SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦

💡 Always learning

[SWARTSKAAP @Shikonekeni_]

Finally found the video that defines me:

[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

The age of virtue signalling has produced a peculiar spectacle. South Africans march beneath Palestinian flags, pin Palestinian badges to their lapels and social media accounts and cheer as Pretoria prosecutes the Palestinian cause on the world stage. Remember how this was celebrated ?? Yet, almost in the same breath, displaced Zimbabweans are hounded from South African streets by xenophobic mobs, while the government proves incapable of guaranteeing their safety and humanity.

If Pretoria claims the moral high ground abroad, it ought first to secure it at home.

The irony deepens. Jordan and Egypt have borne the overwhelming regional burden of the Palestinian question for decades. Jordan granted citizenship to large numbers of Palestinians, by large I mean over 2m, while Egypt has long hosted Palestinians and afforded them refuge and protection. They’re not deemed illegals. They absorbed the human consequences directly, yet neither country sought to make its case principally through the International Court of Justice.

How, then, does a government so eager to lecture the world on human rights tolerate recurring waves of xenophobic violence within its own borders? A state that cannot protect vulnerable foreigners living under its own jurisdiction risks sounding less like a moral authority than a government seeking virtue abroad while failing its most immediate responsibilities at home.

It all points to an uncomfortable reality maybe both the march on March protestors and SA government may just be hired guns. Hapana principle apa!!

[Namatai Kwekweza🇿🇼 @namataik_]

🇿🇼 Let's talk about Ubuntu 💌The spirit still lives on! Well done, sisterhood is proud and happy. Thank you for giving hope to the affected families from our sister country, Malawi 🇲🇼! #Africa #Ubuntu

[Zimbabwe Cricket @ZimCricketv]

That's it!

Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh by an innings and 85 runs in the one-off Test, recording their biggest victory by margin of innings.

#ZIMvBAN #ExperienceZimbabwe

[TheRugbyMac @GreggMac11]

Everyone - block out Saturday, 4 July - get the beers and meat in and the braai ready

New Zealand 🇳🇿 v France 🇫🇷
Japan 🇯🇵 v Italy 🇮🇹
Australia 🇦🇺 v Ireland 🇮🇪
Fiji 🇫🇯 v Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Boks 🇿🇦 v England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Argentina 🇦🇷 v Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Now that is a Saturday where I won’t be moving far!! 😍🤣

[SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦 @FanuelSmokes]

@UTDIMole Memphis Depay

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

Another race week loading! 🔄

[Herbert Mensah (President of Rugby Africa) @HMensahOfficial]

Proud of the @SablesRugbyZW today. This was never about the score — it was about growth, belief, and seeing where we truly are.
To stand against the South Africa on their soil and compete with courage showed real character.
We saw our strengths, our gaps, and the opportunities ahead. That is how great teams are built.
The journey to 2027 continues. Keep your heads up — African rugby is rising.

@RugbyAfrique #SAvsZimbabwe

[SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦 @FanuelSmokes]

Super rugby is falling off. How is a final this one sided. Just hope its not a precedence for todays games *sigh*

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

💔 RIP to the eternal fire that is Abdullah Ibrahim

Heaven gains an angel, Earth a greater ancestor!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Lewis Hamilton is tied with Michael Schumacher for the most wins at this circuit, six apiece. Today he starts second on the grid in a Ferrari, at the track where Schumacher won his first race for the team in 1996, launching a decade of dominance in red.

All six of Hamilton's wins here came at Mercedes: 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Schumacher's six were split between his Benetton years and Ferrari, five of them in red. The first of those five came in 1996. A wet race, and Schumacher won by a margin that still puts it near the top of any greatest-F1-drives list.

Ferrari own eight wins at this circuit, more than any other team. Their last came in 2013, when Fernando Alonso crossed the line first. In the twelve years since, wins here have gone to Mercedes, Red Bull, and McLaren. Ferrari haven't been back.

Hamilton qualified second, 0.064 seconds behind pole-sitter George Russell. Russell said after qualifying that he believed Hamilton could have taken pole. Third on the grid is Kimi Antonelli, the 19-year-old who inherited Hamilton's seat at Mercedes when he made the move to Ferrari. Antonelli is in Hamilton's old car, with Hamilton's former race engineer in his ear, five wins from the first six races of 2026, and a 66-point championship lead.

Fifteen races remain, putting 375 championship points still on the table. Hamilton needs to outscore Antonelli by roughly 4.5 points per race across the rest of the season. He needs wins, starting here.

Hamilton called 2025 the worst year of his career. No top-3 finishes all season, the first time since his 2007 debut. The 2026 car was built under entirely new technical rules, with Hamilton central to its development. He took his first Ferrari podium in China in March, then finished second in Canada and Monaco in consecutive races.

In 35 years of F1 at this circuit, only three times has the race been won from outside the front row. Hamilton starts from the front row, one position back from pole.

Win today and he becomes the outright record holder at this track, seven wins to Schumacher's six, doing it in Ferrari red. On the same circuit where Schumacher put on that suit for the first time in 1996 and set the tone for everything that followed.

Schumacher built this record at Ferrari. Hamilton matched it at Mercedes. The tiebreak happens today, on the circuit where it all started.

[SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦 @FanuelSmokes]

All 3 podiums going to Mercedes

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Be forgiving with your past self. What's done is done. No sense in beating yourself up about it.

Be strict with your present self. Win the moment in front of you right now.

Be flexible with your future self. There are many paths to success. You don't need life to be a certain way to live well.

[SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦 @FanuelSmokes]

@263Chat Baba Imtt tax is probably the biggest barrier in banking rn. Why not deal with that as its directly in your remit as MOF.

[Dan Man @Soet_Patat]

Biggest budget in the #URC and still need all the refereeing assistance to sneak through. Truly horrific officiating #LEIvSTO

[SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦 @FanuelSmokes]

Omg the referring in this Semi Final is atrocious

[UtdMwas @UtdMwas]

I know the 2025/2026 season is over.. but can you watch this in the a 100th time with me?😭❤

[SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦 @FanuelSmokes]

@ReserveBankZIM @HeraldZimbabwe @NewsDayZimbabwe @DailyNewsZim @ZBCNewsonline @FingazLive @melodymbira Whats the interest rate?

[SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦 @FanuelSmokes]

So the question must be asked. Is Palace bigger than Arsenal ?

[SheikhSmokes 🇶🇦 @FanuelSmokes]

The number of clubs trolling Arsenal tells you everything you need to know about that club and its fanbase..lol