Miles of magic along the PCT It had been five days since my last shower, but that would have to wait – I had survived the past 15km fueled solely by the promise of a burger.

Reminding myself that one should never judge a people by the quality of their politicians...

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An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

SOUTH AFRICA: Sibanye-Stillwater’s Neal Froneman to retire: the man who spun South African gold into a global Goliath

Neal Froneman has been a towering figure in the world of mining, a deal maker of note who used the cash churned from three South African gold mines to finance a dizzying merger and acquisition spree.

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Meet the mine workers who will face Mamelodi Sundowns in the Nedbank Cup | City Press 'Sometimes we start working before sunrise and we are at training from 3pm' – Sibanye Golden Stars FC captain Moiloa Molefe.

Super excited to be cheering on my brand-new colleagues at Sibanye-Stillwater this weekend!

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How Stilfontein spiralled out of control - Currency News There are many issues feeding into the humanitarian crisis at the North West mine. But there’s no doubt the state’s iron-fist response made things worse.

The tragedy at the North West mine speaks to a litany of ills: unemployment, collapsing municipalities, a lack of border control and the South African police’s inability to deal with crime. Then the state’s iron-fist response made it even worse, writes Rob Rose. currencynews.co.za/how-stilfont...

Mantashe, Mchunu told to ‘voetsek’ after 27 bodies retrieved from Stilfontein mine While rescue teams worked to retrieve illegal miners trapped in the Buffelsfontein gold mine just outside Stilfontein, anxious relatives watched from the sidelines as miners and corpses were brought o...

Mantashe and Mchunu told to ‘voetsek’ after 27 bodies retrieved from Stilfontein mine, after Mantashe said there was no humanitarian solution for people who broke the law. (This is not a rule applied to ANC cadres, obviously.) www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

There’s truly no place like New Orleans man. I hope (and have little doubt) that things will be the back to the good kind of crazy soon if they aren’t already

That was the plan but only managed a bit more than half. The Sierra passes were not kind to the knees, but well worth it! 😉

And along the PCT on a very early July morning earlier this year 🤍

In the evening, the Karoo always apologises for the day. - Sheila Snyman (via Carnarvon's wonderful Pieter Hoffman)
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