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What To Buy in South Africa, Top 10 Famous & Cheap Things To Buy in South Africa
Best Things To Buy in South Africa Are you planning to visit South Africa for a tour? Well, that’s a good idea. There are many famous, unique, affordable, and antique things to buy in South Africa. So, to help you understand, we have listed 10 famous and affordable South African souvenirs: 1. Ostrich Products – South Africa famous things to buy The ostrich is one of the native birds of Africa.…
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"Birungi African Traditional Art" by Muki Designs
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How To Start A Production Company And Start Making Movies - Tendayi Nyeke [FULL INTERVIEW]
Watch the video interview on YouTube here.
#netflix#filmmaking#filmmakers#zimbabwe#africa#african cinema#south africa#film and tv#moving to la#hollywood#film industry#animation#working in film#working in hollywood#film production#production company#webseries#african stories#independent film#film#screenwriting#writers on tumblr#screenwriters on tumblr#filmmakers on tumblr
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never trust amazon product reviews youll think its fine but then theyll have you buying a dvd made for south american dvd players despite the website knowing damn well you live in the united states
#og post#batposting#this is entirely on me for not reading the product description footnotes but im still bitter. what i do with this dvd now#do any south american mutuals want this batman cartoon and feel comfortable giving me their mailing address#edit: actually its not south american its european and african and japanese. region 2. sorry past me was mad when typing this
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What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don't let anyone discourage you otherwise!
The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.
We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling such huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”
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Safety First: How to Select the Ideal Security System for Your Small Business
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Why Environmental Responsibility is Essential in the Petroleum Industry: Neo Blu’s Vision
The petroleum industry has long been a cornerstone of global energy production, powering economies and enabling modern life. However, with growing concerns over climate change, environmental degradation, and resource depletion, the industry faces increasing pressure to adopt sustainable practices. For companies like Neo Blu Energy, environmental responsibility is not only essential but a key part of their corporate vision. This blog will explore why sustainability is vital in the petroleum industry and how Neo Blu Energy is leading the charge toward a greener future.
The Growing Need for Environmental Responsibility in the Petroleum Industry The petroleum industry is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation. With increasing awareness of the global climate crisis, companies in this sector must acknowledge their role in shaping a more sustainable future. Here’s why environmental responsibility is no longer optional:
Climate Change and Global Warming: The combustion of fossil fuels contributes significantly to global carbon emissions, leading to rising temperatures, melting ice caps, and extreme weather conditions. The petroleum industry, as a major player, has a responsibility to reduce emissions and adopt cleaner technologies.
Environmental Degradation: Oil spills, land disruption, and pollution from extraction processes have long-term detrimental effects on ecosystems. Responsible companies must ensure that their operations do not harm wildlife, oceans, or communities.
Resource Depletion: Fossil fuels are finite resources. Environmental responsibility requires forward-thinking companies to explore renewable energy alternatives and invest in technologies that reduce their dependence on non-renewable resources.
Government Regulations: Many countries are introducing strict environmental regulations. Companies that fail to comply face significant penalties and damage to their reputation. Adopting eco-friendly practices helps businesses stay ahead of regulatory requirements.
Neo Blu Energy’s Vision for a Sustainable Future At Neo Blu Energy, we recognize the critical importance of environmental responsibility. We understand that as a petroleum wholesaler, we are uniquely positioned to influence the industry’s shift towards sustainability. Our vision is rooted in the following core principles:
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint: Neo Blu Energy is committed to minimizing the carbon footprint of our operations. We constantly seek innovative solutions that reduce emissions, such as upgrading our fuel distribution methods and using cleaner transportation options for bulk fuel logistics.
Investing in Renewable Energy: While petroleum remains a key resource, Neo Blu Energy is actively exploring and investing in renewable energy sources. By diversifying our energy portfolio, we aim to contribute to a more sustainable and balanced energy market.
Sustainable Fuel Solutions: We are working on providing cleaner fuel alternatives that meet strict environmental standards. Our efforts include partnering with eco-friendly fuel suppliers and researching biofuels that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Eco-Friendly Operations: From fuel storage to distribution, Neo Blu Energy follows environmentally friendly practices at every stage of the supply chain. Our corporate governance is built on strict environmental policies to ensure sustainable operations.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Beyond our internal efforts, Neo Blu Energy is committed to contributing to broader environmental causes. Through partnerships with local and international organizations, we are actively involved in reforestation projects, ocean conservation initiatives, and educational programs that raise awareness about environmental issues.
