Adéle Poggenpoel

Life. Red wine. Coffee. Good food. Jazz.

[Raymond Arroyo @RaymondArroyo]

I’m with Mother Angelica this Lent. Great suggestion for what to give up…

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@DenzilTaylor Fantasy genre

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

Today, in 1977 they killed Steve Biko, cowards of the apartheid system, because they hated his mind. He was a proud black man, with an independent mind… he had written in one of is essays, that "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

Let us ask, where is your mind? For freedom is first and foremost this insistence to be responsible for our mind. To insist on our ideas. Insist on thinking for ourselves. Africa, where is your mind?

When our leaders, in order to resolve African conflicts, chose to travel to Doha, under Trump tutelage, one must ask, where is our mind? When Africa is so rich a continent with mineral resources for the industrial technologies that define the entirety of modernity, and yet remains trapped in underdevelopment, disease and poverty, we must ask, where is our mind? What our there in Africa, tell us, that we have disarticulated our minds from the tentacles of the oppressor? Where we cannot think without the tutelage of a white man?

When a leader whose community suffered lack of water, sanitation, and electricity takes this community’s money for self enrichment… we must ask, where is our mind? When political leaders cohabit, fraternise and collaborate with criminal and gangster cartels to loot the state, kill whistle blowers and bribe judges, we must ask, where is our mind? What kind of people are these, whose entire being is enslaved by greed, selfishness, conspicuous consumerism, and egotistical insatiable desire for fame… where is their mind? When they think so desperately through their stomachs?

It is with this background that Steve’s injection remains ever more relevant today, that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. This already means the oppressor no longer needs physical violence to subjugate you, no. You conduct yourself in the internet of the oppressors’ superiority! That is what signifies the fact that your mind is in their hands, and not yours.

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#SAPA25 Leading the change the Change

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@DenzilTaylor And the journeys in between

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@DenzilTaylor Some of us were jumping hurdles

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@DenzilTaylor Wow. That’s very cool!!!

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@DenzilTaylor Happy birthday! Sure it was super blessed and fun. Baie geluk

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@DenzilTaylor 😢

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@MuskUniverseUsa 6

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@GodPenuel Elections

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@DenzilTaylor That’s beautiful.

[Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute @WCED_CTLI]

Only one more week until our Edtech Expo!

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@_T_Xer0 👏👏👏👏 Gosh, I don’t know if I am strong enough for the next game!

[Luna M @tiredfeminist_]

The PROTEAS beat England in the afternoon and the SPRINGBOKS beat England in the Evening. We had them for Lunch and Dinner innit?😭😭😭😭😭

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#waterfrontcapetown todays find

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@LadySkollie Sjoe most people just attend many funerals when they are in retirement mode and have nothing better to do. This seems more exciting!

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@saltlesspopcorn Let’s not delve into the message sent to the child about her importance to them. Thank you for showing her there are good parents (adults)out there. Gosh, can we hope they wake up and pray that their child doesn’t allow their bad parenting to shape her future