Tiaan Conradie

I'm a 36 year-old South African graphic designer and illustrator |
,we who are ourselves alone

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Britain will go bankrupt under Andy Burnham, Kemi Badenoch has warned.

The Conservative Party leader said the Prime Minister risked running out of money by making too many promises and being unable to say no to government departments⤵️

https://t.co/0LEhiUUhwL

[Capt Mylo @CaptMylo]

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[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

As a man, Some roads you need to take alone. No friends, no family, no partner. Just you and God.

[Mike the Warthog @thyphoidjack]

The South African Defence Force members drinking tombo in a very terrible hot sun at tate Matheu cucashop.

[ブラック企業と社畜 @koremiteyaseru]

結局、成功してるのはこういう道を行く

[Kousar Azam @kousarazam]

विज्ञान और इंजीनियरिंग जब मिलते हैं तो असली जादू दिखता है।
ये प्रोसेस देखकर लगता है इंसान ने नेचर को भी मात दे दी। 🔥

[Afrikaner @AltAfrikaner]

This photograph was taken in a studio in Ladybrand, Free State, by photographer Adolf Center during the Anglo-Boer War. 1899 - 1902

The man is identified only as Hauptfleisch. He was a teacher.

The hair tells the story.

During the guerrilla phase of the war, after September 1900, a faction of Boer fighters refused to surrender. They called themselves the Bittereinders, an Afrikaans word meaning "bitter-enders," those who would fight to the bitter end. Some of them took a vow never to cut their hair until the war was over. The long hair became a visible oath, carried on the body. You could see a Bittereinder before he spoke. His hair told you he had made a decision that could not be taken back.

The tradition was not unique to the Boers. During the American Civil War, Confederate secessionists and partisan rangers, particularly the guerrilla fighters and bushwhackers along the Union-Confederate border, grew their hair long as a political and military statement. From Virginia to Arkansas, long hair marked defiance. It was a visible refusal to submit. Some Confederate guerrillas made the same vow: the hair stays until the war ends.

The connection was not accidental. Over 300 Americans fought alongside the Boers, including a formal American Scouts unit and Irish-American volunteers from Chicago who crossed the Atlantic disguised as a Red Cross ambulance corps. These men brought their own traditions of guerrilla defiance with them. The Boers and the American partisans shared more than a cause. They shared a war against an empire, a guerrilla strategy born from being outgunned, and a vow worn in hair.

They knew what was happening behind the lines. Kitchener's scorched earth campaign had burned over 30,000 Boer farms. Their wives, mothers, and children were in British concentration camps. Over 27,000 Boer women and children would die behind that wire before the war ended.

The Bittereinders knew. They fought anyway. Not because victory was likely. Because surrender was impossible when the empire destroyedu loved.

Hauptfleisch was not a general. He was a schoolteacher from the Free State who grew his hair to his shoulders, put down the chalk, and walked into the veld. The fact that he stood for a formal portrait with that hair tells you he was not ashamed of what he had become. He was declaring it.

Source: Carol Hardijzer Collection. Published in "Unique Photographs from the Boer War," The Heritage Portal, 7 June 2017. Photograph by Adolf Center, Ladybrand. American Civil War hair tradition: Journal of the Civil War Era, July 2018. American volunteers in the Boer War: South African Military History Society; https://t.co/bs9pbWgDT9.

[Samuel @ismailloovic]

"God invented the woman
and from that moment on
boredom ceased to exist.,,

- Nietzsche-

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

A view looking up at the World Trade Center the night of September 1, 2001

[Cigarette Nostalgia @CigsMake]

So true

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

Another typical headline from South Africa, the most race-regulated country in the world.

[Tiaan Conradie @Tiaan_Con]

Droë Swartland kan koringoes met tot 30% knou https://t.co/xX3lxmTojF

[Mike the Warthog @thyphoidjack]

The South African Navy's Maritime Reaction Squadron (MRS) is a highly trained, combat-ready amphibious unit, meaning its members face high risks during tactical operations, anti-piracy patrols, and maritime interventions

[Vusi de Villiers @Finnthehuman80]

Anyone who knows these champs, please buy them a Bells and say it’s on me, Vusi.

[Maciej Smoleń 🚗Moto @auto_moto_pl]

😁

[StrongManGuide @StrongManGuide]

Relationship advice men learn after breakups:

1. Never trust any woman blindly.

[The Real KING OF THE JUNGLE @EdwardthembaSa]

Apparently this why they flew very low🤣🤣🤣🤣
#SALink
#TheSpringboks
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[Mish @Mish_K_]

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