Why Neo Blu Energy Leads the Way in Petroleum Industry Sustainability Neo Blu Energy is more than just a petroleum wholesaler; we are a leader in adopting and promoting sustainable practices in the industry. Here’s how we’re making a difference:
Innovation and Technology: We leverage cutting-edge technologies to reduce the environmental impact of our operations. From using advanced filtration systems to adopting digital platforms that track emissions, we ensure that our processes are as eco-friendly as possible.
Employee and Community Engagement: Environmental responsibility starts with awareness. Neo Blu Energy actively involves its employees and the communities we serve in environmental initiatives, creating a culture of sustainability that extends beyond our business.
Collaboration with Environmental Groups: We collaborate with environmental organizations to develop new ways to reduce our impact. These partnerships allow us to stay informed on the latest sustainability trends and practices, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of the industry.
Long-Term Vision: Our commitment to sustainability isn’t just about short-term solutions. Neo Blu Energy has developed a long-term strategy that includes goals such as transitioning to lower-emission fuels, reducing water usage in operations, and continuing to invest in renewable energy.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Q1. How does Neo Blu Energy reduce its environmental impact while being a petroleum wholesaler? A: Neo Blu Energy takes several measures to reduce its environmental impact, such as minimizing emissions in transportation, investing in cleaner fuel alternatives, and adopting eco-friendly practices throughout our supply chain. We also partner with renewable energy companies to promote a balanced energy mix.
Q2. What role does renewable energy play in Neo Blu Energy’s sustainability strategy? A: Although our core business focuses on petroleum, we believe renewable energy is essential for the future. We are actively exploring ways to integrate renewable energy sources into our business and are committed to supporting the global transition to cleaner energy.
Q3. How does Neo Blu Energy ensure compliance with environmental regulations? A: We are fully compliant with local and international environmental regulations. Neo Blu Energy’s corporate governance framework ensures that we regularly audit our processes, adopt best practices, and stay updated with any regulatory changes.
Q4. How can petroleum companies be environmentally responsible? A: Petroleum companies can adopt cleaner technologies, reduce emissions, invest in renewable energy, and follow sustainable operational practices. Companies must also engage in environmental conservation efforts and prioritize reducing their carbon footprint.
Q5. Why is environmental responsibility critical in the petroleum industry? A: The petroleum industry significantly contributes to global carbon emissions and environmental degradation. Being environmentally responsible not only mitigates these impacts but also helps companies meet regulatory requirements, improve their reputation, and ensure long-term business sustainability.
Conclusion Environmental responsibility is no longer an option for companies in the petroleum industry—it’s a necessity. At Neo Blu Energy, we are committed to driving positive change in the sector by adopting sustainable practices, reducing our carbon footprint, and investing in renewable energy. As the world moves toward a greener future, we believe that the petroleum industry can—and must—play a key role in shaping that future responsibly.
By prioritizing environmental sustainability, Neo Blu Energy is not only contributing to a healthier planet but also setting the standard for what it means to be a responsible player in the energy industry.
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sure baby queen may be an industry plant but ill be damned if quarter life crisis doesnt fucking slap
#they speak#is she an industry plant idk#but shes a white south african who moved to london at 18#and has got quality music n video production before even putting her first album out so like idkkkkk yall tell me#it slaps tho ngl n the acoustic session last week was a banger
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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟭𝟵𝟬𝗧𝗛 𝗦𝗔 𝗗𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗬 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗦
The who’s who of dairy specialists in the country recently convened in Durbanville for the judging of the 190th edition of the biggest and oldest dairy competition in Africa, the South African Dairy Championships.
