Rele

Follower of Christ | Recognising the worth of my skin, mind and heart | Still figuring out this life thing

[Dineo @dineonono]

“written comments on the proposed price hikes can be forwarded to [email protected]. they can also be hand-delivered to 526 Madiba Street, Arcadia, Pretoria or posted to PO Box 40343, Arcadia, 0083, PTA, South Africa. closing date for the comments is 2 October 2026 at 4pm” 🫵🏾🫵🏾

[Monarchive @__sugarvenom]

They are not your competition. They are HIS competition. That’s why he’s with you and not them.

[MKKM @michekyakeymii]

https://t.co/L46O3a4keq

[Anita Kahla @anita_kahla]

My little sister is still missing please help us by sharing and spreading this poster, she can be anywhere.

[The Lord Of The Wings( Lisa) Arsenal Biggest Fan🏐 @WhyUfikelate]

Amahle Thabethe has been missing since July 2019 with no trace. Anytime you see missing posts about her, please always share. I know answers will come about this angel one day. We must never give up. So today, I'd like to bring her up again.
#womenshutdown

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

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.

[zak @zakareeee]

do you know how deluded you have to be to look at south africa and its history and think that WHITE PEOPLE are the victims??

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@HloniLesedi Some of us never left 😭

[Shamboooooolic Woooooootral🎃👻💀🦇🕸️🧟⚰️🧙 @BradfemlyWalsh]

Just saw on the news that sex crimes aren't usually even investigated by the French police. It was only because one young policeman decided to go against the grain and investigate Dominique Pelicot's upskirting crimes that Gisèle found out what was being done to her. Bloody hell.

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@MCU_anomaly @lisakhat_ They aren’t even “a got you”. We thought the same about Will and Jada for years, kanti dolo. You never know what’s happening behind closed doors until all is exposed.

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@Mrskillmonger1 I remember checking on an investment I had with them. Same story, the employee that helped me even said I should take my money and go elsewhere. I will never go back there and I’ll always tell this story.

[𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧✨💫 @Janelle_Mal]

Guys, there’s an online app called Yoh Vote, it’s like Tinder, it matches you with a political party that aligns with your needs and interests. Check it out and figure out who you want to vote for https://t.co/058QhVZnKz

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@Silindokuhle_ Tjo, let the rest of us excuse ourselves

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@Zama_Mpungose_ You are correct

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@BlvckBird_Rosa Same. I feel it’s not worth it, if I have to go through your things to feel secure then I should not be there.

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@Bahleliswebeng1 @Biejanka4 @Ms_Logical Too much. Never again! When God says no, it’s a no for a reason and pursuing it any further is a recipe for disaster.

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@Biejanka4 @Bahleliswebeng1 @Ms_Logical Ma’am why are you writing about me. I was even afraid to pray because God would keep revealing things.

[Rele @JudReeDotMof]

@kgware_paballo @thandozuma_ @Iam_Wynona A e hle 😭😭😭😭

[becca @gellersphil]

i hope everybody understands this.