The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/the-man-who-blew-up-a-nuclear-power-station-koeberg-south-africa

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fellow bisexual newsletter subscriber!!

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There’s a bisexual newsletter?

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i meant the guardian newsletter lol

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It’s really sad to me how low effort screenshots of tweets get upvoted to heaven on Lemmy, and amazing quality journalism like this only occasionally make it into my feed.

Thanks for posting.

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No problem! I felt I had to share when I came across it on another site. I will try to post more quality longer reads as I find them.

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there’s some commags like !longreads@sh.itjust.works and !longformindepth@lemmy.world you might be interested in

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Didn’t the anc do all sorts of war crime level torture to people notably putting a tire around someone’s neck filling it with petrol then setting it on fire. Go google the pictures of that and the number of people they subjected to this and tell me they where the good guys again will you.

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It was never directly endorsed by the ANC, and generally condemned by them, albeit not the individuals accused of the practice. They referred to the practice as “necklacing”. The closest I am aware of an endorsement of it was from Nelson Mandela’s wife Winnie who said in 1986:

“With our boxes of matches, and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country”.

All that said, I’m never surprised when state violence is thrown out liberally that there is a counter effect. If you treat people like animals for long enough they will eventually oblige you.

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Yes the people fighting apartheid were the good guys

This isn’t hard, and that wasn’t news to most of the world when we sided with them.

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