Roberto Kyle

There’s new doc in town. Meet Dr. Joe Olivier. At your service 😜 #Binnelanders

@2met I concur!!!! ♥️

@ThatRobertoGuy I think majority of consumers consime from Streaming services that mainly supply repeat production houses, 2: Piracy websites are the 2nd way to watch. A variety of South African projects aren't as accessible. We need a South African only Movie and series platform

No but really…. Why aren’t y’all watching South African films? Please give an honest response 🙏🏽♥️

@SZondi Haaaai it must be SOMEWHERE?!!?!? 🤣♥️

@ThatRobertoGuy Many are tough to find. I don’t even know where to stream Sarafina. I looked for it today because we must watch it with the next generation so they don’t forget. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

@sihleyende5 @BathongTk Maybe it’s a lack of access? I don’t know. 😭

@ThatRobertoGuy @BathongTk Most of us don't even know these movies exist 😭.....maybe lack of promotion is a problem in our country 😭😭

@RebrandedAzul It is! ♥️

@ThatRobertoGuy I hope it’s on Showmax.

@Kay_MotsoH You are right. It comes down to funding. But we also need audiences who trust in our industry and WANT to see local content flourish. 🥹♥️

Not enough marketing. Which also requires capital so I get why the films can’t. But there’s too much global marketing in local market and that’s why funding is critical for the industry.

@RebrandedAzul Please do!!! We have incredible filmmakers in this country. Start with the classic - Fiela se kind. The newer version is just as epic!

@ThatRobertoGuy You know what, fair question. And I don’t even have an answer! But, I’ll take this as a challenge. I’m going to find a local movie to watch every week!!

It warms my heart knowing that the whole country LOVES this woman. #AuntyJune #Saftas19 😭♥️

@cleme_clems I thought she was going to faint 😭

Idrama gurl….

@OfficialBongile Thanks for watching the show. ♥️🥹

@ThatRobertoGuy I've never even met her, but the way I loved her on Arendsvlei, I was heartbroken on the morning of her passing

Seeing Crystal-Donna Roberts, Presley Chweneyagae and Soli Philander during the memorial tribute…. Yoh, we’ve lost people who were truly gifted. Thank you ♥️ #SAFTAs19

@OfficialBongile She was too good for this world, and the fiercest actress and friend. 🥹♥️

@ThatRobertoGuy Those deaths really shocked me, especially Crystal-Donna's 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@yourfriendsiyo_ Truly!

@ThatRobertoGuy …truly gifted and YOUNG

The same people who pay R99 for ShowMax monthly, refuse to pay a once off R265 for a TV licence. Everyone likes SABC until it’s time to pay R265

@ChandreDer @JHBWater @JHBWater do you have a response? Why is there no water.

@JHBWater Cresta (Linden Reservoir 2) has no water even though the post states “stable and supplying adequately” - please assist and advise

#JoburgUpdates Randburg System Updates

Why are we still paying the municipalities for services we don’t have? 🤷🏾‍♀️

@Enhle_flowerss She’s remarkable! ♥️

Super Star!! Quality!! premium!! Worlds greatest performer & artist!! Stan. a Queen. aah! #Makhadzi #VendaQueen #MissSA #MissSA2025 #MissSouthAfrica #MissUniverse

@SlaterJaye15 😍

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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.

@anto_ty This is profoundly said!