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Peter Bruce

@psb29.bsky.social
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Former South African print editor now columnist and fumbling podcaster. Ex FT, ex Financial Mail, ex Business Day. Springboks, Tottenham Hotspur 🙈, Real Madrid. Liberal. Homeboy.

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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
From my interview with leading South African businessman Phuthuma Nhleko..., x.com/bruceps/stat...
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social goes to the heart of it. The ANC and Solidarity really are the last relics of Apartheid. If they continue to live in the past, the sooner both are dead and buried the better. PETER BRUCE | Time’s up for the madness of the elites www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
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Time’s up for the madness of the elites
In what can pass for debate, you are either for hiring quotas because look how many whites have jobs, or against them because look how nonracial you are, writes Peter Bruce.
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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My weekly (well I try 🙄) podcast makes its first appearance on BlueSky... A former leader of the Aouth African opposition on the stamina of his successor... podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/p...
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Is Helen Zille bad for the DA brand?
Podcast Episode · Podcasts from the Edge · 29/04/2025 · 41m
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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My weekly (well I try 🙄) podcast makes its first appearance on BlueSky... A former leader of the Aouth African opposition on the stamina of his successor... podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/p...
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Is Helen Zille bad for the DA brand?
Podcast Episode · Podcasts from the Edge · 29/04/2025 · 41m
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thank you, Sen. Van Hollen, for standing up not just for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his family but for every American who believes in due process. We can't stop speaking out until he is home and this administration is forced to stop its horrific practice of kidnapping people without charge or trial.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Just brilliant...
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nwgeorgiadenizen.bsky.social @nwgeorgiadenizen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Based on the soon to be infamous “auto pen legal gambit”, the courts should subpoena Trump to testify how he directly signed 6,000+ January 6th pardons.
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Blanche Devereaux II @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I try not to post his face or voice but this video by @thedailyshow.com is pretty good
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Matthew Norman @thenormannation.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Okay, Europe, it’s up to you. We can’t be trusted for the foreseeable future. Godspeed.
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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The South Africa that people are blaming for Elon Musk hasn’t existed in 30 years. Apartheid didn’t shape Musk’s eugenicist-fascism — the family came to live here because apartheid suited their existing beliefs. They left when this (the country, not their beliefs) started to change.
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Philip Machanick 🇿🇦 @philip-mach.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Report this thread: it needs to be seen.
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
@psb29.bsky.social right on the money as usual. When will South Africa have a viable opposition party with the means, ambition, and politics that will win a majority ocer the ANC (and its evil step-kids)? PETER BRUCE | Don’t fret Joburg, Cyril’s gonna save you www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
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Don’t fret Joburg, Cyril’s gonna save you
Exposed to reality at last, the president punts a model nobody understands, writes Peter Bruce.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025
Vance blew up that meeting on purpose
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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My podcast with Joel Pollak, the man most likely to become Donald Trump's ambassador to South Africa... x.com/financialmai...
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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My podcast with Joel Pollak, the man most likely to become Donald Trump's ambassador to South Africa... x.com/financialmai...
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Called this since Zille snatched back control of the DA and installed her minions. She said that 20% gave you influence - discovering being the junior partner sucks. @psb29.bsky.social sums it all up. PETER BRUCE | Cold-blooded and swift change looms in DA www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
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A cold-blooded change looms in the DA
The party is due to hold a federal congress in 2026, though that could come earlier, writes Peter Bruce.
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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Christmas is over. This morning we start a 1300km drive home to Stanford in the Cape, from an always divine Umngazi, near Port St John's on South Africa's east coast. We're in a great little Volvo XC40 but you still have to hope people drive carefully ... hasta luego
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/12/2024
China flirts with deflation despite stimulus www.ft.com/content/7a9c963c-b1af-4c…
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China flirts with deflation despite stimulus
Weak price growth adds pressure on officials to do more to revive consumer spending at upcoming policy meeting
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Indeed, it has been a year, and seems to be ending with a bang with events in Syria. Thanks for the interesting insights, views and reads @psb29.bsky.social, enjoy the holidays. PETER BRUCE | It was quite a year, pity about the snacks www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
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It was quite a year, pity about the snacks
Provided you’re not poor, sick, old or a Woolies sugar-free snack addict, South Africa is a cool place to live and you’ll probably have a decent holiday, writes Peter Bruec.
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Amongst all the noise and angst, there are some simple macro-economic truths that the markets determine regardless of what politicians want, say, or do. As always, @psb29.bsky.social setting this out clearly. PETER BRUCE | Reserve Bank is correct to be cautious www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
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Reserve Bank is correct to be cautious
Money not being invested makes no noise so it is easy to ignore, especially perhaps in these times when the noises about us that we do hear are so positive, writes Peter Bruce.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Map shows the result of the famous wallet experiment. How honest are the people in 16 global cities? Is your city represented fairly? Source: buff.ly/2PzLjDi
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
More, even crazier, Trump projection. Failed coup attempts are what, historically, often result in execution, not General Milley’s actions.
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Peter Bruce @psb29.bsky.social · 08/08/2023
Great to be on @bsky.social .. it's going to be real again...
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 07/08/2023
📢 Version 1.43 is rolling out to the App & Play Stores now! • Deleted, blocked, and muted posts behave more correctly now when quote-posted • Swipe up to easily view a profile from the preview • Faster loading times
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