MORE THAN 900 PRODUCTS COMPETE IN THE 190TH SA DAIRY CHAMPIONSHIPS Chief Judge Alan Fourie and Breyton Milford, General Manager of Agri-Expo, at the judging of the 190th SA Dairy Championships, hosted by Agri-Expo at Eensgezind The who’s who of dairy specialists in the country recently convened in Durbanville for the judging of the 190th edition of the biggest and oldest dairy competition in…
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Ask an older generation of white South Africans when they first felt the bite of anti-apartheid sanctions, and some point to the moment in 1968 when their prime minister, BJ Vorster, banned a tour by the England cricket team because it included a mixed-race player, Basil D’Oliveira. After that, South Africa was excluded from international cricket until Nelson Mandela walked free from prison 22 years later. The D’Oliveira affair, as it became known, proved a watershed in drumming up popular support for the sporting boycott that eventually saw the country excluded from most international competition including rugby, the great passion of the white Afrikaners who were the base of the ruling Nationalist party and who bitterly resented being cast out. For others, the moment of reckoning came years later, in 1985 when foreign banks called in South Africa’s loans. It was a clear sign that the country’s economy was going to pay an ever higher price for apartheid. Neither of those events was decisive in bringing down South Africa’s regime. Far more credit lies with the black schoolchildren who took to the streets of Soweto in 1976 and kicked off years of unrest and civil disobedience that made the country increasingly ungovernable until changing global politics, and the collapse of communism, played its part. But the rise of the popular anti-apartheid boycott over nearly 30 years made its mark on South Africans who were increasingly confronted by a repudiation of their system. Ordinary Europeans pressured supermarkets to stop selling South African products. British students forced Barclays Bank to pull out of the apartheid state. The refusal of a Dublin shop worker to ring up a Cape grapefruit led to a strike and then a total ban on South African imports by the Irish government. By the mid-1980s, one in four Britons said they were boycotting South African goods – a testament to the reach of the anti-apartheid campaign. . . . The musicians union blocked South African artists from playing on the BBC, and the cultural boycott saw most performers refusing to play in the apartheid state, although some, including Elton John and Queen, infamously put on concerts at Sun City in the Bophuthatswana homeland. The US didn’t have the same sporting or cultural ties, and imported far fewer South African products, but the mobilisation against apartheid in universities, churches and through local coalitions in the 1980s was instrumental in forcing the hand of American politicians and big business in favour of financial sanctions and divestment. By the time President FW de Klerk was ready to release Mandela and negotiate an end to apartheid, a big selling point for part of the white population was an end to boycotts and isolation. Twenty-seven years after the end of white rule, some see the boycott campaign against South Africa as a guide to mobilising popular support against what is increasingly condemned as Israel’s own brand of apartheid.
. . . continues at the guardian (21 May, 2021)
#israel#palestine#gaza#south africa#i think all of us need to seriously study the history and actions of the anti-apartheid movement#and apply these lessons to the israeli occupation
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African poverty is partly a consequence of energy poverty. In every other continent the vast majority of people have access to electricity. In Africa 600m people, 43% of the total, cannot readily light their homes or charge their phones. And those who nominally have grid electricity find it as reliable as a Scottish summer. More than three-quarters of African firms experience outages; two-fifths say electricity is the main constraint on their business.
If other sub-Saharan African countries had enjoyed power as reliable as South Africa’s from 1995 to 2007, then the continent’s rate of real GDP growth per person would have been two percentage points higher, more than doubling the actual rate, according to one academic paper. Since then South Africa has also had erratic electricity. So-called “load-shedding” is probably the main reason why the economy has shrunk in four of the past eight quarters.
Solar power is increasingly seen as the solution. Last year Africa installed a record amount of photovoltaic (PV) capacity (though this still made up just 1% of the total added worldwide), notes the African Solar Industry Association (AFSIA), a trade group. Globally most solar PV is built by utilities, but in Africa 65% of new capacity over the past two years has come from large firms contracting directly with developers. These deals are part of a decentralised revolution that could be of huge benefit to African economies.
Ground zero for the revolution is South Africa. Last year saw a record number of blackouts imposed by Eskom, the state-run utility, whose dysfunctional coal-fired power stations regularly break down or operate at far below capacity. Fortunately, as load-shedding was peaking, the costs of solar systems were plummeting.
Between 2019 and 2023 the cost of panels fell by 15%, having already declined by almost 90% in the 2010s. Meanwhile battery storage systems now cost about half as much as five years ago. Industrial users pay 20-40% less per unit when buying electricity from private project developers than on the cheapest Eskom tariff.
