How to be a Revolutionary 2022 (Verso Books, USA and UK; Penguin Random House SA; Afrika Wunderhorn).
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Growing: The list of places, people, institutions, countries that I will never again believe when they declare their belief in the sanctity of freedom of speech.
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Amazing moment.
Navi Pillay has received the Nobel Peace Prize ! bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck5yng9z…
We are at the Nuremberg Court; I cannot think of a stronger symbol for her Nobel prize.
We are all so thrilled!
This is her first reactions upon hearing the news:
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2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career. Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer and legal pioneer, confronting deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion. A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time.
This year’s laureate has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law. She has served as a judge on the High Court in South Africa, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. She was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and, until recently, she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide.
In historic international court cases, she has shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence. Navi Pillay has also contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law. Her independence, expertise and steadfastness have made her one of the most respected international jurists of our time.
Learn more about the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize: bit.ly/4xjOJ03
#NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize
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2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career. Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer and legal pioneer, confronting deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion. A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time.
This year’s laureate has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law. She has served as a judge on the High Court in South Africa, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. She was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and, until recently, she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide.
In historic international court cases, she has shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence. Navi Pillay has also contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law. Her independence, expertise and steadfastness have made her one of the most respected international jurists of our time.
Learn more about the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize: bit.ly/4xjOJ03
#NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize
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We just released a short film on our investigation into the U.S. bombing of the Minab school in Iran in the opening hours of the war on February 28,2026.
The stories survivors, parents, first responders and others shared with us will forever haunt me.
youtu.be/9OmK0oeq5fc?si=UuIU…
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Micah is one of my closest friends and South Africa's best journalists please share and help put pressure on the Dijibouti authorities
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This is @SangitaMyska’s must read latest 👊
thenerve.news/p/sangita-mysk…
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now the Pope is hassling me for my late draft
Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Abdullah Ibrahim's final solo performance at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival took place on Friday evening, 27 March 2026, on the Rosies Stage.
The legendary 91-year-old South African pianist and composer delivered a deeply moving, meditative set that marked his final public performance in his homeland. Tragically, just over two months after this historic homecoming, Ibrahim passed away peacefully in Germany on 15 June 2026.
📷©️Siphiwe Mhlambi
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The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive. africasacountry.com/2026/05/…
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Good: South African artist Gabrielle Goliath’s project, Elegy, will be shown for three months from 4 May as a video installation at the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin church, a venue in the vicinity of the main site that is not part of the Biennale. theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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This new magazine (edited by Pankaj Mishra, @GavJacobson, @NesrineMalik, Suzy Hansen, Mohsin Hamid, @jonathanshainin, Samanth Subramanian, Ratik Asokan, Negar Azimi, and Krithika Varagur) looks good.
equator.org
