Takalani Tshabuse 🇿🇦

The rose of Venda.

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@Velile_Mnyandu Suddenly FIFA is powerless? Imagine if in 2010 we pulled the same stunt, denying entries to some of the referees. Was FIFA going to just watch?

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@MrksPSLClub That’s why you are winning lots of trophies 🏆 at Chiefs.

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@Tina_Hokwana Inhumane sharks …

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@djstago @AndileNcube What is wrong with playing behind closed doors if you don’t want your opposition (Mexico) to study your tactics?

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@ZukzFranco What was he even saying? Does he still consider them weak , now that they have won the champions league?

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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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@CrimeWatch_RSA They fell down like dominoes…

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@iDiskiTimes What do you do when you can’t win real tournaments? You create your own Micky Mouse competition.

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@Tea_Bee15 Chenene

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@eNCA @mogalejeff Where is “where is the evidence?”

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@SithembileDodo @Nath_Yamb @thee_alfa_house She can’t help herself. It’s in the genes.

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@Agricultinsider Brutality

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@LuckyEMills @Ndlombango How do you measure commitment?

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@MakhadziSA @zwidenyapT Can you move on ?

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@LuckyEMills @Ndlombango If you say so.

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@sethole_andrew @Ndlombango The impact Rhee made in the Bafana Jersey cannot be compared with the impact Messi has made in the Argentina team.

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@MsunukaRacism The issue is the manner in which he’s going about it. He’s telling everyone who cares to listen that he is tired. Now everyone is in limbo. And what should the management do? Search for another coach or wait and see if he will stay?

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@WonderMahlobo The coach. Surely, if I am the coach and I see the player I replaced still on the field, I should know something is wrong.

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@Siya_homiey @BrunoBaartman I don’t think he will move locally. He’s just too good.