In the past two calendar years the amount of solar capacity in South Africa rose from 2.8GW to 7.8GW, notes AFSIA, excluding that installed on the roofs of suburban homes. All together South Africa’s solar capacity could now be almost a fifth of that of Eskom’s coal-fired power stations (albeit those still have a higher “capacity factor”, or ability to produce electricity around the clock). The growth of solar is a key reason why there has been less load-shedding in 2024...
Over the past decade the number of startups providing “distributed renewable energy” (DRE) has grown at a clip. Industry estimates suggest that more than 400m Africans get electricity from solar home systems and that more than ten times as many “mini-grids”, most of which use solar, were built in 2016-20 than in the preceding five years. In Kenya DRE firms employ more than six times as many people as the largest utility. In Nigeria they have created almost as many jobs as the oil and gas industry.
“The future is an extremely distributed system to an extent that people haven’t fully grasped,” argues Matthew Tilleard of CrossBoundary Group, a firm whose customers range from large businesses to hitherto unconnected consumers. “It’s going to happen here in Africa first and most consequentially.”
Ignite, which operates in nine African countries, has products that include a basic panel that powers three light bulbs and a phone charger, as well as solar-powered irrigation pumps, stoves and internet routers, and industrial systems. Customers use mobile money to “unlock” a pay-as-you-go meter.
Yariv Cohen, Ignite’s CEO, reckons that the typical $3 per month spent by consumers is less than what they previously paid for kerosene and at phone-charging kiosks. He describes how farmers are more productive because they do not have to get home before dark and children are getting better test scores because they study under bulbs. One family in Rwanda used to keep their two cows in their house because they feared rustlers might come in the dark; now the cattle snooze al fresco under an outside lamp and the family gets more sleep.
...That is one eye-catching aspect of Africa’s solar revolution. But most of the continent is undergoing a more subtle—and significant—experiment in decentralised, commercially driven solar power. It is a trend that could both transform African economies and offer lessons to the rest of the world."
-via The Economist, June 18, 2024. Paragraph breaks added.
#one of the biggest stories of this century is going to be the story of the African Renaissance#I promise you#well preferably they'll come up with a non-European term for it lol#but trust me it WILL happen and it will be SO good to see#africa#south africa#nigeria#kenya#solar#solar power#solar panels#solar pv#energy#clean energy#poverty#electrification#distributed energy#electricity#infrastructure#hope#solarpunk#good news#solar age#<- making that a tag now
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Reducing Emissions in the Petroleum Industry - Neo Blu Energy
Neo Blu Energy reduces emissions in the petroleum industry through cleaner fuel production, energy-efficient transportation, carbon capture, sustainable supply chains, and renewable energy investments.
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“This raises the question: if industrial production is necessary to meet decent-living standards today, then perhaps capitalism—notwithstanding its negative impact on social indicators over the past five hundred years—is necessary to develop the industrial capacity to meet these higher-order goals. This has been the dominant assumption in development economics for the past half century. But it does not withstand empirical scrutiny. For the majority of the world, capitalism has historically constrained, rather than enabled, technological development—and this dynamic remains a major problem today.
It has long been recognized by liberals and Marxists alike that the rise of capitalism in the core economies was associated with rapid industrial expansion, on a scale with no precedent under feudalism or other precapitalist class structures. What is less widely understood is that this very same system produced the opposite effect in the periphery and semi-periphery. Indeed, the forced integration of peripheral regions into the capitalist world-system during the period circa 1492 to 1914 was characterized by widespread deindustrialization and agrarianization, with countries compelled to specialize in agricultural and other primary commodities, often under “pre-modern” and ostensibly “feudal” conditions.
