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..on my interview with @AngelaMakholwa in this week's Mail & Guardian 🍿📺 “I hope audiences will watch the series, not only as a form of entertainment, but as a tool to analyse, diagnose & engage critically about our traumas as a society...” @PanMacmillanSA #RedinkShowmax

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@AphiweMame Agreed..Khanya also captured and analysed that phenomenon quite well in her book. 📚🇿🇦

📺Narrative Marketing on South African tv in the 2000s. During this period ads adopted cinematic storytelling techniques that embedded brands within culturally recognisable narrative. Brands positioned themselves as storytellers rather than mere product promoters. Tv played a crucial role in amplifying these narratives, creating a shared media environment in which certain campaigns became everyday cultural conversations. Digital media that took away (via fragmented media = media consumption informed by algorithms)

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@milliswa_ Great album 🇿🇦🔊

South African music is really the best in the world 🌎❤️

Erykah Badu - Green Eyes, 10 Mins Of Perfection ✨

The Tubaze Book Club January meet up was a vibrant and warm experience! Members chose Angela Makholwa’s (@AngelaMakholwa) “The Blessed Girl” as February’s read. Buy your copy today and join us on 28th Feb for deep conversations and community: tubazeafricanbooks.com/product/the-bl…

Your beautiful spirit filled our ears with music and our hearts with love. 🤍 Rest in Peace Bravo Le Roux 🕊️

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📖📺: 50 Years of TV in South Africa🇿🇦 Thrilled to announce my debut book chapter. The chapter looks at how TV has shaped public consciousness in post-apartheid South Africa, not just as entertainment, but as a powerful tool for dialogue, education, and social change. Using Yizo Yizo, Soul City, and Emzini Wezinsizwa, I explore how storytelling on screen helped raise awareness and influence public debate. Grateful to be part of this important contribution to South African media scholarship. 🔗#toc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

I read 70 books in 2025 📚🎉 This year was loud, demanding, and relentless — but I still read. I really did that 🤏🏿

Happy birthday, Denzel Washington!❤️

I did it!! 120 books read this year 🎉📚

12 Books To Read In 2026

@Blaklez Tough one 😅😅..both are great films

Man On Fire, photo finish 🤏🏾

My 2025 Reads 📚 Completed 13 books this year by spending just 30–40 minutes a day. Books have helped me immensely over the last decade. They transformed me from a last-bench student into a more thoughtful, intellectually curious person, and shaped my personality across many aspects of life. “I believe one lifetime is not enough to experience everything this world has to offer. Since we don’t have the time to live every experience ourselves, we learn from the experiences of others and those experiences live on in books.” This principle always motivates me to keep reading. Grateful to all the authors who chose to document their journeys, insights, and wisdom. Your words have given me invaluable lessons and have shaped many dimensions of my life. Thank you 🙏 @RobertGreene @MorganHousel @LoganUry @StevenBartlett @PeterLynch @MJDeMarco @ParagParikh @RajShamani

🌸 MULTI-NOMINATED ALBUM 🌸 @thandiswamazwai - Sankofa A powerful return, rich in heritage, innovation, and storytelling that spans generations. Nominated in 5 categories: • Album of the Year • Female Artist of the Year • Best African Adult Contemporary Album • Best Produced Album • Best Engineered Album A landmark body of work from an icon whose voice continues to shape the soul of South African music. #SAMA31 #ThandiswaMazwai #Sankofa

Netflix’s "Masaka Kids: A Rhythm Within", which follows the journey of the viral Masaka Kids Africana dance group from Uganda’s south-western Masaka region, is one of the most touching documentaries I have watched in a long while (and I watch a lot). If you need your faith restored in humankind, this will do it.

An award-winning Mama!!! 💕 I am so proud of myself. I need to update my trophy and certificate collection pics coz it’s been quite a year! Wow!!! 2025 you beauty 💖 📸: @trevor_zondi 💄: @tebogothulare_makeup 💇🏾‍♀️: @matlhogonolo_ Styling: @lea.aagh

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Master Class for choreographers conducted by the maestro himself Gregory Maqoma at the John Kani Performing Arts Academy at 44 Main. Congratulations to you all. Elder- Founder ⭐️⭐️

Mo’Molemi announces “SEEDLESS” EP. “This project is also about the disappearance of indigenous seeds, those that could reproduce life. Today, the black farmer is worse off because we don't own the seed, the multiply.” Coming soon.