Three years I was working on it day in and day out. Every time I would think, how can I make it exact? How can I make it exact? It's the smallest bone in the body.
And the day I discovered [it], I told my Dean, I told my principal, I told people in the university.
Some of them did not even believe [me].
"This breakthrough," I said to somebody, you can't talk about 3D medicine and not mention me. Before 2019, 3D was not associated with medicine. Ibrahim Traoré, Leader of Burkina Faso, discussing the western rating of Burkina Faso as a “red zone” but only after the coup to liberate Burkina from foreign control and influence:
In 2023, [was] a time when imperialists painted Burkina Faso red as a dangerous destination.
It was our duty to pass on a message to the world to make them understand Burkina Faso as they represent it, is false.
Those who painted Burkina Faso red, you see automatically the next day, or at least a few days later, Air France said it was not coming to Burkina Faso because it was red.
Even Ouogadougou, there is only war. That's it, isn't it?
We said there's no problem. You're free not to come to Burkina Faso but you're not the only best airline in the world.
If the other airlines continue to come, that means you're a liar...
Brussels is coming.
Turkish is coming.
I don't know what, Ethiopian and all other airlines are still coming.
This is to say the imperialists are very strong. They invent their line of conduct and they get some of their companies to follow it to give veracity to their lies.
Their lie didn't work, then they came back to ask to take over the flights.
If the country is turned green, you have to re-write that it's turned green and you'll resume [flights].
This is to say that imperialism has all its strategies. Orediretse Masebe, of the Economic Freedom Fighters of southern Africa’s YC, discussing the first 100 days of South Africa’s of government of national unity and which class is celebrating it:
Look at the people who are celebrating positive outcomes from the first 100 days of the GNU:
You've got your CEOs of Business First South Africa.
You've got your CEO of Investec.
Those are the people that are saying the first 100 days have somehow marked a positive upswing for South Africa.
They tell you that the JSE [Johannesburg Stock Exchange] main index is over 10%.
They tell you that the [South African] Rand is 7.5% stronger.
They tell you that the bond market is 11% strong.
They're saying the markets are doing well.
They're saying we have gained investor confidence.
But who are the people positively speaking about the first 100 days of the GNU?
It is people who are interested in pushing the interests of private entities and capital in the country.
Ordinary South Africans are not talking about anything positive.
Ordinary South Africans are suffering from the budget cuts [continued austerity] that have been introduced by the GNU Ministers in:
-Education [under Minister Siviwe Gwarube, DA]
-Social Development[under Minister Nokuzola Gladys Tolashe, ANC]
-Infrastructure Development [under Minister Dean William Macpherson, DA]
We [ordinary working class South Africans] have experienced [government] budget cuts across departments.
The only people celebrating 100 days of the GNU are those,
-captains of industry,
-captains of capital.
-captains of private entities and interests.
Those are the people that can tell you the Rand has strengthened but what does that mean to ordinary South Africans?...
Those who are speaking positively about GNU should tell you what 100 days of the GNU actually means:
It's not about South Africans, it is about investors, about private capital. It is about those who are more interested in their interests being enlarged by this Rama-phoria.
No ordinary South African is celebrating because the prevailing social conditions in this country are still the prevailing social conditions...I sympathise with you. I know it's a difficult task to defend organised crime. We appreciate it. But you are doing your work.
The second thing I wanted to say is that everything, everything that we have gotten from [Kenyan] President Ruto, from the Kenyan government, we have forced upon him.
There is nothing the Kenyan people have gotten from the Kenyan government without a fight.
Even to be heard as young people.
So we can not even think that President William Ruto is in charge of this country [Kenya], because for example, when we went to the streets, our voice was clear:
We need a just life with dignity...
What about your boss? What happened when they [the Orange Democratic Movement] went to Nyanza, for example, did they not invoke tribal sentiments by saying that it was the first time for Luo [people] to be in the treasury.
So I think we need to be very clear with people about it [tribalism]...
Also, why are you running from your [political] party? Now, everything you are accusing the national government while clearly your party was part of the support of the government.
I think we should go back, seeing that we are talking about party after party. You cannot run away from [national] failure and then domesticate things at the local level.
I appreciate that ODM has a clear ideology of social democracy, but why is, for example, the ODM supporting the current government?
Basically, ODM is complicit with murder.
ODM is complicit with people who loot resources.
So, is this part of social democracy?Nkosana Makate who created the concept of Vodacom’s “please call me” texting service, discussing what initiated his decades-long legal battle with the telecoms corporate giant:
Rebecca was a student at Fort Hare University and we were in a long distance relationship...I thought, wouldn't it be great if there was a way to initiate a call when you didn't have airtime?...
Suddenly, I was told that I'm being greedy for wanting a share of the profits from what I created...
For me, what is right, what is fair and it's about justice. What they are doing is wrong and I cannot allow that.No posts
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