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Two young South Africans looked at the e-hailing industry and saw the same problem drivers have complained about for a decade. You work 12 hour days. You cover fuel, maintenance, data, your own safety. Then a platform based on the other side of the world takes 25 to 45 percent of every single trip. Persy Qamata and Msizi Mtolo built Bro Cabs because they were done watching that math play out on SA roads. Their model is simple. Zero commission. Drivers pay a R300 once off verification fee, then R600 a month. Every Rand from every trip after that belongs to the driver. Their words, unsoftened: when a driver hands over 30 to 45 percent of every trip, he isn't building anything. He's just surviving. It's not only about the money. Bro built its safety stack around the reality of SA roads. Panic button. Verified drivers. Live trip sharing. A 24 hour line where an actual person answers. Big platforms treated South Africa like just another market to conquer and move on from. Two local founders built something rooted here instead. That's not a small thing. That's a driver keeping what he actually earned. Built in SA. For SA. By SA.

Having no one to deliver 60/60 to the middle class is not as big a crisis as having poor South Africans wake up at 4am just to be number 107 at a local clinic. Let's get our priorities straight.

To remove the tears caused by Bafana Bafana, let’s use this as our tissue. Let’s make it go viral.

Luvo Manyonga 🇿🇦 jumped a mark 8.35m (+2.6) to win the men's Long Jump at Grand Slam Jerusalem, his best (all-conditions) mark since returning to competitive action. He was a class above the field, dominating the competition and even offering coaching tips to some of his fellow competitors during the contest. Gabriel Bitan 🇷🇴 finished 2nd with a best leap of 7.91m.

South Africa's Luvo Manyonga has won the Men's Long Jump at Grand Slam Jerusalam with a leap of 8.35m. He also won the Men's Long Jump event at the African Athletics Championships. The Athlete has inspired many people by turning his life around and overcoming drug addiction.

You can't think of a better South African tech startup success story without mentioning Yoco

Rich kids being able to do art for a living may be a reflection of their privilege but it seems to me like a reflection of the fact that a human that doesn't have to worry about money will often choose art. everyone is an artist until rent is due. i wish we all had that right

I slept over at my cousin's place(at the hood) bc he advised me not to drive back so late last night. He stays on the main road. By 4:30 AM, I was woken up by the sound of taxi's hooting & people commuting to work. Man, you can't tell me that black South Africans are "lazy."

Until we get a legal system that is willing and able to prosecute corrupt politicians, we will never get anywhere

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN FOR A SECOND, ENTERTAIN A REALITY WHERE YOU LOSE????????

Approximately 6 million people in SA live in shack dwellings. On cold and rainy days I am most reminded why that should not be tolerable as even the minimum quality of life a person in this country should have. We need to set a minimum that we will ensure noone lives below.

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If you live in South Africa and have a full-time job right now, count your blessings. Hundreds of thousands are qualified and willing to work. But opportunities are disappearing, salaries are shrinking, and even getting a response feels like winning the lottery.

Another payday, another donation of my money to fund a Porsche for someone stealing from the state.

Loadshedding killed businesses. Wiped out jobs. Destroyed livelihoods. Corruption is stealing South Africa’s future.

if you struggle with traditional employment (getting a job, keeping a job) it's a clear sign that you should be self employed. this is an even clearer sign if it is a consistent pattern in your life. soul search, learn a skill, start a business off that skill.

South Africa's graduate employment gap reveals a stark reality: white graduates face 7.9% unemployment vs 36.9% for black graduates. But why? The gap isn't about qualifications — it's about systems. White graduates benefit from stronger professional networks, giving them access to the "hidden job market" where most jobs are never advertised. Meanwhile, many black graduates rely solely on public job listings, a far less effective route. Institutional reputation plays a huge role too. Degrees from historically white universities are still perceived as more prestigious by private sector employers, creating bias before interviews even begin. Add in unequal access to internships, vacation work, and geographic proximity to economic hubs — and black graduates face compounding disadvantages before they even send their first CV. Fields of study matter as well. Black graduates are overrepresented in humanities; white graduates in engineering, ICT, and sciences — fields with stronger hiring demand. South Africa has made progress since 1994, but structural inequality doesn't disappear with a policy change. Closing this gap requires employers, universities, and government to actively dismantle the barriers that persist.

I have a friend, who is like a younger brother to me. A genius Chartered Accountant who was once a CFO of a municipality some years ago. They tried to make him do wrong things like bo Mnisi, mainly his political principals. When he refused to sign off dodgy deals, they sent people to beat him up, fortunately he survived, created all kinds of charges against him, suspended him, and during one of those periods he was suspended, he studied law, got his LLB, left government forever. He is a practing Advocate, specializing in Corporate Law, Tax Law, he's just a hell of a genius. Moral of the story? They always say municipalities are collapsing because they don't have capacity and skilled people. Those with skills are either corrupted, if they refuse to be corrupted, they are killed, or they are lost to the private sector. Sad state of affairs we have in this country. #MadlangaCommission

I’m on the pursuit of life, nothing else. Not money, not fame. Just life. I’m on the search for more knowledge. I don’t need more things. I want more experiences. I want things that make me feel. I want things that remind me of love, connection, community, and God.

I have so many friends who were engineers and A+ students, inventive with bright ideas who are sitting at home without a job. While this nonsense is being peddled