Penuel The Black Pen

@pallnandi Oprah.

This is hard..

@ANCParliament Biggest gaslighter in South Africa. But makes sense, coz miseducated ppl still vote for you guys.

ANC restoring law & order #ANCAtWork

@Askash Too fancy for Newtown. Should've made it a Road Lodge instead.

The City Lodge Hotel in Newtown, Johannesburg, is closing after more than a decade, and the building will be auctioned by the end of the month. The hotel was built in 2015 and initially cost R146 million to develop. It includes: • 148 rooms • Restaurant • 2 boardrooms • Gym and swimming pool • 55 basement parking bays City Lodge says the decision not to renew the lease is unrelated to staff performance, the brand, or the broader Johannesburg market. The group has operated for more than 40 years and has 58 hotels across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Mozambique. But the reality is, this hotel stopped turning a profit. And that says something more about hospitality in Johannesburg right now. Over the past few years, I have toured, written about, and presented on multiple hotel developments across the city, and one trend keeps coming up. Most visitors enter through OR Tambo, the busiest airport in Africa, yet we are not seeing the same wave of new hotel developments that we see in Cape Town. Johannesburg is still a business-driven city before it is a leisure destination. Corporate travel drives demand for 4 and 5-star hotels, and these are high-frequency travellers with high expectations. Instead of flooding the market with new supply, we are seeing the optimisation of existing stock in Johannesburg. Newtown made sense at one stage. It was positioned as a cultural precinct near the CBD, with significant public investment and high expectations for regeneration. But the guests have changed, and so have their expectations. Many visitors now choose Sandton, Rosebank, Melrose, Waterfall or Fourways, where there is stronger security, newer infrastructure, and integrated business and retail nodes. The closure of City Lodge Newtown is not just about one hotel. It is a sign of how the hospitality market in Johannesburg is being reshaped.

@OtitoNosike Being awake is too painful a reality for most humans. They prefer comforting lies to soothe their existence. Extreme ownership is scary.

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.

@BusinessTechSA I love it 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Marriage is outdated.

The latest data from Stats SA on marriages and divorces in the country shows that South Africans are losing interest in getting hitched—while divorces are on the rise. businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle…

@tshianki Only on social media. In private, that's not the case. Took the guy's wife for us to know that Enhle was dating a married man. Women love managing perception.

Black Coffee and Enhle’s break up shows us how it is easier for men to move on after a failed relationship or marriage compared to women.

@creation247 That's correct. Algo is constantly changing, to serve Musk's agendas. And there are more bots than ever.

One of the biggest problems with X: Your followers don’t see your content. That breaks the relationship between creators and audience. It makes it harder to build trust, friendships, and communities. This used to be a networking site. Now it’s driven by slop and algo chasing.

@eNCA I want to say dumb niggas deserve to suffer... but to be honest, fuck the courts. And fuck this ungrateful mother who is abusing a good man. All women who are supporting this shit must note that they are indirectly motivating men to NEVER be stepfathers. Fuck this ruling.

Western Cape High Court has ordered a stepfather to pay maintenance to the tune of R40 000 and continue covering a range of expenses including rent capped at R35 000, children’s medical expenses and other household costs while the divorce is still ongoing. enca.com/top-stories/wh…

@SongezoZibi Once you become a bigger politician, with a bigger political party... you'll also join the game. Otherwise they'll take you out. It's easier to be activist, when your life and livelihood isn't at stake. Once you move up the ladder, the game changes.

If so many senior police officers are in the pockets of criminals, can you imagine how easy it is for foreign intelligence services to buy them off for top secret / sensitive security information! It’s as if there’s zero counterintelligence work being done.

Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi sent Fannie Nkosi a link to a song by Tupac: Last Motherfucker Breathing... ...yey yey yey 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Enjoying the therapy session kwaMseleku. Started off cringe, but became very valuable. A lot of necessary skeletons let out the closet, hard questions answered, & topics covered. More families would benefit from such setups. Musa Mseleku needs to learn to take accountability.

@Lush_Beauty1 I see you didn't mention that a woman who agrees to have sex with a man she's not married to is also a red flag???

A man who talks about impregnating you before marrying you 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Really sad that in 2026, schools with majority white kids are still probably way better than schools with majority black kids 💔

@KondileMdu You completely missed my point.

@GodPenuel Im this economy you comparing our generation with people who bought the entire household groceries for R50.

What this means is: as long as MONEY is the beginning and the end of your value system, you'll always lose. If you treat money as a middle-man between what you offer & what you want, you'll never lose. If your dad used 100 days of labour to buy a car, you should use 100 days of labour to buy a car. What the money system does is that - over time - they manipulate MONEY in the middle, via inflation, interest, etc... so as to screw you over. So if it took 100 days of labour for your dad to buy a car, it now costs 1000 days of labour to buy a car. Remember that it takes 6 months to build a house, yet 20 years to service a bond. The sooner your mind switches from MONEY to VALUE, the sooner you'll stop being scammed. Penuelism.

A woman can be broke, unemployed & uneducated... but deemed a qualified & competent mother to a child. A man without money is deemed a useless father... no matter how good he is at nurturing a child, coz he doesn't have female privilege. Giving women the ability to provide, while restricting men from nurturing... is a big cause of the fights between genders.

@KeruboSk Working.

Apparently there are people who don’t reply to texts for HOURS… while being online the whole time. I genuinely want to understand this. What are you doing on your phone then?

@hashjenni Selective empathy.

People think war only kills people. But it also kills rivers, forests, animals, and air quality. We just don’t count those deaths.

@Mothematiks Only the colonizers who forced ppl off land violently, forced cheap labour and set up laws to keep others from competing fairly?

We must stop referring to criminals and tender fraudsters as businessmen!!! Thank you for your attention on this matter.

China is an economic giant coz of slave labour, counterfeit goods & bending rules. There are many like you who wish for Apartheid to return... ...but using classism vs racism as the segregator. The day you're happy to put your own loved ones through what you propose, I'll respect the suggestion.

Leftists who’ve never created a job in their lives will never call for the basics that will unlock job creation: >End minimum wage >Repeal the LRA >Repeal the BCOEA >End BBBEE China has none of these. That’s why China is the economic giant it is today.