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Oliver Tambo, born on this day in 1917, was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.

In 1943, Tambo, along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, founded the ANC Youth League, with Tambo becoming its first National Secretary and a member of the National Executive in 1948. The Youth League proposed a change in the tactics of the anti-apartheid movement, advocating boycotts, civil disobedience, strikes, and non-collaboration.

In 1960, Tambo fled South Africa due to political persecution, living in exile in north London for thirty years. From London, he supported and helped organize the ANC in the fight against apartheid from a distance. On December 13th, 1990, Tambo returned to South Africa and was elected National Chairperson of the ANC.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

OH! Fun fact about this particular company

On some of their workstations they are running some kind of Linux. They are using a WM that looks like JWM and they have configured fucking conky to show information related to the work being done.

What the fuck. Love seeing products of free, creatively-applied labor (barely including Linux because that is basically for-profit product these days) being appropriated to use as tools in the extraction of surplus value. Maybe I have said too much specific info but I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

they have configured fucking conky to show information related to the work being done

I thought you meant the disk activity / CPU levels and such and I figured "so what" but you meant the human work being done, didn't you. In which case it's fucking grim.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

you meant the human work being done, didn't you. In which case it's fucking grim.

Yeah!! That's what I meant. It really is :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

and they have configured fucking conky-

Oh that's nice, I like having a resource use monitor on the desktop

to show information related to the work being done.

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