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bevfromcapetown.bsky.social
Beverley
@bevfromcapetown.bsky.social
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Lover of music and art. Servant to a rescue cat and dog. Mostly Cape Town. Flâneur. Crafty person. Istanbul-phile/bore. Warning - Posts might contain typos.
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 3h
Fathers. Importance and implications of fathers and fatherless households in South Africa. From The Economist
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 8h
It looks really good. Now for the sauce.
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 8h
Embarrassing.
dailymaverick.co.za Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 8h
There was confusion at the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development after an official in the department issued an unauthorised letter that led to a Sheriff approaching the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, to serve her with ...
Justice Department apologises over Albanese court papers drama
www.dailymaverick.co.za
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 8h
I like to refer to it as slowly strangling the goose that lays the golden eggs. I see you Cape Town and Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 23h
Photos please
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 1d
Yes...
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 1d
In which edition ? I have searched my last 3 editions and don't find this article
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 1d
I loved reading this. Where I live in Greenpoint it's frenetic. On the radio the other day I caught a snippet of someone saying the "beautiful ordinary". .. when you get overwhelmed just stop and observe a shadow, steam from a kettle or similar. And that resonated so much.
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 1d
True this.
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 3d
The Cape Archives have digitalised some interesting marbled papers (and a couple of other pages) from the archives .... for printing for crafty people.

dxp.westerncape.gov.za/sites/defaul...
dxp.westerncape.gov.za
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 3d
Also excited 😊
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 3d
Love this
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 3d
DA and mayor with great hubris is killing the goose who lays the golden eggs. Seems like they loathe residents : just check out closing a major road for 4 days for speedway racing. Traffic chaos and cancelled and postponed events by various organisers due to concerns over traffic jams from this.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 3d
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 5d
In case anybody is wondering, yes, Turkey is still jailing journalists for reporting the news at an alarming rate.
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 6d
How fabulous is this?
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 8d
This hurts
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 9d
Damn and blast. Helen Lewis has written the piece of the year: a reported account of the Riyadh Comedy Festival which gently becomes an acute analysis of how the US is turning into Saudi Arabia and vice versa. It’s brilliantly funny, razor sharp and damn clever. Read it.
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 10d
#adoorable Thursdays. Cape Town.
Pretentious plaster surround of a plane wooden door. Building looking rather dilapidated
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 10d
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
SA masks its actions by becoming a key part of sport & culture. Lets also never forget that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018 by agents of the Saudi government at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Vivienne Westwood’s granddaughter criticises company as Riyadh fashion week deal announced
Brand defends decision to show in Saudi Arabia alongside Stella McCartney as ‘a way to encourage dialogue’
www.theguardian.com
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 11d
Oh this is an absolute delight
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 13d
This is a boffo piece from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com at @liberalcurrents.com

"The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won."

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...
How to Win a Rigged Game
The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.
www.liberalcurrents.com
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 14d
That's disappointing @bsky.app
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14d
RIP DIANE KEATON (1946-2025)
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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 15d
Wonderful to be at the opening of the Old Town House which had been closed due to an electrical blaze 10 years ago. Loved this self-portrait by Catharina van Hemessen, in which she represents herself, aged twenty in the act of painting (one of the earliest such portraits by a woman artist).
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