Louis Oelofse

Louis Oelofse

@loelof.bsky.social

Journo at Deutsche Welle dw.com, Chevening alumnus, traveller, interested in some art and most history, wannabe baker, drinker of coffee. 🇿🇦 in 🇩🇪

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Rachel Savage
@rachelmsavage.bsky.social

Running the 55-mile Comrades ultramarathon is so normal in South Africa that it's hard to find someone who doesn't know a finisher. Covering the 12-hour race was one of the most life-affirming experiences of my career. Read my story here, with beautiful photos by James Oatway.

theguardian.comSweat, tears and camaraderie as 20,000 runners take on world’s largest ultramarathonFor one day every June, South Africa’s searing racial inequality seems to melt away at Comrades race

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Reuters Institute
@reutersinstitute.bsky.social

NYT publisher A. G. Sulzberger on why (and how) publishers should fight AI platforms “Our profession has been too quiet, too passive and too fragmented in the face of these abuses,” he said at the World News Media Congress Read his speech in full reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-yor...

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukNew York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger on why (and how) news publishers should fight AI platforms“Our profession has been too quiet, too passive and too fragmented in the face of abuses by AI companies,” he says at the World News Media Congress

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Dean Wingrin
@deanwingrin.bsky.social

SANDF is cash-strapped Military analyst, Dean Wingrin speaks to Joanne Joseph on #TheDailyDiscourse on South Africa’s military and the consequences of years of defunding, leading to loss of capabilities. omny.fm/shows/thedai...

omny.fmSANDF is cash-strapped - The Daily DiscourseSouth Africa’s military is reportedly cash-strapped. Reports say the South African National Defence Force has had to ground most of its Oryx helicopters except for one, because the fleet is old and th...

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European Space Agency
@esa.int

🎉#Artemis II update: Integrity is back on Earth! At 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST, Orion and its crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. 🚀Our European Service Module propelled Orion over 1 million km through deep space, before burning up in Earth's atmosphere, its job complete 🔥 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Louis Oelofse
@loelof.bsky.social

Valid sentiment

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social

Lord knows I hate what Twitter / X has become. But it's only on Twitter that I can still get real-time African reactions to the Cup of African Nations stripping Senegal of the CAF championship and giving it to Morocco. I wish Bluesky were more global. It's just... not.

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Auschwitz Memorial
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Louis Oelofse
@loelof.bsky.social

New Year, new season of The Continent being published weekends, highly recommended!

The Continent@thecontinent.org

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 225 of The Continent Superpowers don’t only control African minerals with loans, bribes and threats. Sometimes it’s through financial sleight of hand, as is the case of a Malawian mining licence granted in 2017. bit.ly/225_TC

Louis Oelofse
@loelof.bsky.social

For Americans, the Vietnam War might have been the first war they saw on TV, but for us in South Africa, it was the Iraq War and the 24-hour television news revolution brought to our homes by Peter Arnett and others at CNN. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

washingtonpost.comPeter Arnett, Pulitzer winner who covered wars in Vietnam and Iraq, dies at 91The New Zealand native reported live for CNN from Baghdad as missiles rained down on the city in 1991 and covered the Vietnam War for more than a decade.
Louis Oelofse
@loelof.bsky.social

War inc.

SIPRI.bsky.social@sipri.org

SIPRI Top 100 arms producers see combined revenues surge as states rush to modernize and expand arsenals. The arms revenues of the SIPRI Top 100 companies totalled $679 billion in 2024, +5.9% from 2023. New #SIPRI data on the #ArmsIndustry available now ➡️ bit.ly/4pzRarN

Louis Oelofse
@loelof.bsky.social

I have previously seen the work of MSF in Haiti and in several conflict zones in Africa. They do great work, please support them if you can.

Doctors Without Borders@doctorswithoutborders.org

What a two-week rotation at a hospital in Kherson, Ukraine looks like: The medical team doesn't leave the hospital because it's too dangerous. With near-daily bombing in the area, they create a basement shelter & gym, and deals with power cuts during surgery. The full doc: https://bit.ly/4py4pcP