In Eastern Europe, for instance, the number of people living in cities declined by almost one-third during the seventeenth century, as the region became an agrarian serf-economy exporting cheap grain and timber to Western Europe. At the same time, Spanish and Portuguese colonizers were transforming the American continents into suppliers of precious metals and agricultural goods, with urban manufacturing suppressed by the state. When the capitalist world-system expanded into Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, imports of British cloth and steel destroyed Indigenous textile production and iron smelting, while Africans were instead made to specialize in palm oil, peanuts, and other cheap cash crops produced with enslaved labor. India—once the great manufacturing hub of the world—suffered a similar fate after colonization by Britain in 1757. By 1840, British colonizers boasted that they had “succeeded in converting India from a manufacturing country into a country exporting raw produce.” Much the same story unfolded in China after it was forced to open its domestic economy to capitalist trade during the British invasion of 1839–42. According to historians, the influx of European textiles, soap, and other manufactured goods “destroyed rural handicraft industries in the villages, causing unemployment and hardship for the Chinese peasantry.”
The great deindustrialization of the periphery was achieved in part through policy interventions by the core states, such as through the imposition of colonial prohibitions on manufacturing and through “unequal treaties,” which were intended to destroy industrial competition from Southern producers, establish captive markets for Western industrial output, and position Southern economies as providers of cheap labor and resources. But these dynamics were also reinforced by structural features of profit-oriented markets. Capitalists only employ new technologies to the extent that it is profitable for them to do so. This can present an obstacle to economic development if there is little demand for domestic industrial production (due to low incomes, foreign competition, etc.), or if the costs of innovation are high.
Capitalists in the Global North overcame these problems because the state intervened extensively in the economy by setting high tariffs, providing public subsidies, assuming the costs of research and development, and ensuring adequate consumer demand through government spending. But in the Global South, where state support for industry was foreclosed by centuries of formal and informal colonialism, it has been more profitable for capitalists to export cheap agricultural goods than to invest in high-technology manufacturing. The profitability of new technologies also depends on the cost of labor. In the North, where wages are comparatively high, capitalists have historically found it profitable to employ labor-saving technologies. But in the peripheral economies, where wages have been heavily compressed, it has often been cheaper to use labor-intensive production techniques than to pay for expensive machinery.
Of course, the global division of labor has changed since the late nineteenth century. Many of the leading industries of that time, including textiles, steel, and assembly line processes, have now been outsourced to low-wage peripheral economies like India and China, while the core states have moved to innovation activities, high-technology aerospace and biotech engineering, information technology, and capital-intensive agriculture. Yet still the basic problem remains. Under neoliberal globalization (structural adjustment programs and WTO rules), governments in the periphery are generally precluded from using tariffs, subsidies, and other forms of industrial policy to achieve meaningful development and economic sovereignty, while labor market deregulation and global labor arbitrage have kept wages extremely low. In this context, the drive to maximize profit leads Southern capitalists and foreign investors to pour resources into relatively low-technology export sectors, at the expense of more modern lines of industry.
Moreover, for those parts of the periphery that occupy the lowest rungs in global commodity chains, production continues to be organized along so-called pre-modern lines, even under the new division of labor. In the Congo, for instance, workers are sent into dangerous mineshafts without any modern safety equipment, tunneling deep into the ground with nothing but shovels, often coerced at gunpoint by U.S.-backed militias, so that Microsoft and Apple can secure cheap coltan for their electronics devices. Pre-modern production processes predicated on the “technology” of labor coercion are also found in the cocoa plantations of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, where enslaved children labor in brutal conditions for corporations like Cadbury, or Colombia’s banana export sector, where a hyper-exploited peasantry is kept in line by a regime of rural terror and extrajudicial killings overseen by private death squads.
Uneven global development, including the endurance of ostensibly “feudal” relations of production, is not inevitable. It is an effect of capitalist dynamics. Capitalists in the periphery find it more profitable to employ cheap labor subject to conditions of slavery or other forms of coercion than they do to invest in modern industry.”
Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism by Jason Hickle and Dylan Sullivan
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The government of Australia’s northeastern state of Queensland has stunned rights experts by suspending its Human Rights Act for a second time this year to be able to lock up more children.
The ruling Labor Party last month [August 2023] pushed through a suite of legislation to allow under-18s – including children as young as 10 – to be detained indefinitely in police watch houses, because changes to youth justice laws – including jail for young people who breach bail conditions – mean there are no longer enough spaces in designated youth detention centres to house all those being put behind bars. The amended bail laws, introduced earlier this year [2023], also required the Human Rights Act to be suspended.
