Ngcebo S. Mhlongo

@Mpumiln I believed that rumour way longer than I should have.

Ngikutshela ngama 1K mina. We even started a rumour that Theo from Boom Shaka was a girl. 😭🤣

@murphygee5 The proposal to make podcast equipment expensive was valid. Some of these podcasts are bad for one's IQ.

What's your view on podcasts?

@PortiaMoemedi It's probably similar to my Tswana. I sound like a robot with speech impairment when I try to speak Tswana 🤣.

Ba re my Zulu is not broken , it’s paralysed??? Okes???????

@PortiaMoemedi I like the old logos like the ones of Mangosuthu, Zululand, Vaal, and Wits, but for me, the old Stellenbosch one was just too busy for my liking. There's just something off with it.

@Mhlongons I hate the new one so much. Looks like something from Canva

Same. And Mangysuthu, Vaal and Stellenbosch. I think it’s because it’s OLD or something. I don’t know.

@Kolie_Yola @Ndoni_ZN I knew Kayamandi existed, but I thought it was a decent township like Umlazi. I did not expect this.

I went there last year and was a little shocked that Stellenbosch has places like this. I realized that in all my years of visiting Stellies I've been confined to the university precinct and wine farms.

@ta_kweila It looks like it was designed by a grade 4 learner.

University of Limpopo must do some redesigning of that crest... Universities sell prestige, aspiration am also tempted to say elite signalling It is not about education, and yes symbols matter coz the society (read 'the market') rewards signals, not just substance

@African_Spring All the best!

ANNOUNCEMENT: CLLR WELEKAZI FOR KZN PROVINCIAL CHAIR Fellow Democrats, After engaging with colleagues across our province, I have accepted the nomination to stand for Provincial Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal. My journey into public life has always been rooted in service. Growing up in a family that experienced the realities of apartheid, I developed an early commitment to justice and opportunity. That calling led me into education, where I served as a teacher and later in school leadership, before entering public office. In the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, I have worked to build trust through consistency, responsiveness and a deep understanding of the issues our communities face. I believe our strength as a party lies in our branches, activists and communities. If we are serious about growing the DA in KZN, we must place our grassroots at the centre of how we organise and lead. I am stepping forward to help build a DA that: •Empowers branches as the engine of growth •Connects meaningfully with communities •Develops leaders across all levels •Is united, focused, and ready to win This campaign is about strengthening how we organise, lead and grow – from the ground up. A stronger KZN, together. Councillor Welekazi Sibiya Candidate for Provincial Chairperson #AStrongerKZNTogether

@n_makhubele Indeed!

Even if we freeze to death, winter will remain the best season ever🥹

@BantuMthabela_ In his defence, I would also struggle since I am used to uphuthu. I eat this type of pap with a spoon unless it's freshy cooked, then it's still soft enough to scoop with your hands.

To show you that he's not used to this, look how he broke off the pap... 😭✋🏽

@SneKhumaloSA Angithi nathi, we are always singing and dancing. Even at DA congresses, it's black people who are always singing and dancing. At political rallies, we are singing and dancing. Adverts directed at a black audience always include singing and dancing. We feed the stereotype.

The way the DA is campaigning makes me feel so uncomfortable. In 'white areas' (despise the term), there's a certain gravitas in the way they conduct their electioneering. There is town hall type of meetings, speeches and explaining their policies etc.. In 'Black areas', they go to shisanyamas et al, dance and toto toyi looking absolutely ridiculous. They play into these racist and anti Black stereotypes and they don't even see how utterly out of touch they look

A young Letta Mbulu leads a choir singing Miriam Makeba's Nongqongqo in the 1973 film 'A Warm December', directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Credit: Black Excellence (YT)

@sziks Congratulations, Mr Zikalala.

#TwoOceansMarathon completed in 6:21:14 #TTOM #TTOM2026 ✅

@shufflesdu Maybe the car wash business is not doing well 🤔.

Recently went to a carwash I had gone to a handful times over 2 years. The owner took the opportunity to hold us hostage while we waited & sold us some snake oil miracle cell products that purport to cure anything from cancer to neoliberal tendencies. I'm at a new place today.

@shufflesdu Hear! Hear!

Phones should be sold with earphones again. People are too comfortable playing their TikToks at the highest volume in public spaces.

@barrybateman Indeed! If only such a thing existed. We wouldn't have all these unnecessary trucks on the road, but alas, such a thing does not exist in South Africa because politicians own trucking companies.

Looking at this picture reminds me of that invention, though I cannot quite remember the name. Here you have individual engine things each pulling single cargo things. Now imagine one very strong engine thing pulling hundreds of cargo things, and then putting that long power-engine-cargo-thing on its very own special highway that stretches hundreds of kilometres. Mindblowing. Why don't we have those things?

@thamieverywhere Yes, but flying to or from there is expensive. It's a small Airport.

Richards bay has an airport?😳

@MbekezeliMB I hate those people. We buy concert tickets to listen to the artist, not to listen to the crowd talking over the artist. I wish this behaviour was confined to Johannesburg, but it seems to be everywhere.

Joburg friends, is it a thing to have full blown conversations during a live performance? I was quite surprised at how many times people were told to keep quiet during a jazz show. The artist herself thanked the crowd for keeping quiet during one of the slow songs. Haibo?

@MissNthabeleng Nissan 1400 is a South African classic. Your friends should have been in awe when they saw it.

My Dad has a Toyota 1400, I’m not sure how long he’s had that car for, it’s probably older than me. It’s only 2 people that could drive it, my late cousin and my Dad. That car has no keys, only they know how to open the doors, start it and drive it, they can literally leave that car idling and no one would steal it that how special it is 😂 Then in 2003, going back to Pretoria Tech for my second year, they decided to take me back in that car with my luggage 🙆🏽‍♀️😭. My cousin and I were to drive the whole day to Pretoria…. My parents weren’t serious, ME? In a Toyota 1400 that looks like that? What are my friends going to say? Why do they want to embarrass me? I protested. An urgent family meeting was called, they insisted there’s no any other car to take me to Pretoria, it’s only the 1400 available. They had to make a plan, my Dad must cancel his plans if needed be, if he wants me to go back to school that is.. I said I was told to leave the room as they deliberated, after sometime I was told I would be travelling with my Dad to Pretoria and 1400 would be transporting my things… That was a much better deal. My Dad and I got there before the 1400, when my cousin finally arrived, my friends went to help me get my stuff, the way they laughed at the car… I joined them in laughter shem because why am I in the 1400?

@dyanieric @IvynSambo

@IvynSambo A 50 y/o was 20 or less when apartheid ended, that's school going age and there was baas at school even then. Deal with your garden 'boy' and stop being an ageist!

Guys, apartheid really did a number on the older generation. A month ago, I saw this beautiful garden and wanted to hire the person taking care of it. I hired this old gentleman I guess he’s in his late 50s, if not 60s. He’s a nice guy, gets the work done, and makes my garden look beautiful too. But here’s the problem: he is suffering from what I can only describe as post-apartheid syndrome. Every day he calls me “baas,” even though I’ve repeatedly told him to call me Ivyn. Whenever we go to the garden refuse, he automatically jumps onto the back of my bakkie to sit with the garden waste and I have to insist that he sits in the front with me. Not only that, but when I give him food, he used to sit on the floor until I started telling him to sit on the camping chair. He’s so used to working under apartheid-era white South Africans that his mind still seems programmed for that dynamic. Even with payment, he charged me below the minimum wage. Only my wife and I insisted that we would pay him above minimum wage because we believe in living wages. It’s just so sad to see this still happening in 2026.