On the night he was assassinated, he was sleeping in a backyard room with three friends (Excellent Mthemba, Exodus Nyakane, and Elson Mnyakeni). The apartheid police forced his friends out before executing Nyoka.
The brutality continued afterward: the police took his friends to the Daveyton Police Station, tortured them, and forced them to read a chilling message scrawled on a chalkboard:
“999 Lemba Street, Caiphus Nyoka Executed Six Shots Hands of Death.”
A little girl in Boston went home one day and asked her Nigerian mother if she could change her name to Zoe.
Nobody at school could say Uzoamaka.
Her mother was cooking. She didn't even turn around.
"If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Michelangelo, and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka."
That girl kept her name.
Then she went to Hollywood and won three Emmy Awards.
And now the whole world knows exactly how to say Uzoamaka Aduba.
Your name is not a burden. It's a prophecy.
Ever heard of John Robert Dunn? 🇿🇦
Born to British settlers, he did the unthinkable:
• Became a recognised Zulu Chief
• Commanded a massive coastal territory
• Married 48 Zulu wives (and fathered 100+ children)
The wild story of Zululand’s most controversial figure 👇🧵
have you ever read something so beautifully written that you lowkey get jealous of the author's writing skills? it's like you wish you had a way with words just like them.
16 year old youth lies dying after being shot by police at the funeral of eight unrest victims in New Brighton, 1986. Credit: Steve Milton Barber/Afrapix
She Held Citizenship and Passports from Nine (9) Different Countries.
When the apartheid government officially revoked her South African citizenship and banned her records in 1960, they attempted to render her a stateless person without a home or a voice. The international community responded with a stunning act of solidarity. To ensure she could travel the world freely as an ambassador of liberation, nine different countries, including Guinea, Algeria, Ghana, Belgium, and Cuba, granted her honorary citizenship. She traveled internationally carrying multiple diplomatic passports, effectively operating as a citizen of the world.
📺 Chicken Licken - Anything for a Soul Sister (2026)
Starring Shalate Sekhabi , Danica De Larey Jones and Snethemba Mbatha.
Directed by Tristan Holmes.
Come on! 🔥🔥🔥