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@Sinawo_Thambo Lapho your father is about to be sentenced for firing a gun and you wanna lecture us about how disobedience?? Voetsek!!!

Protests led by Action SA, Ngizwe Mchunu, Jacinta Something and others. . . The EFF remains an example of how civil disobedience should be done. Political parties who are trying to mobilise votes using violence must be proud.

@DAGauteng Iphi icrocodile idle logogo siphumule?

⛱️🌊 Just another day in the City of Johannesburg. Let’s get Joburg working. Register to #VoteDA. Visit check.da.org.za.

So the IDC just ran a paid News24 piece telling South Africa how great they are. Allow me to do something the IDC apparently cannot: basic maths. They say they approved R26.6 billion in “transformation funding” last year and “created or preserved” 15,000 jobs. That is R1,773,333 per job. One million, seven hundred and seventy-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three rand. Per job. You could pay someone the average South African salary for nearly seven years with that money. Or you could give it to the IDC and they will “create or preserve” one job. Maybe. If the company does not end up in their R30 billion distress portfolio. Oh, did I not mention that? The IDC’s distress portfolio, that is the money they invested that is now in trouble, is R30 billion. That is bigger than the R26.6 billion they approved this year. They are underwater. They are losing money faster than they are deploying it. And of that R30 billion in distress? R9 billion is in black-empowered entities. So roughly a third of the “transformation” money they are bragging about in paid newspaper articles is currently circling the drain. But wait, there is more. Since 2017, the IDC has given R8.5 billion to 128 black industrialists. Sounds impressive until you learn that a single manganese company got R6.1 billion. One company. That is 72% of the total. Three companies consumed virtually the entire allocation. The average per industrialist? R66.4 million. Here is my favourite part: the IDC says 88% of its funding goes to black-owned businesses. Beautiful number. Very clean. Very round. Very paid-media-friendly. But when NAFCOC went to Parliament and said the IDC is undermining black industrialists through “aggressive recovery actions, premature legal enforcement, and liquidation processes,” the Portfolio Committee Chair responded: “It appears that the IDC has not effectively embedded issues of transformation in its business processes.” That is Parliament. Not me. Parliament. So here is what R26.6 billion in “transformation funding” actually looks like: 1. R1.77 million per job (if you believe the job numbers). 2. R30 billion in distress (which they do not mention in the paid article). 3. R9 billion in black business distress (which they definitely do not mention). 72% of black industrialist funding going to three companies (which they will never mention). But sure. Run the paid article. The maths will still be here in the morning.

@SizweDhlomo Bese kuthiwa 'a matric certificate is just a piece of paper' kodwa wona lo Newton 2 & 3 that people despise tells us about these scenarios

lol! Wena what were you thinking?

@HistorySAZAR This was probably in the Mapoch area a.k.a Jakalas Dans

Two young Ndebele women, Pretoria, Transvaal, c 1948. Photo Credit: Constance Stuart Larrabee, Smithsonian Archives

@ibbosnr Zimbabwe doesn't even have proper landing aids and they're often marred by communication blackouts so shut up

So sad that to this day SA doesn’t have a designated SADC corridor at International Arrivals in their airports. Not even a mention of the word SADC! Talk of SADC regional integration and solidarity when the power house itself is the only exception in this regard.

A young Hugh Masekela and Morris Goldberg, circa 1960s. Photo Credit: Alf Kumalo/Artsy

1949: Jim Comes to Jo'burg is a South African musical film. It is historically significant as the first feature-length film in South Africa to feature an all-Black cast. Footage: Villon Films

@eNCA I'll never stop being grateful to ubab' Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

"I was stupid. I was not thinking when I made that video." - Mike van Wyk, responding to a video he made with a stack of money. The Medicare24 CEO claims Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala gave him the money after asking him to get Julius Mkhwanazi to contact him. Tune in to #eNCA, channel #DStv403.

Extremely rare footage of Nelson Mandela, circa late 1940s. Credit Huntley Film Archives

@Mellza1234 @Vhoyde Ngapha the entire kasi watched the episode🫤

@EdibleBloke @Vhoyde I remember watching that episode the dude literally said his mother has destroyed his life cause he’s struggling in life cause of not him being connected to your his father’s surname it was so sad yooh

9 seasons of uTatakho

@utdbanele @Vhoyde 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@EdibleBloke @Vhoyde Sometimes they bring 4 people and all of them aren't the dad bro 😭😭😭😭

@kwets11 @Philan_Mbatha Omama bomanyano bro 🤣

@Philan_Mbatha Bra! Oomama abadala bra😭😂

There was one episode in particular that shocked Bra Nimrod so much where 5 potential fathers were tested and NONE of them were the father🤣🤣🤣🤣 The real father eventually reached out

@Chymamusique Honestly, because what the hell must we do with the fact that Ace would be 'bored with so many men'?? Sizibulale?? Some people are just plain nuts on this platform

Target market isn’t you market target you isn’t Isn’t you market target

@kwets11 @Vhoyde There was a particular episode where the mom (who was now a mature lady wesidima, long skirts, doeks etc) didn't know who her son's dad was after she'd tested the gentleman she thought sired her son. The son stood there in utter shock at the fact that his mom was once a hoe

Utatakho didn’t just expose how common infidelity is among black women, it also exposed generations of poor pussy management and promiscuity among black women in this country. A lot of those women would bring 3-4 men as options and none of them would be the father. Black men were called promiscuous deadbeats for years in this country, only to find a lot of black homes don’t have dads cause black women couldn’t keep track of who they were fucking.✋🏾😭

@LeratoMvelase @Powerfm987 thank you for playing Bridge over troubled waters.

@askghmedia Nigerians are 'smart' until you ask them why they can't use their so-called intellect to fix Nigeria

A Nigerian woman living in Ghana claims that Ghanaians are slow.

@_Teegan__ @Discovery_SA You can block them from sending you comms on your email account

@Discovery_SA what did I do to you guys! Please stop harassing me with emails. My card is closed and cancelled but seemingly you telling me to login using my ID number 😔😔😔 Guys I’m a single mom, please remove me from your system, the anxiety is too much now

@HermanMashaba The exact same thing is happening to Palestine as we speak

What happened to Black slaves in Argentina? Just over 200 years ago, the Black slaves in Argentina made up roughly 30% of the population. Are you interested to know, visit YouTube at your convenience.