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@RediTlhabi Sigh. No, No. let’s follow this black family dynamic thesis- most black families, most kids are closest to mom’s side&if parents are divorced or mom passes away even more so, maternal family steps up. So not inconceivable at all that because of my son there is ongoing proximity

There is a lot to criticize about Ramaphosa, and we must. But there is some bad faith posturing here. Maybe he should have said, "I have no relationship with him..." but the idea that he would not know/remember a nephew of an ex-wife from 1978, who was 5 at the time of the marriage, is not inconceivable. They divorced when the boy was 9. You tell me which man stays in touch with an ex wife's 9 year old nephew after marrying his second wife (may her soul rest peacefully.) The second marriage also ended in divorce and he married his lovely current wife, Dr Tshepo. New relationships, new in laws, new nephews and nieces over close to 5 decades, but that nephew from 1978 is his man? Some of you don't know your nephews' names and birthdays.😝 You tell me if you have not experienced a "Hawu, ke wena ngoana Peter? Peter wa ko Orlando? Waitse Peter ne e le mchana wa Rakgadi Josephine? Wa mo tseba Rakgadi Josephine wa ko Bom Town? Mme wa Silus wa ko Beverly Hills? Ke wena?" You are black and never had that situation? Le maka.

@TheOpinion8d1 @karynmaughan Sounds like 3/5 CV’s that land on my desk for junior CA/Actuarial vacancies . Very inspiring.

According to the 2022 census, there are 1 226 centenarians (people aged 100 and older) in the Vhembe district municipality. That's more than anywhere else in the country. And almost half of them - 503 - live in the Thulamela local municipality, or, traditionally, Venda. 1/2

When Tyla said she is not Black but Coloured, she was not speaking into the American conversation about race at all. She was speaking in the language of her own country, shaped by its own history. Yet her words detonated in America as though they had been aimed there. This is what happens when a nation has spent a century convincing the world that its definitions are the only ones that matter. America’s greatest export has never been war. It has never been democracy. It has never been freedom. America’s greatest export is the dream of itself. It is not that the films are inherently better. It is not that the music contains some mystical note absent elsewhere. What America has, and what it has always had, is money, reach, and a machinery built to make its image the centre of the world. This was not accidental. It was policy. It was the soft arm of empire. To project yourself outward until your face is the first one people recognise in the mirror. And so the American way of life became the default. Other cultures were filed into two neat drawers: savage if they challenged the story, exotic if they could be sold back to you. If you are Black, your first cinematic self was likely African American, the rapper, the sitcom character, the hero of a Spike Lee joint. If you are white in Europe or Australia, it was the white faces of American sitcoms and stadium tours. Whoever you were, your first image of yourself came with an American accent. Over time, Americans began to believe the story they had written. When you grow up in the country that built itself into the cultural Mecca, it is easy to think you are the best simply because you are on top. You forget, or never know, that the game was fixed long before you played it. But the monopoly is breaking. Nigeria’s Nollywood now speaks across oceans. South Korean dramas leap borders. India’s Bollywood never needed permission to fill theatres. Spanish thrillers keep strangers awake at night. Slumdog Millionaire, Squid Game, Money Heist, Shōgun — all aimed partly at the American market because that is where the money is, but no longer about America. And here is the thing. Black Americans, who fought to be seen in their own country, became the global face of Blackness. That is a remarkable achievement. It was also made possible by the same system that excluded everyone else. Now Africans, Caribbeans, and Afro-Latins tell their own stories without making room for American centrality, and the absence is noticed. We grew up watching you. You did not grow up watching us. And now the internet has levelled the ground just enough for others to speak without hesitation. Tyla’s words land differently because the world no longer accepts America as the only arbiter of meaning. America’s greatest export was never its art. It was the power to decide which art, and which identities, the world would see. That power is no longer yours alone. There is both justice and loss in that.

@MatshidisoAnnen The script kept getting worse though ☹️ but I watched in solidarity and hope 🙈

@PhilMphela We need more shows Sestswana shows. The Throne did not get the recognition it deserved

Connie Ferguson KB Motsilenyane Presley Chweneyagae Mandla Gaduka Katlego Danke Stoan Seate Moshidi Motshegwa Warren Masemola Thank you for keeping Setswana alive on mainstream media. Our broadcasters sometimes relegate us to supporting status but you never miss a moment to remind them that we exist. I always feel seen because of you. You make our language cool and dare I say it ... RELEVANT Kea leboga. Ga chono kgotsa sebaka se itlhagisa, lea re emella ka matlhotlhonno. #RIPPresleyChweneyagae

@PhilMphela Now if only script writers would learn the proper pronouns for family members when they do a show. Malome ka Setswana is for maternal males please dear people. Rakgadi’s husband is called Rakgadi. And so forth. Thank you for coming to my hijacked Ted talk.

