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Marc Bernays Randolph, the co-founder of Netflix is the great-grandnephew of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and great-nephew of the inventor of propaganda and public relations Edward Bernays. So,

Why do prices of things increase? Why does an item cost twice today what it did 10yrs ago, even though it's still the same item? The answer lies not in

A story goes that the ANC was looking for the head of its Department of Economic Planning. Nelson Mandela asked if anyone was an economist—Trevor Manuel raised his hand. It

A common misconception in South African political commentary is that Apartheid was somehow 'capitalist'. This lie is peddled by Apartheid beneficiaries whenever we try to speak of socialism. They ask

Thabo Mbeki believed that HIV was not the cause of AIDS and refused a nationwide rollout of Antiretroviral drugs in South Africa. Whether he was right or wrong, many of

In 2015, Barack Obama announced that he was planning to revoke the duty-free status of South African agricultural goods under AGOA, when SA banned US poultry imports after an outbreak

Gary Webb was an American investigative journalist who reported how the CIA flooded the small Black neighbourhood of South Central, LA with crack cocaine in order to finance a coup

Julius Malema and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi appointed white lawyers because that's the best way to do things in this current system. Please stay with me.This is illustrated by a scene in

The Swine (Spanish) Flu of 1918 is the most lethal pandemic ever to hit Earth, 200 times deadlier than the 2019 coronavirus, killing 21 million in the first 4 months.

Rwanda, under Paul Kagame has since 1998 increased numbers of troops in Kivu East DRC, ostensibly to fight Hutu militants. Since 2004 over 1 million have died from the conflict,

Over 100 years before there was the infamous ANC government tender, there was widespread Boer "concession" corruption. Here's how Afrikaners invented and perfected state capture and looting[Thread] In 1881, a

in December 1963 Kenya declared "independence". However the country remained a British dominion under the sovereignty of the British queen. The first prime minister, Jomo Kenyatta, served at the pleasure