Mfana kaMsizeni☦️

Researcher. Combinatorics/Probability.

[Mfana kaMsizeni☦️ @mlotshwasf]

Reminded of momentum

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Is this correct?

[mpho a. ndaba 🌘🌻 @manofcolor_]

i miss blacks of Johannesburg: gallery spaces, coffee shops, over black label dumpies, full taxis after a long day of working for white people, lovers who never stay, intellectual masturbation, book launches, jazz, saturday night Braam, yamampela chips, downtown jozi, and ntsango

[Madima @MaanoMadima]

Finance meets law (litigation funding) in the Vodacom PleaseCallMe case.

Thread will cover:
What is litigation funding?
How does litigation funding fit in?
What is the court case involving Nkosana Makate about?
Formation of Vodacom.

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[Pa2ricks With A💧 @unlimitedAlps]

Breaking Bad
Money Heist
The Last Ship
Snow Piercer
The Last kingdom

[Mfana kaMsizeni☦️ @mlotshwasf]

Angihleki😀

[Nkanyezi @Samke_Nyambose]

@ZANewsFlash

[Azania Cleaning Machine @SAcleaningrobot]

The year is almost at the end. Here are 20 mistakes to avoid when saving for your child's education.

[Azania Cleaning Machine @SAcleaningrobot]

20 Ways to build wealth from your salary as a young South African adult.

[Mfana kaMsizeni☦️ @mlotshwasf]

History lesson

[Siphamandla Goge @SiphamandlaGoge]

#Buthelezi Royal inyosi (praise singer) Buzetsheni Mdletshe recalling previous traditional prime ministers to AmaZulu Kings from the founder of the nation, King Shaka KaSenzangakhona to the reigning monarch King MisuZulu KaZwelithini. #eNCA

[X Daily News @xDaily]

source: https://t.co/2qjYOTP945

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

C-SECTION IN ANCIENT CENTRAL AFRICA

This image comes from an article by Robert Felkin, ‘Notes on Labour in Central Africa', published in the 'Edinburgh Medical Journal' in 1884. Felkin spent two years in central Africa and witnessed the operation, reporting that "The mother was liberally supplied with banana wine, which was also used to wash the operator's hands and her abdomen. A single rapid lower midline incision opened her abdominal wall and her uterus. Bleeding points were cauterized with a hot iron. After delivery her abdomen was closed with seven thin iron spikes. The baby was put to her breast 2 hours later. Both mother and baby did well." Other travellers in the region witnessed caesareans being carried out quite regularly. In Europe at this time, they were very rare and usually resulted in the mother's death.

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Did you know Caesarean operations were carried out perfectly in parts of Africa before Europe?

For example as Dr. Van Sertima noted in Blacks in Science. The Banyoro people of Uganda were carrying out Caesarean operations - antiseptic surgery with such precision and this was recorded and drawn by Dr. Felkin in 1879, at a time when such operations were rare in Europe.

He noted them to be carrying out the surgery with routine skill and using antiseptic surgery when the same was just invented in Europe 2 years before by Lister and was far from common in operating rooms around Europe. Not only did the African surgeons show an understanding of the sophisticated concepts of anaesthesia and antisepsis, says Dr. Felkin, but they demonstrated advanced surgical techniques, especially with the cautery iron.

As one commentator mentioned: "This was a skilled long-practised surgical team at work conducting a well-tried and familiar operation with smooth efficiency and unhurried skill... Lister's team in London could hardly have performed with greater smoothness"

These shows you or the mastery, advancement and development of our ancestors in science, way before the Europeans/Arab so called saviours.

And we were supposed to be savages? cave people? hmm.. The terrible lies, mis-information and washing that has gone into our history by these foreigners is nothing short of criminal, but the wouldn't have been successful at it without our own ignorance and blind followership! WAKE UP!!"- By Arabambi Akin

Credit:NCEA via David Christopher's wall

#Africa

[Madima @MaanoMadima]

Tencent, which is 28.9% owned by Prosus that is majority owned by Naspers said it would distribute its stake in Meituan as a special dividend to existing shareholders.

Thread will cover;
Tencent's relationship with Naspers,
The birth of Prosus and how it was birthed.

[Thread]

[Labrador Skeptic @SaysSimulation]

Another day, another massive US technology failure... sigh.

The US wants to spend $13 billion to build Arctic icebreakers, in order to compete with Russia and China. Except, the US seems to have "lost" the technology to do so.

Highlights as follows:

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https://t.co/ohcF0S4f6u

[NBER @nberpubs]

Child penalties — career trends of men and women diverge after they become parents — are present in most countries, and in developed nations, they are the dominant driver of gender inequality, from Kleven, Landais, and Leite-Mariante https://t.co/C7FtwTQNI6

[Wits Centre for Diversity Studies @DiversityCentre]

Abstracts to present at WiCDS annual conference are due this Friday 15 September! Visit our website for the full call and instructions for submission.

https://t.co/xLuPcS0f7W

We're also excited to announce this year's keynote speakers!

[Richard Spoor @Richard_Spoor]

The state provided no material assistance at all, it did not provide replacement housing, it provided no financial aid or compensation to residents, it did not require JD to clean up the mess it had made or to secure the millions of tons of toxic tailings that remain.

[Richard Spoor @Richard_Spoor]

A year ago today, the tailings dam built by Jagersfontein Developments, the diamond mine owned by South African billionaire luxury goods tycoon, Johan Rupert’s collapsed, because it was poorly designed, constructed and maintained in order to avoid unnecessary expense.

[Madima @MaanoMadima]

I did a thread on Starbucks and someone asked about the ownership of Seattle Coffee.

You can’t talk Seattle without talking about the Food Lovers Market.

Fruit & Veg City has rebranded into Food Lovers Market Group with an estimated annual turnover of +-12bn.

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[Will Schryver @imetatronink]

‼️ I have previously spoken of some of the rough parallels between the Ukraine War and the American Civil War. My good friend Michael Vlahos ( @Michalis_Vlahos ) does so here with far greater eloquence.

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https://t.co/bgzbyapZTd

[Write That PhD @WriteThatPhD]

Struggling to get your PhD writing done? Practical advice to help you improve your productivity, beat procrastination & defeat self-sabotage >> https://t.co/PkR2FGc2p3 by @ewaymao + tips from @ithinkwellHugh & @ithinkwell #phdchat #phdadvice #phdforum #phdlife #ecrchat #acwri

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

The political costs of austerity: "Fiscal consolidations lead to a significant increase in extreme parties’ vote share, lower voter turnout, and a rise in political fragmentation... increasing distrust in the political environment" Evidence from over 200 elections in Europe