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lover of life nje 🤷‍♀️🇿🇦

[Mzwandile Zulu @Father_Of_Geeks]

🚨 93-year-old Dr Katrina Esau is the LAST fluent speaker of South Africa’s ancient 25,000-year-old N|uu language.

Based in Upington with her granddaughter Claudia Snyman, she needs AI developers & linguists to digitize her 45 unique click sounds into a living voice model before it’s too late.

Let’s connect tech giants with her school to safeguard this indigenous treasure we can train AI to keep this language.

Please RT! 🔄

South Africa 🇿🇦 everything matters.
@GaytonMcK @Harvard @OpenAI @GoogleOrg

[Daily Dispatch @Dispatch_DD]

Buffalo City Metro is investigating a surge of unidentified insects reported in KuGompo and Mdantsane, prompting concern among residents. Municipal officials have convened urgent meetings and are collaborating with provincial and national authorities https://t.co/wKrJPKJstr

[The Joburg Reporter @JoburgReporter]

Before asking whether @popi_sibiya Show belongs on Netflix or television, perhaps the more interesting question is: what happens when a creator builds a show that is already working without either?

This is her story.

Read more on our website. Link below 👇

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Jacqueline (Jacqui) Mofokeng on her experience as the first Black Miss South Africa. Credit: A Salute To Beauty - 40 Years of Miss South Africa (1999).

[Sasol Banyana Banyana @Banyana_Banyana]

It ends with a win for Sasol Banyana Banyana

[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

There is a documentary about how the CIA used Louis Armstrong's Africa tour as cover for surveillance.

When a star that big arrives in a country, its leaders want to meet them.

That access was the entire point.

I watched that documentary.

Then I watched IShowSpeed tour Africa with a Starlink device Elon Musk personally gave him that is not yet available to the public.

I love what he did for Africa's visibility.

I am not making a statement but my conspiratorial brain just will not fully cooperate.

[Hey Mahle @_asemahle_n]

I need Onezwa Mbola to open restaurants nationwide 🥘 🤤 ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[its Shelley, not Shirley. Sorry 🤷‍♀️ @ShellsPemBroke]

Just reading through some research about gambling in South Africa (online and casinos) for a project I’m doing at work.

Team. It is WAY more disgusting than we think.

[RaiZel @landbourainier]

🎶 This South African kid just stopped me cold 👌💯

Just watched this clip and I had to sit with it for a second🤔

In an ordinary room in South Africa, one small boy on guitar, another at the keyboard and then a young boy in the front, completely unaware he has a beautiful voice, his eyes closed one moment and then staring straight at the camera, the next moment reaching out like the song is bigger than the room for such a young
boy🔥

It’s the same raw intensity you see in those old clips of Michael when he was still a kid not polished only pure feeling. He’s not copying anyone. The music just lives in him.
Remember this face‼️

[Rory Petzer @RoryPetzer]

CHAMPIONS! We have a 12-year-old World Champion! Lubanzi Dube! ❤️🇿🇦🏆

[Tyla @Tyllaaaaaaa]

A*POP
✶ ✴︎ ✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡°✩ ✹
OUT NOW EVERYWHERE!!!

https://t.co/U60F6guGvy

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

Our value in this world is not what we know but what we do with what we know.

This thought has been on my heart while mentoring capable people who feel stuck in their careers. Many respond by enrolling for another degree - an MBA or similar - hoping it will unlock the next level. Yet qualifications alone rarely address the real barriers to upward mobility.

Knowledge is valuable, but it only becomes powerful when we apply it differently. The breakthrough often lies not in accumulating more information, but in looking within and asking: What must I do differently? What habits, mindsets, or actions have I been avoiding?

I have seen that those who progress are the ones who turn insight into deliberate change - in how they show up, lead, communicate, and take ownership. Degrees can open doors, but it is what we do with what we already know that moves us forward.

What knowledge are you sitting on that is waiting for you to act on it differently today?

Let us be people of impact, not just additional certificates.
#WisdomInAction #ReflectAndAct

[Wandile Mthiyane @wandileubuntu]

I don’t know what else to do.

I need to be at Harvard by 10 August, and right now, I don’t know how I’m going to get there.

Over the last few months, I walked 1,600 km across South Africa as a fundraiser to help me get to Harvard and to better understand the housing challenges my AI platform is trying to solve.

I built Ubuntu Home, an AI platform that helps families design and plan affordable homes. But I knew technology alone wasn't enough. I wanted to learn directly from the people I hope to serve. So I slept in people's homes, from shacks to rondavels. I listened more than I spoke. I walked through storms, learning how people build, where they struggle, and what a housing solution that truly works for South Africans should look like.

That journey, together with my work building Ubuntu Home, led to my acceptance into Harvard's Master in Design Engineering program. Only 25 people from around the world were admitted this year.

Artificial intelligence is one of South Africa's most critical scarce skills. My dream has never been to leave South Africa. It has always been to return with world-class AI and engineering skills to build Ubuntu Home into a platform that helps solve our housing crisis.

I reached out to the Office of the Presidency, who referred me to Higher Education. I was told they fund study only in specific countries, and the US is not one of them. I reached out to the Minister of Human Settlements. I approached @AbsaSouthAfrica, @StandardBankZA, @FNBSA, and other major organisations. I applied for education loans, but as an international student going to the US, I don't qualify in South Africa, and the international loans available cover only a fraction of the cost.

After walking 1,600 km across my country, I may have to stay home. Not because I wasn't admitted, but because I can't afford to go.

I feel like I've exhausted every avenue I know.

If you can help with funding, make an introduction, connect me to someone who might be able to help, or simply share this story, I would be incredibly grateful.

@PresidencyZA @HigherEduGovZA @The_DHS @AbsaSouthAfrica @StandardBankZA @FNBSA @SollyMalatsi

Let's not lose South African talent because of funding. Let's invest in the people who will build South Africa's AI future.

[Bafana Bafana @BafanaBafana]

Bafana Bafana Supporters are in good spirits awaiting the team at O.R Tambo International Airport 🛩⚽️🔥🇿🇦
No DNA, just RSA 🇿🇦🇿🇦

#bafanapride #bafanabafana

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

Naomi Osaka is her ✨

[Proteas Women @ProteasWomenCSA]

🚨 MATCH RESULT 🚨

#TheProteas dominate proceedings across both innings to seal victory by 88 runs! 👏🇿🇦

A masterclass with the bat, followed by discipline with the ball. A terrific all-round performance in Bristol 😤🏏

#Unbreakable #T20WorldCup

[Swiss @BlxckSwiss_]

Congratulations to Bafana Bafana for making it out of the World Cup group stages for the first time is HISTORY 😭😭😭🇿🇦❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Michael Morton @MMORTON6]

Over to you gents... 🇿🇦

#fifaworldcup2026 #weare26 #fifaworldcup

[Mhlophe 🇿🇦 @Siya_Mhlotshane]

@robertmarawa New flats kwaLanga ✌🏾🇿🇦🇿🇦

[Bafana Bafana @BafanaBafana]

Bafana Bafana has arrived at the Monterrey Stadium and are hyped, locked in and ready to go!! 🇿🇦🔥⚽️ It's now or never bafethu!

#BafanaPride
#BafanaBafana
#Fifaworldcup