WATCH: ⚠️ Graphic

[Priviso Live @PoPI_Act]

Bwahahahaha!!! The @MYANC uses food parcels at every election to buy votes. What nonsense this is

[ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula @MbalulaFikile]

In this week’s edition of ANC TODAY:

“ANC distances itself from Misuse of Food Parcels for Political Publicity” - by ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula

🔗: https://t.co/hL2NWZh9C2

#YearOfDecisiveAction

[Decado @ItsDecado]

Let me shatter another Western illusion about what is happening here in Tehran.

The store shelves are not empty. The pharmacies have medicine, and the markets have food.
The regime hasn't starved us of supplies
they have starved us of the ability to buy them.
Everything is available, but all business has completely flatlined. People cannot find paying jobs to sustain themselves.
Aside from a few highly dangerous delivery gigs, the work is entirely gone, and the money has dried up with it.
Even the internet is out there in the shadows, but only if you are desperate enough to pay black-market blood money, praying you don't get robbed of your last dollar just to connect to the outside world for a single hour.

I need the West to hear this loud and clear: my family and I are not terrified of the war.
Not even a fraction. Watching the airstrikes dismantle our occupiers in real-time is the most euphoric experience of my entire 28 years on this earth.

You want to know our actual nightmare? It is not the bombs. It is the poverty. It is the sheer, suffocating terror of wondering if our empty bank accounts can outlast the regime.

We are days away from Nowruz, our New Year. You, sitting in absolute safety, cannot begin to fathom the psychological torture crushing Iranian fathers, mothers, and breadwinners right now.
They are breaking under the weight of not being able to afford a single meal or this month's rent.
Even those of us who can still barely scrape by are mentally haunted by the thought of our compatriots who have absolutely nothing left.

We are living in a brutal, maddening paradox.
Watching our butchers burn is pure joy, but the financial strangulation is tearing us apart from the inside. I just want to hit fast-forward through this agony and finally wake up in a free homeland.
Payande Iran. Javid Shah.
#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran
#DigitalBlackOutIran

[Priviso Live @PoPI_Act]

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[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

SAVE Act Passes After Mike Lee Cleverly Changes Its Name To The ‘Give Congress A Raise Act’ https://t.co/C4sOne9vxp

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

@Reuters "Alleged discrimination"?

Stunning levels of denialism from these "journalists". Have you no shame?

[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

Kidnapped: Eastern Cape.

[Priviso Live @PoPI_Act]

You don't think that Israel is a bit occupied right now?

[The Crucified Carpenter @LiamCusack12]

THIS IS WHY SOUTH AFRICA IS UNDER ATTACK:
ISRAEL has failed to submit a responding memorial to the ICJ , against the charges of genocide brought by South Africa.
It appears Israel has no defence, and destroying South Africa is the only alternative.

[Daily Friend @DailyFriendSA]

John Endres: "An economy growing at 1.1% is not turning the corner. It is limping less badly. An economy growing at 2% is not turning the corner either. Frankly, even 3% would not be enough to repair the social and economic damage South Africa has accumulated over many years." #SouthAfrica #economy #growth

Read more here: https://t.co/Mrfmjwo8Jg