The moves have shocked Queensland Human Rights Commissioner Scott McDougall, who described human rights protections in Australia as “very fragile”, with no laws that apply nationwide.
“We don’t have a National Human Rights Act. Some of our states and territories have human rights protections [...]. But they’re not constitutionally entrenched so they can be overridden by the parliament,” he told Al Jazeera. The Queensland Human Rights Act – introduced in 2019 – protects children from being detained in adult prison so it had to be suspended for the government to be able to pass its legislation.
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Earlier this year, Australia’s Productivity Commission reported that Queensland had the highest number of children in detention of any Australian state. Between 2021-2022, the so-called “Sunshine State” recorded a daily average of 287 people in youth detention, compared with 190 in Australia’s most populous state New South Wales, the second highest. [...]
[M]ore than half the jailed Queensland children are resentenced for new offences within 12 months of their release.
Another report released by the Justice Reform Initiative in November 2022 showed that Queensland’s youth detention numbers had increased by more than 27 percent in seven years.
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The push to hold children in police watch houses is viewed by the Queensland government as a means to house these growing numbers. Attached to police stations and courts, a watch house contains small, concrete cells with no windows and is normally used only as a “last resort” for adults awaiting court appearances or required to be locked up by police overnight. [...]
However, McDougall said he has “real concerns about irreversible harm being caused to children” detained in police watch houses, which he described as a “concrete box”. “[A watch house] often has other children in it. There’ll be a toilet that is visible to pretty much anyone,” he said. “Children do not have access to fresh air or sunlight. And there’s been reported cases of a child who was held for 32 days in a watch house whose hair was falling out. [...]"
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He also pointed out that 90 percent of imprisoned children and young people were awaiting trial.
“Queensland has extremely high rates of children in detention being held on remand. So these are children who have not been convicted of an offence,” he told Al Jazeera.
Despite Indigenous people making up only 4.6 percent of Queensland’s population, Indigenous children make up nearly 63 percent of those in detention. The rate of incarceration for Indigenous children in Queensland is 33 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. Maggie Munn, a Gunggari person and National Director of First Nations justice advocacy group Change the Record, told Al Jazeera the move to hold children as young as 10 in adult watch houses was “fundamentally cruel and wrong”. [...]
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[Critics] also told Al Jazeera that the government needed to stop funding “cops and cages” and expressed concern over what [they] described as the “systemic racism, misogyny, and sexism” of the Queensland Police Service.
In 2019, police officers and other staff were recorded joking about beating and burying Black people and making racist comments about African and Muslim people. The recordings also captured sexist remarks [...]. The conversations were recorded in a police watch house, the same detention facilities where Indigenous children can now be held indefinitely.
Australia has repeatedly come under fire at an international level regarding its treatment of children and young people in the criminal justice system. The United Nations has called repeatedly for Australia to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to the international standard of 14 years old [...].
[MR], Queensland’s minister for police and corrective services, [...] – who introduced the legislation, which is due to expire in 2026 – is unrepentant, defending his decision last month [August 2023].
“This government makes no apology for our tough stance on youth crime,” he was quoted as saying in a number of Australian media outlets.
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Text by: Ali MC. "Australian state suspends human rights law to lock up more children". Al Jazeera. 18 September 2023. At: aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/18/australian-state-suspends-human-rights-law-to-lock-up-more-children [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]
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Tyla D1 Chart Analysis
Tyla is a Bharani Nakshatra; so she is a Venus girlie, which is why when people always mention Tyla they always mention her visuals. Tyla also has a Shatabhisha Ascendant and Uranus, and Purva Bhadra Venus, all sideral Aquarius placements.
This makes her COMPLETELY unique and easily makes her stand out really well in social/group settings; but in this context, it's her in the music industry and her concepts/promotion techniques.
The placements in her chart truly do resonate with Tyla because she was truly born to be in the public eye! Her beauty, talent, hard work, and dedication!! She is killing it!!
Now with her Bharani Nakshatra, which is the same as NEWJEANS as well, these two artists truly are breakthrough artists who both had a delay in their careers but they finally got their chance to shine and surprisingly love each other as well!!
Tyla has a Bharani Rahu, Moon, and Aswini Mars! She is passionate about her singing and dancing! We all have seen her dances and her energy on stage… I mean just look at her!
