Petru Viljoen
@petruviljoen.bsky.social
Artist, writer, animal lover, yogi
https://pviljoen.wordpress.com
https://pviljoen.wordpress.com
Abstract in Blue
90x120cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Available from Arteye Gallery. +27 713862198
90x120cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Available from Arteye Gallery. +27 713862198
December 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Abstract in Blue
90x120cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Available from Arteye Gallery. +27 713862198
90x120cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Available from Arteye Gallery. +27 713862198
June 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
The proverbial long arm of the law has caught up with a poacher who helped to kill two rhinos in the Kruger National Park more than four years ago - and then jumped bail.
LEGAL SENTENCING: Bail-jumping Kruger National Park rhino poacher put behind bars for 20 years
www.dailymaverick.co.za
April 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The proverbial long arm of the law has caught up with a poacher who helped to kill two rhinos in the Kruger National Park more than four years ago - and then jumped bail.
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
Early morning ride with mother & sister. Dark fields, thin sky, same old same old words, an itch like couchback blankets, a younger me pressed like a palm to the holes. #Time is a country road is a frayed-line ball of yarn rolling across a farmhouse floor. My mind is a soft mess unspooling.
#vss365
#vss365
April 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
April 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
April 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
Instead of heeding calls for mass protests on Monday against suggestions that President Emmerson Mnangagwa might seek a third term in office, Zimbabweans largely stayed at home, with schools and businesses closed.
Disillusioned Zimbabweans defy calls for revolt while ignoring government guarantees of safety
Instead of heeding calls for mass protests on Monday against suggestions that President Emmerson Mnangagwa might seek a third term in office, Zimbabweans largely stayed at home, with schools and businesses closed.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Instead of heeding calls for mass protests on Monday against suggestions that President Emmerson Mnangagwa might seek a third term in office, Zimbabweans largely stayed at home, with schools and businesses closed.
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
The success of the world’s biggest online video platform has been down to several key innovations.
The Conversation: YouTube at 20: how it transformed viewing in eight steps
www.dailymaverick.co.za
March 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The success of the world’s biggest online video platform has been down to several key innovations.
At #arteyegallery Gowrie Village, #brahmanhills KZN
February 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
At #arteyegallery Gowrie Village, #brahmanhills KZN
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
I don't this story has registered with enough people. OPM is trying to make it possible for Musk to control the IT of every federal agency and department. I assume that would give him access--backdoor access?--to...everything.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump White House moves to allow for a Musk takeover of government IT
The Office of Personnel Management is trying to make it easier to put ideologues and cronies in key tech roles.
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I don't this story has registered with enough people. OPM is trying to make it possible for Musk to control the IT of every federal agency and department. I assume that would give him access--backdoor access?--to...everything.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
Godiragetse Mogajane started his delivery business in 2021 with a few bicycles, WhatsApp and unemployed friends in his hometown of Hammanskraal.
He started with bicycles... now his township delivery business has 100 drivers in 4 provinces | News24
Godiragetse Mogajane started his delivery business four years ago with a few bicycles and WhatsApp near his home in Hammanskraal. Today, his delivery and logistics business operates in townships in fo...
www.news24.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Godiragetse Mogajane started his delivery business in 2021 with a few bicycles, WhatsApp and unemployed friends in his hometown of Hammanskraal.
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
After US President Donald Trump's inflammatory post about cutting off funding to South Africa because the government is "confiscating land", President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not engage Trump with a "begging bowl" but will instead educate him.
'We won't engage Trump with a begging bowl': Ramaphosa plans to educate US leader on expropriation | News24
After US President Donald Trump's inflammatory post about cutting off funding to South Africa because the government is "confiscating land", President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not engage Trump wit...
www.news24.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
After US President Donald Trump's inflammatory post about cutting off funding to South Africa because the government is "confiscating land", President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will not engage Trump with a "begging bowl" but will instead educate him.
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
OPINION | US President Donald Trump will soon realise that South Africans don't like people spreading lies about us. Here, we still deal with facts, writes @adriaanbasson.bsky.social
Adriaan Basson | Trump, the liar, has touched South Africa on our studio | News24
US President Donald Trump will soon realise that South Africans don't like people spreading lies about us. Here, we still deal with facts, writes Adriaan Basson.
www.news24.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
OPINION | US President Donald Trump will soon realise that South Africans don't like people spreading lies about us. Here, we still deal with facts, writes @adriaanbasson.bsky.social
Reposted by Petru Viljoen
Follow live: President Cyril Ramaphosa to deliver the 2025 State of the Nation Address: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
February 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Follow live: President Cyril Ramaphosa to deliver the 2025 State of the Nation Address: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
February 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
focus interrupted by a doorbell – as if there was one
the shift painful – unseeing the vision forming yet
a glimmer remains – the pieces to be picked up later
………………..
Linked to Ink in Thirds
the shift painful – unseeing the vision forming yet
a glimmer remains – the pieces to be picked up later
………………..
Linked to Ink in Thirds
January 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
focus interrupted by a doorbell – as if there was one
the shift painful – unseeing the vision forming yet
a glimmer remains – the pieces to be picked up later
………………..
Linked to Ink in Thirds
the shift painful – unseeing the vision forming yet
a glimmer remains – the pieces to be picked up later
………………..
Linked to Ink in Thirds
January 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
walking off the blues
twice about the midnight pond
a flush of flower
Artwork available from Art Eye Gallery
[email protected]
#artistsoninstagram @ArtCollectors #cyanotype
January 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
walking off the blues
twice about the midnight pond
a flush of flower
Artwork available from Art Eye Gallery
[email protected]
#artistsoninstagram @ArtCollectors #cyanotype
Heart locked in a (safe). Code combination long forgotten. A crime movie – thief with a stethoscope turning the dial this way and that, listening. There never was a key.
a mug hurled
again and again – pitch
of breaking calibrated
#poetry #haibun #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
a mug hurled
again and again – pitch
of breaking calibrated
#poetry #haibun #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
December 22, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Heart locked in a (safe). Code combination long forgotten. A crime movie – thief with a stethoscope turning the dial this way and that, listening. There never was a key.
a mug hurled
again and again – pitch
of breaking calibrated
#poetry #haibun #haiku #senryu #micropoetry
a mug hurled
again and again – pitch
of breaking calibrated
#poetry #haibun #haiku #senryu #micropoetry