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I am that mad at you fam 🤣🤣 you keep ignoring my beat mails

Lowfeye Dropped x Khaya DoomAKU dropped! Ooh maaan, listen to both albums and hear them representing their hometowns, their paths, and, most importantly, expressing themselves in the best way ever. This has got to be the best season of South African hip-hop.

Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it, not post about it. the child watches your hands, what you do when you are tired, what you do when you are mad, what you do when nobody else is looking. that is your only sermon and you cannot fake it for one day because children are bullshit detectors made of flesh. if you are a weak man your son will know it before he can spell the word weak, and he either becomes you or becomes the opposite of you, both out of desperation.

Your capacity for growth is directly linked to the level of truth you can face about yourself without running away.

I have come to realize that the heaven and hell story is easy to believe because people would rather accept the promise of an afterlife than question its purpose. If we are being honest, what exactly does an afterlife serve to fulfill? What does it do for us here, now? How does it help us? What makes the idea of an afterlife so enduring is not necessarily its truth, but its comfort. It offers a continuation, a guarantee that nothing is wasted, that suffering is accounted for, that injustice will somehow be balanced. It answers, perhaps too neatly, the human fear that this cannot be all there is. But comfort is not the same as truth. And the more comforting an idea is, the less inclined we are to interrogate it. We cling to it, protect it, build entire lives around it; we cannot claim to have tested it, because testing no longer matters. We need the story to be true, and so it is, even when that truth is not verified, nor can it be. And once something becomes necessary to believe, questioning it becomes a threat; almost a betrayal. People avoid this line of thinking because it demands too much. It forces them to question everything they have accepted without scrutiny, and in that questioning, they may begin to see the cracks; first in the idea, then in the faith that sustains it. And so, it becomes easier to believe than to question.

Another thing that I found crazy was how “successful” people hardly write books in SA. We know now that it was all money from corruption. Success by its very nature forces a person to want to share the keys. In SA the only books we get are books that create political shock or scandal which is also by design by the publishers. We don’t get inspirational books from people with real work behind them. Madness

A LIST OF ILLUSIONS: Democracy, privacy, freedom of speech, rule of law, international norms, media neutrality, government accountability, transparency, honesty, integrity, fairness, justice, human rights.

The highest form of existence is to have no desire to be understood, admired, pitied, or known.

being a teenager in 2014 must’ve been crazy…

we don’t have a ‘michelangelo’ of this generation bc capitalism doesn’t let people disappear and lock themselves in a room for twenty years to create something beautiful. that level of greatness comes from isolation, time and obsession and none of that is being protected anymore.

the system is basically engineered to profit off people’s struggles, not uplift them. startups that could genuinely solve problems or create real value rarely get a chance, while debt apps and predatory financial services thrive. it’s like innovation is being suffocated unless it feeds the cycle of dependency.

In a perfect world the Black Coffee chat was supposed to take a much different turn Like how that party had so many SAn’s who are doing so well, and how great it is to see them all in one space celebrating another who is doing amazing

Most money laundering doesn’t look like crime. It looks like normal business. A busy shop, growing company, successful entrepreneur etc. Investigators learn to notice the small things that don’t quite add up. Here are some of the red flags. A thread.

South Africa is just a theoretical country. Everything is well articulated in policies and ideologies, but in reality, the outcomes of implementation of these policies rarely reflect what is written on paper.

Just look at mining and banking, it's wholly controlled by British and German Jewish families since early 1900s. Agriculture and manufacturing remain Boer controlled since 1950s. Natives dominate consumer debt and micro retail trade or services like taxis

One of the major factors which contribute to "Blacks" remaining on the periphery of the economy as cheap migrant labour, managers and agents instead of total control of certain sectors is hyper individualism. Nothing is made to SCALE hence we remain an economic minority

General Mkhwanazi said that criminals had infiltrated the police and the justice system, it turns out he was wrong, they have captured it. This is capture.

you go to your local mall/shopping complex or walk through your towns cbd and there's not a single black south african owned business, it's not even hyporbole definitely deliberate. it's not normal for a country's core population to be so economically invisible