Another thing I would like to point out is how all her dances are quite fast-paced and require a certain amount of energy to actually do… along with hard practice because you also have to focus on footwork and strengthen lower body movement.
Here in South Africa, we always say “The aim is not to sweat.”
When we dance, we tend to just enjoy the music, feel the beat, and just go with the flow! hence why when you come across a video of South African kids dancing or TikTok trends, people barely sweat! We just have fun and relax!!
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For Tyla, she is one of the few figures we have representing South Africa as a whole, in a completely positive light! She is constantly praised by us for raising our flag up high.
This was all possible thanks to one specific placement in her chart that stands out which is her Rohini (Taurus) Part of Fortune (PoF) in the 4H, in astrology the 4H represents home, native land/roots and Tyla basically promotes our country every single day lol.
Her placement lands right directly on South Africa’s 11H Rohini Stellium too! This emphasizes her being unapologetically proudly South African and sharing it with the world!
And surprisingly enough… Tyla has no negative hard aspects with her Saturn placements.
Tyla has her Purva Phalguni Jupiter (Leo), this could mean that she has luck in terms of building partnerships and getting brand deals too! Many brand deals would like to work with Tyla but it seems she is very picky in terms of her choices as well!
What made me giggle is the aspect of Jupiter square PoF because South Africans were begging Tyla to avoid advertising products that are already expensive or just any South African product because they knew that the companies will increase their prices.
mind you those go-slo crisps you see are usually R5, and that is REALLY cheap here, mainly when you buy them from a corner store. Surprisingly after the music video for ‘Jump’ dropped, this well known store, in the screenshot is the one store that high to high-middle class citizens shop. This company NEVER sells “corner store” products in their stores lol!
Tyla has a 9H Vishakha Ketu (Libra), and Ketu in Vedic astrology represents detachment I would like to point out that Tyla once mentioned that she had no interest in going to university, but she would have only gone there to study engineering because it brings in a lot of money lol! I can’t find the interview now but I will get it soon!!
OHHH! Another thing I would like to mention is that Ketu also represents the body and Rahu represents the head. Tyla is obsessed with wearing tiger prints! and Vishakas representative animal is a TIGER! Her name branding always has a tiger claw too!!
Aswini/Bharani placements are also known to have scars/markings and I, an Aswini ascendant, have a teardrop-shaped birthmark right beneath the corner of my eye! And Tyla has a Rahu In Bharani and she does her own DIY scar on her eyebrow too!
Tyla has a Anuradha MC and a Jyeshtha Pluto (Scorpio) in her 10H since Scorpio is ruled by Mars, and her Mars is in her 3H, I would not be suprised to see if she would suddenly release a new album with a completely different sound and concept. Since MC is how we’re seen by the public, i do not know if anyone has noticed this but Tyla has a really alluring energy/aura and this placement will also attract a lot of jealousy… so i hope shes careful!!
She has a Purva Ashadha Mercury and Chiron (Sagittarius), her Mercury placement in the 11H makes so much sense because she is spoken a lot about on International social media. She is literally popular, hence why I am doing this post because she got majority votes lol! Tyla is also known for her South African accent too and she does not shy away from speaking that way too!
Chiron being there could mean she could’ve experienced issues with past friendships or connections, and with Sagittarius being there could also mean she could not enjoy life overseas and would rather stay in South Africa instead. Another issue that could come along are hate comments, i am going to need troll accounts to log off and stop causing people in the public eye mental distress.
Finally, Tyla has a Shravana Sun and Neptune in her 12H, and 12H in vedic represents foriegn lands so Tyla has to accept that she may have to relocate overseas for good! This placement also makes Tyla a really calculated women who really knows her ways to navigate around this world too!Tyla could also be a homebody and enjoy relaxing and recharing her energy too! These placements could mean she also has an interest in the occult/tarot and would also excel a lot in that too!!
Overall, Tyla is ONE LUCKY GIRL! A literal 10/10 too! Wishing her thee best of luck and may she continue to make us, South Africa proud and continue raising our flag up high!
South Africa To The World! 🇿🇦
If you made it this far! Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed it and learned something new about my country lol!😉🫂
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