@afukkendime The difference is that she apologised, long before reunion #MommyClubShowmaxS3

#TheMommyClub3 I hear the Vuyi chat but we are NOT gonna act like Noksie is this perfect angel 🤣🤚

@Nomakhosi_N This irritated me so much, the whole point of the reunion is to rehash the season, and Noksie was giving context for the offense at the time! Yoh, I was like Andy where art though ?

This Ntombee girl is either slow or too much mbhacanga music is playing in her head, coz why TF she ask Noksie this nonsense. The whole point of a reunion is to bring everything back, so wtf she mean… #mommyclubshowmax #MommyClubShowmaxS3 #MommyClubShowmaxS3reunion

@letele09 2/2 she prob approached the show with same “hustle/job energy “ when people don’t deliver we call them a ** in jest, &it’s part of the rapport-It only works in protected spaces& that’s the adjustment she didn’t make. don’t think she came with bad intentions #mommyclubreunion

So are all gonna turn a blind eye to the fact that Noksie came into the group to undermine all the other ladies, and what the ladies did was to defend themselves? All I saw was the ladies defending themselves and not bullying. I feel that the reunion is biased🤞 #mommyclubshowmax

@letele09 I don’t know her but I think I can explain Noksie 1. she’s an estate agent, it’s a blunt ,direct environment.Can you afford the house or not type of energy, so part of it is commercial training. 2. the language in small entrepreneurial offices can be foul. 1/2. #mommyclubreunion

@Nomakhosi_N She had to shrink so much of herself just to get through filiming, I suspect.. 😔☹️

I still feel sad Noksie couldn’t enjoy the whole ride of being on the show. Those 4 bullied her unprovoked. The poor lil thing lost her spark. #MommyClubShowmax #MommyClubShowmaxS3

@NetFlorist your website is freezing on payment screen and the call centre says only option is to give CC details over the phone? In the era of online fraud, that can’t be the solution? I asked for EFT option, not available? Please advise?

Some pupils at Manogelo Primary School in Mokgola village in the North West are being taught in a parking lot. Parents claim when they approached the government over this, they were told to raise funds. They say the kids were moved from a shack that is in bad condition to the parking lot. @RefiloeSeboko has more. Watch: tinyurl.com/4zxz2kkb #Newzroom405

@teffo_ME Aquelle water court case to be specific.

@teffo_ME On a completely different note, please google Aquelle water....

I always do this but the total here is not the same as the one at the till, the one at the till is more, what could be wrong? 😭

@Maso_90 @MbalulaFikile I hold no brief for either but PIC(GEPF) was a shareholder in Steinhoff so in the end we all pay.

@MbalulaFikile So this is a competition of who’s more wrong than the other? 🤔 One is sponsored, the other is public financed.

Look who's talking, Muruti waTsosi, a Stiensmuffet - paid back the stolen sponsorship yet ? Abefundisi beLast Days !

@ubomiabumanga_ What a challenging and profound statement. Thank you for this.

you cannot hard work yourself out of a dysfunctional and perpetually poor country. the black condition will pierce through your high fenced multi million rand estate. there will be no VIP’s in our looming war of class struggles.

@nasiphim Expropriate the land mam. I also think that we need innovation and intelligence to solve modern day city problems. You just cant keep replacing cable over and over 🙆🏽‍♀️ sounds like the solutions are done in silos and no futureproofing.

A resident from Pretoria East, Erasmuskloof tells us at the community engagement that her property has lost value by R800,000 due to an informal settlement that mushroomed in her backyard. She has asked the City to take action despite the settlement being on private property. @CityTshwane

@PhilMphela Its not committed, its death by suicide.

RIP: Statement from Dibakwane family The family has confirmed that comedian, actor, & writer Ebenhaezer Dibakwane committed suicide. He was 31 years old. Details of the funeral service are on the picture attached below … #RIPEbenhaezerDibakwane

@ZakesMda @Lesufi Sir, look at 4ways mall. Malls are not always a silver bullet. GP needs infrastructure investment and Maintenance. What is happening with Gautrain expansion? Thats where we should be deploying resources, not another mall.

My brother, it is a fact that a mall is purpose-built for consumption. In our country where the manufacturing industries have been gutted out, the consumption is mostly of goods produced by other countries, sometimes from our own raw materials. A factory/plant is purpose-built for production, whether of goods or services, including information and technology. Johannesburg is replete with malls already. They do create some employment. But not as much as would be the case if for a change we focused more on places of production, even mere cottage industry. 😂 I am glad that you respect me. I respect you too. But a statement of FACT that we continue to build palaces of consumption rather than of production is not cause enough to stop your respect. And indeed we can have differing views on any subject without anyone of us threatening to disrespect the other.