Masego

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Making history for South Africa 🇿🇦

#FIFAWorldCup

[Disco King 🇿🇦🇪🇬🇲🇦 @jefszn]

LEKOMPO >>>> K-POP 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[Lesilo Rula @kay_mahapa]

Parents: Put that phone down, it won’t take you anywhere.

Me in Rwanda 🇷🇼 fetching the FIFA World Cup trophy to bring it to South Africa, all possible because of my phone:

[Malume @bozzie_t]

So much oil in your stew Gugs, are you not scared of the US Army?

[Kierra | Data Conversationalist🎙 @iamKierraD]

Just fell to my knees

[Le Super. @Mmakgosidarling]

The girls who don’t have healthy female friendships? I pray for them all the time. Se chomi is the greatest love you’ll experience outside of your family🥹🤞🏾

[KasiboySA @KasiboySA]

Takealot be like
Thank you for ordering with us, your order will be delivered before friday.

After 2 hours
Your order will be delivered tomorrow before 5pm

After 1 hour
Entlek oko kae jo we are on our way to you nou sio.. 😭

[♰ @reeceollld]

me as a child watching mommy on her 4th convo after church

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

In case you haven’t heard:

Women are suing Pfizer in a class action lawsuit because the birth control shots (Depo-Provera) have been found to cause brain tumors.

1 in 4 women use this birth control. And Black women are prescribed it at double the national rate.

[Masego @MacyM__]

@Tina_Hokwana 😂😂😂

[Tina @Tina_Hokwana]

‘Khathumele esas’kuta sakho kaloku’ - my dad asking me to place an order for him on Checkers Sixty60

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

"Since retiring, I’ve turned my lens to both the near and the far — mastering light, distance, and depth. Most often, my subject is my wife: through aperture and affection, I study the quiet poetry of companionship. And so on and so forth"

[Mbogo ya Nduîki @WambuguWanjohi]

Also she is the most difficult person to sing "Happy Birthday" to.

[Fit Fat Belly ‘Nenye @The_Nenye]

Phone.

[Lesilo Rula @kay_mahapa]

BOY AINT NO WAY!!!!! RE KGAOLA NGWAGA HERE TODAY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Shezi @__Shezi]

The conversation really is youth unemployment. And how that makes young people more exposed to exploitation. Existing in circumstances which leave you with no hope will make anyone susceptible to things which promise change or alleviation. Whether the person is “smart” or not.

[Justice, Crime Prevention and Security @CrimeWatch_RSA]

[BEWARE OF ILLEGITIMATE AND/OR UNVERIFIED ’OPPORTUNITIES’ TARGETING YOUNG WOMEN]

The video clip circulated by a social media influencer, which purports to promote a 2-year long ‘START PROGRAM’ targeting young women in acquiring professional skills and commencing their careers, is currently under investigation.

Notably, the author of the post has since removed the promotional video from her social media platforms.

[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.

[TOTS DI BILLION @Vuittots]

😂

[Anele Mdoda @Anele]

My girl bosses, @firstforwomen just called me and said they want to give your small business a financial injection.

I am looking for those ladies with the boutiques, the salons, the wig sellers, mobile nail bars, catering company, school transport, any business you are getting off the ground and just need a little help… we want to take a load off you so you can just take a moment for yourself and breath.

Say I!!!! with a pink heart 🩷