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24.03.25 - 08:01
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Monthly Update - February 2025 (Cision)
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24 March 2025
Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust plc
(the 'Company')
Monthly Update – February 2025
The Company's monthly factsheet as at 28 February 2025 is now available: https://www.awemtrust.com/factsheet
The Company was down 1.19% in February 2025, underperforming the benchmark by 0.35%. The key contributors include Alibaba (+42.8%, largest e-commerce company in China with presence in cloud computing and digital media), Naspers (+11.4%, one of the largest technology investors in the world and owns 57% of Prosus), and BYD Company (+34.6%, largest...
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18.03.25 - 12:12
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Professors Claim Musk′s Cybertruck Reminiscent Of Apartheid-Enforcing Vehicle In South Africa (ZeroHedge)
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Professors Claim Musk's Cybertruck Reminiscent Of Apartheid-Enforcing Vehicle In South Africa
Via The College Fix,
A pair of Rice University professors say Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertruck is reminiscent of a vehicle that “patrolled and terrorized” black townships in apartheid South Africa.
As such, Professors Vivian Chenxue Lu and Nana Osei-Opare write in Slate that the Cybertruck's similarities to the Casspir military vehicle (pictured, below) — intentional or not — “blur the boundaries between the battlefield and the public street.”
“[T]he Cybertruck's harsh, sharp edges remind us […] of something from the past: the larger armored personnel vehicles that patrolled streets throughout Musk's youth in apartheid South Africa,” the professors write.
“By the 1990s, the Casspir had become an iconic global symbol of apartheid oppression.”
Lu and Osei-Opare do their very best to link Musk to the Casspir, noting he “likely” would have seen the vehicle in his youth … ...
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